Posted by Kim on April 25, 2014, 11:27am
In the early morning yesterday, the fae that fled from the portal's appearance began seeking out adventurers and whispering hints in their ears. These hints led them to wise men, women and... creatures, who guard the secrets of the portal. These guardians seemed willing to give clues about unlocking the seals that hold the portal shut, but only to those who meet their exacting standards. Our heroes scattered across the land, seeking out these guardians and working to collect the knowledge that they could share.Midway through the day, the portal itself began to behave strangely. Whenever it was approached by an adventurer, the symbols around its edges began to glow, and many adventurers insist that they feel that the stone itself is listening to them.
The first breakthrough of the day came when Dragonfire approached the portal, and whispered the words, "The Fairie Queene" to the unicorn seal. There was a crash of thunder, and the unicorn seal was activated! How did she know what words the unicorn seal waited to hear?
Why, the clues:
"An Allegory"
"Its author was given a pension for life from the Queen." (first reported to the adventuring party by mk_97)
Not even an hour later, encouraged by Dragonfire's success, Dog put their cheek against the Lightning seal and whispered "Golden Snidget." With a rush of wind, the lightning seal activated!
The adventurers remarked then that the portal's mysteries all seemed to relate to fandoms or literature, and the search for clues intensified.
Several hours later, Alidade managed to convince the guardian of the sword seal let slip the final clue: "Second of three in one of four wings, flying high above Lordaeron."
Seeing this final hint, Lorvilran knew immediately that the words of power that the sword seal waited to hear were "Heigan the Unclean", and a third seal was activated.
Within minutes, Dog had gotten their paws on the final clue to the fairy seal ("HEY! LISTEN!") and fell over themselves to speak its word of power, "Navi"!
Around this time, it became clear that there was so many hints, clues and guesses for so many seals, it would be impossible to solve all the mysteries of the portals without some better organization, and Libertine volunteered to be the adventurer's official chronicler, compiling all of the relevant information into a single post and keeping it updated for better riddle solving by all.
Around 8 in the evening, StrangeDisease managed to unlock the sun seal with the word of power "Muad'dib", apparently by "complete and utter dumb luck" of trying things wildly.
At the same time, Dragonfire and Lorvilran were together closing in on the word of power for the moon seal. They knew it was something related to "Goratrix," but it wasn't until Lorvilran noticed that the clues referenced "home" and "house" several times that it was realized the words of power the moon seal wanted to hear were "House Goratrix." How fitting that it was solved after sunset!
And this morning, as this report was being written, StrangeDisease found the final clue for the tree seal, enabling Lorvilran to unlock it with the words of power "Doors of Durin."
In all, seven of the ten portal seals have been activated. The clues for the wolf and dragon seals have been found, but no one yet knows their meaning... and the final seal, the mushroom seal? Its guardian has still managed to evade pursuit, and not a single clue is known.
Rubix, Nikina, Heimdall, Zacharias, Rynh, Vixen, Novalyyn, TornBySanity, spellplague, Degu, Mr_Pleasant, Mads, The_Gemeni, Kytsora, CelestinaGrey, Lachey, Mcfaol, Merenrave, Orange, DemonicThrill, and fadedsympathy all also contributed clues and hints that they managed to uncover!
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Post tags: Epic Week 2014
Comments
Following (and being a very minor part of) this ARG has been one of the most entertaining things I've done for a while. I think it's awesome that a bunch of people can come together and solve these 'mysteries' and things like that.
Big thanks to Kim and the rest of the mod team for organising this. Easily made my month!
Big thanks to Kim and the rest of the mod team for organising this. Easily made my month!
Seeing the community come together to crack this gives me the warm fuzzies. This was an awesome idea :}
Heehee! Dog and I were doing a lot of brainstorming on Furcadia yesterday, too. So much fun! I want to see this solved, yesss~
Nice! 
See guys, the clues DO make sense!
See guys, the clues DO make sense!
I was reading , when I came across this.
Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert. Muad'Dib creates his own water. Muad'Dib hides from the sun and travels in the cool night. Muad'Dib is fruitful and multiplies over the land. Muad'Dib we call 'instructor-of-boys'
I only had the clues 'Instructor' and 'he makes his own water.'
And I was like naaaw, and tried it, because what the heck, and was really, really surprised when it worked.
Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert. Muad'Dib creates his own water. Muad'Dib hides from the sun and travels in the cool night. Muad'Dib is fruitful and multiplies over the land. Muad'Dib we call 'instructor-of-boys'
I only had the clues 'Instructor' and 'he makes his own water.'
And I was like naaaw, and tried it, because what the heck, and was really, really surprised when it worked.
So were you just guessing Dune related things because of the sun symbol? Or did one of the clues push you in the right direction?
Haha, 
it was dumb luck, but I wasnt't random at all. I am seriously reading Dune for the first time, right now
Gah! So excited to see what is on the other side of this portal!! The suspense is killing me
it was dumb luck, but I wasnt't random at all. I am seriously reading Dune for the first time, right now Gah! So excited to see what is on the other side of this portal!! The suspense is killing me
Dog
April 25, 2014
6:20pm