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Meighei


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:45 pm


This room is one of the four small square rooms on the map. Once you are all inside, the door closes behind you. The door seems to be sealed by some sort of Chaos and the room is covered in a dark fog.

This is the same fog that obscured the twelve paths in the Wilds and the path to the Observatory!

There is no going back. At least, not the way you came. You will need to find a new way out.

There is a sphere in the center of the room that looks like an orb with stars, constellations and astronomical phenomena. In fact, it looks a lot like the orb that is Urania’s personal item. But if you have been to Urania previously, you recognize it and know that, once activated, it can clear the fog.

It projects a voice that all in the room can hear:

“Please enter the password for activation. Hint mode is active.”

Then it adds:

“I’m the cosmic paintbrush whose stroke fades fast.”

Quote:
You must answer the riddle. Each character may provide only one answer even if it is the same as someone else’s. Every 24 hours, you will get a new clue.

Half of the answers must be submitted and be correct for the characters in this group to not be affected by this room’s Chaos.

Quote me to submit your answer to the riddle.

This role-play will last 72 hours.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:13 pm


Sailor Grieve of Grieve

"Aw ******** me," Grieve uttered in total dismay. Couldn't she just fight a magic dragon again?

Leaning in close to the orb, she strained her mind and finally offered up the riddle wisdom she'd gathered over the centuries to the orb: "Cosmos' Big d**k?"

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:43 pm


Eternal Sailor Tjilaki

Tjilaki watched everyone spit up and go to the different rooms in the Observatory. She decided to go to one that was not too crowded.

It was a riddle. Tjilaki furrowed her brow as she pondered the riddle. She paced around the room, her mind racing to decipher the cryptic message. Suddenly, it clicked.

She looked over at the others in the room with her. “I think it is a comet.”
PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:14 pm


As if Daphne wasn't having a bad enough time, someone was now being gutter minded in the middle of a sacred observatory. If this had been happening on her world, she would have thrown a fit.

She had thrown fits, actually. She'd done it multiple times, although a certain evening in the botanical gardens came to mind. For Urania's sake, though, she resisted getting up in the yellow senshi's face and going off about how she was being disrespectful, and unintelligent, and crass. She might have even been reckless, saying something so out of the box when they were working against both time and Chaos

Her eyes still rolled, though. There was no stopping that. She clenched her fists. The sigh that came out of her was very, very disappointed.

Her tail was still puffed up from emotion, but she walked primly over to the orb.

"The dawn," she said.

She'd read some poetry describing it as artwork, over all. It was also something that actually made sense, and she nodded proudly.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:14 pm


Antisana, Squire of Pluto

They all filed off into separate rooms, and since there seemed to be no discernible difference between where each group was going, Antisana trailed toward the last room. Best keep it as close to an even division as they could, he thought. In case something decided to pop out and cause them a tough time. It wasn’t like he’d been here before. He didn’t know what to expect.

But besides the door closing ominously behind them and the prickling presence of Chaos, nothing looked immediately aggressive…

There was just a riddle that needed solving if they wanted to leave- Though if he had his way, Antisana believed there might be more merit to just breaking out. There were enough of them. They could break down one door. Blow this fog away with a puff of wind. …But it wasn’t to be. Urania didn’t want anything broken…

As it was, he hadn’t ever familiarized himself with space terminology. It was of no interest to him, and Antisana had assumed that any information relevant to him would just make itself known in time. It hadn’t. Whatever his past self might have known however many centuries ago wasn’t coming to him in this moment, so he felt ill-equipped to handle an astrology riddle… And surely whatever phenomenon this world experienced coukd be different than anything that happened in Earth.

“Meteor…” had been what struck him in the moment, like a meteor shower, leaving those little streaks in the sky, but another girl had said ‘comet,’ and he wasn’t sure he knew the difference. Or if there was one. Or if there was, how relevant it was.

’Hint mode is active.’ That was a peculiar thing to announce.

But if it was being offered, and they needed to clear the riddle to leave, why shouldn’t they accept it? “It said we could ask for a hint,” he murmured. “So, could we have one?” To see if that brought them to any more of a consensus.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:01 pm


“From afar I grant wishes, up close I destroy all in my path.”

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This is the final clue. Please get your answers submitted in the next 24 hours.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:26 pm


Crisium, Page of the Moon

Crisium followed Antisana, since he seemed to be nice enough, and they ended up in some sort of... riddle room. That made his skin crawl.

