AVISPA: Cease puzzling nightmares, yes.

[apiarycryptonaut]

All things considered, things are going great! You've successfully prototyped your sprite once, your lusus is still alive and protected in your hive, you have more puzzles than you could ever ask for, and you'd finally decided to rest. After some planning, you'd decided that some exploration of LOSAR was in order and after plotting out a path, a plan, and preparing back-up plans for your plan the only remaining thing to do was to sleep.

So you slept. That was your first mistake.

Your eyes opened to neither the golden, bright moon you'd heard about nor the darkened, twilight moon. Instead, you are somewhere you'd never imagined even in your wildest dreams. Bright, blue skies with fluffy white clouds. You stand before an endless, clean landscape of white and black with green trees. You've never, ever laid eyes on living trees, though as awing as they are the skies above draw your eyes to them and don't allow you to look away.

That was your second mistake.

You'd only seen clear, blue skies for only a few moments twice before, when the darkened clouds you were so familiar with parted for only a moment. But the clouds here were fascinating, amazing, and... there... was something in them. You couldn't tear your eyes away, especially when the blur of a troll appeared.

That was your third mistake.

The troll hopped around, making short work of what you assumed to be Imps. She was using her arms, no, her sleeves as weapons to utterly decimate her foes. There was something familiar, something that made you think you knew her but you just couldn't place it. Sleeves for weapons, crescent horns, no glasses, and a very, very rage-driven fighting style. As you watched, you were paying so much attention to the clouds that you don't watch where you're going...

That was your fourth mistake.

You sit bolt upright, woken pre-emptively from your slumber, and the very first thing you do is open a memo. This was puzzling.

-- apiaryCryptonaut [AC] RIGHT NOW opened memo that dream was scary! --

AC: I h4d 4 very... puzzling 4nd confusing dre4m!
AC: It w4sn't on the... um, wh4t were the... n4mes of the moons.
AC: Um um um um
AC: I know them I... just c4n't remember, no.
AC: Oh, um, Prospit, yes!
AC: 4nd um, I think... the other one was... Derse, m4ybe, yes yes!
AC: Um, I'm very very... very very confused, yes.
AC: Bec4use, um, I dre4med... 4nd it w4sn't 4t... 4ll wh4t I thought... I w4s expecting, no!
AC: There were trees, yes!
AC: Living, green, t4ll trees!
AC: I've never seen trees... 4ll green like th4t!
AC: They were re4lly, re4lly... re4lly, re4lly pretty, yes!
AC: OH! 4nd I s4w... 4 troll, but I... don't know who it... w4s, not 4t 4ll.
AC: But she h4d, um... clothing, sort of, um... on her 4rms, yes!
AC: 4nd she w4s super... strong 4nd be4ting up... 4 lot of imps!
AC: It w4s 4 dre4m... within my own dre4m!

[ OOC: Make sure you check out Avispa's Skaian Cloud Visions Glitch page and maybe suggest some if you think of some! ]

Comments

[defensivealchemist]

a65olutely
youre we11 5uited to going through it and gleaning u5eful thing5
even if it5 6oring and take5 night5 and night5
6ecau5e it5 a puzzle =:)

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, yes, I 4m!
4nd it's 4 very... puzzling puzzle, it is!
I'll find 4ll the... solutions to the puzzles!

[defensivealchemist]

a11 of them?
ha ha that5 a lofty goal
are you 5ure youre up to it
i11 6e counting on you

[apiarycryptonaut]

I, um, well, um... th4t's, this, it's, m4ybe?
I know I w4nt... to find 4ll of... them, I think, yes.
But I don't know... how long it will... 4ctu4lly t4ke 4t 4ll.
So um, m4ybe, somed4y!
St4rting right now, yes!!!!

[defensivealchemist]

it took you a few trie5
6ut you 5ound confident now
keep it up

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh oh oh oh.
Ok4y yes, I will!

