Lief Ramses
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[M:575]
"I got MORALS, just... not a whole lot of them."
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Post by Lief Ramses on Feb 15, 2012 16:26:25 GMT -5
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“… What? You want me to deliver what to whom?” the hunter asked scratching his head.
“Letturs to zee peoplez!” Cupid cried out.
“Err…. Let… OH LETTERS!” Lief exclaimed finally getting a hang of Cupid’s accent. “Dude, your English could use some work…”
The winged icon of love fumed “My English iz fine! You juzt are deaf!”
“Bah, no idea what you just said. Huh, guess I’ll do this for you once, give me the letters and I’ll hand them out.”
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 Lief should be interesting as well...
"So apparently this is some sort of phrase... Guess that means you should make sure you keep it on you.
_1_ / _2_ / _3_ /, _4_ / _5_ / _6_ / 7_ / _8_ / _9_ / _10_
Lief stepped up to Felix first, grinning as he handed him a letter. "No idea what's going on, but I was suppose to hand this too you so here you go! Good luck figuring out what it is!"
Felix's Letter Reads:
.... . -.-- --..-- -- -.-- .-.. --- ...- .
-.-- --- ..- -.- -. --- .-- .... --- .-- .-- . .- .-. . .- .-.. .-- .- -.-- ... - --- --. . - .... . .-. ..--..
-.-- --- ..- -.- -. --- .-- .. ..-. .-- . -- .- -.- . - .... .. ... .- -- .- .-. .-. .. .- --. . --..-- .-- . -.-. .- -. -... . - --- --. . - .... . .-. ..-. --- .-. . ...- . .-. ..--..
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[/b] [/blockquote] With the following Code attached:
3=1
10=5
18=3
Next was... "What is your name. It says 'Whatever' on here so I assumed Leon got feed up with figuring out your name... he shrugs and hands him a letter. "Well... here you go!"Whatever's Letter Reads...
J hpft hbhb pwfs zpw cbcz!
Tp nvdi J tipvme cf jo b dbssjbhf.
With the following Code attached:
2=4
14=10
Lief approached Riku next. "Ok, do YOU know what this is all about? It's some wacky messed up letters that aren't ... they don't make any sense. Are you guys DOING something with these? he handed him the a letter. Riku's letter reads...
9/ 19-15/ 12-9-11-5/ 25-15-21/…
9/ 13-5-1-14/ 9/ 19-15/ 12-9-11-5/ 1-14-4/ 12-15-22-5/ 25-15-21!
With the following Code attached: 10=2
3=6
Lief lastly approached Stella. After staring at the female for a few minutes with his mouth open the young man cleared his throat and tipped the front of his cowl towards Stella. "Only girl, eh? You must be lonely. I mean I know it's not Valentine's Day at all but... Maybe I can give yo some company? You and I can get a drink later, I know just the place for us to go. You drink right? Well err.. here's your letter. I'll be hanging around, find me when you're done?" he handed her the letter, winked and walked away. Stella's letter reads...
Vozi ngx, O ytts egdhstzt
Q sozzsn aoll qft O yqss qz bgxh yttz
With the following Code attached: Code:
6=7
9=9
"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 Three V-day Event![/style][/classy] [STYLE= font: 7pt arial; color: #5a0d0e; text-align: right; letter-spacing: 2px; width: 100px; float:right; padding-right: 7px;]FELIX; WHATEVER; RIKU; STELLA[/style] [/td] [/tr][/table] [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][rs=2][atrb=style,width: 458px; height: 100px, bTable; ]
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Felix
Civilian
[M:50]
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Post by Felix on Feb 16, 2012 13:49:30 GMT -5
OOC: Going to be creating a bit of an environment and a reason as to why everyone on the team is one place. One wasn’t provided so I imagine this is where the whole creativity thing comes in a little? At any rate, now it’s time for Team Three to solve this mystery and take the prize!
IC: “Man I wish they would hurry this up already, been waiting for quite some time now,” a certain red-head would complain as he leaned his back against a wooden table that used benches for seating. He looked toward the sky at the moment, thinking back to his encounter with a diminutive winged creature. Still not believing it entirely, said creature called itself Cupid and with its broken English requested his assistance in solving a mystery of sorts. Indeed, as it would seem a bunch of the letters he was meant to deliver had a strange “magic” cast upon them, causing them to take entirely new forms. From what he was told, they were all scrambled in some way or another and if the little guy didn’t figure out how to break the “magic” he’d be in deep trouble. While normally the freelancer didn’t talk business with such weird clientele, the money offered for his services while not great was enough to entice him. That being said, he agreed to his client’s terms and assured him that the #1 Freelancer of Radiant Gardens would figure it all out. While he didn’t like the fact he’d be working with others, since the pay would be the same regardless it didn’t matter too much in the end. No, all that mattered was he figured out how to fix this little mix-up and got his pay.
“Wonder if he’ll be coming by air or by…” the freelancer trailed off as he heard the sound of hurried footsteps from behind. Turning his head, he noticed a kid with a rather… “unique” attire rushing toward the meeting spot arranged by Cupid with haste.
