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entranceway2016-08-31 05:09 pm
vitaelamorte) wrote in 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:
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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In one of them you find room for an instrument, on an empty cushion. Once you set the kalimba down on the smooth fabric, you will notice a little card tucked away underneath it.
It reads: "my sibling is delicious and knows the way" ]
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You bake a red velvet cake! Your dedication is greatly admired! On a scale from one to ten, how delicious does your cake taste? ]
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Because if you do, then it will just so happen that the very last bite of the very last piece will have you taste a scrumptious... plastic capsule? How did that get into your own, beautiful cake?
Oh well, at least you get a reward for chipping your teeth! ♥ ]
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Their numbers range from 000 to 999: All of them are locked, all of them without a key. Except... for the one you find shimmering in the grass at your feet. If you pick it up you will find that its tag reads THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD. So... which box will you pick?
(Choose carefully, the key will break and become unusable for a whole day after the fifth wrong attempt!)
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I'd use the key in box 108 personally.
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[ 1 try down, 4 more to go. ] ]
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Do we include the green hedge maze? Huh.
Anyway, can we try 632, per the colored numbers? :D
If this is wrong everyone forgive me pls
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You sift through them, and find a bunch of yellowed maps underneath. You'll have to be careful when you handle them, seeing as they're already pretty brittle with age! The images are faded too, but you still recognise outlines of... cities? Countries? Whole worlds? You faintly make out a bunch of names, Lesuss, England, Sunnydale, Whitefall, Little Whinging, Westeros, Los Angeles, Denerim, Arcadia Bay, Jotunheim-- the list goes on, but you are guaranteed to find at least one familiar name among them.
Why, the only strange and unfamiliar thing about some of these maps is an emblem, painted in the bottom right corner of each map. It is sometimes torn, sometimes faded or scratched, and sometimes still very much legible: But it is always the same.
The box looks empty now, but you decide to run your hand through it one last time, just to be completely sure that you didn't miss a single thing. Lo and behold, your fingers snag up one final piece of paper stuck in the back corner.
You check the box again, but this time you truly find it all emptied out, your reward spilled into your hands at last. This is it, this is the end of the road. You wonder what it could all mean... ]
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Guys we have to solve that first route KJNAVLKJNA
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