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Puzzle Update: No one has solved it yet :(

Take anything (and I mean anything) off of this page without asking, and I shall curse you with a blight much worse than you could imagine. Well, I would. But, alas, I have not studied up on my ancient incantations, so I guess I'll settle for, y'know, reporting you for theft. Yeah, I can do that.

Though the yurble is grinning happily at you, you don't dare refuse the snack. You look down at the tea and biscuits before you.

Hesitantly at first, you pick up the teacup and take a small sip. Putting it down, you then pick up a biscuit and nibble at the edges. The yurble appears to have relaxed a bit.

They're good, aren't they? I picked up that tea recipe while adventuring in Geraptiku. And the biscuits I learned how to make while dining with the Negg Faerie. Yessiree, I've been to a great many places around Neopia, though there's still so much more to discover. Come now, I'm sure you're hungrier than that; it's not like the tea and biscuits are poisoned.

Somehow you're still reluctant to believe the yurble, even though you've tasted both. You pick up a biscuit and start nibbling at it again, hoping the strange babbling yurble will make his point and let you leave.

There there. He finally pulls up a chair and sits on it. If it makes you happier, I'll eat some of these m'self. Now then; where was I? He grabs a biscuit and starts taking generous bits out of it, finishing it within seconds. Oh, right right. I remember now. Well, you should get comfortable. This might take awhile, though I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Now now, I told you not to be afraid. Relax a bit. Nothing's going to happen.

He smiles again, warmly. You still don't want to stay, though it feels as if some unseen force is making you. You just sip the tea and stare at the yurble, waiting for him to begin.

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The yurble starts chuckling. To avoid angering him again, you fake a laugh and hope it doesn't sound as forced as it felt. You go back to sipping the cup of tea. The flavor has started growing on you, and you have started taking somewhat larger sips.

Ah, yes. I remember my childhood quite well. But I won't bore you with the details. Nope, I won't. Now then. When I was able to, I left my house and started exploring every land I possibly could. I wanted to see all of Neopia, and see all of it I have. Well, all that I can see, that is. There're some far reaches of this world I have yet to venture into. Yepyep. There're some places no one's gone, and so, of course, I haven't been there. But where there's places to go, I've been. Though I have gotten lost a few times. He chuckles again. You force another laugh. Now then... I think I have it around here somewhere...

At this point, he starts venturing over to a bookshelf, obviously looking for something. Part of you wants to dash out of this house now that you've got the chance. Yet somehow you feel compelled to stay. You just sit there, sipping the tea.

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You look up at the yurble as he balances a pile of books on his hand. Then, you open up the thin books and see pages and pages of fanciful pictures from Roo Island and Kiko Lake. Before you finish looking through them, the yurble slaps three more books on the table, nearly knocking over the rest of the tea and biscuits.

This time, you pick up the books right away and start flipping through them. More pictures fill the pages, with writing scattered around in the margins. You figure these books are all from his adventures. Satisfied, you pick up the cup of tea, start sipping, and look up to the yurble, knowing that he'll start talking again soon.

Yessir. I liked those tiny lands, but I still yearned for adventure, so I made my way over to Brightvale. Oh, what an interesting sort of place Brightvale is. It's all orderly and knowledgeable about who knows what. I tell ya, if you ever want to know something, go ask anyone from Brightvale. They'd tell you what you want to know and then some. And King Hagan--he's the current undisputed monarch of Brightvale, in case you were wondering--knows more than all of his citizens, and they know quite a lot. If you ever want to know something, Brightvale's the place to go. Yepyep.

You pick up the book about Brightvale, and turn open to a random page. On your left, you see three pictures of the yurble smiling to the camera, his arm draped around random Brightvale citizens--King Hagan, the glazers shopkeeper, and that annoying orange ixi. On your right is a completely blank page. You flip through the remaining pages, and they're all completely blank. You look up to the yurble for an explanation.

Yepyep. You notice he says that often. It starts wearing on your nerves. Fine people in Brightvale, though I think the neighboring Meridell is much more interesting; there also seems to be more to do there. Ah, Meridell. Meridell has its own resident Faerie, y'know. She's Illusen, and she's quite the elegant Earth Faerie. She has her own recipe for special cookies, y'know. I think I have a batch made somewhere around here... He starts searching the cabinets until he finds what he's looking for. It looks like a plain cookie jar. Here you go. You should try that. They're really good.

He hands you a rather tasty cookie on a strange looking piece of paper. "1llus3n 1s 4 b1g d0odo0 h34d!!1!11!1" it reads. Confused, you try to ask the interesting yurble about the paper. However, he cuts you off just before you can speak.

Oh yes. There's lots to do in Meridell. You can roll cheese down a hill, pick berries, bet your life savings, or go have a nice relaxing day kissing mortogs. Of course I did all of that, but adventure awaited! I saw that dark, evil-looking cloud looming in the distance, and I knew I just had to go take a peek. It seems the citadel isn't as scary as it appears, ol' chap. Sure, there's lotsa creepy looking things up there, but they're all pretty friendly, though that may have just been because I'm a cookie m'self. He smiles. I would have stayed longer there, but, to tell the truth, the whole purple'n'black thing was a bit depressing. I didn't meet Darigan himself, though I didn't really want to. Ah yes.

