[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

[splinten]

You're right. I'm a goddamned fool.

[....his parents convinced him climbing things was a bad example, but they did not persuade him not to swear]

Our next clue, wrested from the hands of the King of the Lava Monsters, points us onwards to new dangers and mysteries. It reads:

jackets of a tree,
one two three,
(no, there's too many to count to guarantee)
infinite worlds sublime,
but away too long and pay a fine

What say you, quest companion? Have we the strength to face our next trials after a battle as fierce as this?

[parodeity]

Damn straight. [ at least neither of them has said fuck yet but hahahaha oops. ]

I agree with library, let's book it. I think we're nearin' the final clue??

[ and THEN dirk gets to feed dave probably. and they can see how they ranked in the treasure hunting extravaganza?

he messes up the hair of kid-who-sat-on-him before starting towards the library! ]

[splinten]

[Flicker of amusement at 'let's book it']

And then I'll get my questin' reward.

[It's feeding Dave. That's his quest reward. This entire thing is now about nothing else.]

[parodeity]

[ dirk remember the Goal, i say, like dave remotely remembers the goal at this point. he's just playing the game, and at least it's keeping him entertained? ]

Don't overdue it. We'll get there when we get there.

[ stop ]

[splinten]

[How many of these does Dave have.]

I'm pacin' us just fine.

[parodeity]

You're not exactly goin' by the book.

[ a lot ]

[splinten]

[A bit of a head-tilt because is that legal? It was 'book' twice but in a new way so. Probably legal. Okay.]

I'd rather shelve this argument.

[parodeity]

That doesn't check [ the barest hesitation before he continues, a near pause that isn't quite before it's smoothly a wry joke: ] out.

[splinten]

[A little questioning tilt of the head. What was going on there? Explain, Dave?]

Who'd you loan that one from?

[parodeity]

...Just a thing. [ in response to the head tilt. he's more or less mastered remembering shit without giving too much indication, but some of them are still...

...weird... ]

I'd tell you, but you'd have to look it up.

[splinten]

Is it somethin' I should catalogue?

[Are they seriously discussing this through library puns. Sure.]

[parodeity]

[ a shrug. ]

We wouldn't be on the same page?

[splinten]

You could fill in the blanks?

[parodeity]

It's less fun than all this? [ since on the whole, despite like. a bump or two. he is enjoying the treasure hunt aspect of things. ]

[splinten]

[That is not a library pun. So Dirk pulls Dave into one of those one-armed over the shoulder hugs and ruffles his hair—moves carefully signalled in advanced, not done so fast that Dave couldn't react.]

Alright, Bro. I can respect wanting to postpone matters of that nature for a less ridiculous time.

You did, after all, just suffer a terrible defeat at the hands of lava monsters.

[parodeity]

Ask me again another time. [ but he huffs a laugh and rolls his eyes. ] - ah, shit.

[ a tiny frown, although it's more amused than it isn't. ]

I completely forgot.

[splinten]

What's up?

[parodeity]

I was supposed to be takin' pictures, but you like, distracted me.

[ HE TOOK ONE SHOT, AT THE START, AND THEN PROMPTLY GOT TOO CAUGHT UP IN THE ACTIVITY PORTION TO THINK ABOUT THE SNAPSHOT PORTION? ]

[splinten]

[...]

Would it be missin' the point to go back in time so we can take a picture of your lava death?

[parodeity]

I didn't want a picture of that, I meant like, you doin' dumb shit -

[ like beating the lava king or whatever. he'd be more annoyed with himself, but: ]

I wasn't even thinkin' about it 'till just now.

[ the treasure-y portions have been kind of hilarious. ]

[splinten]

I want a picture of you doing dumb shit. [Obviously? Because he loves dumb pictures of Dave. Dave being the cameraman has been one of his greatest enemies and the biggest reason why he even learned to handle a camera himself.]

[parodeity]

Guess you should've been on your cameraman ball then, huh? [ this is what you get when your brother is the family cameraperson ] Anyway, I shudder to think what you'd do with that kinda pic.

[splinten]

I'd do somethin' downright terrifyin', like frame it up on my wall or put it in a photo album.

[parodeity]

See? I can't allow you to commit such atrocities.

[splinten]

You can and should.

[He's going to whip out his phone to try to at least snap a picture of Dave now.]