“Foot it would seem,” he noted, assuming that the kid in the distance was the delivery boy. His assumption was soon proven correct as he was handed a letter along with a gesture of good luck. The freelancer nodded, mouthing a “thank you” as he proceeded to open the letter and check the contents. When he read over the letter his facial expression soon showed his confusion, the freelancer perplexed by the weird arrangement of dots and lines. It was unlike anything he had ever seen before and while he did think of himself as a rather intelligent guy, he felt rather stupid at the moment. With a sigh he put the paper down on the spacious table provided, shaking his head as he watched the kid hand the letters to the other three gathered that day. One was a white haired kid, no doubt having some sort of super human strength as anyone the freelancer had met with white hair had been bad news.
A little bit of a stereotype but I have yet to see one white-haired guy prove me wrong,[/i] he thought as he then looked over to the hobo looking character, someone who seemed vaguely familiar. He wasn’t sure why but soon dismissed it as he figured he’d be best spending his time figuring out the riddle. Well that was until he heard the little kid spit his game out, a snicker escaping his lips as he shook his head.
”Are you even old enough to drink yet kid or were you hoping she was down with the chocolate milk?” he asked, his tone a tad condescending but before he could get a reply it seemed that the kid had already left. Shrugging it off he turned his attention back to the letter in hand, examining it closely as a smirk curved against his lips.
”Piece of cake,” he noted as he began to work his magic…
X---Moments Later---X
“AGH SCREW THIS LETTER I CAN’T MAKE HEADS OR TAILS OF IT!” he shouted rather loudly, probably much to the dismay of those around him. He sighed mouthing a sorry as he did so, knowing it was a needless distraction but at the moment venting his frustration was required. Putting the letter on the table, he shook his head as he looked over to the others, trying to see what progress they had made. From what he could see, Riku and Whatever were proceeding quite well with their codes but Stella on the other hand seemed to have a blank expression. The freelancer smirked at this as he scotched on over to her, sliding his letter along the table as he did so.
”Hey I don’t know about you but I’m beyond lost in trying to solve mine… do you think we could trade and see if perhaps we can solve each other’s?” he whispered, a sheepish grin curving against his lips, ”Oh and before I forget my name’s Felix, pleasure to meet you,” he added, extending his left hand for a shake underneath his right. While he was fairly sure she knew his name already, Cupid having given Felix the names of those he’d be working with, he felt it better to introduce himself regardless. Furthermore, when it was such a beautiful lady it was hard to resist the urge to chat her up even if just a little.
Although I’m hoping she trades letters more so than give me her digits… although that would be great too,[/i]
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Post by stellanoxfleuret on Feb 16, 2012 14:22:14 GMT -5
“Yes?” She asked to the flying cherub with a straight face. The poor thing barely spoke any decent English but the Fleuret heir was able to understand something like: assistance; complication with letters; scrambled; huge trouble. “So you guys have some sort of problem with the Valentine letters, they got all scrambled and you need my assistance for it?” The cupid nodded quickly, showing all of his white teeth. “Your not expecting me to do this on my own… are you?” The flying creature shook his head, delivering to Stella a different letter, one with several names that were supposed to aid her in that complex situation.
“So I have to meet on Radiant Garden with….” She reads the names “Riku, Whatever and Felix.” Stella took a deep breath. She didn’t knew any of them and yet she was forced to clean the mess of the sweet cherub. She wouldn’t like to be in his place if things got out of hand. But Stella was a soft heart for impossible causes, so she nodded and folded both letters and shoved them in her small purse. Her “group” was waiting for her in Radiant Garden and for the sake of the cute and yet hard-to-understand cupid, Stella decided to start moving.
A few minutes later, she was sitting next to one of her group members in a wooden bench in the Radiant Gardens. Stella didn’t see her letter yet but for the expression on the red hair boy next to her, things weren’t going to be THAT easy as she suspected they would be. Stella opened the letter and she seemed, for lack of a better word, shocked. All the letters were scrambled beyond analysis and Stella didn’t quite know what to do about that. “So this was the complex situation…” She sighed. Oh boy, was she screwed.
A few minutes later, Stella had joined the boy –who introduced himself as Felix- in his desperation to solve the letters. Those winged brats really messed up everything and Stella was having a serious headache from trying to figure out her letter. “This is useless.” She finally said turning to Felix “I can’t seem to figure out my letter.” She glanced over the table to check her friends letter “Trade letters? Might be a good thing since I’m starting to lose my temper and feeling the urge to set this thing on fire.” She smiled at Felix and exchanged the pieces of paper. His was… different from hers. Seemed like…
“I see dots.” Stella says with a giggle “I think I can handle your letter, if you don’t mind, that is.” |
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Felix
Civilian
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Post by Felix on Feb 16, 2012 15:36:37 GMT -5
When the freelancer had received an answer to his question, he couldn’t help but smile brightly as he nodded, releasing the hold on his paper. He would then grab hers as he mouthed a silent thank you, knowing damn well that he wouldn’t have been able to solve his letter. The question now was could he solve this letter and at first glance it was a rather scary one.
