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tushanshu2015-03-04 09:07 pm
backwordscompatible) wrote in tushanshu2015-03-04 09:07 pm
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[She wasn't paranoid.]
[...but she was interested. Also experiencing a strange sense of not-quite deja vu. It had been a while--more than a year, including time spent Dreaming--but she still remembered the days when she would have received telepathic visitors into her mind. First, Asti. Then the babies. Granted, the latest mystery message had been a text. But that just made things even stranger: no voice to tie the source back to.]
[She definitely wan't paranoid. Yet. Which was why she made the decision to go public, putting on a smile for her first Network appearance in some time. Like this was meant to be nothing more than a game.]
For the record? The person who sent me that cute little Scavenger Hunt message--
[And it had taken a long, hard period of consideration before opting for that particular phrase. On the off chance anybody else had received a similar message recently, they might see through it. On the slightly more probable chance one of the locals was listening in, they'd think this was nothing more than some Foreign custom.]
--you get points for creativity. And vocabulary.
But if I'm going to be color-hopping my way through the sectors, there better be a nice reward at the end. Maybe not diamonds, but...something to make all that effort worth it, you know?
Also, next time? Try signing it so I know who to thank personally.
[...but she was interested. Also experiencing a strange sense of not-quite deja vu. It had been a while--more than a year, including time spent Dreaming--but she still remembered the days when she would have received telepathic visitors into her mind. First, Asti. Then the babies. Granted, the latest mystery message had been a text. But that just made things even stranger: no voice to tie the source back to.]
[She definitely wan't paranoid. Yet. Which was why she made the decision to go public, putting on a smile for her first Network appearance in some time. Like this was meant to be nothing more than a game.]
For the record? The person who sent me that cute little Scavenger Hunt message--
[And it had taken a long, hard period of consideration before opting for that particular phrase. On the off chance anybody else had received a similar message recently, they might see through it. On the slightly more probable chance one of the locals was listening in, they'd think this was nothing more than some Foreign custom.]
--you get points for creativity. And vocabulary.
But if I'm going to be color-hopping my way through the sectors, there better be a nice reward at the end. Maybe not diamonds, but...something to make all that effort worth it, you know?
Also, next time? Try signing it so I know who to thank personally.
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Actually, I did. I'd actually come up with an idea similar to that with Sonja a few days before that, but I couldn't figure out what to actually do with it.
But looking back on it, I'm wondering if all that was wrong. I mean, not the part about the colours having something to do with locations, but which colours are which locations. Read the little message again. There are six colours... or at least six things that are like colours, and they're paired with six things that refer to parts of the city. I mean, that's as strong a clue as ever to mean that the colours are all locations.
But so what? What are we supposed to do with all of these shapes?
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[She was actually already ahead of him on that one. There were notes in the Welcome Center she'd taken. Based off Wan's theories, she'd drawn a few possible scenarios. It seemed like a wild goose chase, going in all those random directions, but she figured there had to be a reason.]
[And Sokka was raising some good points as well; the one part she'd neglected to mention was the fact that she didn't read Chinese. None of the writings made any sense to her, so she was left with intuitive guesswork.]
So...what, one color per sector?
It would fit.
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[At this point, he really was just throwing ideas against a wall, finding that there was a distinct lack of solid information to close the loop on the information.]
So what, we just take the five sequences of symbols and hike all around the city, following all five? But if that's the case, why are there five sequences of symbols? Why not just one?
And what about the time? There's supposed to be an appointed place and time.
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But as for the reason why they're so many...it could be a ritual?
[Leave it to the magic user to immediately go that route.]
When it comes to magic, sometimes there can be preparations and steps that seem meaningless, but turn out to be way important in activating the spell.
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Yeah, juuuust like that.
[Well, in this case, it could be. He's not doubting it. It's just... illogical.]
Or there could just be multiple little "treasure chests" hidden in the city, and each of the sequences leads to a different one.
[Sigh.]
Well, it's got to have something to do with the shapes. If it didn't, they could have all been squares for that matter, and it'd make no difference at all.
Each symbol refers to a place... and a number based upon the number of sides or... features it has.
But why? How do you even marry those two together!?
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[Heck, it could be relative to the number of syllables in each shape name, for all she figured. At least a color was a color. She'd passed preschool easily enough to remember that much.]
It is possible,
I mean, in Wicca--[No, she didn't expect him to know what that was. Just go with it, Sokka.]--a lot of basic spells are cast centering around a pentagram and/or circle...and the number three. Ideally, nine, which would be the equivalent of three to the third power.
You know...just as one example.
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[That said, Sokka was a maths guy. He liked it; it went arm in arm with science, his real love, but he wasn't that bad off with maths, even if the educational system of the Southern Water Tribe when he was growing up was... admittedly, a little bit stunted due to the Tribe having shrunken so dramatically thanks to the Fire Nation. But even he was struggling with it.]
You mean three times three, right? Three to the third would be 27, which I guess would be an ultra-special number, right?
[He's trying to help?]
I mean, I've thought of everything. I've thought of summing all the sides up. Or at least the major features of all of them up. I've tried making times of day out of them. I've tried... looking at the missing symbols in each sequence. I've tried finding a pattern out of the symbols? I've tried to make up a pattern for what if there was a Palace sequence. I've tried... what haven't I tried?
Nothing makes sense! Nothing just seems to scream out, "Hey, I'm the right answer!"
I mean, are we supposed to start in one spot... and then walk to the other sectors in the sequence list and wait for a while before just going to the others? But if so, when?
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[Oh, right. That meant something different in math terms, didn't it? What she had been referring to...well...three to the first (level of) power was three. Three to the second would have increased it to six. And three to the third....]
Right. That works too, I guess.
[Not for the first time, she wished she had her father's notebooks with her. Even her own, from her childhood studies. Having to do all of this by memory was far harder than anybody realized. Everything she thought she had memorized years ago was getting fuzzier and fuzzier. She was starting to confuse herself.]
If we haven't been given any established time, then I can only think of one of two possibilities.
Either there's another piece we haven't been given yet...or else maybe time doesn't have anything to do with it. Maybe it doesn't matter so long as we follow the directions in order.
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Yeah, having to find a place and a time is pretty tricky. I mean, I'm guessing the colours are referring to the location and the shapes are referring to the time, but it all just loses itself once I have to work the patterns into it.
[He shrugs.]
Worst case, Spooky Puzzle Man will have to give us some more hints. Not that I'm going to stop trying to come up with ideas, but...
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And besides... who said it couldn't be a ghost or a spirit or a figment of our imaginations either? I mean, I don't even know what the Creep Lord even was. What if he had a brother... and he's the thing sending us all the puzzles?
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She tied you up before you two started dating? [Wow.] ...I like her already.
[Definitely sounded like her kind of girl, that was for certain.]
You think it's a trap, then?
Like...we defeated the older, so the younger's trying to trick us into performing some sort of revival spell or something?
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And then she fell in love with me. What can I say? I must have looked cute as a woman.
[It seems to be the logical answer, really.]
As for it being a trap, who knows? I'm just saying it's a possibility! [A remote possibility, sure, but a possibility!]
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[...she'll definitely be coming back to those little nuggets of gold information later.]
If you're going by that logic, then everything's a possibility.
We won't know until we try.
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Then go exploring. Follow the directions the best way you can think of.
[That's certainly what she'll be doing.]
What's stopping you?
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Well, nothing really.
Besides the fact that it just feels like I don't have the right answer, so it still feels like it's more productive just pounding my head against this and finding alternative theories about what's going on.
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Okay, good one.
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Thanks.
I thought so too.