Contest 60 - Scavenger Hunt

[Nicole]

My first contest, yay. \o/

Pretty much, there are scattered links around CB and you have to find them all. Each will revolve around a certain letter, and you must combine the letters to form a word.

Now, this may sound impossible, right? There are already clues out there to help you locate each letter, and since I'm a generous person and all, I put all the letters in order for you guys. Which means that the letters you find will be in order so you do not have to scramble the word at the end.

In fact, I am extra generous today, so I will give you the first letter and clue (to find the next letter):

Letter: L

Clue:

It begins from the inside
Where many questions lie

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Here are a couple of hints to help you out:

-ALL the letters will be on CB. Nowhere else. And they are all in areas where everyone can find them.

-The word is 11 letters long. You do the math from here.

-You will know when you see a letter. :P

-There will be no hints given (you have clues!)

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I will not accept submissions later than 12:00 PM CST on Monday, January 21st.

PM all submissions to me.

I will need:

The letters, the clue, and a link to the letter itself (where you originally found it) for full credit.

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Scoring:

You will be awarded 275 points for the word.
You will be awarded 50 points for each clue + letter found (not including the one I gave you).

As one can speculate, the division with the most points gets first place. Also, I will add and extra 00 at the end of your total points (a maximum of 77,500 vbux), and that is what you will receive in vbux. There is much vbux to be gained from this contest.

If there are two teams who are tied, the tie will be broken based on who submitted their answers first.

One more thing...

This is a C46 collab, so no one in C46 (who has a C46 userbar under his/her name) can participate.


HAPPY HUNTING :3

[Lust]

hmm question..those words...will it be in spoiler tag or just in the post...ex
omfg omfg "insert word"

[Nicole]

You're looking for letters. And you have to combine the letters to make a word.

Like... you looked around, and found the letters B, O, O, K. You would combine them to make "Book".

And the letters will be anywhere in CB. You'll know when you see them, though. Just follow the clues. :P

[Sekei]

ooo sounds like fun.

[Cloud]

Easy sauce. Already sent the answer in.

[rei]

Easy sauce. Already sent the answer in.


and you are? o.O

[Kray]

and you are? o.O

A wannabe :p

[Evanesque]

That's Zenryoku xD

Hmm, the clue isn't much help...trick is to think less and jump at the first thought you get xD

Interesting contest though! Nice one Nic :)

[Nicole]

Okay guys. Due to the emphasis of discovering the word through the scavenger hunt and not by just guessing it, I have tweaked the scoring a little bit. However, you will still have the maximum amount of points possible being 725 = 72,500 vbux. I hope you realize that the point is to discover the word through the scavenger hunt.

The word will be 275 points, and the individual clues will be 50 points each.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :(

[Seff vi Britannia]

Obvious question;

The word is a word that would be found in the english dictionary?

[Nicole]

Indeed. :P

[Cloud]

and you are? o.O


That hurts.

[Hits]

Lulz.

[Seff vi Britannia]

That hurts.

Zen!


/Surprise butsecks.

[Lust]

Easy sauce. Already sent the answer in.
you must be kidding me

[Shinomori]

Rule #1 of being Zenryoku.

Zenryoku never jokes.

Zenryoku is serious business.

[Cloud]

Rule #1 of being Zenryoku.

Zenryoku never jokes.

Zenryoku is serious business.


QFT

And Shino, transfer to Thunderlord!


And last but not least, I miss my hawt sweat secks with you :(

ZOMG, new news!

EvilDragonBlade (6:50:34 AM): I GOT PREGNANT
EvilDragonBlade (6:50:35 AM): ITS POSITIVE :<

[Nicole]

Sweaty secks? Ew.

And what does DB's pregnancy have to do with contest updates? >_>

[Cloud]

And what does DB's pregnancy have to do with contest updates? >_>

Everything, Elocin. Everything.

[Shinomori]

Something to do with a penis and/or impending apocalypse.

I could write out this long, drawn-out explanation...but you could always just take our word for it and move on.

I vote that option.

[Nicole]

First post updated.

