Snooping around the Stonewall for trivia
From Intimation
Around the time of the May 13 to 14 active period, Nyst, halo422mjk and krystyn, who had each completed one of the GPS missions, each got a message through that site:
But now, I'm also a little sad. I think my game was too hard! Most of my story is still hidden out there, where no one was able to play. I'm going to re-hide the missing pieces of my first two story parts where MORE people can help gather them too (but only one part at a time, and there are 59 pieces)! I'll leave the other games out there though, so that people can still have fun finding the piece, and taking pictures to share what the places look like.
But for the new game, you'll need to explore and maybe even map out where my pieces are hidden, or you might get lost! I did a whole bunch of my own research too, so if you want the pieces, well, you'll have to work for them, heehee! I did a lot of exploring in that secret maze, but I was careful not to touch anything (you-know-who probably won't like anyone trouncing around in there!). It can be like a little expedition of our own! And who knows what kind of hidden treasures could be found in that big spooky place!
Go and start here, where I made the secret entrance: a-secret-maze, and remember -- shhhhhhhh! :@)
PS. If you find my hiding place before you find all the pieces I hid for you, then don't tell sis where I am! If you do, I'll have to go back to that spooky house again, and sis'll find all those pieces and throw them away! But if you can keep sis busy until sleep time, you'll have a lot more time to find them! Then if you find all my pieces, to keep sis happy you can say where I am. heehee
Good luck!
snorkle256 also got a series of direct messages via twitter:
Uh oh! (shhhh!) You told Sys where I was hiding, but I got away just in time. See, I did a little snooping around, heehee.
All those missing pieces that no one found yet - I hid them, scattered them around that secret maze! But sis can't know, and she's occupied.
If sis finds out, they'll get thrown away like garbage! So keep sis busy until you find them, or until sleep time. It'll be fun! :@)
Re-visiting the Stonewall maze did indeed reveal that trivia questions had been added at various locations throughout the maze, and that answering them correctly led to the discovery of more cartoon picture pieces (similar to those found through the GPS missions). Once a given question was answered, the question disappeared and was replaced by a cartoon picture piece (not to be confused with the pictures shown below, which were part of some of the questions).
The trivia
Here are at least some of the questions that were asked, and their answers:
>>PIGGLY: >>PIGGLY:WIGGLY//TRIVIA TIME! :@)
Who was Kinkle's boss?
Monster Alice [answered by snorkle256]
What was Kavetti's special ice cream flavor?
Pumpkin Pie [answered by snorkle256]
What Am I? [there would have been an image to identify here]
Tank/ Scorpion [answered by snorkle256]
The Castaway Theory [answered by Nyst]
What is the designation of the entity Mendicant Bias conversed with?
LF.Xx.3273. [answered by Left-center]
>>PIGGLY:WIGGLY//WHAT AM I? :@)
[no record on the forum of anyone answering this]
>>PIGGLY:WIGGLY//TRIVIA TIME! :@)
What was Janissary James known as?
walk away girl [answered by halo422mjk]
[there would have been an image to identify here]
Plasma Grenade [answered by halo422mjk]
>>PIGGLY:WIGGLY//WHAT AM I? :@)
Shotgun [answered by uF forum guest LazyHighwind767—who apparently was highwind767 not logged in]
343 Guilty Spark [answered by highwind767]
chrysopteron [answered by halo422mjk]
On what count in Blackjack did Kamal tell Cassie to hit?
17 [answered by Left-center]
Who was Spartan-051?
Kurt [answered by Left-center]
On the Pillar of Autumn, who has a Japanese ancestry?
Aki Hikowa [answered by Left-center]
What was George Shebura's second wife's name?
Jane [answered by highwind767]
How many marine casualties were taken during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV?
1586 [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Grunt [answered by highwind767]
What does DRT mean?
Dead right there [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Flood [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Warthog [answered by highwind767]
For what is permanent induced coma the penalty?
Wartime treason [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Elite [answered by highwind767]
Which Covenant ship attacked the Commonwealth in 2525, but was forced to retreat?
Unrelenting [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Nchala [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Needler [answered by highwind767]
What was CPO Mendez's favorite book?
A Soldier's Tale: Rainforest Wars [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Master Chief [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Prophet [answered by highwind767]
Who was Spartan-104?
Frederic [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
High Charity [answered by highwind767]
What ingredient did Kamal replace with ketchup?
Worcestershire sauce
Who hit someone in the head with a lamp?
[no record on the forum of anyone answering this]
Which frigate was cut in half by a collapsing slipspace portal?
[no record on the forum of anyone answering this]
How many marine reinforcements arrived at Cote d'Azur on July 17, 2552?
400 [answered by highwind767]
What do flash clones eventually suffer from?
Metabolic Cascade Failure [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Ghost [answered by highwind767]
After Operation Trebuchet, where did the rebels erect a stronghold?
Eridanus Secundus [answered by highwind767]
What does "Wort, Wort, Wort" mean?
Go go go [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Terminal [answered by highwind767]
[there would have been an image to identify here]
Plasma sword [answered by anaerin]
During which battle did Spartan-058 lead the Green Team?
Battle of Jericho VII [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Banshee [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Hornet [answered by highwind767]
What ship destroyed New Mombasa?
Regrets Carrier [answered by highwind767]
Which is the enemy of mankind?
Hippoppotomus [answered by highwind767]
What did Jan James inhale when she screamed?
Argon [answered by highwind767]
What am I?
Iron Skull [answered by highwind767]
What was hidden in Old Mombasa on a rooftop?
A stash of guns [answered by drizjr—she credits thebruce's transcripts of the radio play from ILB]
Which valley did the Covenant occupy at the Battle of Reach?
Longhorn Valley [answered by krystyn]
Collector pages update
drizjr noticed:
As the questions are answered and the puzzle pieces found, these two pages have updated with the gifs and with mp3s...
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/BROKEN-PIECES/
and
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/STREWN-ABOUT/
Anaerin put more of the pieces together from these pages:
halo422mjk summarized the story thusly:
- theres Dreaming-Eyes, our protagonist, and Bushy-Tail, her older sister, they say that Dreaming-Eyes loves finding places and leading people there, and then one day their parents tell them they are going to another planet. They arrive at the ship and have to wait, so they play hide and seek while they wait, Dreaming-Eyes follows some machines into the cargo bay, wondering where they're going, but then she gets trapped on the ship as it takes off.
The SPDR is born!
Essy had hinted in her messages that we should try to map the Stonewall—a task we found daunting. Anaerin announced, however:
I got a very nice little script I built that scans for values (to 6 levels). I'm not putting it public, as it'd more than likely take down the site with everyone hitting it constantly, and it uses recursive functions to spider the options.
That's telling me there are 3,672 potential addresses (For 6 levels, anyway).
(added later, to clarify:) The questions are unique per "memory location". Within those 3672 unique paths, there are only 98 unique memory locations.
This SPDR proved to be helpful in many ways for the remainder of the ARG.