[defensivealchemist]

exce11ent
i dont 5uppo5e there5 any chance you11 ever go 6ack to your hive
tho5e gate5 dont 5eem to fo11ow you like the pov doe5

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh. Oh oh oh.
Um, I will, m4ybe... you me4n my origin4l... hive right, from before?
Is there 4 re4son... I need to, m4ybe?

[defensivealchemist]

i dont know if you need to
6ut i al5o dont know how to 6uild a path for you to tho5e gate5 from here
5o if you ever want to explore them
you11 need to go back there

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh um but there... 4re so m4ny imps.
I don't know if... th4t's 4 very good... ide4 but m4ybe, um.
M4ybe I c4n try?

[defensivealchemist]

ye5 im 5ure you can try

Success is not certain.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh... oh.... oh..... oh......
I need to think... more 4bout it, yes.
It's d4ngerous, I think.
So I don't w4nt... to be in 4... lot of d4nger, no.
I need 4 pl4n.

[defensivealchemist]

we11
for out5ide danger5 i can try to erect trap5
it might 6e a cha11enge with the5e control5 6ut i can try
are you more worried a6out in5ide danger5

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh um, tr4ps, m4ybe?
Those would help 4... lot I think, yes!
Outside d4ngers 4re more... d4ngerous, yes, I think.
Inside d4ngers only come... from one direction, m4ybe.
So they're e4sier to... defend or run from!
Outside they c4n come... from 4nywhere oh no.

[defensivealchemist]

ye5 trap5
5tring a radiu5 of 6ar6ed wire fence5 to deter the 5tupider one5 from going in
and leave trap5 to catch the one5 who try harder
you 5hould 6e a6le to alchemize 5ome with

You release one of your strings of barbedwire from your brbwirekind specifbus and check the code on the back of its captchalogue card.

BRBhr71N
make that a few time5 and i11 5how you way5 to array it
your main in5ide danger5 come from imp5 and tho5e 6ee5
i think the 6ee5 are we11 5ecured
you 5hould 6e u5ed to imp5 6y now

[apiarycryptonaut]

You stare at the code, and what Durian is telling you to do. You stare and stare and stare until you realize that you've drifted away from yourself. Snapping back to reality, you shake your head.

Um um um um...
I think I'll just... be very c4utious, yes.
Th4t seems best, m4ybe.

[defensivealchemist]

if you think a plan would fa11 apart
then cautiou5 i5 an accepta6le plan 6

[apiarycryptonaut]

I think c4utious will... be my pl4n "4"
I'll consider the b4rbed... wire 4s pl4n "b"... I think, m4ybe, yes.
Th4t might be best.

[defensivealchemist]

...
our quirk5 are making thi5 harder to read
i5 cautiou5 your fir5t plan or your fourth plan

[apiarycryptonaut]

Um, 4re they re4lly?
Um, it's my first... pl4n, it is, yes.
It's not my fourth.

[defensivealchemist]

good
you 5hould never com6ine plan5 named with letter5 with plan5 named with num6er5
how would anyone know which wa5 5uppo5ed to go fir5t

[apiarycryptonaut]

But you st4rted c4lling... them pl4ns, Duri4n, yes.
I didn't think they... needed n4mes or numbers.
Th4t's re4lly confusing no... m4tter wh4t, it is.

[defensivealchemist]

of cour5e it wa5 nece55ary
how el5e wi11 you remem6er the order to go in
you get di5com6o6ulated too ea5ily a5 it i5
if you ju5t ru5h in without plan5 ordered 6y 5ome naming 5chema it5 a11 going to the 6ee5 again

[apiarycryptonaut]

Um, but, th4t's, um????
I don't know wh4t... you me4n 4t 4ll.
I don't think I... c4n m4ke pl4ns with... n4ming schem4s, m4ybe, no.
I'll just do pl4ns... in the order of... how e4sy they 4re.
Like my puzzles, yes.

[defensivealchemist]

if you can figure out the order of how ea5y they are
then you can name them like thi5
>- ea5ie5
>- ea5ier
>- harder
>- harde5t
rank them plan 1 plan 2 plan 3 plan 4
that way i know which plan i5 which and your 4 o65e55ion i5 5ati5fied