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Post by reno on Feb 15, 2012 16:19:41 GMT -5
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"SHUT UP YOU OVER SIZED CHERUBIM!" Reno grabbed at the EMR attached on his belt buckle. "I am up to here with you!" he cried back.
"BUT ZEE LETTURSS!" Cupid sobbed trying to grab at Reno again but he was met with an EMR to the face. "OWWWW ZAT HURT!"
"WILL YOU STOP BREATHING ALREADY?!" Reno raised the EMR to hit him again "I'll freakin' tell them if you get off my freakin' BACK!"
Cupid whimpered and edged away from the Turk before Reno actually turned on the power in his weapon.
"... Good. Now you guys can see the reason for the delay in getting this event out to you. Sorry bout that... Anywho here it is now, so enjoy!"
Each team will have one week from the start of this post to decode each of their letters without Cupid making a bad excuse for not delivering them on time. The letters all contain words that make up some secret phrases Cupid needs to remember in his travels so he can give good love advice to those who need it. The Scrambled letters need not be 100% correct, but be warned that if the phrase is wrong, you will not win. The first team to successfully complete their phrase will win 150 munny. Second place will recieve 100 munny, and 3rd place 50 munny. Post your finished poems and final phrases in this thread.
Lastly, there will be one word or phrase in each of your letters that the dreaded Queen of Hearts has stolen from Cupid. One or two members from each team will have to "woo" the Queen into getting the phrase out of her. This means you will be making an appearance before her in her own court and have one post a piece to convince her to give you the piece of poem. While it is completely acceptable for you to attempt to figure it out on your own, she might offer you better hints to the coding if you take her on before you figure out the other poems. If you are ready to proceed to her court, the member(s) who are going should post this:
[size=5][color=red]OFF TO THE COURT![/color][/size] [blockquote][[b]MEMBERONEHERE[/b];[i] Anyone else[/i]][/blockquote]
Rules are simple. Follow the rules of the board. You may use any tool you wish to decode your poems, but it will be more fun to guess it yourself. You are a team! Work as one! If you know the code to your fellow teammates's poem, don't be afraid to help them! Remember EACH of you are earning this reward! Roleplaying giving the poem back to the NPC or Reno should be interesting as well...
"Alright Team one, I'm leaving your secret phrase right here."
___1____ / _2_ / ___3___ /, _4_ / _5_ / _6__ / 7_ / 8_ / 9_ / _10__ / 11_ / _12_ / _13__.
Reno walked up to the first warrior who seemed to be highly battle worn... Reno blinked "You sure you're in the right place, dude?" regardless Reno handed him an evnlope. "Darkness... isn't exactly allowed here... Alright?"
Yukimura's Letter Reads:
Sptft bsf Sfe, Wjpmfut bsf Cmvf. J ibuf up siznf Cvu J mpwf zpv
With the following Code attached:
10=3 13=10 14=5
Reno appoarched the pink-haired l'cie next. "Hey there! Heh, no need to be nervous. It's not that hard!" Reno winked "So here, take this one, and good luck!" Reno handed her a letter. "Just try to stay focused!"
Serah's Letter Reads...
6-15-18-7-9-22-5/ 13-5/ 6-15-18/ 1-12-12/ 20-8-1-20/ 10-’-22-5/ 4-15-14-5/,/ 13-25/ 12-15-22-5
6-15-18/ 9/ 23-9-12-12/ 19-8-15-23/ 13-25/ 3-15-13-16-1-19-19-9-15-14/ 20-15/ 25-15-21/ 23-9-20-8/ 20-8-9-19/ 4-15-22-5/!
With the following Code attached:
1=1 9=13 16=7
Next Reno appoarched the blonded "hero" "Hero, eh? You don't even remind me of Strife! That's a good thing, mind you, he can be a little... you know..." Reno shook his head "Right, here's your letter, ok? Make someone proud!"
Snow's letter reads...
Zit sgct O ytts ygk ngx ol lg zkxt, O’d of qss ziol hqof qfr lxyytkofu zg wt vozi ngx
With the following Code attached:
1=2 11=9 17=11
Reno finally approached one of the hero's from his world. "Heya Tifa!" he winked. "Kind of wish Rude was here now, so he could deliver some letters... but eh, no you got this wonderful turk, yo!" He handed her a letter "Good luck, alright? I think you got this covered."
