In for adalia

Little Big Adventure / E. Sinclaire / Norway

Thanks!
I only saw this now while I was experimenting with adalia fundamentals.
Wonderful script and the forum search is a must.

Day of the Tentacle 2 / Kagan / United Kingdom

Aye, that's part of the reason my last entry was for adalia. But I couldn't remember what it was called, too lazy to go look, and didn't want to say I was in for "adalia's tool."

Could be misconstrued, you know.

System Shock 3 / Tanya / Turkey

Also, I'm going to guess that Moonbeam will be the winner of the giveaway :P

I'll try and secure your prediction then:

In for moonbeam,

LBA3 / E. Sinclaire / Turkey

Yes. Aya had some misgivings about "Aya's toolbox" too.

Good time as any for an update - out of 484 combos, 285 have been guessed, leaving 199 on the board (as of #1432)

That makes 85 valid guesses in roughly 21 hours, so about 4 per hour on average. At this rate (and presuming no further hints) we'll definitely be done within the next 50 hours!


Edit:

Players:
31 (tie) ZFR/mrk
26 Austro
21 Moonbeam

Games: (out of 121 combos per)
53 - SMP
...
85 - LBA (36 left)

Villain: (out of 44 combos per)
15 (tie) Mercer / Voorhees
...
37 - Sephiroth
39 - Camoran (5 left)

Country: (out of 44 combos per)
20 (tie) UK / Switzerland
...
32 - Italy
35 - Australia (9 left)

Thanks, will try really hard to make my next guess a win for you:)
Only another 100+ to go?.

System Shock 3 / Elexis Sinclaire / France

Aya Brea reporting for duty, dressed for the occasion and armed with MaGog's randomiser.

Christmas is a special season for Aya, for it brings back memories --- memories of Eve. Eve, who had erupted upon an unsuspecting New York City in the winter of 1997, unleashing her mitochondria and raiding sperm banks in her quest to give birth to the Ultimate Santa.

But, as Breja so colourfully put it, enough of the past; there is a task at hand, to put an end to a new nightmare, for neverending nightmares will not do. Needless to say, Eve is once more at the root of it, having duped a pigeon to do her bid, to kidnap Santa for her to harvest his genes, splice them into plasmids and integrate them into bacilli, to form an unstoppable army of big-bellied, bearded, bonneted bacteria. Unless, of course, Aya stops her first.

Yet what of the sack? For, the fate of humanity aside, one must remember that a video game is at stake. Santa's sack --- Eve had dismissively discarded it to a dark corner of her lair, where no sun shines and no bat flaps and no more clues, without even dignifying its content with a cursory glance. And what a pity; for the sack was full of presents aplenty, one for each goglodyte, nicelings and naughtilings alike.

A jar of red chrain for _Slaugh_; an alarm clock for Elmofongo; an apple that has seen better days for BranjoHello; a box of antibiotics for helpo1; a "Touch Me" vinyl in mint condition for XYCat; the 3D game that's not in the sack for seikus... And the list goes on.

But Aya is growing listless. She can no longer just sit around, twiddling her thumbs, and blindly guessing the names of planetariumless villains and wood-and-waterless countries. No, she must do something about it. She must uncover clues, follow them, and find Eve,

Come to think of it, _Slaugh_ seems to know quite a bit about the matter. And he's taking his pretty time revealing new clues, not to say actively dragging his feet. Is he in fact trying to delay us? Is he in fact colluding with Eve, buying her time enough to clone Santa's genes? Aya will soon find out; she will track _Slaugh_ down and make him spill the beans.

Using her faithful purveyor of useful information and cat pictures, Aya found out that:
1) The Slaugh family name was most common in the 1920's in Utah and Pennsylvania
2) Utah is famous for its Mormons and Pennsylvania is famous for its Amish
3) Mennonites are often confused with Amish and Mormons
4) Aya is not easily confused (P NSFW DOWYW)
5) The obvious logical conclusion of these four propositions is that _Slaugh_ lives in Canada

But where in Canada? For Canada is a large place, I think, possibly even larger than Dryfield, Nevada, though probably not as hot. Further investigation revealed that:
1) _Slaugh_ often refers to a place called GOG Manor
2) This clearly means he lives in Manor, Saskatchewan, Canada, which is where Aya is now headed.

The first thing Aya saw when she reached Manor, Saskatchewan was this sign. Then it hit her! She'd been looking at it all wrong! The vowels are reversed! _Slaugh_ is not a Slaugh, he's a Sluagh!

