Contact

ok I would have guessed that if I had seen it was a double clue. My brain immediately shut off at the prospects of sorting through flowers for a single word again after periwinkle

Mike Q

4. Sikn?

Eric Tressler

105: Hey!

Deusovi

contact 105

phenomist

10. It's in E and Y

Mike Q

contact 105

Sp3000

4:09 AM

~~50. Zero Escape creator's next project~~

phenomist

(11 was POSTERBOARD)

Deusovi

(booooooo)

Mike Q

6. Someone really good at "Guess what I'm thinking" puzzles

North

Sorry I didn't see the ps

Eric Tressler

c6

quartata

4:10 AM

6: psychic...

phenomist

c6

Mike Q

6 wow how did you know

70: Goddess

70 Psyche

correct

4:11 AM

could someone star 4 before it ascends into the abyss

Eric Tressler

No idea if she was a goddess or some other kind of figure, I assumed someone would know what I meant.

ffao

(not aware 50 had a title already?)

Deusovi

(it does)

North

89: telekinesis

phenomist

11: that one disease

quartata

4:12 AM

Pass 11

ManyPinkHats

c11 maybe

Eric Tressler

is it psoriasis?

quartata

You now have to spell it

phenomist

yea psoriasis

quartata

Oh... That's actually not it

phenomist

4:13 AM

o

quartata

Defending P S I

There, try now

ManyPinkHats

I think I know it

phenomist

10 lives

Mike Q

4 dies (Bad skin => psoriasis)

Eric Tressler

105 dies, either "psst" or "pssst" would have been acceptable

ffao

4:14 AM

I'm bad at biology, good luck everyone

ManyPinkHats

am I allowed to give a lame clue if I think I have the answer?

Eric Tressler

yes

quartata

this one isn't that obscure, it's just hard to spell

ManyPinkHats

I'll try giving a somewhat normal clue first, just in case

Eric Tressler

I can't think of anything...

North

4:15 AM

Hmm

ManyPinkHats

1. disease contracted from birds

quartata

Pass 1

ManyPinkHats

okay, yeah, I definitely know it then

quartata

You could have been a bit more specific :P

North

C1

ManyPinkHats

4:15 AM

this actually would have been my guess for 11

ffao

1 is passed, just guess it north

North

Psilosis?

ManyPinkHats

not what I intended

Eric Tressler

psilocybin. From birds.

North

Idk

ManyPinkHats

4:16 AM

also not what I intended

Eric Tressler

I was joking

quartata

That's a mushroom...?

Lol

North

Oh

quartata

Don't contact while baked

ManyPinkHats

I don't know that much about the disease off the top of my head; I remember it from an episode of House

quartata

4:17 AM

@North nor yours, eric's

I think it's time for the lame clue, I'm surprised no one else knows it

Sp3000

(Clues that aren't worth posting: 3. "___-Missing" (A Certain Magical Index song), 2143. American romance (?) film, 5. +operating)

North

Ik

Eric Tressler

I'm wracking my brain, can't think of any diseases

North

Yeah

quartata

it's from parrots

North

4:18 AM

I'm out of my of obscure diseasses

ffao

so much for "not obscure" :)

Eric Tressler

Psiverated spleen

phenomist

i know that parrots are psittacines

Eric Tressler

psittacinosis?

phenomist

but idk the disease

ManyPinkHats

4:18 AM

that's really really close

Good enough

psittacinitis?

