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Answers here!
Cave Challenge The bone monster’s great jaws creaked as he yawned. Most of the time, his job was rather dull: the outside world was quiet and rarely a creature tried to enter the cave. Likewise, most Mycenians were content staying in the cave (except, of course, in the spring when the flowers outside the entrance tempted them to cross the barrier). Without any chasing or guarding to do, the bone monster formed a habit of sneaking and gathering items Mycenians were a bit too careless about. It wasn’t exactly stealing, except for that one time an ineki tried planting a changingshroom to see if it would beget more changingshrooms. How odd that it disappeared during the night. And that other time—well, the bone monster didn’t live by the highest moral standards. The items weren’t useful to him, and Mycenians would sometimes dare to plead for their return. Most of the time, he growled and chased them off, but occasionally, if the right word was spoken, he would toss something their way. He found teasing his charges in this way alleviated some of the boredom that came with the task of guarding the cave entrance. ————————- We’re experimenting with implementing smaller forum games on a somewhat regular basis. The two that are released today are challenges that you must solve by yourself, without discussing it with each other. Please keep this in mind; if people are working together, we’ll have to put a stricter limit on number of winners or avoid these types of games altogether. If this works well, we’ll think of future challenges that do allow discussion so we have a good mix to suit everyone. Also, we will release the answers after the challenge is over. :) Part Two: Whispered Secrets Whispered secrets are difficult challenges with a limited number of winners. The bone monster will tell you where you need to go, but only once you give him a password. When you figure out what he wants to hear, echo him (subject line “Whispered Secrets”). Make sure the only thing you include in your message is the word he wants to hear. Anything extra and he will not respond to you! He’s a meanie-face. You’ll follow and solve clues until you get a message saying you’ve reached the end. These are tough, so you’ll have to be persistent to reach the end! Do not discuss this challenge with each other. Prizes:
Note: If anyone on staff wins a prize, then a non-staff member will also receive the same prize. End: This challenge will end once five people complete the challenge. Here is your first clue:
Posted 08/24/14, edited 08/30/14
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Eee~ Good luck everyone :D! I tested this earlier, and it’s really challenging — super curious who will be able to figure it out! Oh yeah, psst, you can echo the bone monster right here. -repeats link from other challenge- ^^
Posted 08/24/14, edited 08/24/14
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Bone monster will automatically respond, and it is not case sensitive (however, if you include more than just the password, it won’t work). The password has to be in the content of the message, not the title (he ignores the title).
Posted 08/24/14, edited 08/24/14
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Ourloonybin It could be, but whether it is or not is something you’ll have to determine. I would suggest re-reading the Whispered Secrets about stuff because I give a hint as to whether it’ll be one word or more than one word. ^u^
Posted 08/24/14
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*throws laptop out the window* Even the codes and ‘games’ in “The Secret World” MMO and the “Alternate Reality Games” they play over there are apparently “easier” than this. (And I’m pretty darn good at those! The ones that require pseudo-hacking are fun!) Kudos on making a truly hellish puzzle! XD (I DO wish the “Easy mode” prizes were a bit more desirable, and the “Hard mode” prizes from this weren’t so insanely desirable yet so hard as to be 100% out of most player’s reach though. v.v Kinda makes the whole thing cute, but a royal buzzkill.) *feeds pages of solution attempts to the dog* Whee! Confetti!
Posted 08/24/14
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BTW this isn’t a challenge you’re meant to solve now, or even today. I’d be surprised if anyone got it over the next week. Rather it’s a thing you can look at when you have nothing else to do over the next days or weeks, and maybe you’ll have an epiphany :) Don’t tear your hair out trying to get it *now* now — the challenge will be open until five people solve it.
Posted 08/24/14, edited 08/24/14
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