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[The Nameless One]
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:51 am


Please feel free to use this thread to discuss amongst yourselves ideas, theories or just general chatter about the event.

Here are the clues that have appeared in order of appearance:

[The Nameless One]
MYSTERY! CHAOS! MADNESS!

The Nameless one sat at a desk, near becoming midnight, writing with a steady hand on a label. It was a new concoction of his design, a merging of two elements. He was eager to try the piece out, perhaps on his next assignment it would prove useful. Sticking the label to the side of a vial filled with inky black liquid, he placed it on the desk in front of him and admired it in the light of the fireplace. He fanned out a small pile of folders in front of him, all filled with details about certain people. He opened the first and scanned over pictures and words, but his eyes soon shifted to a flashing on the wall.

There was a map, of the entire city with every detail lined out from an above view. There was a red flashing light outside the eastern wall of the city. The Nameless One had created a security system to detect movement around the city, and this was no rosin or construct. As careful as he always was, The Nameless One went to investigate, even if it could be an animal. With out a sound, he stepped into the shadows, and vanished.



KABOOOOM!


The Development house and all the houses shook with the sound or a large boom that echoed through the city, waking every Rosin from their night slumber. They soon find the lights do not work when they try to turn them all, all the power is out, and the young ones cries for Nanny go unanswered. Outside they go, to see what had happened, the city only lit by the stars and moon in the sky. Constructs come into view, gathered close by in a small scattering, yet they do not move. The stand motionless like statues, even the bar construct and Nanny stand there staring at nothing.

Next Sparks is found, but not his usual small self. He is seated in a huge motionless mechanoid robot, one that towers over the constructs themselves. The cockpit lies open to the air and he too lays motionless, but alive. Then the final chill in the spine is brought from the sight past the eastern wall in the wilderness. Arrows lie everywhere, nailed into walls and trees like ants across the landscape. A huge circular crater, as deep as a house lies in the middle of them all. The sides look perfectly cut into the earth, and there in the middle sits a hat, The Nameless One's black hat, still smoldering on the ground.



.... What happened to the city?



[The Nameless One]
A door swings back and forth in the breeze, it's one of the houses for the rosin; in fact, it's the first on the block. The path leading up to the house is disheveled, as if something heavy was dragged across it. It seems odd to see that and on closer inspection, the place seems bare. Looking inside, the place is in a shambles, as if someone went ape in the room and pulled everything apart. There had been a struggle of some kind, this you can tell.

The left wall looks odd, there seems to be an outline of some kind, like a large person, had been outlined on the wall. There on the wall itself is traces of a white residue that is sticky to the touch. Also on closer inspection, there appears scratches on the wall, as if who ever might have been there, was grabbed by claws.



[The Nameless One]
Walking by the Bar Construct, it's odd not to see him both out of his area and without an intimidating glare on his face. He seems so lifeless, his arms hanging loosely by his side. It's only then that it is noticeable that BC has a stain on his left hand. On closer inspection, it appears to be blood, dried black blood. BC also looks a little worse for wear, as his stone and metal skin has been scratched up.



[The Nameless One]
On this day a loud crash is heard, almost like a building itself collapsed. Dust forms around the tower, the home of The Nameless One. After it settles, it appears that The largest of all constructs, The Door, has fallen on it's face and leaving the tower open. Inside its as all Rosin remember, the winding staircase up to the wooden door. Swinging open, the door reveals a different room to the one Rosin recall as their first memory. The First, the black onyx construct lays in pieces on the floor, along with rubble under a hole. The pitch-black room is now more illuminated by sunlight coming from the hole in the ceiling, and again from the room above. The holes look big enough for a large human could fit through. Looking through the room of The Nameless One, the place is in a shambles. Papers and files are tossed everywhere, one book in particular has a page ripped out, the book with the title “ Rosin Living Allocations”



[The Nameless One]
The large cubed building where the constructs live, the industrial complex, looks barren and open. Walking inside, its no wonder the power is gone. Two large generators, sitting in the middle of the building are scorched with pieces of it everywhere. It looks a mess, with oil and grease everywhere. Parts have flown over the room, smashing into many things, including a clock with its hands frozen at five past twelve. One particular large patch of oil appears odd. Leading out of the oil are hundreds of dots of oil, scattering over the floor, they continue to lead to a wall and up it, and eventually out a window.