PSITTACOSIS

Defending PSITTACOSIS

North

Aaah

phenomist

4:19 AM

10 was PSI (it's in EPSILON and UPSILON)

quartata

Or, just, parrot fever

North

Wtf

quartata

Funnily enough Eric it does result in spleen enlargement at least according to Wikipedia

North

Who's defending?

phenomist

MPH i guess

Eric Tressler

4:21 AM

Decision is currently ManyPinkHats's

ManyPinkHats

is defending I

quartata

1: Comma Robot

North

45: Headless horsemen

ManyPinkHats

1 is I

Eric Tressler

90: Tall and tan, and young and lovely

ManyPinkHats

4:22 AM

45 is ICHABOD (CRANE)

Eric Tressler

c45

quartata

2: tiny amount

1 yes

2 is IOTA

45 yes

2 yes

4:23 AM

67: Letter z

quartata

3: forever strapped to a burning wheel

Eric Tressler

80: Model of the universe that's big these days

Mike Q

4. Narrator of a whale of a tale

Eric Tressler

c4

North

78: No

ManyPinkHats

4:24 AM

4 is ISHMAEL

Mike Q

4 yes

quartata

C80

We need Mithrandir for 3

North

86: Flowering plant

ManyPinkHats

80 imploding?

North

56: Immigrant from Japam to America

Eric Tressler

4:25 AM

80: no

ManyPinkHats

86 iris?

quartata

Actually who we really need is Gareth

pass 80

-

INFLATIONARY

4:26 AM

correct

ManyPinkHats

oh so pretty much the opposite of what I said

:P

is defending I N

quartata

Well 3 dies, IXION

Eric Tressler

90 dies, that's the Girl from IPANEMA

North

86 dies, ixia

quartata

100: not a succubus

ManyPinkHats

4:27 AM

100 INCUBUS

quartata

100 yes

North

56 dies, issei

Eric Tressler

80, 81: Poor and angry

phenomist

20: Things Henry rated

North

78 dies, ixnay

quartata

4:27 AM

Ixia, dafuq?

North

67 dies, izzard

Mike Q

2. Without the first two letters, it means the same thing

81 INFURIATED?

c2

c80, 81

4:28 AM

81 is not infuriated

c2

pass 2

2 is INFLAMMABLE

2 correcto (inflammable = flammable)

North

Lol

ManyPinkHats

4:28 AM

is defending I N T

Eric Tressler

@phenomist 80,81?

phenomist

20 dies, INDUCTORS

INDIGENT/INDIGNANT?

correct

Oh, duh.

,82: Stubborn

4:30 AM

pass 82

quartata

200: wasted

Oh come on

Eric Tressler

@ManyPinkHats really?

North

87: Old Perusian money

quartata

Fine

ManyPinkHats

yeah really

Eric Tressler

4:31 AM

does anyone know 82?

ManyPinkHats

that is, if it's the word I'm thinking of

Eric Tressler

no. It follows the pattern of 80,81 a bit. That's why it's ",82"

quartata

Inflexible

ManyPinkHats

yeah, pretty sure your 82 is the right word

phenomist

int quartata

Eric Tressler

4:32 AM

no, 82 is not inflexible (INT__)

quartata

Oh yes right sorry

Eric Tressler

No reason to kill the game over this, should I just say it?

82 is not intently (it's an adjective)

You don't have to delete wrong guesses

ManyPinkHats

either that or I could magically switch to a different INT word

quartata

INTRANSIGENT

Eric Tressler

correct

quartata

4:34 AM

good one, good one that one

took me a while

ManyPinkHats

was defending INTRANSIGENT

North

Oh no Eric's up again

I'm a gonna be up all night

Eric Tressler

I didn't mean to snipe your word so early. That's just bad luck

ManyPinkHats

I really really wasn't expecting that to come up on INT

quartata

200 was of course intoxicated

ManyPinkHats

4:35 AM

nah it's cool, that's one of the surprises of Contact

Eric Tressler

Eric is defending F

North

56: Pushing or pulling, say

Eric Tressler

is 56 Force?

