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undergrounds2017-04-14 09:24 pm
undergroundmods) wrote in undergrounds2017-04-14 09:24 pm
Easter fun at the Redbright Institute (Scavenger Hunt!)
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.]
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Mogget flexes his claws, just because. He narrows his eyes at Ghoul. "It is a word. It's also only part of the answer." He casts a look over at Natasha. "A vampire and a werewolf teaming up, oh my. You Redbright vampires truly have lost your teeth."
Metaphorically speaking. He wonders if an Islington vampire would even deign to stand next to a werewolf. Then again, perhaps the new vampire in charge has different ideas. Mogget still doesn't know much about him.
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Since she's been off human blood, most of her diet has come from well paid and incurious butchers, either from pigs or lamb. But she hadn't been above hunting strays on her trip out of Russia.
"Isn't the point of joining Redbright to put aside that kind of fighting? I got more than my fill of it back in Russia." But that left the clue.
It was a word. Natasha had read it, initially, idiomatically. The way one might read It's a fine thing the sun decided to come out today, or something like that, but if it's a literal it, that changed the clue significantly.
"Let's say it can be anything..." This is directed at Ghoul. "What would you say it is then?"
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As much as he loves tormenting Mogget, they're on a schedule here. Even though he feels like he's missing something with this one. He sways a bit as he thinks, chewing thoughtfully at his bottom lip. If it can be anything...? "Fuck, I'unno, a lotta things. Is it literal? Like, what bosses lords around? The law? Or churches? Or are we talkin', y'know, not-literal?" That makes it even harder, if so. "Could be anythin', then, but maybe it's fine things? Jewelry or money, maybe. Think it's a shop or a bank? Or some other place people with too much fuckin' time, too much money, and not enough sense would like?"
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They're so close to the prize. Though he would rather enjoy watching them fail at the final hurdle.
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Green eyes alight on Natasha. "Your riddle has two parts. The first part refers to a common phrase. The second part is merely letters. As I said, you should start with what it is. What would be a fine thing?"
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A common phrase. Fine things... "Chance?" He makes a weird face up at nothing before turning his head towards Natasha and Mogget, somehow managing to shrug at them both while remaining laid out. "Chance is a fine thing?"