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Cerulean Scavenger Hunt: Clue #1

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Tuesday • Battle Legend The Creed Posts: 1,602 Trainer Class: Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán OOC Username: Stells Arena Points: 138	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Tuesday on Nov 22, 2022 23:30:11 GMT 9 At the far end of the settlement, where Cerulean Drive meets golden sands, a long-forgotten bottle reveals itself to be the receptacle for one of the greatest kinds of mysteries there can be: a ~~treasure map~~. *"Damn, tutorial must have led us straight to a hidden quest. Cool."* Tuesday exclaims, leaning in to get a better look at the map held by Sarah Lee. It does look somewhat like their nameless settlement, but she also can’t be quite sure. After all, being that there’s buildings constantly under construction, the aerial view often changes quite a lot. What Tuesday does know is this: 1. Hidden quests mean hidden rewards, which can in turn mean rare items. 2. She’s now way too curious about what this map may lead towards. 3. Sarah is right: she would never pass on a challenge like this one. With a decision made, Tuesday smirks, but this confident expression of hers is soon darkened by frowning. "Wait, there’s no “X marks the spot” or anything. This map is so confusing… maybe stand in the direction it's oriented towards?" Is that her T.E.A Shop on there? And the Professor’s labs? Well, that’d make sense… This is Cerulean Street, after all.
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Sarah Lee • Soldier, Poet, King The Creed Posts: 446 Trainer Class: Player Name: Barack Orama OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 40	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sarah Lee on Nov 22, 2022 23:49:06 GMT 9 "I can't read this at all!" Sarah complained, turning the map instead of herself as Tuesday had suggested. "This paper looks like it's from a hundred years ago. Just look at the weathering around the edges. So why is it so geographically correct? Isn't half of this settlement new? Look! I can see your shop! Didn't that just go up last month?" Whether the results of quest clues that were programmed to self-update, or the efforts of very dedicated LARPers, the map seemed to be almost scarily correct. Sarah looked over it in greater detail, spotting the unmistakable circular form of the Mime Circus near the outskirts of town. With nothing further revealing itself, she tried Tuesday's suggestion and oriented herself with the map. Immediately, one of the lines of scrabbled text became clearer. I have memories, but none of my own, whatever's on my inside is what is shown. Damn. I wish I'd listened to grandma when she tried to explain cryptic crosswords to me. No I've got this. "Memories. What has memory. Elephants? Water? Computers? Do we need to call QUA-" she stopped herself. No. They didn't need to call anyone to solve this. Certainly not someone who would just slow them down. That damn bird would probably just force them to do a 'map tutorial' or give them recipes for maple cake.

Cerulean Scavenger Hunt: Clue #1 Posted Nov 22, 2022 23:49:06 GMT 9 Edited by Sarah Lee Nov 22, 2022 23:50:31 GMT 9

Tuesday • Battle Legend The Creed Posts: 1,602 Trainer Class: Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán OOC Username: Stells Arena Points: 138	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Tuesday on Nov 23, 2022 0:20:04 GMT 9 "Imagine if it actually wanted us to gut an elephant. That’d be pretty fucking brutal." Tuesday doesn’t sound particularly against the idea, but are there even any elephant pokémon to begin with? There must be, right? Somewhere in Mars’ wrinkly tech mogul brain there’s a core memory of a ‘Who’s That Pokémon’ silhouette that kinda sorta looked like a pachyderm. Arms crossed over her chest, Tuesday sighs as she starts walking back into the settlement through Cerulean Lane. The clue is given careful consideration, her musing being spoken out loud while mismatched eyes scan the all-too-familiar surroundings. "Let’s see… Memories that aren’t theirs and what’s inside. Sounds like a USB to me, but I doubt a map would lead to that. Is there some sort of… Asper Public Record? Maybe at the county jail? Oh! What about a library?" Is there one of those? Honestly, she hadn’t really been keeping up with all the settlement development going on lately…
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Sarah Lee • Soldier, Poet, King The Creed Posts: 446 Trainer Class: Player Name: Barack Orama OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 40	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sarah Lee on Nov 23, 2022 0:55:36 GMT 9 "Tuesday, you are as smart as you are powerful," Sarah said, and they headed up Cerulean Lane towards the only library in town: the one inside Finnegan Fjord's Church of the Ceaseless Downpour. Only they never got there. Barely six minutes walk from the beach, where the lane split into Upper and Lower Cerulean Lane, Sarah spotted something unusual: a flyer. It was stuck to one of the gothic streetlamps with some sort of black glue, but she pulled it off to inspect it further. "Oh. Oh Tuesday this is great. I think we may be able to skip Church after all," she said, for perhaps the hundredth time in her life. She raced off before Tuesday could see the flyer, and was glad they didn't have to take the usual route to the church, which was honestly rather tiring. Another ten minutes of walking up Upper Cerulean, then under the bridge, through the community herb garden, and past the Pitch Black Fountain and Trusty Steed Watering Hole? No thank you! Instead, Sarah followed the instructions on the flyer and headed down Lower Cerulean. Before they reached the end of the cul-de-sac and reconnected with Upper Cerulean, Sarah spotted their destination: The local art gallery. "They have a special exhibit this month," Sarah said, handing Tuesday the flyer, "historical photographs of the city. Can you believe it?" She turned to look at her partner in crime, eyes kindled with excitement. "What are the chances?"

