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I BLOODY KNEW IT
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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
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Swordude
Save versus Narrative, DC25 Will
- Location
- Elsewhere, USA
With an unknown payload size, unknown grille layout and unknown if an additional layer of substitutions any generated method via Grille is literally indistinguishable from random noise unfortunately. I'm sure if I spent long enough I could get it to say something silly and be just as wrong as choosing three arbitrary letters from the grid.
TheLurker
Random Omnipotent Lazy-As-Fuck Being
- Location
- The space beyond the stars
Im starting by treating it like a perfectly normal word search for now, found 'epic' 'fae' and 'yum' so far. Probably not actually anywhere close to the answer, but I'd rather start simple than learn we were thinking about it too much all along.
EDIT: Who knows, maybe one of those will be the eventual cipher key?
EDIT: Who knows, maybe one of those will be the eventual cipher key?
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- Location
- USA
The actual braille parts of "My Old Friend" is cut-off at the end to only have the letters "MY OLD FR" which is 7 characters without repeating any, that could mean something considering the cipher text is 7x7.
(Edit: The end of friend being cut-off could just be a quirk with braille or an error with the translator used, though)
(Edit: The end of friend being cut-off could just be a quirk with braille or an error with the translator used, though)
Well if a Grille is unlikely, that sucks. But I also had the idea that possibly a 'keyword' is converted into braille, and the braille is used to determine the 'holes' in the grille.
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If we are looking for names I saw john in the second column going up
- Location
- United States
A braille translator spits out the same translation the qm used for my old friend, (with the end cut off). Either Braille is too complicated to read with a chart or qm used the same translator and it has a bug.
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Well, I doubt this is it but there's a playhouse junior show about a guy named johnny (john) who lives with sprites (fae). Johnny (Johnny and the Sprites)
There's also john silver from treasure planet which could go with epic and John smith from pocahontas
Edit: also there's a johnny appleseed short that could go with yum. Name association is fun!
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- Location
- Australia
I don't think it is a bug just contracted braille. fr is probably just shorthand for friend.
- Location
- Germany
*nods*
That was my idea as well even before we got that interlude.
He might have tried to downplay the importance of prophecies (and rightly so, considering that they tend to be rather "fickle" and self-fulfilling at times), but he definitely decided to heed our warning, dug for a bit and whatever he found shook him enough to enact this Hail-Mary of an announcement. Heck, even I (who @Simon_Jester rightly called "a bit tone-deaf" about social cues) caught on to Xanatos lacking his usual self-assured smarminess today.
Yes, he definitely wanted to pre-emptively take control of the public narrative about weird subjects in case of a Magical Unmasking.
I repeat, whatever he found was enough to make *David "Cool as a Cucumber" Xanatos get worried enough to poke the Masquerade in a controlled-ish fashion*.
...I am more than a little worried myself now...
Well, we could go public about having known about Gargoyles beforehand as well and now deciding to follow Davids example by showing that there even are "sub-species" of Gargoyles in addition to the more humanoid ones like Hudson.
Not a lie at all.
Again, I´d be up for either, but that one has been a somewhat...*contentious* subject.
That being said, since David really went on a Hail Mary with that announcement, he might be even more appreciative than normal for us warning about a possible disastrous-for-him turn.
Okay, so surface level. Xanatos is doing exactly what we figured; revealing the non-magical part of the magical masquerade in order to protect the rest.
And that's good! Very smart move on his part.
But, uh ... he didn't exactly do it subtly.
That alone speaks boundlessly to Xanay's desperation, tonight, but it also is something that is bound to be noticed. Sure, he needed to not be subtle, I get that; there wasn't a better option here. People watching needed to hear, directly and without hedging, that magic is not real.
But anyone with a brain is going to see Xanatos bringing on an expert in only magical studies, letting this Hans Rotwood say nothing that is not immediately shut down, and shut down in a very specific, non-magical direction, and the only conclusion they're going to be able to come to is, "Ah. Magic is real, and Xanatos is desperately attempting to hide it. Shit."
This is ... Hail Mary is right. Xanatos, Mr. Plan-For-Every-Occasion Xanatos, is undertaking an action he has not well prepared for, and in which the odds might not fall in his favor. Hooooo boy.
...oh, hey, there's another visit from our friendly neighborhood Bill in the thread! Neat!
Yes, David was getting desperate there, but consider one thing:
At no point did he explicitly say, that "Magic doesn´t exist" - he basically said that "NOT EVERYTHING unexplainable phenomen is magical in nature", which sounds the same at first glance, but *actually* is the complete opposite.
He is subtly preparing for a Magical Unmasking by saying that just because something is unexplainable NOW doesn´t mean that it has to REMAIN that way...*either by occult or scientific methods*
...Despite being more than a bit unnerved by whatever he found thanks to us warning him, he still is sly enough to twist things to his favour...
