Escape From TWG: Everybody Dies
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mibias wrote:SOLVE
Press the blue circles indicated in the post above
Just when it seems the group is getting nowhere with off the wall and random ideas, they come up something that just might do the trick. Plotting lines and points all over the place and pushing where multiple lines come together. They eagerly wait for something to happen, unfortunately nothing does. zjoere, in a sarcastic way, says "well, at least you got lines and points!", and then turns away and pokes at Xarlaxas. He seems to be dead.
Result: Nothing happens. Xarlaxas is dead.
Remaining players:
bert_the_turtle
Mas Tnega
Phelanpt
shinyberbil
Shwart!!
mibias
Xocrates
zjoere
Deceased players:
- ynbniar Throne Room Booby Trap (1)
- AgentX 24 Heavens Gate Booby Trap (2)
- Dirty Harry Potter Heavens Gate Booby Trap (2)
- TheRileyDuo Heavens Gate Booby Trap (3)
- Feud Heavens Gate Booby Trap (4)
- Cooper42 Heavens Gate Booby Trap (5)
- Pox Heavens Gate Booby Trap (6)
- MarvintheParanoidAndroid Third Room Starvation
- MaximusBrood Third Room Starvation
- Xarlaxas Third Room Starvation
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xander wrote:SOLVE
Eat Xarlaxas' liver to steal his strength, then break down the wall with that stolen power
From the lack of food and water combined with being trapped underground in poorly lit rooms with low air quality, the group begins to experience hallucinations and delusions. Some hallucinations even include a dodgy old geezer of a professor from back "home".
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast...
bert_the_turtle wrote:Aha. My puzzle designer mind reading skills tell me that this failure at bbcode is supposed to tell us that tangents are good, only wild tangents are bad.
Unfortunately, I don't really see right now how geometric tangents fit the X or the poem. It can't be just "take two simultaneous tangents to two circles each and see where they meet", there's way too many combinations for that.
Well, the tangents could be the "lines eternal", if you consider them to be infinite lines. The "plane" reference could mean we have to find a line and a point to get a geometrical plane? Couldn't see where that would go.
I tried to see if there was a simultaneous tangent to three circles, but haven't found one yet.
I really am at a loss here, especially since there is no action to solve this puzzle. In the previous one, by pushing levers we could get hints, though at the cost of our dear colleagues... In this one, we have to "solve the puzzle", but the action is apparently not to push the wall. Perhaps we have to say the solution out loud?
Edit:
The closest I got to a tangent to all 3 circles:
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While going through Xarlaxas' meager belongings, a pad is found with curious notes. One of which is in poem form...
"Many a circle cover the wall.
Only one solution for them all?
Never going to escape this dark hell.
Geometry seems to have written this spell.
Every minute counts"
It appears the poem wasn't finished.
"Many a circle cover the wall.
Only one solution for them all?
Never going to escape this dark hell.
Geometry seems to have written this spell.
Every minute counts"
It appears the poem wasn't finished.
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After several desperate attempts to escape the last room, the group finally runs out of time. One by one they fade away, leaving the pyramid and it's treasure safe. About this time, the locals still camped above give up all hope and return to their homes.
A search party is dispatched, but the exact location of the pyramid is lost.
List of players:
Solution to puzzle: Monge's Theorem
I thought for sure that somebody would have gotten this one. Anyway, the last poem was a hint, the first letter of each line spelling "MONGE". The first poem should now make a whole lot more sense.
The top two sections with circles were there as a distraction. The "x" is just under the word "entry". Had this puzzle been solved, there would have been a tunnel revealed that led to the surface.
A search party is dispatched, but the exact location of the pyramid is lost.
List of players:
- ynbniar Throne Room Booby Trap (1)
- Dirty Harry Potter Heavens Gate Booby Trap (2)
- AgentX 24 Heavens Gate Booby Trap (2)
- TheRileyDuo Heavens Gate Booby Trap (3)
- Feud Heavens Gate Booby Trap (4)
- Cooper42 Heavens Gate Booby Trap (5)
- Pox Heavens Gate Booby Trap (6)
- MarvintheParanoidAndroid Third Room Starvation
- MaximusBrood Third Room Starvation
- Xarlaxas Third Room Starvation
- bert_the_turtle Failed to escape
- Mas Tnega Failed to escape
- Phelanpt Failed to escape
- shinyberbil Failed to escape
- Shwart!! Failed to escape
- mibias Failed to escape
- Xocrates Failed to escape
- zjoere Failed to escape
Solution to puzzle: Monge's Theorem
I thought for sure that somebody would have gotten this one. Anyway, the last poem was a hint, the first letter of each line spelling "MONGE". The first poem should now make a whole lot more sense.
The top two sections with circles were there as a distraction. The "x" is just under the word "entry". Had this puzzle been solved, there would have been a tunnel revealed that led to the surface.
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