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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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Ok. I either have it or I have the world's biggest coincidence but I DON'T BELIEVE IN COINCIDENCES.
1318. It's the year Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, the woman Sir John Tenniel based the duchess off of was born. It would make the numbers add up to 47, and there's the 1 and the 8 which is fucking SIMPLE oh my god.
SO HOW BOUT IT? am I gonna cry again
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which is just
floor 8
room 1
the diner
i'm basically just pulling numbers out of my tush as mouette cackles
hang on frand together we will make it
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but i honestly have no idea sob
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You fall to your knees, and break into hysterical sobs. And just when you think that your tears are the only liquid spilled in this room you hear strange sounds coming from the faucet in the bath. It must have sprung a leak, because water is coming from it, sometimes in short drips, sometimes in longer spurts.
Spurt. Drip, drip, drip, drip. Drip. A pause. Drip, spurt. Spurt, drip. Drip, drip, drip. Drip, spurt, spurt. Drip. Drip, spurt, drip. Another pause. Drip, drip. Drip, drip, drip. Pause. Drip, drip, drip. Drip, drip. Spurt, spurt. Drip, spurt, spurt, drip. Drip, spurt, drip, drip. Drip. Spurt, drip, spurt, drip, spurt, spurt.
It's quite maddening, and very unlikely to tell you anything you shouldn't already know. You leave the room, and try again. ]
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You are now bruised, soaking wet, and covered in debris. There are no further clues in sight. ]
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Ereht era on rehtruf seulc ni thgis. ]
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But try as you might, there is not a single further clue in sight.
You are starting to think that not following directions 16roperly will be your undoing. Glancing up at the first mansion's roof you remember how you got there, and decide that it would be a rea12ly bad idea to wantonly wander anywhere without good r05ason again. ]
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I guess this means that Step 1 is the simple substitution of A=1, B=2, etc.? In which case Step 1 might actually read "SAMPLE" instead of "SIMPLE."
But how to proceed from there? What's Step 2? HMM. Maybe we are only supposed to count specific letters, related to "dots"...
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NW CG NT YC NW
CG NT YC NW CG
UY XA HA WL M
And if we count every 8th letter:
NWCGNTYC
NWCGNTYC
NWCGUYXA
HAWLM
And if we're counting every 6th:
NWCGNT
YCNWCG
NTYCNW
CGUYXA
HAWLM
... Which still don't make any sense to me but it's almost 2 in the morning so I should be sleeping. I AM GOING TO DO THAT! But you guys feel free to work on it I guess?
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...hold the candle just a little too close to the clues in your hand. Panicked you drop the notes as they catch fire, and quickly stomp down on the paper to kill the flames.
You extinguish the fire, and pick up the first and the second clue again. You inspect their remains with trepidation, and breathe a sigh of relief when you sense that nothing of value was lost.
Now then, back to work you go... ]