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[ en ] tranceway . m . o . d . s. ([personal profile] vitaelamorte) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2016-08-31 05:09 pm
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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! ♥
krmvgivv: (dipper54)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2016-09-04 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
TRANSCRIPTION FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS IT as best as I could get it

"Welcome home welcome home welcome home welcome back you finally came back thank you thank you so much for coming to my party it means the world to me you came back it's been so long it's wonderful to see you again missed you so much i i've been so lonely without you everyone always leaves me eventually but not you you came back! you came back we i i don't have much time I just wanted you to know how happy i am that you're here and how grateful I am that you returned time after time again even when you don't remember me so thank you from my very core thank you I'm sorry you'll have to muddle through somehow and don't forget don't forget NEVER FORGET Wonderland will always welcome you home."
goodwoofjames: (Default)

[personal profile] goodwoofjames 2016-09-04 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
God I mean it really does seem to be Wonderland but...there seems to be a very specific recipient of this message. Alice? Except there isn't much indication she's ever gone home...

ETA: Even more indication this is a message for a specific person (or a, like, rote speech used for the same purpose but always given to a specific person) is the "I'm sorry, you'll have to muddle through somehow" line, which sounds like Wonderland consoling a person who is distraught about coming back again
Edited 2016-09-04 05:53 (UTC)
normandysbest: (« [Look] What the heckie)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
I mean she did also forget pretty much everything from home, so she just might not remember she hasn't lived there her whole life.
goodwoofjames: (Default)

[personal profile] goodwoofjames 2016-09-04 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's possible! And that would be new meta-plot, I suppose.
normandysbest: (« [Curious] Say whaaaat)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
I mean like... u do seem right this does seem to imply that Wonderland itself has a conscience. A personality. Like, a sense of identity. That's a huge revelation if it turns out to be true.
goodwoofjames: (Default)

[personal profile] goodwoofjames 2016-09-04 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
OH YEAH I'm just digging deeper since it's intriguing that this isn't like...THANKS EVERYBODY WOW WHAT A BIG TURNOUT, you know? That seems significant
normandysbest: (« [Smile] Kind of Gentle)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
OH YEAH NAH I FEEL. This might be the background information clue? but yeah we'll have to solve the other ones to be sure.
interpersonal: (Default)

[personal profile] interpersonal 2016-09-04 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
please bring all your friends back to the first puzzle i'm officially stumped
normandysbest: (« [Anger] Get Out Of My Way)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I WILL BE BACK TOMORROW when it's not 2 AM my time, I am Determined to crack that sucker
interpersonal: (grin.)

[personal profile] interpersonal 2016-09-04 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
SLEEP WELL GOOD NIGHT i shall gather my forces for tomorrow as well ♥
normandysbest: (« [Sass] Insert Shitty Joke Here)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
GODSPEED FRIEND
dodged_and_burned: (Hmmm)

[personal profile] dodged_and_burned 2016-09-04 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
So I guess we're going to go ahead and say that this route is done, right? God I want closure, I'm so scared we're missing something, like something Christmas related lmao.

Guys give me closure!!
krmvgivv: (and pull it out)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2016-09-04 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well there's this weird yarn stuff I mean I think the route is officially done but maybe something worth discussing??
normandysbest: (« [Thinking] Well shit idfk)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2016-09-04 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
yeah Koji confirmed on the plurk notice that this was the end of this one.
mypartnerintime: (I'd never do that to Chloe)

[personal profile] mypartnerintime 2016-09-04 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Omg ok closure lol!