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Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
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'Orange' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Oranges' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 52
'Apple' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Apples' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 23
'Banana' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Bananas' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 72
Plus, if you guys want to make a point, skip the walls, because everyone else in the game does as well. - Magister Ludi
In post 378, Empking wrote:72
'Orange' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Oranges' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*11 -1 = 52
'Apple' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Apples' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*11 -1 = 23
'Banana' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Bananas' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*11 -1 = 72
what
(also I made the obvious simplification)
Fickle, cold and harsh or caring and warm
Strongly opinionated or barely invested, but a constant
You know the wind will always come back.
In post 378, Empking wrote:72
'Orange' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Oranges' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 52
'Apple' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Apples' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 23
'Banana' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Bananas' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 72
Impressive.
I want to go up and get equipped, but I don't want to be away from the riddle that long. Decisions, decisions.
In post 378, Empking wrote:72
'Orange' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Oranges' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 52
'Apple' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Apples' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 23
'Banana' as binary with vowels coded as 1 + 'Bananas' as binary with vowels coded as 0 - the number of vowels*10-the number of vowels -1 = 72
Impressive.
I want to go up and get equipped, but I don't want to be away from the riddle that long. Decisions, decisions.
Agree its impressive, but doesn't seem likely to be the answer. I do think there is some kind of each letter is a number type think, but I haven't had time to sit down and try things.
I did this a while ago, but it came up a dud so I didn't bother posting it. Z=1 is even higher in both cases. Taking the numbers and adding the digits yields apple=23, but then orange=33, so still no dice. There could be some other key, but I can't tell what it is right now, so I'm just waiting to see if Empking is right somehow.
Never be sorry for your little time.
It's not when you get there, it's always the climb.
Sorry I've been gone for the last few days. If you read my blog (which, let's face it, nobody does), you'd know that I've been going through some seriously harsh times as of late, particularly over last weekend. In that case, basically two all-nighters in a row doing nothing but studying to so much as keep my job. I joke all the time that I'm paid to sit around and do nothing, but truth is, getting a recert is absolutely BRUTAL, taxing both physically *and* mentally.
Good news is, won't have to do it for another two years; I passed. Bad news is, I've been left in a position where I practically siteflaked, albeit over a short timeframe, and it's going to take me quite a while to do "damage control", so to speak, on what my absence caused.
(14 PMs. FOURTEEN. Still sorting through them!)
Soyeah, that's why I haven't been updating the game. I'd say I'll be active from now-on, but...well...
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, things're going to get worse activity-wise for this game.
One of my uncles died recently, and while I'm not emotionally compromised (the only feeling I feel is sadness for not feeling anything I SHOULD feel), and I'm not flying to Michigan for the funeral (I live in Washington), so I'm not V/LA in any definitive terms, but my mom IS attending, and her departure WILL affect my availability, so sorry that I'm going to be a bit compromised.
Furthermore, I'm still on a sitewide level dealing with the fallout from last week, as you mighta guessed by it taking me so long to get here. I'll do what I can, though. (Hey, I DID say I'm going through a rough patch.) Don't worry; the game WILL continue, as my prior promise to announce any game abandonment still holds; I will not abandon the game without telling you.
It is a small village. It has a population housing around fifty, primarily farmers. There is a well in the center of the town. There is a blacksmith, for forging equipment. There is a weapons shop. There is an armor shop. There is an equipment shop. There is the village elder's hut. There are seventeen houses spread across the village. There is a path leading to the cliffs, directly to your left. There is a path leading to a cave directly ahead of you. To the right, the plains continue, uphill: not a very defendable village, but viable with proper preparations.
There are three dead guards on the floor. The room contains various documents: pieces of paper, maps, logs, journals, and such. It would appear that this is the location where all the important happenings of things were accounted for and stored.
Examine and search the room. If this is the map room, look for maps and information regarding people of interest, quests and information of the castle we're in.
You discover a map detailing the known locations to the guards of this castle.
It details that in the outside world to the northwest (emphasis west), there is the village. Continuing northwest, there is a cave, marked as the "Cave of Power". It is located inside an impassible mountain, thus, ending the map in that direction. To the southwest, there is the Cliffs of Doom. An ocean lies to the southeast, ending the map in that direction. The only way to progress is through the plains, which are marked on the map as "not our duty to be concerned about", the lazy bastards. (What can you expect? They are only guards. If they were adventurers, they would not be guards, now, would they?)
Your current location on the map is marked as being "The Castle", which has built into it "Tower of Skies". You also note that the moat is on the castle map.
You find a second map detailing the layout of the castle. It shows that heading down, there is the "Dungeon of Mysteries". The first level is marked as "prison cells". The levels below that are marked with a question mark, with an annotation, "Our ancestors left clues, but we're not smart enough to figure them out." They ARE guards, you know. Above that, going into the Tower of Skies, there is a watchpost, a shop, and an exclamation mark shown. The exclamation mark has a note to "refer to logs".
Deciding this might be a good opportunity to read, you take up a journal.
And then it all comes rushing back to you.
All the memories flood over you, about who you once were. All of you were commanders, generals to a great dark evil warlord, set on world domination. He accumulated so much strength and power that none could defeat him. Then, he decided simply conquering the world was not enough; he would ascend to become a god. Already having vast powers, all he needed was a little bit more. And being an evil warlord, he had absolutely no qualms with sacrificing his own men. In a dark ritual he had you perform, a third of his army was killed, a third of his army was sacrificed, and the final third killed themselves. To complete the ritual, he drained all of his lieutenants--YOU!--of everything they had, power, memories, all but the psychic link connecting you, and wiping you to clean slates, he accomplished his goal in ascending to godhood.
And now knowing where you come from, a strong urge to follow in his footsteps has emerged......
In post 387, mastin2 wrote:You discover a map detailing the known locations to the guards of this castle.
Examine the map so I can locate the other guards of the castle and possible a stable.
I'll also wait around to see what loot I gain and try to form a party. Haven't decided if I want to climb the Tower of the Skies or just raze the nearby village.
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Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
