The Exam: IC Community

WHO: Blue Sargent & Ronan Lynch
WHAT: Fire, weird personal ads, the usual.
WHERE: The lounge
WHEN: Morning, Day Four
STATUS: Complete!

( Don't say I never did anything nice for you. )

DAY FIVE

Do not step into the study because there is an oscilating pendulum blade that will kill you.

Do you think the old guy in all the paintings would mind if we took some of them down?

He's got so many of them, I bet he wouldn't even notice.

There is a dead body in the attic. We think it may be our host.

Has anyone else tried starting up a fire again in the fireplace? Nothing that I try is taking and the one that was there is out.

Has anyone seen any particularly unusual gatherings of animals about the place? Other than the obvious multitude of rats, that is. I had a rather... unusual encounter, and I was wondering whether it was an isolated incident or not.

Slightly less interesting than a dead body in the attic but I'm pretty sure I saw Cthulu's younger brother in the ceiling in the foyer this morning.

Not sure what to do with that, but I figured it'd be important... Or might be.

UPDATE:

We've got all the letters now.

A I D M T N E I M O I V L A M and the white ball is blank.

Gladio and I have had a go at putting them together in various combinations. We've been able to make lots of individual words - VOID, DIVE, LOVE, ATONE, etc. - but, when we try to use all the letters, each combination seems to have at least one letter left over and none of them make any sense:

MAIN MOTIVE DIAL M
MAD MOVE INITIAL M
MOVE MADAM LINT II

Can anyone see anything in them that we can't?

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I need help, please. In the Billiards Room.

The balls - they've got letters on them now, instead of numbers, and they're floating.

I've managed to catch three - L, A and M - but I can't reach the rest alone.

I want to know what they spell.