BEARS BEARS BEARS - Halloween Thief Hunt!!

"Going to Mordor!" Cried Pippin. "I hope it won’t come to that!"
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BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS

It’s Halloween Thief Hunt, y’all!!

Something has been stolen and the thief is at large! All the bears of Middle Earth are in an uproar, for it was one of them that was stolen from- and it seems, one of them that did the stealing!! In order to prevent utter bear-chaos, you must help discover the thief and recover the stolen item. Or are you perhaps the thief, looking to throw others off your trail?? The only clue we have is that the hiding place is somewhere in a far away place called Katmai, where many Fat Bears roam.

**You may play as any bear from the Halloween ranks or any other bear/bear character you know of or of your own devising, but you MUST play as a bear!!**

YOU MUST FIND:

The Thief’s Name
The Item The Thief Stole
Where The Thief Is Hiding


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Possible Thief’s Name

Koala – Red Panda – Panda – Sun Bear – Moon Bear – Golden Moon Bear – Sloth Bear – Spectacled Bear – Himalayan Brown Bear – Eurasian Brown Bear – Grizzly Bear – Kodiak Bear – Kermode Bear – Polar Bear – Cave Bear


Possible Items Stolen

Honey – Honeycomb – Black(bear)y Wine – Golden Ale – Dark Ale – Mead – The Fattest Salmon – Beorn’s Entire Bar – Arth’s Yams – Osa’s Hoard – A Whole Deer


Possible Hiding Spots

Holly’s Throneroom – Walker’s Bodacious Booty-oir – Grazer’s Den – Chunk’s Larder – Walker’s Riffles – 402’s Daycare – Under Otis’s Bum – Popeye’s Fishing Spot – 747’s Den

Traps

The thief was obviously very crafty, for they have left a trap for the unsuspecting!

Bear Trap: Rather than a nasty sharp thing set by a hunter, this trap being laid by a thief that is also a bear, is a veritable smorgasbord of tasty treats that would distract even the most devoted of hunters! The thief has laced them with a sedative, however, and you must miss a turn sleeping it off before you can hunt again.


IMPORTANT: For this version of Thief Hunt, the trap will NEVER be in the correct location


How The Game Works

All participants will post before a ~24 hour deadline has passed. When the deadline arrives, hints, a new ~24 hour deadline, and any other information concerning the game (eg traps) will be posted. The process is repeated until either one or more person posts the correct combination to solve the mystery. At that time, the participant that has derived the correct answer will be told at the following deadline, and a new round begins!

N.B. I’m going to try and keep up with the 24 hour thing but life happens so bear with me if rounds take a little longer!

The Rules of The Game

1. All posts 300+ characters and IC
2. You must post name of thief, place where the thief is hiding, and item that they stole in bold and the according color somewhere in your post
3. You may post the same combination as another player
4. You may join the game at any time


RANKING
This game will run the duration of October, and I will keep track of how many games each person wins! On Halloween Night, the overall winner will be declared!!
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Ursula was missing. This was incredibly distressing to the young golden moon bear, losing her best friend in the whole wide world (including the north where Ursula came from) meant that Osa was in danger of getting caught on her next caper. She knew that Ursula was a still a newcomer to the lands down south (“the not snow lands” as Ursula sometimes called it), what if she had gotten lost? It was hard to lose such an enormous and beautifully snow white bear as Ursula, but elves are strange people and do strange things. Without the giant, somewhat bemused and confused Polar Bear, Osa was just a goofy little bear trying to steal some Black(bear)y Wine. This would not do at all. Osa needed to find her best friend and protector.

What if one of their old marks found her and had kidnapped her? Who would be so bold and dumb as to try and take out a polar bear? Whoever it was, they were going to get a face full of golden moon bear paw! Where to start looking though? She would need to start looking into people she knew were annoyed at her and Ursula. Galadriel was an obvious choice, but Lothlorien was so far away. Holly’s Throneroom was close by. Perhaps there she’d get answers to where her missing friend was located.
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"What kind of mess did Papa Bear land us in this time?" 12-year-old Kit Cloudkicker thought to himself as he and Baloo seemed to have crashed the Sea Duck in a strange land. Kit was Baloo's navigator and often had to get him out of trouble before their boss, Rebecca Cunningham, would have a fit. Both Baloo and Kit worked for a courier company called Higher for Hire and they ended up crashing their plane after having some kind of engine trouble, though Baloo insisted they were shot down by pirates. Now it seemed, Kit was wandering around in a strange land agreeing to help the locals catch a common thief. He only agreed to help them until he could track down both Baloo and the Sea Duck.

