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recolle2018-06-05 11:28 pm
meowchanics) wrote in recolle2018-06-05 11:28 pm
Let's Play a Game [OPEN]
WHO: Akane Kurashiki, Sigmund Klim, and literally anybody in need of a ~mystery~
WHERE: Various locations around Tribunal Terrace
WHEN: 7-10 June
WHAT: Fulfilling civic duty by trying to push random people into unnecessarily convoluted games. Where have we heard this one before?
WARNINGS: None (might edit if memory regains happen)
[A: OUTSIDE]
[Overnight, mysteriously, a couple dozen posters spring up all around the city’s administrative district. They’re little more than plain A3 paper, and all of them have identical print:
If you’re intrigued by this FREE MYSTERY, maybe you can find someone like-minded nearby. If you just want to express your disdain, it’s always better to vent that stuff where someone might be listening. ...You’re not going to try and take the posters down, are you? Whoever’s idea this was, they must have worked so hard.
Following the arrows on the posters will eventually lead you to one of three locations…]
[B: CHURCH]
[The church commandeered by these mystery makers is small and austere, almost more of a chapel. Between the inexplicably purple altar, the electronic organ and the narrow pews, there aren’t many places for puzzle components to hide. Instead, most of them are out in the open. A neat line of Bibles is laid out on the organ keyboard, each with a different-coloured bookmark inside. On top of the altar is a sheaf of photocopied sudoku puzzles, certain squares manually highlighted. Under part of the carpet and inside a closet full of cleaning supplies are smaller squares of blank paper, smelling faintly of lemon.
The key clue is a small business card taped loosely inside one of the many nondescript hymnals lining the pews, its location hinted at by crossreferencing the numbers in the sudoku puzzle with matching Bible verses. It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten sentence: “Speak truth to power.”]
[C: CITY HALL]
[Up some stairs and past some office cubicles lurks the kind of meeting room where attention spans go to die. Apart from the dusty tables and uncomfortable chairs, the main feature of the room is a large whiteboard with three useless, dried-up marker pens in its tray; on inspection, all three pens have stickers on the side labelling each of them with a different number. Under one of the seat cushions is a printed sheet of farmyard animal facts. An old-fashioned radio sits on the windowsill, but it feels far too light for a radio, and if opened up reveals only a small microphone attached to a Blueberry Pi. In the opposite corner, a projector conceals a second print-out, this one a classic logic puzzle: if X eats Y, Y eats Z and your boat can hold only two living things, how can you get X, Y and Z across a river?
The key clue is a small business card inside an almost-as-small piggy bank with a 3-digit combination lock, deduced by linking the numbers . It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten line: “∀x:x⇒x”]
[D: HOSPITAL]
[Anyone who’s been here before must be at least a little unsettled by how empty this large waiting room looks with nobody around - a wide space of sterile air and disembodied murmurs. That, however, is only the second most obvious change. The most obvious change is that the chairs have been rearranged in an arbitrary squareish pattern. Superficially similar fourfold patterns have been drawn on sheets of paper hidden around the rest of the room: under posters, on top of vending machines, tucked inside pill bottles and bandage rolls on abandoned trolleys, one folded up and wedged into an old Operation board game.
The key clue is a small business card tucked away in one of the many cardboard boxes behind one of the reception desks, located by comparing the patterns drawn on each box to the next pattern in the sequence around the rest of the room. It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten sentence: “By definition, a puzzle has an answer.”]
[Unless you happen to catch a certain young woman or her beleaguered assistant sneaking around between puzzle rooms, no further explanations seem to be forthcoming. So how about it? Can you solve the mystery?]
(ooc: This is a mingle log! There are general descriptions of each puzzle room in the thread headers, but apart from the key clues, the details are left to your discretion. None of the puzzles are difficult, none of the components are more unusual than things you would mundanely find in each setting or a starter robotics kit, and all of them were clearly thrown together in a hurry, although it should take a little digging to uncover every relevant set piece. Tag around! Team up! Write your own toplevels! Find A Way Out!