Tifa's letter reads...
-... ..- - .- ... -- ..- -.-. .... .- ... .. -.-. --- -- .--. .-.. .- .. -. --..-- -.-- --- ..- ... . . --..-- -.-- --- ..- .- .-. . .- .-.. .-.. - .... .- - .. .-.. .-.. . ...- . .-. -. . . -.. .-.-.- .. .-- --- ..- .-.. -.. .-- .- -. - -. --- - .... .. -. --. -... ..- - - --- -... . .-- .-. .- .--. .--. . -.. .. -. -.-- --- ..- .-. .- .-. -- ... .- ... -.-- --- ..- .-. . .- -.. .-.-.-
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[/b][/blockquote] With the following Code attached: Code: 1=4 15=6 22=8
"HURRY! THE LETTURS NEED TO BE ZIVEN OUT SOON! PLEASE I BEGZ YOU! HURRRRRRRY!"[OOC: CUPIDS WHERE HURT SO MUCH IN THIS THREAD! No Cupids were harmed in the making of this thread][/style] [newclass=bullcrap]font: 20pt georgia; color: #53504B; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: -2px; width: 100px; float:right; padding-right: 7px; -webkit-transition:all 2s ease; -moz-transition:all 2s ease; -o-transition:all 2s ease; font-family: georgia; font-size: 30px;[/newclass][newclass=bullcrap:hover]font: 20pt georgia; color: #C2BEC0; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: -2px; width: 100px; float:right; padding-right: 7px; -webkit-transition:all 2s ease; -moz-transition:all 2s ease; -o-transition:all 2s ease;[/newclass][classy=bullcrap][STYLE=font: 20pt georgia; text-align: justify; width: 100px; float:right; padding-right: 7px; color: #FFFFF0;]Team One V-day Event![/style][/classy] [STYLE= font: 7pt arial; color: #5a0d0e; text-align: right; letter-spacing: 2px; width: 100px; float:right; padding-right: 7px;]YUKIMURA; SERAH; SNOW; TIFA [/style] [/td] [/tr][/table] [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][rs=2][atrb=style,width: 458px; height: 100px, bTable; ] [STYLE= font: 20pt arial bold; color: #FFFFF0; opacity: 0.9; text-align: center; letter-spacing: -4px; text-transform: lowercase; margin-top: -77px;]good luck ^.^[/style] [STYLE= font: 7pt courier; color #eee; text-align: center; margin-top: -20px; opacity: 0.6;]made by prism of btn and ote[/style] |
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Yukimura
Villain
[M:300]
Your darkness belongs to me!
Posts: 101
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Post by Yukimura on Feb 16, 2012 0:06:25 GMT -5
Yukimura received the letter with a smile, stating, "I'll take my chances, lad."
He opened up the letter and read the letters silently to himself.
"Hmm.... This is oddly jumbled together..."
The swordsman looked around for a piece of paper of some kind, along with something to write with. Near by, on an oak table, there was a stack of white paper and several pencils. The swordsman began to walk over, but then stopped for a moment, to look at the other three people that were his partners for the time being.
"We'll need to make use of these pieces of paper and pencils, if we're going to want to find out what these letters are saying," Yukimura stated, as he motioned them to come over. The swordsman did find this to be irritating to be working with people just gleaming with Light. However, he did voluntarily sign up for this, so that he could engage in this challenge. Hopefully, these people would shrug off his dark nature and just get this done with, just as he was.
He grabbed a few pieces of a paper and a pencil off the table. Stools were conveniently placed around the table, so they could sit at it and work close together. He looked at each of the letters in his letter, counting off each out loud and writing them down as well.
"Lets see here," Yukimura muttered, "There are 5 S's, 3 P's, 3 T's, 9 F's, 2 B's, 1 E, 2 W's, 3 J's, 3 M's, 4 U's, 2 C's, 3 V's, 2 I's, 2 Z's... and that's all the letters in this letter."
