Mission: Orange Team Tower Puzzlesolving

[voidtreckermods]

Foyers

The foyers in each tower are largely identical, built to the same floorplan. Gilt script curves around the walls, with sayings and scripture advising wisdom and patience. The ground floor contains several antechambers, including spaces that seem to be designated classrooms and lecture halls, spaces for meditation, and a dining hall.

Early Floors

The lower floors are more classrooms, meeting halls, libraries stocked with scrolls and tomes. Most lie empty or unused, as though the spaces were intended for numbers far greater than now occupy them. The wards and doors here are often trapped. Not in deadly fashion, but intending to challenge and train. Doors will refuse to open until riddles are answered; floors will shift on unseen axes and threaten to tip intruders into pools of water or down slick chutes into the foyers; keys will be hidden as tiling, inside hidden compartments or within books.

Upper Floors

North Tower

The north ward-tower's motto is the needs of the many outweigh the needs of one. As characters reach the upper floors, at random intervals glowing script will appear on the floor, written in three concentric squares with the largest a foot in width. For the next hour, silver mist will billow up from the floor and the walls and fill the tower. Anyone touched by the mist is frozen in place for ten minutes, after which they will unfreeze and be immune to the effects of the mist for five minutes.

East Tower

The east ward-tower's motto is when a door closes, another opens. The doors in the upper floors are bespelled such that whenever they are closed, they disappear, leaving behind a blank wall. They will reappear on another random wall somewhere else in the tower. Individual doors will always lead to the same location. There are no stairs in this tower beyond the early floors.

South Tower

The south ward-tower's motto is persistence in the face of chaos. Every other floor tile, a foot wide, beautifully laid out with tiny, unique mosaics of plants and animals, is ensorcelled to teleport anyone touching it to another random tile in the upper tower. There are no stairs in this tower beyond the early floors..

West Tower

The west ward-tower's motto is we must always question our path. Upon entering the upper floors through a large, bone-white door, the characters find themselves at the foot of a winding staircase, spiralling up into darkness. On both sides, a deep pit, seemingly bottomless. The only way up is to climb.

Questions and character actions can be reported here! Generally we're happy to suggest puzzles for the lower floors, but we trust you to confound your characters.

If you are searching a tower, please comment to the appropriate toplevel and note where the character is looking or if they're looking for anything in particular with any particular sense. Every character can search once. This represents a major notable find; they can have found smaller items.

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Comments

GENERAL QUESTIONS

[voidtreckermods]

[philosopherspotato]

question before i let a potato do something dumb, but if someone jumps into the bottomless pit, are they basically doomed,

[voidtreckermods]

Is this the pit in the West tower?

No - if they jump from the staircase with the intent of falling (no flying, levitation etc), they will fall for about a metre and land on a floor. Behind them, the door from the lower floors, and any other people on the staircase at the time will be floating a metre in the air. The floating people cannot be interacted with in any way unless they turn around and leave the tower, or they fall themselves.

[sciencegirl]

If you're searching the lower floors of the towers, would you find any info about the previous war that hasn't been talked about by the townspeople, or about the demon social structure?

[voidtreckermods]

There will be some histories of the previous wars and the battles fought.

They will find some attempts at understanding the demon society but it seems its not something that has been widely studied outside of war, so the information is more about command structure etc

[lanxichen]

Regarding ongoing...

Would spiritually-powered music, like the Lan guqin (or xiao) Songs, be able to help people out of the illusion at the top of the towers?

Would such affect the four locals already trapped?

[voidtreckermods]

They would be able to strengthen people to fight against the illusion in the first place. They won't be able to break the monks (or anyone else who gets caught by the chains) out of it- but if combined with people physically breaking the chains it will definitely aid in their recovery.

NORTH

[voidtreckermods]

[ourtomorrow]

Ken and Wormmon are deliberately getting their stupid selves frozen to see what the script that appears during Mist Time says. It is likely that no matter how they proceed, they will continue to yeet themselves into said mist for the sake of Progress.

Will they discover anything useful from the writing? And will getting frozen over and over have any cumulative effects?

EAST

[voidtreckermods]

[lanxichen]

Should a door be marked, would the mark be still there after it reappears?

Do the locations have any sorts of windows way to know if they have moved up / down through the doorways? NO WINDOWS I read the event post. But any other way?

SOUTH

[voidtreckermods]

[sciencegirl]

-So the tiles they teleport to are random, but are the teleporting tiles always in the same place?
-Do some take you down and some take you up? (Since there are no stairs involved, I'm assuming floors are involved?)
-Are the teleporting tiles all different images, or are they the same image?

WEST

[voidtreckermods]

[blue_ice]

If someone was to project his light holograms as far into the darkness of the bottomless pits as he could see, would he see anything strange?

[tactlesstantei]

Would there be anything odd or unusual about the staircase or walls?

(If the motto is to question her path, then she's going to question.)

[philosopherspotato]

Potato, in all of her Potato-ness, upon coming to the west-ward tower's upper area, takes a look at the motto, and does exactly what it says.

She questions the path, which, according to everyone else, is the only path there.

She proceeds to jump into the pit while thinking about that very thing, not really worried about if she'll fall float or whatever. She's supposed to question the path, not the hole!

she might do this a few times before bothering with the steps if that results in the same thing as under questions, and i'm very sorry

[namethattune]

Siebren, being Siebren, is going to try to cheese this one by using his powers to lower someone (possibly himself) into the pit. Will this achieve anything, or is a full-on leap of faith required?

Searches

[voidtreckermods]

If you are searching the lower level of a tower let us know here.

Each character may search once.

[philosopherspotato]

POTATO SEARCH

does she have a goal? no

is she a curious gremlin who only made it to the top of this tower because she didn't want to be left behind and/or wanted to jump down the pit again so she rushed there after fall 1, yes, but that aside

Potato is searching...Somewhere in the lower tower levels on the first trip up. Somewhere.

[vanity_fair]

Tony will be searching the West Tower's libraries for any information that could tell them more about the city, the world itself, the demon gates and/or the towers themselves.👍🏻

[wisdominshadows]

Outside of the book Stark found, is there anything in the library that might shed some light on the dissonance between The Shining City (TM) and how it actually looks?

[namethattune]

Siebren is going to search! He's gone through the lower levels of the South and West towers, and while his focus is on information, he's keeping an open mind.

Re: Searches - shows up really late orz

[blue_ice]

Kaiba will attempt a search on the early levels of the north tower. He tries to find information, but will aggressively trial and error his way through anything.

[ballseeker]

Bulma will be searching the lower levels of the South tower.. she tends to be meticulous and hard-headed, so no stone left unturned.