There is an ICly intended solution to the overarching "mystery" which by nature can be carried out multiple times by multiple people, but feel free and encouraged to interpret this setup however the heck you want. /o/
If you have questions, toss them at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
blitzente, presages or into a PM!)
WHERE: Various locations around Tribunal Terrace
WHEN: 7-10 June
WHAT: Fulfilling civic duty by trying to push random people into unnecessarily convoluted games. Where have we heard this one before?
WARNINGS: None (might edit if memory regains happen)
[A: OUTSIDE]
[Overnight, mysteriously, a couple dozen posters spring up all around the city’s administrative district. They’re little more than plain A3 paper, and all of them have identical print:
FREE MYSTERYThese posters really are everywhere - or maybe it’s just that they’re big and hard to miss, monochrome as they are amid the patchwork of mismatched colours that is the surrounding town. Trees, lampposts, walls, trash cans, nowhere is safe.
↑↑↑
If you’re intrigued by this FREE MYSTERY, maybe you can find someone like-minded nearby. If you just want to express your disdain, it’s always better to vent that stuff where someone might be listening. ...You’re not going to try and take the posters down, are you? Whoever’s idea this was, they must have worked so hard.
Following the arrows on the posters will eventually lead you to one of three locations…]
[B: CHURCH]
[The church commandeered by these mystery makers is small and austere, almost more of a chapel. Between the inexplicably purple altar, the electronic organ and the narrow pews, there aren’t many places for puzzle components to hide. Instead, most of them are out in the open. A neat line of Bibles is laid out on the organ keyboard, each with a different-coloured bookmark inside. On top of the altar is a sheaf of photocopied sudoku puzzles, certain squares manually highlighted. Under part of the carpet and inside a closet full of cleaning supplies are smaller squares of blank paper, smelling faintly of lemon.
The key clue is a small business card taped loosely inside one of the many nondescript hymnals lining the pews, its location hinted at by crossreferencing the numbers in the sudoku puzzle with matching Bible verses. It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten sentence: “Speak truth to power.”]
[C: CITY HALL]
[Up some stairs and past some office cubicles lurks the kind of meeting room where attention spans go to die. Apart from the dusty tables and uncomfortable chairs, the main feature of the room is a large whiteboard with three useless, dried-up marker pens in its tray; on inspection, all three pens have stickers on the side labelling each of them with a different number. Under one of the seat cushions is a printed sheet of farmyard animal facts. An old-fashioned radio sits on the windowsill, but it feels far too light for a radio, and if opened up reveals only a small microphone attached to a Blueberry Pi. In the opposite corner, a projector conceals a second print-out, this one a classic logic puzzle: if X eats Y, Y eats Z and your boat can hold only two living things, how can you get X, Y and Z across a river?
The key clue is a small business card inside an almost-as-small piggy bank with a 3-digit combination lock, deduced by linking the numbers . It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten line: “∀x:x⇒x”]
[D: HOSPITAL]
[Anyone who’s been here before must be at least a little unsettled by how empty this large waiting room looks with nobody around - a wide space of sterile air and disembodied murmurs. That, however, is only the second most obvious change. The most obvious change is that the chairs have been rearranged in an arbitrary squareish pattern. Superficially similar fourfold patterns have been drawn on sheets of paper hidden around the rest of the room: under posters, on top of vending machines, tucked inside pill bottles and bandage rolls on abandoned trolleys, one folded up and wedged into an old Operation board game.
The key clue is a small business card tucked away in one of the many cardboard boxes behind one of the reception desks, located by comparing the patterns drawn on each box to the next pattern in the sequence around the rest of the room. It features Recolle University’s logo, a crudely scrawled cartoon key, and a single handwritten sentence: “By definition, a puzzle has an answer.”]
[Unless you happen to catch a certain young woman or her beleaguered assistant sneaking around between puzzle rooms, no further explanations seem to be forthcoming. So how about it? Can you solve the mystery?]
