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This was, by far, one of the most fun and meme-filled portions of the search to watch. Well, we had a lot of fun at least! The plaque is old and barely legible. You can only make out fragments of each line of text. The Secret-Finding community, while nimble with previous riddles, was unable to crack this one for over 48 hours, and with good reason.
Thanks for telling us about the problem. Introduced within Patch 7. The crown turd in this pile was the inclusion of a 'novel teaser' that had clearly never been spell checked to any degree. The stories are short 8 pages each , but well developed and well written. It does not concentrate on one type of horror. A series of wildly different page short stories in the Horror genre.
Not only was the text misleading, but it was also localized completely different in various languages. This made many potential solutions invalid or nonsensical. The meaning of the word, line breaks and punctuation, and the idea that it was a partial text and that there were blanks to be filled in, were all red herrings. Only the letters mattered, which then formed an anagram.
It was amazing to see the international community come together to break the first part of the riddle. They knew they were on to something! A bizarre sounding string of letters, which is actually the name of a new goblin NPC that was added to Ratchet in Patch 7.
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Players attempting to search for the name on the internet bizarrely found themselves on a WoWhead page for the original version of the Greench, the creature that was altered to create Racksum Greep while keeping his identity a secret. What they did know was that something had changed, and they were hot on the trail of the solution. He is wearing a rather obscure set of clothing, all low-level tailored gear in various bright colors. To solve this puzzle, players would have to present the skull in the cavern with the only adornment fit for it: The Shadoweave Mask was once obtained from a quest chain that began in Searing Gorge, but that area has long since been taken over by Dark Iron Steamsmiths, who now drop the Tailoring pattern for it.
Talking to the Strange Skull while wearing the Shadoweave Mask sounds crazy on paper, but it also summons the next note. Above these consoles is an Instructions plaque, which reads:.
A puzzle in binary? The binary was another red herring, and a very effective one at that. Both localization teams did a great job of coming up with their own puzzle, and the puzzle was first solved in Traditional Chinese! Enterprising players eventually worked the puzzle solution out in non-Chinese languages by working backward from the known solution! Simplified Chinese uses Pinyin to Romanize the Chinese characters into letters.
Similar to the English solution, we then removed the vowels and converted the remaining letters into fake binary. When you wake up, you will find yourself in an endless maze. Thus, the Endless Halls is randomized based on your player ID, as well as the day of the week.
Very few players will ever see the same layout, and coming back the next day will present you with an entirely new challenge. The Endless Halls is a cruel, uncompromising maze, designed to confuse and disorient at every turn. Going in one of these exits will fade the screen to black, then fade back in with you in the connected room.
However, several mechanics make this much more difficult than it may sound. The maze is arranged on an 8x8 grid of rooms.
Each cell has between one and four exits. These Non-Intersecting Cross rooms are the first major source of confusing discontinuity, and also cannot contain any Orbs or Runes. The second main source of disorientation is the edges. They loop around, but not directly. Instead, exiting one end of the maze will send you to the other side of the maze, with an additional offset. This makes it very difficult to tell what room you will end up in if you cross the edge of the map.
You can, however, reliably backtrack from your new position to your previous position. Many players made frequent use of this backtracking to reliably navigate the maze without getting lost.
In addition, there is one final wrench thrown into the gears: Within the maze, a single room is the Teleportation Trap. When you enter this room, you are instead secretly teleported to a random room in the maze. We learned a ton from how the Endless Halls were experienced by players. Overall, it was an exciting and unexpected part of the series, but a few things could have gone better. By putting the hardest and most involved puzzle at the very end made players trickle through the finish line, depriving the community of the mass celebration moment as everyone who had been working hard on it together completed it at the same time.
Most importantly, the variance in difficulty of different mazes led to some being easily solved by wandering randomly, and some requiring careful mapping to finally solve, leading to frustration for the few with especially challenging mazes. While having individual mazes turned out great, the difficulty variance was just too high. The way is now open. To the greatest secret never told. A fitting end to your journey. The clue here is a reference to a place in the world that has long been a secret to those in the know, but has never been used—the horrendously creepy Forgotten Crypts in Karazhan.
They were perpetually disappointed—until now. This time, sitting on top of a pile of bones near the bottom of this huge-but-empty crypt within The Pit of Criminals is a chest containing the [Lucid Nightmare]. We hope you enjoyed this breakdown of our riddles in the hunt for the [ Lucid Nightmare ].
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To ask other readers questions about Beautiful Nightmares , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 15, Jenni rated it did not like it. This collection is embarrassingly bad and I feel swindled for having paid 99 cents for it. This collection desperately needs an editor, better authors, or to not exist at all. I've read better short stories on Literotica, and that's an incredibly low bar.
The crown turd in this pile was the inclusion of a 'novel teaser' that had clearly never been spell checked to any degree. As evidenced by a woman being pushed up against a 'baloney wall' I can only presume the author meant balcony? Nov 20, Kris rated it it was ok.
Skimmed most of these. But her name is why I opened this antho. Thank goodness for Kindle Unlimited.
Oct 01, Shannon Schoolcraft rated it it was amazing. Outstanding This was an outstanding read. I loved each of the stories in this book. Can't choose a favorite because I liked them all. If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it. A very good short story collection. I like the variety of horror stories in here.
It does not concentrate on one type of horror. Each building up to its climax. There twists and surprises. I recommend this for anyone who likes horror stories. Dec 06, Colleen Taule rated it really liked it. Each story was great at drawing me into it Each story was great at drawing me into it. I felt like I was right there with the characters as I read. Mar 16, Ryan William rated it it was amazing. Awesome collection These ladies take on a wild ride. Fun stories and remarkable craftsmanship. Especially enjoyed the last two. Excited to read more. Mar 19, Danielle Goodwin rated it it was amazing.
This appears in the Beautiful Nightmares collection. It's a short story that gives us another piece of the puzzle. This one feels like a cross between a Grimm episode and a CSI episode. There are so many interesting connections. I love this for the same reason I love reading about Jack the Ripper! I can't wait to read the 5 tale in the series! Mar 18, Heather Henkel rated it really liked it. Good mix As always there were some stories that were better than others but overall I enjoyed them all.
I definitely recommend this collection. Tamara rated it it was amazing Nov 17,