He sits down again, putting the remaining books on the floor. At this point, you're a bit terrified, a bit bored, and a bit wanting to leave. You expect him to start talking again, but he doesn't; he just sits there, awkwardly pausing, as if there were something else on his mind. At last, he starts again.

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The yurble thrust two more books onto the table. You gingerly pick up one, and slowly page through it, hoping for some sort of excitement to spring forth from the pages. However, you find nothing more than half a book filled with dark pictures of the Haunted Woods. You open up the second book, but with no luck. Every picture in there is really bright, and after looking over only three pages, you are forced to turn away. Soon after, the yurble thrusts two more books onto the already very cluttered wooden table; you wait for him to speak before touching either.

At this, you pick up the Altador-style book and start glancing through it. You don't feel as interested, and this whole talk is starting to get a bit boring. You hope he finishes soon. Before he can speak, you pick up the other book, and start looking through it as he goes on.

After that, I traversed northward up to Shenkuu. It's a very interesting place, full of things from a different time, similar to Altador, though obviously from a different time. You start to become resltess; you've finished the tea and biscuits, as well as the extra cookies he gave you. You hope he gets to his point. Ah, I can see you're getting bored of me talking. Well, I'll try to make the rest of this short. You hope he tells the truth. He hauls another three books onto the table.

Yepyep. I'll keep this short for you. After Shenkuu, I made my way--by boat, of course--over to Terror Mountain. I climbed all the way up to the top, and on my way down, I chatted with the Negg Faerie and the Snow Faerie one day at lunch. They told me of a long forgotten passageway to another land, and of course I had to go find it. Eventually I did, in a cave near the snowager. Y'know, ol' chap, that was probably one of the most terrifying times of my life. I had to slide down this narrow crack in the ice. It was off between--forgive me, I'm rambling. Anyway, I found my way off to Tyrannia. And believe me, I know how those Brightvale citizens must've felt when I was in town, because that was how I felt in Tyrannia. I didn't stay long; I grabbed some omelette, saw a concert or two, then dove into the water.

You start fiddling with the books again. Flipping through the pages, you start to see the yurble with notable Neopians at notable places doing notable things. Or so says the scrawled handwriting in the margins. Then you start wondering how a biscuit pet could safely descend to Maraqua and live, but you don't feel like asking. Instead you just sit there and look up at the yurble, waiting for him to continue.

And Maraqua was wet, ol' chap. Take it from me. I probably wouldn't have survived, yet I did anyway. Don't ask me how. I just did. I met lots of interesting looking fellas down there, and even King Kelpbeard himself. He was quite the character. It was nice to see how prosperous Maraqua has become after repeated attacks from those dastardly pirates. He pauses, as if searching for words. Would you like more tea?

Reluctantly, you let him get you more tea, as you tidy up the books that are splattered all over the table. You wonder how much more he has to say when you notice that there are five more books sitting on the floor next to his chair. He hands you your tea, and looks ready to continue.

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He tossed two more books onto the table. You don't touch them at all. Seeing you hugging the cup of tea and taking a sip of his, he simply tosses another two books onto the table, hoping you'd look through those. You don't. You've grown bored of the books. You want to know why you're here. You just want him to continue the story.

He takes another sip of his tea.

And with that, the yurble appeared to be finished with his tale, at long last, even though it seemed like he still had something to say. You wait impatiently for the living biscuit to tell you why you're here and what he needs you for. When he says nothing, you get up, and turn to the door.

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You nod your head, telling him to continue. You wonder how much longer this is going to be, though you suddenly pity the yurble. You wonder what's in store, yet you haven't a clue.

Ah yes. Anyway, I returned home, and I found absolutely nothing. That's the best way to put it. My friends were grown and gone, my family up and left, my old house had even turned into a child's playground. There was nothing left but a bunch of memories. I just wish they told me. Even when I finally got a postcard from them, no one told where they were. How was I to contact them? They left nothing, and I felt alone.

You don't know if you should be pitying this yurble, or wary of his tactics. You then see the yurble stoop down to pick something off the floor. You suddenly become curious, thinking that all the books were already on the table, stacked neatly, thanks to you. He gently placed one last item in front of you. It is the postcard he received from his family that one fateful day.

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You nod your head yes. The yurble walks into another room and shortly emerges carrying a box marked "Puzzles." You wonder what on Neopia could be contained in there. Anxiously, you start shifting around on your chair.

Now now, ol' chap, there's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing a'tall. Just sit still. Now then. This is just some stuff I've created over the years. I think it's turned out kind of nicely. You can go ahead and fiddle with it, if you want. He puts puts the box on the floor, then moves all of the books off of the table, taking care to keep the postcard in pristine condition. Then, he places the box on the table. You look inside and see all sorts of puzzles.

As you look through the box, you become awed at how many puzzles this lone yurble has created. Curiously, you wonder if he still makes stuff like this. Again, before you can ask, he starts talking again.

