HEY RIDDLE RIDDLE [closed]

[instrumentally]

Who: Rei Ayanami, Huey Duck, Grant Aboroa and Angel, aka: Team Nerds and Chaparones
Where: a Cafe in Violet City
When: After the Team Assignments go out
Summary: Four nerds walk into a room, hopefully they will walk out with solutions to various puzzles
Rating: idk. G, probably.
Log:

Rei Ayanami sent out a quick text message to her assigned team mates. Brief, formal. The note consists of an introduction, followed by: The Seekers have grouped us together for the purposes of solving a riddle. I will be waiting in Violet City, as it is the largest city I am capable of visiting on short notice.

She waits there. Patient, as always. Sitting in a chair outside of a cafe. She ordered a cup of tea, which she sips delicately. It is soothing.

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Rei thinks it over. Sometimes she sips her tea. A thought comes to her after some time.

"Ash. A snow that never melts."

She puts that thought together with Angel's mention of the ocean to come up with... well, something like this, which is what she says.

"Perhaps we are to look for an island where a volcano has erupted recently."

She does not know where this island might be, however. More mysteries remain to be solved.

[goingbythebook]

"An island where a volcano has erupted recently..." He rubbed his chin, thinking hard. "Well unfortunately, my time here has been comparatively short so far. But it can't be that hard to find out where volcanoes are."

And there was still the question of what to do with the ash once it was- collected? That's what the riddle seemed to imply, anyway. "I wonder where this 'the Temple will rise' location is, too?"

[brokencode]

"There is an active volcano in the Sevii Islands, I believe?" This much she knows, having spent the better part of her time in Johto there.

She taps her chin a few times.

"Other than that... maybe we could do with a map? I cannot imagine there are many volcanoes out there."

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"One moment."

Rei pulls a folded map out of her pocket and lays it flat on the tabletop. The map includes both Kanto and Johto, as well as the islands between.

[brokencode]

Angel hums to herself as she bends over the map. She points to Cinnabar island, and then the Seafoam islands after that. Then her fingers dance over to Cianwood, but hesitates.

"If a volcano formed Cianwood then it has long since gone dormant. There wouldn't be any ash there." She shifts back toward Kanto. "So... it's either the Sevii islands, or one of these two?"

At that, she makes an almost sheepish face.

"I have not spent much time in Kanto, I'm afraid!"

[woofdad]

Grant listens quietly while the others talk over the options, before leaning over to get a look at that map. "I don't know it very well, either... but narrowing it down to those three options is certainly a start."

He leans back again and pull out his Gear. "As for narrowing it down further, I wonder if the 'unparalleled power' thing might be a suggestion that we're looking for the largest volcano in the area...?"

[brokencode]

A grin splits Angel's face. Where there was once hesitation, she looks to Grant with pride.

"I think you're right!" She gives a quick nod and looks back to the map, before prodding down at Cinnabar island. "There, then? If we're wrong, we can always check somewhere else, too. It is not like we only have one chance, right?"

This isn't Pandora. It isn't do or die.

[instrumentally]

"I agree. We can explore each of these islands if we must."

It would be nice to see so many of them, even if it means that their guesses are not quite accurate.

[woofdad]

"Yeah! There's no rush to it." He smiles, hoping his very genuine excitement is at all encouraging to the others. "This kind of thing is supposed to be an adventure, isn't it?"