Vozi ngx, O ytts egdhstzt
Q sozzsn aoll qft O yqss qz bgxh yttz
6=7
9=9
The characters on this letter were all sorts of mixed up but despite this they did still retain spaces in between which meant they were actual words. Furthermore, something that immediately caught his eye was the use of the letter O in this code. Due to the fact that it was capitalized in the middle of a sentence by itself, it was safe to assume that the O was meant to be an “I”. Grabbing two separate sheets of paper, Felix wrote down the recent discovery on one paper while he exchanged the O’s for I’s on the other paper. Immediately after that realization, another one came upon him in that the Q by its lonesome could only be the letter “A” as no other letter aside from A or I were a word on their own. That being noted, he scribbled in an A for all the Qs present on the letter, the code now looking something like this.
VIzi ngx I ytts egdhstzt
A sIzzsn aIll qft I yAss Az bgxh yttz
With two vowels determined, the freelancer figured it be best to look for any other vowels that might easy to discern on the paper, starting with E seeing as it was probably the most commonly used one. After reading over the code twice, it was quite easy to spot a likely match for “E”, that being the letter “t”. Indeed, “t” was the only logical explanation as whatever word “ytts” stood for, the two letters in the middle could only be “E” as any other combination wouldn’t yield a proper word. With that noted and the decoded letter written on the other paper, the freelancer quickly replaced all “t”s with “E”.
VIzi ngx I yEEs egdhsEzE
A sIzzsn aIll qfE I yAss Az bgxh yEEz
Was the current progress he had on the code and he could tell it would get a bit more difficult at this point. Yes, with three vowels covered, the only vowels that remained were O and U which wouldn’t be nearly as easy to spot. Constants may also prove to be difficult as they could be arranged in a myriad of ways as well. On the other hand, because that was true this meant that whatever letter O and U were, neither letter would double up against each other most likely. Thus his next task became figuring out what the letter “l” and “s” stood for respectively. While there were far more constants than vowels, not many were capable of having two of the same next to each other and forming an actual word. One wouldn’t find any word that ended with “BB” or “CC” and many other of the available letters. In fact, the only two letters that he could think of that could actually be put next to each other were “l” and “s” and considering that what the freelancer was trying to solve was a code, he doubted that both those consonants contained in the code would be left unchanged. Thus he came to the conclusion that it be best to replace any “l”s for an “S” and any “s”s for an “L”.
VIzi ngx I yEEL egdhLEzE
A LIzzLn aISS qfE I yALL Az bgxh yEEz
With roughly half the code down, the freelancer couldn’t help but feel just a tad accomplished as he grinned and pumped his fist at his side. Rotating the pen in his fingers, the freelancer continued to ponder the possibilities for each individual letter trying to decide on which ones were the best to try to figure out. His eyes than noticed the letter “z” that was casually being thrown about quite a bit, a small “hmmm” sound being made as he narrowed his eyes at the letter. This “z” was throwing his game off a bit from his earlier assumption about “s” and “l” being the only constants that could repeat. Indeed, if that were the case than this “z” wouldn’t be possible unless of course it was actually the “O” he wanted. But that would make any sense, the “z” at the end of the last word in the code would make no sense if replaced with an “O”. He put his hand to his chin as he thought on this sighing lightly as it seemed that his conclusions thus far might be flawed.
”Stupid letter… he noted but a moment after the word escaped his lips, his eyes flared with excitement as he snapped his fingers, ”Wait that’s it! T!” he exclaimed as he wrote it down on his decoder sheet. Indeed, the freelancer hadn’t thought his earlier claim through fully before and forgot about the letter “T”. “T” could easily be repeated and now that he gave it a bit more thought so could “N”. While this was true though, if “z” were replaced with “N” no word could be made so “T” was the only viable option! Furthermore, the word “Az” as it was thus far translated would work with that as well and surely make decoding this letter further only a matter of time!
VITi ngx I yEEL egdhLETE
A LITTLn aISS qfE I yALL AT bgxh yEET
With this much of the code solved, it was quite easy for the freelancer to just make educated guesses at what the rest of the letters with. The next one he decoded would be the letter “y” figuring that it would be replaced with the letter “F” as it fit perfectly into all the words that had thus far been half decoded. Once that was guessed, he could also assume that “a” which had been all by its lonesome was the letter “K”. Indeed, K wasn’t used that often anyway so only one being present in the letter wasn’t that surprising, especially for a Valentine’s letter which could contain the word “KISS”.
VITi ngx I FEEL egdhLETE
A LITTLn KISS qfE I FALL AT bgxh FEET
With all that filled in, the rest of what was left become child’s play to make wild guesses at the words with hardly any deductive reasoning added to the process. “ngx” was most likely “YOU”, “bgxh” had to be “YOUR”, “egdh” had to be “COMP” and “qfE” he figured to be “AND” since it was the only word that would work to form a complete sentence. Thus, his final results in decoding the letter were…
WITH YOU I FEEL COMPLETE
A LITTLE KISS AND I FALL AT YOUR FEET
With the letter decoded, he took a look back at the code beneath it once more figuring now that what seemed to be a “master phrase” that they also had to figure out would probably be words from each of their letters corresponding to their order in structure. Thus with 6=7 and 9=9, two words of the master phrase were now known or at the very least guessed at.
_1_/_2_/_3_/_4_/_5_/_6_/A/_8_/AND/_10_
Was the current progress on the master phrase and with a grin curved against the freelancers lips he slid his results to the middle of the table, beyond sure they were correct.
