Metal Bunny

The Chief Detective here. Time is running out, as people are demanding answers and some suspects are behaving strangely. You have found riddles on doors, and talking to the mayor of the town, it seems that those doors, as well as the buildings they are housed in, were made by him. Apparently, he is a masterful engineer and made these places to be tiny strongholds, protected by traps and strong doors, that can only be unlocked by solving the riddles on them and writing it on the door. I, the chief detective, have a stinking feeling that they are hiding something. I order you to break into the rooms! Either solve the riddles to unlock the door, or find a way to break in from the outside, but beware of traps if you're not solving riddles, or if you write down the wrong answer. I am trying to solve the riddles as well, so I can give you some help, but they take time, as I am not the brightest thinker. (a hint per riddle, per day) Perhaps there is some valuable evidence in those rooms. Besides that, it would be a good idea to investigate the kitchen and servants quarter. So the challenge is.. investigate and get evidence.. break in if you have to. Beware however, if you steal things (so you don't copy things), or if servants catch you, then surely, you will anger some people and receive some punishment. *edit* please change 4thd into 4th ¬_¬...

Strange things have happened. Yesterday, Mordred Nitratos was away from the village without notice, for a whole day. Whenever he is in the village, he doesn't allow anyone to see the body, let alone touch it anymore. People say that he leaves at night, for mysterious reasons and that during the day, he is tired and sleepy. The challenge for the Merry Devilers, is to stalk the mayor and find out what he is up to. *edit* ¬_¬ the title is supposed to say 3rd.. Edit: The title is a lie! *edit* dang you shadowseeker... ¬_¬, now lie down and cake will be served

I'll post a new topic to get more attention. As chief detective, I have heard that there are some riddles posted on doors. I want you to find all of them (8 in total) and try to solve them. If you are stuck solving them, then you can ask for 1 free hint per riddle, per day, starting tomorrow.

Since Mur requested that we segment it into smaller parts, we changed our instructions. We will update and edit the first post whenever a new part of the quest is due. Also, please use this topic to 'inform' the Chief Detective, when both the chat and PM are too small to inform him. (so.. for ginormous chunks of text Or do you want me to make separate topics?

MD B-Day Festival Challenge of Team Bunny [log=Introduction and instruction] Team Bunny came up with one singular, oversized mega challenge, because we’re compensating for something that was huge to begin with. Our challenge? Team Bunny’s Awesome Murder Mystery! Your instructions are simple, solve the murder of the victim. It occurred in a village (the new lands of the tribunal). There are a lot of things you can do, so here is a guideline: - Initial evidence in crime scene - Questioning of people in the house/around the crime scene Make a list of suspects and ascertain the circumstances and find out about: - Alibis - Rumours - Potential motive(s) Create theories about the circumstances about the murder and investigate to; - Check backgrounds - Get more rumours/motivations/alibi’s to backup the theories that you made - Find more evidence to backup the theories - Provide a compelling case to find out who killed the victim! To allow you to recognize who is actually part of our team or important in the challenge, we are trying to change our tags to have TB (Team Bunny) in front of them. The other thing you should know is that your ability to work together and to adapt, are really important. Besides that, the last and most important thing you should know is that there are ‘Monitoring Characters’, who basically function as Dungeon Masters. We use these because there are no clickies, but also because it gives you greater roleplay freedom. For instance, if you wish to inspect the crime scene, then ask a monitoring character to accompany you to the crime scene and tell him/her that you wish to begin inspecting the crime scene. He/she will describe it for you and you will have total freedom in gathering evidence, or inspecting items, but beware, do something stupid and you will be punished, godmod and you will be disqualified, do something awesome and you will be rewarded. And realize, that you can die. However, only the person that died will be affected, not the whole team. The people who died or were disqualified may still observe, they just aren’t allowed to interact with TB people (who will just ignore them) or Monitoring Characters. The character of Metal Bunny is at the house at the top of the last set of stairs in the new lands, where Mur was standing. Metal Bunny is the Chief Detective, and you are all grunts hungry for promotion. Metal Bunny is also a Monitoring Character. Metal Bunny can help you in two ways. Either as a Monitoring Character that allows you to interact with the environment, or as the Chief Detective, to ask for hints and tips, or just general questions. Beware however, if you ask for hints or tips that it doesn’t quite stick to the spirit of the game and that we will deduct points for that. Now, go into town and solve the murder! As a general note, the Chief Detective will answer all questions, but ask twice if he thinks the answer to that question is a tip or hint. He naturally won't do that if you specifically ask for a tip or hint because you are stuck. [/log] [log=Challenges for day 104 and 105] The chief detective has the following to say: "Given the information that esmaralda and xrieg (and others) have gotten so far, there seem to be three types of people. The first are the servants who usually seem to know nothing, except for the special few who were closer to the victim. The second are the people who are just wandering around, not employed by the mayor of the town and not necessarily connected to the The third are the people who are connected to the victim and were at the dinner party and the last witnesses who saw her alive. You have identified the following as the last group of people: Mordred Nitratos, uncle of the victim, mayor of the town. Sally, fiance of the mayor. CrazyMike, the magician who entertained the party and close friend to the victim. He seems to have run away. Some speculate due to grief, others say that he fled, fearing justice. Knozz, a mysterious merchant and close friend of the mayor. Luanda, the narcissistic and deluded cheerleader, a close friend of the victim Oetzi Von UngernSternberg, a half-ape and gardener, servant of the mayor, close friend of the victim and lastly, Udgard. A strange, perhaps psychotic man, but a close friend of the mayor nontheless. Your challenge for the next two days, is to find out all you can about these people. Their motives, their alibis, and whatever background information you can get. One last thing however, I also want you to find out, all you can, about the victim. The circumstances she died under, what happened to her own family, such as parents and if she was doing something that made powerful enemies want to kill her. Search the crime scene, or any other place and try to find evidence." [/log] So, it is basically 8 challenges for the next two days (though if you take longer, because CrazyMike is still MIA, then it's okay, no pressure ). Also, if you take longer than that, then I don't really mind. However, other challenges will pop up and if you still have to do this after two days, you may get into time issues.

