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Post by brian on Dec 7, 2019 12:04:55 GMT -5
I am stalled at the second half of step 12 on the long scroll.
Any guidance will be appreciated.
If you dot want to reveal the help here, please email to me at: Click here
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Post by dmikester on Dec 7, 2019 12:18:00 GMT -5
I am stalled at the second half of step 12 on the long scroll.
Any guidance will be appreciated.
If you dot want to reveal the help here, please email to me at: Click here I’ll send you a personal message here; you should get an email notification about it. That way we can talk in detail without spoiling anything.
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Post by katnip88 on Dec 8, 2019 2:05:51 GMT -5
Honest review: I was disappointed by this experience. This was my first time with MPC, and it wasn't what I expected for the price. The anticipation and lead-up to the box was great. I enjoyed hunting around on the internet, getting weird emails, sifting through the website code... The box itself? Fell flat.
First of all, the 'puzzles' were not really puzzles. The ritual scroll told you what to do, line by line. The most difficult part for me was following the star charts, but that's only because I'm bad at following instructions. Besides that, there was very little to figure out.
The entire thing with the language felt lacking. The seals were interesting, but I hated rolling them out into the 'clay,' which felt very cheap and did not imprint well. I ended up just using the seals directly and looking at the symbols backwards. [redacted by admin due to spoiling puzzle solution] I also did not understand the purpose of the symbols on the back of the artifact. They didn't spell out anything, and I probably spent a solid 30 minutes trying to create anagrams, which amounted to nothing. There was also a typo on one of the phrases on the invitation that said "He ik coming" instead of "He is."
It was not as immersive or involved as it promised to be. Completing the main shipment, from prying open the box to watching the video, took me 2.5 hours. I probably spent twice that agonizing over the preliminary elements. The entire experience also felt disjointed, with the different parts never coming together or being explained. The newspaper clippings in the envelope had almost nothing to do with the ritual, except for the [redacted by admin]. We never learned more about the SRDA (I was hoping to uncover some kind of conspiracy with B Thomas). There was no login to the SRDA website. [redacted by admin due to spoilers] And that was it. There is nothing else to explore.
Lastly, the artifacts. While they were weighty, each of these items seemed like they could have popped right out of a 3d printer. I felt like way too much emphasis was placed on these artifacts, so much less effort was placed on making the immersion complete.
I expected much more out of an experience that set me back almost $300 including shipping. I would love to be wrong about some of this. If there are Easter eggs I'm missing, please let me know.
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Post by dmikester on Dec 8, 2019 4:21:32 GMT -5
Honest review: I was disappointed by this experience. This was my first time with MPC, and it wasn't what I expected for the price. The anticipation and lead-up to the box was great. I enjoyed hunting around on the internet, getting weird emails, sifting through the website code... The box itself? Fell flat.
First of all, the 'puzzles' were not really puzzles. The ritual scroll told you what to do, line by line. The most difficult part for me was following the star charts, but that's only because I'm bad at following instructions. Besides that, there was very little to figure out.
The entire thing with the language felt lacking. The seals were interesting, but I hated rolling them out into the 'clay,' which felt very cheap and did not imprint well. I ended up just using the seals directly and looking at the symbols backwards. [redacted by admin due to spoiling puzzle solution] I also did not understand the purpose of the symbols on the back of the artifact. They didn't spell out anything, and I probably spent a solid 30 minutes trying to create anagrams, which amounted to nothing. There was also a typo on one of the phrases on the invitation that said "He ik coming" instead of "He is."
It was not as immersive or involved as it promised to be. Completing the main shipment, from prying open the box to watching the video, took me 2.5 hours. I probably spent twice that agonizing over the preliminary elements. The entire experience also felt disjointed, with the different parts never coming together or being explained. The newspaper clippings in the envelope had almost nothing to do with the ritual, except for the [redacted by admin]. We never learned more about the SRDA (I was hoping to uncover some kind of conspiracy with B Thomas). There was no login to the SRDA website. [redacted by admin due to spoilers] And that was it. There is nothing else to explore.
Lastly, the artifacts. While they were weighty, each of these items seemed like they could have popped right out of a 3d printer. I felt like way too much emphasis was placed on these artifacts, so much less effort was placed on making the immersion complete.
