Phantom in the Fairgrounds [SOLUTION POSTED]

[Mistreil]

Just a reminder - this event closes tomorrow at midnight (a little over 24 hours from this post!)

Make sure you find and redeem the codes before then!!
If it's not obvious from... my recent posts, I really like making games (and lighter events like this despite the fact that they take more time to set up than anything else.) so.... hopefully I'll have time eventually to make others in the future!

i have many ideas. but very little time. and when i do have time i work on the wrong things. aaaaaa

 

[pancake2]

One thing this game did was make me realize I have been likely mispronouncing (and therefore trying to misspell) a certain word I had to type several times for as long as I’ve been familiar with it

 

[Paperboy012305]

I solved it all. It was a little tricky, mostly the 2nd one, but it was actually pretty fun.

Honestly, I find this text based adventure easier than last year's.

 

[Kirbyz]

i did it mistreil!! i was finally able to solve it. i feel accomplished

 

[LambdaDelta]

can I have a list of valid verbs

 

[LambdaDelta]

ok, figured it out. my problem was using prepositions, turns out

also, add me to the list of those that found the second code first

 

[Yoshi155]

I’ll probably be able to figure it out lol

Spoiler alert: the answer… is no!

I-I give up skdjskfkslfnd I’m too stupid for this and I should just accept that fact lol

 

[BetsySundrop]

Spoiler alert: the answer… is no!

I-I give up skdjskfkslfnd I’m too stupid for this and I should just accept that fact lol

If you haven't done one of these before, it can be challenging. Hopefully the game will stay up after its over. Then maybe we'll be allowed to give help to people who didn't finish it and you can see how it works?

Once you've gotten the hang of it, it's fun to go through, and you won't have trouble the next time we have a similar game.

 

[Mistreil]

Hello hello! The redemption codes have been removed and a few dialogues that people pointed out were missing were added -- see patch notes for specifices.

I've also written up a quick solution below (also in the opening post now)! This does not include the full text results, but just a 'fast' path to the answers!

Spoiler: Solution

There are 2 codes to work towards, and both can be done at roughly the same time. Steps that lead towards one code will be coloured red, and the other blue.

1. look around
2. look boxes
3. take knife
4. enter Mix well tent
5. look around
6. take clothes
7. take pumpkin
8. cut pumpkin
9. ask pumpkin
10. enter macabre tent
11. danse macabre
12. look pumpkin: This will give you one of the codes!
13. look around
14. look body
15. use clothes
16. take hand
17. exit
18. look banners
19. use hand
20. look banners: This will give you the other code!

I hope you had fun and had a happy halloween!! I was busy handing out candy and apparently jumpscared a kid, which is funny.
Thank you for playing!

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

me who just dressed the dummy and got into a waving contest with a disembodied hand: I was SO off-

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I quit playing the game because I kept saying look boxes and the game refused to acknowledge my input!

 

[Alolan_Apples]

“Danse Macabre”? I thought it was “Dance Macabre”. I did not think spelling would matter.

 

[Mistreil]

“Danse Macabre”? I thought it was “Dance Macabre”. I did not think spelling would matter.

Spelling doesn't matter - there's a lot of alternate forms! dance macabre would also work! I put danse macabre for specific reasons, though.

 

[You got mail!]

Once more, thanks again for making such a cool game Mistreil! I always love figuring things out and the satisfaction of solving puzzles especially with these type of games and it was fun seeing the silly little text, they made my day.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

If only I tried 'leave carnival'... maybe that would've helped me lol

 

[skarmoury]

can I have a list of valid verbs

idk if you meant list of verbs that contributes to the solution, or just a general list of verbs

BUT i did a little silly and explored just how much random stuff mistreil put in! i know i didnt get everything but it was super fun.

my favorite verbs are eat and kiss. i like how the answers for eating certain items are out of genuine concern. (i promise the pictures get funnier the more you scroll down)

Spoiler: open for a good laugh

 

[BetsySundrop]

Spelling doesn't matter - there's a lot of alternate forms! dance macabre would also work! I put danse macabre for specific reasons, though.

I was so happy this was in the game! It's a life goal of mine to play the solo piano piece, and one of my editions has the danse macabre art on the cover of the danse macabre piano solo!

Spoiler

 

[Mistreil]

idk if you meant list of verbs that contributes to the solution, or just a general list of verbs

BUT i did a little silly and explored just how much random stuff mistreil put in! i know i didnt get everything but it was super fun.

my favorite verbs are eat and kiss. i like how the answers for eating certain items are out of genuine concern. (i promise the pictures get funnier the more you scroll down)

Spoiler: open for a good laugh

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I'm glad you found some of these silly little commands! There's like... 128 lines of dialogue in total, some of them are plot relevant, but around 1/4 are just there for fun. o(*￣▽￣*)ブ I wasn't sure if some of these would ever see the light of day!

Some fun lore: the 'eat' command was kept from the last event because Nefarious tried eating soil and couldn't. And thus I started adding 'eat' to everything! Also violence-related commands.
As for the kiss command... I added it in because I thought someone might want to kiss the ghost. and then i started adding it to everything, so that's just here forever now.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

I'm glad you found some of these silly little commands! There's like... 128 lines of dialogue in total, some of them are plot relevant, but around 1/4 are just there for fun. o(*￣▽￣*)ブ I wasn't sure if some of these would ever see the light of day!

Some fun lore: the 'eat' command was kept from the last event because Nefarious tried eating soil and couldn't. And thus I started adding 'eat' to everything! Also violence-related commands.
As for the kiss command... I added it in because I thought someone might want to kiss the ghost. and then i started adding it to everything, so that's just here forever now.

you should've done 'kiss (insert name of tent here)'

 

[Yoshi155]

Ohhhh so that was the issue, I was supposed to say “use hand” lmao I’m so stupid.