- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] Check the PACK OF MARKERS. See if it contains a RED MARKER.
[X] EXAMINE the MAHOGANY TABLE and the ORNATE CLOCK.
[X] EXAMINE the MAHOGANY TABLE and the ORNATE CLOCK.
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Questionably Soteriological: A Puzzle/Mystery Quest with Kids, Science, and Fun!
- Thread starter causticAccolade
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- St. Petersburg
[X] Shake your head. Take a moment to remind yourself that superstitions are UNSCIENTIFIC.
[X] Squint very hard at the ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS. ALMOST TOO DARK is not ENTIRELY TOO DARK, right?
[X] Examine the TAPESTRY.
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- Location
- US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Examine the tapestry and painting
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The PACK OF MARKERS seem to be quite old, with the exception of the RED MARKER, which looks much newer, as if it has RECENTLY HAD TO BE REPLACED. There are markers in all the colors of the rainbow!
The CLOCK is almost UNREASONABLY ORNATE. It's made of GOLD AND GLASS, allowing you to see the MECHANISM INSIDE, as well as a ROUND PLATE bearing a SATURN SYMBOL. According to the CLOCK, it is 2:10. The CLOCK is decorated with a GOLDEN MOON on the RIGHT and NOTHING on the LEFT. The mechanism inside seems like something is meant to POP OUT at every hour, like a CUCKOO CLOCK, but whatever it is seems to have been REMOVED FROM THE MECHANISM.
Sherlock Holmes wouldn't allow himself to get frightened by any silly things that were only in his IMAGINATION! You have confidence in your ACUMEN.
It is TOO DARK to MAKE ANYTHING OUT CLEARLY, but you can make out the SILHOUETTES OF OBJECTS if you SQUINT VERY HARD.
The TAPESTRY depicts a MEDIEVAL BATTLE, and is titled 'RICHARD OF YORK GAVE BATTLE IN VAIN'
The ABSTRACT PAINTING consists of hundreds of small CIRCLES spaced evenly on the CANVAS with SEEMINGLY RANDOM NUMBERS FROM 1 TO 7 in them. Is it a modernist statement? A post-modernist statement? A post-statement statement? You have no idea. The only kind of ART you've ever been interested in is STOLEN PAINTINGS that could be retrieved by COOL AND CUNNING JUNIOR SLEUTHS.
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Hmm. Not sure what to do with the new info...
[X] REMOVE the HOLY BIBLE from your INVENTORY and set it down on the MAHOGANY TABLE.
[X] Take the ORNATE CLOCK and DFD it, then return it to the table.
[X] Take the PACK OF MARKERS and DFD it, then place them on the table.
-[X] Maybe RED MARKER will come back for his RED MARKER? Scrawl a message to them on the table next to the PACK OF MARKERS using a GREEN MARKER.
[X] REMOVE the HOLY BIBLE from your INVENTORY and set it down on the MAHOGANY TABLE.
[X] Take the ORNATE CLOCK and DFD it, then return it to the table.
[X] Take the PACK OF MARKERS and DFD it, then place them on the table.
-[X] Maybe RED MARKER will come back for his RED MARKER? Scrawl a message to them on the table next to the PACK OF MARKERS using a GREEN MARKER.
- Location
- US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Take the painting off the wall
-[X] DFD the painting
-[X] Examine the space behind the painting
-[X] DFD the painting
-[X] Examine the space behind the painting
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
[X] Take the markers
[X] Color the painting with the markers. Fill out the circles numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 with Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red respectively.
[X] Color the painting with the markers. Fill out the circles numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 with Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red respectively.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
[X] Examine the GOLDEN BIRDCAGE (can you reach it?)
[X] Examine the SAFE
[X] Take a marker and draw the SILLIEST MOUSTACHE on the PORTRAIT OF THE RED-HAIRED MAN in your possession. Not so smug now, huh?
I guess we will need Sun to get the clock running. Maybe the cage is connected to the mobile somehow.
She isn't coming back (her marker is with her, thus the need for a replacement), but it's a good idea to have a marker of our own.
If we go crazy, we can leave the history of our descent into madness behind to haunt the next test subject!
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> Lucy: Leave a POLITE NOTE
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The ORNATE CLOCK is TOO LARGE AND HEAVY to put it in your INVENTORY! Man, MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS can be one hell of a bitch to work with.
You haven't gotten this UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL with WRITING UTENSILS since the Adventure of the Copied Art Homework. A dastardly criminal indeed, the HOMEWORK FORGER, but you got him in the end. Ah, the days of your youth. It took you a week to crack that case. You bet if you took it on NOW, instead of when you were EIGHT, you'd be able to solve it in a DAY. They all seem to be WELL-USED and PART OF A SET, with the exception of the RED MARKER which seems TOTALLY UNUSED as if it has had to be REPLACED.
