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I tried solving this one in my head when I got here, but had to break out a piece of paper and a pen and make notes. Didn't meet the peasant, but he seemed fairly unimportant. But yeah, simple logic puzzle. Others have given the answer, it's 6 and 2. Adamant fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 29, 2018 |
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Nakar posted:So! My insinuation of alternate solutions didn't necessarily mean there was an alternate solution, but as it so happens there was one, and someone nailed it: 
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May 29, 2018 20:05
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I need help on how to imagine the maze. There are narrow, walled hallways and then suddently there's a house in the middle of a forest. You follow some more hallways and then you arrive at a ... peasant plowing a wide field?
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May 29, 2018 22:17
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Wipfmetz posted:I need help on how to imagine the maze. There are narrow, walled hallways and then suddently there's a house in the middle of a forest. You follow some more hallways and then you arrive at a ... peasant plowing a wide field? It's the MadMaze, not the SensibleMaze!
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May 29, 2018 22:19
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Wipfmetz posted:I need help on how to imagine the maze. There are narrow, walled hallways and then suddently there's a house in the middle of a forest. You follow some more hallways and then you arrive at a ... peasant plowing a wide field? The MadMaze is Castlevania, basically.
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May 29, 2018 22:33
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What's bugging me is those maps you're showing us. My brain keeps wanting to interpret them as 9*9 rather than 5*5.
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May 29, 2018 23:11
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Nakar posted:I guess there are clearings. The mazes themselves are just sort of artifacts of the Mad One's expanding power and they sort of grow into place and people inside the mazes just learn to deal with them. But it's also not supposed to make sense because it's an actual god of chaos. Things will only get weirder the deeper we go. If we find any wallmeat eat it immediately
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May 29, 2018 23:18
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So a thing I really want to comment on is the quality of the writing. It's terse, it gets to the point, and it's witty without beating you over the head with how witty it's being. Compare that to the quality of writing that you're getting in modern RPGs and well...
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May 29, 2018 23:38
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I'm sure Guild Wars 2 represents the best of what modern RPGs can offer in terms of writing quality.
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May 29, 2018 23:41
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Level One: The Vilest Beast Is Man...ners In which we learn manners, and grammar, possibly in that order. We end on a puzzle. Kind of. It's more of a trivia question, I guess. DGM_2 posted:What's bugging me is those maps you're showing us. My brain keeps wanting to interpret them as 9*9 rather than 5*5. Whybird posted:So a thing I really want to comment on is the quality of the writing. It's terse, it gets to the point, and it's witty without beating you over the head with how witty it's being.
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May 30, 2018 00:05
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IIRC, thou/thee/thy were used in informal situations, whereas you/ye were used in more formal ones.
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May 30, 2018 00:16
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'Thou'' is the old familiar form of 'you', inherited from Germanic languages. Equivalent to German 'du', as opposed to the more formal 'Sie', equivalent to 'you' (which is the only version that has survived in live usage to this day).
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May 30, 2018 00:17
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I'm going to go with "it is properly used just as he used it, when asking a question about the word". Too meta?
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May 30, 2018 00:27
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Is 'who cares' an option?
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May 30, 2018 00:28
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I once had gules and or per checky, but the doctors gave me this special soap and it cleared right up.
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May 30, 2018 00:31
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Is 'who cares' an option?  Almost.
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May 30, 2018 00:33
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I know thee/thou/etc. were the second-person singular back when "you" was only plural, and trying to fiddle with what sounds natural in my head I think it's nominative case? So you'd use it when a singular person, to whom you are speaking, is the subject of a sentence. Alternately, yeah, when being a pretentious squink.
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May 30, 2018 00:51
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Nakar posted:
Dear God I snorted with laughter. Also the art of the blacksmith brings back memories of Loom.
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May 30, 2018 00:51
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nweismuller posted:'Thou'' is the old familiar form of 'you', inherited from Germanic languages. Equivalent to German 'du', as opposed to the more formal 'Sie', equivalent to 'you' (which is the only version that has survived in live usage to this day). This is correct. This is one of those facts you often see in those "bet you didn't know this" fact collection files used as filler in TV guides and similar magazines. nweismuller posted:(which is the only version that has survived in live usage to this day). Norwegian still has familiar and polite second person pronoun, but the polite form has become extremely subservient these days and is only really used by waiting staff in fancy restaurants and the like. Adamant fucked around with this message at 01:11 on May 30, 2018 |
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May 30, 2018 01:07
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The thee/thou thing is one of the ones I remembered from when I was a lad, because as a horrible nerd I got it right on the first try. The Questing Beast is from Arthurian legend. It was pursued particularly by Sir Pellinore, and was more of a chimera monster in the original form. (There are a few different descriptions of it.) T.H. White had Pellinore as a more senile sort of person who'd been hunting for the drat thing all his life, and carried around its fewmets (poops) to show people.
