EPONA

[soulping]

The walls of the hedge maze close in around you. Before you is a single stone table covered in quill pens and several sheets of parchment. Even if you normally cannot read or write, for the time being, you find that you can.

Comments

ROUND ONE

[soulping]

[One sheet of parchment before you bears a symbol much like a blank crossword puzzle.]

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[Below it are instructions:]

Fill in the blank spaces with words that fit.

ROUND TWO

[soulping]

[Another sheet of parchment now offers new instructions.]

Create a saying or short story based on the puzzle you made, without using any of the words themselves. This will be the clue for your puzzle.

ROUND THREE

[soulping]

[Another blank crossword puzzle has appeared on a sheet of parchment.]

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[This one, however, is accompanied by a clue...]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

SUBMISSION

[soulping]

[Submit: down (6 letters), top across (9 letters), middle across (4 letters), and bottom across (6 letters).]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

SUBMISSION

[soulping]

CLUE

[soulping]

"A wave of snow falls from a mountain, down into a prairie next to a great divide. It fills a pond within the area."

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

SUBMISSION

[soulping]

[Submit: down (6 letters), top across (9 letters), middle across (4 letters), and bottom across (6 letters).]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

What the hell is this?

[ Shroom not knowing what something amazingly simple is? shock and awe. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

A crossword puzzle, duh! Says how to play right there.

[ tapping a quill against his chin. HMMM. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

Never seen one before.

[ surprise. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

What's the first 9-letter word that pops in your head?

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ give him a few moments, this is hard. ]

Stupidity.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

[ writing in 'stupidity' ]

My turn! 6 letters, starts with a T...

[ LAUGHS and writes 'tittie' ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ ...smacks him after he's done writing. ]

Not this shit again.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

Ow! Calm down, old man.

C'mon, now a four letter word starting with T!!

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ not even going to bring up that Yato is like 900 years older than him. ]

Twit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

[ so you admit you're a 100 year old vampire ]

Aaaand [ writes 'sweets' for the last one ] done!

Re: SUBMISSION

[sweatypalms]

DOWN: TITTIE

TOP ACROSS: STUPIDITY

MIDDLE ACROSS: TWIT

BOTTOM ACROSS: SWEETS

Re: SUBMISSION

[soulping]

[The words glow faintly as they settle onto the parchment...]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ just staring at these instructions. how the fuck... ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

[ wow, easy!!!! ]

"A dumb girl with big boobs ate some candy."

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ ...rubs at his face in exasperation. jesus christ. ]

That gets all of them?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

[ THINKS ABOUT THIS ]

Well. we've gotta make sure they get 'stupidity' and twit...

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ eyes Yato for a long moment, as if to say "you." ]

"An idiot wrote about a dumb girl with big boobs eating some candy."

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

The idiot is you--!!

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

I didn't say you were an idiot. Calm down.

[ he just heavily implied it. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sweatypalms]

Yeah, 'cos it's you!

What if we just let 'em fill it in...

"This first word is some idiot's _____,
but a girl with one small boob and one big ______
was a dumb ____
and bought some candy, 'cos she likes _____"

Re: DISCUSSION

[dirtdevil]

[ he is so beyond giving a fuck at this point. ]

Whatever. I can't come up with anything better.

Re: SUBMISSION

[sweatypalms]

"This is a poem for you:
This first word is just some idiot's _____
a girl with one small boob and one big ____
was a dumb ____ who always live-tweets
as she eats all the candy cos she likes ____"

Re: SUBMISSION

[soulping]

[The words glow faintly as they settle onto the parchment, and then the papers around you ruffle in a sudden breeze, which whisks your crossword and your clue away...]

Re: SUBMISSION

[dirtdevil]

Down: Valley
Top across: Avalanche
Middle across: Lake
Bottom across: Canyon

Re: SUBMISSION

[soulping]

[The words glow faintly as you write them down...and then the hedge maze opens up again. You can go to endgame.]