”One down three to go guys!” he exclaimed triumphantly, certain that the group gathered here today would succeed in decoding both the letters and the master phrase.
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Post by stellanoxfleuret on Feb 16, 2012 16:07:18 GMT -5
.... . -.-- --..-- -- -.-- .-.. --- ...- .
-.-- --- ..- -.- -. --- .-- .... --- .-- .-- . .- .-. . .- .-.. .-- .- -.-- ... - --- --. . - .... . .-. ..--..
-.-- --- ..- -.- -. --- .-- .. ..-. .-- . -- .- -.- . - .... .. ... .- -- .- .-. .-. .. .- --. . --..-- .-- . -.-. .- -. -... . - --- --. . - .... . .-. ..-. --- .-. . ...- . .-. ..--..
-- .- .-. .-. -.-- -- . ..--..
3=1
10=5
18=3
“This is Morse Code.” She tought to herself as she looked at Felix letter. “I can deal with this.” And as such, she started to figure out letter by letter.
…. Were an “H”. A single . an “E”. -.—an “Y”. Not a bad start figuring out that the first word was “HEY” .
Stella kept drawing and bitting the end of her pen, trying to figure out the meaning of the first sentence. She debated for awhile but in the end it came to be something like:
HEY, MY LOVE.
She smiled, visually proud of herself and with that new ego boost, she kept on going to the second part of the message. Again the same symbol for “Y”. Right after that came another “O” and ..- which meant an “U”. And another word done. Stella giggled, visually happy with her efforts as she tried to discover the second sentence of the puzzle. She struggles, she screamed, she cursed the dots. But after half an hour and a lot of sweat, Stella had figure out the second line.
YOU KNOW HOW WE ARE ALWAYS TOGETHER?
The third sentence was similar to the second, at least in the very beginning so it was easy to figure the first two words: “YOU KNOW”. More dots, more hyphens, more time, more coffee, more sweating and Stella was getting visually tired of trying to make the sentences come together. It was hard. The dots and hyphens were small and her eyes were getting tired, but the princess of Tenebrae didn’t gave up. She wasn’t going to be beaten by a puzzle! Not in her lifetime. And with that in her mind, the third sentence was discovered:
YOU KNOW IF WE MAKE THIS A MARRIAGE?
Stella let out a small “awww” when she read that question. Even if the cupids had screwed all that and gave her a run for her money, she was still enjoying this… morse code.
A “W” then another . to signify an “E”. More coffee, more scratching, some inside cursing. Again the word “TOGETHER”. Stella was close to figure that message. She had too. Felix was counting on her.
WE CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER?
Yet another line and two more words to end the whole morse code puzzle. By now, Stella was in a homicidal mood, capable of just rip the small wings of the cupid. She was tired, with a headache and hating small flying things, birds included. But she came too far to gave up now. Just two…
MARRY
Small…..
ME
She screamed in relief once her part was done. Stella jumped from her chair and actually did a victory dance that made everyone look at her but in that time, she couldn’t care less. The Morse Code was solved. She knew it. And the final message was:
HEY, MY LOVE.
YOU KNOW HOW WE ARE ALWAYS TOGETHER?
YOU KNOW IF WE MAKE THIS A MARRIAGE? WE CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER?
MARRY ME?
One part was done. Felix message was finally decoded. But there was something that bothered her. The numerical code. She looked at her message and back to Felix message, thinking if those numbers could be words and their actual place in the whole “master phrase”. Seems that she was right. Felix had figure that out already. Stella look at her numbers…
3=1, 10=5, 18=3
LOVE/_2_/MARRIAGE/_4_/TOGETHER/A/_7_/_8_/AND/_10_ |
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Whatever
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Post by Whatever on Feb 16, 2012 16:42:27 GMT -5
The Heartless looked at the letter that was given to him and raised an eyebrow. Then he looked at his three team members to study what they were doing. Apparently his 'response' was turned into his name and from what he had heard at times before, it seemed to have been put up as his name before. Oh, whatever... he shrugged.
Seeing the others look at the paper, apparently these are... letters that we need to decipher from what I understood... He couldn't make head or tails out of it. Thinking of the past, he remembered these... papers before and people write on them. He never really bothered with them before. What does it say anyway? He held up and looked at the scribbles, then he turned the paper clockwise on its side to see if it showed something else. It does look better this way, he thought to himself amused, but remembered that this wasn't helping him at all.
Looking over at the Cupid, he started to walk over to the winged creature, "hey, how do I err... see what it say? It can't talk or anything." The cupid seemed to get even more troubled by this as the two started to try and talk on what it said for the hobo-looking person to understand.
Moments later....
"Okay... So... A 'J'... then a word with the 'h', 'p', 'f', and 't'... err..." "why you came here? You juzt can't read!" The Heartless looked annoyed at the cupid, "help was asked, so I came. Don't start being annoyed with it now. Right..."
Looking over the letter again and thinking of the first two words, the first one being one letter... should be 'a' or 'I', probably... "Never thought my days of being tortured were going to be useful in free life..." He mumbled, the cupid stared shocked at him, but the Heartless didn't really notice as he tried to remember when he had to sing the alphabet with the other prisoners for some people. The entire alphabet was pretty much stomped in their heads. Just because the owners felt it was funny.
