Hello ^^

Before you can start on your great adventure here are a few things you should know:

  1. All the GAs are restriction free, meaning everyone from lvl 0 and up can enter.
  2. I have put a lot of work into this, so no giving the links to the GAs and solutions to puzzles.
  3. There are no hints for now, but i will give some a week before it ends, so feel free to tell me what troubles you here.
  4. If I have you blacklisted please make no drama out of it, i had a reason, believe me.

Let´s all have some fun together and please ignore my non existing storytelling skills and any spelling error you may find :D
Totally not a bribe to like this
So now let´s start:

You wanted to be a hero since you were a kid. Each night your mother would read you the stories from the great Adventurers that explored the continent of Aferon; how they collected all the treasures that now are stored in the Castle City, fought wild beasts and destroyed evil after the big calamity that changed all and everything.

And now after years of staying in adventurer school you re fianlly ready to go out and become a hero. That was some bad news when you heard you had to go to a school for that. Worst part of school was when they made you do actual thinking and learning how to read. Who needs that in the face of monsters – should you bore them to death with math? But there were the fun times as well; smashing papermaché giants or running around hordes of vegan zombies (well yes, they couldn´t actually use the other ones for obvious reasons).

But today is your big day, your first day as future hero, your first day as an adventurer – and you get to visit princess Adlez in the castle for your very FIRST QUEST. You can´t keep still while you think about it.

As soon as you get there you see people running around inside the castle and you get ushered into a room fast. There the Princess is already waiting for you. "I´m sorry", she says, "but we can´t give you a celebration with handing over your first quest. The keys to the rainbowchest we would normally open for this got lost. And well, we don´t have any more spares it seems. So we kinda need you to go out right now try to find them. She hands you a old and dirty looking map."

"I marked down all the places that the royal Key Keeper was visiting on his last vacation, so could you kindly go and look for them? Bring them back and meet me in the Throne Hall when you are done." After that she leaves you alone.

Now where will you start?

Go north towards the X-Death Curse Bay
Go north west to the City Zalgha
Go west to the excavations of Eszazate
Go east through the Slubinl Jungles towards Wad Medabat
Go south to Pal Maba, the only Outpost in the Angry Prairie
Go straight to the Throne Hall

SOLUTIONS:

removed for obvious reasons :D

I hope you all had fun while trying to solve the puzzles and i wish you happy holidays.

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8 years ago*

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O, great benevolent Puzzle Master, please give us puzzled creatures some hints!

8 years ago
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A Great Bump for Solving the Quest!

Thank you for the adventure! :)

8 years ago
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For the Guardian the answer needs two words and it´s way easier than some of you think, i promise. No fancy latin naming or stuff. Keep it as simple as possible.

I still have no clue, and I thought I already tried everything

8 years ago
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I have all the keys. I've tried several things and have no idea D:

8 years ago
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Still stuck at the Key Keeper, even with the clues :/
Will there be any more clues?

8 years ago*
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sorry no, this will be it as i am quite happy with the amount of people who got through to the end.

8 years ago
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You're not the only one. If it was as easy as he thinks it is, there wouldn't be an average of 35 guesses per solver.
I've personally punched in 42 guesses centered around aquatic life, I've even tried some land based life forms.

So either I'm overthinking it, there's a spelling mistake, or it's not as easy as he thinks it is.
Personally giving up on this one, hope he releases the answers when it is over.

8 years ago
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Same here
I'm not sure if it is because I'm not a native speaker

8 years ago
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no idea about what to answer on the first one and no clue for that :c, with that many solvers should be easy but i'm missing something

8 years ago
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Man, great puzzle!
Congratulation for this amazing job, it's noticeable the hard work you put on this.

View attached image.
8 years ago
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Bump~

Best gibs game ever

8 years ago
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Solved. Now I'm all puzzled out.

8 years ago
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can you find nine-Tocha with googling?

8 years ago
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i'm still stuck on this too =/

8 years ago
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no you can´t - but you can guess what the answer is from the picture you get.

8 years ago
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I tried several cephalopod species with adjectives referring to the size, but nothing yet XD.

8 years ago
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I suppose to solve question 1 of quest you need to first solve Nine-Toscha, right?

