The Mystery Begins!

I say we may have to wait abit.
Give time for players to discover the spyglass…
Because we found it rather quickly XD

Maybe this weekend or next week something will be revealed

Anyone else notice only 3 of the coins with arrows on them are on the X side while the rest are the skull side? Maybe they triangulate somewhere?

@icytid3s i felt like the skulls in question were in some sort of location in the realm of the ferry and she was using them to send messages back out. OoS helped by retrieving one of the messages. Just my thoughts.

@capt-brookes said in The Mystery Begins!:

I think what the next step is is to wait for Lesedi to 'switch the skulls' like she mentioned in the video. We found where her spyglass is, and it seems like after she's done with that something is gonna happen where we can finally use this spyglass. I can't think of anything else or anywhere else to use this spyglass on... :(

@capt-brookes Interesting thought. Perhaps it is a way to make the community wait until something else is done by her (aka, "the devs")

I interpreted as she was unable to accomplish that task and WE had to switch "the skulls". I thought the two coins in SDT were pointing to their location, but I didn't come up with anything in my search.

The one coin definitely is pointing in the direction of uncharted K-9 island, but the other doesn't quite align with uncharted N-13.
Regardless, aimlessly pointing the spyglass at things in these locations led to nothing of interest.

EDIT: Can you interact with those skulls at all?

Ok here's my wild-brain theory,

The video message she left mentions "I know where the lies are buried, this message should find you there".. meaning we should find THIS message(or a least the lantern with the skull on top featured in the video) at whatever location these arrows are pointing us to.
Once in our possession we SWITCH the skull on top with another one (nearby?). That in turn will give us a new message telling us where to aim the spyglass, dig, and find where the "lies are buried".

I know the coins initially eluded to the location of the spyglass, but she says "Use my spyglass, follow the coins". To me, we need to get the spyglass first THEN follow the coins. The coins obviously serving dual purpose then.
Follow them where, and to what order... there's the rub.

I'm currently looking closer at the video to see if any location details can me taken from it; that may or may not align with some of the arrows.

@capt-brookes said in The Mystery Begins!:

Also @twistedstisster does that mean we need to get the lantern out again?

I don't think so. Personally I think it's all about the coins and the spyglass. Still, I do pull out the lantern just in case I'm missing something, but I don't expect to find anything.

My question is, if we follow the arrows, does it start and end at SDT? making a loop? if we trace them all on a map, does it "Draw" something out? I know Experementor did something like that below. Nothing stands out to me.

I saw a few photos here where the person determining the direction the coin is pointing to is holding the compass passively to show the direction. I just want to point out that the compass needle does not move between holding passively and holding it in your face, but passively does not point in the same direction, because you hold it off to the side a bit. This may have thrown off the map lines that were previously posted if they were determined just by holding the compass passively.

I hope this makes sense.

@stegalin Yeah that was something Id thought about when the map was reposted. These lines could be inaccurate. Its not like it prompts you to place your compass down next to the coins and take a heading. So if there's a point of interest near a line, or near a cross section, then its worth exploring.

For the sake of argument. I popped over to Plunder Valley and grabbed the Trapmakers Spyglass again. It lacks any artifacting. I do recall seeing weird lighting issues with it when I last did that tall tale. But whatever it was is gone now. I cant produce any artifacting with it the same way we did with Lesedi's Spyglass.

The Following is some image comparisons.

1. Trapmakers
2. Lesedi
3. The Shape of the Artifacting inside of the eye. Compared with Thieves Haven.

I will also add. That I took these screenshots looking at the exact same angle for both spyglasses. I could not produce even slightly similar visuals on the Trapmakers Spyglass.

@stegalin said in The Mystery Begins!:

This may have thrown off the map lines that were previously posted if they were determined just by holding the compass passively.

I hope this makes sense.

It does. I've spent some time using the arrows trying to redraw lines on the map. Without being able to independently verify each direction from the photos (atm), I've been pretty liberal with my angles; trying several combinations to see if any pattern or path appears. Nothing seems to be manifesting. It almost starts to look like a star but quickly falls apart.
Most coins point to an island with another coin (or two with liberal angles), the kicker is that Crooks Hollow (R) and the Howling Wolf (P) don't even come close. It breaks any through line I could try to make.

I feel I need go confirm these directions to see if any are more off than I accounted for.

If anyone has any suggested connection let me know.

Also, I just tried rearranging the letters of PRISONER regardless of arrow pointing.
I get "RR IS OPEN" or "RS IN ROPE"
So...ya know... that's busting this mystery wide open. LOL.

@twistedstisster if you need a place to start I would say check the directions like this against the 3 coins/islands that have the X side up with the arrow and see if they triangulate better than the current map. That’s my best guess at this point. A small area already exists, if all three are shifted slight counter clockwise currently to account for the difference they currently all point to everyone’s favorite island, Old faithful. But that is me eyeballing it.

There haven't been any clues found in the Shore of Gold, have there?