Yukimura placed the letters into four rows, with their respective amounts next to an '=' sign, to represent each one, as so:
S=5 P=3 T=3 F=9 B=2 E=1 W=2 J=3 M=3 U=4 C=2 V=2 I=2 Z=2
"Alright... In total, there are only 7 letters that are vowels. Even if you try to make some words out of this, you still have around 30 other letters. This probably means that these letter represent an order of some kind..." He paused once more, to look at his partners. He motioned them over once more, as he asked, in a more demanding tone, "Come on! There's no need to stand around all day!"
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Yukimura
Villain
[M:300]
Your darkness belongs to me!
Posts: 101
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Post by Yukimura on Feb 17, 2012 1:06:32 GMT -5
(Sorry for the double post. This is taking place after a little bit after Yukimura's started working.)
**Several moments later**
Yukimura had become very irritated with his puzzling letter. He was tapping his pencil on the table rapidly, as he laid his head on his left hand. He was muttering to himself, as he read over the letter, "There can't be any way to form 14 letters, using only 7 vowels! Why isn't this working out?!"
Yukimura tossed the pencil on to table and rubbed his forehead with his hand. This letter was annoying the hell out of him! How could it be so difficult to figure out what it's saying? He looked over at the others, wondering if they figured their letters out yet. Unfortunately, they didn't as of yet, it seemed.
The swordsman sighed and looked back at the letter once more. It seemed so off, like the letters were a step off from what was actually being said.
"Wait a minute," Yukimura muttered, as he got back to work.
"Lets try, instead of Sptft, going one letter up..."
He wrote down the letters a step above each. They came out to be 'Tqugu'. Yukimura scribbled out the letters in irritation and rubbed his head once more. He whispered to himself, "That didn't work... Maybe it's a letter down?"
The swordsman decided to try that out, changing 'Sptft' into 'Roses'. A smile formed slightly. He then shifted to the next word, 'bsf', and tried it again. First, he tried going up once more. It only yielded him writing out 'ctg', which gave him the thought that these words were written with letters that were right after their respective meanings.
"Roses... are red, Violets are... blue. I have to rhyme.... But... I love you... There we go! Now, for the letters represented in the phrase," Yukimura stated with triumph.
He looked at the code and searched for the words. He wrote them down on the paper, whispering them out loud for the others to hear.
"Word 3 is rhyme. R, H, Y, M, E. Word 5 is... you. Y, O, U. Word... 10 is love. L, O, V, E... There we go. Now, lets see what your letters are saying."
He stood from his stool and walked over, the stool in his hand. He first made his way to the girl with pink hair. He spoke in a low tone, "Don't mind me. Just coming over to help out...."
Yukimura leaned over her shoulder slightly and looked over the numbers on the letter. Almost immediately upon looking at the sheet, the swordsman could tell how it coded its message. He openly stated, "My goodness, this is an easy one... Each number on the sheet represents a letter of the alphabet. The slashes in between each letter represent spaces between the words... Excuse me for a moment."
He stood back up and walked back over to the stack of papers and grabbed the pencil he was using before. He then motioned back to his stool and leaned over, writing down each letter whilst counting the letters in a manner that made it sound like coordinates.
"F...6...O, 15... Forgive... me... for..."
He continued writing down the words, remaining silent for the others to work in a more peaceful manner. It took a short amount of time for him to finish Serah's letter. He stated, with a smile on his face at this childish, but surprisingly intelligent design of these letters.
"'Forgive me for all that I've done, my love, for I will show my compassion to you with this dove!' What a silly little rhyme, but that's enough of that. It's time to find parts of the phrase with your code," Yukimura stated, his smile fading away for a moment as he paused. He looked at the code in the top right corner of the letter, seeing 1=1, 9=13, and 16=7. He counted the letters and wrote them down on his scrap piece. Yukimura continued to speaking, alerting his team of the words.
"From this lass's letter, the words gathered are 'forgive', in place of word 1 of the phrase, 'to' in place of word 7 of the phrase, and 'love' in place of word 9. So far, the phrase should be... 'Forgive/2/rhyme/4/5/6/to/8/9/love/11/12/love.' Now lets get to you, miss," Yukimura stated, looking at the long, brown-haired brunette. He put the paper and pencil into the same hand as the one he held his stool in as he made his way over.
