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Post by RielCZ on Apr 24, 2020 3:30:07 GMT -5
Lizica, that comment was amazing, and everyone's character art posts have been looking super cool!
Though Ginz, when you said she had pink hair, I had admittedly headcannoned Sherrie to have the same hairstyle as Harriet from Animal Crossing.
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Post by Celestial on Apr 24, 2020 14:39:30 GMT -5
Since I don't really feel like making this an IC post, I believe I have found everything except the last keyhole. xD Okay, so there are three keyholes I've located (excluding the one in the lock):
1) On the roof
2) In the birches
3) In the bushes in the front garden.
But I cannot locate the last one?? |
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Post by Lizica on Apr 24, 2020 15:12:46 GMT -5
Since I don't really feel like making this an IC post, I believe I have found everything except the last keyhole. xD Okay, so there are three keyholes I've located (excluding the one in the lock):
1) On the roof
2) In the birches
3) In the bushes in the front garden.
But I cannot locate the last one?? Ah, sorry! xD This might be a letdown, but the last keyhole IS the one in the lock. It counts in the same way as the big gem window! Not all of the bonuses were covered up by the glamour. (Sorry if that wasn't really clear, though. D=) ...Which means you've found all the keyholes, though? \ o / |
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Post by Pixie on Apr 25, 2020 16:38:31 GMT -5
Everything has been found except one hidden gem, so we can move forward if all are ready. There is no time skip or change in location with the next puzzle. How is everyone feeling about moving on?
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 25, 2020 16:43:21 GMT -5
I know where the last gem is; should I just say it? I've already pointed out a few, so I hesitate.
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Post by Lizica on Apr 25, 2020 17:39:42 GMT -5
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 25, 2020 17:47:04 GMT -5
Cool; thank you! =D (And apologies to anyone who wanted to point this out.) The last gem is in the downstairs window to the left of the door, situated on the upper pane in the lower right corner. |
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Post by June Scarlet on Apr 25, 2020 19:32:20 GMT -5
Oh, I love Encyclopedia Brown! One time, for a mystery themed costume party, I carried around a brown encyclopedia. No one figured out who I was. It was great. Anyway, I think I have the start of an idea of what to look for, but I'll spoiler it, because these types of puzzles are fun to solve for yourself. Though I haven't got the idea fully fleshed out. I think it might be the flowers. I noticed that there's "brilliant blue hydrangeas," which feels like a clue because I'm pretty sure that's the flower that changes color based on the acidity of the soil. You can either take what comes naturally, or add acid or base to make the colors you want.
Meanwhile, there's "dark purple irises," and I wonder if irises have a similar thing about color, and I don't know about it.
I'm not a gardening expert, I need to look this stuff up. But I'll throw this out there in case someone else is! |
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 25, 2020 23:18:34 GMT -5
Ooh, these! ...I've never done many of these, and the one I did, I never fully managed to solve. xD I have some ideas, but nothing solid at this point. Just in case though, I'll spoiler it, because it's more fun this way if someone wants to try to guess from a clean slate. The first thing that struck me is that the being kept saying "we", before saying that the lady of the house isn't home. But then that could be nothing; two people calling a place their home without someone present would probably still use the word "our."
The other thing is that despite the lady of the house being gone and the others being sentient objects of sorts, they still managed to keep an illusion up. Unless it was one of those that could stay.
But perhaps June is right, and it has to do with the flora. Love the flamingo art, by the way. ^^ (And all the others!) That is one annoyed flamingo. xD |
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Post by PFA on Apr 26, 2020 0:49:47 GMT -5
Okay, so idk if it's relevant to the current puzzle, but there's something interesting that I've been noticing: Each of the puzzles so far have contained hidden numbers.  The top one is from Huntress's puzzle piece, the middle two are from the spot the differences puzzle (the right one was pointed out by Celestial), and the bottom one is on the recent image of the flamingo and plant. |
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Post by Liou on Apr 26, 2020 6:22:26 GMT -5
Oh oh oh!!! I have no idea what enclyclopedia y'all are talking about and it probably never existed in my region, but! I think what June Scarlet mentioned is important, with the added detail of: the limestone dust!
