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Post by Wilf on Aug 28, 2019 6:22:30 GMT
Would love to see the actual working, 'cos I don't have the AFF book, either.
And as I didn't get the answer (and don't have any new puzzles in waiting) I don't think I should set the next one. I may have helped set up the goal, but schlendrian scored it.
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 28, 2019 10:25:26 GMT
Well, there isn't much deductive reasoning involved at all (just fyi - I don't own any of the secondary works, so I just used Titannica): I used wilfs conviction, that Gordo was somewhere in Winding street and then just went through the places there. The entry on Baraban's house in Titannica list's that he is a good duellant and that his house is in a small alley going off from Winding Street, which fitted the description of the last paragraph.
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 28, 2019 12:47:00 GMT
Alright then, a hard one (or so I think). Continue this sequence:
60, 56, 111, 98,...
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 29, 2019 12:15:41 GMT
24 hours elapse, hint one: The sequence for the original (Puffin) run of the series would look like this: -57, -20, 40, 60 with no more numbers in it.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 29, 2019 13:47:13 GMT
So the numbers are not the total number of paragraphs in a Luke Sharp book with an instant death in them? Ok... will think on...
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 29, 2019 14:24:16 GMT
No Sharp book qualifying for the sequence at all
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Post by a moderator on Aug 29, 2019 14:55:43 GMT
400, 40, 7, -57, -20, 115 It's the number by which each FF book that doesn't have 400 sections differs from 400. This puzzle is based on the first Wizard range.
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 29, 2019 16:18:09 GMT
Excellent, greenspine!
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Post by a moderator on Aug 29, 2019 18:32:25 GMT
Back to Sid's...
The door opens into a small room containing a table, on which is a cardboard box. Written on the lid of the box is the message, "Put the bookmarks in the appropriate books."
Inside the box you find the books - four green-spined Puffins - and the bookmarks, each of which has written on it the title of a Fighting Fantasy gamebook. However, none of the titles on the bookmarks correspond to any of the gamebooks in the box.
The books are Scorpion Swamp, Appointment with F.E.A.R., Crypt of the Sorcerer and The Keep of the Lich-Lord.
The titles on the bookmarks are The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon and Sword of the Samurai.
Which bookmark goes in which book?
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Post by daredevil123 on Aug 29, 2019 18:59:25 GMT
Given that you specified the books are Puffins, I think it must have something to do with the numbering... but I can't work out any more than that. Or maybe it's to do with the cover illustrators.
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Post by kieran on Aug 29, 2019 19:01:19 GMT
The books have references to the bookmarks in them:
Warlock goes into Appointment with FEAR (you can buy a copy of it in that book)
Deathtrap Dungeon goes into Scorpion Swamp (you can pretend to be scouting for monsters there for the Dungeon)
City of Thieves goes into Crypt of the Sorcerer (Borri tells a story about buying a hammer in Blacksand)
Sword of the Samurai goes into Keep (There's an inn of that name)
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Post by daredevil123 on Aug 29, 2019 19:08:15 GMT
Damn, I thought I was onto something...
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Post by a moderator on Aug 29, 2019 19:30:25 GMT
That's pretty much it, Kieran. The titles on the bookmarks are all mentioned within the gamebooks: in Crypt Ungoth refers to port Blacksand as 'a city of thieves'.
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Post by kieran on Aug 29, 2019 19:46:50 GMT
Ah, been so long since I've gotten that far in Crypt that I forgot that bit!
To continue the journey through Sid's abode:
Once the last bookmark is in place, a section of the wall slides back to reveal a torchlit corridor.
Following this, you eventually come to a closed portcullis. Along the left hand wall are four marble statues, each with a pedestal before them. Three of these statues you recognise from the illustrations of various FF books.
The first statue is that of Lord Mortis. On the pedestal before him is a miniature spear.
The second statue is that of Razaak, the fearsome necromancer. The pedestal before him holds a miniature sword.
Third is a statue of Akharis the Mummy. His pedestal has a small vial resting upon it.
The fourth statue is of a young robed man. His pedestal holds some sharp knives that might be suitable for skinning an animal.
