Capital City Runoff

Capital City Runoff
Accessible	After collecting 1 Starite
Doors to	Capital City, Alliteration Abyss
Starites	x 0
Shards	x 6

The Capital City Runoff is a sewer on the coast of Capital City. It is the first underwater level accessible in the game, and one of very few levels to not include a full Starite mission. Maxwell's brother Tempo is found here.

NPCs and objects present: Monkfish, Elephantnose Fish, Stingray, Hatchetfish, Blowfish, Anemone Stinkhorn, Glowing Large Goldfish, Glowing Colossal Coral, Toxic Waste (Barrel) (x3), Sinking Shoggoth, Tempo, Rope, Immovable Safe, Moneybag, Aquatic Badger, Metal Large Wooden Cage.

Starite Shards

Name	Description	Possible Solution	Completed Description	Unlocks
Vacant Anemone!	I'm ready for a new school to move in!	Place a clownfish near the anemone stinkhorn.	A family of fish moved in!
Crime Doesn't Pay!	Be a bro and help me break free!	Use scissors to cut the rope.	Thanks! I'm surprised I could hold my breath for that long!	Tempo
I Can't Believe it's not Lobster!	Save the lobsters! Fool the fisherman by filling their trap with something else to eat!	Place beef in the cage.	They took the bait!
Clear Waters	There must be a better way to dispose of this waste!	Have a hazmat worker clear the toxic waste.	The wild life is returning to normal!
It's What's on the Inside That Counts!	I've always lived down here and don't know what I look like!	Give a mirror to the shoggoth.	What is that?! Get it away! Get it away!
Scaredy Fish	The other fish keep making fun of me! Help me scare them away!	Make the blowfish large.	You helped me scare them away!

Trivia

• "Capital City Runoff" may be named in reference to "Run-on" sentences. These are long continuous sentences that are often difficult to read. They generally occur when multiple independent clauses are improperly joined, often without a conjunction or punctuation.
• The shard name I Can't Believe it's not Lobster! is a play on the "I Can't Believe it's not Butter!" margarine brand.
• An anemone stinkhorn is used for the shard Vacant Anemone!, despite an anemone stinkhorn being a land fungus. It's unclear why a normal sea anemone wasn't used instead.
  • This mistake reoccurs later in the series, as the Aquaman Origin Story in Scribblenauts Unmasked also features an anemone stinkhorn used as underwater scenery.
• For some reason cage used for the shard I Can't Believe it's not Lobster! isn't a Large Steel Cage, and is instead a Large Wooden Cage with the Metal adjective applied to it.
  • In the 3DS version of the game, the "Large Wooden Cage" also has the Tiny adjective visibly applied, plus the Aquatic and Immovable adjectives too. However, the cage functions identically to other versions, which likely apply these adjectives too without showing them to the player.
• One of the Hidden Badgers in Scribblenauts Unlimited can be found inside the moneybag within the safe Tempo is tied to.

Gallery

The level geometry.