"H... P... F... T... Wait... If the 'J' is a letter before the 'J', it'd be an 'I'... So if I could use that, I could make a word out of the second word... I believe..." He thought about it a bit, 'H' becomes 'G', then we have an 'O'... Go... Goe... 'T'... "The 'S' is before 'T', so... goes... I goes..." He then pulled a face that described many negative emotions, "that makes no darned sense!!"
The cupid jumped always back when the Heartless shouted angered, "what was the next word... I believe two similar letter twice... 'h'..." "Ze 'h', and 'b', zo 'h' 'b' 'h' 'b'," the cupid replied trembling. The Heartless thought of using the same approach again: "So 'g' again... and 'a'... 'gaga'? What's that?" What am I doing here anyway? Nothing seemed to make sense to him.
The Heartless started to walk away, thinking this wasn't going to work, "no! Zee lettur! Next word!" The cupid flew and jumped before the Heartless as he raised an eyebrow, "but it isn't making sense... here!" He held up a hand and pointed at the letter: "'I goes gaga' sounds weird... and next word is..." "'P' 'w' 'f' 's'..." "that would make... o... ove... over..." He blinked a few times.
I goes gaga over... Is gaga even a word? Well, it's all I have and can handle... "Fine!" He said and shrugged, "I can at least try to decipher the rest this way..."
Several words later...
"I goes gaga over you baby?" It kept sounding weird to him no matter how many times he said it, "So much I should be in..." He wondered what this could be meaning, "next iz zee 'b'," the cupid replied, "so... 'a'... so much I should be in a... Right, next word," he asked the cupid as it looked at the letter again and answered: "'d' 'b' 's' 's' 'j' 'b' 'h' 'f'," "... c..." the letter 'c' alone sounded strange.
How does 'c' fit in a word with 's' being around? Although, the 'c' could be put together with 'h' again and sound like 'tsh' like in 'much'. He wondered to himself as he went in thoughts to the next letter, 'c' and then 'a', so it sounds like what? 'Sa'? "'C' 'a', sha..." Thinking of the following two letters, they were both the same, 'r''s. So it's 'carr' and then we have the 'j' and 'b' again, making 'carria'. He simply pieced the word together in his head, but had no idea how to speak it later, 'carriag'... carriage!
He looked at the cupid, "right... help me here... 'c' 'a' 'r' 'r' 'i' 'a' 'g' 'e'..." "it iz zee carriage!" "Carriage?" He blinked a few times perplexed as it was the longest word of the annoying thing, "okay. So the answer would be... 'I goes gaga over you baby' for the first line and 'so much I should be in a carriage' for the second line... Wait, that doesn't make any sense!" He looked at the cupid again.
The cupid shrugged and the Heartless sighed as he took his letter and turned around before walking towards the other three where two seemed to have been working together. "Hey, I got this... 'I goes gaga over you baby' as a first line and 'so much I should be in a carriage' for second line... Also still that that 2 being 4 and 14 being 10..." He wondered for a moment as he looked over the paper... from the holes in the test, he could make up there were fourteen words, "the only thing I could make with the numbers is that the second word in my text should be fourth word in the end phrase and the fourteenth word being the tenth word in the phrase." It was the only thing he could think of with these.
"I think I need some help as the sentences just don't make much sense to me," he said with a final sigh, "otherwise 'goes' is the fourth word in the final phrase and 'carriage' is the tenth word." |
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Riku
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Post by Riku on Feb 17, 2012 11:58:49 GMT -5
Riku waved distractedly at Felix. "Name's Riku..." he said. He was already looking at his letter, his mouth hanging open. He stared for a while, and then watched the others work on theirs for a moment, seeing if there was any clues in theirs that could help him with his. When he found no similarities, he sighed and sat down at a nearby desk that was set up for him.
Riku stared at his letter and blinked. "...What the...?" he sat down quietly and looks at the letter quietly and contemplatively.
9/ 19-15/ 12-9-11-5/ 25-15-21/…
9/ 13-5-1-14/ 9/ 19-15/ 12-9-11-5/ 1-14-4/ 12-15-22-5/ 25-15-21!
Riku was never good at number problems... he tried figuring it out,
Ok. So 9 is obviously I or A... most likely I since it's a letter too someone...
He started squinting at the letter.
I/ 19-15/ 12-I-11-5/ 25-15-21/…
I/ 13-5-1-14/ I/ 19-15/ 12-I-11-5/ 1-14-4/ 12-15-22-5/ 25-15-21!
"Ok..."
He continued to eye it, tossing two letter words around in his head.
At... To... So... If... Me...
He used them all, and came up with the conclusion that So would be ok.
I/ S-O/ 12-I-11-5/ 25-O-21/…
I/ 13-5-1-14/ I/ S-O/ 12-I-11-5/ 1-14-4/ 12-O-22-5/ 25-O-21!
He nodded, things making sense so far. After a couple of moments, he was stumped. What could... How...?
Frustrated, Riku growled and sent his head down towards the desk in frustration.
Suddenly, Felix's hand slapped his forehead, causing Riku to jump in surprise and look at Felix.
He looked down at the paper and closed his eyes, taking a breath. Felix is right... I need to calm down...
