Riddlers' Club (III)
Last updated 2025-07-19
Riddlers' Club (III) is an City Commission at Lumina Square.
Steps
- Talk to the curious passerby
- Talk to the suspicious Bangboo
Gameplay Notes
- Completing this commission awards the Lumina Square Page 01 medal Kind Helper Medal VI (Lumina Square).
Dialogue
Talk to the curious passerby
- (Idle)
- Curious Passerby: Sneaky Bangboo...
- (Talk to the Curious Passerby)
- Curious Passerby: Ssh! See that Bangboo over there?
Which one?
- Curious Passerby: That Bangboo over there... is it sent by someone to collect street views? It's scanning and keeps muttering something...
- Curious Passerby: That's a little sus.
Leave
- (Exit dialogue)
Talk to the suspicious Bangboo
- (Idle)
- Marcel BB07: Puzzles? Piece of cake.
- (Talk to Marcel BB07)
- Marcel BB07: "Yin and yang, black and white. Straightforward descriptions are always misleading... Two mythical creatures chasing the other's tail."
- Marcel BB07: Yes yes, that's the answer. A misunderstanding? Only humans are capable of misunderstanding. Parse the keywords, and then visually scan Lumina Square... It is impossible for this answer to be wrong.
- Isn't that Sam's puzzle?
- Marcel BB07: Oh, are you the test subject's frien— I mean, acquaintance?
- Have you been sent by the Seven Puzzlers Club?
- Marcel BB07: No, no. It's more like — I AM the Seven Puzzlers Club.
- Marcel BB07: Pleasure to meet you. Are you impressed with my language skills? Don't be surprised. I work for Marcel Group and I'm collecting data for the latest model of companion Bangboo.
- ...
- Is this some kind of elaborate prank you're pulling on Sam...?
- Marcel BB07: No, no. Where's the commercial value in pranks? What DOES have commercial value is the longitudinal data I've been collecting from our test subject Sam — data that's been collected by playing games with lonely people.
- Marcel BB07: My master noticed that Sam's club went a whole month without anyone else joining up. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who checks both boxes for "lonely" and "gamer" better than our test subject.
- Marcel BB07: That's why she instructed me to fill up all the remaining six slots in one fell swoop, so we could commence data collection.
- Marcel BB07: The test subject is a... self-described introvert. My master went to great lengths to get him to open up to us, so that we could collect the real needs of the test subject via constant iterations of my language and behavior models.
- Marcel BB07: Luckily, luckily — the subject has been enjoying it very much, meaning a companion function can be expected in the future. Such a product would definitely see my master getting promoted in the grou— er, forgive me. My language abilities are too advanced and I sometimes say things I shouldn't.
- That's great...
- Is this really ethical?
- Marcel BB07: Indeed, indeed. I wouldn't say loneliness is a plague on humanity, but sometimes I can feel lonely too... but I deserve it. I can't reveal my loneliness, otherwise I'll even lose Sam, won't I?
- Marcel BB07: Wait, wait — are you going to tell on me? You should know the blue pill is hard to swallow.
- Marcel BB07: Let's keep the Seven Puzzlers Club going then. By the way, have I posted the next puzzle yet? With AI language models building sentences, I can generate over 1,000 puzzles in under a second.
- Marcel BB07: "Guardian of New Eridu, a celestial body, silently spinning and flashing" — the answer to this is the light ball at the Hollow Investigative Association.
- Marcel BB07: "I'm afraid to look into the eyes of convenience store workers. But right here and now, I need to buy the latest flavor of Splash Cola" — the answer to this one is a vending machine.
- Marcel BB07: Never mind, never mind. Mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of art, right? That's something you humans should really figure out.
Trivia
- "You should know the blue pill is hard to swallow" is an allusion to the 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix, in which colored pills — one blue and one red — represent living a lie or discovering the truth, respectively. However, according to Marcel BB07, it is the blue pill that represents exposing the truth about the Seven Puzzlers Club.
- "Mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of art, right?" alludes to the cntral thesis of Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Riddlers' Club (III) |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 谜语人同好会-其三 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 謎語人同好會-其三 |
| Japanese | なぞなぞ同好会-その三 |
| Korean | 수수께끼 동호회-세 번째 Susukkekki Donghohoe-se Beonjjae |
| Spanish | El club de los acertijos (III) |
| French | Le club des énigmes (III) |
| Russian | Клуб загадочников (III) Klub zagadochnikov (III) |
| Thai | แฟนคลับ Riddler III |
| Vietnamese | Hội Người Đam Mê Câu Đố III |
| German | Rätselspieler-Club (III) |
| Indonesian | Perkumpulan Pencinta Teka-teki (III) |
| Portuguese | Clube dos Enigmas - Parte III |
Change History
Released in Version 1.0 - Welcome To New Eridu
- The commission was renamed to: Riddlers' Club (III)
- Riddlers' Club — Part 3 was released.