"A shooting star? IE you wish upon a falling star, and they move so fast they will obliterate everything in their path. Including the atmosphere, did you know? There's probably dinosaur on the moon itself bc of the big meteor that--- I'm rambling aren't I?" he said, shutting his trap when he realized he'd tried to take over the conversation with facts about space and meteors and the like.

Hopefully the Chaos lingering in the room didn't lash out at their several versions of 'meteor' answer.

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Right there with you fam

Meighei
Shooting stars is my guess!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:50 pm


Tjilaki, Eternal Senshi

Tjilaki considered the hint carefully, her mind racing to make the connection. She paced back and forth. At first she thought it could have been a comet but now she realized it must be a meteor. It made sense - meteors were known for streaking across the sky, appearing as if to grant wishes from afar but causing destruction upon impact.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:18 am


Eternal Sailor Encke
& Viatrix

Encke evaluated what the clues were as they provided, only to nearly spit take when Grieve provided her response. That would be funny, honestly. Great answer. He'd have to tell his husband that one later...

From afar it granted wishes, up close it destroyed.

... Wait.

He couldn't quite stop the babbling to the Mauvian who stood next to him. "I think this one is me, actually!"

"What do you mean?" Viatrix tilted her head up at Encke, and then paused. Wait... No, he might have had a point. Her brows furrowed, and she tapped her foot as she thought about it. Cosmic brush across the sky, from afar grants wishes, no, no, that might have been right. The shooting star thing one of the moon pages in the room tracked with the same idea, but... "No, I think you got it!"

"Me!" declared Encke, excitedly, pointing to himself. He then paused. Right. More specific. He doubted some random chaos riddle in the sky would understand the reference to me without making some ridiculous genie-level assumptions that would end up ******** them all over. He was genre-savvy enough to not step into that obvious pothole. "I mean, think you're looking for comet. That's what my homeworld is. That's why I said me." He was babbling. At an orb. Definitely babbling. Viatrix looked amused. He needed to hush.

Hopefully, he was right. There was another senshi in the room that said the same thing, he was pretty sure. Maybe they both had the right idea...

If he was going to help someone restore their homeworld to at least not infested with chaos levels, he would rather not be the source of more angst--

Meighxi
Encke and Viatrix are submitting comet!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:15 am


Emain Ablach, Squire of Earth
Ah, how he loved being locked in dark room with a spooky--albeit pretty cool-looking--orb in the center of it. It would get rid of the fog, at least, and that was no small ask of it, considering. Emain Ablach rolled the riddle around in his mind, glancing to Promethei and Imhotep to see if they had any clues about it. Riddles were fun and all, and he'd done alright with the last set of riddles he'd encountered on Urania's home world. He still remembered arrows being shot at the two of them as he inched them forward behind his shield, inching toward a centaur that had not seemed to want to let them come any closer. The centaur had not had a riddle, but the pegasus had, so this was at least on-theme.

He'd done alright, sure, but he was not precisely a mastermind at the ways of double-speak. At least, not the kind of double-speak that riddles often used. Cosmic paintbrush? Fast-fading strokes? He glanced to the other two again. "I don't suppose you two have an idea yet?" Probably not, but hey, maybe they had something occur to them instantly.

Imhotep was good with riddles, after all. No offense to Promethei, but of the three of them, Imhotep was probably the most likely to actually get what the riddle was referring to. Others in the room were working through the riddle and offering up their answers. He tried not to let himself get distracted by what those answers were. They sounded good, but there was always the chance they were wrong.

Imhotep had just shrugged at him, and Emain Ablach wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean. So he let that be, for now.

Back to the riddle. Fast-fading strokes with a cosmic paintbrush. Cosmic, so it was in the sky, right? Or in space. It was probably in space. So a paintbrush in space that could paint with strokes that faded quickly. He squinted upward, even though he couldn't see anything through the thick fog. He could imagine the space and stars beyond it, in any case. What would be up there that would paint anything, much less something impermanent? A lot of space seemed pretty permanent or, at least, long-lived enough that it might as well be. Unless something crashed into something else.

Maybe he was being too literal? Maybe he needed to try thinking in metaphor. That's what had been the solution for the pegasus riddle, before. What had been the answer to that one, again? Stars, right?

Right, stars.

Was 'stars' the answer to this one? Probably not. He couldn't think of a way a star could paint anything. Stars didn't move in the sky. At least, not unless they were shooting stars. Wait. Wait wait wait. Wait a minute. Shooting stars. Meteorites? Maybe the answer was meteorites? Shooting stars left a streak in the sky and the streaks vanished pretty quickly. But they didn't destroy anything, and the second hint had clearly mentioned destruction.

