Airas Treasure Hunt - 12th August 11am - 11pm

[stormseeker]

Aira shall be hosting a puzzle based treasure hunt across the WHOLE of tyria (not including WvW or PvP maps).

THis post will be updated as will the guild message with the clues that will help people to find the extremely cute treasure (with best ears and inventions).

Whomever should find the treasure (and appropriately call it cute) first, will be given 10g as a reward.

Photo op at the end with autographs by the treasure are available.

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The clues!

Aira got lost whilst looking for something, and her snacks are running out (oh no). There is a 10g reward if you can find her. Luckily she left some clues behind.

Clue 1 - A conjuction of her plans.

4.50 - Left Home. 5.00 - Sat and watched a Golem fight at the plaza. 5.10 - N to shiny I saw the other day over the floaty island thingies. 5.15 - Chatted to Hrappa on way (nice ears), decided to avoid squidgy bits so went round to E. 5.18 FLYING THINGS D: nuuuu. 5.19 Nosy LG wanted to know about floaty islands overhead, went E. Shinies not here anymore . 5.22 - Followed path to Haven then some guy fixed a dint on my shield. Forgot about that after last night. Headed N. 5.40 Fancied a look at the floaty castle, went there for breakfast via road. wonder if they do fishcakes... 6.00 - N to deliver message to Prongg. 6.20 - Picked up coins, E for more shinies. 6.28 - Spooky on right ;__;. 6.32 - pretty windmill on left. 6.36 - crossed bridge... fish under it... fishcakes??? 6.39 - Going through tunnel, some shinies in here, verrrry niceee. 6.40 - seems to be getting colder, going E. 6.42 - Splits, shall go S... 6.45 Found a shipping log lying by road. 6.50 - Cross a bridge... Up a sloooope (short legs, taking ages)... should be under here somewhere... a conjunction of her plans that should find it.

Clue 2 - (seems garbled) ?*8¢.8-;8† ,‡6*8()

Clue 3 - Waggoners Lincolnshire Flower Bunch

Clue 4 - Sc**di**us 'Evergreen'

Seems to be all she left in her notebook...


Event takes place between 11am and 11pm on the 12th August. To win just take a picture of Aira where she is (you can even offer her snax if you see her). or send a mail telling me exactly where she should have been if you know the place but cant find her due to megaservers.

Rules: No map chat calls asking if you have seen her, she will know.
Aira could be ANYWHERE (jumping puzzles included) in Tyria, but not in EOTM, WvW, PvP or closed instances.
Bribery may work.

[paul]

Oh god. I've seen your puzzles. D:

Well at least Aira's more derpy than you are.



Will try to take part, but will be at work in the morning so if we need to find stuff in game I'm in for a real challenge.

[paul]

This is a test

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test test

if you want to post spoilers use [spoiler]your spoiler[/spoiler]
And for this monospaced bit use the same but like [code]- handy if Chris uses something for which spacing matters cos it doesn't auto format anything in here

I have like no BBS formatting option buttons on the mobile version of the site so have to type everything by hand >:C

[starrifyx]

Why would YOU need the spoilers tag Paul, you probably don't wanna post your own spoilers to let the others catch up to you. XD

[paul]

I was sorta thinking of this as a joint effort with like a sprint finish

[paul]

This is very difficult without access to the game

[stormseeker]

you seems to be doooodling well tho :3

[paul]

Aha I think I am on to something, the letters in bold are an anagram of

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pre-bag zodiac oven

[paul]

Okay, honestly on to something, Starr and I jointly solved clues 1 and 2

The second owes a lot to

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Edgar Allen Poe, a book of his about cryptography

[paul]

Dammit John >_<

[starrifyx]

Thanks Paul, GG!! They said I solved 3 out of 4, but even then, Paul helped me with quite a few things. I've probably forgotted some of the things along the way, so I'll edit the post if it ever comes to that.

Solution:


Clue 1 was easy, walking the route, and following the path led me to Scarlet's Lair. And I thought the answer would be Scarlet's Lair, however it was actually a picture in Scarlet's Lair that would lead to Fort Marriner... but it worked out at the end anyways because they are almost on the same line.

Clue 2 was solved entirely by Paul, using the Gold Bug Cypher. I have heard of it from those 2, Chris & Paul, but I dunno what it was. The answer to that is "Unexpected Joiners", and after I did a quick Google search, it was revealed as The Founders: Volume V, which is in the Ebonhawke little city.

Clue 3...took me the longest. Basically Paul looked into the synonyms for "Flower Bunch" and came up with "bouquet" and "posy" early on. After a few clues from Chris since I solved this the last (with about 1.5hrs to go), I googled "Lincolnshire posy" and apparently it's a song,  this site  helped me at last ("John "Steeleye" Span was a waggoner on the farm"), which let me solve the whole thing in the end. Steeleye Span is an area in Blazeridge Steppes.

Clue 4 also took me quite long, because I kept thinking Evergreen things, and I did the Hidden Gardens jp as well, as Dierdre near that jp chest wears Evergreen armor. And for "Sc**di**us", I thought it was "Scardinius" at first, and that's a fish. Chris told me it wasn't that...and gave me clues for that the letters are related to the colors. I then conferred with Paul as to what that could be...and found out that I only got 3 out of the 4 green letters needed for the 4 asterisks. -major derpage- And I got "Scandiacus" which is Snowy Owls, so Paul and Rofl John came up with that it would be the sad Owl Abattoir.

11 hours 10 minutes it took us.

Lastly, here's my notes:

The first page contained all my main notes, and the second page was me going off the radar, and some notes of what Chris explained afterwards.

[starrifyx]

So it turns out that Aira wasn't the one who wrote that...Scwuffy planned everything to steal cookies. ¬¬

So the whole day I was pestered distracted bombarded by Aira's plea for snax and fuds... so I went and kill some fishies under the bridge whilst following her route.



aaand I came across this player just as Aira messaged me again later the day.

[stormseeker]

Congratulations to Starr and Paul for solving the riddles, and to John for being a sneaky bugger and finding Aira.

10g went to John, and 5 each to Paul and Starr for doin all the work