Last week we hosted a 3 day long web3 game. Think of it as a cross between a scavenger hunt and an escape room, all within the lore of an NFT community.
Our hunt was created within the lore of the Forgotten Runes Wizard Cult. We acquired the wizard Ixar, and made a story around his capture that lead in to our game.
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Ixar started to tweet about a dangerous journey he was on. He hinted that he may need help, and the other wizards in the cult took notice. We sought out an up and coming member of the wizard community to get the word out - and ZayLaSoul scheduled a twitter space for Ixar.
Ixar was captured by an evil wizard, and the cult jumped to action.
Listeners flooded the discord and brought their friends. The hunt was on!
They solved a short puzzle and discovered the captor was Ravana, and Ixar was imprisoned by his orb. They were told to gather the next day to start off the real hunt…
Hunters were excited and some started making memes (BOXMOXI)
The hunt started off with ominous sounds playing from a voice channel in discord, signifying they were coming close to finding Ixar. After a bit of anticipation - a link was dropped!
https://www.curiousquests.xyz/free-ixar
Rooms were opened and the hunters were off! Each room revealed a one word answer that was a part of the 12 word spell. Each answer could be entered in to the above link, and if it was correct it would take a spot on the page. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a hints section and a section for answers.
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/k5WoNOGoOBrJjTAuucQT
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/OPQ4ugckRCSnoijg85Sl
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/J1Ik3ddUO1PKykw8SIkq
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/utDo4jcBudeBpZTq8Xa9
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/VbNo6OKQFYsz89oz2k68
Once the final word was found, another message from the captor was dropped! (Def watch this for the amazing voice acting).
The day finished with the hunters hungry for more. They couldn’t wait to free Ixar!
One hunter even streamed himself playing - watch here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1261761968
Hunters could barely hold their excitement for the final day, but they had to wait and bring more.
The finale kicked off with excitement! Some members of the hunt woke up at 5am just to play. Others had been waiting all day to hop back in to their quest.
Memes were made, and even a video by @NightOwlBirdman on twitter:
The next set of rooms were opened and hunters quickly flew through the puzzles to release ixar - after which there was one last surprise…
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/8lt2qeFFVcgxKR8k5aBc
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/Sx5zK2OFNr3Q0Ff624Ka
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/tpkjZaPIgaI5EhgxA20w
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/28oshD3lomd001nr587V
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/TTxndW8mddksf6znNDLl
https://oncyber.io/exhibits/UQkZ629EUkDRenpQbpho
All puzzles were solved and the final “spell” was found. After entering the words in to the portal, it instructed:
"You have the words, now cast the spell! Take the object if you dare...”
Hold on… 12 words..
The spell is a seed phrase!
Hunters rushed to enter the words in to their wallet of choice and the winner Jin_1551 transferred Ravana’s Orb to himself! After this was verified in discord, he was publicly given a choice….
So, Jin_1551 could either take Ixar to himself (an NFT worth >1.6 ETH) or share it (fractionalize) with the other participants. What a decision… and the hunting party had some thoughts:
After 10 nerve racking minutes, Jinn_1551 was given two eth addresses to which he could send the orb, one would destroy it and one would take Ixar.
He chose to be a Hero, and was hailed by the party for his decision.
And members of the hunt couldn’t stop talking about how amazing of a time they had :)
And finally, Ixar was fractionalized and is now shared by all of the participants. Take a look here:
https://fractional.art/vaults/curious-quests-ixar
And yes, more memes were made
If you want to participate in our next adventure, join our discord!
- Don’t scroll past here if you don’t want hints -
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Check the roof for leaks…
Miranda Goshawk.. who is she? May want to google it.
It’s wingardium leviosa, not leviosaarrrr.
I wonder what would happen if I lined up the stars.
Who is the handsome fellow in the room? I wonder if google could help.
If only the Romans could come to the metaverse and help us out with our counting.
There’s an eye on one of the pillars, it references perspective.
The haiku on the wall references three shapes, interesting.
Standing on a shape and looking around may give you some clarity.
Wizarding languages are hard to decode, maybe impossible.
Do I see something on the burn mark? Hmm it seems faint.
Google books may be helpful.
nano.. colors.. meter? nanometer?
I wonder if colors can be related to numbers?
The answer is just one word
Could these be grouped?
Google is a good resource.
The bearded wizard hat is cool, I wonder if I could search for it?
Woah, is that a delorean?
