ButterPopcorn8 wrote:

That's fine with me! It also funny since Sooeun mentioned wanting to be Erudition or Destruction earlier and the Stellarons represents Destruction heh

That was before we decided on the Stellarons being Destruction, but I suppose if it works, it works ;]

ButterPopcorn8 wrote:

Oh, and for one of the stages, I was thinking of having the campers do a little mini game with the fighting the viruses? Like in a project or something as an actual game, and completing it would give more clues. I'm not sure what stage that would fit in, but maybe stage one or two? The game wouldn't have to be too complex btw, it would be one of those simple ones to code

Sounds great! We could possibly put that in Stage 1 and then save the codes and puzzles for later in the session, but that's just one suggestion. Or, we could hide a few messages in that project as well :eyes:

okay sorry, i had exams this week and could not respond afbsjfjg but i think we need to start working on this right away! the mini-game sounds cool since we have four stages, we can split the first three stages between ourselves (the last stage, we'll work on together, since it's the final conclusion) but we need to discuss over here exactly /what/ information the stages contain, so any ideas?

Just gonna quote this again cause I don't feel like typing the whole thing again lol-

Stage 1 - Ties into the intro storyline, actually ‘fighting off’ the viruses from either smaller puzzles or writing-related tasks? *Potentially project with the actual ‘fighting’ of the viruses I was thinking we could scramble a sentence that gives them the hint that there are actually people behind this and then separately encrypt each word (ie. some can be found through puzzles, others deciphered)
Stage 2 - Larger, more destructive viruses start appearing, and simply fending them off won't stop them fast enough. This is when campers begin investigating the situation (given that, from the last stage, they now know there are people undercover working for the Stellarons) and the (co)leaders come into play.
Stage 3 - Coded message is intercepted, and campers have to decipher it. The important message then leads to more clues, possibly- (I'm out of ideas for this part. Something will happen. Something. :'D)
Stage 4 - Campers now have to fight the Stellaron boss. We could style this like a cabin war of sorts, possibly, and they'll have one to two, possibly three days to reach a certain amount of words as a cabin. They are also given the last set of clues to find out who's behind all of this.

I just have the project part in as Stage 1 for now, and the scrambled sentence somewhere within the project, and Stage 2 could be (co)leader riddles. If we're going with this plan, should we ask on the leader forum for volunteers?
For Stage 3, we could possibly incorporate Nexus? ;DD As the carrier of the coded message, perhaps, or even just a fun side activity for them (roleplaying with the mascot or just talking, etc)?

thanks for that! we should now probably work on /what/ messages we need to encrypt for the campers to find and how they'll contribute towards the storyline i need to sleep so i'll help work on that later, but if you have any ideas for any of the stages that would be really cool :0

Coco_animator wrote:

thanks for that! we should now probably work on /what/ messages we need to encrypt for the campers to find and how they'll contribute towards the storyline i need to sleep so i'll help work on that later, but if you have any ideas for any of the stages that would be really cool :0

Alright- I'll try coming up with some ;D And good night, haha- I'm presuming, at least…?

okay, so

Stage 1 - Ties into the intro storyline, actually ‘fighting off’ the viruses from either smaller puzzles or writing-related tasks? *Potentially project with the actual ‘fighting’ of the viruses I was thinking we could scramble a sentence that gives them the hint that there are actually people behind this and then separately encrypt each word (ie. some can be found through puzzles, others deciphered)

so, the scrambled sentence could be ‘some people are not who they seem’, maybe?
since they're seven words, i think one could be a caeser cipher, another pig latin, another just scrambled, and then either the pattern could repeat or there would be new methods of encryption. puzzles work as well! here's an example. the first one is encrypted in caesar cipher by a shift of 3, since that's the most common one according to the internet

vrph eoplepay era (1)___ zkr eythay mese

(1) - A word used to express denial

this could be an example of a clue? it's decoded in caesar cipher, pig latin, scramble, puzzle, caeser, pig latin, and scramble in that pattern

Stage 2 - Larger, more destructive viruses start appearing, and simply fending them off won't stop them fast enough. This is when campers begin investigating the situation (given that, from the last stage, they now know there are people undercover working for the Stellarons) and the (co)leaders come into play.

so i believe luka already asked for volunteers in the leader forum! we'll have to brief the co-leaders on their specific roles based on their activity levels, and we need to give clues that point /towards/ the co-leaders. for this, we could either have a crossword with each of their names to be solved, or a set of puzzles that lead to something about them, but i think the second option is better because it's more vague, and that way, they won't figure out that sooeun's one of them that easily, hopefully :0

Stage 3 - Coded message is intercepted, and campers have to decipher it. The important message then leads to more clues, possibly- (I'm out of ideas for this part. Something will happen. Something. :'D)

okay, for this the idea is essentially that the message was being transmitted to sooeun but was intercepted by our intelligence. i'm thinking that it classified a meeting point? so it'll be something vague and cryptic, like ‘meet me at the light of the shores in ’23' (but coded and sounding better), and upon further inspection, they'll realise it's the poetry lighthouse of march ‘23! (…i think, i really don’t remember the dates haha). and then they go to the studio, and they find a onversation between two people at the top saying that they saw something suspicious, and they'll basically be desrcibing more about the people who are working with the stellarons, so this'll help the campers narrow it down more, maybe??

Stage 4 - Campers now have to fight the Stellaron boss. We could style this like a cabin war of sorts, possibly, and they'll have one to two, possibly three days to reach a certain amount of words as a cabin. They are also given the last set of clues to find out who's behind all of this.

this entire stage four sounds pretty cool, we could definitely go ahead with this all throughout, we need to make luka and i red herrings, as well as a few other co-leaders to distract them from who the real traitor is, and if they get it in the end, we'll tell them that they succeeded to wipe the threat out! if they didn't, then we… failed. we could possibly include an alternate situation for this scenario, on what they could do to win, but let's just hope our campers are smart enough or we're fine with them dying ;D

Lora's been cooking. xDD Okay, okay, that was immensely out of character.
That's a lot to reply to :0 I as of currently have a document with my ongoing response to the above post which I'll most likely send tomorrow once I'm done going through everything. Looks pretty neat though!

Also- We should definitely get our WCGs set up soon. I'll see what I can do with WCG thumbs… Tomorrow, as well. :'D

bwahahaahaa THANK YOU i died writing all of that oh my gosh alright!! also, i think luka hasn't been active in a while?? we should do something if she still doesn't respond within a day or so, it's been sometime since she's been on thsi forum <3 and right wcgs, i'll try to work on that as well :0 thanks for reminding!!!

HIII sorry for going dark on you guys, I've had limited access to the internet for a while now so I've only been able to get on occasionly </3

an update on my end: I've finished sooeun's pfp and in working on lora's! should be done tomorrow hopefully ^^

the mini game I mentioned is 20% finished, at this point I just need to finish up the graphics, code it, and then add in the clues (I assume that's what we're doing?)

oh and for wcg's, did we ever decide on names for them? my memory's kinda blurry on that lol

RIGHT and I asked for volunteers a while back, I'll update the list later today <33

(and once again I am SO SO SO sorry about the inactivity </3 I should've communicated about it even though my ability to do so was limited asjdhsjhk- BUT we still have 6 days to wrap up everything which is just enough time in my opinion )