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- They/Them
[X] Solve the Sudoku puzzle.
I recently got into playing Sudoku because I am bored.
I recently got into playing Sudoku because I am bored.
Questionably Soteriological: A Puzzle/Mystery Quest with Kids, Science, and Fun!
- Thread starter causticAccolade
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Good call, maybe this will help Lucy to realize how ridiculously fast her mind's working.
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
Hey, I'm very sorry for the fact that there's been no update in a month... I've just come back from holiday and have been very tired, but I will post an update as soon as I possibly can - I have no intent of letting this adventure die as long as people are still invested in it!
Sleeeeeeeep. Do not overwork yourself. Better a slow but steady quest then a faster one that dies of author burnout.
elenchus
leftism is quantifiable
- Location
- Texas ;_;
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I have found an absolutely fantastic webcomic, and thought I'd share. Any similarities to Andelevion's artwork are incidental.
We are going to be Minus when we Ascend.
And I think I know how we will save the world, too.
Ascension has not been shown to do anything of the sort. Lucy's ascension so far has improved her processing speed and ability to take in information, no more. Owen's luck-manipulation aside, the Ascensions generally appear to boost existing human capabilities by a supernatural amount; reality-warping does not count.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Sufficiently advanced capabilities are not that much different from reality warping. Especially since, as you noted, Owen's ability might involve probability manipulation.
Given Clarke's third law and Mari's specialty we may easily be looking at something equally ridiculous in her case.
And there is still a mystery of why we bear the designation of Saturn/Chronos. Is our ability related to mind/perception, or does it do something to the flow of time itself? What else is on the table?
Given Clarke's third law and Mari's specialty we may easily be looking at something equally ridiculous in her case.
And there is still a mystery of why we bear the designation of Saturn/Chronos. Is our ability related to mind/perception, or does it do something to the flow of time itself? What else is on the table?
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...darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows...
...deep within the flow of time is where your power grows...
... No, probably not.
- Location
- Spain
Maybe some kind of precog. But really, not very sure here.
elenchus
leftism is quantifiable
- Location
- Texas ;_;
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Eh, sure, but I strongly doubt Saturn's Ascension gives minus-style overt, vulgar reality manipulation.
Maybe Fisticuffs Ascension could pull off the bat trick.
> Lucy: How long could it possibly take to solve a sudoku puzzle?
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
Here it is! There might be mistakes and typos, but I've finally settled into a new year of Education Hell and got control of my emotional state enough that I feel I can once again regularly update this!
You commit the numbers to memory and then, with an air of DETERMINATION, you sit down to work on that SUDOKU PUZZLE. In your humble opinion, nobody should ever leave a puzzle unsolved. SUDOKU PUZZLES have been one of your favourites ever since you found out that the word SUDOKU meant, in fact, a type of NUMBER PUZZLE and not the practice of RITUAL SUICIDE AMONGST SAMURAI, although right now you quietly think that if you ever leave a PERFECTLY GOOD PUZZLE unfinished like whoever owns this SEPPUKU, you will be forced to COMMIT SUDOKU out of shame.
After what feels like a very, very, long time, you finish the puzzle, and look up to see Mari standing over you and tapping her foot. "Oh my God, Calloway. I felt like you were going to keep doing that stupid thing for ever. I felt like we were never going to get back to doing anything productive ever again."
You poke your tongue out at her and promise that from now on, you will complete puzzles in an orderly and punctual matter. This would probably have been conveyed better if you hadn't still had your tongue out while saying it. Then, you put the three numbers into the SAFE, which, very considerately, opens. Inside it is a SMALL PIECE OF PAPER and a BOOK.
As you go to continue working on what you were doing, you notice that somehow, while you were focused on your SUDOKU PUZZLE, the MAKEUP has gotten all over the DESK. You stare at Mari, who hurriedly glances in Owen's direction. You follow her gaze and Owen whistles innocently, scratches the back of his neck, and stares at his feet. When you raise a solitary eyebrow, he crumbles under the force of your inquisition, and mumbles something about having to iron the doorbell before swiftly walking off.
