Posted by Kim on April 17, 2020, 9:00am
Epic Week 2017 was out of this world.No, really. We blasted off into space. Also: Video was a huge part of this year's Epic Week, thanks to Darth_Angelus! We got our first interstellar warning about what was coming for us one week before the festivities were scheduled to start...
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Our efforts to make our booster rockets flight worthy attracted some unwanted attention...
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And just when we thought we'd been through the worst of it, another mini boss landed!
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In an act of incredible trust and heroism, our brave friend plugged herself/herself/himself/itself into the main frame of the die hard and worked to hack its systems while we defended her/her/him/it!
As the battle raged, life support systems began to take damage. Just when we thought fighting in the thin air was hard enough...
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We had to take on the Imperial Xenobeast!
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Veterans of 2017 -- what were your favorite moments from this adventure? 
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WelchsGrapeJuice
April 17, 2020
7:48pm
I wish I had been there! This stuff sounds so cool!
amazing!
Oh, yes, 2017. 
See, before 2017, the seals/guardians were all fandom/history/RPR-related trivia bits, and we had to figure out each based on a collection of up to three clues (or, well, sometimes more for particularly tricky seals). In general, the process worked out like "figure out what fandom/etc this is related to, and use the subsequent clues to progressively narrow things down from there". The hardest questions - like the ones I mentioned in the 2016 retrospective - shook up this formula somewhat; for example, the A Song of Ice and Fire seal where each clue pointed towards a clearly different thing, and the answer was the location where all three of those things had first been together.
But in 2017... oh.
Suddenly, we had a whole handful of seals that did not fit this trivia model! The clues to one of the very first seals we had access to pointed towards a message that needed decoding - which you can see in one of the comics above, if you look for some morse code. Another seal had to do with a binary/ASCII cipher. And besides that, there were other weird symbols all over the place in both the comics and Darth Angelus's epic videos.
We had stumbled into the puzzle zone. The answers were all within Epic Week, if only you combed through the materials enough! (And did enough decryption on enciphered text, in some cases.
)
Heimdall did a crack job at figuring out the aliens' alphabet, and I threw guesses at their number system until we got the math to make sense. Those puzzles made my little linguist/cryptologist heart so happy - and even better, anyone could take stabs at them - and did! - because they weren't reliant on familiarity with a particular fandom, or recalling esoteric bits of RPR lore.
Another discovery: the Many-Headed Cyborg Dragon was an experimental subject of the xenobeasts.
See, before 2017, the seals/guardians were all fandom/history/RPR-related trivia bits, and we had to figure out each based on a collection of up to three clues (or, well, sometimes more for particularly tricky seals). In general, the process worked out like "figure out what fandom/etc this is related to, and use the subsequent clues to progressively narrow things down from there". The hardest questions - like the ones I mentioned in the 2016 retrospective - shook up this formula somewhat; for example, the A Song of Ice and Fire seal where each clue pointed towards a clearly different thing, and the answer was the location where all three of those things had first been together.
But in 2017... oh.
Suddenly, we had a whole handful of seals that did not fit this trivia model! The clues to one of the very first seals we had access to pointed towards a message that needed decoding - which you can see in one of the comics above, if you look for some morse code. Another seal had to do with a binary/ASCII cipher. And besides that, there were other weird symbols all over the place in both the comics and Darth Angelus's epic videos.
We had stumbled into the puzzle zone. The answers were all within Epic Week, if only you combed through the materials enough! (And did enough decryption on enciphered text, in some cases.
)Heimdall did a crack job at figuring out the aliens' alphabet, and I threw guesses at their number system until we got the math to make sense. Those puzzles made my little linguist/cryptologist heart so happy - and even better, anyone could take stabs at them - and did! - because they weren't reliant on familiarity with a particular fandom, or recalling esoteric bits of RPR lore.
Another discovery: the Many-Headed Cyborg Dragon was an experimental subject of the xenobeasts.
Why do I get the feeling that you're not doing this as just a look back, but actually as a refresher building up to the big epic (pun intended) finale? 
Sort of like the 'last time' section at the beginning of an episode.
I wonder.... >3>
Sort of like the 'last time' section at the beginning of an episode.
I wonder.... >3>
Literally blowing up stuff! I really wished I had more canons to blow them aliens!
Ilmarinen
April 17, 2020
10:46pm