WEEK 5 MINGLE - AMARANTHUS

[foundationmods]

Another trial, another horrible outcome.

This time, it affected so many people...and yet, they still weren't done.
Who would be killed next?
Would they be able...to handle whatever happened?🗈

Still, things were just the same as they had been the past few weeks.

The goats and servants were still around, and so too were the witches.
It was all becoming routine at this point.
Was that a good thing, or a bad one...?
It was...too hard to tell, now...

...Either way, they were now closer to the end.
So, like always...they had to see it through.


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[aleph_armed]

Let's see...

"Use the weights provided to balance out the scales. The scale is hidden under the banquet table. The weights are hidden"... And then it turns into a cypher. "va gur frira cynagf va gur onyyebbz."

[literalidiotball]

Hidden under the banquet table?

[Wheatley kneels down to look under the tables.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Vinea knocks on the top of the table.]

[literalidiotball]

Wha- [BANG! He hits his head on the bottom of the table.]

Ow.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[literalidiotball]

?!

Not funny, mate! Ow...

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm surprised you even feel pain.

[aleph_armed]

I think it depends on designer intent, really. Generally speaking, it's hard to perform fine movements if you don't have a sense of touch. From there it's not too much of a stretch to give some sort of sense for when something dangerous to the body's happened, and thus a sense of "pain".

[literalidiotball]

[Wheatley pokes his head out from under the the table in time to hear Geb's explanation.]

Yeah... What she said.

[Back under the table he goes.]

[foundationmods]

[There's nothing under the smaller ones, but there IS a fancy looking scale under the banquet table.]

[literalidiotball]

[Thanks for nothing, Vinea.

Wheatley locates the fancy scale and attempts to pull it out from under the table.]

[keydomhearts]

And then there's the rest of that...

[ Scratching his head ]

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He smiles]

That was quick. Now for the cypher, given english- Y and B could be L, T, N, S, or O. Let's focus on the "Y" for now.

[aleph_armed]

Then, assuming that the second part is using the same cypher, we have two lines to work with.

"va gur frira cynagf va gur onyyebbz.

Nfx zr sbe gur svany onyy."


Does that help us reduce the possibilities for Y a little?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He opens his own notebook and starts writing it down]

Y is "L", and gur repeats - I suspect that it's "the". so G, U, R are T, H, and E.

"Va The f e i e a..."

Seven? so that might make F into S, I into V, and A into N... and with the lead up, Va might be "In", so V is I, and confirms A is N.

[youkaiwatch]

The last word in the second one is the same as the beginning of the last word in the first one, too.

[aleph_armed]

Onyyebbz... Onyy...

...Ballroom and ball, maybe?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Exactly, and that gives us O is B, N is A, Y is L, E is R, B is O, and Z is M.

C... L, A, N, G S...

There is usually a "T" or "G" after "AN" and we know G is a cypher - so we have LANTS. With C as...

[He'll let someone figure that one]

[youkaiwatch]

Well, I think there are seven plants, so...

[improbablenotimpossible]

Which would fit, and I believe I got the last part figured out.

[aleph_armed]

Yeah, from here it's pretty simple. We've already got most of the letters after all, and there aren't exactly many options left.

"Ask me for the final ball", right? Or did I miss another possibility?

[improbablenotimpossible]

That would be it.

[aleph_armed]

I'll go check the plants, then.

[Well, time to search the plants for some sort of weights! And leave the talking to someone more competent!]

[foundationmods]

[Each plant has a weight inside of them!

All together, she finds -

A Yellow weight with a picture of a smiley face on it.
A White weight with a picture of a flower on it.
A Black weight with a picture of a drop of blood on it.
A Green weight with a picture of a drop of water on it.
A Blue weight with a picture of an angry face on it.
An Orange weight with a picture of a black fire on it.
A Red weight with a picture of a Witch's hat on it.

Some of the weights are clearly heavier than others.]