As he sat down, he confidently asked, as he looked over the brunette's letter, "Alright, what have we got here?"
On the sheet, Yukimura saw no words, or even numbers on the sheet, except for the code in the upper right hand corner. All that was on it were dots and lines. Yukimura's confidence immediately shot back down. He didn't understand what this was at all! It looked vaguely familiar, but it wasn't triggering his memory. He looked at the girl and told her, "I'm gonna check out what he's got, then I'll help you solve this as fast as we can."
Yukimura left his stool, pencil, and paper next to Tifa as he made his way over to Snow. He whispered, as he loomed over, "Alright, what do you have here?"
The energetic swordsman looked over Snow's letter, finding the letter to be similar looking to his own. However, it seemed like it was jumbled up. Yukimura sighed in annoyance, as he stated, "Uhm... If I had to guess, the words are out of place or it's completely scrambled... I honestly don't know. I think we should get her letter of dots and dashes out of the way before we do yours, guy."
He shifted back over to Tifa and moved the pencil and paper onto the table. He leaned up, to take a look at the sheet's dots and dashes. Something about them seemed so familiar. Each dot and dash seemed to be spaced, after a certain number of times. Most of the dots and dashes seemed to stop at a sequence of 4, but there were also sequences that stopped at 3, 2, or even 1, or even went up to 6.
"Hmm... Where have I seen this before," he stated to himself out loud. He brought a hand up to his scruffy chin and scratched it, as he tried to recall where. It seemed to be at the tip of his tongue too, which irritated him even more so!
"Gah! This is bugging me! I've seen this before, but where and when?!"
He brought his hands up to the temples on his forehead and rubbed them, as he closed his eyes to help him better think. It seemed to sting him like a swarm of angry bees! He brought his hands down on the table and then rested his forehead on his left hand. With right hand, he began to tap his fingers rapidly, as he tried to get the thought out.
After about 5 minutes, that's when it hit him. He looked at his fingers, continuing to tap. He smiled, as he exclaimed, "Morse code... The letter is in Morse code!"
He rose his head and picked up his pencil, writing quickly on the back side of the scrap piece of paper. Yukimura looked back at the paper constantly, as he spoke silently under his breath, "And that is a w.... p.... i..."
He grinned, as he excitedly exclaimed, "Yes! There we go! 'But as much as I complain, you see, You are all that I'll ever need. I would want nothing but to be Wrapped in in your arms as you read.' That is what the letter is saying! Now, the code you have is... 1=4, 15=6, and 22=8. Word 4 is 'But'. Word 6 is 'need'. Lastly, Word 8 of the phrase is 'be'."
He wrote the word down in the middle of the sheet, as he shifted back next to Snow. He looked over the jumbled letters once more, trying to figure out where each letter and word went. Unfortunately, the swordsman had no clue.
"Hmm.... I still have no clue about yours, guy..."
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Snow Villiers
Hero
[M:50]
If I have to take the warpath home...so be it...
Posts: 59
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Post by Snow Villiers on Feb 17, 2012 3:42:59 GMT -5
OOC:((It's all good Let's win this thing!!)) Snow watched as Reno passed out the letters and left. Once he received his own and looked through it...his mind immediately went numb. He initially thought that the contest was going to be more physical...but he was dead wrong. However, he knew very well that a hero could use his brain just as well as his brawn...so he decided to take a crack at it. He looked at his letter once more...
"Zit sgct O ytts ygk ngx ol lg zkxt, O’d of qss ziol hqof qfr lxyytkofu zg wt vozi ngx"
Codes:
1=2 11=9 17=11
Snow scratched his head, confused more than anyone as to what his note really said. He assumed that it was a word scramble but as far as he could tell, the letter scrambling was not kept to the words that the letter were in but to the entire sentence... Snow widened his eyes, knowing full well, that he was no thinker. Lightning was and Sazh was just as well, but not Snow. He looked at his for a long time and found something even more confusing... He found an "O" capitalized by itself. Snow didn't see why that was so...but then it hit him!! It wasn't a word scrambler...it was a code!! Snow smiled, but then he thought again about which letters could be capitalized and left alone by itself. Snow thought of letters "I" and "A". He figured that "I" was the most common as far as he could tell and so he made sure to replace every "O" with an "I". Snow smirked happily, having finally made a dent in this thing.