(Felix then walked off to try and kill the fly that was buzzing Riku's head.)
Several moments later, Riku leaned back, satisfied with his progress.
I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ 25-O-21/…
I/ 13-E-1-N/ I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ 1-N-4/ L-O-22-E/ 25-O-21!
"So, obviously that is a "v", and those are a "y" and "u"!! That has to be "and"..."
I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ Y-O-U/…
I/ 13-E-A-N/ I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ A-N-D/ L-O-V-E/ Y-O-U!
He stared at the 13.
Bean? Dean? Mean... MEAN!
I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ Y-O-U/…
I/ M-E-A-N/ I/ S-O/ L-I-K-E/ A-N-D/ L-O-V-E/ Y-O-U!
Riku jumped up and down, laughing. "Felix! Stella! Uhm... Whatever, look! I figured it out!!" He said, jogging over to them with the deciphered letter.
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Felix
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Post by Felix on Feb 17, 2012 12:33:06 GMT -5
After having solved Stella’s code and placing it down on the table, the results of everyone else’s hard-work soon came as well. The second to finish was the beautiful Stella, the intelligent blond having picked up on the fact that the message had actually been in Morse Code. Glancing at the finished result, the freelancer grinned as he turned to face her, giving her a thumbs-up before clenching the fist he had given the thumbs-up with and grasping it in his other hand.
”Great job Stella, I have to say I’m rather impressed… if I didn’t already have a Valentine’s I reckon I’d be asking you to be mine right now, you’re smart and beautiful,” he noted, throwing in a compliment as well. With her solution now in the mix, the master phrase was now halfway finished, the current result looking as so.
LOVE/_2_/MARRIAGE/_4_/TOGETHER/_6_/A/_8_/AND/_10_
They were another step closer or rather three to figuring out the master phrase and the feeling of accomplishment was rather elating. Indeed, the freelancer stood up stretching his right arm above his head as the left hand grabbed his elbow, a toothy grin expressing that happiness he felt after clearing a mental obstacle. Yet he knew he couldn’t take credit for it alone, this was a team effort after all and with that in mind he went to look over to Whatever and saw… Cupid right next to him? It was quite odd to see their employer here as well but the freelancer was able to discern why rather quickly as he got a few bits of their conversation. As it would seem, Whatever was illiterate which made him consider why he was asked to help but the freelancer’s thoughts came to a screeching halt as he glanced upon Whatever’s paper. Indeed, despite being illiterate he seemed to have managed to decode his message in its entirety and soon announced his results much like Felix and Stella had. The freelancer beamed at this as he snickered lightly, nodding to Whatever as he parted his lips.
“Yeah it sounds like a bit of broken English is being employed in these letters but the general message is still the same ne?” he asked, scratching the back of his neck seeming to be a nervous tick of his, ”People in love like getting their feelings across on Valentine’s Day and some have better English than others. Either way so long as their feelings get across I suppose that’s what counts right Cupid?” he asked not particularly interested in his reply since he was certain Cupid would agree. None the less, with Whatever’s letter now solved the master phrase was getting closer to being solved and now looked as such.
LOVE/_2_/MARRIAGE/GOES/TOGETHER/_6_/A/_8_/AND/CARRIAGE
With this much of the master phrase figured out, Felix was finding it hard to fight back the urge to simply guess at the entire thing. Indeed, with only three words missing it seemed rather simple to just take a stab at it and call it a day yet he shook his head at the thought. While it was true that it would be easy at this point, knowing for a fact what the rest of the phrase was a much safer alternative and would only require a bit of patience. Yes, the only one that hadn’t solved their code yet was Riku and with a glance toward the white-haired stranger, Felix could see the look of frustration on his face. That being noted, the freelancer inched forward to look at the letter Riku had received but as he did so he noticed a fly buzzing around. His eyes narrowed at it as he pulled his arms back, get ready to smash it with unbridled fury, not a fan of the distraction it was providing to the team. When the moment was right, the freelancer went to smash it between his hands but instead ended up slapping Riku from both sides of his head. He laugh nervously about to apologize but before he could the white-haired stranger went right back to solving the letter as if with newfound energy. Felix continued to try and get the fly but it soon fled just as Riku had finished solving the letter. He was quite excited too, jogging over to him and Stella, the freelancer chuckling nervously with a sheepish grin.
“Good work Riku with this we can finally solve the master phrase,” he stated as he put the words Riku had discovered to the sheet that contained the master phrase… the only problem was… one word was missing.
LOVE/AND/MARRIAGE/GOES/TOGETHER/LIKE/A/_8_/AND/CARRIAGE
The freelancer looked at the paper in disbelief for a moment, starting to wonder if there was another letter they hadn’t been given. That Cupid character didn’t seem to reliable seeing as this entire ordeal happened in the first place so it was quite possible that he would forget something like that. As the freelancer got ready to speak his mind on the matter though he distinctly remembered something about a Queen of Hearts?
