Community Event ❈ | The Puzzle Emporium | Item Giveaway

@oniyan made art for the emporium! How cool is that??

Spoiler: mmm yes :weary: :ok_hand:

The S. S. Valyria has acquired many a curiosity throughout her travels. Unlike the enigma behind each member of the Captains’ collection, the size of the wayfarers’ storage room is not imponderable /shrug. Thus, the Captain has decided to part with a selection of her emporium in exchange for an entity of similar, perchance even greater, value.

You may notice that a new category has been added to the Valyria, namely "puzzle emporium". This is the item pool that you may choose from upon completing a puzzle. Each puzzle completed yields you x amount of items of your choice, with the number of items indicated in the letter.

> The captain will give no hints; no exceptions.
> You do not need to search for anything online; all the clues you need are in their respective letters.
> Post your final answer with the solution on this thread.



> All irrelevant information that only serves to forward the plot is written in gray. Be careful though... gray text may contain hints.
> All information relevant to the puzzle is written in dark theme white or light theme black.
> All information regarding the completion of the puzzle is written in red.

Spoiler: Letter 5

// on hold, will be added soon

Spoiler: Letter 6

the room is dark save for a small candlelit table

you do not know where you are
you do not know why you are here
you remember nothing

you cannot see the walls and you do not know the size of the room
there is absolutely nothing you can use, save perhaps for the candle

there is a single sheet of paper on the desk

wsrudmzdflijkvrvpzgngkcigsryprvhehpwkxbqpwkxfhgipsvaqmxe

on the opposite side there is a single ominous message scrawled in messy red ink

"Escape."

What is at the bottom of this?

Spoiler: Letter 7

Contributed by @Beefandleather, editted by @wrxryuu.

The sun has just barely left the horizon when you push through the doors of Station 3-2 to board the train to work. You notice a a crumpled piece of paper on the ground.

es at ovwovw resomts ms te iiihp,ch caisans ineyflgo g w rh at teh omsi l hti ree a ree ilb. u ebetcnepain ftecso tru—hr satnln ntesie ac ntevie an esto,a fadsatmmr,o aln rmahih. eko eaeapocigtegets fmseistcoslas rs rleofl tloohosisei gg natiho,ftni i t o fif etwnwrpanhreoyr.

You turn the paper around.

[1.10] [3.4] [2.4] [1.19] [2.14] [1.10] [2.11] [3.2]

Decrypt.

You tentatively lift the cover of the container, angering a neighboring cloud of dust. You cough.

Spoiler: Letter 1

POLICE REPORT
+ + +
Reporting Officer: Detective Hart
+ + +
Details of Event:
- a merchant's wagon was attacked by bandits on the outskirts of cinfras
- there was one casualty, a middle aged man with a single son
- before his death, it seems that he had hastily scrawled down an incoherent string of characters

to my son,
vzcirmch

- his stopwatch was seemingly intentionally broken, the hands manually cranked to exactly 12:00PM
- the police have yet to decipher the meaning behind his cryptic message

What was the merchants' message to his son?

Spoiler: Solution

Solved by @awsomthing

> 12:00 = noon
> using keyword "noon" and vigenere cipher to decode the string

Solution: I love you

Spoiler: Letter 2

Oh no! Bob the Brilliant Badger has gone missing! It seems that he left us no hints aside from this expensively framed portrait of himself.



Well, he always was a narcissist. He also really liked bacon.

Where is Bob the Brilliant Badger?

Spoiler: Solution

Solved by @awsomthing

> steganography on the badger picture
> 1100000000001111100000000100100011101110101001001000100
> baconian cipher, because "bob likes bacon"
> replace all 0's with A and 1's with B
> decrypt

Solution: Yahya's House

Spoiler: Letter 3

He's been hard at flirting with a pretty girl for the evening. Before leaving, he whispers to her "I love you". She says nothing as she hands him a piece of paper with a long string of unintelligible numbers.

4:3
5:3 6:3 8:3 3:2
9:3 6:3 8:2
8:1 6:3 6:3

What is her message?

Spoiler: Letter 3

Solved by @DafoxeyEXE

> the letters simply correspond to a simple old school cell phone keypad
> 4:3 means the third letter of the fourth key, which is I

Solution: I love you too

Spoiler: Letter 4

Hello honey! Mum has to leave early for work today. Could you be a dear and buy the groceries? I'll make your favorite food tonight!

I left the grocery list in the kitchen. I hope you don't mind, sweetie... I gave it a twist! After all, you always did like puzzles.