Snow decided from there that he was going to look for easy clues. He has made some progress, and that was all that he needed in order to know that solving this puzzle was not impossible. He read the ineloquent letter over and over again but he found nothing, that is, until he saw one particular part of the letter known as "ytts". His partner, Yukimura went over to him after seemingly knocking out his own letter and some of Serah's letter. Yukimura was as stumped as Snow was. Snow shook his head, hoping that the answer would just come to him. He squeezed his brain a little bit more and figured out that it would take to of the same letter to fix this. He went through the alphabet in his head, but nothing seemed to come to mind except for the letters "E" and "F" Since Snow had never seen such a small word use two "F" side by side in it, Snow decided that the former was best to try. Snow ran his gloved hand through his stubble and shrugged, thinking that it would hurt to try to replace every "T" with an "E". Snow had yet made another dent in his puzzle.
Snow narrowed his eyes at the letter, hoping once more that the answer would just come to him but nothing worked. He instead tried to find more of the same words with double letters side by side. He came across "lxyytkofu". Since this was a big word, Snow used his gut and decided to use the last remaining idea of using "F" since "E" had already been used up. and so now he replaced every "Y" with an "F". Snow was on a roll now, hoping to find more double letters...and of course, he did. He came across "qss" and thought immediately of the letter "L". He couldn't see any other letter repeating itself in a three letter word at the moment...but then he thought of the letter "S". That was a letter that could do the same thing. He figured that, at the moment, "qss" didn't make any sense, though, so Snow decided to replace "S" for "L" and then he went with his gut and went ahead to replace "L" for "S".
Things were finally starting to come together; Snow could even figure out some of the words already. It was all a matter of looking at the number of letters in the word and since this was a Valentine's Day letter, Snow has to think "Valentine's Day" like. Snow found a word that was halfway done which was known as "LgcE". It was a four-letter word and it was associated with Valentine's Day. Snow smiled happily and fixed the word to say "LOVE" and used the letters "O" and "V" to replace "G" and "C". Snow felt like he was on a roll; he felt like a freight train, nothing was gonna stop him. With his brain and gut, and the fact that this was all about love and Valentine's Day...Snow fixed his code out to be:
"THE LOVE I FEEL FOR YOU IS SO TRUE, I'M IN ALL THIS PAIN AND SUFFERING TO BE WITH YOU."
Snow sighed, feeling as accomplished as he did whenever he formed his paramilitary organization NORA. Snow smiled, but it soon faded when he looked at the coding. However, he soon remembered how Yukimura did his code. Snow's solved code seemed to be needed to solve the real code. He counted how many words there were and he figured that the 1st word in his code was "THE", the 11th word was "IN", and the 17th word was "TO" and that these words were the 2nd, 9th, and 11th word respectively. Snow nodded, acknowledging his mind and gut and spoke, not too loud for Yukimura but not so quiet that his wife and his other teammate wouldn't hear.
"Ok people, I got "THE LOVE I FEEL FOR YOU IS SO TRUE, I'M IN ALL THIS PAIN AND SUFFERING TO BE WITH YOU.". The 1st word in this code is "THE" and it should be the 2nd word in the secret phrase, the 11th word is "IN" and it's gonna be 9th word in the phrase, and the 17th word was "TO", that is gonna be the 11th word in the phrase, I guess..."
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Yukimura
Villain
[M:300]
Your darkness belongs to me!
Posts: 101
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Post by Yukimura on Feb 17, 2012 4:34:42 GMT -5
It had taken a while, but eventually, Snow solved his letter. Yukimura grinned, as he wrote down the words that Snow read off in place of the numbers.
"Alright! It seems everything is in order now! So we now have the following in the phrase: Forgive/the/rhyme/but/you/need/to/be/in/love/to/12/love..."
