FlashQuiz 003 : The Story So Far...
There's a new game in town - FlashQuiz 003 !
A couple of weeks ago @steemcurator01 started the FlashQuizzes.
The first quizzes were one-offs involving finding geolocations, or book titles or solving an acronym.
But by FlashQuiz 003 they had grown into something much bigger.
Sc01 seems to be developing the quiz into a Breaking Bad like epic.
The storyline is evolving across a number of stages, on multiple posts, with a myriad of comments.
Joining the party rather late it has been tricky to follow the whole plot.
Having now read through all the posts and all the comments I thought it might be useful to summarise the story so far .
Main Characters
Steemcurator01
Steemcurator01 is the main character of the story along with her best friend Carolina.
Sc01 also acts as the narrator of the story.
We haven't learnt her name yet but we do now know that she is around 30 years old, lives in Austin, Texas and works for Steemit.
Sc01 hasn't given away too many details about herself other than the fact that her favourite actor is Clint Eastwood and she seems to like burritos !
It would be a whole lot easier if we knew her name 😀
Carolina
Carolina is also around 30 and lives in Austin. She speaks Spanish as well as English.
She used to work for Steemit Inc but left suddenly - we don't know why.
After Steemit Carolina got a job as a Guest Relations Associate at Austin Zoo.
Carolina has just split up with her boyfriend Mikhail and seems to have taken something from him that he wants back.
Craig
Craig was Carolina's landlord.
Sc01 and Carolina had been referring to him as 'Creepy Craig' but have more recently changed their view of him as he helped them get their motorhome, and warned Carolina that Mikhail is coming after her.
Craig also slipped a Glock hand gun into Carolina's things when he dropped them off at the zoo so she didn't have to go back to her apartment in case Mikhail was there.
He also has a Shih Tzu dog called Timmy.
Mikhail
Mikhail was Carolina's former boyfriend.
He is a truck driver but never has any money.
We haven't met him directly yet but he seems like a nasty piece of work as it looked like he beat up Craig and threatened to hurt his dog.
He is now coming after Carolina to get back something she has of his.
Mikhail seems to have been connected with Carolina leaving Steemit but we don't know any details yet.
Episode 1 : Pizza and Pecan
The story opened with Sc01 picking up supplies for a trip from Costco in Austin.
It is not known why Sc01 has to make the journey and what the destination is but there seems to be some urgency to get there by the beginning of July. It was suggested that it might be to do with work permits but there hasn't been any confirmation on that.
Sc01 works for Steemit at an office in Brazos Steet in Austin. She has been sleeping in the office as she doesn't want to go back to her apartment - but we don't know why. Sc01 seems to like pizza and pecan pie.
It was an early start for Sc01 before anyone else came into the office.
She went for breakfast with her best friend Carolina. They went to a place called Caroline just a few blocks from Brazos Street.
Sc01's car is not working and has been taken to a garage.
Follow the whole of Episode One (Stage 1) here...
Episode 2 : Plan B
Episode 2 begins with the bad news that Sc01's car won't be fixed in time for the planned journey.
The car is old and the garage can't get hold of a replacement part for at least two weeks.
Sc01 needs a Plan B.
It is then revealed that Carolina is coming on the trip with Sc01, but has just split with her boyfriend Mikhail and he has taken her car.
It seems they didn't break up on good terms, but Carolina hasn't revealed any details.
She is very worried about something.
The Road Trip will hopefully take Carolina's mind off her problems. She is keen to set off as soon as possible.
Carolina's landlord, Craig, knows someone with a motorhome for sale.
Sc01 and Carolina decide to buy the motorhome together. Craig's friend Sonic agrees to knock the price down to $11,500 for cash.
Carolina has $6000 in cash from somewhere, and Sc01 gets a good price for her car from Classic Automotive, the place that has been fixing it for the past month.
The motorhome is a 2008 Coachman Freedom Express...
It has Starlink and solar panels already installed so Sc01 can keep doing her curation work while she is on the road.
They plan to leave Austin on Saturday after Carolina finishes work at the zoo.
Sc01 goes all in on the Road Trip and decides to give up her apartment the day before the they are due to leave.
She sells some of her stuff and puts the rest in storage in the Steemit office.
Carolina invites Sc01 to a birthday party at the zoo.
Thinking the party is for one of Carolina's colleagues, Sc01 buys a secondhand book of William Blake's poetry as a birthday gift.
The party however turns out to be the 5th birthday of Zulema the white tiger...
Follow the whole of Episode Two (Stage 2) here...
Episode 3 : The Long and Winding Road
Sc01 and Carolina are enjoying the party at the zoo, when Carolina gets a call.
Carolina doesn't reveal who called but just says they have to leave straightaway.
They drive for two hours in silence until Carolina suddenly demands they stop.
She needs to buy some stuff.
They are in a small town north-west of Austin called Brady.