Yeah if I’m not mistaken he said she somehow stole one of the words or something? I’m not quite sure how that’s possible but considering this whole mess it’s not entirely unbelievable. I suppose paying her a visit to ask about that word could perhaps yield what that word is but…[/i] the freelancer trailed in his mind, his signature cocky grin curving against his lips,
Batman would figure it out on deductive reasoning alone and there’s no guarantee she’d tell us the truth anyway! Therefore the only logical choice is to guess it, it’s only one word so it can’t be that hard,[/i] he thought as he gathered the papers up and laid the decoded letters side by side. He wasn’t sure if his team was aiding in the effort he was making right now but even if they were, his mind was shutting out any and all other distractions. Their input could be helpful but the freelancer felt like doing it alone at this point and thus his mind began to race.
Scanning over the letters once more, he could see that even with the broken English present amongst them, no sentence was technically incomplete. Sure grammatically they may have sounded weird or even have made-up words but they were all still complete sentences. Yes, no letter did look like it had a “word” stolen from it and thus he was able to deduce that it wasn’t a word that the Queen stole but a code. If that were the case then that meant the 8th word had to still be amongst one of the letters and all things considered, Felix heavily doubted that his original letter was the one that contained the missing word.
If I turn the chessboard around and think in my opponent’s shoes putting four of the coded words in a single letter would be dangerous. With just those four words it would be a lot easier to make educated guesses and with just the three added from my letter, you could quite easily assume that the 2nd word was AND to connect the 1st and 3rd word, “LOVE” and “MARRIAGE” respectively.
Seeing as “AND” wasn’t even in my letter, then you would get a total of five words of the master phrase which just seems careless for whoever is behind this. They were meticulous enough to arrange this charade so I doubt they would do something so risky. Thus the only logical conclusion is that the word is in one of the other three letters…[/i] he mentally spieled as he begun analyzing the other three letters. It was upon the third examination of all three that the freelancer stopped on Whatever’s, his eyes widening at the word “BABY”.
”BABY THAT’S IT!” he exclaimed, not sure if anyone else had reached the same conclusion yet or not. Whether they did or not, it didn’t stop him from wanting to explain why he believed “BABY” to be the final word as he snapped his fingers dramatically and pointed at Cupid.
”Not only is BABY a rather common word thrown around on Valentine’s day but if you think about what’s in the phrase thus far, a lot of the words are part of a song that kids sing! It’s that one song, so and so sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage! That has to be it!” the freelancer explained feverishly as he filled in the final word for the master phrase and gathered up the rest of the letters with it. Looking over to Cupid, the freelancer slammed his hand down on the table as he flashed that signature grin of his ever so brightly.
”The master phrase is LOVE AND MARRIAGE GOES TOGETHER LIKE A BABY AND CARRIAGE!” he announced, perhaps a tad too excited about the recent revelation but not caring if anyone thought he was silly in the slightest, ”That being said we did your work so now it’s time to pay up Cupid!” he added, expecting the reward for the team that had been gathered here today to be paid in full… or else a certain flying munchkin was going to have more problems than delivering his letters on time.
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Lief Ramses
Neutral
[M:575]
"I got MORALS, just... not a whole lot of them."
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Post by Lief Ramses on Feb 19, 2012 22:12:46 GMT -5
[OOC: Felix, I had THE GREATEST IMAGE OF LIEF IN MY HEAD when Felix made a move on Stella  ] Shot down, ouch.[/i] Lief glared at Felix as Stella basically ignored him to hang with the red head about the letters. He watched Cupid get into a shouting match with Whatever, and the winged brat basically now fumed behind Lief as the team figured out its letters. Lief was now so pissed with Felix stealing the blonde out of his grasp he was about to fire an arrow into the red-head’s butt and blame it on Cupid. But, he waited, hoping to get his chance. And so he did. Lief had figured out the phrase pretty much during the shouting from the team. It was now stuck in his head and annoying him, but he got it. So when the Red head shouted out the answer, Lief died laughing “Sucks to be you, ginger, but you’re wrong. Perhaps you should suck up your pride and go see the Queen, got it?” he turned to Stella and winked “I’ll take just you personally there if you’d like? Maybe get away from this red-headed idiot?”At this point Cupid shivered behind him “Monsieur Lief, she iz already zomeonez Valentine.” “Shut your face, Cupid, I swear to Remedi if you through that fate crap on me I’ll stick an arrow so far up your-” at this point Cupid yelped and hid himself. “As I was saying, best off for ALL of you to go see the stupid queen. ‘Specially since your leader is so full of himself.” Lief spat coldly. |
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Felix
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Post by Felix on Feb 20, 2012 22:12:30 GMT -5
After his rather extensive explanation, rather than Cupid it seemed to be the munchkin from earlier that spoke to him. He wasn't sure why said munchkin was talking to him, perhaps he was pissed about the "Chocolate Milk" comment earlier but either way it was of no consequence to the freelancer. No, he simply allowed him to say his piece, yawning as if bored just from hearing Lief's voice alone. It was at that point the freelancer put a hand to his chin as if in thought, raising one eyebrow as he looked to the sky for a moment. "You know it's rather odd, I believe I was addressing Cupid and not this kid but perhaps that's one of his nicknames what with that baby face diminutive stature, it would certainly fit," he started, shrugging his shoulders as he grinned cockily as ever, "None the less, I do apologize if you thought I was talking to you but I was referring to my client actually, sorry for that little mix-up. At any rate, since "Baby" seems to be wrong, or at least according