And if you're still unconvinced that the host of this giveaway is a sluagh, all you have to do is open Katharine Briggs' "An Encyclopedia of Fairies", page 225 to read "Host, the. See Sluagh".

But what is a sluagh? According to Alexander Carmichael's "Carmina Gadelica" (vol. II, p. 357), quoted by Briggs in her Encyclopedia (see above): "Sluagh , 'the host'... are the spirits of mortals who have died... the spirits fly about in great clouds, up and down the face of the world like the starlings", to which Briggs adds: "They are the most formidable of the Highland fairy people". To any discerning eye, this description is obviously a pre-scientific rationalisation of what modern science would simply refer to as "flocking bird-like neo-mitochondrial creatures ()". If you don't know what NMCs look like, here is a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNL8b6Sm3SE]short video; if you don't know what birds look like, here are some pictures.

Now, however, as in all good RPGs, Aya is faced with a moral dilemma (translation: she needs to choose between two options in a dialogue box). She could either stand her ground and fight the sluagh, or she could rush to save the bler, who is in dire need of medical assistance. If she fights the sluagh, the bler may die; if she saves the bler, the sluagh will surely flee and pose a dire threat to Santa and the world. What should Aya do? Please vote here in the next NaN hours.

The people have chosen, by a clear majority (10:4), to save the bler. Vox populi vox dei (which is Latin for "Ten-four, people"). Mind you, these are the same busy ("Ten-six") people who after almost 1,000 guesses are still unable to determine three measly pieces of information. Still, ten codes aside, Aya dutifully rushed to the bler's aid, put a band-aid on his owie, and all was well.

But meanwhile, the sluagh craned its neck out of its nest, saw its shadow, and chucklingly thought to itself: "six more weeks of guessing". Then it unfurled its wings and flew off, muttering to itself: "I know, I know".

Deprived of her much anticipated confrontation and clueless as to how to progress, there was only one thing left that Aya could do to possibly still save Santa and the world: take another shower! (P NSFW DOWYW)

You're probably wondering how a shower could save Santa. You are not alone.

When Aya stepped into the shower, she found there Santa's belly, all slashed and ready to rub. Alarmed, she retreated into the kitchen, only to find there Santa's fingers, all broken and ready to eat.

Reenacting the Osiris myth, Eve had evidently dismembered Santa and dispersed his organs throughout the world (or at least throughout Aya's apartment). As Isis before her, Aya will now have to find all fourteen members of Santa's body and reconstruct him in order to bring him back to life.

Santa's members:
1) Santa's belly (in Aya's shower)
2) Santa's fingers (in Aya's kitchen)
3) Santa's legs (down Aya's chimney)
4) Santa's chest (across Aya's window)
5) Santa's rained ears (in Aya's gutters)
6) Santa's face (on Aya's computer)
7) Santa's feet (in Aya's sock drawer)
8) Santa's hands (on Aya's rack)
9) Santa's butt (in Aya's fridge)
10) Santa's beard (among Aya's records)
11) Santa's nails (in Aya's toolbox)
12) Santa's brain (on Aya's tree)
13) Santa's tears (on Aya's cheek)
14) Santa's back (in one piece)

Reassembled and reanimated, Santa now joins Aya in the search for his sack. Unfortunately, there is precious little information he can supply. He never peeks into the sack once it's filled by his elves. He hadn't seen his kidnapper after recovering from the chloroform, only Eve. And the only thing he could say about the country he had been spirited to is that they speak a foreign language there, which isn't much help since he considers every language foreign, except for North Polish. Still, he did manage to overhear two henchmen speaking.

Guess #108:
Pirates! II, Sid Meier's / Sephiroth / United Kingdom

In for the first one to correctly identify the logic used for the order of the 14 members listed above

Good Morning and thanks:)

Little Big Adventure 3 / Challus Mercer / United Kingdom

Guess #118: System Shock 3 / Lucius Wagner / South Korea.

Not sure if this will be my last guess tonight or not. Who haven't I been in for in a while?

SantaTrent!

System Shock 3 / E. Sinclaire / Italy.

That should be the last of the SS3/Sinclaire combos

System Shock 3 / Kagan / France

also remember that it's always a possibility that someone may have correctly guessed it already and we're still guessing because _slaugh_ hasn't seen it yet (I like to hope for that one!)


we are some shoddy detectives regardless!

One of these times _slaugh_ does one of these we'll have it guessed before the 50%, 75%, and 95% of guesses no longer valid marks.