To clarify:

When I said that I put the word in order for you, it means that the letters you find will be in the order of the word so you don't have to do any scrambling.

[WhyteDragon]

the second clue sucks ... person in space....

[Nicole]

At least you still have until Monday to figure it out.

[WhyteDragon]

Grrrr!!

[Nicole]

Alright. I know that I wouldn't give out anymore hints. But here are a couple:

-The letter will be a link, or there will be a link to the letter. It's never randomly in a post or something and you have to sit there figuring out which letter it is.

-The clues are what the letters will point to to find the next letter. These clues, as many of you have noticed, are edited posts. These clues have been incorporated with the original poster's post or I have taken out the entire person's post and put the clue in. It will be up to you to weed out what is and isn't valuable information for you, though oftentimes the whole post got edited out to put the clue in, and the original poster's post is unimportant.

And these are all the extra hints you get! :P

[M I Z U]

the second clue sucks ... person in space....


Oh mah gawdz.
I was looking for that clue.

:babies: :babies: :babies:

[Undying]

/me lulz

Yeah...

On a serious note, nice contest >=O.

I luff scavenger hunts <3.

[Nicole]

Yaaaaaay <3

Glad to know you're having fun. :O

[Wren]

This clue is going to make my head explode

[KholdStare]

-You will know when you see a letter. :P


That's pretty misleading as every letter except the second one looks like a plain old letter -_-

It's too late to change them now though, because if you did it would give an unfair advantage to teams who have not gotten as far as others.

[Nicole]

There is a reason I gave you a week to do this contest. Contests aren't meant to get done in 12-24 hours.

If you work at it, this contest is doable in the amount of time given to you.

[Wren]

There any chance of a division member's post being the one changed for a hint then when they find it them editing it to take the hint away?

[Nicole]

There is a chance. I chose at random which posts the hints will be at.

If I do catch a division member doing that, it is a guarantee that their division will be disqualified. :P

[~*StÓÑy RèL0ÂÐeD™]

lol, evil :D *quickly edits post back* JKJK

we have found the word too, now to find the hints *evil grin*

[Aesthetique]

o_________o

*starts hunting and raiding em threads and schtuffs* <3

[Shinomori]

*starts hunting and raiding aya's dresser drawers*

er...

move along, folks, nothing to see here. :)

[Nicole]

Edited first post:

In the case of a tie-breaker, who ever submits first will win over the other team. But because of the way that the vbux reward is set up, they will receive the same amount of vbux.

[♥ Tess]

hopefully you guys have been making some progress :<

Less than a day left :<

[Seff vi Britannia]

Er no, we're still stuck on "people", in fact. U_U

[Lady Ushio]

We only have few members. So, it can't be helped.

[Mr. Killa]

unfortunatly 12th as well =/

[Esca]

Is everyone stuck on "people"?

[M I Z U]

Yea, we were stuck on "people" 6 days ago.


Just kidding, we're still troubled by "It begins from the inside
Where many questions lie".:confused:

[WhyteDragon]

*snickers* we got the first one... but the second ... hung us, and this one cost us as well.

[Lady Ushio]

We only have few members. So, it can't be helped.

I posted this not because it's an excuse. We only have few members and few of them are inactive. So yeah...:babies:

[Shinomori]

So essentially, what you're saying is that it's not an excuse, it's just...an excuse?

Calling a turd a "Brown log" still makes it a turd.

And yes, most people are stuck on people, from my observations.

(I can admit this - I've been trying to do this contest just by myself...**** it, even I'M stuck on people.)

[WerzMyBankai?]

When you lot say people your refering to "person in space" right?

[diamondedge]

Is she complaining?

She is merely they can't do it because they have too few. I honestly doubt any division has a member that clears the contests singlehandedly.

@KirA: Interesting how fast you are stuck once the contest actually require some brain work. And before you ask, I'm not hinting anything.

[Shinomori]

Actually, they submitted the contest completed.

Heh.

I said good day. :)

[Miyagi Rikku]

Hi Shino :3

[Nicole]

Note:

For any team guessing the word -- only guess one word. If you give me more than one, I won't know which one to go by, so I won't be able to count it.

