An ill-advised text-based adventure:

[Cheery Dog]

I'll let the others figure that out for themselves.

Action: Go up stairs and through the door on the right

[mastin2]

(expired on 2015-02-21 22:15:00) until actions commence.

PLAYERS UP STAIRS:
player_Nicholas1024
player_TellTaleHeart
player_Jackel98
player_Psyche
player_EspeciallyTheLies
player_AcRv
player_Antihero
player_Cheery-Dog

PLAYERS DOWN STAIRS:
player_KingdomAces
player_JDGA
player_Zymf
player_Empking
player_vettrock
player_Nobody-Special

PLAYERS IN HALLWAY:
player_beastcharizard
player_Blackberry
player_N
player_orcinus-theoriginal
player_Snakes

That means that any action you do up or down the stairs will take effect at the specified time.

(So AcRv and Cheery Dog's actions will take effect, just not at this very moment.)

Actions taken in the hallway are instantaneous, though note that players will only stay in the hallway if they say so. Otherwise, at the specified time, they move.

[mastin2]

PLAYERS UP STAIRS:
player_Nicholas1024
player_TellTaleHeart
player_Jackel98
player_Psyche
player_EspeciallyTheLies
player_AcRv
player_Antihero
player_Cheery-Dog
player_beastcharizard
player_Blackberry
player_N
player_orcinus-theoriginal
player_Snakes

PLAYERS DOWN STAIRS:
player_KingdomAces
player_JDGA
player_Zymf
player_Empking
player_vettrock
player_Nobody-Special

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Action Revised:

Stay upstairs. Check what I am wearing, and see what is in my inventory.

You are wearing pants, and underwear on your head. You have a screw in your inventory. You have pieces of the mattress in your inventory.

ENTER ACTION:

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Advance up the stairs at a reasonable pace, with slight caution.

You advance up the stairs. You find yourself in a very large room. There are three doors: one to the left, ninety degrees; one to the right, ninety degrees; one straight ahead. You have a feeling looking around the room will give you a better hint as to what you are in for.

ENTER ACTION:

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Action: Go up stairs and through the door on the right

You head back upstairs and then open the door to the right. Inside, you see three heavily-armed and armored guards.

Oops.

They have not noticed you, yet, but that will not last for long......

ENTER ACTION:

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I continue downstairs.

You continue down the stairs to the next dungeon level. Once again, you encounter a wall, this time with far more complex writing on it, along with what looks to be a defense mechanism. This time, the writing says:
"If red = blue, what does green equal?"

!

WARNING

!

As there are a finite number of possible answers, blind guessing will not be accepted.
Rather, as a collective group, you are allowed

ONE

blind guess. Once that blind guess has been made,

you must logic through your answers

. Failure to adequately comply to this rule will result in

subject termination

, even if your answer proves to be correct. Choose carefully, and think your answers through. There is minimal punishment for well-reasoned incorrect answers, but note that judgement of well-reasoned is at my discretion; should your answer fall short by my definition, then it will count as the blind guess. (And if the blind guess has been used, your termination.)

ENTER ANSWER:

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Basically, the riddle game continues, but I needed something to make this one deter you from blind guessing. Just think the riddle through as if a math problem: show your work, your logic, and answer. It will PROBABLY count as being a reasonable guess. I consider this riddle to be easier than the first, in fact. Just don't be a dick that randomly blurts out an answer and you'll probably be fine.

[Aronis]

Can I join, go up the stairs, and go left towards where the light is strongest?

[mastin2]

Player "Aronis" has joined the game.

Go up the stairs, and go left towards where the light is strongest.

You go to where the light is strongest. Fresh air greets you: it is the outside! You see directly in front of you a drawbridge, across what appears to be a very, very steep moat.

ENTER ACTION:

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[Aronis]

Is the drawbridge lowered?

carefully observe my surroudings

[Psyche]

damn it
action: follow aronis

[N]

am i still on my horse?

[mastin2]

am i still on my horse?

Yes.

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Is the drawbridge lowered?

Yes. It is traversable right now should you choose to.

carefully observe my surroudings

In the faint distant horizon, you can see what appears to be a village, about a full day's walk from your current position. Your view of further to the right is obscured by the angle of the castle you now can see you have come from. You can see that to the left of the village in the distance there appears to be a crack in the earth, but from this distance, you can only see it exists; you cannot make out how wide, how deep, or how long it is. There is no ground on the outside of the castle on this end of the drawbridge, as the drawbridge goes straight into the castle where you now stand. Across the drawbridge is nothing but plains after plains, endless grassland as far as you can see.

So as far as you can tell, it is your stereotypical castle, with a stereotypical surrounding, and a stereotypical bridge, with a stereotypical moat. You are slightly too far away from the moat to see what is in it or how deep it is; you would need to travel a few feet forward onto the bridge to see what is below.

ENTER ACTION:

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[Aronis]

Carefully walk out onto the bridge to examine the moat, prepared to run if something bad starts to happen

[mastin2]

Carefully walk out onto the bridge to examine the moat, prepared to run if something bad starts to happen

The moat is about 100 feet deep. It has the wide body of water you would expect. You see dots in the water, and identify them as alligators or crocodiles, perhaps even both.

...Yes, alligators and crocodiles, in a moat. What were you expecting?

ENTER ACTION:

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[N]

ride my horse to the village! giddy up!

[Aronis]

I was expecting a Dragon!

Can I ride with you, N?

[N]

all aboard!

[Psyche]

action: get on n's back

[Aronis]

ride to the village with N

[N]

if my horse dies, psyche is carrying us the rest of the way

[Mist7676]

I gain Consciousness first, of course.

Ensure I have all my clothing on, if not, put whatever I have with me on.

Move up the stairs and go to the door on the right cautiously.

[Cheery Dog]

cower on the floor

[AcRv]

Look around the room, and call out to ask if anyone's coming with me

[Nobody Special]

Silently regret having gone downstairs

Cautiously ask my group if they have any ideas they'd like to discuss

[KingdomAces]

Are people not in the downstairs group allowed to help us out, even if they can't give an official answer?

Also, are we allowed to guess without asking the rest of the group first, as long as we show work? If so: Green=Blue+Yellow. If Blue=Red, then Green=Red+Yellow. Normally, Red+Yellow=Orange, so if Green=Red+Yellow, then Green=Orange.

[Empking]

Great answer Kingdomaces. Team Downstairs are riddle-answering machines.

[Psyche]

if my horse dies, psyche is carrying us the rest of the way

you said all aboard

[Zymf]

Also, are we allowed to guess without asking the rest of the group first, as long as we show work? If so: Green=Blue+Yellow. If Blue=Red, then Green=Red+Yellow. Normally, Red+Yellow=Orange, so if Green=Red+Yellow, then Green=Orange.

I got the same answer, but I have a slightly different explanation:

Red and blue are both primary colors. Green is secondary color, so therefore it should equal another secondary color (orange or purple).

Purple consist of both blue and red, whereas orange and green only consist of either red or blue respectively. Therefore Green = Orange