Easter fun at the Redbright Institute (Scavenger Hunt!)

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Spring is in the air and the Redbright Institute is hosting a weekend of Easter-themed family fun. The event is held outdoors on the Redbright grounds and includes an Easter egg trail, five-a-side football, croquet, arts and crafts, and a cake sale. Plus, a stall for refreshments selling tea and coffee for the adults and fruit juice for the kids. It's all decidedly kid-friendly and not magical at all. Expect to see lots of excitable children running around.

Of course, there is one event for the grown-ups: the much anticipated scavenger hunt! Teams sign up on the morning of 14th April and must solve all the clues by the event's close in order to win the grand prize.

Instructions for the Scavenger Hunt
• There are five clues to solve. You will receive each clue one at a time. Each clue leads to the location of the next clue.
• The answer to the clues is always either a person or a location (or sometimes both at once). To find the next clue, you must search the location or ask the person the clue points to. The answers are not all located in the Redbright Institute, which means your characters will be racing across London to try and find all the clues.
• Except for the first clue which you are given directly at reception when you sign up, every clue is wrapped up with a red ribbon. The ribbon itself has no significance, it just tells your characters that they've found the actual clue rather than a random object.
• You can ask for help up to three times. Help is provided by Mogget, who as you all know is very friendly. You need to tell him the clue you're struggling with before he can help you, so make sure you do that in your first tag to avoid wasting time.
• Everything above is ICly explained to your characters when they sign up so they know what to do. They also know about the time limit.
• When you think you know the answer to the clue, post ICly with your character searching that location or approaching a character and highlight that part of your tag in bold like this. This will allow me to quickly and easily see that you've answered a clue so that I can reply to either give you the next one or let you know to try again.
• Every character that participates will receive an Easter egg and a bonus two activity points!
• You have until 23:59 Sunday 16th April (GMT+1) to solve all the clues! If you manage to solve them all in the time limit and reach your end goal, the characters in the winning team(s) will receive an awesome prize and an extra bonus four activity points. If you don't solve them in the time limit, your team won't win the prize.
• One more tip: If you think you know the answer, go straight to that location or person in the first couple of tags! You can dally around for as many tags as you want, but that will waste time and make it less likely that you'll get through all five clues within the time limit.

[The scavenger hunt is closed to those characters who signed up, but the rest of this event is open to everyone! Feel free to mingle. If you have any questions about the event, please ask here.]

Comments

[longterm]

Hello! Here's a text from Cesare because he and Nancy are thoroughly stuck.

Stuck on clue 3:

"Coming back to dare me then, I'm saying."

Any thoughts?
CB

[bellbound]

Mogget makes them wait five minutes before they receive a reply because he's an asshole like that.

The answer is contained in the clue. Read it differently.

That'll give them something to ponder. Of course, if they're still stuck they can always ask again.

[longterm]

Cesare doesn't exactly appreciate being made to wait, so when he replies, he's a little fierce.

We figured that. Tell us something else?

[bellbound]

The first two words tell you which way to read.

That should be enough of a hint for them to get it, he thinks. Isn't one of them a vampire? Then again, that doesn't guarantee anything in terms of intelligence...

[longterm]

Fine. Ok. Got that now. Good.

The next text Cesare sends is a photo of the London Lambast Daily headline.

Not the Magical Innovation Centre. Has the Night Council been reinforcing their defences lately?

[bellbound]

They've had to ever since they made that silly decision to allow fae to pass through Night Council territories last year. Of course fae are still banned from HQ without an invitation, which they're unlikely to get. But it's not a Night Council location you're looking for. That merely happens to be the headline.

That's their final hint. He stretches out his paws and yawns. This one might take them a while.