Eleventh Post!

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Why did I always get kudos from COMMENT_ME_JAPANESE_TITS? Why did I never get kudos from Carl Gauss? What's a girl got to do to attract a studly mathematician to her principia-mathematica-omegaverse fanfic? I'd proved the number 4 at least twenty times! But no, Gauss and his cute flowery signature were nowhere to be seen! Just me, the Hell Hounds, and the stalwart tit-requester. Typical.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/3100.html?thread=5411356#cmt5411356)

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Re: Puzzles - Teammate 2025 - Suit Up

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==> SUIT UP
On the other hand, the cards ... are in the answers?

Each of the subpuzzle answers can be matched to a card suit; for example, SAILOR MOON is associated with HEARTS and MANCHESTER UNITED is one (of many) CLUBS. Conveniently, Lucy threw all four card suits at us in a very specific order. If we use the numbers of matching cards as indices into the subpuzzle answers, we get the metapuzzle answer SUIT UP.

Inspired, we put on our spacesuits and head out to patch the breach from outside - except we're immediately thrown into cryptics bootcamp. Each puzzle is a set of four cryptics, all using the same type of cryptics wordplay (i.e. initial letters, charades). Not too bad! Unfortunately, someone then got the bright idea of inventing new cryptic clue types (answers/explanations in spoilers).

> Begin north, new group of ferrets (7)
START (begin) up (NORTH) → NEW BUSINESS (group of ferrets)
> Relative of Fibonacci’s favorite aunt at school gather together (6)
F (favorite[1]) + A (aunt[1]) + T (at[2]) + H (school[3]) + E (gather[5]) + R (together[8]) → FATHER (relative)

Then, they start combining all of these different tricks into one cursed package.

> Ariel has many of these Thai-Indian whales and a bobsled without a lightbulb (12)
TH (thai) + IN (indian) + GAM (group of whales) + A BOBSLED - LED (lightbulb) → THINGAMABOBS (ariel has many of these)

If you're going 'what the fuck' at these now, just know that I'm sharing the ones that actually made enough sense to me to write an explanation for them. I offloaded the hard ones onto our Cryptics Guy, and even he had to resort to the time-honored cryptics tradition of guessing random synonyms that fit the enumeration.

If we manage to complete all the cryptics, we get hit by an asteroid for our trouble! We die, but at least we manage to get a beautiful view of our spaceship's relative position in space before we drift out of consciousness. Wonder what that might be useful for.