[OPEN] RECOLLÉ TREASURE HUNT

[appraiser]

WHO: Everybody
WHERE: All around the city
WHEN: Sunday, June 4
WHAT: It's time to go treasure hunting!
WARNINGS: None

Four in One,
under eternal rainfall,
a ReVA event coordinator makes Five,
with clue #1 for you all.

Either by solving the above riddle, hearing the answer through the grapevine, or simply following the trickle of people gathering at the center of Recollé Square this early Sunday morning, one finds Ryoji circling the Founders fountain with a box tucked under his arm and a ready greeting for anybody that approaches him to get started on their hunt. To each team, he hands over a blank sticker and their choice of marker in any of the colors of the rainbow— red, orange, yellow, grey, grey, purple— to write down their name and their team name, along with a small white pin reading "TH 2017 Participant" in bold red. Both the name tag and the pin must be affixed somewhere visible on the front of each member's shirt before he hands over their clue.

Have fun, play hard, get on out of here and find that treasure!

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[ notes: IC, the above can be hand-waved, with top-levels in this post starting from when Ryoji hands your team the first clue. OOC, all clues will be distributed on the ooc/sign-ups post, and any questions can be directed there as well. ]

Comments

[wiselys]

Please tell me you didn't use a massage coupon from a tax place. But, maybe?

[ goddamn their gray eyes. ]

Mine did too. What, do you think I made this thing? [ luke please. ] But if they don't want to send you one, I guess we can make one. Paint some beads, stick them on a cord.

[aegist]

[ thalia...is completely focused on the bracelet lmao sorry luke!! she actually is looking at the beads individually and just kind of moving his wrist around as needed. why is she this way. ]

These are pretty detailed. Are they the same beads as you have? [ to annabeth. ] And that's the only number-y thing I can think of besides, you know, here.

[chiseler]

[So here we have Luke staring at Thalia, Thalia staring at the beads, and Annabeth probably staring at both of them. What a disaster of a team. Strangely there's only five beads on Luke's necklace in comparison to the ten on Annabeth's necklace.]

That's implying I did my taxes. [He's joking (probably), but hm.] She's got a point though, these definitely look hand-made. [He nods toward the shirt Annabeth's wearing.] That's new though.

[Numbers...] The tax place would make sense because I don't know why our first clue would lead us here. I live here. On the other hand the math kinda checks out.

[wiselys]

[ this is fine and not weird at all. ]

Luke. [ do your taxes. ] Yeah, I have some of the same, except. More. Plus the couple of random things. [ she'll tap the college ring and piece of coral. they. kind of stand out among the beads. ]

No idea why I have more. Maybe I'm better at arts and crafts? [ JOKING ] And yeah, I'm lucky enough to get the uh, shirt. With a winged horse on it, because sure, that makes sense.

[ ok numbers ] Well, unless they didn't think about that when they handed us the clue. Or just wanted to mess with us?

[aegist]

[ sorry for making this awkward annabeth but thalia is examining every bead. ]

So...what do these even mean? I think this is a centaur? In a prom dress. Why the fuck is a centaur in a prom dress.

[ shakes luke's wrist at luke like he will have an explanation? ]

Also, we may as well look around here first before wandering off somewhere and having to backtrack. Nothing lost for checking, right?

[chiseler]

[And again, he sure does just let her.]

Nothing lost for checking. [But he's a little more interested now.] ...this is a centaur, and that--[A gesture.]--is a pegasus. What if we're just being haunted by horses?

[wiselys]

May as well. [ the search is on. ]

There's also a tree, I have a blanket and a high-rise, they're all weird. ... A sphinx and a dragon aren't horses, also. [ js ]

fun fact i spent an hour convinced it was ty's turn...

[aegist]

Haunted by horses doesn't make any -

[ sense. she's staring at the beads, the pine tree bead, and.

oh. ]

...Sense. Why would we be haunted by horses? Or you two, since I don't have one yet.

rude

[chiseler]

[...yeah. If it weren't for the fact he was staring at her he wouldn't have noticed the slight pause, but he does. He doesn't bring it up, unsure what's happening but he's keeping a close watch on her anyway even as he answers, even as he turns his wrist in her hold a little.]

Makes as much sense as the dragon and the sphinx. And whatever else we might remember? I'm sort of just wondering...what kind of name is Camp Half-Blood anyway?

[wiselys]

[ annabeth gets half-distracted re-reading the clue and having. her own. oh. to notice thalia's oh.

they're all fine. ]

I mean, I assume it's the name of a camp. Like a summer camp? Half-Blood is the... weird part, though. Maybe we're all centaurs and haven't noticed?

[aegist]

I think we were mostly monster hunters or something. [ distracted, as she finally lets go of luke's wrist. ]

That aside...math. What's our guess for the first clue?