Cerulean Scavenger Hunt: Clue #1 Posted Nov 23, 2022 0:55:36 GMT 9 Edited by Sarah Lee Nov 23, 2022 1:02:33 GMT 9

Tuesday • Battle Legend The Creed Posts: 1,602 Trainer Class: Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán OOC Username: Stells Arena Points: 138	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Tuesday on Nov 23, 2022 1:27:44 GMT 9 When Tuesday had spoken the word library, she had failed to take into account the fact that the only library in town is all the way up in the Church of the Ceaseless downpour. Upon realising this, there is a heavy sigh. Now, don’t get her wrong, Tuesday loves and adores Finnegan Fjord, they had been friends since long before UNOVR and she had joined his cult because she had thought the idea to be too hilarious to pass up. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a damn tedious walk to the church from where they are. "When I go there I usually take the shortcut through OLD CERULEAN BRIDGE, but that’s all the way across town…" She finds herself saying just as Sarah Lee draws her attention to an all-too-gothic lamppost and the flyer stuck to it. Pious women they do not make, and their plans quickly take a turn… away from the church. Instead, it’s before another magnificent building that they soon stand, gilded letters naming it: GALLERY OF THE ENDLESS MEMOIRE "Oh I like where this is going… Maybe there’s another clue inside? Doesn’t look like the quest ends here." Confident as ever, Tuesday steps into the building with no hesitation at all, yet the name of the gallery should have been warning enough: monochromatic paintings in all shades of grey surround her once she steps inside, depicting portraits of cowboys, ladies in long black dresses, and even some that long strikingly like certain notorious people… "...Is that Cygnus?" The halls of the gallery seem to go on and on and on, filled with an endless supply of memories for all those who visit to witness. There are stunning depictions of scenes from the past: the events that shaped the Asper region, perhaps. "This is the weirdest art gallery I’ve ever been to."
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Sarah Lee • Soldier, Poet, King The Creed Posts: 446 Trainer Class: Player Name: Barack Orama OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 40	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sarah Lee on Nov 26, 2022 11:37:34 GMT 9 The GALLERY OF THE ENDLESS MEMOIRE was filled with nostalgia, but not Sarah's. Someone else's. It was a bundle of history, ensconced in sepia, and swaddled in the rose-tinted cashmere of days long past. The walls of the gallery were a little too far apart, giving a sense of distance, isolation, and travel to the exhibit. She perused the monochromatic works, marveling at the apparently rustic recreation of the current city. Was this some developer's AU? Some version of the settlement set in the past? Had the people in these paintings posed or been recreated in this new setting. "I've been to much stranger," Sarah said, recalling the 'Feast for the Scents' 100% olfactory experience that he and Michelle had attended in New York many years back, "though the ambience is certainly a bit off." Usually, art museums had a quiet, pensive atmosphere, but the feeling here was one of charged excitement, as if something was meant to happen and was waiting for the right trigger. It set Sarah on edge, and she found herself walking faster between the paintings, willing them to reveal their secrets. She pulled up short at a (surprise, surprise) black and white painting. It was a series of lines and boxes, scattered around a landscape frame. "Huh. That looks...familiar." She took a step back, taking in the painting as a whole, and realized she'd seen it before. In fact. It was in her hand. She held up the map, and could see through the faded paper that the outlines of the city and the houses lined up perfectly with the painting. "Tuesday!" Sarah gasped, as a second line of text began to form at the bottom of the map. "I think we just got our next clue!"

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