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Cycle 5 Happenings
HAPPENINGS
What's been going on in Wellstone?
The intention of this Happenings post is to create more of a sense of a small town. If something may have been seen or heard publicly, like if your character punched a wall, publicly confessed their love, turned into a statue in an awkward position, built a sad little camp on the edge of town, left a message for a mysterious benefactor, whatever it is, put it here!
The intention of this Happenings post is to create more of a sense of a small town. If something may have been seen or heard publicly, like if your character punched a wall, publicly confessed their love, turned into a statue in an awkward position, built a sad little camp on the edge of town, left a message for a mysterious benefactor, whatever it is, put it here!
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What: Numbers Station
Where: Cactus Pad
When: 5.2, 5.3 (unless/until interrupted)
A puzzle appears in the Cactus Pad. In the first week, the music changes. Now, it plays Franz Schubert’s “Ständchen”. Between each repeat of the song, the piano will play a series of numbers in Morse code on the C4 note.
There is a small, convoluted walkie-converted-radio on the very corner of the music shelf. It is set up to broadcast only out on a frequency that is not being used by the walkie talkie network. A small heart-covered sticky note that says ‘please do not move’ has been tacked to it. The radio receives no incoming messages. The broadcast cannot be picked up by walkie talkies.
(cipher details for characters who are nerds and want to crack it)
The Morse code says the following, sans punctuation: 031 - 023 - 023 - 041 - 373 - 021 - 461 - 543 - 373 . 315 - 041 - 373 - 471 . 201 - 041 - 501 - 351 . 315 - 041 - 023 - 068 - 501 - 315 - 373 . 201 - 542 - 501 - 041. This tune remains in ¾ score as is the song, with beats of silence to reset measures as needed.The numbers correspond to the measures and notes in “Ständchen”: the first two numbers are a measure; the third number is the note in the measure. From there, it is a basic substitution on the bass clef’s chromatic scale. If cracked, it is a distress signal which says: ATTENTION. SEND HELP. RETURN HOME.
A handwritten composition of Ständchen” has been left on the piano’s music desk. It will have the relevant notes underlined. (So, a character who would like to crack the code and has an understanding of Morse code and the chromatic scale can absolutely reasonably do so regardless of music ability.) The chromatic scale is possible to reverse engineer based on the provided information.
It’s ridiculously complicated for no good reason. Don’t ask them why the message wasn’t just in Morse code, tysm.