You're pretty sure the RED MARKER in the pack isn't the one you've been seeing notes written in - it barely seems to have been used at all. LEAVING A MESSAGE, however, seems like a good idea, and you resolve to yourself to TEACH THIS MYSTERIOUS PERSON PROPER GRAMMAR while you're at it. You take the GREEN MARKER and write a POLITE NOTE on the WALL.
There. That seems SUFFICIENTLY POLITE to let the MYSTERIOUS PERSON WITH THE RED MARKER know that you MEAN NO HARM. Perhaps once they discover that you're a JUNIOR SLEUTH, they'll feel comfortable enough to APPROACH YOU IN PERSON instead of just leaving CRYPTIC NOTES.Lucy's POLITE NOTE said:
The PAINTING seems FAR TOO ABSTRACT for you to MAKE HEAD NOR TAIL OF IT. Behind the PAINTING is written a SERIES OF NUMBERS:
You start to FILL IN the DOTS by matching NUMBERS to COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW. After a few minutes of FRANTIC COLOURING, you are able to TAKE A STEP BACK and see that the COLOURED DOTS FORM NUMBERS, like one of those COLOUR BLINDNESS TESTS they have at the optician's. The numbers are:Writing on the wall said:
Numbers on the painting said:
The GOLDEN BIRDCAGE is WELL WITHIN REACH. It is LOCKED with a SMALL GOLDEN PADLOCK, and inside a GOLDEN BIRD sits on a LOOSE-LOOKING BAR. The phrase 'GILDED CAGE' would come to mind if you weren't currently trapped in a MUCH-LESS THAN GILDED CAGE.
The SAFE has a THICK METAL DOOR as SAFES are wont to do, and bears a SIX-DIGIT COMBINATION LOCK.
You DRAW A MUSTACHE on the PORTRAIT OF A RED-HAIRED MAN and GIGGLE TO YOURSELF. Oh, wow. You are a COMIC GENIUS. You feel so, so proud of yourself.
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
[X] Enter the combination 210146 to the safe.
-[X] Enter 146210 if the previous one doesn't work.
-[X] Enter 146210 if the previous one doesn't work.
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] Try to open the GOLDEN CAGE using the GOLDEN KEY.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
If the key fits,
For the moment I am wondering if the cage serves as a counter-balance to the Moon and Sun and if they are connected. If so, decreasing its weight might propel it upwards and lower down the other end.
[X] Take out and DFD the GOLDEN BIRD
[X] Take and DFD the LOOSE-LOOKING BAR
For the moment I am wondering if the cage serves as a counter-balance to the Moon and Sun and if they are connected. If so, decreasing its weight might propel it upwards and lower down the other end.
[X] Take out and DFD the GOLDEN BIRD
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causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The GOLDEN KEY fits into the SMALL GOLDEN PADLOCK perfectly! You open the BIRDCAGE to see the black shiny eyes of the GOLDEN BIRD gazing SERENELY AND INANIMATELY out at you. Hi there.
You REACH INTO the CAGE and PULL OUT the LOOSE-LOOKING BAR, BIRD still PERCHED ON IT and all. Once it's out of the cage, you notice that it is HOOKED AT ONE END. In fact, it appears that you are holding a SOLID GOLD CROWBAR. Who would make such a thing. Why. This is one of the WORST IDEAS FOR A THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN. Without the weight of the BIRD or BAR, the BIRDCAGE is pulled UP TOWARDS THE CEILING. Across the room, the MOBILE lowers.
The GOLDEN BIRD detaches easily from its perch. It feels like it's WATCHNG YOU for some reason. On its back are etched the letters GSC in CURSIVE.
You decide to put the ASTRONOMY BOOK and PAIR OF PHOTOGRAPHS down on the MAHOGANY TABLE for now. You wouldn't want your INVENTORY FILLING UP, even if it is a MECHANICAL ABSTRACTION that you lack awareness of.
Although 210146 fails to open the SAFE, the reverse combination results in a resounding CLICK. The SAFE DOOR swings open to reveal...
A note.
Oh, come on!NOTE said:
> causticAccolade: regard utter lack of talent for graphic design
Thank you very much for your kind words! I try my hardest to make QS a fun and enjoyable quirky little adventure. I'd love to try and submit a banner, but I doubt I'd be capable of making anything that looked decent, much less working out how those things are actually submitted and all that. Perhaps, one day...
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causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The MOBILE bears golden images of the SUN and MOON on a pair of SQUARE PLATES. Although the MOON is QUITE FIRMLY AFFIXED, the SUN comes off RELATIVELY EASILY.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Well, do the honors then.
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
*scratches head*
Wait. The safe has nothing but a note? And red marker had gotten inside the safe at that? They didn't even color the picture...unless it was replaced with a new one.
[X] Try to blot out the bird's eye by coloring it with the red marker
[X] Put the bird in the clock, in that place where the cuckoo usually pops out from
We've got a crowbar of GOLD! Gotta pry open the glass casing with the JUPITER symbol sometime soon.
Edit: Red Marker stole our moon symbol, and left an IOU?