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I'd like to note that he actually bothered to tell us to watch the news. The fact he even deigned to tell us shows he's at very least considering us as important to warn when he does something
Leaving matters of cryptography to people better equipped than myself...
-Angela is around.
-Goliath is probably-to-almost-certainly dead, based on prophecy and being a repeated no-show in relevant segments.
-Brooklyn is another no-show. Maybe dead, maybe something else, maybe involved in Timedancer shenanigans. It could happen that he'll show up with his eventual canon family one of these days:
-The relationship between the clan and Xanatos is antagonistic, but not so hostile as to make a hail mary move like this one an impossibility.
-Oberon may or may not be dead, but at the very least it would appear that he has been dethroned by Titania.
-Fox is allegedly dead.
In the whole, I'd guess that this further points in the direction of the battle against Oberon in The Gathering going wrong for the mortals, with both Goliath and Fox dead by the time the dust settled. Oberon may have been killed there or the death of her daughter may have driven Titania to usurp and imprison him or something along such lines.
I think that just about explains all the available datapoints. In canon, the animosity between Xanatos and the clan only can be considered to have died down when he helped them hide from the reporters at the end of Hunter's Moon and allowed them to return to the castle.
-Angela is around.
-Goliath is probably-to-almost-certainly dead, based on prophecy and being a repeated no-show in relevant segments.
-Brooklyn is another no-show. Maybe dead, maybe something else, maybe involved in Timedancer shenanigans. It could happen that he'll show up with his eventual canon family one of these days:
-The relationship between the clan and Xanatos is antagonistic, but not so hostile as to make a hail mary move like this one an impossibility.
-Oberon may or may not be dead, but at the very least it would appear that he has been dethroned by Titania.
-Fox is allegedly dead.
In the whole, I'd guess that this further points in the direction of the battle against Oberon in The Gathering going wrong for the mortals, with both Goliath and Fox dead by the time the dust settled. Oberon may have been killed there or the death of her daughter may have driven Titania to usurp and imprison him or something along such lines.
I think that just about explains all the available datapoints. In canon, the animosity between Xanatos and the clan only can be considered to have died down when he helped them hide from the reporters at the end of Hunter's Moon and allowed them to return to the castle.
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Evillevi
A Pikachu for everything - Shadow Pikachu,2015
Because there's a prophecy of something bigs that's gonna happen and that scaes him
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
We've proven to be too competent/lucky to not give a heads up. Honestly that is probably one of our greatest accomplishments in the entire quest.
Because Xanatos was associated with Demona and famously enabled some of her worst schemes, and now she is planning something serious that may go badly wrong for him. He probably is pre-emptively clearing the air, just in case she even has the slightest shred of blackmail/evidence against him.
- Location
- Germany
Exactly.
He might Not BE our friend, but He still has a positive-enough opinion of US And our competence that He clearly prefers US to be on the up-and-up about Most Things - which is another reason for me to repay him in Kind And Tell him (AS Well AS Shego, If WE can manage IT) about the Probability-Inator.
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
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Wasn't saying he had. Was more pointing it out again in case anyone decides to start going on again about how Rotwood would most assuredly break the Masquerade and therefore should never be hired. The second part of that post was then addressing the second argument typically made against him - that he is supposedly incompetent.
Angela is already in New York, so this is definitely post World Tour, and Goliath is almost explicitly stated to be dead in Celena's prophecy.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
I mean, he told us because he spoke to us about the masquerade and not breaking it, and then he proceeded to partially break it on live television, where we definitely would have found out, so giving us a heads up can literally only help.
He loses nothing by telling us, we were finding out anyway at more or less the same time regardless, this exact sort of thing is pretty central to our relationship, and telling us either builds relations or prevents relationship loss.
He loses nothing by telling us, we were finding out anyway at more or less the same time regardless, this exact sort of thing is pretty central to our relationship, and telling us either builds relations or prevents relationship loss.
- Location
- the Netherworld Dood
So Have we have confirmed that this wasn't a funny word search?
Crap, ty, I'd forgotten about that.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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She's working with Italian actor Romolo Valli.
- Location
- Germany
Might be too insistent in us being the "Supreme Overlord of Doofania" for Uncle Same to be happy about it, but we can (once the Magical Masquerade breaks, preferably) publically condemn their xenophobic rhetoric and declare that DEI will in no way, shape or form ever support their hateful cause.
Achieves a similar goal of really stunting their rise while not stepping on Fed toes as much.
Naaah, WVRN is a tv channel canon to Gargoyles, so I doubt it´s some sort of chiffre key
- Location
- USA
Stanford is a character in gravity falls but that was part of the enigma code.