You wake up one morning...

[zakk]

You wake up one morning, and immediately look over at the letter on your bedside table.

It reads:

Dear

[redacted]

:
You have been chosen to assemble the most powerful thing in the world - the

[redacted]

serum. It is composed of

[redacted]

clues. Your task: Decode the clues, and then assemble them. Good luck!

P.S. If you cop out, we'll know. And you'll regret it.

The Riddle:

I am the color of first.
I am always good – I'll never be a brat.
I am made by number 2.
I am an expression of a deer mint.
What am I?

[Majiffy]

Ooh a clue a clue

[Annadog40]

first color was

white/blue since that is the hottest color which the big bang was really warm so that is a white color.

[zakk]

first color was

white/blue since that is the hottest color which the big bang was really warm so that is a white color.

Good guess, but the clue has to match all parts of the riddle!

[Nexus]

Gold
Doesn't go off
Bee
Term of endearment

Honey, honey.

[zakk]

Gold
Doesn't go off
Bee
Term of endearment

Honey, honey.

After submitting your answer in the email, you wait eagerly, on the edge of your seat.

After about five minutes, your response comes back. It says:

Wonderful. You have completed your first task. You have earned the right to continue. Please go to

[redacted]

to continue.

You jump out of your seat, grab a few sandwiches and a bottle of water (always think ahead!), stuff 'em in a backpack with some paper/pencils, and hop in the car.

After about ten minutes, you arrive at your destination. As you climb out of the car, you remark, "This looks like an abandoned factory. Not much like a place you would expect the

[redacted]

serum to be made."

As if in response to your comment, the floor starts to rise up. As you step back in amazement, you notice the screen and keypad underneath.

You cautiously approach. The screen reads:

Welcome. To continue, please enter the second clue. This is not a game. You have only one try. There is no way out.

After you read that, you jump back in alarm, and look around. While you were reading, the floor had folded back again, and now you are trapped.

Since you don't know what else to do, you go look at the screen again.

This is a cipher. You should solve it with relative ease - don't mind the length.

At that, you look at the keyboard. There is another screen above it, with text boxes - a space for one character in each. There were eight boxes. Then you look at the cipher.

Spoiler:

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You scratch your head with your pencil and get to work.

[Papa Zito]

Moved to MishMash.

[zakk]

Great, now nobody will see it.

[JDGA]

puh-leeze
If you just turn Speakeasy into MishMash that ruins the point of both subfora
And I only saw it now so hmph

[Annadog40]

This was in general disc.

[zakk]

Welp, moving this to Mish Mash has clearly failed... move it back now? Thanks fam.