[The Nameless One]
Sparks is not looking well, he's hot with a fever and sweating badly. Sparks' hand does not look well, on the back of his hand appears as if he's been stabbed twice with something sharp and pointy. He tosses and turns in his unconsciousness, always muttering and mumbling. The words he speaks are utter gibberish it seems, but one saying continues to be repeated on and off. "Redird".



[The Nameless One]
Exploring the top room of the tower, there lies the quarters of The Nameless One. Many do not get the opportunity to get here. The room itself is well decorated, but only has small furnishings. A desk, a throne chair, a fireplace and a shimmering pool, carved into the floor. There is rubble on the floor where something big smashed through the ceiling and through the floor. On the desk appears an empty vial, it's contents spilled over the desk and onto 3 folders. Inside the first, details and pictures of a man in a business suit, details about a person and blueprints to a building. All the other information about him is covered in the contents of the vial. The second folder suffered the most damage, leaving hardly anything inside untouched by the black liquid. All that can be seen is the top half of a picture of a silver haired, dark grey skinned female with a crown on her head and fangs. The only words readable in the file are " Sanctuary of Arachne". The third folder contains a map much of which is blotted out in the black liquid, but there is a cave with a cross next to it. There is also half a crude drawing of what looks like a hideous beast.



[The Nameless One]
Outside the city walls, near the hordes of imbedded arrows, on the edge of the crater itself lays two gruesome remnants of something long gone. A strange blood filled insect limb tip of a large size. And a severed arm, now attracting vermin. The arm has clawed fingertips and its skin is a dark gray. Both objects appear as if they were clean cut with something like a laser. In the hand itself is two clenched up photos. Flattening them back out show's the first image is of a black haired young man with long black appendages growing out his back. The young man is circled in a red love heart and the word ”Mine!" on it. The second photo is rather blurred. It is a fuzzy image of a black clothed man with a wide brimmed hat. The man’s image has a big red cross crossed over him and the word “Destroy” next to it.



[The Nameless One]
Again not far from the crater, about a small walk away into the field of arrows, there is found an old and worn parchment. It is curled up a little, as if had been rolled up. Rolling it out it is easy to tell that this parchment is or rather was a magic scroll that stored a spell. The arcane writings have left the paper, but other printings remain. To the top of the parchment lays the words “ Sphere of Ultimate Destruction”. The only other printing rest at the very bottom, it looks like a stamp of sorts with the lettering “S.o.A.”
PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2007 9:16 am


[The Nameless One]
MYSTERY! CHAOS! MADNESS!

The Nameless one sat at a desk, near becoming midnight, writing with a steady hand on a label. It was a new concoction of his design, a merging of two elements. He was eager to try the piece out, perhaps on his next assignment it would prove useful. Sticking the label to the side of a vial filled with inky black liquid, he placed it on the desk in front of him and admired it in the light of the fireplace. He fanned out a small pile of folders in front of him, all filled with details about certain people. He opened the first and scanned over pictures and words, but his eyes soon shifted to a flashing on the wall.

There was a map, of the entire city with every detail lined out from an above view. There was a red flashing light outside the eastern wall of the city. The Nameless One had created a security system to detect movement around the city, and this was no rosin or construct. As careful as he always was, The Nameless One went to investigate, even if it could be an animal. With out a sound, he stepped into the shadows, and vanished.



KABOOOOM!


The Development house and all the houses shook with the sound or a large boom that echoed through the city, waking every Rosin from their night slumber. They soon find the lights do not work when they try to turn them all, all the power is out, and the young ones cries for Nanny go unanswered. Outside they go, to see what had happened, the city only lit by the stars and moon in the sky. Constructs come into view, gathered close by in a small scattering, yet they do not move. The stand motionless like statues, even the bar construct and Nanny stand there staring at nothing.

