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+ CLUE POST +

Come on, guys. It's not an Eway party without puzzles.

Here's how it's going to work! Your characters have received invitations to four different parties that will be spread out over the course of the event. Each party log will contain a clue that will be the beginning to one of FOUR puzzle paths, leading to FOUR possible outcomes, including:

Two routes that lead to who it was that invited everyone to Wonderland, given out in two different ways.

One route that does not give the answer, but does reveal some interesting Background Information about Wonderland.

And one route that is a red herring route that does not lead to anything useful at all.

We are NOT telling you which route is which, so you're just going to have to solve them all and find out for yourselves when you get to the end! Each route has 3 steps (except for the last route, which has 4) and will work like this:

ICLY: Your characters will find clues and attempt to solve them! Clues will regenerate after five minutes, so if for example, one character or group of characters finds a note with a clue on it and takes it with them, the note will re-appear for others to find. They'll (hopefully) solve the clues to find the next step of the route and so on and so forth until eventually they figure out where the clues are leading them. They may need to ICly seek out others for assistance if they do not have the knowledge or skills to progress further, and it is entirely possible that they may get ICly stuck on one route, and may need to change to a different one. If they stick with it though, they will be rewarded with information...unless they got the red herring route, of course.

OOCLY: These puzzles are a TEAM EFFORT. As each log is posted, we will post the first clue of each route whether the previous route has been solved or not (so on the 1st the House Party Route will start, and on the 3rd the Throne Room Party route will begin even if the House Party route has not been 100% solved, and so on until all the routes have been started). When you think you have solved a clue, reply to that clue on this post. If you're right, we will reveal the next clue in that route, and if you aren't then you can keep trying. We encourage you to use each puzzle route's thread for OOC collaboration and shouting ideas at each other, and even begging for clues if you're really stuck. Clues will NOT be revealed ICly until they are solved OOCly. For example, if puzzle route A's first clue leads to the roof ~~it does not, nice try~~, the clue will not APPEAR there until someone solves the clue OOCly – this is partly to prevent spoilers, and partly to allow people to go about their lives in-game without having to retcon and be like “oh and there was a huge clue in the background of this thread”. We encourage EVERYONE to try their hand at the puzzles, whether their characters are working on that route or not. The routes will get solved faster with multiple people working on it as a big team, and we hope that it'll be a lot more fun that way!

PLEASE KEEP AS MUCH TO THIS POST AS YOU CAN - we know you guys love Plurk, but you'll be doing puzzles alongside people who haven't been in the RP scene in years and may not have access to puzzle-solving happening exclusively on plurk.

We are releasing the puzzle routes in order from hardest route to easiest route (in our opinion, as puzzle makers), since by nature there will be less time to work on the routes released last. If you have any questions about how the puzzle routes will work or anything along those lines, please bring them to the FAQ POST. If you have questions about specific riddles or need to demand hints, please keep those questions to their puzzle path threads so everyone can easily find the answers!

That should be about it! We'll begin releasing the first clues as each log goes up, and we wish you all the best of luck with our maddening puzzles! ♥

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ok actually here I'm just gonna Talk About This: I'm working on this like a cipher? Because the i is a 1, and there's 8 dots on the "simple" paper which tells me it could be an N=8 shift (so A = I, which makes sense that the I is a 1 to indicate I = 1). But I'm running into the issue of what to do with the zeroes in that case, because... you don't usually use zeroes in a number/letter cipher? So I'm not sure how to code that.

EDIT: WAIT EACH NUMBER MIGHT BE A TWO-DIGIT AND NOT A 4 DIGIT LET ME INCLUDE THE ZEROES AS A TWO DIGIT THING AND GET BACK TO YOU

Edited 2016-09-02 02:37 (UTC)

It's also possible a transposition cipher could be involved somehow? Given the ribbons part.

But I don't actually see what that would even get us...

possibly? here's what I'm at so far:

14 23 03 07 14 20 25 03 14 23
03 07 14 20 25 03 14 23 03 07
21 25 24 01 08 01 23 12 13

Where 1 = I, N = 8 for an a/i cipher shift

SHIFTED
V E K O V B G K V E
K O V B G K V E K O
C G F I P I E T U

NOT SHIFTED
N W C G N T Y C N W
C G N T Y C N W C G
U Y X I H I W L M

so... yeah. first translation is with the 8 shift, second without, just in case. There probably needs a key I'm missing.

edit: it probably has to do with the "step 2: ribbons" part but I'm very ??? on that

Edited 2016-09-02 03:07 (UTC)

Maybe "Ribbons" is a key? Since it's step 2. Idek.

I thought maybe the number of ribbons in the drawer might count for something, but I kinda doubt that it would?

i wondered that as well, but since no number was given for how many ribbons were in the drawer, i'm thinking the eight dots are the relevant part. this one's tough. :|a

I've tried ribbons and the name of every Wonderland NPC. No dice. Though it is probably of note that, on the "simple" page, there are 7 dashes and "ribbons" has 7 letters. I tried a second shift by 7 but nothing yet.

Interesting thing I noticed: the first sixteen letters unshifted is the same sequence of eight repeated twice.

Other than that... nothing.

Edited 2016-09-02 03:28 (UTC)

I also saw this! I had broken it down into four 4 letter words, because that would mean the vinegere is a 4 letter word? but it could also be an 8 letter word and shift that way and be the same word.

Isn't there a cypher that involves a literal ribbon that you run around a pole/cylinder in order to read? I don't know how they work or how numbers play into it though :c

i've been researching cyphers all night i am embarrassed to admit and i think you may be right!!

The rail fence cipher was used by the ancient Greeks in the scytale, a mechanical system of producing a transposition cipher. The system consisted of a cylinder and a ribbon that was wrapped around the cylinder. The message to be encrypted was written on the coiled ribbon. The letters of the original message would be rearranged when the ribbon was uncoiled from the cylinder. However, the message was easily decrypted when the ribbon was recoiled on a cylinder of the same diameter as the encrypting cylinder.

oh, a rail fence cipher? I can try coding it like that and see if it works!

if that doesn't work we can ask to take a closer look at the ribbon and see if there are any more hints on it, but yay! this is great.

Edited 2016-09-02 03:48 (UTC)

that would be gr8 honestly because I am a little stumped haha. rail fence ciphers have a LOT of possibilities without having a physical item and I feel like it might be reaching a bit.

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