So whatever it was left streaks in the sky, streaks that didn't stick around, and it destroyed whatever it touched.

He saw Imhotep go up to the orb and murmur something, then, which didn't help how puzzled Emain Ablach was. Something was maddening about the way Imhotep then stood off to the side and just... watched Emain Ablach and Promethei. "Showoff," muttered Emain Ablach. What was it? What left marks and also destruction and came from space? What could he think of that came from space and destroyed things?

'Chaos' was an answer, but probably not the right one.

So space and destruction. It did remind him of one thing--the end of the dinosaurs. Something had come from space and destroyed the dinosaurs. It was... what, a comet, wasn't it?

Was that it? Comets had trails, right?

Setting his jaw firm as Imhotep kept just watching him, Emain Ablach walked over to the orb, murmured, "comet", to it, and then stood off to the side, an arm's reach away from Imhotep. "So... not to copy your homework, but what'd you get for number seven?" Imhotep just stared at him some more. "...Fair enough."
--------------------------------------------------------------
Imhotep, Page of Mercury

It took Imhotep a second, admittedly. It didn't help that Emain Ablach was talking out loud, distracting him. Imhotep wanted to tell him to be quiet, but didn't think it would be worth the energy. Besides, he'd be doing it for what? To be an a*****e?

So he stood off to the side and watched Promethei and Emain Ablach puzzle through it as he also puzzled through it. At least Emain Ablach was quiet, then. There was another hint given, which Imhotep paid close attention to. So something cosmic that left marks in its wake. Big ones, destructive ones. Ones that people could wish on, if they wanted. So that left shooting stars or comets, at least of the astronomical phenomena that Imhotep could think of. 'Asteroids' didn't seem right. It had to move, so 'star', 'planet', and 'moon' were right out. Moons and planets moved, he guessed, but not the way the riddle seemed to be hinting.

So, again, either shooting stars or comets. Which did he think it was? Shooting stars granted wishes but weren't destructive, and comets could be destructive but didn't grant wishes. Well. Okay, that wasn't quite true. Shooting stars were usually the result of passing through a comet's tail or something similar, if he remembered right. The Taurid meteor showers were from a comet. The Geminids were from... something else he couldn't recall off the top of his head, but he was pretty sure it was also a comet or something. So, really, shooting stars and comets were the same answer, and that answer was 'comet'.

Pleased with himself, Imhotep stepped up to the orb, gave it his answer, and stood off to the side to wait for the other two.

Meighei
Both of them are guessing 'comet'!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:55 am


Promethei, Squire of Mercury

For Promethei's part, well, he was too busy laughing to absorb the entirety of the first clue. To say he was immature about dirty jokes was absolutely accurate, in the sense that his mind lived in the gutter and he was very happy to let it stay there. In Grieve's direction, he shouted, "Good one!" because he wasn't going to let that one stand without a compliment. Honestly, if he thought it was right, he would have just ... well, he would have guessed that one, too.

But he was fairly sure that the mystery orb floating in the center of the creepy fog room wasn't asking about Cosmos' d**k. If it was, well, then all compliments to the orb's good taste he supposed.

But he should probably concentrate on the reality of things: namely, what the ******** was it trying to get him to guess? "Me? Not quite." The showoff that was Imhotep actually probably had some possibilities in his head. d**k. Said affectionately, of course, but it still left both he and Emain Ablach in a bit of a pickle about the riddle. What had been said again, before he got distracted by Grieve's answer?

A cosmic paintbrush whose stroke faded fast. Okay. "Well," he leaned toward Emain Ablach, "I mean, there's only a few things in the sky that leave trails, right? And it's not gonna be an airplane or some s**t, that's not cosmic." And also probably too modern for this place. And also silly. Mechanical jet streak, maybe, but what would this be?

Imhotep would probably rather them both stop talking. Promethei tended to externalize a lot of his thought processes so long as it was nothing private--that spill of his soul to that bartender a few months back had taken a lot out of him, honestly--so he had to knit his brows and concentrate on shutting up. He'd instead concentrate on what the other people around him were saying, tapping into the eavesdropper instinct. There were a few murmurs that were coming up that sounded right, and admittedly they were all themed similarly. Shooting star, meteor, comet -- they were all things that streaked across the sky fast, and from a distance, looked like something that could be wished on. Or deposited things that could be, anyway, considering meteor showers were routed from comets themselves.

And all of them could cause a lot of damage if they hit a planet.

Well, maybe not. What damage would a shooting star do? A lot of those were smaller particles, right? (His expertise was not astronomy. He barely knew these things. He had taken one elective at the graduate school level in his five-year bachelor's and master's program and that was as far as he had gotten.)

