Talk:Cursed Key/@comment-31077845-20170227153208

I'm not sure if "and you will die" was intentionally meant to be really funny or not, but it was. I think I got too much enjoyment out of that ending.

Anyhow, believe it or not the first metal lock and key was invented somewhere around the year 850 and Samurai only came about in the mid to late 1100s and metalworking existed in Japan as early or earlier than 300 AD, so they would've had metal locks and keys, but they basically would've only existed in castles. In fact many people didn't even have doors; a traditional feature of Japanese architecture was to have their houses built with what were basically sliding walls they could use to customize the space, and could live in something as basic as a tent. The culture was completely different, people tended to live as collectives meaning personal belongings were less of a thing and their primary concern when it came to defence was invading armies.

I won't go on though, feel free to look it up. The whole thing makes no sense, however. Let's pretend these spies did have keys; if they did, why would anyone choose a method that potentially allowed them to go on spying for an indefinite period then possibly kill the originator (that ending made the whole thing extra silly) rather than ya know, like, stabbing them? Or just regular torturing them beforehand so you could get information? And how would indians have used it? Keys still weren't terribly common in the 1800s, people would've generally just bolted their doors from the inside. And furthermore, how does one determine ownership if it's one key multiple people use? And what if a homeless person does this and thus doesn't have a house for the key to appear in afterwards?

Talk about a lot of illogic stuffed into a tiny pasta...but the (probably unintentionally? idk?) funny ending and my now expanded knowledge of ancient Japan still made it worth it.