Solution for III-8: Unsound Effects

UNSOUND EFFECTS

by Greg Brume

Solution: GROUPWORK

The sound effects are a single cryptogram with the following key:

A: wham

B: smack

C: bonk

D: kerblam

E: ugh

F: kapow

G: brrrrrrrrr

H: boof

I: ick

J: ouch

K: barf

L: biff

M: oof

N: ow

O: zap

P: socko

Q: bam

R: zot

S: pow

T: splat

U: ooh

V: eek

W: argh

X: squeak

Y: whack

Z: whammo

! comma

!! period

!!! question

!!!! bang

The result is a series of messages taken from monsters in the online game Kingdom of Loathing.

He plays the highest note he can on his trumpet. Your ears start to bleed. (Irate Mariachi)
He sweeps you off your feet. I mean literally, not in a nice romantic way. (Ninja Snowman Janitor)
He smacks you with a stack of letters he's written, never meaning to send. You feel the sting of a hundred papercuts. (Knight in White Satin)
He winks at you suggestively. You feel a stabbing pain in your head. (One-Eyed Willie)
Trata de golpearte con su sombrero, pero no es capaz de hacerlo. (Lumberjuan)
It transforms into a bat with a hard clamshell over it. It batters you with its clammy wings. Hey, have you ever had my clam-battered wings? Tasty. (Vampire Clam)
They kind of blandly stomp you into a mudhole. Yawn. I mean, Ow. (Irritating Series of Random Encounters)
He skis past and whips you with his nasty-ass dreadlocks. (eXtreme cross-country hippy)
He throws back his head, howls at the moons, and leaps on top of you! Before you can get away, he's chewed the dickens out of you. Which is a shame -- you're going to miss that dickens. (Warwelf)
It starts to deliver a well-crafted, thought-out, visceral and intelligent dissection of all of your biggest personality flaws, but decides it'd be better to just pummel you senseless instead. (Flaming Troll)
It shoots a rock at you, which slams into your throat. Dude, you just got rocked. (Octorok)
It breathes some sort of radioactive breath at you. Either that or it had some Cool Ranch Doritos a while ago. (Giant Giant Moth)
He gores you with his horns while swatting you with the flyswatter. You feel like you've had a particularly rough fraternity hazing. (Gnollish Flyslayer)
It smacks you with one of its yeasty appendages. Ewww, here's hoping you don't get infected. (Yeast Beast)
She shows you a picture of her pet goat. "This is my goat, see?" she says. Dear god, the horror. (Spam Witch)
They stab you in the face. You feel a stabbing pain in both temples. And all of the synagogues. (Flock of Stab-bats)
He hits you with the letter B. Letter B, letter B, letter B. Speaking words of wisdom, letter B. (Alphabet Giant)
It fires some kind of bright pink laser beam at you. KAWAIIIII!! Oh, and OWWW! (MagiMechTech MechaMech)
It bugs you in the face. Man, that really, really bugs you. I mean, it annoys you how much it bugs you. (Infinite Meat Bug)
He smacks you up one side and down the other, all the while asking "How U mine 4 fish?" (Lamz0r N00b)
It tells you to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Your checking is sub-par, though, and he wrecks you. (Ice Cube)
It pelts you with hard candy, like a psychopathic shriner. (Angry Piñata)
He punches you with both gloves, all the while chanting "Who's an animal? Your mother's an animal!" (Raging Bull)
They swarm around you like a bunch of gangsta rappers. Only, y'know, with venomous stingers. (Swarm of Killer Bees)

First letters of the monsters spell IN KOL VIEW FOGGY'S FAMILIARS.

(The following part is not completeable after the Hunt:)

In the game, search for the player "foggy." This can be done by going into chat (after proving oneself literate) and typing "/whois foggy" or a number of other methods. In his familiar terrarium is a number of familiars with sound effects for names, as follows:

bonk, the 1-pound Mosquito

zap, the 1-pound Leprechaun

ow, the 1-pound Levitating Potato

brrrrrrrrr, the 1-pound Angry Goat

zot, the 1-pound Sabre-Toothed Lime

wham, the 1-pound Fuzzy Dice

splat, the 1-pound Spooky Pirate Skeleton

ooh, the 1-pound Barrrnacle

biff, the 1-pound Howling Balloon Monkey

wham, the 1-pound Stab Bat

splat, the 1-pound Grue

ick, the 1-pound Blood-Faced Volleyball

zap, the 1-pound Ghuol Whelp

ow, the 1-pound Baby Gravy Fairy

pow, the 1-pound Cocoabo

splat, the 1-pound Star Starfish

boof, the 1-pound Hovering Sombrero

ugh, the 1-pound Ghost Pickle on a Stick

pow, the 1-pound Killer Bee

zap, the 1-pound Whirling Maple Leaf

biff, the 1-pound Hanukkimbo Dreidl

ooh, the 1-pound Clockwork Grapefruit

splat, the 1-pound MagiMechTech MicroMechaMech

ick, the 1-pound Flaming Gravy Fairy

zap, the 1-pound Frozen Gravy Fairy

ow, the 1-pound Stinky Gravy Fairy

splat, the 1-pound Spooky Gravy Fairy

zap, the 1-pound Doppelshifter

splat, the 1-pound Attention-Deficit Demon

boof, the 1-pound Cymbal-Playing Monkey

ick, the 1-pound Temporal Riftlet

pow, the 1-pound Sweet Nutcracker

socko, the 1-pound Pet Rock

ooh, the 1-pound Snowy Owl

whammo, the 1-pound Teddy Bear

whammo, the 1-pound Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot

biff, the 1-pound Sleazy Gravy Fairy

ugh, the 1-pound Wild Hare

ick, the 1-pound Wind-up Chattering Teeth

pow, the 1-pound Spirit Hobo

brrrrrrrrr, the 1-pound Astral Badger

zot, the 1-pound Comma Chameleon

zap, the 1-pound Misshapen Animal Skeleton

ooh, the 1-pound Scary Death Orb

socko, the 1-pound Jitterbug

argh, the 1-pound Nervous Tick

zap, the 1-pound Origami Towel Crane

zot, the 1-pound Evil Teddy Bear

barf, the 1-pound Toothsome Rock

Decode each letter, then read them in the order shown to get the message "Congratulations the answer to this puzzle is groupwork".