Clue Redemption Post

[boxmods]

CLUE REDEMPTIΘN

So you came in on the September 2014 wave of applications, and with it, your character was given a key. Or maybe it was the October 2014 round, and you were given a clue you'd like to dig into further. Good news: This is where you redeem it. SEPTEMBER ROUND: KEYS All you have to do is show us your acceptance note and tell us how your character finds the lock the key belongs to (extra credit if you link to a relevant thread!), and we'll tell you exactly what they've found. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Journal:</b> <b>Acceptance Note:</b> (a link will do nicely) <b>Discovery of Keyhole:</b> (we prefer this be threaded out, but it doesn't have to be. if it isn't, just let us know why, when, and how your character reasonably finds the latch or door their key belongs to!) OCTOBER ROUND: CLUES We'd like to know which numbered slip you got and how your character finds the relevant clue location, and we'll give you any details you could possibly want. If you traded clues with another new character, that's totally fine, but we'd like them to drop in and confirm the trade before we give any deets! <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Journal:</b> <b>Acceptance Note:</b> (a link will do nicely) <b>Discovery of Clue Location:</b> (we prefer this be threaded out, but it doesn't have to be. if it isn't, just let us know why, when, and how your character reasonably finds the location the clue belongs to!) <b>Traded For This Clue?:</b> (just erase this question if not. if you did, however, let us know who you traded with and we'll wait for them to drop in and confirm)

Comments

[boxmods]

We are so very sorry for the delay!

If he's tenacious enough to dig down about ten feet, he unearths a tiny wooden box.

It's locked, with no key in sight.

What now, hero?

[boxmods]

Sorry for the delay, but to answer the question way late: Very! It's some high-level stuff, going down to the chemical compounds in places. Ian wasn't just hired for his cute face and tendency to generate drama, apparently.

Pretty much everything a layperson could glean from it has already been mentioned here. Feel free to find him if you need those details!

[bestranger]

TEN FEET :| u guise r butts. But yeah, by the time he gets there he's gonna wanna see what the hell it is and dig and dig like a dog. He'll be pooped by then, but when he finds the box he'll take it out of the big hole he's dug, probably with help.

Once he's had a look at the box he'll try to get the lock off by force. When that doesn't work he'll just wail on the box, because OPEN I DUG FOREVER TO FIND YOU D

[boxmods]

Wow, Chuck. You dig up something that old and your first instinct is to smash it? What do you expect to even gain from brute force; surely this is an esoteric ancient artifact that will take some real puzzle solving and brain work to oh never mind the lock was actually super rusty and the entire thing crumbles in two blows.

You have gained this item.

[bestranger]

dats rite

...

Is that an egg birthing cotton candy?

[boxmods]

It doesn't smell like cotton candy or birth.

[bestranger]

So is it just a pretty rock shaped like an egg then? Should he be afraid something is going to come out of it and kill him?

He'll be pissed if it's just a shiny rock and nothing else after all that digging. Gosh. Then again, not dying from alien baby or whatever is also good. HRM.

[boxmods]

If he picks it up, he'll notice it's warm to the touch. Weirdly warm, actually.

Probably not a rock.

[bestranger]

Yep. Egg.

Chuck will be tempted to try and break it / kill it, as he's not had the best of luck with anything alien. BUUUUUT, he's kind of curious what will happen if he keeps it. It does feel warm and there may be something in there so.

What will happen if he keeps it warm for sometime?

[boxmods]

It seems to be doing okay staying warm by itself, but Chuck's help is appreciated. Nothing exciting happens for the next few weeks, but right around the beginning of December it's going to start hatching, and a goopy baby version of this thing is born!

It's about half the size of his hand. No feathers yet.

It's also quite hungry.

And it's 100% positive it just met its mama.

[bestranger]

...

It's hideous.

But awesome.

IT'S NO MAX BUT IT'LL DO? Sob what to name this ugly lil bastard?

[boxmods]

That's up to you now, mom!

[bestranger]

How big is this thing gonna get >_>

[boxmods]

When it hatches, it'll easily fit into the palm of one hand. Fed regularly (it prefers meat), it'll grow rapidly and stop somewhere around a foot and a half, beak to tail. It'll take it a few months.

We'll let you know if anything changes.

[bestranger]

drat not big enough to ride

[text2speech]

Character Name: Freddie Cooper
Journal: text2speech
Discovery of Clue Location: ooc thing ic thing!

[unmakes]

Congrats, Cooper. You sure did do a thing.

Just fifteen minutes or so after Cooper's testing of the key, a train rumbles along the tracks from the East - heading straight for the barrier. Much like the tree, the train rumbles right through that barrier like it's not even really there. From there, it rumbles conspicuously westward past the station where the key was turned and into Northtown. It fails to stop at the Northtown train station, but that doesn't mean it doesn't stop at all. In fact, it comes to a distinct and thorough stop the moment it collides with the western barrier from the inside.

Fortunately, the train wasn't going all that fast, maybe 25 mph at the time, so the only real damage is the derailing of the engine off to the side a little and some damage in the first car where it runs into the engine in the abrupt stop.

The train is only 8 cars long, and each of them are locked. What's inside them? That can be discovered on the 1st!

[numerous]

Character Name: Mr. Numbers
Journal: numerous
Acceptance Note: ta-da
Discovery of Keyhole: Ongoing log

[unmakes]

Within the room, he'll find what appears to be an empty room save for a large assortment of ornately-engraved panels along the walls. These panels, upon investigation, swing upward and slide most of the way into the wall if you catch your fingers along the bottom ledge and give it a tug.

Behind these panels, he'll find what could only be the castle's collection of precious metals and jewels. Some have been crafted into jewelry, while others are much too valuable to attempt to wear, both large and utterly flawless in quality. There are precisely 35 individual pieces in this room, each (for one reason or another) worth upwards of a million dollars as a modest estimate.

In addition, he'll find a small garnet bottle filled with five ounces of an unidentified liquid. Take a whiff, and you might be led to wonder if it's a mild and slightly musky perfume of sorts... But just give it a couple of minutes, and all of a sudden your eyes no longer seem to focus as they should. Don't worry - the dizziness should pass within a half hour. But you might not want to try that again...

SUPER LATE REPLY BUT

[hornrims]

yep, they dare

[unmakes]

The creature that emerges was once human, at least in part. The head is humanoid, but the jaw is much too long and the lips can't close over the rows of long broken teeth, and the neck is alarmingly long. Not to mention the empty black sockets where eyes can't quite be discerned. (Think: This handsome gentleman.)

The body, unlike those images, is sturdy but emaciated the entire way down the torso rather than simply along the ribs, and while it does have two short bent arms ending in a single claw each, it has six other limbs as well to hold the body aloft not unlike a spider. These limbs, like a spider's, bend in two places, but other than that they're entirely flesh and even end in regular hands.

They'd better bail - and fast. This thing can outrun a person easily, and if it catches you, there's a 50% chance you'll get your skull, ribs, or throat crushed in those jaws... Oh, and the other 50% goes to two of those legs ripping you limb from limb. They're alarmingly strong.

It'll take equal parts teamwork and dumb luck to get out of this one.