5 hours left, 27 entries, time for hint #2
You're down under the tower, in your mirky cellar. All the junk from decades of research is stored here, but now, after the floods, everything turned in to a pile of mud. While searching for books that hide new clues, you found an old lamp. Old legend said that if you rub it with your sleeve, a Genie will appear and tell you the answer to one question. You never tried it before, but now it could be handy. By your vague estimate, there's only 5 hours left before portal closes for good. If the legend of multiple worlds is true, 27 other versions of senile wizard could already be on the other side of the portal... and you are here, searching. If you could ask for help with only one magical rune, which one would that be? Think carefully before you ask for the answer!
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Oh man, the only one that is explicitly given right in the puzzle, why'd you pick this one? XD
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Not really, just an early April fools joke. Also, English is not my native language, so good luck with the reading ;)
You have 24 hours to find the ingredients for the magic spell that will let you enter the portal. After that, magic portal will close forever and you will be locked out. Entering the portal is just a first step in this adventure, but you already know that, senile wizard. Magic spell that is used to open the portal was written in a sacred book of rituals, but that book got partially destroyed when great Sages of the west caused mighty floods that swept our shores in the time of the last fool moon. Only traces of ink are left, but they are smudged and unreadable. Only thing you can deduce is that spell is made of 5 magical runes. First two, but also the last one, seam to be great and powerful. Third and fourth are smaller, might be less important, or just serve some different purpose, who could tell... You don't remember, because you are senile. But you do remember that you've hidden breadcrumbs in your other books, in the case of an emergency - and it is an emergency.
You find the first book in the attic of your crooked tower. Stench of dust and fungi fills your nose when you try to open it. You sneeze, then use your hat to clean your face. There it is, the first clue... "By edict of the Grand Inquisitor Mir Yannick, the Empire has been sealed off and the practice of mystic arts declared punishable by "Totemization" (a very bad thing). The only way to restore magic to the kingdom is to find three hidden artifacts: The Coconut of Quendor, The Cube of Foundation, and The Skull of Yoruk." Yes... you remember now... the first rune is the same as the first letter in the name of that underground empire you have visited so long ago... But what was it?
Thinking about the second rune, you remember Corwin, a Prince of Amber. You were friends, you and that madman who claimed that everything in the world is just a shadow of one true world named Amber. He's gone now, you haven't seen him in decades, but he did left you a book when he visited for the last time. He said the war is over, that he is off to explore a new pattern... and wanted to say goodbye. To leave something behind. That book was about his adventures, from the moment he woke up in the hospital, whatever that was, to the end of the great war between Amber and Courts of Chaos. There was more than one story, more than one chapter actually... How many were there?
Ah, books... Your entire life you've been collecting them. Even now, in this very moment, they hold the key for a new, magical world you are trying to enter. You remember that woman with the Golden Fool and two names. She is full of renegade magic, dedicated to returning dragons to the world. What was her well known name... Well, it's been too long since you read her books, apparently... You can remember only first and the very last letter of her full name. Could that be enough?
Oh, disaster! The last book is not where you believed it to B. Someone must have stole it, or worse! It may have been destroyed! No... look harder! Where could it B?
The portal... is it open? Is there time left? You must try!
Yes, it's a puzzle giveaway. No, it's not Skyrim, Indie bundle of some kind, or another fairy solitaire copy. Solve the quest to find out what awaits behind the portal!
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