[Action/Video] Shot in the Dark log/ A test of reason. Or psychopathy

[youfool]

Action, Closed - Shot in the Dark



[Two weeks have gone by, which means it's time to catch killers once again. A bandit this time; likely a highwayman. Which means he's probably got his eye on trade routes in and out of the city to rob unsuspecting people with currency in their keep.

Which means Ted's there too, threads on every road as he checks into all of them like security cameras. He's hanging out in the epicenter of all these watchful black tendrils, ready to swat any suspicious arrows should they come flying into the breast of the innocent. And he has a few vials of antitoxin too, should they broach his precautions.

All he had to do was play his least favorite past-time: the waiting game. He's grown calloused and bored enough as of late that he finds himself almost praying the criminal outs himself soon. He's got stuff to do! Well, so long as no blonde, innocent children show up to give him a heart attack, all would be well...]

Video, Open - Crazy cards

Let's play a game; a test of your reason. Look at these cards. Each one has a color on one side, and an alphanumeric character on the other.



Here's a rule: If it has blue on one side, it will have "5" on the other. How many cards--the fewest possible--must you turn over to check whether the rule holds fast? Which ones?

Don't worry if you get it wrong; I'll give you another, simpler question to answer. If you fail that, the worst that'll happen is being dubbed a psychopath.

Comments

video - FOR REAL THIS TIME

[warnicornstampede]

Oh! Oh oh oh! I know! One! The blue one! Or the five? Or if you flip them both over, then you'd know for sure. But what if the person who made the cards is lying? What if there's a five on the back of the purple one?!

FLIP 'EM ALL OVER SO WE KNOW FOR SURE!

Re: video - FOR REAL THIS TIME

[youfool]

[Maybe not "psychopath", but probably something...]

Haha, I'm afraid I'll need more confidence and solidity in your answer than that. You needn't have anything less than perfect confidence in the truthfulness of the cards' supplier; that is, myself.

You've been handling the heat all right, I hope?

[Perhaps she suffers from heat stroke, he thought.]

video

[warnicornstampede]

Pretty good, I beat the heat with my water puppies!

[ She snatches a puppy from the floor, holding it up to show it shooting a healthy stream of water from its mouth. ]

Okay, if it's not a trick, then... Flip the blue one!

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[youfool]

[Just gonna avert his eyes from the occult demon-puppy.]

I see. Is that your one and only?

[xlvii]

The blue and the G. Simple logic.

[Now does he get a prize like the newspaper puzzles?]

[youfool]

[The true prize is hearing Ted's princely voice. And (probably) not being psycho. And isn't that the best prize of all? But if he really wants...]

Congratulations! Well done.

Video

[riddlemehiss]

All of them!

Re: Video

[youfool]

Haha, must be your cat-like curiosity at work. If only feline laziness were at play, then you could narrow things down.

Would you like the easier one, now?

[riddlemehiss]

If laziness were at play you wouldn't have a feline at all.

[Because this feline would be asleep.]

Do you have a muchier one?

[youfool]

The quantity's much the same, I'm afraid, but it's a second chance nonetheless.



The reasoning rhymes with the first: If the rule is: "If a sweater is borrowed, it must be returned", who must you check to see whether any have broken the deal, and must face the wheel?

action.

[yoyoofdoom]

[So there was a bounty in Fayren about some guy killing people with poison arrows. This person had to be stopped, and Bridget haven't done bounties in a while.

Fayren has one nun-looking child exploring the road with a stuffed bear wedged between a handcuff around the waist. Bridget asked around certain taverns, he knew. After gathering some information, Bridget was on the road and boy was it hot. Bridget hung forward, arms dangled, sighing heavily as he dragged his feet.]

So hot...

[He managed to finally said, exhausted.]

Mr. Poison Murderer. Are you around?

[He looked half-asleep, but quite determined.]

Re: action.

[youfool]

[The synapses in his brain fire off into panic mode; he knows that voice and he knows what Bridget's about. He's gonna pop right in from the thread he'd set up to ward away.]

Bridget! What the hell are you doing here!?

[The noise he's making made for the perfect distraction. A near-silent twang of bowstring preceded two poisoned barbs in quick succession, one for each aimed squarely at their heads. He doesn't know if they've anything valuable on them, but it couldn't hurt to check.]

Re: action.

[yoyoofdoom]

Mmm?

[Ted's shout shot electricity down Bridget's back. He stands up straight again after that alarm.]

Mr. Ted. Ha... It was just you.

[He wipes the sweat off his brow.]

I'm on a bounty hunt. What are you doing out in the--

[A faint whistle catches Bridget's ear as he turns towards the direction. And he sees two objects coming their way.]

Ted!

Re: action.

[youfool]

[Ted's not looking quite himself, all decked out in his black regalia. Not sounding quite himself either, what with the panic attack. The arrow attack, on the other hand, receives his reflexes. He manages to catch one to swat away the other. That blast of air would be the ludicrous speed he used to perform that trick.]

Duck!

[An unnecessary imperative, but better safe than sorry. The horse-drawn carriage he had been monitoring was all in a tizzy.]

What, ho! What the devil's going on?

[It's rider was no less agitated, it seemed, but Ted ignored him, ears keenly tensed for another assault.]

Bridget, you've got to run! Just leave the perpetrator to me, all right?

[Video]

[leekspins]

Mmmm...that's a good one! I guess the blue one and the G, since the rule is 'if it's blue, then it has a five on the other side.' So you don't have to check the 5 because there's no rule saying a 5 can't be a different color, but if the G is blue, the rule is broken.

I'll say!

[youfool]

Yes, exactly and succinctly put. You must've been the apple of your teachers' eye, eh?

[om_nom_namur]

[Lord of the Sea, what is he getting himself into?]

All a 'em cuz any one a them li'l shits might be tryna work y' over.

So shoot me the second question.

[youfool]

[He has no idea what Namur's talking about, but he'll power through anyway. With text, natch.]



The question's similar to the first: which, as few as possible, cards must be checked to make sure that all who borrowed the sweater returned it?

[om_nom_namur]

Jus' the one now cuz we already know what happened with three a 'em. How's this all s'posed t' decide if yer a psychopath?

[Voice]

[singinghuntress]

[Simply because she's curious and needs a distraction...]

Blue und G.

Zhough, try zomething harder if you vish to find out if zomeone's a psychopath or not~.

[Text]

[youfool]

Correct.

[Yeah he's pretty sure he has other criteria to go on, ntyvm.]

Re: [Text]

[singinghuntress]

Good.

Now, the question is why you felt the need to post a puzzle.

video

[hotheadwarmheart]

Ask me, if the person was reasonable, they'd probably just go find something better to do with their time than flipping cards.

[Yeah, Lea is a wise ass. In other news, the sky is blue.]

Re: video

[youfool]

[He has his doubts about the "wise", but absolute confidence in the "ass"]

You underestimate reason: it'd allow one to know which cards to flip before anything was done whatever!

[Excellent promotion Ted, well done]

Re: video

[hotheadwarmheart]

Well, if you already know what the outcome's going to be, again, why bother playing the game?