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Post by Piomega on Mar 24, 2017 12:33:58 GMT -6
You decide upon the mask, but before you press it, you glance around the tablet to see if there's a price mark. You don't find one, but concentrating on finding the CP symbol leads you too see that what you'd assumed were just mind-related symbols on the wall. Underneath a small depiction of Men's Mens by R.T. Clarke, you see the words "Item⇒CP", and a section of wall that at closer glance looks like it can be pushed inwards.
Turning your attention back to the tablet, you give the symbol a decisive press, and fifteen masked helmets appear on the screen. Apart from the fourteen you've already seen, there's one that glows grey on one side, and on the other side cycles through all twelve colours. Half of it, the coloured half, looks like a depiction of sincere affection, and the other has a downturned eyebrow with an evil grin.
You tap it experimentally. A 3D model of the full suit appears which you can rotate by dragging. It cycles through the size of the person as well as the colour of half of the mask.
How interesting. What do you do now?
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Post by Piomega on Mar 26, 2017 2:23:42 GMT -6
You could go for the metal ball, look through the bookcase, examine the brain scanner, check a different app...?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 26, 2017 2:50:30 GMT -6
I forgot my phone died while I was in the middle of posting, so it didn't go through...
Check the scanner.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 26, 2017 8:11:19 GMT -6
You go up to the brain scanner. It consists of a helmet over a chair, and a screen wired to a computer. Currently, the helmet is resting on a mannequin head, and there is a symbol onscreen that looks similar to a symbol that was in the top right hand corner of the mask app you looked at.
You notice that the helmet should be able to extend over any of the brains in the fish tank.
What do you do with this information?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 26, 2017 13:38:00 GMT -6
Put the helmet over the wolf brain. Open the app and try setting it to Foursight's orange and start lowering the height slider.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 27, 2017 13:01:36 GMT -6
You bring the brain-scanning helmet over to the animal brains. As you do so, you glance to the side of the tank, and see that there is a switch between 'Last' and 'Current'. Filing away the information for later, you put the scanner above Wolf's brain.
Going back to the mask app, and pressing the symbol in the top right hand corner, you select '4' out of the list of numbers. As you do so, the mannequin flashes to life, glowing orange in the same places Four's mask does.
You press the 'scan' button, and it scans the wolf brain.
The image that comes up on the screen is not the wolf brain, but rather a brain that looks like an ordinary human brain.
Intrigued, you move the helmet back onto the newly-glowing mannequin, and press the scan button again.
You are greeted with what looks like the same image, however, after switching the helmet around a few times, you notice that the mannequin seems to lack a small set of wrinkles that look like a 'C'.
What do you do?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 27, 2017 13:12:05 GMT -6
Repeat with 6/Light Green/Starfish and 7/Dark Green/Mongoose.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 28, 2017 13:13:35 GMT -6
You repeat with 6, and the brain in the tank has, unlike the mannequin, a circle that could easily be the letter 'O', and with yourself, getting what looks like the letter 'L'.
If you arrange those letters, assuming there are twelve of them, in your current order, you get:
_ _ _C_OL_ _ _ _ _
However, if you arrange them in your former order, you get:
C _ _ _O_ _ _ _ _ _L
What do you do?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 28, 2017 13:34:29 GMT -6
OK. Doesn't much matter if we figure this out if we don't know what to do with it yet. Let's take a look at the left side room.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 29, 2017 10:13:10 GMT -6
Are you talking about the door to the left?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 29, 2017 10:19:13 GMT -6
Eenie-meeny-miney-sure.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 29, 2017 10:39:36 GMT -6
You examine the door to the left. It has a large '-1' etched onto the door, that's not immediately obvious until you're very close to it. You have no idea how to work the opening mechanism, and strongly suspect that you won't be able to.
What now?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 29, 2017 10:42:44 GMT -6
Stay fa-a-a-a-ar away from the right door. Don't even look at it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Examine the bookcase. Examine it for puzzle stuff. Also examine it with the feasibility of moving it to block the right door in mind.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 29, 2017 11:18:29 GMT -6
You avoid doing the obvious, and avoid even thinking about the door on the right.
You are not Pandora.
You sidle on over to the bookcase. Most of what looked like books are completely blank, however there are fifteen books that are not. I do presumably not need to tell you what colour each's cover was. Each has a silver chain just like the tablet.
You flick through the books, speed-reading, and allowing their brief contents to be consumed by your vast memory, and try to mentally sum up each book in a single word.
Horror, Records, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Fashion, Mystical, Dictionary, Comic, Crime, Fantasy, Encyclopedia, Gambling, Drama, and Sport.
You suspect that all this has something to do with the Test of Studiousness. Come to think of it, the brain thing probably was to do with the Test of Discerning. You're pretty sure the Test of Sanity has to do with getting the metal ball.
What do you do now?
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 29, 2017 11:38:43 GMT -6
We never did see what the other tablet stuff is. Let's see if it thinks we've made progress on anything else. Then the... spreadsheet icon?
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Post by Piomega on Mar 30, 2017 12:29:52 GMT -6
You check your progress. Test of Sanity : Incomplete (0%)Test of Memory: Complete (100%)
Test of Discerning: Partially complete (23%)Test of Studiousness: Partially complete (45%)It looks like you're on the right track. You take a look at the spreadsheet app.  Apparently you're meant to type in the words in the spaces provided. You turn back to the brain scanner, deep in thought. When you come out of it, you realise you've unconsciously focused on a small switch on the side of the mannequin's head, that looks an awful lot like the switch on the side of the tank of brains. |
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 30, 2017 17:10:23 GMT -6
I was going to say "I have absolutely no idea what those switches could do" but that was because the picture didn't load on my phone. Let's try them.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 31, 2017 10:04:10 GMT -6
The picture doesn't say what the switches do.
Earlier, it mentioned that on one side was 'Current', and the other side 'previous'.
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Post by SummerCrow on Mar 31, 2017 10:06:52 GMT -6
Which is all I needed to know to make an assumption about what the switches do. Dick with 'em. Flip 'em with ya dick. Or your finger, whatever's handy.
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Post by Piomega on Mar 31, 2017 13:55:58 GMT -6
You go over to the tank of brains first, and experimentally flip the switch.
As you do so, the brains in the cabinet appear to change into other ones, and the labels change accordingly.
What now appears in the tank, is so incredibly bizarre, that it cannot be summed up by an all-encompassing statement.
The first is what looks like a giant playing card, an ace, in fact; but instead of being hearts, clubs, etc., the 'A's are magenta, and the symbols detailed depictions of magenta brains. The second is what looks like two hot-pink shrivelled tomatoes, long stems intertwined, in a way that looks exactly like another brain. The third is what appears to be a bloodstain, that just happens to look like a brain, floating upright. The fourth is four hovering eye sockets, filled with brains. The fifth is a calendar open at May with a picture of a brain where there would normally be, say, a kitten, and day five encircled. The sixth is a brain illuminated by a green spotlight. The seventh is what you assume is a moose brain. The eighth is loads of shimmering hypnotising spirals, all superimposed into a brain shape. The ninth is loads of bubbles concentrated in a particular shape, which alone wouldn't be that obviously depicting anything, but you can guess what it's supposed to be. The tenth looks like a bog standard human brain. The eleventh is similar to a human brain, with some slight differences. The twelfth looks like a small mammal's brain.
Do you switch the mannequins as well? Or do you compare the mannequin brains to the brains in the tank?
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