TERRACE Draft - Day 1

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: Arrival at TERRACE
When: The first day, from 8AM to the wee hours of the night
Where: TERRACE!
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post covers the first day, before the attack. Remember, characters here are not expecting an attack and are under the impression they will be going to Region 1 to fight. During this day, draftees will be restricted to T6 and T7 and not permitted access to other areas.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name

Comments

[reminded]

Er, that's one way of putting it, yes. It won't be as simple as your average maze.

[He nods down at the pages in Diamond's hands.] But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Before you can decide on giant mazes or squares, you'll have to solve the ones right in front of you.

[heartofthematter]

[He looks down in minor disappointed, but that sharpens up to determination and he nods.]

Got it. Just try one number at a time until it's the right one, right? I can do that! [Yeah, let's solve puzzles!]

[reminded]

That's the right attitude. Take it one clue at a time.

[Latin squares are a good metaphor for mystery-solving, actually.]

[heartofthematter]

[Right! He'll just be using the strategy suggested to him, going slow so he doesn't miss one. He's a steady worker and it's fun.]

[reminded]

[Darn tootin' it's fun. As they plod on with their puzzles, Layton becomes increasingly drawn into his puzzling, bending over his notepad in concentration. Sudoku, man. Sudoku.]

[heartofthematter]

[Oh man, you're really going at it Professor. Diamond pauses in his finishing to watch Layton.]

[reminded]

[The arrangement seems sound as is, but if he removes this cell and knocks it down to 20 givens, the difficulty would ramp up by quite a bit. But deleting it might make this clue over here overly ambiguous. Maybe it would be better to take away this cell over here instead...? 1, 3, 7, 8... No, that won't do either. 2, 4, 5, 7... 1 or 3 or 8, 1 or 6 or 9, 3 or 6 or 8 or 9... The top and bottom rows are no help, but the adjacent columns perhaps...]

[heartofthematter]

[...

...

Diamond thinks he's got it.]

Add another line? [If it doesn't work one way, just add on. That's how he sees it.]

[reminded]

Er... as in another row or column?

[He's not sure he heard that right.]

[heartofthematter]

[which ones goes which way UHHHH he makes a vertical motion with his finger. Yeah.]

A line going like this.

[reminded]

...

[He looks down at his sudoku square. This is gonna shoot it to hell, isn't it. But he'll do it for you, Diamond. For you...... He uncertainly draws... a new column...]

......

[heartofthematter]

[Yeah!! You go, Layton! Diamond beams, and studies it.




Hm.]

Another one?

[reminded]

Er... another?

[Unsure. So unsure. But he has always believed in learning from your mistakes, so... another it is...!]

It looks a bit... unbalanced now, don't you think?

[heartofthematter]

[It certainly does. But Diamond's very firm:]

Another.

[He is very much twelve at this point of time.]

[reminded]

[Where will the madness end??]

Very well...

[Here is your third column, you monster. At least the dimensions are in multiples of 3 again.]

[heartofthematter]

Is it okay now?

[reminded]

...... Not quite. See here: if I try to fill in numbers for these new cells, what problem arises? I used numbers one through nine previously, but there are now more than nine cells per row.

[heartofthematter]

[...]

Oh... So we'll have to use twelve numbers!




[yes.]

[reminded]

[Almost there.........(?)]

But when we count vertically [and he gestures with his pen which way that is] we find that twelve is too much to fit in any one column.

[heartofthematter]

[oh yes.]

So we'll add three bottom lines. An even number's sure to give you less trouble than an odd.

[reminded]

That's one way of looking at it.

[And with a small sense of relief he'll add the three additional rows. There ain't no one who can solve 12x9 Sudoku.]

I'll... continue working on this another time. Have you completed the squares I gave you?