Post by Supervisor Silverclaw on Feb 10, 2021 1:04:27 GMT
So we're shutting down...kind of.
See, we've got a plan to salvage all of this. Some new...investors...have come forward, and are prepared to help us reorganize. Most of the plan involves shell companies, stonks, and other things you plebs are too dumb busy to understand worry yourselves with. We're going to buy up all the liquidated supplies and materials from the dissolving LSG Co at a cut rate, and bring them on over to the new digs.
Welcome to what I could loosely describe as a challenge!
We'll take care of all the construction and office supplies, but there are a bunch of mystery boxes from Lost and Found. We're still a bit short on cash, but here's $25. Call it an advance - we'll be deducting it from your pay going forward. Use the cash to buy things at the liquidation sale. No, I don't know why they're gift-wrapped! Stop asking questions!
Inside these boxes are different advantages you can use for the game. The boxes are all wrapped very nicely, so if you're good at guessing you may be able to tell what's inside it too! Just post in your confessional how much money you're spending on each gift, and it's yours. Assuming you don't get out-bid of course.
Wait, you guys still have those pennies around? Jeez, what the poor will gamble with. If you submit those as well, they can break ties. So if you both spend $10 on one box, but someone also spends 5¢ when you don't spend any, the box goes to the someone else. In the event of a further tie, the highest unique bid wins the box.
Just be aware that, aside from the Immunity, any item in the boxes will expire at the Final Five unless you're told otherwise. You have 24 hours everyone!
Wait, you guys still have those pennies around? Jeez, what the poor will gamble with. If you submit those as well, they can break ties. So if you both spend $10 on one box, but someone also spends 5¢ when you don't spend any, the box goes to the someone else. In the event of a further tie, the highest unique bid wins the box.
Just be aware that, aside from the Immunity, any item in the boxes will expire at the Final Five unless you're told otherwise. You have 24 hours everyone!
Box #1:
This cube-shaped box is about ten inches on each side, and weighs perhaps five pounds. It rattles faintly when you shake it. It is wrapped in plain white paper, and is tied with a simple black bow. Truly a beautiful and understated wrapping job. Oh, and some vandal has hastily scrawled, "Immunity" in gold Sharpie across the top.
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Box #2:
This shapeless box is truly enormous! At least fifty inches on each side, its bulbous flanks are covered in a variety of papers taped together. In fact, as you walk around it, you think you see the wrappings of most of the other auction prizes represented. There is a bit of fine white paper, there is some navy blue, and there some stripes. Despite its size, the package lifts easily, and likely weighs less than one pound.
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Box #3:
This box is...not a box. It is in fact, a plain white envelope, sealed to prevent tampering. Mysterious!
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Box #4:
This cylindrical package is quite long, measuring over eight feet in length, but is a mere two inches in diameter. It is wrapped in navy blue paper and adorned along its length with circular white emblems containing the light-blue Star of Life and Rod of Asclepius.
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Box #5:
This round, flattened box is perhaps one inch tall, and seven inches in diameter. It is very light, and you hear tissue paper swishing about inside it. It has been wrapped with metallic blue-and-red paper depicting a minute puzzle-piece pattern, and is tied with silver string.
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Box #6:
This pyramid-shaped box seems to bend the eye with its dizzying pattern of stripes. Approximately thirty inches on a side, the container is exceptionally heavy, but silent when shaken. The multi-colored stripes spiral upward to converge at the apex of the pyramid.
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Box #7:
This box is exactly the same size, shape, color, weight, and even texture of a standard red building brick. Indeed, if not for the seam running down the length of the box, you might mistake it for having come directly from the construction site!
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Box #8:
This cube-shaped box is about ten inches on each side, and weighs perhaps five pounds. A heavy clicking sound happens when you shake it. It is wrapped in a dark grey paper, and covered in silvery magnifying glass emblems. A sleek blue ribbon is tied around the box.
This cube-shaped box is about ten inches on each side, and weighs perhaps five pounds. A heavy clicking sound happens when you shake it. It is wrapped in a dark grey paper, and covered in silvery magnifying glass emblems. A sleek blue ribbon is tied around the box.
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Box #9:
This container is in fact a pair of wooden spheres attached by a fine brass chain. Each is about the size of an apple, and are made of hardwood polished to a handsome sheen. They are surprisingly heavy, and make no sound when shaken. You see no means to open the spheres.
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Box #10:
This large box's wrapping is patterned in squares of bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. It's very light, is shut with a hatch, and is tied together with shines like diamonds when under the light that is done in a simple but elegant bow. When you pick up the package and shake it, it seems like whatever is inside is much smaller than the box itself.
This large box's wrapping is patterned in squares of bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. It's very light, is shut with a hatch, and is tied together with shines like diamonds when under the light that is done in a simple but elegant bow. When you pick up the package and shake it, it seems like whatever is inside is much smaller than the box itself.
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Box #11:
This box is in fact a gift bag, stitched closed. It is approximately twelve inches tall by four at the base, and is oddly bifurcated. The stiff paper parts into a "V" shape about half way up, with the tips bending away from one another. The bag is colored a bright yellow, decorated with a black lightning bolt.
This box is in fact a gift bag, stitched closed. It is approximately twelve inches tall by four at the base, and is oddly bifurcated. The stiff paper parts into a "V" shape about half way up, with the tips bending away from one another. The bag is colored a bright yellow, decorated with a black lightning bolt.
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Box #12:
This small, grey box looks like it met an unfortunate end underneath something very heavy. However, there is are two clocks attached to it, one with a 12 hour countdown, and the other with counting down from 36 hours. The 12 hour clock is counting down, but the 36 hour one is not.
This box will be given away after 12 hours instead of 24. The winner of this box will not be publicly announced, but will get the power to make a game altering decision that must be made within 36 hours. If no one bets on this box, the mods will send the box to a player at random. A second Immunity challenge will take place during this time.
This small, grey box looks like it met an unfortunate end underneath something very heavy. However, there is are two clocks attached to it, one with a 12 hour countdown, and the other with counting down from 36 hours. The 12 hour clock is counting down, but the 36 hour one is not.
This box will be given away after 12 hours instead of 24. The winner of this box will not be publicly announced, but will get the power to make a game altering decision that must be made within 36 hours. If no one bets on this box, the mods will send the box to a player at random. A second Immunity challenge will take place during this time.