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May 30, 2018 04:16
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Can we go with never for thou? I'm noticing the educated blacksmith didn't use it in his speech aside from pointing out other people misused it.
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May 30, 2018 04:35
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Others have pointed out the historical use of the word, but there are modern uses: hymns. Both old ones, and new ones written to sound old (which is weird but happens). Also, the King James Version of the Bible, which lots of people still insist on using despite it being objectively terrible. Hey, I never said they were good uses.
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May 30, 2018 05:34
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French still has the plural/singular distinction today, with tu and vous, and the plural vous being used for politeness. There are still echoes of it in modern English when royalty refer to themselves as we.
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May 30, 2018 07:37
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Whybird posted:French still has the plural/singular distinction today, with tu and vous, and the plural vous being used for politeness. There are still echoes of it in modern English when royalty refer to themselves as we.
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May 30, 2018 07:53
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Adamant posted:Norwegian still has familiar and polite second person pronoun, but the polite form has become extremely subservient these days and is only really used by waiting staff in fancy restaurants and the like. I meant in English usage, sorry. German also has familiar and polite second person pronouns, as I said- I was citing German specifically because I at least have some (small amount of rusty) German. From what you said, it appears German usage of familiar and polite is actually more robust than Norwegian, as far as I know- you default to the polite form except with people you are legitimately on familiar terms with.
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May 30, 2018 08:10
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Nakar posted:Yeah I probably should've added gridlines or redone the maps in Grid Cartographer. I still may. If scanners were a thing that people owned anymore, I might've scanned all the pencil maps I did on graph paper. Now those were confusing messes of odd dimensions.
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May 30, 2018 09:39
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Thee/Thy/Thou are used for when addressing one person familiarly while also being a pretentious squink. As for which one to use, pretend you're talking about yourself, and... I: Thou My: Thy Me: Thee They also get the 'art' and 'hast' forms for 'to be' and 'to have', if I remember correctly. As demanded, I didn't check wiki, so I'm going on the memory of Dragon Warrior doing it wrong rargh.
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May 30, 2018 10:34
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Zereth posted:Please do at least once, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it as well.  I'll be trying gridlines on my maps as well as of next post. We'll see how that goes.
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May 30, 2018 11:34
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Ah, so the corridors between adjacent intersections aren't actually places you can stand.
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May 30, 2018 11:45
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This works better for me, too. This has to be the right answer.
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May 30, 2018 11:47
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nweismuller posted:I meant in English usage, sorry. German also has familiar and polite second person pronouns, as I said- I was citing German specifically because I at least have some (small amount of rusty) German. From what you said, it appears German usage of familiar and polite is actually more robust than Norwegian, as far as I know- you default to the polite form except with people you are legitimately on familiar terms with. Yeah, it used to be like that here too, it just fell out of fashion in the 70s or so. Most people are familiar with the old usage from older movies and novels.
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May 30, 2018 13:42
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I'm joining the consensus for 'when being a pretentious squink' too, because nobody we've met so far in this setting has talked like that and because squink is a fun word to say.
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May 30, 2018 15:20
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Level One: A Maze Of A Different Sort In which we get lost in the woods, twice. Regrettably, he takes some offense to the "pretentious squink" comment (or any other wrong answer) and escorts you from his property. Doesn't even kill you for it. Real missed opportunity.
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May 30, 2018 17:02
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Do we even need a hint for this? Look at the moss on the trees to find north. Classic navigation trick.
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May 30, 2018 17:08
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Seems like a reference to that one Robin Hood story where he runs into Little John? Anyway, refuse at first, maybe you can agree to give him the right of way and in return get some tips on getting through the Lost Woods.
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May 30, 2018 17:21
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Firm, but trusting, I say. Never back down from adventure.
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May 30, 2018 17:21
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Firm and trusting. He might respect us for that.
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May 30, 2018 18:43
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Adamant posted:Do we even need a hint for this? Look at the moss on the trees to find north. Classic navigation trick.
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firm and thrusting 
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Adamant posted:Do we even need a hint for this? Look at the moss on the trees to find north. Classic navigation trick. It's a magical forest, my guess is that magic is needed to defeat it. Also, why trust a random dude wandering around with a giant stick? I guess he could have it to defend himself, but there's no one else unfriendly in this part of the maze...
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