Crypticism Hunting

[AtomicPeace]

Has anyone had any luck finding the crypticisms? I've only managed to find the 2nd one so far. Even if I'm pretty sure I have certain locations, it's hard to parse out what the keyword is supposed to be.

[Oafaloaf]

Originally posted by snroxy:

all these puzzles seem to be written exactly like cryptic crossword clues (hence the name crypticisms)
for #1 then, "take away" might refer to removing letters from a word, "twisted" referring to an anagram, and "tail" referring to the end letter(s) of a word, but past that i have no idea

any hints for #4 btw?

Hint for #4: Some walls are more... metaphysical
Another Hint Once you've found the wall, there are two steps to getting the answer.
And a third hint The first step of the previous hint involves a synonym for a word in the riddle

Answer: Player

[Roof Koreans]

Spoilers:

1: star - destroy
2: crown - shoot
3: bull - oxymoron
4: bat - player
5: skull - death
6: dog - rover
7: lyre - here
8: anchor - shallow

[snroxy]

what is the solution for #4 in order to get "player"? is the last line just a red herring and you should only focus on "tell it who you are"?

and yes #1 is destroy
solution:
"take away their twisted tail"
tail = tale
take away = remove
remove their tale = de-story
then just rearrange the letters in story to get destroy

[AtomicPeace]

Originally posted by snroxy:

all these puzzles seem to be written exactly like cryptic crossword clues (hence the name crypticisms)
for #1 then, "take away" might refer to removing letters from a word, "twisted" referring to an anagram, and "tail" referring to the end letter(s) of a word, but past that i have no idea

any hints for #4 btw?

If you want the carving for #4 it's The bat

As for a hint

The most helpful part of the hint for the solution is the bit with the hand on the keys and one curled vs sticks and buttons. Think about who would be sitting behind a wall relative to the game that those things would relate to.

[Oafaloaf]

Originally posted by snroxy:

what is the solution for #4 in order to get "player"? is the last line just a red herring and you should only focus on "tell it who you are"?

and yes #1 is destroy
solution:
"take away their twisted tail"
tail = tale
take away = remove
remove their tale = de-story
then just rearrange the letters in story to get destroy

#4 to get to Player, you start with Killer, take the synonym Slayer, then change the first letter, the 'first step'

[skulking fungoid]

Can anyone give more specific direction on how to get to the skull & anchor symbols? I can see the area someone said that the first one's at from one of the other symbols, but don't actually know how to get there.
As for the second one, I've seen it before but after combing through the area for a while I'd appreciate someone narrowing it down!

[Roof Koreans]

Originally posted by skulking fungoid:

Can anyone give more specific direction on how to get to the skull & anchor symbols? I can see the area someone said that the first one's at from one of the other symbols, but don't actually know how to get there.
As for the second one, I've seen it before but after combing through the area for a while I'd appreciate someone narrowing it down!

skull:
warp to bridge (the bridge has to be rebuilt)
https://imgur.com/nzt9seR
then go straight through the area past that door (there is only one way to go)
https://imgur.com/6vNft4n
the skull is on that rock in the direction i am facing

anchor:
warp to seacaves
https://imgur.com/6u2Fo5t
https://imgur.com/yxkqqKz
https://imgur.com/3AMhxyq

[Panurge]

Okay, I have to drop into this thread and offer my congratulations to you all! I wrote these crypticisms and I'll be honest, when I played back through the game after a couple of months, I genuinely failed to solve some of them myself!!! I just can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch people enjoy and engage with them, it has made my day. :)

[skulking fungoid]

Originally posted by Roof Koreans:

skull:
warp to bridge (the bridge has to be rebuilt)
https://imgur.com/nzt9seR

Thanks for this!! I didn't realize I could step on the spot you're on in your screenshot & was just pacing back & forth looking for another way over. I'm also happy because now I get to listen to Payn's fire bgm again.

Originally posted by Panurge:

Okay, I have to drop into this thread and offer my congratulations to you all! I wrote these crypticisms and I'll be honest, when I played back through the game after a couple of months, I genuinely failed to solve some of them myself!!! I just can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch people enjoy and engage with them, it has made my day. :)

I've really been enjoying puzzling them out with my friends (& a couple hints from this thread)!! It's been really fun to stream & put our heads together to try & figure them out!! We've only got #3, #4, & #7 for now, but it's been really fun to keep turning it over. Love y'alls game!! Great work!!!!

[AtomicPeace]

Originally posted by Panurge:

Okay, I have to drop into this thread and offer my congratulations to you all! I wrote these crypticisms and I'll be honest, when I played back through the game after a couple of months, I genuinely failed to solve some of them myself!!! I just can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch people enjoy and engage with them, it has made my day. :)

They were very fun and well put together! I think as far as game secrets go, they hit the sweet part of being challenging and making you think without being so esoteric you wouldn't be able to do them at all without watching a video or something.

[Krinkle]

are these meant to be like cryptic crosswords? for the first one i got as far as turning the animal into a thing but i don't get how you get anything else out of the last two lines. to me, take away a twisted tail is like, okay so there's going to be a Q and you turn it into a O. That's just the feeling i got from these things, the level of puzzle wordplay i was expecting. but the word you say is the answer probably never had a Q in it.
I typed your answer into the scroll and nothing happened and i'd prefer to understand the steps to get to an answer more than just an answer anyway.
It's frustrating to find out i got half of the thing right. You don't get any encouragement for getting half a puzzle right you just give up.

[FoxyBox]

Gotta say a huge thank you to the community for this. I don't do cryptic crossword puzzles and I would not have made it past solving one or two. Even finding the carvings would have been nigh on impossible for me and I would have been really frustrated.

[Oka_Nieba]

Where i can find dog carving?

[Credissimo]

@Roof Koreans
Don't just say it! Where did you get this? How can anyone understand this? Explain it or be quiet.

[Staffbane]

Originally posted by Oka_Nieba:

Where i can find dog carving?

I had the same reaction, after a while I had to give in to the answers as some of these were too meta/cryptic. Locations being littered like this made me exasperated as I'd find one clue linked to one symbol and then I be like... where on earth is this one I never even seen it before - am I losing my mind where on earth are they and then I finally gave in and referred to this thread.

The dog I believe can be found in the bridge level it's close to the paladins I know remembering where the drawings are can be quite difficult one of them requires backtracking through an area I didn't even realise had more to it. I'll let you have a little fun finding it at least even though I know I had to piece together what people had said in the thread.

I actually admire everyone else that worked hard to figure these out as after a few hours on my own I couldn't figure out what the puzzle was let alone if it wordplay. Making them use a thesaurus of all things and a lot of out of the box thinking makes me pause, if I had spent the time to solve these myself it would have been months before I figured out what I was supposed to do where - I didn't want to make myself dizzy checking every wall so I spared my sanity.

This was probably meant for those who had more time on their hands to understand riddles I only admittedly managed to get one right before concluding that these would be too difficult to solve on my own as I lacked the knowledge of where everything was and for them all to be this "different" made applying logic difficult.