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A killer puzzle that makes me want to pull my hair out.
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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2817464" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>I did. I was telling the abbreviated version to just get the point of the puzzle across. This took all night.</p><p></p><p>After maybe 20 minutes, I was stumped, and it was clear that each mistake was getting me closer to getting killed. I let her know, in no uncertain terms, I'm not having fun, I'm having large amounts of the opposite of fun, I'm stumped, and this puzzle is insanely difficult, and what was her goal. </p><p></p><p>She said the goal was just to be a game, for it to be fun, and for this to be a simple challenge for my character. My character had Intelligence **** and Academics **** with a specialization in Religion (which is why she chose a "religion" themed test, apparently each character is getting a similar riddle themed to their highest skill), and even when I rolled piles of successes sometimes (every few minutes she'd let me roll to give me more useless hints), the hints she gave were simple restatements of the facts. Each success I rolled was another useless hint.</p><p></p><p>After about an hour, we called time so I could step outside, and I ended up going on a ride with the GM's mom to pick up the GM's sister from work. It relaxed my frustration and building anger, but it did nothing for being able to solve the problem, it gave me several more ideas which didn't work.</p><p></p><p>So I sat for a little over an hour on the floor of her apartment, musing about how to solve the problem. Apparently it was supposed to be some lesson for my character, on how to embrace the value of Patience, Hope, Justice and Wrath. How anybody could learn that from that puzzle, especially with that solution, evades me. </p><p></p><p>At the end, her comment about it all before she went to her room to go to sleep (and I was packing up to leave, was "I'm sorry you didn't have fun, my only complaint about the night is that you whined about it."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2817464, member: 14159"] I did. I was telling the abbreviated version to just get the point of the puzzle across. This took all night. After maybe 20 minutes, I was stumped, and it was clear that each mistake was getting me closer to getting killed. I let her know, in no uncertain terms, I'm not having fun, I'm having large amounts of the opposite of fun, I'm stumped, and this puzzle is insanely difficult, and what was her goal. She said the goal was just to be a game, for it to be fun, and for this to be a simple challenge for my character. My character had Intelligence **** and Academics **** with a specialization in Religion (which is why she chose a "religion" themed test, apparently each character is getting a similar riddle themed to their highest skill), and even when I rolled piles of successes sometimes (every few minutes she'd let me roll to give me more useless hints), the hints she gave were simple restatements of the facts. Each success I rolled was another useless hint. After about an hour, we called time so I could step outside, and I ended up going on a ride with the GM's mom to pick up the GM's sister from work. It relaxed my frustration and building anger, but it did nothing for being able to solve the problem, it gave me several more ideas which didn't work. So I sat for a little over an hour on the floor of her apartment, musing about how to solve the problem. Apparently it was supposed to be some lesson for my character, on how to embrace the value of Patience, Hope, Justice and Wrath. How anybody could learn that from that puzzle, especially with that solution, evades me. At the end, her comment about it all before she went to her room to go to sleep (and I was packing up to leave, was "I'm sorry you didn't have fun, my only complaint about the night is that you whined about it." [/QUOTE]
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