Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 8:49:56 GMT
HELP rescue boat INSPECT boat and boatman
HELP The rules: Anyone can contribute any idea on what to do next. After an indeterminate amount of time, I will decide it's time to proceed and whichever has the most likes from other forum users shall be the chosen course for our hero. In the case of a tie, I'll use best judgement based on theme of differing posts or whichever was posted first.
Basic commands: LOOK [ X ] - Look at your surroundings or a specific thing TAKE X - Add item X to your inventory USE X - Use item within local area or inventory USE X ON Y - As above, but with another item INVENTORY - Display contents of your inventory LOAD X - Load state from the conclusion of a previous chapter progress index RESTART - Return to the first part of the current chapter
Other commands are available as required. The boat is relatively small, but in good condition. It's powered by an outboard motor, seating enough for 3 or 4 people you'd guess. It's currently a good distance away from the land, drifting wistfully further out into open water. There's a small antenna coming out of the bridge.
The man is not what you would consider to have a smart appearance, if anything you'd say he looked shabby. Definitely out of place for the inner city. He wears a hat with various emblem embroidered into it. He's currently tied up to the jetty.
Inventory: | Key card, note, Black Mexican Prowl, poncho, sombrero, hacking device, McDowell's toy, juggling balls | Cash: | SP0, PT0 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | Lakeside | Connected Locations (1/2): | City plaza | Uninvestigated POI: | 1 |
Current Score: 69/250
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 8:59:11 GMT
The man is not what you would consider to have a smart appearance, if anything you'd say he looked shabby. Definitely out of place for the inner city. He wears a hat with various emblem embroidered into it. He's currently tied up to the jetty. He looks like a criminal to me. Lucky that we didn't listen to Pinwig and run around rescuing all the criminals! Also why is he tied up to Jetty? Is Jetty a policeman? Jetty, get in this thread and tell us!
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 9:11:05 GMT
The antenna makes it sound like we need a radio control to bring this back in. I bet if we swim out to it we get eaten by sharks. The only thing we've got like that is the hacking device, but I think that is for use elsewhere. However, process of elimination.
USE hacking device to pilot boat to shore.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 9:15:30 GMT
The emblems on the guy's hat might tell us more about him.
LOOK at hat emblems.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 22, 2019 9:29:18 GMT
The man is not what you would consider to have a smart appearance, if anything you'd say he looked shabby. Definitely out of place for the inner city. He wears a hat with various emblem embroidered into it. He's currently tied up to the jetty. He looks like a criminal to me. Lucky that we didn't listen to Pinwig and run around rescuing all the criminals! Also why is he tied up to Jetty? Is Jetty a policeman? Jetty, get in this thread and tell us! I always suspected there was something fishy about that Texan...
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 11:22:34 GMT
USE hacking device to pilot boat to shore. You take the hacking device out and flip out the screen. Twiddling the knobs you manage to align the waveforms. The screen updates to show various controls mimicking that of a boat. You touch the screen accordingly, the boat's engine starts up and it moves through the water under your control. It's difficult to pilot, but you seem to have managed it. The boat juts up against the jetty suffering minimal scrapes.Lots of different ones in varying sizes, there's a small one that you recognise however. It's that crested face again!
Inventory: | Key card, note, Black Mexican Prowl, poncho, sombrero, hacking device, McDowell's toy, juggling balls | Cash: | SP0, PT0 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | Lakeside | Connected Locations (1/2): | City plaza | Uninvestigated POI: | 1 |
Current Score: 69/250
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:00:17 GMT
Result!!
So we've rescued the boat, and confirmed that we are NOT kicking a fellow Prowl fanatic in the face! This is why he'll have been tied up, he's been assaulted by those devilish Starscream disciples - the same ones who wrecked the shrine in the Multichurch!
UNTIE Boatman.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 22, 2019 12:04:11 GMT
Yes UNTIE Boatman! AND RAISE THE CHURCH OF STARSCREAM TO THE GROUND!!!
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 12:29:12 GMT
Oh, I thought he was tied up on account of clever wordplay, but sure, we can retcon in the Starscream fanatics.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:36:35 GMT
Oh right, you're telling me
"Someone tied me up! Please help me! Help me stop my boat before it drifts away!"
Was because of the joke Martin made about the Boatsman being moored up and not his boat? So he wasn't actually tied up at all?
Is that why we went from
There's a jetty overhanging the water. A boatsman is moored up.
to the boat suddenly drifting away in the next description?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:38:20 GMT
IF (boatman==tied up) { UNTIE boatman } SAY to boatman, "Are you alright chum? I got your boat back."
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 12:47:07 GMT
SAY to boatsman "And when I say 'I got your boat back' I meant MY boat now."
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:49:15 GMT
NO WE DO NOT.
Y'know, if I didn't know Blueshift was this kind, caring guy who makes fanzines and toys for people and spends huge amounts of time raising money for charity, I'd say he was deliberately here to try and derail us. Yes, he's one of the Starscream fanatics.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 12:53:43 GMT
NO WE DO NOT. Y'know, if I didn't know Blueshift was this kind, caring guy who makes fanzines and toys for people and spends huge amounts of time raising money for charity, I'd say he was deliberately here to try and derail us. Yes, he's one of the Starscream fanatics. Look Pinwig, I am the #1 Tetris player, you don't get to the top by leaving behind boats. If this Boatman was a true ally of Prowl he would be eager to give us his boat in order to use it to save the world.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:55:23 GMT
How about we work *with* him to get him to guide us to the connected location we haven't yet found using the boat? That seems to make more sense to me that trying to rub everyone up the wrong way.