Yukimura paused for a moment, as he looked at the 12 with an annoyed look.
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me," the swordsman cursed quietly. He looked to his team mates and told them, "I'll take the letters back to that red-headed guy over there now, so give them here."
Yukimura decided to be generous to these people, despite ill nature he had for these people. They did go through this trivial matter with him, so why not? He quickly grabbed the edited letters and made his way over to the two men.
In his mind, Yukimura had been thinking, "Excellent... Now that this little ludicrous obstacle has been shifted out of the way, I will be able to move on with my search."
The swordsman nodded to Reno and held the fixed letters out. While he waited for them to take the letters, he asked the cupid, in an irritated manner, "Why is it that you can't seem to recall what this 'missing' word is, hmm? You should be able to guess what this word is, or did it, somehow, slip from your vocabulary?"
He took in a gulp of air and let out a calming sigh, before continuing to talk.
"Listen, I came here to see what tricks you got up your sleeve, and I gotta say, I've thoroughly enjoyed them. If there's one more trick or challenge you've got, I'll gladly take it up, so long as it's truly worthwhile... So, with that being said, what'cha got for me?"
(OOC: This one will be willing to head to the court to 'woo' this 'Queen' of Hearts. Anyone else?)
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Post by mordred on Feb 27, 2012 10:31:12 GMT -5
"... I don't see why Reno and Selena had a problem with this thing."Out of a Corridor of Darkness walked a blonde man in glasses, wearing a cloak. It was none other than Mordred, who bore his usual indifferent and emotionless frown. As he looked around at the team that had been working on decoding the letter, he cracked his neck and massaged it, as if he just got up from lying down in a recliner. In his hand was the throat of Cupid, who seemed to not enjoy having the life choked out of him. "Monsieur! P-Please... l-let go... Gurk." The fat cherub managed to choke out. Mordred looked down at his hostage and frowned a bit. "No. If you wish to continue living, then I suggest you still your tongue before I still it for you." Mordred stated matter-of-factly and for once, Cupid complied, figuring this wasn't an idle threat. Mordred then turned his scarlet gaze to the team. "I seemed to have stumbled across this cherub as it was trying to assault me with arrows. I'm not entirely sure why, unless it has a death wish..." Mordred began, unperturbed by the struggles of Cupid. "Either way, it doesn't matter. He informed that he apparently has letters that needed decoding and that he already had teams commissioned for the task. He would then deliver these letters to their recipients. I'll free this cherub if you can guess the phrase correctly. I don't really know why these letters are so important, but I'm sure the fate of the world doesn't hang in the balance of these useless pieces of paper.""H-Help... me..." Cupid choked out. "Also," Mordred continued, revealing a few pieces of paper. "I stole these hints from the Queen of Hearts. Unlike you or any of the other teams, I did the smart thing instead of trying to convince the imbecile. You bearers of Hearts always complicate things so needlessly. Whatever, let's get this over with. I have plans to enact and Hearts to gather."------------------- Team One! Your hint is... "It seems you have to WIN something..." ------------------- "Right, I give you all until noon tomorrow to finish decoding your letters. Remember, should you win, Cupid continues to exist, so there is precious little time to waste."
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Yukimura
Villain
[M:300]
Your darkness belongs to me!
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Post by Yukimura on Feb 27, 2012 18:19:14 GMT -5
The one who originally gave the letters to Yukimura and his team didn't respond and the accented one went away at one point. The swordsman remained silent, thinking, "Was I just ignored..."
"Tch... I should have figured," the swordsman muttered, as he tossed the letters into the air, letting the pages flutter all over. He put his hand up and snapped his finger, opening up a corridor several paces away from him. He was grumbling to himself, finding that this had been a waste of time for him.
Yukimura was about to step in, when another corridor ripped open and a new set of footsteps came through with a choking sound. The swordsman turned his head slightly, as he came to a stop in front of his corridor. The fat man in pink had armed himself with a bow and arrows, having tried to assault this odd man in glasses and a black cloak, similar to Yukimura coat.
"Hints...? That was what the task had been? To recover hints?!"