to Cupid #2 over there, perhaps we could pay the Queen a visit. While "horse" is probably the "stolen" word at this point, it's worth checking out to make sure, I just figured I'd tried to save us some time if I could," he added, addressing the team after the insult aimed toward Lief. With that said he would stretch his right arm high as his left arm grabbed his elbow, letting out a "mmmm" as he did so before bringing his arms back down and speaking. "Not quite sure how successful we'll be in convincing the Queen to share the "stolen" word but if worse comes to worse we can guess again. In the event that we guess at it, if you have any objections to my assumption of it being "horse" at this point feel free to voice your opinion. I rushed my earlier conclusion without talking it out with you guys so I do apologize for that," he explained as he put his hands in his pockets, his signature grin curving against his lips, "With all that said, any of you happen to have the ability to manipulate the Corridors of Darkness? I'd rather get this done and over with quickly and a Gummi Ship isn't exactly the fastest form of travel around," he finished, dusting off his shirt before pulling out a box of mints and dropping one in his mouth. Have to look presentable, I am going to see a queen after all,[/i] OFF TO THE COURT![Felix; Stella] |
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Whatever
Heartless/Nobody
Random Play Heartless[M:50]
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Post by Whatever on Feb 25, 2012 5:36:40 GMT -5
Just looking over all the papers, the Heartless couldn't make heads or tails with them. Sure, he could maybe grab some words and toss them in the form of a head or make a long stream of words for the tail, but that wasn't the purpose of this all. Next to that, there seemed to be something else going on in the room, mainly around the girl... forgot her name... he thought to himself bothered as he never bothered keeping check of names. Names didn't interest him after all.
When the boy that was threatening the cupid was talking again and soon scared the cupid into hiding, he mentioned something of a queen and such. I need to listen better, anyway... he thought to himself before opening his mouth, "you know, you shouldn't be so aggressive towards the little guy. He's just worried and you're just making things worse this way," he said in a lazy tone while trying to get a chair to sit down.
"So we all need to go meet this queen?" He questioned the boy, Lief, and then turned to Felix, "I can open a Corridor, but I'd give a warning upon the use of them. They're dark gateways and you can get attacked in them," he told him, "of course, I can help keep them save if we're all moving."
OOC Note
I suggested to Felix that maybe Felix and Stella were the best two to go, but reading his PM, it says 'two' and reading your post, Lief, I'm now wondering whether it's two or all that go. Either way, we're having Felix and Stella if it's just two. Unless Riku PM'ed Felix with something that I haven't seen. xD
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Post by mordred on Feb 27, 2012 10:35:42 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 also complicate things so needlessly. Whatever, let's get this over with. I have plans to enact and Hearts to gather."------------------- Team Three! Your hint is...
"You know even a HORSE can figure it out!" ------------------- "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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Felix
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Post by Felix on Feb 27, 2012 20:48:54 GMT -5
After making a plan of travel and getting ready to travel through the Corridors of Darkness that would be provided by Whatever, a sudden presence made itself known. Indeed with little to no warning, a black hooded figure walked out a Corridor of Darkness, Felix' head turning to see the figure. It was hard to tell with the hood, but streaks of blond hair could be seen as well as a reflective glare created by the sun's rays. This lead the freelancer to assume the man wore glasses although that was irrelevant, what was more important was his purpose for being here.
Is he from the Organization or something? he pondered but didn't bother to ask as his purpose for being here was soon revealed. Apparently the client was now being taken hostage by the hooded figure and his very life was being threatened. This was troublesome as the freelancer did wish to get paid and he assumed that his client's death would probably damper the chances of that happening. That being noted, he listened carefully to Mordred's words and the hint he gave, the freelancer smirking as it seemed his second guess at the phrase was confirmed.
"Well then let me save you some time, we don't need the whole day, the master phrase is LOVE AND MARRIAGE GOES TOGETHER LIKE A HORSE AND CARRIAGE! The letters have already been decoded and are sitting on the table so feel free to take them with you and leave the cherub behind," he declared as he pointed toward Mordred dramatically. After doing so he chuckled nervously though, looking back to his team scratching the back of his head.
"Assuming you all agree with me of course," he noted not wanting to go back on his word to actually DISCUSS the master phrase with them.
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Post by mordred on Feb 28, 2012 14:41:54 GMT -5
Mordred merely stared at Felix's overly dramatic way of speaking for a rather long time. A very long time. Long enough for crickets to chirp. Mordred then adjusted his glasses and tossed Cupid at Felix's feet, who gasped for air. "Nice guess, I suppose, even if it is a terrible and pointless statement. Whatever. I suppose this cherub will now reward you or something." A Corridor of Darkness opened up and Mordred turned to go through it, but not before looking over his shoulder and saying, "We shall see each other again real soon, I predict. Prepare yourself." The Nobody then walked through the Corridor and closed it behind him.
Cupid, on the other hand, jumped for joy and cheered. Well, after he caught his breath, of course. He immediately took the letter and fished his wallet out. "Ze payment, oui, oui! Zank you all so much, I'm glad you all could help me! Merci beaucoup! Merci beaucoup!"
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Congratulations on helping a fat, squat cherub deliver his letter! Felix, Riku, Stella and Whatever have been awarded 150 munny!
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