Next Sparks is found, but not his usual small self. He is seated in a huge motionless mechanoid robot, one that towers over the constructs themselves. The cockpit lies open to the air and he too lays motionless, but alive. Then the final chill in the spine is brought from the sight past the eastern wall in the wilderness. Arrows lie everywhere, nailed into walls and trees like ants across the landscape. A huge circular crater, as deep as a house lies in the middle of them all. The sides look perfectly cut into the earth, and there in the middle sits a hat, The Nameless One's black hat, still smoldering on the ground.



.... What happened to the city?



What happened indeed!? Seems like Toxicity has hit some trouble, but what happened? It's up to the Rosin to find out. Over the next week or so, I will be posting clues up in the guild that the Rosin will happen across dring this event. After the final clue is posted, a questionaire will be posted up in this thread. The first individual to correctly answer the questions at the end will recieve a fully coloured art piece of their Rosin done by Coronviridae!

Some rules to follow:

The event will end on the 8th of May at 11:59pm PST if your answers aren't in by then, they won't be accepted.

You can freely discuss the clues and your theories with other people, the one that gives me the correct answers first though is the winner. Here is a discussion thread for those that wish to group together to solve the mystery.HERE

Remember to follow the prompt, this means that there is no power what so ever, and no NPC's working. Sparks will be taken care of, so don't worry about your Rosin trying to rescue him.

Remember Toxicity touches the world of magic, so think outside the box.


To give you guys a head start, the first clue can be found HERE


Okay, I think I know what the culprit is, but not really any of the other questions.

It's a Drider, I am sure of it.
Clue: House = Sticky white substance - I always thought this might be a sprider web, but at the time I wasn't sure.
Clue: Sparks = bite marks... feverish, sweating, gibberish, thrashing - spider bites leave a mark, and their venom has that kind of effect on people.
Clue: Sparks = "Redird" - it is DRIDER backwards.

Own personal clue = Driders are a D&D creature, and Poisey LOOOOVES D&D!

EchoLimaFoxtrot


AMItotic

Nebulous Trash

PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:04 pm


Personally? I think it's Kyler. Kyler is mentioned to be a special rosin, being the first, and something might have happened with his development. Seeing as how he's Poisey's character, he has the license to be that creative, and it goes along with ELF's theory that a drider has attacked. What is Kyler? A spider rosin.

I don't feel spiffy like ELF with any sort of name changing info, though: Kyler backwards is relyk, which when said around sounds sort of like 'relic', but I like think that's just coincidental. ninja

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EDIT: Even more information suggesting that Kyler is involved:

Quote:
A door swings back and forth in the breeze, it's one of the houses for the rosin; in fact, it's the first on the block. The path leading up to the house is disheveled, as if something heavy was dragged across it. It seems odd to see that and on closer inspection, the place seems bare. Looking inside, the place is in a shambles, as if someone went ape in the room and pulled everything apart. There had been a struggle of some kind, this you can tell.

The left wall looks odd, there seems to be an outline of some kind, like a large person, had been outlined on the wall. There on the wall itself is traces of a white residue that is sticky to the touch. Also on closer inspection, there appears scratches on the wall, as if who ever might have been there, was grabbed by claws.


That clue was from the general housing area, where the teens live. Kyler was the first to become a teen, so it is likely that he lives in the first one. Also note the sticky outline on the wall: the last time Kyler changed, he was encased in a layer of web. It seems like he has changed, perhaps into a drider, in which case I suggest this is what happened:

Kyler changes, waking up with the lower body of a spider. Understandably, he is not all too pleased about this, and rampages around his room, collecting everything he can of his own personal belongings. Seeing as how he is likely clumsy, the path leading up to his house is actually him leaving, possibly having to drag his lower half on account of lack of coordination.

Again, I assume a lot, but, it somewhat makes sense to me. blaugh
PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:54 pm


But then what about TNO attacking him? The powder (which I am kidna assuming is like gun powder?), the oil (which I am also thinking might be egg-sacks? Which might explain the gun powder, don't want hundreds of huge driders/spiders running around), and why would he attack Sparks and the other constructs?

