@cara_hunter: Now that one sounded difficult. It was definitely a mathematics problem, rather than a wordplay one. Rútur put his hand to his chin and thought about it. "1 carton contains either 10 small boxes or 8 large boxes...96 boxes...more large boxes...I'm going to need some paper." He stood up and pulled a fairly large sheet of cardboard over and set it on the floor, where he crouched by a corner. Rútur wrote several numbers on the card and sat back, putting his pen down. He needed to see what he was missing. He sometimes overlooked details that stared him right in the face. "Can't see the forest for the trees, Egilson." he said in fluent Icelandic. He wondered if his customer had worked out the riddles before he had, then realised that if she had, she wouldn't be asking him for help. "I think..." he said after a moment's silent thinking "The answer's 11. Here's my reasoning." He began to write again. "Let's say this merchant takes 7 large boxes. A single carton can hold 8 boxes, so multiply 7 by 8 and you get 56. Now, onto the small boxes. He can put 10 into a carton, so say he takes 4. 4 multiplied by 10 is 40. 56 add 40 is 96, ergo 7 and 4 added together equals 11. See my reasoning?" He wasn't that good at explaining things.
Rútur's Workshop (CVnU Location-New York)
@ranra: "Uh,...yah" Cara shook her head but it was hard to tell if she was being truthful.
"so far we have seven and eleven as answers, ready for riddle three?"
@cara_hunter: "Just a second. I want to input these as we go along." Rútur did just that, inputting the number 11 into the device. "Okay, I'm ready. Riddle 3 out of...how many, exactly?"
@ranra: "Ninety eight" Cara replied as she read in her mind the third riddle.
@cara_hunter: "Why do I get the feeling we're going to be doing this until way after closing time?" Rútur asked, expecting no answer in return. "Alright, then. Fire away."
"What row of numbers comes next in this series
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221?"
she stopped and looked at him and then showed him the third riddle"it really asks that"
@cara_hunter: "1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221...that's hard." Rútur looked over the list multiple times. He couldn't tell what came next. "Man, this person really was a d!(k. I'm kinda stumped."
@ranra: "1113213211," Mickey remarked coolly as he stepped within range after locating the duo. "You hidin' from me? Who's the girly?" Almost immediately a sly smirk spread over his face. "Oho! I see what we got here! Hey, it's cool. No judgment from me. Personally I find the use of yer time an' money odd, given what ye could be doin' with a woman o' that like, but I ain't one to judge. It's yer thing and you can do it how you wanna. Far as I know this is just the warm-up....Is this the warm-up? Should I go?"
@ramjam: @cara_hunter: "How did you come up with that?" Rútur raised an eyebrow at Mick. It certainly wasn't the answer he would have gone for. Then again, he didn't know which answer he would go for. The answer eluded him like a...thing that eludes someone. "Dude! Stop implying that I hit on my customers!" he said warningly.
@cara_hunter: @ranra: "It's one o' them looky-speaky things. One one, two ones, one two to two ones." His voice said he wasn't entirely interested in explaining the numbers but more into the peoples aspect of things, excitement picking up when he picked up the other subject. "My bad, man. Was under the impression you was the customer." He looked at the girl briefly. "You ain't one o' them call-girls? Eh, just as fine. So what's up?"
@cara_hunter: In response to her indignant remarks, Mickey flashed a coy smirk and nodded slowly, then he shrugged. "Yeah she's way too naive to be a whore. So then what's all this about?"
@ramjam: @cara_hunter: "That's...that's actually pretty clever." Rútur nodded, inputting the number on the device. "Guys!" he said, hearing their arguments. "Keep things civil, okay? We're still in open hours."
@ranra: @cara_hunter: "Hey, I said she was NOT a whore. You don't mind that do ya pretty lady? Mick. Mickey O'Riordan." He introduced himself with a mock-formal bow. "Delivery boy. Security."
@ranra: @ramjam: Cara gave him a suspicious face but then softened her facial features
I feel offended but at the same time his charm and suaveness seems to make up for it, "well Mister Mickey O'Riordan my name is Stephanie I'm a student from a University that goes by the name of Cerb, would you mind helping us with these riddles?"
@cara_hunter: Mick looked plainly at the student, total blankness occupying his face. Again he shrugged. "Would I mind? Not entirely. Do I want to? Eeeehhhh.....If Rutur gives me money to pick up some materials I'll do it. I read couple riddle boxes in my time. I think. Them thoughts had to come from somewhere."
@cara_hunter: "Oh woah." He showed actual surprise, but pleasantly. "Well since you're so compliant I almost feel bad about it," he admitted. "Euaaahhh.....How much ya willin'?"
@ramjam: Cara smirked "You gotta give me a number first"
@cara_hunter: -- She looked sufficiently loaded. Did say she went to a private school. Could ask for more. But it sounded fair at the time. To me at least. --
"Well I dunno. I want stuff. Like swords and stuff I can do stuff with. Only thing is I don't know what that all costs. So....I vote wages. Thirty-five an hour, plus commission. I want twenty for every riddle-number-thingamajig."
@ramjam: "So you want a hundred dollars an hour?"Cara spoke curiously
@cara_hunter: 'Woah! This one's more loaded than I thought!' He thought to himself. That she'd bump up confirmed it without so much as asking, even though the inexplicable bad feeling stayed in him. "I mean, if that works, sure."
