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[goodies]So, apparently, this secret tag hides the information within to all who have not solve the Riddle of the Bar, RotB for short. Use <goodies> tags to use it, but with brackets instead of <>'s.

Anyway, speculation and ranting here about the RotB screenshot![/goodies]

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I think I broke it with more than one tag :?
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[goodies]Here's a question for you all. Did any of you find a correlation between the mass of colors and the solution or was it entirely a red herring?[/goodies]

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[goodies]Here's a question for you all. Did any of you find a correlation between the mass of colors and the solution or was it entirely a red herring?[/goodies]
[goodies]I'll give that an official answer, even! The mass of colors are absolutely unrelated to the Riddle of the Bar. However, I wouldn't call them a red herring either.[/goodies]

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02-09-2006 at 05:56 PM
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[goodies]As a casual note, my method to solve the riddle of the bar has know been completely invalidated! So, actually, I guess I haven't solved it![/goodies]
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[goodies]As a casual note, my method to solve the riddle of the bar has know been completely invalidated! So, actually, I guess I haven't solved it![/goodies]
[goodies]Yeah, I hadn't even noticed the trivial way to solve it. Doom pointed it out to me, so I fixed it, but only after getting very angry at myself for setting it up that way in the first place. :( [/goodies]

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[goodies]Interesting. May I ask then how you all solved it then? I just guessed that first letter of the goodie names would be an anagram. Also, I never figured out what made arrangements interesting.[/goodies]

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[goodies]The <goodies> tags don't seem to be working yet. I'll hold off on my first rant until they do work. :?[/goodies]

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[goodies]Suddenly, I saw the other way. Ironic, isn't it, that this was one of the things I was thinking of as I ran through possibilities. *CURSES SELF*[/goodies]
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It does work. If you have solved it you see it written out.

[goodies]Unsolve the riddle, then come back. It'll make sense[/goodies]
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Note to Chaco: The tags are working, they way they're displayed has been changed, however. It may seem that they're not. With that said, you might want to edit out your open goodie tag. Who knows what sort of havoc that might wreak on the forum.

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[goodies]Interesting. May I ask then how you all solved it then? I just guessed that first letter of the goodie names would be an anagram. Also, I never figured out what made arrangements interesting.[/goodies]
[goodies]I'm pretty sure that an anagram solver program determines what "words" are interesting. Since the letters we have to work with don't result in that many common words (and even when some do, you actually have to have those exact goodies in your possession), most of the "interesting" results are going to be rather obscure.[/goodies]

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[goodies]I solved it via the source code. They were numbered in order :rolleyes. But, I had suspected anagrams and had suspected that the prize was a screenshot. Shame I didn't put 2 and 2 together.[/goodies]
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[goodies]I solved the riddle the intentional way.

Anyway, now that that's all cleared up, who the heck is Jobus?!?[/goodies]

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[goodies]Anyway, now that that's all cleared up, who the heck is Jobus?!?[/goodies]
[goodies]I suppose you've not played Perfection. I guess it's okay to tell briefly something about him.

Jobus is a character Beethro meets somewhere in Perfection, and who knows something about the Rooted Hold. He agrees to help Beethro after they get out the Perfectionist Complex. That's where the storyline continues in TCB.

So we can expect to hear a little more about that character later.[/goodies]
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[goodies]Well, that takes care of that. Next, the screenshot implies that the Danforth Strout we've come to love is an Imperial... something or other.[/goodies]

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[goodies]No, I think that it is just to show the modularity being included with the next version. I highly doubt that this actually has plotline significance. Also, I beleive that this picture implies custom avatars, but no choice of the in-game sprite. *Sadness*[/goodies]
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For the record, this thread is a billion times more amusing when you haven't solved the Riddle of the Bar yet.
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And I can politely ask you not to spam up this thread. We are not posting in these tags everywhere else, are we?

[goodies]This annoys me. Very much. Almost as much as the picture in the bar's colon.[/goodies]
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Okay, coppro, chill. It's not that big a deal.

[goodies]And why does the picture in the colon annoy you? (Note: do not take out of context!)[/goodies]

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[goodies]It's too... too... undefined! I know we had a 350 room in KDD (L19 2E) and I don't know about JrTH, but I just can't think of why Mike would spoil that... and only that.[/goodies]
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[goodies]You should probably go reread the Return of the Bar thread...there's plenty of speculation there about the contents of the picture linked in the Bar colon.[/goodies]

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[goodies]I have. I'm just suffering from chronic boredom right now. Y'know, I think we should keep doing this just to annoy the people when hey solve the riddle.[/goodies]
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[goodies]One of the things I am wondering: What could be the difference between "Citizen" and "Citizen 1"?[/goodies]
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[goodies]Maybe you can add your own in-game sprites? I dunno[/goodies]
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[goodies]I'm pretty sure it's like "Level Title" and "Level Title B" for a harder version - just think of it like Citizen 3.

Or maybe it's just a generic Citizen, instead of the Second Citizen, First Citizen, etc.[/goodies]

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[goodies]question, why did the "tar baby colors" change?[/goodies]

[goodies]I solved the riddle in my sleep.
when I had 5 goodies, I search through the thread and discovered that there were 10 goodies, and the started trying to gues the word. But everything failed.
Then in bed I was thinking of the "350-screenshot",
and everything got clear, I was at rest and fel quietly asleep :D [/goodies]

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