I expected much more out of an experience that set me back almost $300 including shipping. I would love to be wrong about some of this. If there are Easter eggs I'm missing, please let me know. I really appreciate this post, as it gives me a different perspective on this experience. I'll respond with some spoiler adjacent thoughts: I personally loved the puzzle; I thought it was highly interactive and flowed very well, and I found the steps clear yet cryptic enough to where I wasn't sure at times precisely what they meant for me to do. At the same time, I appreciated the steps being laid out because it meant that I wasn't flailing around trying to piece things together. Imagine how much harder this puzzle would have been without those steps but just a list of cryptic things you were supposed to achieve. It would have been doable, but it would have been enormously frustrating. I also consider the star charts a serious and very well-designed puzzle in that you had everything you needed but you really had to sit down and interpret how all the different elements needed interacted with each other.
I agree that the runes could have been done better. They were my one massive hangup, as I way overthought them and got stuck on all kinds of strange theories about them. I think there could have been more subtlety with how they were handled, and their eventual solution was the one thing that I thought didn't really make sense plot-wise. I also agree that the clay ended up being lame; I had a very difficult time using it and didn't even really understand its point for a long while. I was also disappointed in how little they ended up being used.
I will say that I very much disagree that this wasn't immersive. On the contrary, especially given what you end up learning at the end, having some elements of the newspapers and other items in the box be integral and some not be makes perfect sense; I didn't find it particularly disjointed at all. I also have a theory about the SRDA, but that's better saved for personal messages as it's a massive end of experience spoiler. I will say that part of what I enjoyed about this stems from their previous King in Yellow-themed experiences, The King in Yellow and Rise of the Cult, and how they also were kind of a dive through history to discover secret things about the King's cults; this used a similar idea but in a clever and satisfying way that's also probably best discussed via personal messages.
The artifacts are interesting. I love the main Artifact of Hastur; I think its artistic design is very impressive. The seals are also neat and a cool idea and design choice. But your comment about 3D printers makes some sense, as them all being made out of the same material seems a little odd and was something I noticed. I still think the artistic elements of them and that they're generally well-made outweighs the sameness of their materials.
I don't think there are Easter Eggs per se, but there are multiple documents that contribute to or reference puzzles, not just one newspaper article, and of course there's the very neat reveal at the end that ties the two mailings together.
As someone who owns all of the MPC's main experiences, I think this ranks very favorably to most of them, and I thought the big puzzle was great. The SRDA form in the first part is also one of my favorite interactive storytelling elements I've ever encountered. But I can also understand possibly wanting more for the price, especially if you were expecting more online content; the shipping for this really is crazy expensive, and as you said, when you get into a flow with solving, it doesn't take particularly long to get through everything. I thought there were a lot of memorable moments and an artifact that looks terrific on a shelf, which made the Kickstarter discounted price very much worth it. Outside of spoilers, I'm very curious about what the unreached Kickstarter stretch goals would have led to. It does indeed end abruptly, and I wonder if there was going to be more to do in the end-game content that got cut because it wasn't Kickstarted fully. The Ritual Illumination Kit that was next to be unlocked doesn't seem like it would have contributed much, but hard to know. I'm tempted to email the MPC and ask them.
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Post by thegenii on Dec 8, 2019 20:16:59 GMT -5
There is so much more inside the box of this experience than all of the early MPC experiences. It wasn't until we got to Century Beast, which was (I believe) the MPC's fifth experience and first Kickstarter, that we saw this number of physical items.
I had no problem with quality of the 3D props--stuff that comes out of a 3D printer doesn't look like this.
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Post by centaurofattn on Dec 11, 2019 15:29:35 GMT -5
Finally finished this and I'm still really impressed with it. One of the endings scared the crap out of me lol. And might not have been able to resist a sneak peak at Pat Turner. Oops?
I found the "puzzle" challenging enough without being unbearable and had some fun components. The overall story I will need to sit on.
I did most of the activity work at my work station at work while making phone calls and had at least 10 people intrigued by what was happening. Wish we had referral bonuses haha.
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Post by oldjim on Dec 15, 2019 1:31:25 GMT -5
Just got to what I strongly believe is the end (and it was amazing!), and please private message me if there's a spoilery aspect to this, but does anyone else's main artifact rattle when shaken? It sounds like there is something inside, but I can't tell if I missed something or if it's a manufacturing thing.