It's not very HIGH-QUALITY, and was obviously taken with a SMARTPHONE CAMERA of some kind. Ankara looks pretty similar to the way she does now, except ALL OF HER BLOOD IS STILL INSIDE OF HER BODY. Presumable. She has her arm around a GRINNING MAN with MESSY, LONGISH DARK HAIR, who is wearing a BOMBER JACKET and a pair of SUNGLASSES that look... hey, those look suspiciously similar to the ones you're wearing RIGHT NOW!
PEN & NOTEPAD in hand, you take a CLOSE LOOK at the KEY. Well, it sure looks like a
Long corridors. Your head feels light. You are dizzy. You can barely walk. You feel ill. You look down. You are barefoot. You are wearing a hospital gown. Behind you is a figure in a labcoat, urging you to keep going. When you get to the subject accommodation areas, you can rest, the figure tells you. You're going to be fine, the figure tells you. You've just got a disease, but when you're cured you'll be back to your family in an instant, the figure tells you. Your senses are woozy, but your mind is sharp. You don't believe the figure. You don't believe the FOOLISH CHILD, LOOKING ONLY AT YOUR PAST WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH PAST TO SEE. IT IS LIKE BEING BLINDFOLDED. SOON, I WILL OPEN YOUR EYES.
A key, a key, a... you look down at your NOTEPAD. On it, you have drawn an EYE. You look up at Mari, and she sees something in your EYES and recoils, shocked, before she squints and seems to calm down. "Nothing, Calloway. There was a trick of the light, or something," is all she tells you when questioned.
The KEY successfully opens the CHEST, to produce... a shining RUBY! Wow, it's pretty!
You walk over to the FREEZER, having spent enough time on the SUDOKU PUZZLE for the WATER to have FROZEN and - oh! What's this? The ORB has shattered? You punch the air in victory, and briefly contemplate a small victory dance before deciding that Mari has raised her eyebrow at you enough times for now. You reach down and take the TILE, before placing it into the missing spot of the MOSAIC. You hear a strange creaking sound, the scraping of metal, and the TILES depicting THE PLANETS begin to MOVE AROUND THEIR STRANGE ORBITS, raised up from the rest of the MOSAIC in such a way that you feel you might be able to GRAB ONE.
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- They/Them
Hmm, which tile do we want?
- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] Examine the SMALL PIECE OF PAPER
[X] DFD our drawing of an EYE
[X] Ask Mari what she thought she saw
[X] DFD our drawing of an EYE
[X] Ask Mari what she thought she saw
- Location
- Spain
Humm. A bit more of evidence that Lucy has some kind of precognition.
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Actually, maybe it's more like post-cognition?
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Why was the photo of Fatima and Klaus so important that they had to hide it in a desk drawer?
It's Klaus Helsinki because it's his sunglasses that we are wearing. Maybe we should ask her about that party once she wakes up.
Our eyes change their color when we are 'possessed'.
[X] DFD the RUBY
-[X] Does it fit on your DETECTIVE CROWN, or is it meant for something else?
I don't know, I think we ran out of items to examine here. Now we need to see what's the deal with the gem, the paper piece, and the mosaic tiles.
If we can put back the tile we grab (I don't see why not), we might as well try our own Planet and see what changes.
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
Yes, we know that. Does Lucy though?
- Location
- St. Petersburg
She might have had, if she gave it a bit of a thought:
Unfortunately, she dismissed it as a trick of light too, so probably not.
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
Right, that's why I think asking is a good idea. It could help Lucy become more aware of these things if she realizes she isn't the only one who's seeing them.
elenchus
leftism is quantifiable
- Location
- Texas ;_;
- Pronouns
- She/Her
What joy!
[X] Examine OWEN
What happened to the makeup? The world must know.
[X] DFD SUNGLASSES
Also, we really need to find a mirror. I'm curious exactly what happened regarding our eyes besides glowing.
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