8 years ago
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Thank you for the most beautiful puzzle I've ever seen on this site. It was a bit challenging and still didn't reach the end (I don't get Quest Q2) but it was a fun adventure. ^_^

8 years ago
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you may have not wandered around enough

8 years ago
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There's probably something I miss just in front of my eyes. Will keep looking :)

8 years ago
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I feel so dumb. Totally ignored that clue -_-

Again, it was an awesome puzzle. Thanks for your efforts. Looking forward to go on new adventures!

8 years ago
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yay for finding it

8 years ago
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Stuck on the mosaic. I've finished the puzzle and I know what it's a picture of, but I can't get figure out what the damn ITH wants me to put in.

edit: nvm, I figured it out, but the first word seems entirely unnecessary.

8 years ago
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well we wouldn´t want it to easy now

8 years ago
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I have no words to describe that villainy sir. I agree with Deathmonkey7, that word was entirely unnecessary.
I've finally solved it thanks to Deathmonkey7's hint above.

I was definitely overthinking it, thanks for the adventure. Now I just need to finish the quest.

8 years ago*
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I found this thread today, I don't know how I missed it before! I have everything except the Guardian of Nine-Toscha :( Hints didn't help.

8 years ago*
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OK, guardian solved yesterday, but now still no idea about the first quest :(

8 years ago
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You're not alone, It apparently just clicks for some people, but all I see is a lack of information.

8 years ago
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i put up the solutions if you are interested

8 years ago
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Thank you, I actually tried this way to solve the Quest, but I did apparently wrong. I tried to put there the letters from the names of the places, but in the wrong order I guess. Too bad. But marvelous puzzle, I enjoyed it really much. Thank you once more, hope you will make more in the future :)

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8 years ago
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bump, because this is just awesome and I finally managed to solve it

8 years ago
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Any hints for solving what's inside the chest? That one simply isn't clicking for me.

8 years ago
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the quest? or before?

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Yes, the first quest.

8 years ago
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you have already deciphered it?

8 years ago
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Nope, can't figure out the first quest. The chest and everything else was easy (Nine-Toscha only gave me trouble because of that unnecessary word).

8 years ago
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so you are not yet at the first quest
you should look at the map

8 years ago
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I said I already finished that and was at the first quest, which is INSIDE the chest, NOT the chest itself.

8 years ago
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inside the chest is not the quest, but a link to the quest

8 years ago
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I know it is, I just can't seem to figure it out. I've tried every combination I can think of.

8 years ago
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as I said, look at the map

8 years ago
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I have the distinct feeling we're talking about different things. Are you talking about the ITH (which I already solved) or the decryption part?

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I have always talked about the decryption

8 years ago
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also look at how many keys you got

8 years ago
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Then I simply won't figure this one out. It's just not clicking for me. I just hope he posts the answer when the event is over.
That decryption is driving me nuts.

8 years ago
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Sorting those keys will actually help you with two puzzles - just look at the map for one and remember where you found them for another.

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I know where I found them, I have a map complete with URL, the actual key images, and place names in a single file.
It simply isn't clicking for me, which probably means it's a lot easier than I think it is, and I am simply overlooking the answer.

For those interested, I was overlooking it. I'd simply never seen a puzzle do that before.

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You have everything you need, I'm sorry I can't help you more

8 years ago
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Bump for it is ending soon!

8 years ago
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Bump because it really is ending soon.
Less than 24 hours to go.

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Can u give the solution to the first quest? the the arrows and the 9
plz? (when the game is over)

8 years ago*
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at least a hint :( been stuck here for days, at least having some fun anyway!

Thank you for the whole adventure!!

8 years ago
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i will explain the whole thing if you want to ^^

8 years ago
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actually just got through the arrows!!! almost no time for last one

8 years ago
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solutions are up

8 years ago
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Bump!! Best puzzle so far, epic journey.

Thank you

8 years ago
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thanks for this awesome event, it was really cool
sadly I only won fortix 2 times, but the puzzles were worth it alone

8 years ago
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Thank you for this event. c:
Can we please get the solution? I'm really curious too :<

8 years ago*
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The arrows was an ITH link, the keys had to be sorted and you used the first letter of each place name.
I must have been very bad this year, I've only won 1 thing so far this December.

8 years ago
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Wow. Thank you. I won 4 games in this month, almost 5 but my luck is like that, if I'm too lucky I won't get anything more at all for a few months. :D

8 years ago
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solutions to all puzzles are up

8 years ago
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thanks for awesome event :) i guess i didn't find rat picture though :p

8 years ago
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Never thought to try to use the 1st letters of locations. Nice one

8 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by Erdbeertoertchen.