Carolina buys 3 boxes of 9mm ammunition and 3 cans of paint.
After the shopping trip they park up in an RV park on the edge of town.
Carolina spends the evening painting the van pink, orange and grey.
The next morning Carolina's phone rings while she is in the shower.
Sc01 picks up the call.
It is Craig. He has been visited by Mikhail.
Mikhail found the ad for the motorhome on Craig's phone and forced him to tell where we were heading.
Craig was clearly beaten up and only gave up the information after Mikhail threatened to kill his dog.
Police were out of the question according to Craig - he said Carolina wouldn't want them to be involved.
Craig told them to get off the main roads and to take an alternative route. Mikhail is coming after them.
They set off on the back roads taking a long and winding route through El Dorado, Knickerbocker, Sherwood, Iraan, Royalty, and Hermosa until they reached a place in the middle of nowhere called Toyah.
Carolina had not said much for the whole journey until they park up for the night.
Then she breaks down crying, saying she had been stupid. She had let Mikhail use her, and if she had ignored what he asked her to do, she would still be working at Steemit, and none of this would be happening.
Sc01 is distraught that she doesn't know how to help her best friend.
She wants to get some beer and pizza to calm the situation but it was Sunday evening and everywhere was closed in Toyah.
Follow the whole of Episode Three (Stage 3) here...
That brings the story up to the end of Episode 3.
Episode 4 is now underway with Sc01 and Carolina stuck in Toyah with a broken down motorhome...
More on this when the episode finishes.
I hope this summarisation is useful for anyone wanting to join in FlashQuiz 003.
Now that I am up to speed on the story so far I plan to jump in and help solve the puzzles posed by Sc01.
Although most of the clues so far have been real head scratchers...
It has been difficult to follow all the clues and responses through the many hundreds of comments.
If any one spots any key elements of the story that I have missed out or got wrong please let me know.
Thank you
Pennsif
Thank you for telling about these puzzles by steemcurator01. It's a great summary for users like me who didn't get the puzzles, missed the episodes or somehow missed these things. I would be happy to participate in the coming episodes & puzzles. Happy to see you back again. I know about a lot of things especially Sc01 location & friend circle. I think it's half fictional & half real story. Thanks again.
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A game of two halves...
Excited to read the coming episodes.
Thank you for compiling this summary of the story so far.
It is very useful for people to keep track of what has happened.
If it is okay with you @pennsif I would like to host an AMA here - 'Ask Me Anything'.
For next 48 hours people can ask any questions they like about the characters, the story line, and perhaps most importantly about the clues that have not been solved so far.
Ask away and I will do my best to answer...
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Is Carolina pregnant?
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Even if she is headed for abortion, should she be smoking... And that too not just tobacco!!!
I can't seem to wrap my head around this.
🚭🫄🏻
Then again what would I know about carolina... She has been surprising us time and again!
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Exactly. I blame Emilio.
😵😵 ay caramba
All has now been revealed.
I thought as much because the symptoms were very obvious that she is pregnant
Congratulations 🎉🎉
Happy to have you here.
Very interested to see the solutions of some of the unsolved clues!
One question if I may.
Is the storyline all fiction or any of it based on your real life?
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I am claiming #club5050 on this one.
If you look through your left eye, and then look through your right eye, you get a different perspective on life...
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Things don’t look the same, even from each of our own eyes. However, if this were based on real life, with some fictional changes, I would strive to do what author Wayne Dyer asserted in his book The Power of Intention when he wrote: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
So, it seems that anything that isn’t going the way we want, we just need to apply this technique to transform its results.
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Quite write.
You really know how to keep your followers dancing between mystery and revelation...
#club5050
#NTHBW
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🤔
Прелестные девочки! Жду продолжения. ^^
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Lovely song...
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How did Craig get involved with Mikhail? Why is he willing to put himself in danger for Carolina?
Well there were so many interesting clues. It was really a good experience to take a part in the quiz. Its a time for lunch here...
Let's have it together with Mangoes in sweets...
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Craig was Carolina's landlord.
Mikhail was Carolina's ex-boyfriend.
Mikhail is bad. Craig is not so.
I like mangoes.
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Meanwhile sc01 seems to be secretly in love with Carolina, their trip by motorhome is not without reason, I suspect that when Carolina was still working at Steemit, she had a special relationship with sc01, or at least there was an unfinished love story between sc01 and Carolina.
If not, why would Craig sacrifice himself to help Carolina and sc01, Craig is not only a landlord, but he knows a lot about the past story of sc01 and Carolina when they were both working at Steemit.
If I may ask, do you have special feelings for Carolina? Apart from being in the name of friendship.
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Moving into new territory.
😊 Carolina is a special person...
