50 + 25 points
MNOPQ 6 by Samantha
September 9th, 2009 8:27 AM
Aaaah, Puzzle Quest.
An awesome time where people in a team unify to work towards a common goal.
Over the weeks I had bought together four people in a group named "The Skeleton Keys", and together we finished Puzzle Quest 6!
When we first got together we all received a card from the professor. We were told we now worked for him, but several people thought there might be trechary afoot.
On the back of each card there was an occupation,and everyone in a team had a unique job. I was The Muscle. Every team had a Muscle, Brain, Looker, and Wild Card. Each type of person was seperated according to their jobs, so the muscles all left at the same time.
We were taken a few blocks away and were given a giant wooden casket, and were told to open it.
We turned it every which way looking for a switch or a latch, and finally someone said "Aw screw it, does anyone have a utility tool?"
Three people said they did, so we used the screwdriver attachments to begin unscrewing the box. No wonder we were the muscles.
We were lucky, and on our first try we got the compartment with a bag inside. In the bag were compasses, enough for one apeice. We unscrewed a few more segments to make sure we didn't miss anything, and found a hidden trap panel. Inside was a hammer, which we were supposed to use to then find the compasses.
Following our next clue we all met in a park, and joined the rest of our team, who each had to solve a different puzzle to get there. We eventually solved enough puzzles that led us to a book store.
We had to use a magnifying glass to read VERY tiny letters. It was dim in the store so our group went outside.
A funny thing happened then, you see it was very sunny that day, and when I was using the magnifying glass I had apparantly been using it at an odd angle.
I burned a hole in my paper! I wasn't even trying, and it just started smoking, and caught ablaze! Just about scared the wits right out of me. I shifted my position, and tried again, but I burned another hole in the clue. It was at this point where I decided to just go back into the sunless store.
More puzzles later we were told go go to a certain location to meet with a photographer the Professor had hired, to dig up some dirt. We had a heck of a time finding him, due to some unclarity of our map.
We did find him eventually though, and he showed us pictures that proved we were working to help prove the Professors innocence in a murder case.
He also gave us a sandwich to use to bribe a security guard, but The Wild Card in our group was savy, and talked our way past the guard without a sandwich.
We worked our way to our final destination, and we met up with a man being held as a suspect in the murder mystery. He has apparantly had a traumatizing experience as a child, because we had to use his childhood to get some information using childhood references.
He was an actor of course, along with the informant, and they were both very good at staying in character.
Eventually we discovered the suspect was terrified of scotch tape, due to a high school bully, and The Looker of our group found a long strip of tape and threatened the suspect with it until we got him to talk.
I would have gotten a picture of this, but i swear, I was trying so hard to not laugh at the sight of a grown man literally cowering in terror as a strip of tape was dangled over him. I just about popped a gasket. After all, he was a REALLY good actor. I realized later that I should have snapped a photo, but by then another team had come, and were interrogating him as well for their next clue.
There was one last room, where sixteen boxes were laid out, and we had to pick one box, but we only had 60 seconds, so I didn't get a picture.
In the end we proved that the chief of police was framing the Professor for a crime he didn't commit.
Our team, the Skeleton Keys didn't come in first place, but we all had a great time, and had an awesome Puzzle Quest.
An awesome time where people in a team unify to work towards a common goal.
Over the weeks I had bought together four people in a group named "The Skeleton Keys", and together we finished Puzzle Quest 6!
When we first got together we all received a card from the professor. We were told we now worked for him, but several people thought there might be trechary afoot.
On the back of each card there was an occupation,and everyone in a team had a unique job. I was The Muscle. Every team had a Muscle, Brain, Looker, and Wild Card. Each type of person was seperated according to their jobs, so the muscles all left at the same time.
We were taken a few blocks away and were given a giant wooden casket, and were told to open it.
We turned it every which way looking for a switch or a latch, and finally someone said "Aw screw it, does anyone have a utility tool?"
Three people said they did, so we used the screwdriver attachments to begin unscrewing the box. No wonder we were the muscles.
We were lucky, and on our first try we got the compartment with a bag inside. In the bag were compasses, enough for one apeice. We unscrewed a few more segments to make sure we didn't miss anything, and found a hidden trap panel. Inside was a hammer, which we were supposed to use to then find the compasses.
Following our next clue we all met in a park, and joined the rest of our team, who each had to solve a different puzzle to get there. We eventually solved enough puzzles that led us to a book store.
We had to use a magnifying glass to read VERY tiny letters. It was dim in the store so our group went outside.
A funny thing happened then, you see it was very sunny that day, and when I was using the magnifying glass I had apparantly been using it at an odd angle.
I burned a hole in my paper! I wasn't even trying, and it just started smoking, and caught ablaze! Just about scared the wits right out of me. I shifted my position, and tried again, but I burned another hole in the clue. It was at this point where I decided to just go back into the sunless store.
More puzzles later we were told go go to a certain location to meet with a photographer the Professor had hired, to dig up some dirt. We had a heck of a time finding him, due to some unclarity of our map.
We did find him eventually though, and he showed us pictures that proved we were working to help prove the Professors innocence in a murder case.
He also gave us a sandwich to use to bribe a security guard, but The Wild Card in our group was savy, and talked our way past the guard without a sandwich.
We worked our way to our final destination, and we met up with a man being held as a suspect in the murder mystery. He has apparantly had a traumatizing experience as a child, because we had to use his childhood to get some information using childhood references.
He was an actor of course, along with the informant, and they were both very good at staying in character.
Eventually we discovered the suspect was terrified of scotch tape, due to a high school bully, and The Looker of our group found a long strip of tape and threatened the suspect with it until we got him to talk.
I would have gotten a picture of this, but i swear, I was trying so hard to not laugh at the sight of a grown man literally cowering in terror as a strip of tape was dangled over him. I just about popped a gasket. After all, he was a REALLY good actor. I realized later that I should have snapped a photo, but by then another team had come, and were interrogating him as well for their next clue.
There was one last room, where sixteen boxes were laid out, and we had to pick one box, but we only had 60 seconds, so I didn't get a picture.
In the end we proved that the chief of police was framing the Professor for a crime he didn't commit.
Our team, the Skeleton Keys didn't come in first place, but we all had a great time, and had an awesome Puzzle Quest.