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Post by dmikester on Dec 15, 2019 8:56:56 GMT -5
So just to clarify, the spoiler rule is if a post specifically spoils a puzzle in some way, typically by giving away a solution. Discussing puzzle elements is more than OK, it's in fact highly encouraged. Anything behind a spoiler tag is something that might spoil an aspect of a puzzle or experience for someone who wants to go in completely blind, but that doesn't just give the answer. I assume by the end you mean you've watched a video or maybe two. I also assume you're referring to the statue of Hastur in which case, no, mine doesn't rattle when shaken. Did you mean a different artifact in the mailing? If not, then I'd contact the MPC as that sounds like a manufacturing defect.
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Post by oldjim on Dec 15, 2019 11:51:55 GMT -5
So just to clarify, the spoiler rule is if a post specifically spoils a puzzle in some way, typically by giving away a solution. Discussing puzzle elements is more than OK, it's in fact highly encouraged. Anything behind a spoiler tag is something that might spoil an aspect of a puzzle or experience for someone who wants to go in completely blind, but that doesn't just give the answer. I assume by the end you mean you've watched a video or maybe two. I also assume you're referring to the statue of Hastur in which case, no, mine doesn't rattle when shaken. Did you mean a different artifact in the mailing? If not, then I'd contact the MPC as that sounds like a manufacturing defect. Correct on both counts, and luckily there's nothing on the outside that is wrong so no real need to have anything done, just wanted to make sure it wasn't part of the puzzle. Thanks!
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Post by centaurofattn on Dec 15, 2019 15:50:27 GMT -5
Finally finished this and I'm still really impressed with it. One of the endings scared the crap out of me lol. And might not have been able to resist a sneak peak at Pat Turner. Oops? I found the "puzzle" challenging enough without being unbearable and had some fun components. The overall story I will need to sit on. I did most of the activity work at my work station at work while making phone calls and had at least 10 people intrigued by what was happening. Wish we had referral bonuses haha. And POOF now we have referral bonuses! ...I wish my student loans would disappear? No? Only get one wish?
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Post by eclosis on Dec 16, 2019 16:18:43 GMT -5
Finally finished this and I'm still really impressed with it. One of the endings scared the crap out of me lol. And might not have been able to resist a sneak peak at Pat Turner. Oops? I found the "puzzle" challenging enough without being unbearable and had some fun components. The overall story I will need to sit on. I did most of the activity work at my work station at work while making phone calls and had at least 10 people intrigued by what was happening. Wish we had referral bonuses haha. And POOF now we have referral bonuses! ...I wish my student loans would disappear? No? Only get one wish? referral bonuses?
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Post by centaurofattn on Dec 16, 2019 17:22:25 GMT -5
And POOF now we have referral bonuses! ...I wish my student loans would disappear? No? Only get one wish? referral bonuses? I got an email with a special link that you can send to people and if they use it and order an experience, they get 10% off and you get 15% off a future purchase. Got the email on the 14th
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Post by thegenii on Dec 16, 2019 21:00:59 GMT -5
I got a rock.
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Post by victorthegeek on Dec 30, 2019 8:31:55 GMT -5
My group finally had time to go through the box this past weekend. Thanks to a little help from these forums, we were able to figure out the main puzzle. My overall thoughts on the experience: it was great! I loved the "treasure" website, unboxing the crate, the trinkets, and the big puzzle. I do have one gripe with the ending: The volume level of the final video(s) was HORRIBLE. I played it from my cellphone and my group could hardly hear certain parts of it. Part of me thinks I might have missed something extra, so I'm going to go back through all of the paperwork/newspaper articles and see if I missed anything. Question for others: Other than the moon dial puzzle, are there any other puzzles/hidden things that come from the paperwork or is it all just extra fluff?
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Post by dmikester on Dec 30, 2019 16:43:39 GMT -5
My group finally had time to go through the box this past weekend. Thanks to a little help from these forums, we were able to figure out the main puzzle. My overall thoughts on the experience: it was great! I loved the "treasure" website, unboxing the crate, the trinkets, and the big puzzle. I do have one gripe with the ending: The volume level of the final video(s) was HORRIBLE. I played it from my cellphone and my group could hardly hear certain parts of it. Part of me thinks I might have missed something extra, so I'm going to go back through all of the paperwork/newspaper articles and see if I missed anything. Question for others: Other than the moon dial puzzle, are there any other puzzles/hidden things that come from the paperwork or is it all just extra fluff? As far as I could tell, there's nothing extra per se, though there are plenty of hints about the nature and history of certain elements of the puzzles, such as the seals representing stars in the constellations and the star pieces of the dial being mentioned in the blog post. It's mostly fluff, though I think rather good fluff.
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