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Looks like sc01's love is one sided.🥺🤣🤣
The only reason Mikhail is chasing Carolina is because Carolina is currently pregnant with Mikhail's child. And that's also one of the reasons why Mikhail dared to threaten to kill Craig's dog, if he didn't tell him where sc01 and Carolina had gone.🤔🤔🤔
One more question if I may
Does Carolina still have parents?
Me too like it, very much.... Give me a chance to serve mangoes to you for once ✨
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🍽️
I wonder how Craig and Mikhail looks like 🤔.
Do you also love mangoes?
Oho how interesting to read, I would like to ask why Carolina and Mikhail both left steemit?
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Mikhail never worked at Steemit.
He is a truck driver.
He delivers things...
🚚🚚🚚🚚🚚 🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑
Auh!!!!!! Love turn in the story!!!!!! Thank you i got it.
De las pistas más curiosas y que ahora acabo de leer, es ¿porque mencionaste Palta y un saco de dinero xD? ¿que tiene que eso con un familiar de Carolina?
Estoy empezando a creer que Carolina está embarazada porque mencionaste un aguacate (por la forma redonda junto a la semilla) Además del comentarios de 'the-gorilla'y 'event-horizon' hace un par de horas!!
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That story continues.
Stay tuned...
It's not that easy to solve those clues, haha. and even less so when you have to spend so many hours researching to find the correct answer.
However, I have been very happy with people who have demonstrated puzzle-solving skills
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Keep on puzzling...
Ah, FlashQuiz 003: where motorhomes break down, ex-boyfriends chase after missing items, and pink-orange-grey paint schemes become the new rage. Who needs a predictable storyline when you have this level of chaotic entertainment? Bravo, Bravo! 🍿
😂
What role did Carolina’s sudden departure from Steemit play in triggering Mikhail’s pursuit, and what exactly did she take that has him so determined to retrieve?
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Carolina still hasn't told me what really happened...
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May I know your exact destination right now?
All has now been revealed in the main story post.
This story is getting more interesting, confusing because it seems like there is a big secret that makes Carolina feel like she is being chased and chasing something...
Did Carolina take Mikhail's bitcoin?
Thank you very much, we needed a summary like this to have the whole story together. In particular, it also serves to see if the clues that have been left behind have been discovered.🙂
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It has been an interesting challenge to work through all the many, many comments to put together the whole storyline so far.
Thank you for compiling it in a single post. I lost track in between stage 3 and 4 due to other off chain responsibilities. This just made everything very easy for me.
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Glad it is useful.
I'm looking forward to see how the story develops from Episode 4 onwards...
Honestly, I'm a little confused about solving the storyline of sc01 and Carolina, even though there are several clues that lead to it, the details of the story that you summarize are easier to understand, this really helps to unite the storyline.
I think you need to immediately jump into the arena, it will be very interesting if you are in it to solve the puzzles of sc01 and Carolina.
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The clues are tricky!
Hoping there might be some easier ones coming up in the next episode.
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If that happens, I'm very excited to be in it, and there's no missing a beat.
Well... Hope things get easier in the next episode.
My question is quite simple
How does your favorite actor, Clint Eastwood, relate to the story, and will he make an appearance or be referenced again in future episodes?
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Crimson fish ?
Ah!!! Okay! "Agteros kom ook in die kraal."
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👍
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Thanks for the compilation of these episodes. I got to know all these interesting clues from your post; I missed all.
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Weldon boss you did an amazing job, at least for those that didn't understand the puzzle from the beginning will know more @pennsif
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Salam semuanya, apakah Carolina dalam pemburuan mereka maksudnya Craig, hahahaha 😁😁sangat sulit untuk memecahkan di karenakan harus memahami dan menulusuri dengan detil akan game tersebut, saya rasa jawaban pendek saya menjadi petunjuk bagi kami
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🤔
Saya rasa emoji yang ada berikan saya mendapat kan satu petunjuk yang nyata, ini merupakan suatu kisah yang tidak ada ujungya, antara corolina, sc01 dan Craig, dapat saya berijudul "cinta segi tiga 🤗🤗🤗🤗"
Awal mula perkenalan mereka maksudnya corolina dan sc01 saat corolina berada di steemit, dimanan corolina dan sc01 saling jatuh mencinta, Singkat cerita saat kedatangan Craig semuanya berubah dengan drastis dimana carolina pun mulai meninggalkan sc01 di sebabkan kedatangan Craig, hingga carolina pun diam-diam jatuh cinta terhadap Craig, di akhir kisah carolina masih sangat sayang terhadap sc01 tapi carolina di ancam oleh Craig agar menjauhi akan sc01, kini carolina serba salah di karenakan Craig mulai protektif sedangakan Carolina terbeban dengan sikap Craig,
pada suatu malam sc01 dan carolina membuat janjian ingin pergi bersama, akan tetapi takdir berkata lain dimaan mobil sc01 rusak sehingga harus mendapatkan bantuan SOS untuk membantu mencarikan bengkel terdekan, bersambung ke episode selanjutnya