And how does Tetris help?
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 12:57:09 GMT
I will use my skills later in the game, you will see.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 12:58:25 GMT
Maybe in the MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD.
Can you play Tetris telepathically?
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 13:00:03 GMT
Maybe in the MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD. Can you play Tetris telepathically? ...I bet you can!
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 13:57:37 GMT
UNTIE boatman SAY to boatman, "Are you alright chum? I got your boat back." SAY to boatsman "And when I say 'I got your boat back' I meant MY boat now." As he wrings his wrists from where the rope had secured him, he looks at you relieved.
"Thanks for the help!"
He reaches over to the bow of the boat, grabs a rope and moors it.
"You're a funny guy, too. Not sure what you want in exchange for the assist, but it's not gonna be my boat! I doubt you'd be able to navigate this lake anyway, lots of danger out there on these waters.
"Fancy bit of kit you have there by the way. What are you, follower of the Technolord or something?
"Phorniyn tooseben secksd toozewo secksphree secksate sebenfyfe sebentoo secksphree secksate toozewo secksf seckssecks toozewo fyfezewo sebentoo secksf sebenseben secksc toozewo secksd sebenniyn sebenphree secksfyfe secksc seckssecks toowon
"But we gotta be careful, don't we!"
Inventory: | Key card, note, Black Mexican Prowl, poncho, sombrero, hacking device, McDowell's toy, juggling balls | Cash: | SP0, PT0 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | Lakeside | Connected Locations (1/2): | City plaza | Uninvestigated POI: | 1 |
Current Score: 69/250
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:11:09 GMT
AH! Missed that last time round. Gotcha Stom!
The church of Prowl talk to each other in Hexidecimal.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:11:42 GMT
Phorniyn tooseben secksd toozewo secksphree secksate sebenfyfe sebentoo secksphree secksate toozewo secksf seckssecks toozewo fyfezewo sebentoo secksf sebenseben secksc toozewo secksd sebenniyn sebenphree secksfyfe secksc seckssecks toowon
in English is
"I'm church of Prowl myself!"
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:18:02 GMT
And when the priest of the Technlord spoke to us in the church, he said
"This man is clearly an idiot. What shall I give him oh Technolord?"
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:22:39 GMT
EXAMINE Jetty SAY to Boatman, "fyfewon sebenfyfe secksniyn sebenphor secksfyfe toozewo sebentoo secksniyn secksseben secksate sevenphor toowon. Dangerous waters you say; that sounds like certain death for me if I tried to swim or cross this water by myself. So in return for freeing you from the mysterious assailants you didn't know had tied you up, how about you take me out yonder into the water to any interesting connected locations you might know of?"
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:26:52 GMT
3 POI here; one was the man and the second the boat. Hence random inspection commands to try and work out the third.
EXAMINE Shoreline
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 14:30:52 GMT
Oh ffs. Now i gotta translate my own code. I didn't think this through.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:41:58 GMT
HA!
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2019 14:43:10 GMT
Good job I made it short. I wondered if you had some online translator that was making the language for you. That first one must have taken ages to type out!
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 14:50:24 GMT
EXAMINE Jetty SAY to Boatman, "fyfewon sebenfyfe secksniyn sebenphor secksfyfe toozewo sebentoo secksniyn secksseben secksate sevenphor toowon. Dangerous waters you say; that sounds like certain death for me if I tried to swim or cross this water by myself. So in return for freeing you from the mysterious assailants you didn't know had tied you up, how about you take me out yonder into the water to any interesting connected locations you might know of?" The jetty is just that, a series of planks connected together, extending from the path out over the water to provide a place such that people can easily tie up their boats and alight or board.
You speak to the man and he answers back. "Look, I thank you for your help with the boat, but there's really nothing I can do to help you. Things are a little, well, dangerous around here for folks like me and I can't really risk going alone on a boat with you, can I?
"I can tell you what though; on the other side of the lake is just more of the city, but there's not really an easy place to to set you down. Lot of money over there and I can't afford the harbour charges. There's a drop off for the spaceport though"You look around the shoreline of the lake, in the distance you can see further parts of the city, affluent and inviting. Further along you can see spaceships great and small coming in to land and leaving from the spaceport.
Location Discovered: Spaceport (+1 point)
Inventory: | Key card, note, Black Mexican Prowl, poncho, sombrero, hacking device, McDowell's toy, juggling balls | Cash: | SP0, PT0 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | Lakeside | Connected Locations (2/2): | City plaza, Spaceport | Uninvestigated POI: | 0 |
Current Score: 70/250
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 22, 2019 14:53:15 GMT
The church of Prowl talk to each other in Hexidecimal. You mean the Technochurch, not Church of Prowl, right? This guy is just well read and educated it seems.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2019 14:53:27 GMT
SAY I need some token item from you good sir, to prove my valour and enable my quest of righteousness HOLD out hand
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