4. The Search For Magiq: Peering Arts

[Rimor]

I noticed that there might be a reference to the mirror lady in the guide when I was flicking through it

[Cirydae]

Can you quote me? I’m going to double-check my letters and make sure I’m not inputting the wrong one. The second dictionary I tried gave me nothing longer than 8 letters.

[Rimor]

This passage just seemed to stand out

[Cirydae]

Thanks! Yeah that’s pretty unsettling. Never saw it before, but it could have been there forever for all I know.

[Cirydae]

Gonna shamelessly double post: no luck on the redone letters. Longest words I’m getting are ‘rethought’, and ‘hearthrug’ if anyone wants to try and work that into something.
Original letters kept giving me ‘gumshoe’, which was fun.
Here are the letter combos if anyone wants to run their own and see if something stands out to them:

HFEGUOMEGSWUT
THERETHGUARTOUG

If I couldn’t figure out which one exactly it landed on/pointed to I took the ones to either side as well just to up the chances something would work.

[SabineBean]

Interesting that it says ‘there’ in one of them. Has anyone tried anything about butterflies? That might sound odd but the visuals of the overlaid runes had a butterfly shape, and the monarch butterfly is a thing… It’s probably a dead end but I’d like to give it a brief try (but I can’t find where the thing to put passwords in is)

[Nimueh]

Sabine, it’s right at the bottom of this page.

[Ashburn]

Don’t worry, that page has definitely been there the whole time (though if the creeper has been around long enough for the Guide to reference… ).

[Robert]

I think I’ve stared at this rune way too much. I swear every time it’s in the corner of my eye I see it blink…

[BrokenVoid]

I tried a lot of passwords with “Monarch” in them. Using “butterfly” only leaves three more spaces for letters so I’m not sure what else to add to it to get a password.

[Kallisti]

I know someone said that spaces count towards the number of letters. Has anyone checked if punctuation does? Everyone keeps saying they see a butterfly in the layered runes image, but I see a moth. DEATH’S-HEAD is 12 letters if you count the punctuation, for instance.

[Nimuir]

I believe it normally counts as a character elsewhere so I’d assume so? :’)

I haven’t had reliable internet for a few days but I’ve been catching up and trying a few (mostly nonsensical) word combinations of my own.

For reference “seven guilds,” “seventhguild” and combos of butterfly + eye have no effect…

weird angle but worth a shot right

[Kallisti]

Welp, death’s-head didn’t work.

[Fury]

So my intellectual side is screaming graphs. Perhaps these are graphs. The runes that is. If we can figure out their equations we may get a numerical passcode. I just don’t know how we would start this process. Long shot? Probably. Worth a shot? I think so.

[Robert]

There’s never a wrong time to break out the equations.

[Robert]

So after beating my head on anagrams for a while (in a fun way) I decided to look at this from a new viewpoint.

Maybe the Peering Arts spell didn’t uncover a flaw within the veil, but instead is revealing more within the guide itself. The spell is intended to reveal things after all, and the guide is a part of the spell now.

If that’s true, then the following bits and bobs might come together to find a solution.

• We’re looking for a 12 character answer
• The Guide to Magiq probably plays an essential part in finding it
• The order the elements revealed themselves to us in the spell is probably important.
• Each element is tied to a guild.

I have a good feeling about this line of thought. Call me crazy.

[Augustus_Octavian]

We still have a very “now” problem of The Silver trying to find the Sanctum.

[Robert]

Yes, very good point to remember the big picture. Trust in the flow of magiq.

If the guide is asking us something, I’m just saying it’s probably not a bad idea to figure out what it wants.

We’ve done a lot of good for people by following where the magiq goes and taking it one step at a time. Hopefully enough magiq still exists that it still works this way.

[Rimor]

Well it’s not really our problem as long as we’re stuck in here. Once we get out then it’s our problem

[SabineBean]

… have we tried anything to do with the old names of the guild? Not sure if it’s relevant in this case, but it’s maybe worth a try? Also thanks for the link @Nimueh