gacha machine

[inthenightmods]

GACHA MACHINE

The gacha machine is now closed! Please see our recent mod announcement for details.

After the events of August's party, the Librarian had gone back and grabbed a peculiar-looking machine from the bonfire, dragging it back over towards the Village. It's not all that flashy looking a machine; rather, it's rusted, some of the lightbulbs shattered, the paint scratched away. It makes the new, yellow-white piece of paper taped carefully to the front all the more noticeable.

There are written instructions there, carefully scrawled. It being the Librarian who wrote them, there's a lot of symbols in place of words, and honestly, it's really more of a tentative grasp on literacy going on here. But with a bit of thinking, you can figure it out:

1. Insert an offering (any offering) into the coin slot
2. Answer the riddle
3. ??
4. Prize!!

There's an array of prizes. Some are useful, some less so. But you'll never know if you don't try, and it might just be worth the effort. Unfortunately, it only responds to people once a week— meaning you can only get four prizes a month! But given the prizes, four might just be overwhelming enough.

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second week of February

[arsarcanum]

[ Lots and lots of nice things have happened in the past week since the last time Sora's been here, so he'll be chatting away with the gacha machine quite happily, thanks. Did you know that he has a new friend here? And she likes him! What a great week.

Two offerings today! He's gone and pulled a bit of red and pink ribbon from the general store with a pair of scissors into little curls that he'll tie in a bow around the gacha machine's handle. He'll be back to snip it away next week so it doesn't get too sad and battered, but he'll first take a picture with his tablet to commemorate. Say cheese!

For the riddle, he made a flat piece of chocolate for the gacha machine's slot for easy slot insertion. It's studded with nuts and layered with peanut butter and jam! ]

Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you have someone you like, too.

[inthenightmods]

[They sure do have someone they like! Or at least someone they're crushing on. Who could it be? We just don't know. But familiar happy music plays, and a card is spit out.]

Harry's mom has three sons. One is named Lights and one is named Camera. What is the last son's name?

[arsarcanum]

[ If only gacha machines could talk. Sora would be 100% for matchmaking for his friend!

Anyway, Sora reads it once. ]

Acti-?

[ OOP! Gonna slap his hands over his mouth. ]

Wait! That's not the real answer! I know it can't be that easy. [ It's a riddle, after all! Fortunately, he's been around the block with these kinds of riddles before. Written and entered proudly, because he did not need help! Not a bit! ]

Harry.

[inthenightmods]

[Ding ding ding! Absolutely correct! His prize rolls out, along with a slip of paper that serves as explanation. I wonder what it could be?]

26. A bat: oh jesus christ it’s still alive FUCk and it just flies right away . . . . and then disappears in a poof of smoke. Huh!

[arsarcanum]

[ Huh indeed. After that brief startle, Sora will watch that bat fly off and pat the gacha machine before saying goodbye and stomping off into the night, shaking his head. What a surprise! ]