A Fine Grocery List 5/7

• lxglkfh
• wiztlmuifrg
• fmztr wlm
• slmvb
• mfgnvt
• szavomfg
• czxfgr
• fnvylhsr
• afxxsrmr
• mzxslh

Decipher the true message behind Mum's grocery list.

Spoiler: Solution

Solved by @awsomthing

> atbash cipher

• octopus
• dragonfruit
• unagi don
• honey
• nutmeg
• hazelnut
• xacuti
• umeboshi
• zucchini
• nachos

> first letter of each word
> oduhnhxuzn
> decode with affine cipher ("a fine cipher") calibrated to 5/7
> runawaynow

Solution: Mom's secret message was "RUN AWAY NOW"

Spoiler: Letter 8

Contributed by @awsomthing and @oniyan.

It’s June 1st. You’re thinking hard of what to get your father for Father’s Day, because last year had been a disaster. As he had always worn tacky spotted ties, last year, you had given him a wonderful silk tie from a high end store. However, your father flat out refused it, saying it’d look better on you. Your dad had always been an eccentric sort, and even as a kid, you could tell he was never really happy with the orthodox gifts you got him. This year, you came home to a letter. Inside was note and a crudely drawn picture:

Dear son,

I know you’ve never been able to get me a good gift, so I thought I’d tell you this year. I don’t want you to become the sort of man that expects everything to be given to him, so I want you to figure out what I want from this picture. Look at it long and hard; no cutting corners.

Love, Dad



What does dad want for Father's Day?

Spoiler: Solution

Solved by @Qhuea

> darken the image to read the numbers on the bottom
> 87 5 104 1 14 104 25 104 2 99 104 25 63 1 109 1 14
> use baele cipher ( better eat all lizard elbows )
> steganography on the image
> using the numbers and baele cipher on the revealed text
> "please get me guavas"

Solution: Get your dad some guavas!

The Captain understands that this giveaway is in favor of those who dabble in the art of puzzles and the like. Sadly, there is nothi- ah, what's this?

Spoiler: Letter from Ryuu:

HEY NERDS, welcome to my second cryptic giveaway! The first time I made a huge mistake of giving away cough. COUGH. TWO STACKS OF LE oh god why because I thought I'd never play wynn again, but here I am... SADLY, I'm not rich, so items are all I have to offer. Hope that's okay. It's still free stuff amirite /shrug

Anyways, if you'd like to have a chance at winning some things without all this weird conundrum crap, you should totally come to the Aurising. We'll be giving away 10 BATCHES of 5 CRATES along with 1 HERO RANK. If you can't make the event, there's also a discord giveaway... but yes, digression.

As for this thing. I'll just see how much attention it gets. If it goes well, I'll add more and more puzzles.

also, avocados are only vaguely bad tasting holy heck find a new meme

What was that about? The Captain doesn't know. Whoever this Ryuu is, it seems like she's got a few screws loose. After all, how could one possibly hate avocados?

 

Wooot!!!!!!!

 

he is on my profile page

 

I'm terrible at puzzles and riddles but I just want to say that this is some goddamn amazing art

<3​

 

my brain hurts owwww

 

Folkestone School for Girls in Folkestone, Kent,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10081264/Large-badger-causes-hysteria-at-girls-school.html

 

people grip on to dead memes like trying to get the last piece of garlic bread in a fancy restaurant

 

The answer is uhhhhhhh



AVACADO

 

I sent the answer to letter 1 in a conversation as to not spoil it for anyone. This is fun! I'm trying to figure out letter 2 right now.

 

In other words you're trying to give me back all the stuff I sold to you so that you could reid it and make it worse than before?
:^)

 

FUCK YOU BEAT ME
WELP

 

Haha, the second one is still open. Unless the answer really is Folkestone School for Girls.

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I heard I was supposed to answer in the thread, so I guess spoilers

Spoiler

The merchant told his son "I love you." vzcirmch was a vigenere cipher encoded with "noon," which is why the merchant turned his watch to 12 PM.

 

He met the butcher, now he is in paradise.

 

it should be folkestone school for girls, what you do is right click the image click search image on google, then click on the image that first pops up in similar, then click visit page

 

God, that badger picture goes deep. It's used fucking everywhere!

 

okay.... lets see
filter the web and check if you can link that image between anything wynncraft related or ryuu

 

The name bob seems oddly specific, especially on Wynn. Maybe there's a connection there?

 

I'm going to guess again
In Bob's Tomb?

 

/shrug

 

okay
I can only think of a couple things
download the img
change to raw
find text
get rich