TRAVEL ♔ come through this storm

[lissatrinall]

WHO || Andrea A., Dovan, Alainn, Haymitch, Eric, Lear, James, and Lis'sa [Closed]
WHAT || The Flight to Japan
WHERE || IN THE AIR. 
WHEN || Saturday , Mar 17th
HOW || Actionspam

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's  plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx twelve hours. Get to know your teammates, talk about the mission, ask questions, etc. etc.]

Comments

[lear]

Is that against the rules? Should I be practicing how to say I'd like to buy a kidney in Japanese?

[ She's just teasing. But she doesn't actually seem to have a pen or paper in her hand. ]

It's a cryptic crossword clue. "French hat, consumed to castigate."

[sirstickuphisass]

Consumed? I don't really get how eating a hat is punishment.

[lear]

Have you never done a cryptic crossword before?

[sirstickuphisass]

Is that different from a regular one?

[lear]

Quite different, yes. It's more like a word puzzle. Look, I'll walk you through this one. What's a word for a French hat?

[sirstickuphisass]

A beret.

[lear]

And what's another word meaning "consumed"?

[sirstickuphisass]

Ate.

[lear]

And "to castigate"?

[sirstickuphisass]

To punish. What, am I supposed to string them all together now? It doesn't make anything.

[lear]

You've got the wrong synonym, that's all.

[ She wiggles over like a bug until she's on her stomach, propping her chin up on her hands. ]

Beret? Ate?

[sirstickuphisass]

... Berate.

[lear]

Bingo! Not bad, for your first time.

[sirstickuphisass]

You could have explained the rules. That the first two were clues to the last one.

[lear]

Right, well. There'll almost always be a word that's a synonym for the answer, that's the definition, and the rest of the clue is usually wordplay to get you there.

[sirstickuphisass]

[A tiny beat] Gimme another one.

[lear]

Clever railed vehicles reversed.

[sirstickuphisass]

Railed vehicles...

Trains.

[lear]

[ Waves a finger. ]

Nope!

[sirstickuphisass]

Rocket sleds.

[lear]

A little more conventional... the key word here is "reversed". It's an instruction, you see. So a word meaning "clever", when reversed, will be a word meaning "rail vehicles".

[sirstickuphisass]

You weren't kidding about the "cryptic" part of this, you know.

[He narrows his eyes as if he's giving up on this stupid game, but they light up a few seconds later. And he groans.]

Trams.

[lear]

Yes!

[ She claps her hands and kicks her legs. ]

You're pretty good at these actually!

[sirstickuphisass]

I don't know if I'd go that far.

Are you making up these clues yourself?

[lear]

Of course!