(ooc: This is a mingle log! There are general descriptions of each puzzle room in the thread headers, but apart from the key clues, the details are left to your discretion. None of the puzzles are difficult, none of the components are more unusual than things you would mundanely find in each setting or a starter robotics kit, and all of them were clearly thrown together in a hurry, although it should take a little digging to uncover every relevant set piece. Tag around! Team up! Write your own toplevels! Find A Way Out!
There is an ICly intended solution to the overarching "mystery" which by nature can be carried out multiple times by multiple people, but feel free and encouraged to interpret this setup however the heck you want. /o/
If you have questions, toss them at
OUTSIDE / closed to sigmund
Maybe he hasn't noticed yet. She's giggling at him from the side.]
Good work Sigmund! You've outdone yourself.
[She'll walk over and pat him on the shoulder. Please notice the poster on your back, old man.]
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I should be the one saying that to you. It's worrying.
[Why did he agree to help set this up, again? Well, because it's for the greater good, there's somehow a bizarre logic to it, and he'd much rather do something than dwell on the state of the city as is. That doesn't make it a less stupid idea in execution.]
...Did you run out of posters already?
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[She meant that literally. Don't go into the storage room. Don't go into the storage room.
Will Sigmund ever pick up on this gag of hers? Only god knows.]
We might have a few more there. That's where we keep all the spare props too.
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[If they keep stealing paper from the faculty office to print more of these posters, eventually he's going to start feeling bad about it. Awful. Anyway, he'll just slam the car door shut, lock it, and traipse back towards the building.
The poster on his back flutters peacefully, content with its place in the multiverse.]
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[When Sigmund goes to check Akane bursts out laughing. She can't help it. That was really mean.
Is he not going to notice the poster on his back? He must have no self awareness.
Sigmund might be able to hear Akane's giggling from the back. She's not too far away after all. ]
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[What?????]
no subject
[This is loads of bullshit. Akane's trying to cover up her odd behavior with some lies. Don't believe her man.]
When you left I lost my composure. It's nothing you should be worrying yourself over.
[SHE'S ACTING SO STRANGELY..it is suspicious. ]
no subject
[That means the joke is definitely on him somehow, but what could it be? Ugh, probably not worth puzzling out. It's just Akane. He already knows not to acquiesce to whatever ridiculous thing she asks for help with next time.
The poster on his back is in full view to everyone besides him as he heads on into the building. He'll return after a couple minutes, empty handed.]
No such luck. We can still print more of them, but how many are you short?
[Is it a convoluted 69 joke?? Is that it???]
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[Akane chuckles. ]
Just kidding. I only need 20 for the building outside and we should be set.
[Twenty is a completely reasonable number and they can print that much without an issue. Akane's going hard on giving Sigma a bad time here. She might regret this later.]
Will that be okay?
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[A mature reaction befitting one of advanced age. Anyway, the printer they used before is indeed back in the faculty office, so he's all set to get back into his car and drive away -
- when, by happy coincidence, the poster catches on the back of his car seat with a gentle poke and a small scratchy noise.]
Huh?
[As a learned academic, Sigmund couldn't possibly fail to notice this. He's getting there! It's just a shame that his first instinct is to get back out of the car and peer suspiciously at the seat, rather than check himself in the wing mirror...]
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[ Akane can hardly keep herself from laughing. There's a weird smile plastered across her face. It's far from a natural look, that's for sure. ]
Did something happen? You stopped moving all of a sudden.
[ She knows what's up and she's acting completely innocent. THAT'S MEAN. ]
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[Give him a moment. Back of the car seat... between the seat cushions...
...and then, at long last, his back.
Fanfare! YOU FOUND IT!]
...
[Wait, no, another moment while he unsticks the poster from his back. His shoulders aren't as cooperative as they used to be. But soon enough, there it is in his hand, still proclaiming its "FREE MYSTERY" to the world in bold letters.]
Akane.
[Akane.]
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[She starts clapping like she's impressed??? Rude. ]
I was wondering when you'd discover the poster hanging on your back.
[AKANE..........no. stop. Sigmund doesn't deserve this.]