Fair enough, right? :)

[Shinomori]

Hi Shino :3

Hi miya, haven't seen you in a while.

[Miyagi Rikku]

Shino: Lulz I have been here... >: what are you talking about?

Hi elo.

[Nicole]

12 hours, folks. Get cracking. :)

[Shinomori]

Shino: Lulz I have been here... >: what are you talking about?


I haven't been, though.

:)

[Nicole]

Hi Miya. :333

No talking to me on MSN? :<

[M I Z U]

Actually, they submitted the contest completed.

Heh.

I said good day. :)

Shhhh, you'll ruin our surprise.

:babies:

/me continues to pretend he's still stuck on the first clue.

[Miyagi Rikku]

Lulz what D: okei msn then >: XD lawlz


shino: oh yeah... >: BAH!

[Shinomori]

shino: oh yeah... >: BAH!

Ha, got you.

I'm always on my computer...I'm just never on here.

[diamondedge]

Shhhh, you'll ruin our surprise.

:babies:

/me continues to pretend he's still stuck on the first clue.
This stopped being a "surprise" long long time ago. ^^

[Undying]

Well, they have a flair for the dramatic... XD

[~*StÓÑy RèL0ÂÐeD™]

*planning to submit answers soon, its 3 more hours to the dateline*

It is time, let us rise to the top now.

[Kalashnikov]

People who are saying they don't have enough members...
Espada are the ones with not enough members :<

[Undying]

I like it how you complain while keeping a solid grasp on second place :p.

[Cassie]

Sounds like Espadas are opening recruiting soon? :P

[theblack_dragon]

I like it how you complain while keeping a solid grasp on second place :p.


totally agree those Espada think there so smart.

[Undying]

Think or no think, they are still there... *shrug*

[Nicole]

Rawr.

13 minutes ago the contest ended.

I'll have submissions out soon.

[Seff vi Britannia]

Let joy be unconfined.

[WhyteDragon]

*hides*

Dont jump for joy to much Jio!

[Akiha]

Let us actually be on time. :|

[Nicole]

The results:

1st: Vaizard (Submitted at 3 AM 1/17/08) - 77,500 Vbux - 11/11 letters + Word
2nd: Espada (Submitted at 9 AM 1/17/08) - 77,500 Vbux - 11/11 letters + Word
3rd: 10th Division - 25,000 Vbux - 6/11 letters
4th: 6th Division - 20,000 Vbux - 5/11 letters
5th: 12th Division - 10,000 Vbux - 3/11 letters
6th: 9th Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters
7th: 3rd Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters
8th: 7th Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters

Didn't Submit:

1st Division
2nd Division
4th Division
5th Division
8th Division
11th Division
13th Division
Quincy

:(

If you want results for the clues, PM me.

The word was Lycanthropy

[Kray]

:o

That's a lot of non submissions :<
I'm sorry Elo <3

GJ to all that tried. ^^

[WhyteDragon]

we had the word... but also another form of it as well. since i submitted both words... we dont get credit towards it.. oh well.

[Kalashnikov]

Congrats to everyone :)

[Nicole]

Yeah. I'm sorry, Whyte, but with two words, I wouldn't know which one is the actual answer to go by. ^^;

But nice effort to the divisions who participated and congrats to those who pulled through. :)

[Akiha]

Yeah, I actually enjoyed it, as hard as it was. I never expected so many non-entries, though.

[Dissidia]

Vaizards win again!

/me dies

It was close too, ah well. Good work to all that participated :)

[Undying]

/me lulz

Haw haw haw

I firggin' knew I should've gone for Lycanthropy, it was Neve's favorite when he was in 6th XD.

Oh well.

@Elo: awesome contest btw, I always enjoyed scavenger hunts :D

[WhyteDragon]

Tis okay. Great job to everyone.

Great Job to you Elocin. Nice one!

[M I Z U]

Congrats to the Espada and 10th Div.

Nice job to the others that tried.

Contest was fun Elo, except for that part where we spent 2 days searching for P. xD Curse the Chen.