[ she is absolutely not thinking about ?!?!!?!?!?! turning into a tree ?!?!?!!?!?! ]

[chiseler]

We fought monsters while we were runaways. [To clarify. He knows something's up with both of them, but there's nothing to say just yet, so he gently pulls his wrist from Thalia to glance around the bar.]

121. If you take just the digits, that also equals four. Not sure if that means anything...[Yeah it's hard to think about math when your sister and your...Thalia...are a little distracted, too.] I guess our guess could be here? Outside and inside, nothing is shared...gossip flies around inside the bar all the time but that's the opposite of not sharing.

So. Maybe a four, some kind of confidentiality clause. Annabeth, what'd you pull up on the map?

[wiselys]

Makes as much sense as anything. [ she's still playing with the clue paper distractedly. ]

Assuming squared is mathematical, too. Four. Hm. Four is also a square? [ this is hard. she mostly like mathematical measurements for like. architecture and graphing and shit not this. ] Yeah, here doesn't quite fit that section of the clue. Unless this building is notably square? Maybe?

[ she forgot the map. PUTS DOWN THE CLUE. ] Nothing comes up for 121... or 4. Uh. There's a cathedral or a cabaret club that could fit the latter half of the proph-- clue. Of the clue. But not the squared over a baker's dozen minus three thing. Retrospec also hates sharing sometimes, too.

[aegist]

"Proph..."?

[ yeah okay annabeth she caught that. ]

But if it's here, let's look around, I guess?

[chiseler]

[...yeah, he caught that, too.]

Proph. [He's raising an eyebrow, and he's not going to continue just yet.] What were you going to say, Annabeth?

[wiselys]

Clue? I said clue.

[ casually starts searching around though they will find nada. she's checking under tables and. whatever. treasure hunt > weird ass memories. ]

If you were going to hide a clue here, where would you?

[aegist]

You did not, but we'll let it slide. Honestly...I think if it were here, Luke would have had to know.

[ LIKE. AS OWNER. ]

So...maybe we should head to the tax place?

[chiseler]

Uh. I'm not going to let it slide, but we can talk about it on our way to the tax place. [He's patting his pockets to make sure he has his keys.] ...both of you.

[No elaboration, but he's moving to head out of the bar to lock up and let one of the girls take the lead.] ...weird question for you guys. Does this feel weirdly familiar?

[wiselys]

[ once they've left the bar, ] Fine, I almost said prophecy, because I had a memory about some prophecy.

[ she is definitely ready to lead the way with thalia, luke can lead nothing. ] Familiar how?

[aegist]

[ thalia is indeed falling into step with annabeth? she glares at luke for a reason she doesn't elaborate on (pry the tree memory out of her cold dead hands, bro) but. ]

Sort of. [ she remembers the feel of a quest, if not specifically a quest with luke and annabeth. ]

[chiseler]

[Wow what the hell. But he's locking the bar and following after the girls anyway. Off they go.

It feels really weirdly familiar, especially given what he knows about their past, things he hasn't said to either of them.]

Just checking. Anyway aren't prophecies supposed to be, like, legends or whatever? [He doesn't dare say "messages by gods" because yeah, no, we're ignoring every other memory received so far.]

[wiselys]

[ I'm glad the first thread these three have will also be the last as thalia and annabeth murder luke for multiple reasons. ]

They're from an Oracle. I think, anyway. [ and now she may as well tell the whole story as she walks with annabeth and glancing back occasionally at luke. ] The one I remembered was on paper, around the some mummy lady's neck. I took it from her, after asking politely, and then that boy read it, because I think it had something to do with him. It was called the Great Prophecy, so I guess it was an important one.

[ sort of shrugging. how far is the tax place they have to check for no clues. ]

[aegist]

Luke might know about it.

[ POINTEDLY. she knows he's holding out on them, because. luke. anyway she is speedwalking towards their goal because this is a COMPETITION and thalia is COMPETITIVE. ]

I'm not against talking about memories, but if we don't win this, I will protest.

[chiseler]

[He has long legs? He's going to keep up pretty easily and he trusts Annabeth to do the same.]

I don't know shit about a prophecy, so don't give me that. [But...] Sounds pretty creepy though. That boy like...the Roman boy? That guy? Because I think you guys should know something about him. Not as important as some Great Prophecy but think I have a name for him.

[wiselys]

Hmmmmmm.

[ a HMMMM of I SURE BET HE DOES. and girl you know annabeth is speedwalking too she likes winning. ]

Yeah, it was. He's bad at reading, by the way. [ technically annabeth likely heard percy's name in that memory but even if she did she will let luke have This Moment. since it's good to get luke to actually tell them things. ] Oh really?