@ramjam: "I'm fine with that" she said honestly pulling the book bag towards her and opening one of the pouches, inside there were several wads of hundred dollar bills Cara had picked up a single wad and tossed it to Mickey "don't mind if I pay in advance?" that wad alone she passed to Mickey contained ten thousand dollars.
@cara_hunter: Mick's eyes were practically sparkling dollar signs as he took the cash. Almost trance-like. "I'm sorry I stopped paying attention after 'I'm fine.' And yes you are! Heck, I'll bark like a dog and take ya to prom fer all that."
@ramjam: @cara_hunter: "Glad we discovered you'll do anything for money, although I don't want to know why you'd ever bark." Rútur said, holding the device up. "I have to ask, how do you have that much money to throw around? I barely see that much come out of the workshop, except for special orders."
@cara_hunter: "It's alright for some." Rútur rolled his eyes. "And yet they sent you to me to learn about this. I don't have any particularly advanced tech."
@ranra: @cara_hunter: "Aye!" Mick shouted at the top of his lungs for attention. Then in a much quieter voice and with a smile he chimed in. "No one never told me what we're dealing with. I could maybe be handy, and the lady did pay." His intuition and ability to work wonders with his brain sometimes proved useful in deciphering technology, not that he would let on so much of it.
@cara_hunter: @ramjam: "Why he'd want me to know, I have no id...ah!" Rútur clapped his free hand over the ear closest to Mick's mouth. "Don't do that in here!" he protested, lowering his hand. "If I'm honest, I have no idea what we're dealing with either."
@cara_hunter: "Yes, please." Rútur nodded. He took out his wallet and examined it. "We're probably going to be a while, so, who wants pizza?"
@ranra: "I would like some, but no pepperonis I'm a vegetarian but I just don't eat meat"
@cara_hunter: @ramjam: Rútur rolled his eyes. "Fine. I'll order." He disappeared into the back of the workshop and returned a few minutes later. "Okay. We're all ordered up."
"In the meantime, I think we should take this down to the other workshop."
@cara_hunter: @ranra: For reasons known to himself, Mick wasn't entirely on board with the idea of showing the girl, but it wasn't his shop to own. "You gonna take this random schoolchick into the hideout just cuz she's got a funny doohickey? Ah, don't know about that. But fine, it's your peace o' mind. An' if anythin' goes wrong, I'm countin' on a raise protectin' yer ass."
@cara_hunter: @ramjam: "If she has this device, that puts her above "random schoolgirl" in my mind." Rútur said. "Besides, we're kind of out in the open here."
@ranra: @cara_hunter: "'ey, I'm jus' sayin', you may need to work on your security criteria. She coulda stolen that or just found it. Or some weirdy gave it to her. She don't even know what to do with it. An' she could be a bad guy! But I'm jus' sayin'." Mick shrugged in a Neil deGrasse Tyson-like manner. "If that's what you wanna do, go for it."
@ragman1138: @ramjam: @cara_hunter: "She's got a point." Rútur nodded. "Down to the workshop we go. But first, I'd like to just clean up in there. Mick, I think I can rely on you to keep our customer company until I'm ready." he dashed to the elevator and hit the switch, descending into the...already lit workshop? That wasn't right. The only time the lights were on was when someone was actively in the workshop. Indeed, someone was.
"Varnirvirkja!" Rútur commanded upon seeing the intruder. The Icelandic for "Defenses activate" brought several different kinds of autonomous guns down from the ceiling, all aiming at the guest. "The front door's upstairs, you know."
@cara_hunter: @ranra: "Both o' you guys needa lesson in logic and deceit! Least you do." Mick jeered, pointing Rútur in the face. Squinty eyes turned on the kiddy he made an I'm watching you motion. "I'm keepin' you company, but because you paid me. And cuz he signs my checks!"
Once Rútur was gone he leaned in close and whispered. "So what's up? What're we stealin'? I'll totally help you out if the pay's good. Pay's good right?" From the basement, though, his senses turned up, he heard the weapons being readied and deployed, and the voice of the boss, raising his hand out to shush whatever the girl might have said anyway, waiting for confirmation before possibly indulging in rescue procedure.
@ranra: Leon calmly watched the guns pointed at him. "You can shoot all you want...It wont do you any good. People have emptied entire clips into my body and nothing happened." He looked around. "I'm just looking for a few minor upgrades that's al. I have money of course"
@ragman1138: @ramjam: @ranra: "Uh what's going on?" Cara said waiting a few seconds after Mike shushed her before speaking, "and what was those weird sounds and who's talking to the owner back there?"
@cara_hunter: Leon looks at the blonde haired hero. "Nothing to worry your pretty little head about"
@ranra: @cara_hunter: @ragman1138: (Man I thought we were in a completely separate room! He took the lift downstairs! And it's Mick, not Mike!)
"Shhh! Just wait and see." Mickey shushed the girl once again. "Looks like we got a customer. But he ain't come in the normal way he s'posed to. Just wanna see what happens fer now."
@ranra: @cara_hunter: @ramjam: "just looking for some new blade modals, poisons, stuff like that." He looked at the other 2 out of his porifrial vision encase they attacked
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