[Nicole]

Mm. Yeah, it was Never who picked out the word for us. :P

[Lady Ushio]

Is she complaining?
She is merely they can't do it because they have too few. I honestly doubt any division has a member that clears the contests singlehandedly.
@KirA: Interesting how fast you are stuck once the contest actually require some brain work. And before you ask, I'm not hinting anything.

If you're talking about me, I don't have any complains. I'm just explaining what happened in our division lately. hmmp.:babies:

edit: anyway, congrats to the winners. hmmp.

[Undying]

Mm. Yeah, it was Never who picked out the word for us. :P
EEEEH!?

Couldn't you have told me that as a hint? For old times' sake? I would have so won fight off the bat D:.

[Nicole]

I said no hints! You had clues :PPP

And I thought that having a word starting with Lycan, you would've figured it was Neve who picked it out :P

[Undying]

I said no hints! You had clues :PPP

And I thought that having a word starting with Lycan, you would've figured it was Neve who picked it out :P
It's not a hint, it's like telling me the answer :p.

And well, I had lycanthropy and remember it was Never's fave word, so I thought that you wouldn't pick it just in case.

That and I flipped a coin XD.

[WhyteDragon]

We got the word based on the first 2 letters. Helps with were-wolf lovers in the div as well.

[Cheryl]

'gratz to VE and 10th! x]

GJ to everyone who participated as well.

[Wren]

Grats to the winners!

Crazy words. Damn that yellow man

[Askand]

Congrats to the winners good job on the 12th. Although slowly we are catching up people!. ^^

[Miyagi Rikku]

Congrats to Espada :P and good job to all who participated :3

/me eats Static

[Cassie]

Soi Fong > j00

[Shinomori]

/me kidney-punches miya A.

Keep that kind of innuendo in your own section. :)

[Cassie]

Kidney shot followed by a cheap shot. What's next? :P

[Mr. Killa]

congrats to the 10th :p

and i guess the VE too lol


only 1 letter off or we woulda got the word too!

[Yamamoto]

Ahhh! I knew it was more likely lycanthropy than lycanthrope

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lol, we would have gone third lol, oh well, fourth is not bad :)

[Ren]

congratulations.

[Hits]

Where's the usual post-contest dramu?

[Dexter]

Here:
totally agree those Espada think there so smart.
wut. How is this statement even warranted? :eek13:


anyway -


Great contest Elo. I really missed these Scav hunts. Enjoyed doing this one as well as ones past ^^

Grats to all winnerz :)

[7th captin]

congrats for the winners and HOLY we got the third place ^_^ lol we pwn :p

[Miyagi Rikku]

Shino: ow >: *sniff sniff*

/me goes to her corner

[Guy]

Lol, the 2nd division didn't submit. Wow, we were so close to the right answer as well! rofl. Oh well, at least I had fun with this contest. :lol

[Lust]

congrat to the winnerz
abe didnt submit zzz :lol

[M I Z U]

So what happened to the Quincy?
Nowhere to be found.
The results:
1st: Vaizard (Submitted at 3 AM 1/17/08) - 77,500 Vbux - 11/11 letters + Word
2nd: Espada (Submitted at 9 AM 1/17/08) - 77,500 Vbux - 11/11 letters + Word
3rd: 10th Division - 25,000 Vbux - 6/11 letters
4th: 6th Division - 20,000 Vbux - 5/11 letters
5th: 12th Division - 10,000 Vbux - 3/11 letters
6th: 9th Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters
7th: 3rd Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters
8th: 7th Division - 5000 Vbux - 2/11 letters
Didn't Submit:
1st Division
2nd Division
4th Division
5th Division
8th Division
11th Division
13th Division
:(
If you want results for the clues, PM me.
The word was Lycanthropy

[Lust]

now you mention it...i thought they say they submited it few days after the contest has start

[Jedi Taicho]

Yea i believe they said they were done. Or was that the previous contest?

[Lust]

nope its this one
http://forums.bleachportal.net/showpost.php?p=2383372&postcount=5

[Miyagi Rikku]

rofl yeah I just noticed that too that the quincies are not included on the list O_O;

[Cassie]

haha nothing new. I bet she just forgot. I often forget about them too.

