Puzzles
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Assassin's Nest Mechanism
Puzzle A clockwork nest of needles guarding a guildmaster's strongbox. Eight sections, one slip allowed. -
Chord of the Drowned Choir
Puzzle A flooded chapel plays its hymn once. Repeat it before the water rises. -
Grimble's Clockwork Surprise
Puzzle A ticking gnomish bomb and a manual only one of you can read. -
Merchant's Four-Tumbler Strongbox
Puzzle A brass-bound strongbox with a guild-made four-tumbler lock. Honest work, honestly hard. -
Rusted Cellar Padlock
Puzzle A flaking iron padlock on a root-cellar hatch. Two pins, and not much fight left in them. -
Sealed Glyph Ward
Puzzle An arcane ward etched into a vault door. Trace the gap between its glyphs without waking them. -
The Alchemist's Astrolabe
Puzzle Four interlocking rings of alchemical sigils, every one geared to its neighbour. -
The Alchemist's Volatile Still
Puzzle A bubbling copper still wired to go up in green smoke. -
The Apprentice's Scrying Slate
Puzzle A student's scrying slate, still warm, its practice ward half-finished in chalky light. -
The Archmage's Last Letter
Puzzle A dull letter home, written by a wizard who never wrote a dull word in his life. -
The Archmage's Reliquary
Puzzle A silent hundred-number dial that allows no error. -
The Brass Threshold
Puzzle A short brass floor before a treasury door. Most of the plates are wired to dart holes. -
The Cartographer's Blank Page
Puzzle A soot-dark page torn from a map-maker's notebook, apparently empty. -
The Cellar Strongbox
Puzzle A tavern keeper's brass strongbox with a three-digit lock. -
The Clockwork Postmaster's Cabinet
Puzzle A lettered brass cabinet whose code changes every session. -
The Counting-House Vault
Puzzle A brass vault door whose combination is written in the ledger. -
The Deepforge Rune-Console
Puzzle A dwarven rune-console cut into basalt, its ember-lit runes guarding the forge-hall doors. -
The Door That Listens
Puzzle A carved stone face bars the way, and it will only open for the right word. -
The Drowned Bishop's Cryptex
Puzzle A green-crusted bronze cryptex with seven numbered rings, pulled from a flooded crypt. -
The Drowned Captain's Safe
Puzzle A corroded ship's safe that barely whispers its combination. -
The Dwarven Memory Wall
Puzzle Twelve carved stone tiles guard a clan door. Turn them in pairs, but the wall only forgives so many mistakes. -
The Five Weights
Puzzle A runic floor that opens only when five of its tiles are held down at once. -
The Fortune Teller's Spread
Puzzle A carnival seer's face-down tarot spread that only opens her strongbox when every pair is found. -
The Gauntlet of Needles
Puzzle A long trapped hall. One wrong step and the whole floor fires.