week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



victim



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Character Statuses
Setting
Manor Rules
Voting

Comments

[godwhisperer]

I believe we will not solve this until we have unlocked the secret of the vault. We must find the vault before we may do anything else.

[throe]

The vault...? What vault?

[godwhisperer]

...A diary was discovered. Alice has it. It referenced a vault that must be found.

[hollowheart]

A recipe is also scribbled on the end. "Safe Desserts", which I imagine means the vault, as well.

[godwhisperer]

Hmm, yes. It must be a clue...

[inthebones]

[Some time after Gundam and Annie have explained the significance of the 'recipe', Susan suddenly exclaims, apropos of nothing:]

Pigment.

Pork is pig's meat. Peppermint is a type of herb grown in the garden - you remove the spice, or the pepper. Pig mint.

Oil pigments - it's a type of paint. And another word for comb is 'brush'. Oil paint, pigments, and a brush.

[humanic]

[He stares at the recipe. Stares at Susan. Then groans.]

Is this seriously just a series of puns? Oh my god, I think I'd rather have the body parts back.

[inthebones]

Don't be so insensitive to the spirit of Belarus.

[Says Susan in her snottily insensitive manner.]

It might not all be puns. Perhaps they'll judge us on our painting skills of old kings.

[humanic]

I just can't believe that the key to catching the mastermind and ending this whole game might lie in puns. Talk about your anticlimaxes.

Okay, so if this really is painting related, then...an intentional scapegoat would be a frame, right? And a destitute characteristic would be...my complete lack of art skills.

[inthebones]

...The third line is obviously canvase. ...I mean, canvas. We have everything we need for a painting now.

A destitute characteristic is... poor? Someone poor? A painting of a beggar? ...That's too simple.

[humanic]

I'm betting it's another pun. What's another word for characteristic? Poor...feature? Poor attribute? Poor aspect, poor personality, poor tr--

--oh, you've got to be kidding me.

[inthebones]

What?

A poor tragedy that we've come to using puns?

[humanic]

I don't even want to say it. This Mordswell guy had a terrible sense of humor.

[inthebones]

So would you call his sense of humor a poor tra --

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This house is a blight upon the face of the world.

[throe]

You could say it's... deadly.

[throe]

[ She curiously raises an eyebrow. ]

Really? Hmm... I wonder what's inside it. Maybe it's full of ancient spells or where all the deepest secrets of the house is like how to get into the servants quarters!

[ She shrugs, now indifferent. ] Maybe it's even a place where they keep the prizes or money.

[godwhisperer]

Hahaha. Or the key to victory!

[throe]

But where would it be? With all of the ways now available to us like they were for the Mastermind, there's a lot of possibilities. Is there some sort of clue in that diary that might tell us where to at least start?

[godwhisperer]

The final page seems to be a code...the 'safe' my reference the vault. But the rest is unintelligible.

[throe]

Maybe we should start sending out search teams and just hope for the best. [ She grins. Does she really mean that? Maybe. ]

But... if the Mastermind has a certain route they followed, then maybe that too might lead us to the safe. If it's so important, then they'd be looking for it too, right? For all we know they might have found it already, they just don't know how to open it.

[allice]

I agree. But, if my guess is right, the key on the 12th page is likely the code for the vault. I can decode the key if we have a viable string of numbers and letters, along with knowing how many values are in the vault's code.

[godwhisperer]

Hah, perhaps! Were enough letters not provided to determine the code, however? It certainly does not seem to be a cipher.

[allice]

Those letters seem to be more a key, less of a code. They act as a guide to deciphering the code, but without a code to decipher it's useless.

For example: lets assume the code is a string of letters, like ABCDEFG. According to the key on page 12, A, B and C would be 1, 2, 3 and D, E, F, G would follow as suit in being 4, 5, 6, 7. So from ABCDEFG we get 1234567 - the letters are the key and the numbers are the code. It's common for codes to have keys, so as to better obscure their use by third parties who aren't aware of the key.

[humanic]

Makes sense. The problem is we have no idea what the letters we're looking for actually are.

[allice]

Hrm, yeah. Unless the bloody writing is meant to spell out the code and not...well...

[Yeah.]