[Birthweek 2016] Treasure Hunt! - Game Thread

[Dionysos]

yeah that eye glass one is giving me trouble. Cause I saw it for the treehouse one, the other two look like an equal sign and a house. So something lives here, a bird lives here?

You're thinking along the right lines in some ways.
I guess you have to approach this from a slightly different angle. Think like a moogle. What do moogles see around them? What landscapes are there on the island, and might they represent them as symbols? What body parts do moogles have, and do the body parts represent deeper meanings or actions than simply being parts of the body?

I guess that’s the extent of the clues I can give in that way.

 

[Soulcorruptor]

eye wing nest and pompom is home then, for the top and bottom sign respectively.

 

[Dionysos]

eye wing nest and pompom is home then, for the top and bottom sign respectively.

Sadly not. The second symbol on the Big Pom Pom in the Sky is not a wing or a nest.

Your interpretation of the symbols on the sign are along the right sort of lines, but that's not what they say. The first symbol is a pom pom, but it isn't always used to denote 'pom pom'. What else could a moogle choose to represent by using that symbol?
The second symbol does not mean 'is' and the third symbol does not mean 'home', but you are thinking in the right way for that symbol. What else does it look like?

I'll give it a bit longer, but I'll be closing the competition in the next day or two (absolute deadline!). If nobody solves Mooglish in this game I might re-use it in a later event.

 

[Dionysos]

RESULTS REVEAL

The brave chocobos have returned from their expedition to the mysterious island. Much was learned, but many mysteries may never be discovered!

Here is the map with all treasure locations revealed (the yellow dots):

From the evidence gathered it seems that Greek colonists had arrived at the island and fought with the moogle natives. Over many years they fought and although it is not clear what the precise outcome was it seems that the Greek colony was wiped out and partially flooded.

We’ve only got a small insight into this fascinating story, but the chocobos have kindly agreed to set up ‘FFF Museum: Wonders of Chocobo Island’.

Each chocobo shall showcase his or her discoveries to the world, and through this it shall also be easy for us to determine the winner here for Birthweek (that is, after all, what this is all about when we stop daydreaming!).


Here are the exhibits (in order of last to first place):
Click the images to zoom in if you want to read the text (you may have to right-click and open some images in a new tab to zoom in further).

The Gentleman’s Club:

Name: Gentleman
Owner: Rich Uncle Pennybags
Inventory: Nothing.

Total = 0.
Gentleman has an empty gallery. His only memory being an unfortunate antlion attack.

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Coive’s Corner:

Name: Coive
Owner: Galadin
Inventory:
Broken pottery = 250 Gil
Total = 250 Gil

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The Smiffsonian:

Name: Smiffcobo
Owner: iSmiff
Inventory:
Mythril ore = 1,000 Gil
Total = 1,000 Gil

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The Purple Palace:

Name: Six
Owner: Six
Inventory:
Frozen mummies and a statue of a moogle death god = 800 Gil
Mogweed and moogle container= 300 Gil
Total = 1,100 Gil

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Missionary Museum:

Name: Elder Boko
Owner: Sice
Inventory:
Broken statue of a chocobo man = 1,000 Gil.
The Big Pom Pom in the Sky = 400 Gil.
Total = 1,400 Gil.

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Serina’s Spot:

Name: Serina
Owner: randomrosso
Inventory: Jade figure of Hydra/Syldra = 1,000 Gil.
Timmy the Turtle = 400 Gil.
Total = 1,400 Gil

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Making FFF Great Again:

Name: Drumpf ('The Don')
Owner: Linnaete
Inventory: Celes' headband = 600 Gil
Skeleton with letter = 800 Gil
Total = 1,400 Gil

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Starbucks Coffees Always Get Your Name Wrong:

Name: Starbucks
Owner: Mitsuki
Inventory:
Chryselephantine statue of Poseidon Delphinos = 1,500 Gil.
Yeti wool = 200 Gil
Brahne aspis = 500 Gil
Total = 2,200 Gil
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Pump Taunt:

Name: Elenaboko
Owner: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Inventory:
Ancient kylixes = 1,000 Gil
Skeletons of mother and child and pottery toys = 450 Gil
Broken ronso horn = 350 Gil
Midgar Zolom kebab = 497 Gil
Total = 2,297 Gil.

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Death, Nuts, and My Lovely Pearl.

Name: Boco
Owner: Shace paissa
Inventory:
Aerith's skeleton = 300 Gil
Carved Giant Kupo-Nuts = 600 Gil.
Giant Pearl = 1,500 Gil
Total = 2,400 Gil

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Rogue’s Ravaging:

Name: Rogue
Owner: shivas
Inventory:
Lionskin and club = 1,200 Gil
Carved wooden moogle = 500 Gil
Ruined moogle house = 400 Gil
Moogle skull = 300 Gil
Total = 2,400 Gil

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Ghostrider’s Golden Hoard:

Name: Ghostrider
Owner: Soulcorruptor
Inventory:
Shattered water crystal and fresco = 1,400 Gil
Statue of Mooglemachos = 600 Gil
Scattered skeletal remains = 200 Gil
Chocobo-feed = -500 Gil
Phoenix egg = 300 Gil
Ancient Naval Ram = 450 Gil
Total = 2,450 Gil

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This means that the numeric scores are:
Gentleman - 0
Coive - 250
Smiffcobo – 1,000
Six – 1,100
Elder Boko – 1,400
Serina – 1,400
Drumpf – 1,400
Starbucks – 2,200
Elenaboko: 2,297
Boco – 2,400
Rogue – 2,400
Ghostrider – 2,450


Winners:
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Place = Ghostrider @soulcorruptor = 5 BWP + 50 Gil
2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Place = Rogue @shivas and Boco Shace paissa = 3 BWP + 30 Gil
3[SUP]rd[/SUP] Place = Elenaboko @Lunafreya Nox Fleuret = 2 BWP + 20 Gil

Everybody else gets 1 BWP + 10 Gil for participating. @Mitsuki @Ross @Linnaete @NeroTrinityX @Six @iSmiff @Galadín @Rich Uncle Pennybags

Thank you all for participating.

I’m sorry some of you missed out on finding some good treasures (some of you were really, really close). Nobody found the most high scoring treasures, but some of you found some great ones nonetheless!

Congrats all!

 

[Shaissa]

I knew that there was an invisible island in the corner... it had to be Z'1

 

[Dionysos]

I knew that there was an invisible island in the corner... it had to be Z'1

One of the things I'm sad that you guys missed out on is the underwater tea party.

Also... If any of you had picked U,2 you would have found Bono.

You did find some good stuff though!