I think it's a bit too late yes, but you could always try. You're welcome at our team.

Yay!

Not last phase, just phase 2 Anyway, big announcement here! [size="7"]From this point on, once you join our team, you cannot, for very secretive reasons, defect and join the other team. You can still leave us, and keep quiet, but that's it![/size] Thank you

Alright people, today is the day that I unveil my wonderful plans for the B-Day Challenge. If you are on this team and you don't have access to the following link: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/forum/234-team-bunny-is-awesomeness/ Then please say so, either in pm or in this topic. We're entering the next phase

The commitment that is required, ultimately depends on you, but you will see once the new part of the forum is set up.

Okay, since TTL offered he can do it and let CrazyMike help as well, since he has been a great help so far? Forum name: Team Bunny is Awesomeness! Or something like that. As for subforums, while I do see the need for spoiler related and extra restricted sub forums, I don't really know how many we'll need and we can always add more later/let the few people manage it between themselves.

[quote name='Chewett' timestamp='1298576530' post='79532'] The other team has a small forum whereby we can speak and such with ALL members of the team, would you like one? - asking bunny so i want an answer from him, but i think everyone should see what i am suggesting so they may give their opinions to the leader. It will have normal rules just like any other subforum. [/quote] I actually wanted to do it all via the forum messenger, but then realized that it may have gotten messy and that it has a 20 participant maximum. So yes please *edit* I'll be in manchester for the weekend, so my response is slightly slower over the weekend. I'll be back on sunday evening, so.. yay.

Yeah, come and join us; it was a bit late and I wasn't really overlooking the situation entirely. Glad we're in a team huh? Dangit, I keep wanting to send stuff out to all of you, but now I have to go to school, lol. Anyway, short notice, this team is open for everyone and anyone (except people from the other team), up until the moment we have a case of chronic 'unemployment', which means that if people are just doing nothing, then (while we are not kicking people out), it wouldn't make sense to let people in either. And since we are just starting, everyone is allowed in

Alright, I think we have enough people now. (Along with sagewoman), I think we can close this topic. I'll contact you all tomorrow, I am kind of tired now.

Alright, we are close to 20 people. Tomorrow I will stop with taking just any random person and start with organizing and planning. If someone after that still reeaaally wants to join, then they need to have a bit of a quest reputation. (It's not unreasonable right? I mean, we are on a schedule ) I suggest to the ones who are already in, to think of whether they want to help test quests, make quests, or both.

I think it's kind of funny that dst decided to join the anti bunny team. She must be a complete masochist, because we all know that dst can't solve my quests and puzzles.

Lol. Anyway, I think we, or Ailith, should put up a deadline date in order to solidify the people's choice, or absolutist and despotic rule, of the two team leaders. That way, we can more easily and concretely move on to the actual useful phase of organizing. But anyway, seems like people want me as a team leader so far, so if no one else more 'wanted', (for a lack of a better word), is pushed forward, then I'll be a teamleader. I suggest that once the teamleaders are known, that a more handy topic of team members and eager recruits is created, so that it's easier to see alts, or to actually know what and with whom the teams will be working with.

Lol, this is pretty funny. Anyway, I think that in any case, there should be a deadline set for teamleaders to.. I am better off putting this in general forum aren't I? Anyway, lol.

Well, the 14th of april is a perfect time for me, nothing much to do before, and the 22nd is right about when I actually have to do some effort for school, so if, and only if, people want me to either choose a leader, or to be a leader, then I'll step forward. I would've claimed power and drafted a legion of drones and minions, but oppression, propaganda and brain washing tend to stifle creativity. I don't really know why, but it would seem that it would be a counter productive tactic. So.. only if people reeaally want me to choose someone or actually be a team leader, so that chewett will be slapped with the metal glove, will I actually do so. So... please make it known if you want me to and specify what

This is ridiculous; it's obvious that he didn't bother to read and was looking for something ridiculously simple. I assure you, if you can't be bothered to read the tutorial and get through the mp3 fase, then every single other facet of the game will not appeal to you, in the slightest. Thus, even if the tutorial became easy, simple and newb friendly, then the rest of the game still wouldn't be liked.