May be helpful to look up the wizards’ book of lore
Where have I seen that yellow dude before? Ah yes, google street view!
Hmm, maybe i could put some of these numbers together and come up with coordinates.
Is there anything interesting I see by looking around?
There are NFT properties on opensea
There are stars on most of these - do they mean anything?
There’s a tesseract - those are in the fourth dimension. Time.
The king is on the right side, the queen is on the left. I wonder if that means anything?
The letters on the floor are like a map. I wish i had some directions to get around it.
Hmm, 5 letters in SOYQJ and 5 chains of numbers and queens/kings. I wonder if they’re related.
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There’s a crossword puzzle in the room, along with the hints for across and down in the NFT descriptions of the arrows. There’s also a spellbook in the room written by a character from Harry Potter. The logical leap is that you have to fill out the crossword using Harry Potter Spells.
Unlock - “alohomora”
Levitate - “wingardium levisa”
Kill - “Avada Kedavra”
Disarm - “Expelliarmus”
Freeze - “Petrificus Totalus”
Summon - “accio”
Fire - “Incendio”
Light - “lumos”
Silence - “Silencio”
Repair - “Reparo”
Amnesia - “Obliviate”
Pain - “Crucio”
Finally, you will find another NFT in the ceiling near the book. It’s a set of circles, and you can line it up on top of the crossword to circle a set of letters. The circled letters spell out the answer to the puzzle:
hover
You can reverse image search the guy in the room and find out it is Melvil Dewey - the creator of the Dewey Decimal System.
The roman numerals on the wall translate to 577.
Dewey decimal system number 577 is the answer to the puzzle:
ecology
The haiku in the corner of the room has 3 lines - each line referencing a shape. Diamond, star, and circle. There’s also an eyeball in the room that references perspective.
The maze has different pairs of emojis tied to letters.
You have to stand on the shapes and look over at the emojis and see which ones you can see - one will be blocked from vision by the pillars or walls.
Doing this for Diamond, Star, and Circle in that order will result in the answer to the puzzle:
minor
In the burn mark of one of the pages, you can see the faint markings of a number - 9783039289592
If you google this number - you’ll find a book. Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic. The full book is free on google books.
If you go to the same pages as the images and find the blue words - you’ll decipher the answers:
old payment
Nano - references nanometers - wavelengths of light.
Roman numerals translate to:
CCCXC: 390nm = violet
DXX: 520nm = green
CDXC: 1490nm = blue
DCCL: 750nm = red
DXLII: 542nm = green
DLXX: 570nm = yellow
Use these to pick out the letters of the correct colors and decipher the answer:
insane
You’ll find a scroll in this room that asks “what languages do I know?”
There are poems in French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portugese.
The classification of these languages is the answer:
romance
If you reverse image search the bearded wizard hat logo, you’ll find a youtube channel called “carwizard”
in the video, he is pointing to a delorean. You need to look up delorean in the carwizard’s channel. There’s two videos. Only one is more than 632 seconds long.
If you go to that video at 632 seconds, you’ll find the answer:
fuel
“I forgot what was their first strength?”. This is referencing the green hat wizards in the forgotten runes wizard cult’s book of lore. Once you find that, you’ll see that the first strength of the green wizards is:
strong
The yellow fella in the room is a google street view icon. If you match the colors of the numbers in the room, you end up with the coordinates:
30.2874758, -97.736999
If you go to google maps and enter street view, you’ll see a big sculpture made out of the answer:
canoe
The slime asks - what do the properties measure?
If you go to the objects on Opensea, there are properties to each one. You need to map the stars on the object to the properties. For example, the stars on the ruler print out “METRIC”.
There is a tesseract in the room, referencing time, so you should use the clock. The clock’s properties - when deciphered using the numbers the hands point to - spell out AMMETER. An ammeter measures the answer to this puzzle:
current
There are floor mats in the room with a maze of letters. On the wall, you see the word “SOYQJ”, with a king to the right and a queen to the left. King = right, Queen = left.
Also on the wall, you see 5 different instructions with kings and queens. These are directions on a map! start at a letter, and follow the corresponding directions. The number is the number of letters to walk forward, king is turning right, queen is turning left. For example - for the first letter you have S and the directions 1♔1♕2♔1. You start on S, walk forward one square, turn right, walk forward one square, turn left, walk forward two squares, turn right, and walk forward one more square. You will end up on the letter “U”, which is the first letter of the answer. Repeat for all five letters to get:
under