+ 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

[pig_and_pepper]

Let me see that!

[ Her body tumbles topples forward awkwardly, though her hands prove surprisingly deft at stealing the note from you. She waves it in front of her own eyes, mumbling to herself. ]

Well! Well! It can't be that easy when you're here, can it? You're clearly in the wrong mansion. No wonder none of you were able to solve my riddle.

[ She sighs exaggeratedly. It's actually quite impressive, given how far her lungs are from her mouth. ]

Now then, shoo, shoo, go back where you came from, and try again! I'm very busy, you know.

[ The Duchess hands back your note, and relieves you of her head in exchange. She places it on a small mountain of pillows, clears her throat, and begins, once more, to weep bitterly.

You could stay and talk to her, but there is no telling if she will have anything useful to say. All you know for sure is that you followed your riddle's path to the wrong place, and should probably try again elsewhere... ]

[normandysbest]

Alright well that didn't work lmao, though I was very surprised to wake up to this notif

My second guess on that front would be the mirrorside though, but I still feel like we're missing something here.

[mrknope]

My guess is the library because, you know, red/read as in black and white and red all over. It also is somewhere where cognoscenti might be and sometimes is three floors. Of course, we've already been there on the other path but maybe worth checking?

[normandysbest]

That would make sense! I'm trying to think of what the rest of the color clue means, "no green or blue", implying that like... there are areas with many colors? But honestly the third floor of the library sounds like a good bet.

[uncaging]

I'm going to guess at the Mirror side, since the grounds are in black and white - "no green or blue" could refer to the sky/grass outside? Probably going off in completely the wrong direction but hey.

[normandysbest]

you know what, that's a good plan. I was also thinking of the Mirror Side originally. Maybe the mirror side library? It does probably have one up there.

[uncaging]

Mirror side library sounds like a good bet!

[normandysbest]

alright mods! mirror side library, third floor, let's try!

[vitaelamorte]

[You proceed to library, on Mirror Side. At a glance, it seems very much the same, but all of the words in every book are backwards! This is not a problem for the Mirror residents, who are accustomed to backwards-reading, but may be difficult for anyone else.

Furthermore, every book you attempt to look at appears to be the same page, over and over and over again.]

[krmvgivv]

I am offended that you think Dipper wouldn't read things backwards all the time for fun and practice.

...but point taken. Same place real side?

[vitaelamorte]

[At least it won't take you long to get there, since you can simply cross through any mirror in the library!

When you begin looking at books though, you get a strange sense of déjà vu...]

[krmvgivv]

HMMM the only thing I've got right now is that the ballroom is apparently at least two stories high despite that being not spatially feasible? And the queen's throne room is where the ballroom is on the mirror side.

[paper_knight]

So. Here is a thought, though I am just throwing spaghetti at the wall--maybe "red" is somehow our room number? Three letter word, room numbers tend to be three digits? And that room is on the third floor?

I'm not sure how to make that translation happen (it can't be just letters to numbers because then R would be 18 which is not good, and I'm hesitant to even venture into more complicated puzzle stuff because a) I am not that great at it and b) this is supposedly one of the "easier" puzzles)--but I thought I would put it out there.

[paper_knight]

Oh here's a thing. Red light has a wavelength of 650? AND red/blue/green are your primary colors for mixing light?

[normandysbest]

Hmmm, that might be something, but I feel like there's gotta be something we're missing here. Maybe we can check the ballroom? but it specifically mentions stairs, which are... weird, if we're looking at like the ceiling of the ballroom or something :/

[notasaviour]

If there's a room 255 on the third floor, you could try there? Based on the whole "only red, no green or blue", and the fact that when you're doing RGB colour codes they stack up in RGB order, as so:

[normandysbest]

There is! And honestly, that is a really good idea and one I am 100% willing to try.

Mods! Room 255 on the 3rd floor of the regular mansion?

[vitaelamorte]

[You make it to Room 255 on the third floor. As you approach there's...a strong, unpleasant smell.

Still want to open the door?]

[sciencelizard]

oh.

oh dear.

uh. yes. let's open it.

(so glad I'm on this account this time lmao)

[vitaelamorte]

[If you're sure...

You open the door, slowly...]

[vitaelamorte]

[...]

[krmvgivv]

Technically it doesn't say anything about stairs, it specifically mentions flights. It doesn't It could mean... flying....

I mean Dipper has a jetpack he could check

[vitaelamorte]

[You check the ceiling of the ballroom. The narration can't imagine why the answer would be so small on the ceiling that you couldn't see it from the floor, but sure. Why not?

...There's nothing there. That's a pretty good reason why not.]

[paper_knight]

[Since red seems to be an important part of the clue here, Mark would ICly like to know what the Red Queen has been getting up to these days--since he was not here when she apparently jumped into the core HOLY SHIT EWAY--and I would OOCly like to know whether it was ever established which side of the mansion she lived on, mirror or real. Maybe that will help us decide where our flights of stairs are?]

[vitaelamorte]

[Mark is welcome to come find out icly right over here. As for oocly, this was never truly established, though she did tend more towards Real Side in general.

Also this is what happens when you leave us - we go and toss perfectly good NPCs in the Core. :T]