EchoLimaFoxtrot


EchoLimaFoxtrot

PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:08 pm


Okay... I just realized it was "power" not "powder".... I am an idiot.... >.>

I still dunno why the culprit attacked anyone... but I think the "oil" may be the black thing Kyler absorbed when he became a teen (if it's Kyler, yar).
PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:30 am


Oooou.. it does make a little sense it being Kyler, at least as far as all of the tiny footprints.. and I'm sure his bite would pack quite a punch. Poor Sparks. sad

The white residue also might be webbing.


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AMItotic

Nebulous Trash

PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:27 pm


The only thing I can think of is that Kyler has gone insane, tried to escape, and attacked those that tried to get in his way. After all, Sparks was in some sort of mecha, which likely means he was trying to attack or defend something, and maybe he tried to stop the rosin on the Nameless One's orders, and then lost.

I'm still curious as to what the black thing on Kyler's arm actually does, though.
PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:50 pm


The Poison Arrow
Kyler nodded and pet the top of Ivy's hair, it seemed that the young were so innocent and still didn't know everything. For the fishes sake, Kyler thought to explain.

" See the fish is alive, like you, me and Chloe. And we need to eat and breathe, though a fish needs water to breathe in. A fish is an animal and all animals are alive. So your fishy will need you to take care of it... oh and you should give it a name"

Kyler smiled and then blinked as he heard a thunk sound and held onto Chloe as she bounced happily. He grinned and clapped his hands in applause and whistled.

" Wow, good shot Chloe! that's pretty good, nearlly knocked it flying!"

He looked up at her and with a smile held up the last ball.

" Well lets see if we can knock that coconut off hey?"

Kyler put the ball in his gloved hand and felt around it a little. then peering at the ball, he pulled his arm back. Kyler felt a strange tightness in his arm, then thre the balls, what happened nect was amazing. The ball shot like a blur, and there was a small splatter of coconut juice as it exploded from the impact. Kyler blinked and looked down at his glove, the eye he swore, almost winked at him. He looked back at the coconut shine where the coconut use to be, and there was a ball sized hole in the back of the stall. The construct stood in front of Kyler, and Kyler thought he was in some serious trouble. It istead held out two fingers and pointed to the prizes. Kyler looked confused.

" Umm.. I ah.. get two?"

The construct nodded and kyler began to smile a little. He pointed at a blue and a green teddy bear, and held out his hand. When he got them both, he handed the blue one to Chloe and the green one to Ivy.

" There you go girls, this is pretty fun"



(( Just to note, Kyler's gift is in play here, nothing about himself allowed him to do what he did just there.))




So far the only reference to Kyler's special gift

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:15 pm


I think it might have something to do with Kyler but remember, TNO took the tower from someone else... maybe he is back and inresponse he is attacking the rosen (or making it so they go against the rules)
PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:58 pm


Actually, on that, I always thought the mage (the person TNO took the tower from) became the First.

When you think about it - Sparks used to obey him, and he respects the First alot, even calling him master sometimes (it's mentioned... somewhere on the front page, I think) so to me, it would make sense if the mage was somehow twisted into being the first construct. Other clues pointing to that is how much human-shaped and sized the First is in comparison of the other constructs, which strongly hints that he was probably created by different means.

Or I could be way off. I tend to do that. smile

On the event matter however - A drider sounds likely. Kyler is definitively involved, but I am not quite sure how. Being the first Rosin, he is probably a bit more "experimental" than the rest. I do think however that Kyler probably was taken in some way, by something - because of the claw marks on the wall for the second clue.

Kyler was also given a box by TNO, "to open when he becomes mature enough" or something along the lines. I have no idea if it is linked, but it might be worth noteing

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AMItotic

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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:13 am


In regards to the new clue: I'm almost positive that the first photo is Kyler, and the second is the Nameless One. It may be possible that an arachnid-creature from outside the city has found out about Kyler's existence and decided to take him, or perhaps Kyler was originally made by the arachnid creature and is now being taken back...could it be possibly that the idea for the Rosins wasn't originally thought of by the Nameless One?
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:34 pm


Is it just me but I can't find Kyler's journal

Found it...

*ponders some more*

Ohhh another clue... SoA could mean Sanctuary of Arachnia...

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