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This topic is for discussing clues and potential answers to the puzzle7 symbol in Epic Week 2019. Please stay on topic. Remember, these riddles are designed to be challenging and require a group of people noodling together; don't feel intimidated if you don't know the answer right away. Every little idea can help. Research is not cheating; it is expected!

Hey, looks like this is where we need that QR code!

Boom.

Improved the image.

Also managed to scan it.
It produces the url https://qrs.ly/7f9ugbc
which leads to the text yb oi ko ac pl io

Did anyone ever get around to translating the wall of text that Kim reads from in the third video? I'll bet that has something to do with this puzzle!

Time to start fishing for a cipher to decode this, then...

Aaaalright, and our cipher is on the wall of lore. There's some Atlantean script on that wall that glows more than the standard letters; let me just note what it says, just a sec.

That's not Kim, it's the Princess. Older videos make it clear they are separate. ^^

But yeah, looks like we need Heimdall's Atlantean decode and some one with... a lot of time for that wall.

this looks like a reference to 2017 but i know good and well now there's no unused details in these comics, this might be useful for a different node but who knows?

Oh yeah. Good catch! Where was that?

It's on the most recent comic for the final challenge!

Yeah, that's a few of the Atlantean numbers.

a few grabs from the video for easier reference

2017 may be important after all.

https://youtu.be/oTx1RxLjDdY?t=31

'The Xenobeast that attacked us two years ago...'

Okay! The glowing letters on the wall seem to say - in order - "playfir" or "playpfir" (not sure if the second 'p' is actually glowing or just a trick of the lighting).

And in the Book of Alien Languages (Vol 2? I am not sure, LOL), we've got "ambir". Or maybe "amber" if I'm reading the fourth letter wrong.

Amber would make sense, especially given the third clue. I actually kind of suspected that to begin with.

code: yb oi ko ac pl io
cipher: playfir / playpfir / or possibly 'playfirst'
key: amber

amber's gotta be for the third clue, "the key is preserved in"

i don't know the actual procedure for decoding this though

It's a Playfair cipher!

yep, already solved it!