Starr's Bloody Treasure Hunt ¬¬ - August 17 Monday 11am-11pm

[starrifyx]

This took me 8 hours to write, and I wrote 8 pages. You'd think I'm a Chinese with all that luck...oh wait. This is also my first time making this kind of puzzles, so one, I don't have a clue about the difficulty levels of my puzzles, and two, the clues might be really badly written. Please also excuse my horrible grammar and English writing skills. There was also 1 clue that I couldn't use in the end...but I might save it for the future.

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Rules:

It is encouraged to actually solve the puzzles, it's not hide and seek.

Includes the whole of Tyria, excludes instances, PvP, WvW, EotM.

No Map chat calls for where I am, I'll know.

No leeching, bounty gold will only be given to people who actually tried.

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Clues:

Starr got a message from a fellow Whispers Agent that there is a new kind of minion power out there in Tyria, as discovered by the Durmand Priory, so she set foot to find and steal it for herself before the Priory gets to it. She's got a 10g bounty on her, so you better find her before the others do, and watch out, she puts up quite a fight!



Clue 1

After exploring where Aira was before, (it was proper interesting!) Starr emerged from the small rocky lair and set foot to go on her own adventure.

20.46- Stopped by to feed some Dolyaks.
20.49- Passed by a Priory camp.
20.51- The bridge broke! ;( Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.
20.53- Visited the quaggans, coo!
20.56- Went up the rocky slope to pay the Order of Whispers’ Homestead a visit.
21.04- Split, went East.
21.10- Poured a bucket of water over some drunk and made them sopping wet. Ohh myyyy. Sat at the bar for some beer and had dinner. Mmm fuuds!
21.23- Crossed a bridge.
21.24- Took a selfie with the broken but pretty, glowy stone on the ground. Smile! :3
21.26- Paid Jonga a visit.
21.29- Scary camp to the left...very tentacle-y. ;D
21.34- So many undeads... Starr likes! Slicey slicey!
21.47- Chilled at the Moonlit waterfall, pretty waters.
21.54- Followed the path beside big lava mountain...so hot here.
22.03- Oh the memories of our battles here!
22.16- Jumped off from a pier.
22.21- Explored shipwreck Krait house. (I apologize, it looked like a shipwreck to me. ;-
22.27- Went South... Oooh INTERESTING!! @u@
22.34- So much undead corruption... CLEAN IT OFF OF ME, EXPLORER C. <(;- ;< )

Journal seems to have ended here...

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Clue 2

Swan and Widow,
They were all limbo.

Baker, I was named,
Adopted I was, Emily was ashamed.

At the Ice Ball I danced,
Under the snow hood I glanced.

Abandoned, in Rosewood I lay,
Plants continue to grow, day after day.

Under this coat, I created much mystery,
“She’s everywhere and she’s nowhere”,
After this season finale, the coat is history.

Last Pretty Little hue?
Nobody’s got A Clue.

Where all the above meet, a portal lay, what a feat.

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Clue 3

QNPLNJSQ ATJB

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Clue 4

“Quaggan recently got the ability to jump and dodgeroll! So Quaggan keeps jumping around because Quaggan is happy. Quaggan is also pondering whether she should bring you to her favorite place, what do you say?”

“Quaggan’s home is pretty, but maybe I shouldn’t tell you... Is Starr gone yet?”

-whispers- “Come with Quaggan, Quaggan will show you beautiful place!”

“Swimming, swimming, swimming,
All summer long...”

-sneaks past Commander Plippydoolb-

“Swimming, swimming, swimming,
It makes your flippers strong.”

-climbs up the stairs-

“Sparkly! Luminous! Full of pretty yellow and blue spheres! Quaggan likes~~”

“I would say it’s full of sparkliness!! Is that a word? How would you describe this pretty place?”

[stormseeker]

I shall have to give it a go, after sitting in a room for 11hrs

although I DO have a great plan (waits til Paul solves it, then find starr)... :3

[starrifyx]

Nooo Scwuffy xD I've added a new rule. >: D

[paul]

I am in on this, but not promising much. People seem to think me much smarter than I actually am 


... Are these things pretty much between the three of us at the moment? Anyone else playing along?

[starrifyx]

You ARE smarter than you think you are Paul. x3

Also, Fluf said he'll be in and try it out too... Maybe Rofl John? I'm not sure, but I kinda just made sure the 3 of us are free for that day just in case it's actually too hard for anyone else to do. xD Feel like you guys could give me some constructive criticism on my puzzles too.

[paul]

At least we can be relatively sure she's not on top of Not So Secret this time around

[starrifyx]

You bet. :3 Though other JPs aren't ruled out. >.>

[stormseeker]

I have a feeling it will just be the 3 of us again. But I shall hopefully be recovered from the long trip tommorrow.

[starrifyx]

Since I did such a bad job with writing Clue 3, here's another hint: Clue 3 is solvable with a keyword cipher, and that keyword is a person's (IRL or in-game) name.

[starrifyx]

Congrats to Chris for finding Starr in about 7 hours, 10g to you!

Also, I actually took a selfie when I wrote Clue 1. :3 Didn't wanna include it as it might add confusion.

[stormseeker]

Write up of it took ages, because the damn forum software deleted this post when viewing an image.

Clue 1 - Starts at Scarlets Lair and runs through several of the areas south, all the way to straits of devestation. The last bit refers to a jumping puzzle where you have to push buttons and not get covered in corruption. Its East of Vesper Bell waypoint.

Clue 2. - Refers to the series Pretty Little Liars, when researching this, I noticed that all the characters have a similar feature about their names, colours. Which is referenced in the last bit with "hue". The colours referenced, are Black, White, Red, Violet, Green and Blue. The location is to be where these join. Which i took to potentially meaning one of 2 possible places, The Fractal Gate in Lions Arch or the Dungeon Gate in the middle of the infinity coil reactor at CoE. It was the last one. CoE

Clue 3 - This was particularly hard as a keyword cipher, it was related to the video, which at the start wasn't included in the Clues section. After a few changes to the puzzle by Starr, the video seemed to be hinting at something to do with madness and asylums. So after trying loads of combinations of anything related to madness or insanity with GW2, it turned out to be Mad King Thorn, and the keyword was Thorn. Leading to the Serpents Fang in Hoelbrak

Clue 4 - Last clue was filled with red herrings and really had very little to do with the solution other than the last lines. The obvious location it refers to is Coddlers Cove Jumping Puzzle, The bolded characters spell out "I need someone by my side". Underlined - Ten Gold Bounty, Red - was the name of a song starr was listening too. Green was roughly "Scwuffy needs snax" or something along those lines. The real solution is the last line and the Wanted Poster. When the pic is opened separately, it comes up with a line at the top hidden "full of lights". I took this as to mean a place in the game. So looking through various location, one came to mind wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cavern_of_the_Shining_Lights.

Which is in Dry Top. This is the location I used, however its not quite the right place, as Starr again had another song in mind here... Ironically on exactly the same line as this location. So it didn't matter

When plotted on a map, it looked alot like this.

In the end the centre of the cross was closest to a place called "Firefrog Springs" which is where I found Starr hiding.


IMG from wiki, not mine.