+ CLUE POST +

[vitaelamorte]

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! ♥

Comments

[fulllifeconsequences]

I don't think it's hex, because I just got utter gibberish. The numbers range from 26-97, so I don't think it's a direct number -> letter substitution either?

but I don't know SHIT about cyphers so that's probably as helpful as I'm gonna be here lmao

[krmvgivv]

So there's a Nihilist Cipher. So far I haven't been able to make it come out to anything but maybe someone else can? I've been testing it here I mean believe in nothing..... seems too perfect to be a coincidence

Yeah that site does not seem to be a good one. I'M GONNA KEEP LOOKING.

[vitaelamorte]

[Everyone knows using generators is cheating for real code-breakers anyhow. And we did say "don't cheat" at the beginning of this route, so when you put two and two together...]

[krmvgivv]

YEAH YEAH I JUST PRINTED THIS are you happy

SUCK IT. I mean it sure isn't all of it yet but I got an actual word so I CROSSES FINGERS

[mypartnerintime]

OMG I hope you get it!! I'm so excited, gogogo cipher people!!

[notagoodloser]

SHANA YOU ARE A GOD AMONG MEN

edit: is there anything we can do to help like should we take sections????? idk man I don't want u suffering alone

[krmvgivv]

NOT REALLY IT'S STUPID AND VIGENERE LIKE so hard to go at from the middle but I AM ALMOST DONE

so much math. so much wishing my handwriting were better or that I'd typed the code out super big and printed it out like that. so many regrets. BUT ALMOST DONE breeeathes

[normandysbest]

YOU ARE WONDERFUL LET ME JUST

GENTLY SHOWER YOU IN LOVE

[krmvgivv]

OK. AHAHHAA I'm done so much math.

"Where does belief get you? It gets off with your head, off to the dungeon, with you! Off, off, miles down is where you'll find who invited you."

Soooooo I'm thinking we go down to the dungeons??

[normandysbest]

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN

[vitaelamorte]

[Yes, yes of course - but first, an eway trivia question! You know, for the benefit of those who don't pay as much attention:

Where ARE our seldom-used dungeons? ♥]

[krmvgivv]

"Third, the Mirror side tunnels lead to a series of dungeons that would give the Inquisition nightmares."

I DIDN'T COME THIS FAR NOT TO LOOK AT THE SETTINGS PAGE

also I kind of figured it was the caves I mean where else is miles down

[normandysbest]

yeah it's the mirror side so uhm WE'RE GONNA DIE

[krmvgivv]

shhh shh we'll be fine I'm sure it's fine we're just going to the horrible inquisition dungeons

[vitaelamorte]

[IT WAS WORTH ASKING, REAL SIDE CAVES WOULD GET YOU A DEAD END.

Ahem. I mean.

After much math, sweat, and tears, you head down to the dungeons! It's very spooky and unsettling down there, and it seems like no one's used them in a very long time. Everything is very dusty and dark, and all the cells are shut.

But on the ground, you find a ring of keys.

What now?]

[krmvgivv]

GONNA TRY TO UNLOCK THE CELLS WITH THE KEYS. THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY GO WRONG.

[vitaelamorte]

[The first cell you try has a human skeleton curled up in the corner gathering dust. It doesn't have a head anymore, but the head is no where to be found.

Are you really sure about this? Or will you keep going?]

[krmvgivv]

Yeeuugh. But also definitely. LET'S DO THIS.

[vitaelamorte]

[The first few cells are more of the same, more of the same, followed by a few cells that seem to have nothing but dusty grey yarn in them, in unwoven piles. They're so fragile that when you touch them, they disintegrate. Strangely, it leaves a glittery grey residue on your hands.

There's still one more cell to check, as far down as you can go.

Or you could, you know. Turn back. Aren't you getting hungry? It's awfully dark down here too.]

[krmvgivv]

Pfft, snacks are covered.

I mean, of course it was gonna be the last one. In hindsight, we should have started with that one. So yes. OPEN IT OOOOPEN IT.

Maybe Shepard can go first though. Protect the small child.

[normandysbest]

Anything in the cells already? Or just a bunch of dust?

edit: i think this is getting answered for me lmao feel free to keep goin on the main thread

[vitaelamorte]

[In general there's a lot of dust and a lot of bones, at least for the first few cells. One is just a head, and a family of mice have made a lovely home inside.

Will you keep going? Or is that a bit too much? How badly do you want answers anyway?

LOL OR THAT WORKS TOO it's gonna be mostly the same whoever jumps in first can ask.]

[normandysbest]

human skeletons are nothing man, she's seen some SHIT

anyway. yeah. BRING IT OOOON hell she'll touch the bones if she needs to let's go fam REPLY WHEREVER U WANT IF IT'S THE SAME INFO LMAO SORRY

[vitaelamorte]

[IT'S OKAY I ENJOY YOUR ENTHUSIASM. ♥]

[krmvgivv]

ALSO TYPO BY EITHER ME OR IN THE ACTUAL CODE it actually says off with YOWR head and I am noting it just in case it becomes important?? it also could definitely be nothing.....