And someone vote to put the sun plate on the clock.
Wait. The safe has nothing but a note? And red marker had gotten inside the safe at that? They didn't even color the picture...unless it was replaced with a new one.
[X] Try to blot out the bird's eye by coloring it with the red marker
[X] Put the bird in the clock, in that place where the cuckoo usually pops out from
We've got a crowbar of GOLD! Gotta pry open the glass casing with the JUPITER symbol sometime soon.
Edit: Red Marker stole our moon symbol, and left an IOU?
And someone vote to put the sun plate on the clock.
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- Location
- St. Petersburg
No one?Well, do the honors then.
Ok then. While the QM is still around...
[X] Put the SUN symbol on the LEFT of the CLOCK.
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
You DEFACE THE GOLDEN BIRD as BEST AS YOU CAN - the BIRD'S EYES really aren't the best surface for colouring. Now at least it feels a LITTLE LESS like it's WATCHING YOU.
You place the little GOLDEN BIRD in THAT PLACE WHERE THE CUCKOO USUALLY POPS OUT FROM. As far as your TIMEPIECE-RELATED TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, which is NONE, tells you, that is the PRECISE TECHNICAL TERM FOR THAT PLACE. You know. THAT BIT. Yeah. Okay, you know what you mean, at least, and that's all that matters.
As soon as you set the SUN upon the SIDE OF THE CLOCK, the CLOCK BEGINS TO TICK, and after a few seconds, a small panel opens, allowing you to access the SATURN SYMBOL. Hell yeah!
- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] Pick up and DFD the SATURN PLATE
[X] Return to the GLASS CASE with JUPITER PLATE and pry it open with the GOLDEN CROWBAR.
[X] Return to the GLASS CASE with JUPITER PLATE and pry it open with the GOLDEN CROWBAR.
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The ROUND PLATE bearing the SATURN SYMBOL is almost IMPOSSIBLY SMOOTH, a PERFECT CIRCLE. The SYMBOL itself is a VIVID BLUE. It might just be your IMAGINATION, but you feel your hand TINGLING when you hold it, as if it's on the verge of giving you a STATIC ELECTRIC SHOCK.
As you walk down the STAIRS, the DOWNSTAIRS looks just as dark as where you are now looked going up. Still, you set off down the STAIRCASE at a brisk pace, when -
No. No, that time, something DEFINITELY went past you.
You take a DEEP BREATH. You decide NOT TO LOOK BEHIND YOU and instead walk AS BRISKLY AS YOU CAN to the GLASS DISPLAY CASE.
One pull, two pulls, three pulls, and the LID of the GLASS DISPLAY CASE is FORCED OPEN, leaving the ROUND PLATE bearing the JUPITER SYMBOL free for the taking.
> Lucy: Escape the cathedral
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The ROUND PLATE bearing the JUPITER SYMBOL is much the same as the OTHER TWO - however, it doesn't give you the same TINGLING ELECTRIC FEELING as the SATURN SYMBOL.
You walk up to the STAINED GLASS WINDOW and-
Wait, what?
Since you were last here, the EMPTY SLOT for the MOON has been filled by a ROUND PLATE bearing the MOON SYMBOL. There is a FRESH MESSAGE on the wall.
Huh. You're... not sure quite what to think. What? You're not even sure that this makes ANY SENSE AT ALL.Writing on the wall said:
Oh well. You can't let yourself be BAMBOOZLED or TERRIFIED by this! You've got a PUZZLE TO FINISH. Like the MERCURY SYMBOL, the SATURN and JUPITER SYMBOLS fit in perfectly to the STAINED GLASS WINDOW. You hear a DISTANT HUM, and after a few seconds, a BRIGHT LIGHT shines through the STAINED GLASS WINDOW, colours projected against the walls of the CATHEDRAL.
There are so many colours. You know that they're caused by the colours of the STAINED GLASS WINDOW, but you can't help but feel like there's something more to them. Like this vibrant whirlwind kaleidoscope of colour is what the big bang looked like, is what the end of the world will look like, is what it would look like if you could look into the eyes of an angel. The colours wash over you, and for a second, you let yourself be lost in them, lost in the BLUE and YELLOW and GREEN and more, oh so many more. You swear that in the distance you can hear wind chimes, or are they bells? And then, slowly but surely, the colours drain.
Caged, fade. The sense of wonder and awe is gone, like a flower shriveling up in the winter, knowing it cannot survive the cold. The DOOR in the middle of the STAINED GLASS WINDOW swings OPEN.
Through it is a BRIGHTLY LIT room that looks a little like a LOUNGE. Two COUCHES face each other in the CENTER. You can see TWO DOORS, and... you can smell food cooking. You HAVEN'T EATEN in quite a while. Taking a few CAUTIOUS AND WARY STEPS into the LOUNGE, you look around, and see a TABLE with a HALF-EATEN BOWL OF SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE on it. It looks like it's STILL WARM. You are suddenly ACUTELY AWARE of how RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY you are.
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