TheThirdPolice
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7/17/2018
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I have not played in months but somehow I stumbled across the Mystery deadline in time to stay up all night answering them. Thanks for the discussions everyone.
Most of my answers are nothing new but
A somewhat forced twist on the Great Game question and a theory for what happened to cause the Bazaar's last lightsplosion:
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The Great Game must be played to keep Powers pitted against each other, so they do not unbalance the Chain
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The Bazaar enjoyed Millicent Clathermont's company *quite a lot*
(She has a sunlight connection, she loves the Bazaar, and some of the text at the time hinted that this light event was an involuntary secretion analogous to lacre-as-tears, so *erm*)
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Also I still have no idea about the first Noman really but I suspect that's the obscurest of them all. Was trying to think of a clever mythological figure that might work but the Bazaar lore isn't usually myth-linked. (Kind of fun that there are Egyptian texts about men springing from Ra's tears but that's just playing word salad association games.)
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Monara
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7/17/2018
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It seems the Mysteries tab has been closed.
Will we get to hear the correct answers, and if so, when? And does anyone remember how long the review process took last time?
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Barse
Posts: 706
7/17/2018
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I expect we'll get the answers revealed alongside our marks and points. I think the semi-official word is that it'll take around a month, possibly longer - there's an awful lot of answers to mark!
Edit for updated info - thanks PSGarak!
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
7/17/2018
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Official word is here: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic26459-mysteries-marking-and-rewards.aspx
The closest thing to a hard timeline is a non-committal "within a month."
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TheFungalOne
Posts: 18
8/16/2018
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So... some of those answers were pretty surprising. The “Who hid the key in the well” one in particular, since that was one of the more hotly debated ones and I don’t think anyone guessed the right answer. Can anyone think of anything that might have hinted that it was the Implacable Detective?
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Azothi
Posts: 586
8/16/2018
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Official answers here for reference.
The only hint I can immediately think of for the Implacable Detective is that the Mysteries appeared shortly after Election 1895, and the other candidates had questions tangentially related to them. Feducci was an answer for "Name a hero of the season of revolutions", while Dauntless is connected to "What happened to the Working Man's Friend?" The Implacable Detective had no associated answer, and "Who hid the key in the well?" was the only question that she could feasibly be related to.
Sadly, that only somewhat makes sense in hindsight.
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A few interesting notes from the Mysteries and their implications:
- The Manager is May, which means that he can't be October. This leaves Dr. Schlomo as the leading candidate for October?
- Mr. Wines is (all but) confirmed to be the Master who suffered from "failure and defeat; a fall from king to beggar". This, by process of elimination, all but confirms Spices as "idleness, and the dwelling-on of dreams". It also makes you wonder if Wines is being somewhat spiteful when it negotiates the fall of the Fourth and possibly Sixth Cities: it's forcing the Surface rulers to undergo the same kind of fall that it had.
- Because cats are the guardians of what Is, this connects London's cats to the Elder Continent tigers, as the Minister of War states that they are made for the destruction of the enemy, implied to be the Fingerkings. This resembles the way that sunlight (what Is) corrodes Parabola (what Is Not).
I'm not sure about the implications of "Woods in Winter" as an answer. If the idea of "last February of sunlight" refers to before the Fall, it seems to imply that the White spymaster in Vienna knew about the existence of the Bazaar's secrets before the Fall; if not, I'm not sure what it means. I'm also unsure what kind of mythic connection it has to Salt and the White; I'd thought that Salt was sent to the Neath long before the Bazaar, but I could be misremembering.
EDIT: The Discord channel has discussed an interesting proposal that "Woods in Winter" represents a transformation of self, like those performed by Lilac and Salt (and potentially those who pursue SMEN or Exaltation). The Bazaar, hypothetically, could be attempting a similar transformation. Food for thought.
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Riful
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8/16/2018
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Regarding "Woods in Winter" I can recall only two mentions:
1) In "The Waltz that moved the world" the Duke hints that there is some kind of a trial for spies or the great game players which happens in a woods in winter.
[spoiler]The woods in winter. It happened before me. It happened after. I passed my trial, and came to London.[/spoiler]
2) The card from Nadir hints that maaaaybe the woods in winter are connected with a reason for the player to come to the Neath.
"Tree-branches cast shadows on the walls of the cave. The light here is not violet, but the cold blue of winter mornings. This is why you came from the Surface. You thought you knew, but you did not, could not know. By the time you leave this place, you will forget again."
Though, honestly, there is not even a single reference to February or sunlight, and Nadir may refer to the memory of someone else.
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Optimatum
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8/16/2018
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Woods in Winter also comes up in Sunless Sea, but there's no reference to February or sunlight there either.
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Azothi
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8/16/2018
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In hindsight, I realized that there was even more evidence for cats being the Guardians of what Is, causing the War of Illusions in Parabola. The Shroud represents the cats, and all aspects of their show are purely technical, based on "real magic" like sleight-of-hand, cold reading, and trickery, as opposed to the Glass, which presents Parabola and the Fingerkings as part of their magic. The text even goes so far as to point this out to us:
"Do we have a Cyril here? Cedric? Ah, Charlie, that's it." wrote:
In the end, you've never seen anyone in the Shroud do anything in the slightest bit supernatural or scientific – unless mechanical engineering and psychological manipulation count. But they perform their craft with extraordinary skill. And you're a part of that, now.
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