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 - Build Ladders in Chute

[(Anonymous)]

==> BUILD LADDERS IN CHUTE
If we assembled the right components, we can build a ladder to get back to the Control Panel. Lucy's already made her grand escape, and without her, the three relatively easy puzzles we saw on our first visit have been upgraded to more painful variants, quite literally. The NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, for example, now requires us to find PAINGRAMS instead of PANGRAMS.

https://i.imgur.com/AJUsdxh.png
We're given another sliding triangle puzzle (now with added portals) for our next choice, but the Cockpit is only accessible if we have a crew member's ID card. There's one of those in the Captain's Office, but we can't go back ... or can we?

Re: Puzzles - Teammate 2025 - Visit the Greenhouse

[(Anonymous)]

==> VISIT THE GREENHOUSE
Welcome to the Greenhouse! This round has one of my favorite puzzle hunt conventions - the obligatory scavenger hunt. After doing all sorts of dumb logic puzzles (and spoiling ourselves on Tears of the Kingdom in the process), we finally get to sit back, relax, and force puzzle hunt staff to read our dumb submissions for tasks like 'Show me how to center a div' and 'Send me proof you touched grass.' Some of the best submissions are featured in the wrap-up; I especially liked the ChatGPT response to centering a div.

As for the actual metapuzzle - well, the problem here is that we're running out of air. To solve that, we simply need to reinvent life. Our communications with the aliens gave us the combination to the safe in the Cargo Shelves, and if we unlock it, we receive a set of denatured proteins. If we combine the proteins with the subpuzzle answers and print them out, we can literally fold the proteins back into shape to reveal the metapuzzle answer OXYGENETICS.

That allows us to generate as much oxygen as we need! We get a few moments to celebrate ... and then our ship blows up? What the fuck. This ship sucks and I want a refund.

Re: Puzzles - Teammate 2025 - Visit the Cockpit

[(Anonymous)]

==> VISIT THE COCKPIT
Like Houston, Lucy also left some notes scattered around the Greenhouse. One of them contains a drawing of the ship's Air Filtration System, which just so happens to look exactly like the crossword puzzle in the Captain's Office. If we use the marks on her drawing to extract an answer from the crossword puzzle, we're told to IN VENT - we can visit the Captain's Office, pick up his ID card, and then crawl into the vents to get back to the Control Panel. Now we can visit the Cockpit, which'll let us fly the spaceship!

Unfortunately, none of us passed pilot school and space is full of hazards we have to navigate around. We unlock three sets of themed puzzles, where each set contains four (simpler) 7x7 puzzles and two (harder) 13x13 puzzles that combine the mechanics introduced in the first four puzzles. These sets are, in order: the world's most cursed Nonogram, the world's most cursed Minesweeper, and the world's most cursed NYT Strands. Consider this:

- Nonogram, but you can only place Tetris pieces, but also you have to place Akari lights
- Minesweeper, but the numbers are colored based on how hard they're lying to you, and also there are no numbers, there are just Minecraft craftable items
- Strands, but the theme is chess and all paths have to be valid chess moves for the type of piece the word references

Each of these puzzle sets represents an axis in 3D space, and each of these puzzles represents a specific slice of the 13x13 cube that we have to map for hazards. The puzzles tell us what to avoid; for example, in Minesweeper we can't hit mines and in Chess Strands we can't hit royals and rooks.

Finally, we just have to navigate our ship safely from our current location (which we can deduce from landmarks in Cryptics Hell) to the planet Marsh Haven at (1, 3, 13). Just as we're about to reach our final destination, our ship ... blows up? Man, they just don't make spaceships like they used to these days.