Emain Ablach attempted to cheat an answer from Imhotep, who wouldn't budge on his selection. Promethei was just going to have to guess what the best presumption was from the people gathered around him. Considering all of the other guesses could route from comets, he went with that one when he approached the orb.

Meighei
Promethei submits comet!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:10 pm


Antisana, Squire of Pluto

Ah, that hint had not been as helpful to him as Antisana might have hoped. He was still laboring under the impression that all these variations were the same, so differentiating them- well, there was nothing to differentiate.

If they were all the same thing (and as far as Antisana was concerned, they were: he knew next to nothing about space terminology), then all that mattered were the semantics of the question. All the most popular options left a trail in the sky visible for a short while. And destructiveness… He’d definitely seen some Netflix show about ancient Rome believing that comets were ill omens, harbingers of destruction, but anything hurtling through space at mach a billion would destroy anything in its path. That part of the hint was negligible.

So the only part of any significance to Antisana was ‘wishing.’ Maybe people made wishes during meteor showers or for the appearance of comets, but he knew for a fact that people wished on falling stars. There were at least three songs about it that he could come up with off the top of his head. Why they sang about ‘stars’ instead of ‘comets’ or ‘meteors,’ he didn’t know.

With a dip of his head in Crisium’s direction, he rumbled out a quiet, “That seems as good of an answer as any.” They all seemed perfectly acceptable to him, and the Moon page at least seemed to know what he was talking about. “I will also say shooting star.”
Meighei
He'll go with shooting star too.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:37 pm


Sailor Grieve of Grieve

Looming next to the orb, Grieve listened and watched the chatter, giving thoughtful grunts and nods that didn't really amount to much. This really wasn't her wheelhouse, and as Cosmos' tremendous endowments had yet to unlock any doors (as usual), all that remained to her was the mission-typical series of Don'ts:

Don't touch.
Don't break.
Don't speak to the books.

Keeping her hands to herself instead of seeking out whatever equipment Urania had mentioned was definitely a hard task, especially when listening to people discuss meteors and comets and the like. She'd appreciated the sunrise answer. Even if it wasn't right it sounded kinda pretty. She squinted at the feline senshi and realized it was the one she hadn't helped outside that one place that was on fire.

Well! Glad she made it out.

Grieve gave Daphne a thumb's up for being alive.


There was a green haired glasses boy that briefly started to babble. He probably knew his s**t, people who spewed facts all over tended to, but probably also had s**t for confidence since he shut up so quick. Though speaking of confidence...that was Encke's symbol, right?

Leaning down to the orb, Grieve muttered to it, "Is the answer Encke?" When there was no response, she rolled her eyes. Urania should install some kind of personality into the things. Give her a nice clear yeah b***h or naw yah dumb clint.

There were some Mercury knights about, though, thank ********. Including the soft-looking pretty one that'd handed Grieve her a** on Cybele. Was he with the other one? And the Earth knight. She gave the really ******** warm looking Mercury knight a grin and also a grin at the compliment, feeling a bit smug. See? Even a ******** tech lickin' circuit stroking, book flippin' Mercury knight thought she made a good, if wrong, point.

Rocking back on her heels, the tall alien decided that she'd helped.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:16 pm


Wallia, senshi of Fortification

It was the large gathering of Order-aligned people that had got Wallia's interest. Once he had known there was an emergency going on and the pretty lady was in need of help, his mind was set. He would help her.

When they were gathering and contemplating their plan to cleanse Urania’s observatory, Wallia had mostly been quiet. He was new at this senshi thing and they were talking in english, the language which was introduced to him by school and different media platforms. It was kind of difficult to listen everyone and figure out what was important information and what was not.

Now they were in the small room, trying to solve a riddle. Let them handle it, he decided. Wallia was sure he wasn't going to be very useful here. Not in secluded place like this.

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Meighei


Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo

PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:15 pm


“We were created by a Mauvian. They had a human form like you, too. Welcome!”

The sphere addressed Viatrix before answering the others.

To Greive: Wrong.

To Daphne: Wrong.

To Crisium: Wrong.

To To Tjilaki: Correct.

To Encke: Correct.

To Viatrix: Correct.

To Emain Ablach: Correct.

To Imhotep: Correct.

To Promethei: Correct.

To Antisana: Correct.

The stars on the sphere begin to shine. The fog clears and so does the feeling of Chaos. You can now leave the room.

The planetarium is now active!

You have unlocked an optional room:

Room 1

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