North

Yee

Eric Tressler

I feel like I've disproportionately defended Fs. I'm a bad RNG

phenomist

4:38 AM

57: Something you do before golf

ManyPinkHats

c57

Eric Tressler

is 57 FORE / FORESWEAR?

phenomist

oh, not FORE

Eric Tressler

is 57 FANCY YOURSELF UP WITH YOUR GOLFING DUDS

phenomist

not that

North

4:39 AM

@EricTressler 11/0

Contact 57

is 57 FOXTROT

yea

1. Clue, I say, this is a clue, boy

ManyPinkHats

2. movie that pretty much defined my favourite classical music as a child

Eric Tressler

4:40 AM

is 1 FOGHORN LEGHORN

is 2 FANTASIA?

Mike Q

1 I say yes

quartata

Sorry one second I spat water everywhere after Eric guessed golfing duds

North

Lol

👏👏👏👏

quartata

3: induced emf

Eric Tressler

is 3... ferromagnetism?

quartata

4:42 AM

4: half month

c4

is 4 FORTNIGHT?

c4

4 yes, 3 no

5: full month

4:42 AM

6. Ironic?

Eric Tressler

is 5 FEBRUARY

ManyPinkHats

5 yes

c6

oh sorry, I missed the guess for 2

yes 2 is FANTASIA

Eric Tressler

is 6 FREE RIDE WHEN YOU'VE ALREADY PAID?

ManyPinkHats

lol

Mike Q

6 no

phenomist

4:43 AM

c6

Eric Tressler

I'm out of stars

quartata

Wait a second

C6?

Eric Tressler

is 3 FARADAY

is 6 FUNNY?

Mike Q

6 nope

Eric Tressler

pass 6

phenomist

4:46 AM

ferric

3 yes

or FERROUS

^ 6 was FERROUS

oh, ok

Eric is defending FO

quartata

100: polonius

Mike Q

4:47 AM

4. Ruin a blade

ManyPinkHats

11. Ant farm

Eric Tressler

is 11 a formarium

ManyPinkHats

close enough, FORMICARIUM

quartata

i love that word

c4

Eric Tressler

is 4 forge?

Mike Q

4:48 AM

4 nope

ManyPinkHats

since Deus isn't here

7: One option

Eric Tressler

is 7 fold?

ManyPinkHats

6: and the other

Mike Q

9. Ironclad trick ending in QED

quartata

perhaps 100 isn't what everyone immediately thinks of

Eric Tressler

4:50 AM

is 9 formal proof?

Mike Q

@EricTressler Nope

I would star 6 and 7 but I am starless

Sid

16. Neal Caffrey

Eric Tressler

is one of 6/7 FORD?

ManyPinkHats

no neither is FORD

wait I'm a doofus I think

Eric Tressler

was it feast/famine?

ManyPinkHats

4:52 AM

nope

quartata

I have no idea what 16 is referring to and I've watched every season of that show

Mike Q

24. Juke Box Heroes

ManyPinkHats

7: Take the first action

Eric Tressler

I have no idea about any of these... do we only have one contact, on 4?

ManyPinkHats

6: ...then take the second action

quartata

4:53 AM

so that makes me feel like a complete dumbass to say the least

o wait

reclued properly

contact 6,7

7,6 forgive/forget

12: Drop a call?

4:54 AM

yeah, my bad for cluing them as an 'or' instead of an 'and

7,6 yes

quartata

Oh duh, c16

im thick

Eric Tressler

I don't even know who that is

well.. pass 4

quartata

FOIL

Eric Tressler

ahhh

Mike Q

4 yup, it's a cryptic

Eric Tressler

4:55 AM

a foil is a sword, does it count as a blade?

It only has a point, no edge

Eric is defending FOR

quartata

100 was FOP

Mike Q

swords are a subset of blades

Sid

16 lives

Mike Q

9 was also a bad cryptic, FOOLPROOF

phenomist

12 was FOLD

quartata

4:56 AM

still c16

Mike Q

24 lives (someone please star it)

Eric Tressler

hang on, we need stars

for both of those

is 24 FOREIGNER?

Mike Q

24 yes

quartata

200: goddess: fortune fish

Mike Q

c200

5. Psi

Eric Tressler

4:58 AM

is 5 force

Mike Q

5 nope

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