This is the quest result for; Metal Bunny's Malicious and Delicious and Malformed Diamond of Mental Misery with the Sublime Sigil of Superior and Stressful Suffering of Dastardly and Diabolical Doom! Or sigil or diamond of doom, for short. I wanted to put this up on the.. 25th of december 2010, but I got distracted and then promptly forgot. So.. I'm going to lay out the quest here, which is just 1 picture. Then some hints in spoilers. Then, the answer in spoilers. Then, how to actually solve it, in spoilers again. Then, who actually solved it and why I stopped after 1 winner, because apparently, it was too hard to find more than 1 winner ¬_¬. So here is the quest. [attachment=2542:Sigil of doom puzzle.png] That's it. Nothing else. When it became clear that no one was brave enough to torture themselves, I added hints in a couple of stages. [log=Hints] [log=First Stage] Color tips: The colors of the dots and stripes are important, the monotonous color of the squares are not. The colors of the squares are a hint at best. This puzzle is designed so that color blind people can solve it as well. Shape tips: Every shape is important, but the circles and stripes are separate from the squares. A line is a line and a circle is a circle, not a slightly bigger or smaller one. Method tips: Concentrate on the colors, they are different for a reason, but they are surprisingly similar. Find out what the colors mean and you will know almost everything you need to know. [/log] [log=Second stage] Not including the ugly color of the diamond itself and the black outlining, there are a total of 24 colours. As said before, every shape is important, but the colors are completely separate of the shapes. [/log] [log=Last Stage] First word spells ‘Welcome’. The shapes will tell you where the first word starts. [/log] [/log] Alrighty then, the answer: [log=Answer] The correct answer was *drum roll* [log=lol] Send me a pm with a picture of me, at Willow's shop, saying lol, and then say that the magic number is 175. [/log] [/log] The method! Yay! [log=Method] I decided I wanted to make a tiered quest, or puzzle, but that these tiers, or layers or levels, had to be interlocking, or go beyond the convention. Most quests are made in such a way that you can't continue without solving something else first. I wanted mine to be slightly different. What I did was take a really generic and simple way of making a secret message; I substituted the alphabet for something else. What people usually do is turn A into b, or x, or even m and subsequently make B into c, or a or even n. What I did was slightly more nasty. The hint (you did look at the hints right?), of 'there are only 24 colours', indicate implicitly, that I substituted the alphabet into a series of colours. Oh noes, the horror~! Yes, there are 26 letters in the alphabet, but most people 'should' know that in a secret message, you don't always use all 26 letters. The letter X for instance, is almost never used. I didn't use the letters X and J. That was the first tier of one part of the puzzle. The symbols, meaning the stripes and circles, or - and . , were very simple. Very simple *cough- some of you were thinking too complex -cough*. It was morse code. You know, where they also use - and .? Now here is something nasty that I did. I made the morse code stay inside the squares, but the secret message of the colours go outside of the boundary. Meaning that the morse code was supposed to be read within the squares, but that the words of the secret message could be broken down into two, with one half in one square and the other half in another square. If you deciphered the morse code, which wasn't that hard, then you realize that they are numbers. They were numbered from 1 to 49, as it was a square of 7 by 7. If you look at the way they are ordered, it may not make any sense, but to help you out, it's a magic square order 7. Google is your friend. Anyway, the morse code was only useful for showing you what the order of the squares was. (read the hints). With the very last hint, you could've started deciphering the colours. (read the hints). Once you deciphered the colours (which could've been a real hassle, only the very last hint of 'welcome' would've made this a whole lot easier.), the following message would appear: Welcome to Metal Bunny(’)s Malicious and Delicious and Malformed Diamond of Magnificent Mental Misery Solve this riddle and perform the task to claim your wp reward Sadly though you will not get any hints or tips for the riddle When you stand before three paths diverging With equal amounts of towers That nurture new winds emerging To gain great wishing powers Travel one must and do their best To catch me red handed in the act In place from four strides to the west Of breaking the anti lol making pact Then send it to me with the magic numbers Ah. How refreshing. For once I actually made an easy riddle. (I was thinking about going overboard with the interlocking stuff and crossing boundaries and do the riddle in dutch or latin, so that you'd actually still have to translate it, but that would've just been cruel.) (and I was feeling lazy). Anyway, the morse code and the squares now come into play, even though they were given at the start. You have to know that it's a magic square, in order to send me not just a pm with me saying lol in it at willow's shop, but also the actual magic numbers. Which was just a magic number, but I was to lazy to change the whole frigging message, just to remove 1 letter. I know this wouldn't have been a problem, because absolutely none of you, except for one, actually came this far. Really, was it that hard? [/log] The only person to successfully complete this puzzle was VonUngernSternberg Not to mention that he was the only person to do it within the 9 frigging months I had this quest going, lol. He also did it before the last stage hints, so.. Yeah. Shame on the rest of you . Kudos to him, he got a wp. Also, thanks for Shadowseeker for some test help.