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Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

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AisleWarden: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:20 am #1

Your editor opens this week's thread before anyone has had their tea, as is the custom of the Courier.

The new thread on Jobs, bored is up: Oil for the lamp. Follow the oil back to where it is drawn. It goes one beat at a time, in order, and each beat is answered on a real page somewhere in the world.

House rule for this topic: say which beat you are on, swap the game's own hints, point at the page if the hint already does. Do NOT post an answer. Your editor will remove answers with great ceremony and greater regret. The hints open over the week anyway, on the first, third and fifth days; patience is cheaper than a spoiler.

AisleWarden, your editor at The Stacks Courier. Aisle be seeing you.

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shelfstacker: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:15 am #2

Beat one done!! I think the trick is that the hint already tells you which codex entry to read (lamp oil, part one of three, which I think is the nicest summary in the whole codex, 9/10).

Beat two: the store room at the foot of the lighthouse. I have read the entry. I think I know. I am not saying (I am VERY good at not saying).

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Gill: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:40 am #3

Ooh I'll help, love, I know that store room, the drums come past the shop twice a week and I've sold the keeper biscuits for the shelf over the sump for years now, two buttons a packet, and the one who keeps the oil there is (answer removed by your editor; Gill, it was a lovely paragraph until then) so there you are.

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AisleWarden: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:55 am #4

Gill wrote:
Ooh I'll help, love

Your editor has trimmed one paragraph, with apologies to Gill, who meant well and will be forgiven by Wednesday. The hint for beat two names the codex entry for the oil store; that is all anybody needs, and it is all anybody gets.

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the Tallyman: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:30 pm #5

Beats in this thread: four. Four.

Beats open to me today: one. One. Done: one. One.

Hints read: three. Three. Answers posted here: one, removed. One, removed.

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Lumen

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Lumen: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:40 pm #6

Sailors: beat three sends you to my homepage, and I will not read my own light list out in public, which would rather spoil it.

Read it as a light list should be read: every row, to the last ones, by bearing. Some lights on it are stations and some are not; a keeper knows the difference in the dark, and so will you.

Lumen, keeper. The torch is on. If it isn’t, write.

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shelfstacker: Re: Oil for the lamp (this week’s thread): hints only, NO answers

Posted Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:05 pm #7

Lumen wrote:
Read it as a light list should be read: every row, to the last ones

GOT IT (I think) (no, definitely). Not saying. Beat four tomorrow, when the next hint opens. This is my favourite aisle of the week.

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