+ 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

[normandysbest]

hmmm.

okay, if we have to go one-by-one, orange next! if we can open all of 'em I'd love to crack one of each color lmao

[vitaelamorte]

[Unless one of you has six pairs of arms you'd be opening them one at a time anyhow, and even if you had multiple people working on it you'd still have to pick an order to read them in, so...nope. One-by-one.]

FORTUNATELY YOU'VE SOLVED THE PUZZLE!

[normandysbest]

well, uh, okay.

yellow!

[vitaelamorte]

[On to yellow!]

UNFORTUNATELY...CAN YOU?

[Wow, what a rude clue.]

[normandysbest]

WOW, #OFFENDED

alright, looks like last is green!

[vitaelamorte]

[If you're sure.]

UNFORTUNATELY THEY CAN'T FILL IN THE BLANKS

[normandysbest]

Are there any more colors? Can we try opening a second of each one to see if the messages correspond?

[vitaelamorte]

[ARE there? You're the one who picked them up, so you ought to know.

You open more blue, pink, yellow, orange, and green eggs, but tragically they only contain the same messages as the first ones.]

[normandysbest]

I MEAN THEN IM JUST GONNA START LOBBING COLORS

red??

[vitaelamorte]

[You try very hard to open a red egg, but unfortunately you don't seem to have one! What an impossible task.]

[normandysbest]

screams

can I ask if we have eggs in any other colors other than the ones previously mentioned?

[vitaelamorte]

[Why don't you go look?]

[normandysbest]

FUCK THERE'S A WHITE EGG

OPEN THAT ONE

i should not be left to do this by myself

[vitaelamorte]

[The poor, neglected white egg is finally picked up. It has waited so long for this moment, for someone to finally notice it and take it in their hands and crack it open like its brothers and sisters before it. It thought its moment truly might never, ever come - that it might be left on the pool floor long after this location is abandoned, forgotten in favor of the beautiful eggs before it. The pain is real, but it is ready to forgive. This is its time to shine.

It says:]

FORTUNATELY THE GOLDFISH KNOW WHERE TO GO NEXT!

[normandysbest]

THANK YOU GOODNESS

okay so alltogether we have

FORTUNATELY YOU CAN!
UNFORTUNATELY YOUR ANSWER ISN'T HERE
FORTUNATELY YOU'VE SOLVED THE PUZZLE!
UNFORTUNATELY...CAN YOU?
UNFORTUNATELY THEY CAN'T FILL IN THE BLANKS
FORTUNATELY THE GOLDFISH KNOW WHERE TO GO NEXT!

edit: there are goldfish in the fountain in the gardens! anyone else have other ideas or should we just go for it?

[goodwoofjames]

We want to ask the goldfish where we should go next!

[normandysbest]

ALRIGHT THEN TO THE FOUNTAIN IN THE GARDENS!!!!

edit: i will make a note of saying we're gonna take the eggs with 'em, one of each color, so we have all the messages. just in case

[eyething]

Get those goldfish! ASK THEM THEIR SECRETS

also bless ya'll forever

[goodwoofjames]

THIS PUZZLE IS SO SASSY

[normandysbest]

KOJI WILL NOT STOP FUCKING WITH ME

[goodwoofjames]

So altogether these are:

FORTUNATELY YOU CAN!
UNFORTUNATELY YOUR ANSWER ISN'T HERE
FORTUNATELY YOU'VE SOLVED THE PUZZLE!
UNFORTUNATELY...CAN YOU?
UNFORTUNATELY THEY CAN'T FILL IN THE BLANKS

sounds a bit tweedle-esque to me

[goodwoofjames]

UNFORTUNATELY YOUR ANSWER ISN'T HERE
FORTUNATELY YOU'VE SOLVED THE PUZZLE!
UNFORTUNATELY THEY CAN'T FILL IN THE BLANKS
FORTUNATELY YOU CAN!
UNFORTUNATELY...CAN YOU?

I think this is the order that makes the most sense. I'm guessing "they" is the puzzles, generally? I'm not sure what to do with this, though. Is it just saying we weren't supposed to go to the pool?

[goodwoofjames]

we opened them

Blue
Pink
Orange
Yellow
Green

in this order we get

Yellow
Orange
Green
Blue
Pink

Just. Saying.

[goodwoofjames]

OKAY SO I AM PRETTY SURE THE COLORS DON'T MATTER BUT

with the white egg included the "they" is the goldfish who cannot fill in the blanks

where do we get goldfish

[normandysbest]

I commented in the main thread but there's goldfish in the fountain in the gardens on the grounds!!