Chatterbox: Pudding's Place

A message to all: 

(if you just want a ski lodge/brilliant entertainment/a puzzle, skip down to the next section) 

My deepest apologies. I posted this a month ago, and not being incredibly active on this corner of the Chatterbox fine forgot as it sank to the back pages... then recently it has come to my attention that I never began the great adventure I had (albeit roughly) planned! Oops.

Anyway, we're still on! If you signed up before, you may join this adventure again, and simply request to use the sheet you filled out earlier, or fill out a new one. Also, please take as much licorice as you want as a token of my apologies.

If you didn't sign up before, please do! I'd like at least twenty people, so bring your entourage!! 

Without further ado, this is what I posted before. 

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You are staring into space at the local shoelace store, wondering what your purpose in life is and what you are doing at a shoelace store of all places. You happen to glance up at a bulliten board. Most of the notices on it are large and brightly colored (and fluffy, for some reason), but one stands out to you by dint of of its simplicity: 

Dear Everyone,

This is a Warning. The Drainaps are Attacking, the Sky is Purple, and there is Nothing you can Do!!!

Love,

X 

As you are very smart indeed you immediately realize that one of the statements in the notice is a lie. But which one?

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You have probably noticed by now that this is a Ski Lodge. But it is not an ordinary kind of ski lodge. Everyone who joins makes mischief of some sort, whether it be that they steal things, constantly sets up pranks, spy on people, or are merely a murderer. By process of elimination you must figure out who the murderer/s is/are (the number of people who commit each sort of crime will depend on who joins). Meanwhile, very strange things are going on... more details will be given when spots are full.

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To join, please fill out this form. You may bring AEs and CAPTCHAs also, but only those who have the form filled out may come! (if you read nothing else, please read that...)

Name:

Physical characteristics: 

Interests: 

Personality:  

What you are bringing:  

submitted by X
(February 23, 2017 - 7:43 pm)

back to the Pudding's Place

Can you use my, Connie's, Sequoia's and Anna's old sheets?

 

submitted by elementgirl18917
(February 26, 2017 - 11:11 am)

It's kind of a lot of work for X to go find them, though. If that were allowed, then no one would psot sheets, and he/she would have to find everyone's sheets!

submitted by Mei-xue (May-shreh), Fairyland
(February 26, 2017 - 4:32 pm)

ElementGirl, that is fine. Thanks for your thought, Mei, but I copied and pasted all the sheets from the first time I tried to do this exact same Ski Lodge (but forgot and didn't start it) onto a text file, so it isn't much trouble :).

submitted by X
(February 27, 2017 - 3:04 pm)

Well, X said we could use them...

submitted by elementgirl18917
(February 27, 2017 - 4:27 pm)

Top!

submitted by Many more spots!
(February 27, 2017 - 3:06 pm)

Name - Dandelion

Phsical Charateristics - Tall and slim, dark blonde hair, bright bule eyes. Has olive tone skin with no freckles.

Interests - reading, drawing, LOVES outdoors including hiking and canoeing and nature. Likes rockclimbing and painting too. Very social.

Bringing - books, sketchbook, Rubik's cubes, pencils, sneakers 

submitted by Dandelion
(February 27, 2017 - 7:37 pm)

When will this lodge start??? Is it cancelled AGAIN?

Just checking. Thanks! 

submitted by Person who signed up
(March 1, 2017 - 2:35 pm)

Joining!

Name: Random Person or RP

Physical chararistecs: Not really the athletic type, but is quite agile, skinny.

Interests: Coding (or hacking, call it whatever you want), Reading, Writing, Quantum physics

What are you bringing: Gigi (my CAPTCHA), Timeless and Snicker, my AEs, every book I am interested in.

CAPTCHA form

Gigi

Aerobatic 

4-letter words

Sassy

AE forms

Timeless

A Pink fluffy unicorn dancing on a nonexistent rainbow

Shoes

Silly

Snicker

Slim cobra body with larger than usual fangs

Hacking, murder, sassiness, weapon inventing

Creepy, mean, terribly cold-hearted (though I'm able to control him) 

submitted by Random Person, age 1-100, Somewhere
(March 1, 2017 - 8:06 pm)

If you still want to join, it's not too late! Spots will be closed on Sunday or Saturday, the first episode posted the next day. 

@Leeli, could you please fill out forms for your AEs and CAPTCHA? Thanks! 

submitted by @Leeli/more spots!, X
(March 2, 2017 - 7:56 pm)

Is it to late to join now?? If not, here's mine:

Name: Quirker

Physical Characteristics: Short brown hair, green-ish eyes, tall

Interests: Musicals, reading

Personality: Moody, introverted, easily annoyed

What You Are bringing: Headphones, something I can listen to music on, books

I'm also bringing Anne Peggy, my AE, here's hers: 

Name: Anne Peggy

Physical Characteristics: Electric blue eyes, red hair,

Interests: Correcting people and glaring at them when they tell her to be quiet

Personality: Snobbish, a bit rude

What she's bringing: Dictionary, notebook

There we go... 

