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genessia2017-07-02 04:52 pm
lookprofessor) wrote in genessia2017-07-02 04:52 pm
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Puzzle 001 [Open; Video/Action]
I. Video
Hello! [Luke is smiling at the camera, and waves politely to his audience. He's sitting at the counter and has a book in front of him, but the image is catching a view of Teanie Teas that some who have been in Genessia longer might find familiar--Luke has set his mismatched china out on all of the tables, he's stocked his shelves with various arrays of tea, and the kettle is on the stove behind him.]
I've not been in town for a long while, but now I'm back and taken over the shop again from Miss Kiryuin. And everyone knows a proper celebration deserves a puzzle!
[Come now. You can't have expected anything less.] I promise it won't be too hard. If you can solve it, you may have a cup of tea free! So, what on earth is this message trying to get at? "Blank is one thousand times blank blank." [Complete with air quotes.] You can fill in the blanks with a single letter from the alphabet. What's the letter?
II. Action
[As promised, Luke is back in the tea shop for most of the day. As a shop with no other employees, he simply spends his free time in and about the shop.
Today and with the heat wave, he's looking at boxes of tea on the shelf, arms crossed with a small frown and head tilted just slightly to the side. He's talking quietly to himself, clearly lost in thought.] I'm sure there's something that will make a nice cold tea, but what?
Hello! [Luke is smiling at the camera, and waves politely to his audience. He's sitting at the counter and has a book in front of him, but the image is catching a view of Teanie Teas that some who have been in Genessia longer might find familiar--Luke has set his mismatched china out on all of the tables, he's stocked his shelves with various arrays of tea, and the kettle is on the stove behind him.]
I've not been in town for a long while, but now I'm back and taken over the shop again from Miss Kiryuin. And everyone knows a proper celebration deserves a puzzle!
[Come now. You can't have expected anything less.] I promise it won't be too hard. If you can solve it, you may have a cup of tea free! So, what on earth is this message trying to get at? "Blank is one thousand times blank blank." [Complete with air quotes.] You can fill in the blanks with a single letter from the alphabet. What's the letter?
II. Action
[As promised, Luke is back in the tea shop for most of the day. As a shop with no other employees, he simply spends his free time in and about the shop.
Today and with the heat wave, he's looking at boxes of tea on the shelf, arms crossed with a small frown and head tilted just slightly to the side. He's talking quietly to himself, clearly lost in thought.] I'm sure there's something that will make a nice cold tea, but what?
[Video]
[Luke reconsiders the scenario with the new information. He seems momentarily puzzled, as if something hasn't clicked into place and then--]
Ah! One thousand miles in a round trip, so it's five hundred miles each way? I thought it was a thousand miles each direction at first, but you kept saying trip...
If you bring one thousand apples to Bananaville you can actually deliver five hundred apples. Five hundred you'll lose to taxes. And you can make the trip three times, since you don't pay taxes on your way back. So you can deliver one thousand and five hundred apples. You'll pay the other half in taxes!
Re: [Video]
Ah, not quite. It's a thousand miles each way, so if you took a load of 1,000 apples to Bananaville--traveling, of course, 1,000 miles to do so--you'd lose every one to taxes. Remember, you've 3,000 to start with, and going back to Appleville costs nothing. It's a hard one, but you're getting closer, I can tell!