[Round 3, ongoing] Treasure Hunt Exchange

[utopiamods]

Characters: All
Format: Any
This log is: open
Location: The lobby
Summary: Exchange treasures for clues here! Or just chat to the staff or mingle.

[throughout the week, the receptionists are fairly into their roles as 'sages', putting on mystical voices when appropriate and generally being helpful to friendlier students. Other than that, there isn't much to note about the lobby. Students wishing to exchange treasures for the next clue should come here.]

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Morning, 2nd Day

[monkeystail]

Considering the weather, Huashi had grudginly started to use a rain cape; umbrellas were for delicate human nobles and were only in the way! She was basically only using this to cut down on how many times she had to dry up during the day. As it was, her feet and shins were either wet and muddy, or dry and muddy, due to her still walking around barefoot...

Ignoring all that, Huashi was bounding towards breakfast when she took a leap up into a tree and swung to the next to get past a particluarly huge and muddy puddle instead of having to walk around it, scaring up the birds who'd huddled in the lower branches at the same time.

"You should be higher up if you didn't want to be disturbed!" Huashi giggled as she landed, her stomach growling. Silly birds! But she didn't care about the birds breakfast soon... Tilting her head as she skipped through the forest she suddenly remembered some of the people ate...

"What's that, Wujing?" Huashi peered over the water spirit's shoulder as he prepared his, Xuanzang and Baije's dinner.
"Eggs, Huashi. I have to---"
... Break them before they could be used.

Huashi stopped, sliding slightly on wet ground, grass and leaves, then grinned. Setting off at a full dash, Huashi barged into the dining hall, waved to Kotarou who was already there and shouted at him that she'd be coming soon, picked up an egg, and ran out again.

"Hey! Hey, hey, hey!" Huashi slid to a stop in front of one of the receptionists, bouncing on her feet (and having trailed a wet and muddy track inside). "Here you go!" Huashi grinned brightly and carefully put the egg on the desk, so it didn't roll away.

[utopiamods]

"Oh, well done!" The receptionist smiled even as one of her colleagues made a small sound of dismay at the trail of mud. "Let's see... Huashi? It says you're Kotarou's Weapon, so we'll just tick him off. Would you like the clue now, or are you going to wait for him?"

[monkeystail]

"I'm going back to breakfast, he's there, so can I please have it?" It wasn't as if she couldn't be vaguely polite when the situation warranted it, and she had a good memory, so she wouldn't forget any words of the next clue told.

[utopiamods]

"Of course. The next clue..." What a lovely girl, her expression seemed to say. For the clue, she did her best rendition of a mysterious sage. "A tongue I have, and a soul too. Yet I speak not, nor do I live. Though I am trodden underfoot, I remain firm and proud."

The clue over, she went back to her smile. "Is that all, dear?"

[bitofafiction]

After some time spent writing things down in his notebook and eavesdropping shamelessly on the other students, Sherlock has concluded that an egg is the likeliest prospect. It seems thematic.

He steps up to the desk and holds it out.

"Is this an appropriate treasure?"

[utopiamods]

"It is! You have been busy," The receptionist smiles, but she looks apologetic a moment later, "You'll have to have a Player before you can enter it, I'm afraid... Why don't you ask around? I'm sure some of them will be glad for the help."

[bitofafiction]

"Oh, naturally."

He quirks a smile and tucks the egg back into his pocket.

"Thank you for your time, miss," he says, and steps away.

[kings_thief]

Locke had been thinking for a while, making lists of all things that needed to be broken to be used.

He was a little unsettled by how many he had come up with, but the item he thought would be relatively easy to get a hold of was an egg. He decided to give it a try.

He went up to one of the receptionists and offered the small, delicate, item.

"This it?"

[utopiamods]

"It is indeed, well done!" The receptionist he'd addressed took the egg carefully and set it down in a basket on her section of the desk. A quick scan of her monitor later, and she smiled. "Locke Cole? As you're a Player, you can hear the next clue now, if you like."

[kings_thief]

Locke grinned, happy about being right.

"Sure, let's keep this hunt going."

[queenscheckmate]

Going with the most practical was Kallen's bet. She had brought an egg wrapped in a towel. First they had to fight and now they were sent on childish hunting trips. Would the excitement in this very end.

"Anything else?" she questioned, bringing the egg to the reception desk.

[utopiamods]

Another unowned Weapon... The receptionist made a note to report the apparent miscommunication to the system. For the time being, she just smiled apologetically.

"I'm afraid you'll need to find a Player before we can accept this, Miss Kouzuki."

[queenscheckmate]

"Why should that matter?" Kallen snapped. The matter of the fact was that she solved the riddle. Weapon or Player, it shouldn't have mattered. This whole segregation thing was starting to really piss her off.

Day One- Romeo, Fletcher and Russel

[myblueskies]

Glad that he and Fletcher had agreed to help each other, and that Russel was so clever and had solved the riddle already Romeo moved over to the receptionist desk with Fletcher and Russel!

He was a little ahead of them though so waited until they caught up before he spoke to the lady behind the desk.

[greennotgold]

Fletcher caught up with Romeo quickly enough, holding onto Russel's sleeve as they went. It was such an obvious answer, in hindsight. Of course!

[chainedbyred]

"Hey there," Russel said, leaning his lanky frame on the edge of the counter. "Got an answer to the riddle for you," he continued.

He held the thin notebook, bound like a normal hardcover book, between two fingers. "A book. You have to break its spine to read it."

Day 3, sometime roundabout morning

[myblueskies]

Roemo was a bundle of excitement as he raced into the lobby waiting only for his new friend to catch up with him. He reached one of the desks and grinned. "Hello miss! Mister Sherlock Holmes solved the riddle!"

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock produces his previously attested egg.

[utopiamods]

Romeo and Sherlock both got smiles, the former for his new success and the latter for taking her advice and finding someone to work with. It was so much better when they made friends through the game, wasn't it?

"Very good, both of you! Would you like the next clue now?"

OOC

[choseanidiot]

On the second day, morning for the first riddle and late afternoon for the second riddle, Enki hands in the answers for the first two clues.

OOC

[utopiamods]

The third riddle they receive is Hands but no fingers have I, a face without a head. Standing without a single limb, or hung but never dead.

stiill OOC

[choseanidiot]

Enki hands in the third riddle after dinner on the third day.

(Managing to not look guilty over the large clock, which Shoryu had handed to him as he came in for dinner just as Enki had been looking up at the clock in the dining hall and wondering where the idiot was, and realized what the clue/riddle referred to.)

[bitofafiction]

A little while after Sherlock's nap, on day five, he and Romeo approach the counter again.

"The real puzzle, of course," he says, clasping his hands behind his back, "is how to deliver it."

[myblueskies]

It was a strange answer to a strange riddle and Sherlock was right in that there was a problem with trying to hand in a hug. "Maybe we should ask." The receptionists had been so nice that Romeo wasn't worried about asking them.

"Hello miss!" Romeo gave the receptionist a huge smile, "Mister Sherlock figured it out! But we don't know how to give in a hug, do you want us to hug you?"

[utopiamods]

"That would work very well, yes."