Searching around the strange land, the first thing the 12-year-old wannabe courier pilot came across was a A Whole Deer. "What was this deer doing here, wandering around as if it had gotten itself lost?" Kit thought to himself, hoping the poor creature didn't end up being someone's dinner. He also spotted another bear, but this kind was not like Baloo and Kit (meaning it couldn't talk, wear clothing or have a job), it seemed to be more like the kind you would see at a zoo of some sort. "What kind of land did Papa Bear take us to?" Kit thought to himself as he chose to follow what was called a Himalayan Brown Bear whatever that was. The place that he had spotted this bear was known as Popeye's Fishing Spot, so this particular bear might have been hungry to hide in a place like this.
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The thief has NOT been found!
The item has NOT been found!
The hiding place has NOT been found!
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Arktos was a black bear. This was not up to be disputed. He was not a grizzly, or a Kermode, or a polar bear. He was a black bear and, consequently, tired of being ignored by so many ursine enthusiasts around the world. He was a friend to Osa, the Golden Moon Bear. Who wasn’t her friend (aside from Galadriel of course)? Osa was the best bear there was. She was a capering thief, but even that was not enough to make Arktos not like her. He was not a thief himself, all the food he found was gotten through the proper channels and with proper compensation. He would never be suspected as a thief either. Maybe this was why Osa came to him in such a huff.

He was eating a barrel full of apples when she came to him, out of breath and frantic. Ursula was missing. At first Arktos thought it was a mistake. Ursula? Missing? How could that be? Who would be so foolish as to try and take the wondrous polar bear? Then, naturally, he grew angry. The bear community within Middle-earth, despite being spread out over hundred and hundreds of leagues, was very tight knit. When one of them was unfairly besmirched, all of them were unfairly besmirched. When one of them was bear-napped, all of them were responsible for getting her back. Osa was beside herself with anguish and stress. She assumed it was because of a caper she’d implemented that Ursula had been taken, but Arktos was not as sure. It was a possibility, but the only person that would ever actually try and retaliate against Osa’s relatively harmless pilfering was Galadriel, Lady of the Golden Wood, but she was quite far away and the resources she would have to commit to such an atrocity were immense. Arktos would bet Beorn’s Entire Bar that it was someone closer to home.

The was no ransom note, no “pay this much to see your friend, the polar bear, alive”. It crossed Arktos’ mind that maybe she went home. Back up north to the snow and ice. But to not tell anyone? To leave no note? That was not Ursula’s style. She was often confused by the antics of her best friend, but she would never just took tail and leave. And the sorry state Osa was in confirmed in Arktos’ mind that that was not what happened. If Ursula had gone back up north, then Osa would be searching high and low, even Under Otis’ Bum, for every bear in Middle-earth to have a surprise party for her best friend.

Alright. Arktos was on the case. Two bears were better than one.
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The thief has NOT been found!
The item has NOT been found!
The hiding place has NOT been found!


@Lord Summerisle, you have stumbled upon the Bear Trap!! Before you lies a veritable smorgasbord of tasty treats that would distract even the most devoted of hunters! The thief has laced them with a sedative, however, and you must miss a turn sleeping it off before you can hunt again. RP your gluttonous indulgence, and subsequent consequences!
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Tim the bear was on the lookout for one Cleveland Brown after he thought that he saw his high school sweetheart, Donna, flirting with another man. While he was searching all over Stoolbend for his longtime friend, he somehow managed to walk through some kind of "wormhole" as Cleveland would put it and ended up in a strange land. This land seemed to be inhabited by all kinds of bears, and they were on the lookout for a thief! Tim asked if he could somehow help and found himself in a place called Walker's Bodacious Booty-oir and was so horrified as to what he saw that the talking bear that wore only a shirt almost walked out of the place!

"What kind of place is this?" he wondered to himself as he came across none other than a Honeycomb in the middle of the entire establishment! Though Tim was getting a little hungry, he resisted since the bears that inhabited this land weren't going to be too happy with him if he ate the evidence, were they? He also spotted the guilty party (or at least he thought he did), since there was a Grizzly Bear acting like he was hiding something. Had Tim tracked down the bear thief already, even though he wasn't in his own element anymore (meaning away from Stoolbend, Virginia, where he resided before this little incident)?
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