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entranceway2016-08-31 05:09 pm
vitaelamorte) wrote in entranceway2016-08-31 05:09 pm
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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:
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 roofit 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! ♥
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
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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see here and here
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idk idk
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i also tried taking the sentence in the parenthesis literally, i.e., only count the dots, and there's eight dots. so only count the eights. but i'm not sure what that would mean, either ...
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i also shifted the letters by 8 after doing the rail thing :\
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Okay, but in all seriousness, if we were to take this at face value and assume that the dashes and dots mean anything on a Morse Code level, here's what we're left with.
Unfortunately, the spacing makes it difficult to discern, and the fact that dashes are. Traditionally. Horizontal.
The only possible letters shown here (based on turning the """Simple!""" sheet any which way) would be the following:
.- [A]
-. [N]
. [E]
- [T]
..- [U]
Unfortunately, it's unclear as to which angle or side one would need to turn this on. One would assume that you start with the "!" at the end of simple, and based on the side upon which you would turn it, it could either be .- or -. i.e N or A.
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bc i mean, it says to count the dots, but it doesn't say to disregard the dashes. but there's dots on that sheet and also the first one.
stares into mouette's window as she sleeps
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Also Me: I DON'T GOT THIS
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LMAO IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER
my conspiracy theories late last night got batshit/far-fetched
i even suggested braille bc alice has no fucking eyes ok
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I lined them up exactly the way they should be lined up with the file sizes the way they are, but it's not spurring any inspiration in me. Once again, cranium-first into that brick wall.
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If we JUST look at the numbers:
dots: 0
ribbons: 0343
If we include the letters:
dots: 0SO
ribbons: 0343LES
I just included the dots or ribbons that seem to be directly indicating text. Don't know what to do with any of it. :T
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What if the dots and ribbons are 0's and 1's? But then it says dots first, and that they're simple, and we could assume from that that the ribbons are more complicated...so 1's and 7's?
I tried this and I think the pattern would be:
-/..-/-././-
..-/-././-/..-
-/.-/..-/-/-
Which translates to:
T U N E TU N E T UT A U T T
I MEAN...IT'S A WORD?
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this may not mean anything but inspired by your dots = 0s and ribbons = 1s, i wrote down a binary code thingo from this pic and got 010010010111010 which = I.
SO.
IDK. but i want y'all to get a clue so i tried to help, sorry, numbers and ciphers aren't my forte. but i've been trying to even match the marks of the pic alex scanned into a morse code alphabet as well. perhaps the lines are rough morse code letters? idek.
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i know this could just be trolling but what if we take the clue literally ...
as in, the answer is "simple." but what would simple mean is it an acronym or sth...
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