Yukimura turned fully towards the two and made his way to the two. He drew his sword from his back and stabbed the blade in the ground next to the fairy's head. He knelt down and poked the choking fairy, to make sure he was still alive. The fairy was turning red and blue from the loss of air, but it was still alive.
Yukimura stood up and looked at the randomly appearing individual. He smiled at him, stating in a low whisper, "Honestly, even if we do figure this out, I'd like this one to be tortured a little more before freeing him."
With that stated, Yukimura walked towards his group, yanking the sword out of the ground. He snapped his fingers, closing the corridor he opened. He stated to the group, "Well, do you want this Cupid guy alive? If so, lets solve this whole phrase and be done with it."
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Post by mordred on Feb 28, 2012 14:46:29 GMT -5
(Due to a sudden change of heart, I decided to give this team until tomorrow evening to make a guess. However, this will be the only extension, so use the time wisely.)
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Yukimura
Villain
[M:300]
Your darkness belongs to me!
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Post by Yukimura on Feb 28, 2012 20:55:18 GMT -5
"Ah to hell with it... I'll just answer this myself," Yukimura stated to the group. He made his way to a quiet spot, away from the groups and began to think to himself.
"Hmm.... This hint that new one's given us is 'It seems you have to WIN something...' The phrase we have thus far is 'Forgive the rhyme, but you have to be in love to 12 love.' From the sounds of it, winning something appears to be the emphasis. What we can say, when thought of naturally without the hint would be, 'Forgive the rhyme, but you have to be in love to give love.' However, the hint is pointing towards something else, though it is in a similar direction of giving..."
Yukimura put his sword on ground and sat down in a cross-legged position. He rested his head on his open left hand and tapped a finger on his cheek as he thought. The ancient voice of his sword echoed in his mind finally, asking in a perplexed tone, "What are you doing boy..."
Yukimura responded in his mind, "I'm trying to solve a riddle so I can at least go away from this place with some intellectual pride."
"That... is oddly specific. You'd best finish this fast. I'm developing a bit of a craving for some battle..."
With that said, the sword went quiet once more. Yukimura resumed his thought process once more, muttering the thoughts in a low whisper.
"'Forgive the rhyme, but you must be in love to win love'? No... 'Forgive the rhyme, but you must be in love to show love'? No... It be what I thought the first time around. You have to be in love in order to give love... What about 'Forgive the rhyme, but you must be in love to earn love'? No. It's repeating being in love twice. Once for being in love and the other to earning that love... It sounds close, but it mustn't be. It sounds like a paradox... Wait! That is it!"
Yukimura flared open his eyes, and smiled widely. He looked at Mordred and told him, "The phrase is, 'Forgive the rhyme, but you must be in love to earn love.' Love from something or someone must be earned by your love in that someone or something... Am I correct, sir?"
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Post by Serah "Farron" Villiers on Feb 29, 2012 0:55:32 GMT -5
[/color] Serah started, "Forgive me for all that I've done, my love. For I will show my compassion to you with this dove!"[/ul] (OOC: sorry for the short post and wait)
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Post by mordred on Mar 1, 2012 21:19:03 GMT -5
Mordred cocked his head and sighed, double checking his notes. "That is the wrong answer, I'm afraid," Mordred looked down as the diminuative Cupid, who struggled in Mordred's choking grip and squealed annoyingly. Mordred sighed. "This creature's Heart... is much too weak for my plans. And his voice is... grating, I suppose." Mordred tossed Cupid at the group's feet and opened a Corridor of Darkness behind him. "It seems none of you are concerned about the emotional well-being of others. How... predictable, I guess. We shall meet again..." Mordred walked through the Corridor of Darkness and disappeared.
Cupid stood up and brushed himself off. Ohhh, zat jerk... I apologize, but I must take that letter now. I vill figure something out. Here, have some munny for at least trying. Au revoir, mademoiselles and monsieur! Au Revoir!" Cupid then took the letter and flew off, leaving some munny behind for the group."
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Your guesses were incorrect! As consolation, Yukimura, Snow and Serah get 50 munny! Since Tifa did not post at all, she gets nothing.
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