[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. ]

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[frisyr]

[ He grabs a pair of flip flops and tells the sales person that has sorry but he'll pay for them when he gets back downstairs, and could they watch his shoes and socks please! hands them his sandy damp shoes and then slips the flip flops on and starts sprinting up the stairs two at a time, easily catching up to Tuuri. ]

Can you believe these are only $3? They're so comfortable! I think I'm going to buy a second pair...

They said the top, right?

[sotenbori]

Oh shit, okay.

[ i mean majima and kiryu are super fit so getting to the top wont be an issue just... he was expecting them to have so much gusto. ]

[judgementkazzy]

[ Yeah for a couple of buff dudes, climbing the stairs is no problem. A little. Maybe.

Okay, Kaz woke up with muscles overnight, his stamina hasn't 100% caught up to him. They make it to the roof but boy is he starting to feel winded. ]

Is the clue here?

[skald]

[Surprisingly, despite all the complaining Tuuri can do when the temperature gets above 70 degrees and she has to walk outside, her energy only "flagged" so much that she was walking up the stairs instead of running up them.]

Ha, we made it! [She sounds slightly out of breath, if at all. That was kind of fun!] Let's see, if I was a clue, where would I be... It can't be something that someone would buy, or something that would get in the way of the workers, so...

[Despite what she's saying, she's looking behind like, individual pieces of clothing hanging up, underneath tiny boxes...]

[frisyr]

[ Emil stops to catch his breath at the top for a second, but otherwise is completely fine and joins Tuuri in trying to look for the clue, but his eyes are up a little higher, if she's going to sweat the small details.

He wouldn't put it past them to stick it on something hanging on the ceiling anyway, and he covers a lot of ground, which--

Wait, what's that on the bridge? He's been here enough times that he's pretty familiar with the layout and everything, and that over there is definitely not part of any display! ]

Hey guys!

[ He goes to pull the paper free and unscrolls it, peering... ]

What is this berry called in English again? The Christmas one with the pointy leaves?

[sotenbori]

[ majima follows them, surprised by how long this thing is..... ]

Mistletoe? The fuck does that have to do with anything?

[judgementkazzy]

[ Kiryu peers around and glances over the scroll. Mistletoe isn't usually red, is it? ]

Mistletoe is white. I think that's holly... so maybe a Christmas store?

[ Those are a thing, right? The view from up here is pretty cool. ]

[skald]

Hmm, are there any Christmas stores open in summer? [She starts humming 'deck the halls' briefly, as if it might contain the answer.] Christmas stores, boughs of holly, maybe a gardening store--

[Oh!]

Wait, what about Hollingberry Field? You know, with the pool! [she says extremely excitedly to Emil, because guess who's already been to the pool this summer even though it's barely June? THE NORDIC KIDS.]

[frisyr]

Oh, the one with the pool and the farmer's market!

[ 'Cause guess who's poor as hell but goes to get fruit at the farmer's market because it's better?

And yeah, seriously, of course they go to the pool as soon as it's open, and complain about it not being open in spring when it's too hot for spring. ]

That has to be it! Let's go!

Race you down the stairs!

[ He'll also take out $6 for his flip flops, and the other pair he's going to grab on the way out! LET'S GET TO THAT FIELD! ]

[sotenbori]

Yeah, that's totally where it is.

[ ok yeah, theyre totally racing down the stairs. cool. cool cool cool. ]

[judgementkazzy]

[ Ah yes, racing down the stairs....... Kaz is in no way totally out of breath when they reach the bottom.

But hey you don't need breath to drive a car right?? OFF THEY GO TO HOLLINGBERRY FIELD... ]

So, what are we looking for now?

[skald]

[Sure hope Emil actually paid for those flipflops instead of just throwing $6 at a store attendant as they ran through the security alar-- no they definitely didn't take the time to buy these flipflops properly. Not when they've got a field to go to.

Thankfully the sea of screaming children give them a pretty good idea of what to do next.] Hey-- that kid has the clue! [she says even as she's buffeted towards the playground equipment. She hops onto the monkey bars to get the kids to leave her alone, trying to scope out where that one kid went.] That one! Follow him!

[frisyr]

[ Emil runs after that kid but then is stopped by a group of them who tell him that the floor is lava and he can't get in. He tries to go around the other way, but is stopped again...

He looks confused because they seem to be playing a game that he's unfamiliar with, but suddenly gets a thought. ]

Don't touch the ground!

[ He yells this back at Tuuri, and climbs up on the playground structure. ]

Let's get him!

