The wording was “castle or church”.
If we’re talking about the Kemetic trio being stuck on the mundane side of the wall… Neuschwanstein is a castle on a mountain…
So this is what I’ve got but I feel like I’m leaving things out…anyone got things I’ve missed?
To the Searchers,
Since we last spoke, we reached out to the Cagliostro and Martin Rank. The Cagliostro is protected by her own magiq and we assumed she didn’t receive our message, and we’ve just received a response from Martin. It turns out that she did receive our message and was able to convey some information about our situation. From them, we’ve learned that the “veil” is a wall sectioning off part of the world. A wall with a closed door. She believes that if we can illuminate the door, she can find us and do…something. Can you tell us anything about shining a light that would illuminate this door?
We also got some news from Martin about some people he was keeping tabs on – Alison, Port, and Jeremy. They’ve left the place they were staying, and we were wondering if they’d found their way to you? One of them left drawings of mountains and castles and the message “Search for Magiq”. If they aren’t with you, can you see where they went?
Agreed. The more we can get through while we can, the better. Do we want to make any mention of what Lauren said to Marty about finding artifacts in the walls of the old loft, or do we reckon that was dream stuff leading to the clock?
That’s a good point, @Sorrel. She did say he needed to look for the artifacts built into the walls, artifacts with power, and we needed them to see through the cracks.
I don’t know. I remember The Cagliostro had artifacts from The Book of The Wild built into the construction of his loft, per Lauren’s emails, and when Martin went to the loft after the performance, they’d all been stripped out. Might have just been metaphorical dream stuff, or maybe she was cluing him into… something.
What if the wall is the veil and not a physical wall? I don’t know if you can use magiq to fold things out of our space or not, but hiding the items in a spell meant to hide and keep things out seems like a good countermeasure to me.
Quick edit: I mean the wall that Lauren mentioned in particular
I guess. I figured lauren would have taken them all. So i doubt she meant for him to physically go back and search the loft.
Hmmm. Why hint at anything when she just went on to directly talk to him later? Dreaming was a more private way to tell him something important? Maybe theres something to it.
Artifacts in a wall… I have a few theories on this.
This might be a sort of “lens” that Marty was seeing the vision through. A lens affected by Lauren. Didn’t she already take items from inside the walls of that place irl? Like before the Translation. Our wall and artifacts could be a metaphor, or a reference to something we haven’t thought of yet.
The puzzle box. The one in the AGP office. It has lots of drawers still, and the artifact we need may be in one of them. If we can manage to open it.
Also, yes, @Saberlane, giant napping sloth is wierd, but courier weirdness is almost to be expected at this point. What’s more concerning is that you wouldn’t answer Marty’s calls, even before the veil cut you off. I don’t mean to sound scolding, but he’s an important contact for AGP and the Mountaineers.
Should the artifacts in the walls be added to the letter then? I sort of thought that was a for-Marty thing, but I could add in the bit about the dream in case it means anything to the searchers?