Yessir. Those puzzles and the other trinkets I made captured my attention for awhile. But soon I grew bored of it all. I wanted something else. So I started making puzzles from words, and I hoped one day I could share them with someone. It's wonderful to see that I finally have someone to share them with. So, if you want, I'll tell you the first puzzle, and hopefully you can solve it.

You just nod slightly in his direction, wondering what is in store. After taking the box off the table and grabbing some paper and pencils, you both sit down, ready to start.

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Now, it was no easy task finding these cookies. And I had to look everywhere. And I mean everywhere. But I found them. And I found them all in five different Neopian locations, represented below.

Shenkuu, Faerieland, Krawk Island, Kreludor, Terror Mountain

Now then. So, I found these five sandwich cookies each in a different place around Neopia. This would've been all fine and dandy, except for the fact that a different Neopian villain was wandering around in each of those five places; however, they must've been on vacation or something, as they weren't located in their usual scene and they made no attempt to annoy me.

Lord Kass, Eliv Thade, Gelatinous Non-Cube, Balthazar, Caylis

And so, at each of these five different locations, containing five sacred cookies, there lurked five dastardly Neopians who took no initiative to conduct evil. Instead, each one simply greeted me in his or her own style, then walked away. These greetings varied from the classic "Hello" to the street styles of "Yo" and "Sup" to the inaudible, but no less greeting, of a head bob and a grin.
So, in summary, at each of five different places I found one of five cookies. However, at these places, one of these five villains was found, and each villain greeted me in one of those five ways, with no two places, cookies, villains, or greetings being the same. What do you have to do? Well, ol' chap, your goal is to tell me which villain greeted me how at which place in the vicinity of what cookie. So, you basically have to say five Place + Cookie + Villain + Greeting combos. And they have to be correct. Yessir, correct. But don't worry, I'll give you five sets of clues to get you started, even if they seem a bit confusing at first. But what good would an easy puzzle be? Don't worry, ol' chap :)

Clue #1
So then. I tell you that the one who greeted me with a "Hello" (who, might I add, was not Balthazar) is not the one who was found in Shenkuu. Now, Caylis is neither the fellow I found on Krawk Island, nor the one I found walking near the Strawberry Techo Biscuit (the area of is biscuit, though, was not the place where I was greeted with a grin.)

Clue #2
That wonderful Mint Acara Sandwich Cookie was found neither where I was greeted with a grin nor with a "Sup." With that said, the "Sup" was uttered neither by Eliv Thade nor in the place I found the Chocolate Lenny Sandwich Cookie (this cookie, by the way, wasn't in Faerieland.) This Chocolate Lenny Sandwich Cookie, though, was not found near the villain who had greeted me by bobbing his or her head up and down.

Clue #3
That ol' chap Bathlazar (who I didn't find near the Strawberry Techo Biscuit) greeted me neither with a grin nor with the urban "Yo." Caylis, on the other hand, (who was not near the Chocolate Lenny Sandwich Cookie--take my word for it) was not on Kreludor. And that's a fact. Lord Kass wasn't in Shenkuu (which, you should note, is not where I was greeted with a grin) or on Kreludor.

Clue #4
That pink and fluffy Faerieland (which wasn't where a grin was used to greet me) is neither where Eliv Thade was found nor where the Lemon Yurble Meringue Cookie was located. Neither the Lemon Yurble Meringue Cookie (which, I think you might like to know, wasn't found in the same place where a "Yo" was heard by yours truly) nor the Chocolate Lenny Sandwich Cookie (which wasn't found in the location of the Gelatinous Non-Cube) was found on Krawk Island. The Gelatinous Non-Cube didn't say "Sup" (and yes, he has the ability to speak. Did he use it? I'm not telling you, ol' chap.)

Clue #5
Bathlazar wasn't on Kreludor. Eliv Thade neither was near the Mint Acara Sandwich Cookie nor used "Yo" as a greeting. The "Sup" wasn't muttered in Shenkuu. Yepyep. I think that's all, ol' chap.

Well, good luck with that puzzle, ol' chap. I'm sure you can figure it out, if you think about it enough. However, I understand that you can't be holed up in my house forever, so I'll give you hints as you need them, if it starts taking you too long. Good luck ^_^ You may need it.

You listen to everything the crazy yurble just told you, scribbling down notes on your piece of paper. As you try to make sense of what has been said, you start making guesses as to what goes with what. Even though the yurble seems to have left out a few details, his pictures fill in the last clues, and by the end of July you give him your answer.

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Yes, you can actually attempt to complete the puzzle; I just hope people actually do complete it. But try to have fun doing it. It's supposed to be a bit hard. It'll just make you work that much more ;)

Hey there. Squirrly speaking now. Please note that the above puzzle is merely that, a puzzle. It is meant to be solved with logic, though that doesn't mean you can rule out any possibilities before you can prove them wrong. Yes, I know the Gelatinous Non-Cube doesn't have a mouth, but he may have greeted Galyetas by saying "Hello." He might not've. You don't know. Or do you? Just make sure to keep that in mind. And before it happens: no, the people and the places have no correlation. They're on vacation, remember? I tried to keep the two as unrelated as I could, but if you find any relations, forget them. You'll be better off.

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