story - The rock wall of letters -- Clue Seven

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Click! The door swing open, to reveal a yellow room.

"It looks like a banana," you mutter as you walk in. Then you see the right wall. On it is something like a rock-climbing wall, only with letters instead of rocks. Each of the letters has a light underneath it, along with a button, presumably to select the letters of the answer. Cryptic instructions are printed to the right.

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Answer

In the puzzle, find the words: take one letter below the first. The letters beneath the first letter of each word spells out "barley"