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Chapter 4 of Cinder-Marty is up! Hopefully everyone will enjoy. This is the last real chapter of "set-up" before we get onto the actual fairy tale.

Happy Birthday Josephine Grey! The advantages of having a Muse Journal -- the girls won't get forgotten anymore. You think I'm going to risk VampDoc2's wrath yet again?
-VD2: *pats* It's okay -- I'm glad you wrote them down this year, though.-
Yeah, I wanted to make sure I remembered.

In other news, why is it we can have a wicked bad thunderstorm this morning, and nothing happens, but the lights go out this evening for about twenty minutes under clear skies? I was worried I wouldn't catch 10:04 for a bit there. Lucky the power came back on pretty quick.
-TD: Any idea what happened?-
None. Far as I can tell, transformer probably blew somewhere -- the rest of the block lost power too.
-D: Huh.-
*shrug* I dunno. I'm just glad things are back on. Tonight would have been pretty bad without my fans.
-Muses: *nodnodnod*-
Anyway, not much else to report. Watched Coraline with director's commentary, wrote some, and played some more AMA -- I'm up to the Vale of Tears level. I've noticed a few things:
-->You can go invisible right in front of enemies, and they'll just plain stop attacking
-->There's two of the special mushrooms right in the first level! If you look closely by one of the buildings when you encounter your first card guard, you'll see it's a mushroom shop. Growing nearby is a bouncy mushroom and a mushroom with teeth!
-->The Cards really do SUCK as a weapon. The secondary burst attack uses up too much will, while the primary fire uses up only a little will per card, but considering you'll be rapid-firing them at enemies. . . . I'm relying on my Vorpal Blade and Croquet Mallet.
-->Speaking of which, I've notice that, at least in these earlier stages where you have less effective weapons, the best way to kill something is to combo your weapons -- like, hit an enemy with the croquet ball, then fling the knife. I don't know how that works, but hey, whatever helps me kill things the easiest. . . .
I've also been looking at American McGee's two twitter feeds (he's got one for himself and one specifically for Alice: Madness Returns stuff) and trying to puzzle out some of the hints he's been dropping about the game. I know, I wasn't all that impressed with what's been released, but I like this sort of "games" stuff. I just resent the idea of having to sign up for fifty million things to figure all of it out.
-VD: Who said you had to sign up for fifty million things?-
Well, apparently you have to follow the AMA blog, sign up for the forums and the newsletter, follow both twitters, AND sign up for the Facebook account to get a proper list of clues. No thanks. All I really want to know right now is if there's some sort of key for The White Rabbit's latest tweet.
-WRM: Why, what is it?-
Code!
-HD: *tilts head* Is it a riddle?-
Maybe, once you decode it. Hmmm. *goes back on the hunt*

Comments

[tea-holic.livejournal.com]

I'm working on deciphering it at the moment. I'll let you know if I come up with anything. So far I THINK I'm on to UZ'H and BUZ.

[docsgirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was pursuing the forum thread on the various clues we've gotten to see if there was a hint on how to decode it, and discovered someone else had already figured it out and posted the answer, so. . . ^^; (Though if you want to keep decoding for the heck of it. . . .)

[tea-holic.livejournal.com]

damn! haha I'll have to take a look. Unless you link me. Was I close? xD

[docsgirl.livejournal.com]

You made a damn good try:
FRABJOUS HAS GOTTEN THE CLOSEST, BUT LOOK BACK AT THE ORIGINAL RIDDLE TO KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT HE'S FOUND.

"frabjous" being the name of a forum member who apparently figured out some of the OTHER clues we've gotten, like "In the land of massive incendiary devices, ordinate ramblings reveal a prime directive." American McGee and his minions are probably trying to tie everyone's brains in knots (especially if you're like me and reluctant to sign up for shit just for puzzles).

[tea-holic.livejournal.com]

Damn. I had SOME letters right but others were way off. I probably woulda gotten it eventually. (I can dream. haha)

[docsgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was tricky. One person admitted to using some sort of online decoder, so don't feel too bad. :p

[tea-holic.livejournal.com]

So far I've come up with:

--I--O-D HID -OSSE- SHE --ODEDS, --S -OO- -I-- IS SHE O-----I- --TT-E SO ---T THIS SO TO T-SH THIS HE'D -O---.