Hidden 9 mos ago 9 mos ago Post by Little Bill
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I left these notes just for you. Not "you, the clever reader who might find this". YOU you. The one touching the keys.
Your eyes open for a moment, and then shut again. You draw in a deep, sour breath, and stretch out on a surface far too hard and wide to be your bed. Somewhere in the deepest, basest, reptilian part of your brain, you're made instantly aware that the place you're waking up in is totally unfamiliar. The air is too hot to be your bedroom, the lights are too cold to be yours, and the bags under your eyes too stinging and heavy for you to have been sleeping in your own bed. Instinctively, you pull your head back and furrow your brow, trying to recall last night's events as your eyes come into the focus of wakefulness. You feel faintly hungover, and the itchy surface you begin to writhe around on is almost certainly the cushion of a couch, though you don't remember the last time you went to any sort of party. As your eyes remain open for more than a full second, an unfamiliar panic grips you. An all-consuming, instinctive panic, somewhere in the back of that same lizard brain of yours. Four sets of eyes look back at you.
I left these for you because I know you. Actual you. Everybody deflects their discomfort when they hear that by demanding to hear their name like a street magician's trick.
Each is attached to a person who seems just as terrified as you, in a room you now realize has a floor padded with dozens of layers of rugs and carpets, each dirtier than the last. Each person is all covered, just as you realize you are, in a layer of soil and grime. Each is chained to the wall by the wrist. You instinctively pull your hands up defensively, but you cannot -- yours seem to be chained the tightest. You scream for a moment, and as a wail of horror rings out in the room for what you realize must be the fifth time, you begin to cry, causing one of the women in your small company to begin crying as well. You immediately begin to imagine all sorts of horrible scenarios and begin to feel sorry for yourself, before recalling the reason. The other people in the room feel miles away at this point of your panic, as you delve further into the memory you have tried countless times to bury, alter, or forget entirely. You know exactly what you did, and why some depraved vigilante would want to torture you. The people in the room suddenly feel much, much closer as you look back up.

But I know you better than an ID card ever could. I know the real you. What you've done, where you've been, who you are. It doesn't paint a pretty picture.
What had they done to deserve such a fate?


Check his bio.
If you can find the application, you can apply. RP will include mature themes, puzzle solving, and minor use of stats/dice rolling. Good luck!
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You know, finding something in the raw of a post isn't that hard. I am genuinely curious as to how you managed to fit all the skulls in there without messing up the formatting of the actual post though. Even if it is just an image inside an [img] tag, it should still appear unless there's other formatting trickery involved.
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You know, finding something in the raw of a post isn't that hard. I am genuinely curious as to how you managed to fit all the skulls in there without messing up the formatting of the actual post though.


I know, hence the cheater-warding skulls! And you can just stick them in a set of [img] brackets.
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<Snipped quote by Havoccultist>

I know, hence the cheater-warding skulls! And you can just stick them in a set of [img] brackets.


Huh. And that really doesn't mess up the post? Well, I guess I've learned a new formatting trick then.

Now if only I could solve your riddle. I loathe them, but my brain is being obsessive tonight it seems.
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All right. Found the application. Won't spoil it, so yes the rest of you will still need to look, but I've found it. Was a fun puzzle, and though I do not plan on joining, I hope this RP goes well. Seems like an interesting premise, and this is a neat deviation from the normal format for interest checks on this site.
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Took me more time to figure out than I want to admit but I did figure it out and enjoyed it quite a bit, was very unique and unlike anything I've ran into before.
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hello! i am looking forward to this roleplay as it will be my first if i am accepted, do you know when those of us who applied will have applications accepted/rejected?
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hello! i am looking forward to this roleplay as it will be my first if i am accepted, do you know when those of us who applied will have applications accepted/rejected?


Thank you for your interest! So far, only eleven people have reached the end of the puzzle, of which three have let me know they're not interested, with two other interested parties being unable to reach the end of the puzzle so far. With that in mind, the RP will go up whenever I get 2-3 more accepted applicants, including yourself!
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This is. so. cool.

Beyond me, but just wanted to say: most captivating.
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Even if I don't end up applying, this has been the most fun I've had with an Interest Check in a long time. Learned some new coding tricks and got to work through puzzles.

Basically an escape room before the RP.

Definitely feeling pushed creatively moving forward.
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Even if I don't end up applying, this has been the most fun I've had with an Interest Check in a long time. Learned some new coding tricks and got to work through puzzles.

Basically an escape room before the RP.

Definitely feeling pushed creatively moving forward.


What they said.
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Thank you all for your kind words! Last time I did this, I had far fewer people impressed with it and far more people threatening me over PMs over the difficulty of my riddles.

For the rest of you, because I can't indefinitely host the password-locked link for the riddle's answer, today will be the last day to apply.
If you can. >:)
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Ohh, it's closing.

Solved this back when the thread was first posted, but even though I love everything about this (the puzzle and some of the fields in the character sheet especially, you know what I'm talking about, I'd wager), I held off on applying since I wasn't sure whether I'd have time and couldn't settle on a character idea. Knowing it's closing almost makes me wanna change my mind now.

Will definitely be reading along either way, though!
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