 

submitted by Quirker
(March 4, 2017 - 11:54 pm)

Spots are filled! Here is the final list:

1. Booksy

2 -Wordsy

3. Mei

4. - Dain

5. Leeli

6. - Alfred

7. -Evil Devin

8. - Nugget

9. Autumn

10. Dandelion

11. Destiny

12. - Ember

13. Elementgirl

14. - Connie

15. - Sequoia

16. - Anna

17. RP

18. - Gigi

19. - Timeless

20. - Snicker

21. Quirker

22. - Anne Peggy 

 

Now, almost everyone here commits crime or mischief of some sort, which I have determined randomly. Here is the list for that:

- 4 Petty Thieves/pickpockets

- 2 more serious thieves 

- 3 Pranksters 

- 2 Murderers 

- 3 Hackers 

- 2 Traitors, who are secretly working for an enemy force 

 

And some more unique criminals:

- 1 Graffiti artist

- 1 Imposter, who turn out to not really be from the CB at all but is really someone entirely different pretending, which is very confusing but very true

 

And last but not least... 

- 4 Innocent people who get caught in the crossfire.

 

Every day several crimes take place, and it is up to you to guess who is who. This may seem confusing at first, but will make more sense once we begin either tonight or tomorrow. Beware the Drainaps! 

submitted by X
(March 5, 2017 - 5:45 pm)

I would greatly appreciate it if you posted sheets for Alfred, Devin, Nugget, and Ember! If not they will still be included in the story, but I may depict them incorrectly.

submitted by @Leeli, Destiny
(March 5, 2017 - 5:47 pm)

Haha! X, you are Destiny!

submitted by Mei-xue (May-shreh) , Fairyland
(March 7, 2017 - 7:45 am)

I weave the threads of the lives of ye mortals...

submitted by X
(March 7, 2017 - 5:59 pm)
Day 1 
As soon as you touched the advertisement, you felt yourself being whisked through the air...
~ ~ ~
The CBers found themselves in a long hallway, extending as far as the eye could see in both directions. It was dimly lit by chandeliers that looked like giant metal wagon wheels. There were no doors.
At first they were so getting used to the surroundings that for a moment all were unusually silent.
"Well," Dandelion began, "where should we go?" 
Wordsy was looking up at one of the chandeliers, wondering if it were close enough to jump up and hang onto, when a bright turquoise bouncy ball dropped off of it suddenly. Wordsy caught it, and started to toss it from hand to hand.
"The real question is: how did we get here?" RP said contemplitavely. "Was that advertisement some sort of teleportation device?"
"It does seem odd that we're not that surprised to be randomly transported to an unrealistically long hallway," Mei said, intercepting the bouncy ball from Wordsy's toss to Dain. 
"Where are we, anyway?" Alfred asked, next to her. Leeli nodded.
"I wonder if these panels lead to a secret passage," Destiny said dreamily, fingering the wonderfully wiggly wobbly wood walls, tapping lightly on one with a pencil she produced from behind her ear. Ember followed suit with her beak.
"Come on, guys," Elementgirl said, a little exasperated. "Let's pick a direction."
"One direction?" Dain asked. The next thirty seconds were full of screams, face palms, and Luke Skywalker-style "nooo"s. 
Not to be outdone, Wordsy picked up a bow and quiverfull of arrows. "I could shoot an arrow to the end of the hall and see if it makes any noise..."
"I'll use that," Autumn said, quickly taking back the bow. "How can you see a sound?" Anne Peggy said at the same time. Quirker frowned and reached for her headphones.
"Okay, who votes we go that way?" Elementgirl said loudly, pointing. Most of the CBers just shrugged, or continued talking. 
"Isn't there some sort of guide?" Dandelion asked.
"Maybe it was the bouncy ball!" someone shouted.
"Follow your inner shoelace," someone else yelled amidst laughter.
"wonk?" asked someone's CAPTCHA.
"Um, guys..." Booksy said quietly, "what about that sign?"
The CBers stopped the racket, and looked. There, right in front of them, was a giant sign with blinking neon letters and a giant arrow, reading: "THIS WAY!!!".
The arrow was pointing straight up.
Dandelion laughed. "How did we not notice that before?"
"Maybe it was invisible," Destiny suggested.
"Let's see if there's a trap door or something." Mei put the turqouise bouncy ball in her back pocket, and spread her wings, hitting Alfred in the nose. She took off and, with Ember's help, unrolled a rope ladder from one of the chandeliers. 
Once above the chandelier, Mei discovered that what had appeared to be a ceiling was actually just a couple of old newspapers (don't ask me how that works). She found herself in a sickeningly bright yellow room with garish flowers and princesses painted on the walls.
"Come on up, guys," Mei yelled down. Wordsy and Dain were the first two up, closely followed by RP. After much pushing, shoving, trying to manuevor Autumn's barrel of unending food and getting feet and luggage stuck in the chandelier, it seemed like everyone was up. Mei wondered idly where her bouncy ball had gone.
"Wait, what about Ember?" asked Destiny.
She hurried down the ladder with Leeli, and the CBers above heard a small scream.
Some of the others hurried down. In Ember's beautiful glossy black feathers was an arrow, unmistakably from Autumn's quiver.
RP glanced warily at Snicker. The cobra almost seemed to be smiling.
R. I. P. Ember 
~ ~ ~
The next episode will focus more on the different sorts of crimes and give more . Tomorrow you may choose what room you would like to accomidate...
submitted by X
(March 7, 2017 - 8:17 pm)
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