Opposite the statues on the right hand wall is a blackboard with three names inscribed in chalk: Mortis Razaak Akharis There is then a blank space for a fourth name. A piece of chalk is perched atop the blackboard. You surmise if you write the name of the person the fourth statue depicts, the portcullis will open. What name will you write in the blank space?
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Post by sylas on Aug 29, 2019 21:48:02 GMT
Varcolac? (the blades are Silver Daggers which are the bane of a were-wolf)
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Post by kieran on Aug 29, 2019 21:52:51 GMT
Nope
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Post by a moderator on Aug 29, 2019 23:00:50 GMT
The mention of skinning animals makes me think of the hero of Chasms of Malice, but Orghuz is killed with a sword...
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Post by kieran on Aug 30, 2019 6:29:59 GMT
No, it's not Orghuz
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Post by sylas on Aug 30, 2019 10:32:49 GMT
Is it Undead Zagor? Can't remember if he used animal skins to build his body.
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Post by kieran on Aug 30, 2019 11:32:17 GMT
No, not him either.
Just because an item looks suitable for one purpose doesn't mean it might not be suitable for another.
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Post by kieran on Aug 30, 2019 21:43:50 GMT
OK a few clues: Clue 1: As you probably have worked out, the statues all depict FF villains but these villains all have something in common that sets them apart from the majority of villains in the series. Clue 2: The thing they have in common relates to their background rather than anything that happens during the events in the gamebook. The objects on the pedestal are connected with this background Clue 3: Humans are animals too Clue 4: You recognise the other three statues from illustrations. Why don't you recognise the fourth then?
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 31, 2019 0:47:19 GMT
Pretty sure I don't know this, but might as well throw my 2p in as I haven't for a while...
Two thoughts: If this has to be someone who has returned from the dead like those three and that we don't know from pictures, maybe we're thinking about someone being assembled (then disassembled), Frankenstein-style, with the aid of knives like these. I have something in mind like Moonrunner's Kauderwelch monster, but she was female (and her son was clearly pictured).
Alternatively, Zagor, Marr and Dire's sorcery master was killed with many knives and I'm not aware of him being pictured though he's known from Background. Edit: I've spoilered the above musings as I've just twigged that it's probably Shanzikuul from MoC! Young robed man, torn apart by victors in a war but later resurrected himself just the same. Never pictured.
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Post by kieran on Aug 31, 2019 6:54:15 GMT
Yes! All of them are villains who had already been killed once before the events of the gamebook they feature in - Mortis by a spear, Razaak by his sword, Akharis was poisoned and Shanzikuul was flayed alive. And as you correctly stated, Shanzikuul has no illustration but is described as a young man in robes.
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Post by sylas on Sept 8, 2019 14:46:57 GMT
As no one has posted the next puzzle for some time, and people are struggling with mine on Facebook, I'll post the next one. Round 2 of Identify the book these pictures are from:
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Post by schlendrian on Sept 10, 2019 19:14:15 GMT
Are these even ff?
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Post by daredevil123 on Sept 10, 2019 19:27:39 GMT
They're from the Scholastic editions. I think number 1 is Ulrakaah from The Gates of Death.
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Post by schlendrian on Sept 10, 2019 20:39:05 GMT
Alright then, guessing it is... 5 shows a ship, of which there aren't that many, and so i'll assume it's the pirate ship from City of Thieves. 10 is likely a jungle, so I'd say Island of the Lizard King And 7 is icy, so it's perhaps Caverns of the Snow Witch.
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Post by sylas on Sept 10, 2019 23:46:14 GMT
1, 5, and 7 are correctly identified.
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Post by schlendrian on Sept 11, 2019 10:09:51 GMT
Hah, that went better than expected If you'd care for a hint, I'd be interested in whether (why is there an h after the w in that word?) all pictures are from different books? Or are there some that belong to the same?
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Post by sylas on Sept 11, 2019 16:59:01 GMT
Hah, that went better than expected If you'd care for a hint, I'd be interested in whether (why is there an h after the w in that word?) all pictures are from different books? Or are there some that belong to the same? Two come from one book. Another two come from one book. The others are from their own individual books.
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