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Challenges
Because we don't do "quests"
Where normal MUDs have quests, we pose challenges which
you can solve to earn
experience,
game bucks,
or bitchin equipment.
Sometimes these are one-time-only puzzles, where the reward goes to the first
player or team to find the answer or achieve the objective. Other
times these are ongoing, rewarding anyone who solves a well-known yet difficult
problem.
This list changes regularly, as challenges are solved and new ones added. Check
from time to time to see what's new.
Open Challenges
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Date Posted:
9/8/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
500 exp.
Challenge:
Two mob members are buried in neighboring crypts.
Who were they? Who killed them? Who are buried in the
next room?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
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Date Posted:
9/8/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
1000 exp and 2500 Dinars.
Challenge:
How many experience points can be gained on Sanctuary Island
and its bridges?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
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Date Posted:
8/17/03.
Type:
Ongoing.
Reward:
500 exp.
Challenge:
Find the placard celebrating TriadCity's 5,000th room.
Requirements:
Automatic reward. Just
look
at the placard. Send Poobah a
MUDMail explaining where you found it, and we'll post your name
here.
Solved by:
Chiensha.
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Date Posted:
8/17/03.
Type:
One time only. A team will be required.
Reward:
250,000 Dinars split by the surviving team members, plus 100 practices
and one Diamond Helmet for each surviving team member.
Challenge:
The Rat King wears a special t-shirt. Mark wants it. Get it for him.
Requirements:
This is extremely difficult, requiring a team of high-level adventurers
with excellent skills in violence and other Role-based knowledge. Get the
shirt, send Mark a MUDMail saying you've got it, and Mark'll arrange a time
to pick it up.
Solved Challenges
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Date Posted:
9/8/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
1000 Dinars.
Challenge:
What's inside Blackbeard's grave?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Tengen
On:
6/21/05
Solution:
"The contents of Blackbeard's grave are one mummy
and one wooden coffin. The coffin contains a piece of rotting
meat, 200 silver coins, a cutlass, and a swash buckle."
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Date Posted:
7/30/04.
Submitted by:
Poobah.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
250 Dinars.
Challenge:
What's the circulation of the
TriadCity Adventurer?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Pasquale
On:
12/6/04
Solution:
"26,000, according to the block-stencil gang."
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Date Posted:
10/25/03.
Submitted by:
Amaryllis.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
500 Dinars.
Challenge:
What connection do Leon Trotsky, T.S. Eliot, and Oscar
Wilde have to Sanctuary Island?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Anderr
On:
9/1/04
Solution:
"The three of them are quoted in the graffiti
on the bridges."
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Date Posted:
8/3/04.
Submitted by:
Poobah.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
250 Dinars.
Challenge:
How many employees does the
TriadCity Adventurer
have?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Vohno
On:
8/19/04
Solution:
"The trophy in the Adventurer office says welcome
TelGar from 467 employees."
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Date Posted:
7/1/04.
Submitted by:
Mark.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
500 Dinars.
Challenge:
Who ported Zork from MDL to C, and what connection does
this have to TriadCity?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Church
On:
8/17/04
Solution:
"Gary Smith. Gary not only runs the TriadCity character TelGar,
but also worked with Mark to start SmartMonsters in 1999." And
he ported / wrote Zork, back in the dark ages. (Wasn't so long ago!)
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Date Posted:
8/23/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
10,000 Dinars.
Clue:
Inside the Park NW there's a pleasant home called "The Gardener's
Cottage". Who's "The Gardener", and where can s/he be
found? (It's not one of the gardeners running around pruning things with
shears.)
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Tamora
On:
8/26/03
Solution:
"My guess is that the Gardener is the Judeo-Christian God -- based on
the fact that it's a garden, his apple tree has a snake in it, he's regarded
as a deity, he has a clay globe (that's supposed to be 'real')."
Re his location, "I'd argue that God is everywhere in TC, even if there
is a physical manifestation of his body, just because
of His defined nature. Marvin concurs." And for extra credit, Tamora
correctly pointed out the intermingling in the Park NW of the Old Testament
story of Eden with the Enlightenment mythology of Tahiti as Eden (or as
Paradise): Evie wears Tahitian clothing, etc.
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Date Posted:
8/23/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
5,000 Dinars.
Clue:
Describe two references to the work of T.S. Eliot which appear
in TriadCity.
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Klaatu
On:
8/25/03
Solution:
"T.S. Eliot's
The Waste Land
features at least
two characters found in Triad: Madame Sosostris, famous
clairvoyante, found in Black Plaza, and Tiresias, wandering
blind seer."
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Date Posted:
8/21/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
10,000 Dinars.
Clue:
The Tree of Life is a physical (geographical) representation of one of the central
constructs of the western mystical tradition. What does it represent?
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Tamora
On:
8/23/03
Solution:
"The direct relation to western mysticism is the Qaballah,
which is represented as just that: a tree, composed of interconnected
rooms, leading upward to the crown. It is also represented by a table
of Hebrew letters and their correlating Tarot symbols, also part of the
TC tree."
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Date Posted:
8/17/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
10,000 Dinars.
Clue:
Name three characters from James Joyce's
Ulysses
who can be found in TriadCity, and explain where they can each be found.
Also, name the chapter where they're found in Ulysses.
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Tamora
On:
8/23/03
Solution:
"Three of the characters are: The Chevalier Jean Wyse de Neaulan,
(grand high chief ranger of the Irish National Foresters), Miss Fir
Conifer of Pine Valley, and Lady Sylvester Elmshade. They also happen
to be the first three characters, in order, of the wedding party described
in chapter 12, and also in the Royal Gardens in TriadCity's NW."
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Date Posted:
8/17/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
100 practices.
Challenge:
What is the King's wife's name? (It's not "Priscilla"!)
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Tamora
On:
8/23/03
Solution:
"Ma Ubu."
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Date Posted:
8/21/03.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
25 Practices.
Clue:
Name two characters from Dickens who appear in TriadCity, and also
the name of the Dickens novel in which they appear together.
Requirements:
First character who answers correctly wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Mirabella
On:
8/22/03
Solution:
"Jack Dawkins (The Artful Dodger) and Charlie Bates.
The Dickens novel is
Oliver Twist."
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Date Posted:
10/7/01.
Type:
One winner only.
Reward:
100 practices.
Clue:
"Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible
poison, so solvent and corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen
for washings and scourings."
Requirements:
First character who figures out what this has to do with TriadCity, and who
finds the correct location within the game world which this refers to, wins
the spiff. Send Poobah a MUDMail with your answer!
Solved by:
Amaryllis
On:
8/20/03
Solution:
"Location is Pancreatic League Bar. Bartender is Alfred.
The description of him fits perfectly with Alfred Jarry, the person who
said (RL) 'Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water'. How
appropriate that someone addicted to Absinthe would be a bartender in
TriadCity! Jarry was less than 5 feet tall; so is Alfred the bartender.
Jarry and Alfred both dressed in black cycling clothing."
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