[Nightmares of the Second Age] The Daily Scribe

[Sherwood]

lol I pulled this puzzle out on my tabletop group, and it took them an hour to figure it out. I showed it to my wife, and she solved it in less than five minutes. I guess the level of paranoia was a negative factor for the roleplayers.

 

[MrSerious]

Using a phone. Not going to tap out a chessboard on it.

 

[MrSerious]

So we have 8 pawns and 1 queen?

 

[Sherwood]

Eight queens. You have to position them so that they cannot take one another.

 

[MrSerious]

Oh. Hm. So they can't be on the same vertical or diagonal

 

[Sherwood]

Correct.

 

[MrSerious]

Luckily I do have a chess set irl I can experiment with. Ill be back.

 

[Sherwood]

No prob.

 

[MrSerious]

Blah pipped at the post.

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

Lol, same exact answer. There are other patterns too, that's just the first one I remembered for this problem. I know there's a symmetrical one out there, but I can't remember how it was done.

 

[Esbilon]

Some of us are just waiting patiently :-)

 

[Sherwood]

I don't want to be guilty of railroading the party onwards. I'll post your entry into the next chamber.

 

[Sherwood]

Oooh! Guns guns guns! What will happen now?

 

[JayTee]

Did we get XP for the threads where we dealt with Bane/The Sleepers/Squall?

 

[Sherwood]

Not yet. Once you have secured the Leviathan, then you'll get another set of points.

 

[JayTee]

Ahh, fair enough

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

Not yet. Once you have secured the Leviathan, then you'll get another set of points.

Lots of points pretty please?

 

[Sherwood]

Besides, I don't want to give out points to a bunch of dead Exalts, right? Because if you give the wrong codes to the 'bots, they'll kill you all! Mwuahaha!

 

[JayTee]

Yeah, I rolled a knowledge check to see if Tiger would have been aware of this project, and by extension the codes.


I got one lousy success.

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

Noice.

 

[Sherwood]

"What project? I don't see nothin!"

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

Wait, is Tiger even here? I thought he was heading back to the Tower...

 

[JayTee]

Wait, Rose has high connections to the Solar Deliberative. If she rolls her background in that and scores a success, she could know the codes. (If I understand that background correctly).

 

[Sherwood]

There are so many Exalts running about that even I can't keep up with them all.

 

[JayTee]

[QUOTE="MaHaSuchi's700]Wait, is Tiger even here? I thought he was heading back to the Tower...

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I didn't see a thread for that, so I thought he and the others would help secure the Leviathan, then go deal with Han-Tha.