[Nicole]

Quincies didn't submit.

>______>;

*edits*

Sorry guys. <_<

Quincies are invisible :P

[Shinomori]

Shino: ow >: *sniff sniff*

/me goes to her corner

You know I do it because I care. :)

[Askand]

Where's the usual post-contest dramu?

I guess people got tired to see that complaining or not the results wont change. Plus, the only way to show we are good is to pawn you guys so I guess people decided (I'm not talking for anyone just a mere assumption) that if we work hard we can get good places on the contest. The 12th and other divisions had proved on the past that we can get good score and places. So is a matter of time to do that again. Its the beginning of the year. So why to continue this whining when we can work hard and win *winks*

Lets just enjoy this before we get the next one LOL. Have fun people and congrats once again.

[~*StÓÑy RèL0ÂÐeD™]

*jaw drops* we got 3rd!! :D:D:D

GJ vizpadas, and to those divisions that submitted. Thanks too.

P.S. we found Lycanthrope at the 2nd letter, coz iits th only word that starts with Ly, thank my div members for that work :D

[Yamamoto]

Lol not true Stony :p

Lycanthropy also starts with ly...also lyco- something (i forgot but it was one of thos science names)

[Guy]

There are not many English words that start with "ly". One of our members checked it in a dictionary. Really not that many.

[SupraSpeed]

congrats to all who participated!! Hopefully the 2nd division will be on that list of participants next time around :(

[Guy]

Since it has ended, can anyone explain what "Person in space" is suppose to mean?

[Jedi Taicho]

Yellow person = Simpsons

Find the post from with Homer in Space

http://forums.bleachportal.net/showpost.php?p=526583&postcount=19

Look at the letter "c" in Space

[Guy]

Holy crap, wow, you have to be very attentive to have been able to find that one out. Kudos to the people who were successful.

[Kenta]

probably if they added "Hmmmm..." to the clue, it would be easier. :D Took us a while to get it too.

[Undying]

Actually, you could have searched for "edited by Elocin" in a page by page search through related topics (once we figured the Simpsons clue).

Easy as pie :). Then it's just switching to Black Desire skin and looking for the blue letter in the post.

[Evanesque]

I tried that but going page by page is a pain in the ass =.=

Anyho...congrats to the participants...9th being sixth isn't that bad..better than nothing ^^

[Guy]

Actually, you could have searched for "edited by Elocin" in a page by page search through related topics (once we figured the Simpsons clue).

Easy as pie :). Then it's just switching to Black Desire skin and looking for the blue letter in the post.

:o Well, we never actually thought of the Simpsons in the first place. We were too concentrated on "space". (I thought an astronaut or alien)

[Seff vi Britannia]

My mind does not make a link between yellow and simpsons.


You don't want to know what my mind links with yellow.

[Reco]

I thought it had to do with the Sun or son.

<.< I looked through over 400 pages in the E-Adoption thread.

/me bangs head.

[SupraSpeed]

when i thought of yellow person... first thing that came to mind was asian people lol

[Guy]

I thought it had to do with the Sun or son.
<.< I looked through over 400 pages in the E-Adoption thread.
*Reco bangs head.*

Wow, I pity you :<

when i thought of yellow person... first thing that came to mind was asian people lol

Lol! Actually, that's what I thought as well, but that just sounded a bit odd for me for some reason, lol.

[Undying]

:o Well, we never actually thought of the Simpsons in the first place. We were too concentrated on "space". (I thought an astronaut or alien)
Same. It's just that after anything from sun to cosmonaut to shuttle left us back at square one, we started thinking over diverse options... random stuff. Bananas. I'm serious.

[~*StÓÑy RèL0ÂÐeD™]

when we found the clue, 'person' in yellow, shirou-chan immediately screamed "SIMPSONS!"

so we figured that out pretty quickly, too bad we still too 4 days to find the next letter :D

[Guy]

Same. It's just that after anything from sun to cosmonaut to shuttle left us back at square one, we started thinking over diverse options... random stuff. Bananas. I'm serious.

Rofl, bananas. Yeah, that was truly a difficult clue.