Wednesday 17 April 2024 · Miss Plumb’s Field Journal

A Second Study in Crates

In short: Miss Plumb sees the Perth study being built. Escape This designed and built Entombed itself, from the lamplit study with its red walls and expedition photographs to the sandstone, hieroglyphs and sarcophagus, before it opened at Escape This Perth CBD.

17 April 2024

Wednesday. I have been shown a second study. It is in crates, in a workshop in Perth, and it is the Doctor’s to the last paperclip.

Red walls. The mantel clock. The world map with the coffee ring over the Mediterranean. Stacks of expedition photographs, dated December 1903, which I took myself and which nobody asked me about. The carpenters, painters and electricians who built it have never set foot in Egypt, yet the sandstone is better than the real sandstone, and the hieroglyphs are spelled correctly, which is more than the Doctor ever managed.

I asked who had given them permission to copy the study. They said the management. I asked who had given the management permission. They offered me a biscuit.

I have decided to take it as a compliment. Two studies means twice the dusting, but it also means twice as many people looking for the Doctor, and I have always said he would be found by someone thorough.

— H. Plumb (Miss), Expedition Secretary

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Whose workshop carved, painted and wired Entombed?

Escape This designed and built Entombed and Lost Tomb itself, at its own studio and factory. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory, and was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in 2025 and 2026.

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What relics and rooms make up the Entombed set?

Entombed starts in a lamplit study with red walls, a mantel clock, a world map and stacks of expedition photographs, then gives way to sandstone, hieroglyphs, an hourglass, papyrus scrolls and a gilded sarcophagus. Escape This built every prop for its two Entombed rooms, and Manly’s was refurbished in the summer of 2025.

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