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The sardine tin

A sealed sardine tin on the bench. The lid rolls back on a whole sea.

A tin peeled open on a tiny Japanese garden: bonsai, stepping stones, a bridge and two koi. Best before never.
“Canned serenity”, Fresh slop

“A sardine tin on the bench, sealed. The key is missing.” In Always On the tin key opens it, and you climb in: inside is the sardine-tin sea. The Slopwright is not surprised. “The tin’s a sea now. Some tins are.”

A sea in a sardine tin is the first thing anyone says about the Slopwright, and the portrait of him on slopped.site shows him building a seaside town in one. In Benchwork a sardine tin is the trinket you start with, and heals you after every fight. The live ones in Skim and Paperweight are their own entry.

The facts

Kind
Object
World
The workshop
Also called
Sardine tin
Appears in
Always On, Benchwork
Found in
The workshop, in Always On
Benchwork trinket
Heal 6 HP after every fight.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Canned serenity”: Possible, the the golden mountain kind. Bonsai exist, koi exist, tins exist. The arrangement is merely unprecedented.
Play Always On ↗ Play Benchwork ↗ See the picture on the wall ↗ Its specimen in the jungle ↗

More pictures

The Slopwright: a pale creature with a curled head and a work apron, using tweezers to place a tiny house on an island inside an open sardine tin full of sea. A walnut holding a miniature theatre sits nearby.
The workshop. Mind the tins.

What the sources say

  1. A sardine tin on the bench, sealed. The key is missing.Narration, Always On
  2. You turn the key. The lid rolls back on a whole sea, which is new.Narration, Always On
  3. You climb into the sardine tin.Narration, Always On

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