[ And he's off, climbing the sides of the playground to get across to "it" ]

[sotenbori]

[ majima follows them, scrabbling up the monkey bars behind them. they have to go in order because it's not like he can get around them but at least tuuri and emil seem to be holding their own. ]

This is a lot more than I fuckin' bargained for with this treasure hunt.

[judgementkazzy]

[ Kaz is definitely too big for this playground, not touching the ground seems impossible when he'll probably break these things if he climbs them. ]

Uh... I'll meet you guys on the other side.

[ Of the mass of children? Maybe? You guys are on your own, Kaz has no interest in breaking kids dreams today, but he will try his best to go around and maybe keep the kid from leaving the playground.

This treasure hunt has become quite the adventure, hasn't it. ]

[skald]

Hee, right? Isn't it fun?

[It's some definition of fun, anyway... at first Tuuri can't understand why Kaz is sitting this one out (since this is, after all, one of the most fun things that's happened since the scavenger hunt started) but given how badly the monkey bars shake when there's three grownass adults on them, it's probably for the best that they didn't add a bara fourth.

Tuuri manages to get across the monkey bars and onto the larger structure, scrambling up to the top of a slide to spot their target.] Emil! You herd him towards the center! Boss, cut off his escape! Kaz-- [is not playing] keep an eye on him!

[Good enough, right?]

[frisyr]

Uppfattat, Tuuri!

[ He tries to cut the boy off to steer him center while Tuuri can get at him from the right; he makes a leap and crashes against one of the metal poles, but quickly recovers to chase down this ... ten-year-old...

Okay, this may be a little embarrassing afterwards; he reaches out with his hand to grab but misses him by inches, and keeps running ]

We're losing daylight, kid! Just give us the clue!

[sotenbori]

Sure thing.

[ majima pulls himself up to run along the top of the monkey bars (dont try this at home) and manages to get ahead of both the kid and emil, and grabs the kid as he tries to escape. ]

Nice call. [ and he picks up the clue. ] Ya wanna do the honors and read it, Tuuri?

[judgementkazzy]

[ Kaz cheers them on from the sidelines. He's strong, sure, but he's no gymnast and goes over the weight limit for these things... still it looks kind of fun.

Maybe another day... when there'd be less people to watch him faceplant. Sure. He's at least within earshot of the rest of the team! ]

What's it say?

[skald]

[Tuuri gives a cheer when they catch it, and clambers down as fast as possible because by god she wants to keep reading the clues.

She plucks the clue out of Majima's hand, clears her throat, and says] So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
but nothing gold can stay.

...Well, that's pretty. [she has no idea what it means.]

[frisyr]

[ Emil scratches his head and thinks ]

Wow, this one's hard!

What's something that refuses to die... and everything is ours... ummm...

Maybe they're song lyrics? "Nothing gold can stay" sounds really familiar to me for some reason!

[ He tries to put a tune to it, but he can't seem to think of anything, and keeps thinking as they start getting somewhere else and drumming up inspiration... ]

Oh wait! Maybe that song that goes... uhh...

[ Are you prepared for this sudden karaoke moment ]

Some-body once told me the world was gonna roll me...

--Oh no, that's "not all that glitters is gold..."

[sotenbori]

[ majima's trying to think on it, too. they all sound kind of familiar, but not in a way he can place except ]

Isn't "rage, rage..." from a poem or some shit? It doesn't go with the rest of it.

[ a poem from a christopher nolan trailer ]

[judgementkazzy]

[ man, Kiryu was totally here for the karaoke bit, it's too bad that's not the line... ]

The first line sounds like a poem too, it's got that weird rhythm. You know what I mean?

[ Those are called iambs. It's in iambic pentameter. ]

Maybe they're from different things? Should we Google them?

[skald]

That was close, Emil! [no it wasn't. Tuuri likes that song, though.]

Iambic pentameter. [Tuuri supplies after a second, snapping her fingers.] Finnish poetry uses the opposite pattern. Shakespeare's really famous for that.

[Under her breath, she tries to repeat the next few lines, counting on her fingers, but--]

The others don't fit it, so you're right, they're probably from other poems. Maybe it's like the anagrams, where we had to get the answer to each line and do something with them? So we have Shakespeare, whatever that "rage, rage" poem is... I don't know, do you think it's cheating to look them up?

[frisyr]

Poems? I don't think all of them are...

[ Because he doesn't read poetry but that last line is really calling out to him. In fact, the last time he read poems was high school-- ]

--Oh! It's Robert Frost. So dawn goes down to day, so nothing gold can stay!

We had to translate poems for English class.

[ He picked that one because it was short... ]

But Tuuri, none of us know the rest of the poems, how would we get them? Unless we go to the bookstore and look through all the poetry books. Oh! Maybe it's the bookstore?