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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
no subject
[ She knows her teachers well. ] Are you sure he wasn't just being extra hard on you?
At least you seemed to have learned something from him.
no subject
What? I just said I totally learned everything he had to teach, man. Sheesh, none of it was hard at all.
[Gar scoffs and quickly scribbles down a few more wrong answers and changes the topic.]
'K, got it!
[he did not get it]
no subject
....
[Akane silently stares down at Gar's work and inspects it with a fine comb.]
I'm sorry. You still have several errors. Did you rush to complete it this time?
[It seems that way.]
no subject
...Can I blame Professor Klim? He never taught me how to do this. I feel like it was a huge flaw in his teaching.
no subject
Then let's fix that, right now.
[Is there a good reason why Sigmund was loitering behind the Chapel door right up until he chose to slam it open a moment ago? Well, there's a reason...]
And Akane, that's enough messing with him.
no subject
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE?!
[Gar throws the sudoku paper and makes a break for it by flipping over some pews and crashing to the ground.]
Why is this happening.