As June said, the hydrangeas are blue, and have this super fun property of changing colour according to the pH of the soil.
In alkaline soil, they are pink.
In acid soil, they are blue.
Limestone would have made the soil more alkaline.
If no one had been there to clean up the limestone dust, the hydrangeas could have turned pink.
But the hydrangeas are blue.
Therefore, someone stayed behind to clean up the limestone.
... I mean the lady could also have cleaned up the limestone and left right after, so this would only work if there were more limestone dust storms after she left. xD
(This is like, the only botanical fact I know xD) (This is actually something that my character could mention regardless of its relevance to the puzzle, maybe I could put it in a post if that's ok?) |
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Post by June Scarlet on Apr 26, 2020 12:18:06 GMT -5
Liou Oh! Encyclopedia Brown is the name of the main character of the series, or rather, his nickname. See his real name is Leroy Brown (I had to look that up), but he's so smart on such a range of subjects that he was given the nickname Encyclopedia, because he's like a walking encyclopedia. Anyway, you raise a very good point in your spoiler. I didn't know about limestone being a gardening alkaline. But that makes sense to me, partly because of the way the post was written. I could tell the flowers were important partly just because it was a detail that didn't have to be there, with these sorts of puzzles, you have to question innocent details like that. I also thought that the weather section had a lot of details like that too, but dismissed it because I didn't know about limestone. Anyway, I could see doing a collab post together, if you want. Which is actually a rhetorical question at this point, as I've already contacted you about it.
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 26, 2020 18:25:46 GMT -5
Nice work, June and Liou! *High fives!* =D So, we have three things to get! From what I could gather so far, the hints allude to... 1. A magic focus/instrument 2. Something relevant to a chatterbox fairy regarding the cheese wheel incident; a lot of words were mentioned 3. A wooden spoon that has not fallen from the sky even though that would be a very efficient way to get one!(Though this is probably not it, now I keep wondering if there is a weather instrument in this world that's measuring some sort of magic. Like a Glamometer. But then (depending) it might end up explaining some of the unexplainable weather. xD ) The only one I have an idea on is regarding the second item... Words words words... like a dictionary? ((By the way, these are really fun. Thank you for putting this together!)) |
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Post by Pixie on Apr 26, 2020 20:34:23 GMT -5
It would be very easy to think that we invented a plant with leaves resembling human lips as part of this game's surrealism. But this organism is very much real! Psychotria elata -- The Hotlips Plant |
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Post by June Scarlet on Apr 26, 2020 21:33:34 GMT -5
Hm... feeling kind of tired tonight, so I'll just point out a few details that may or may not be important. - These objects are all in the yard.
- "The hotlips plant sputtered 'Ffffff--,'", which might be for Flamingo, or could be the first letter of one of the objects.
- "That fairy talked a whole lot about nothing," Could nothing be an object? Literally talking about nothing? Like air or something?
Feel a bit less confident in this puzzle. Tempted to start brute forcing and naming random objects to the Garden Guardians. For example, a magic focus/magic instrument could be anything from a crystal to a flute. For some reason, I'm thinking wand, but I have no real evidence to back it up. Hence the brute force idea.
A spoon, though, that seems pretty possible, Gelquie, because they did say they could use another one.
Also debating how deep to look into this post. For example, you can start looking for hidden messages, secret codes, picking out all the words in italics, picking out the first letter in each newline and forming a word. Just all sorts of things you could try. However, I don't feel we're there, at least not yet. Maybe for a culmination, when we go back through all the previously given clues and find hidden numbers and figure out why the puzzle had all these different colors. Speaking of colors, I had the thought that you could convert each color to its hexcode, and then... do something with that... not a fully fleshed out idea, and feels too complicated.
Anyway, the point is, it's very possible to overthink this, but I don't feel like we really need to. |
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