Wintreath

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:03 pm

Invitation to Summersend Festival

Venue construction is already ongoing!

For the third year, Wintreath is hosting the Summersend Festival, our annual festival to celebrate the end of summer and the approach of cooler weather with fun and games for everyone! The festival will start on Friday, August 18th and run until Sunday, August 27th, and will include forum games, contests, discussions, roleplaying, scheduled gaming sessions, and more! Every year the Summersend Festival gets bigger and better, and I believe that this year will be no exception...if you have a chance, consider coming over for some of the fun and enjoy the festival with us. We'd be honoured to have you as our guest. We'll provide a link to the festival area as soon as it's open, but if you would like to make or update an account beforehand, our forum is located here.

Hope to see you there!

Post by **Adytus** » Sat Aug 19, 2017 5:24 pm

Thank you for the invitation!

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:58 pm

The festival is now open, and as promised, the direct link to the festival is here! Additionally, we are also posting announcements here to help you keep track of events and deadlines for each day.

Hope to see you there!

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:44 pm

Orendi XIII: Special Summersend Edition
We are experimenting with a new Orendi format! Check out the pages below, or if you cannot read them, check out our PDF Version.

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Post by **Adytus** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:31 pm

Thank you!

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:33 am

The Frozen Realm of Wintreath
Invitation to Werewolf XIV: A Werewolf of Ice and Fire

[flash]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDyz-j4_StA[/flash]
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(Editing credits: Hydra) Hello, friends and allies! Wintreath is hosting a very special game of Werewolf, and you are invited! Let me present to you... Double-Elimination Werewolf!

You see, when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Not always, though, for oftentimes you get to go north to the Wall, instead of being lynched and killed! But don't worry, it's an honor to serve on the Night's Watch. Definitely won't be anything going wrong there...

I welcome you all to join our game. To sign up, head on over to this thread! If you're unfamiliar with Werewolf or Mafia, here's a good overview of the general workings of the game. I hope to see you all in the royal court of King's Landing for a fun game of Werewolf!

—taulover

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:42 am

Orendi XIV: Vernal Equinox Issue
We have continued to experiment with our new Orendi format, first introduced in our previous issue! Check out our full PDF Version, or if you cannot read it, take a look at the pages in image form below.

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Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:15 pm

After nearly two years since our last puzzle, we are back with yet another! Good luck, and have fun!

Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Wed May 23, 2018 7:35 am

Orendi XV
As with before, we have continued to write our Orendi in a newspaper-style format! Check out our full PDF Version, or take a look at the pages in image form below.

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Mathyland · Post by **Mathyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:36 pm

Hello everyone!

Now that a month and a half has passed since we've posted this puzzle, I'd like to revisit it. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has managed to fully solve the puzzle, and few have reached the final steps. As such, I'll present a partial solution for the parts that seem to have left people stumped, while leaving it up to you guys to solve the rest.

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As many people quickly realized, the initial image was written in Aurebesh, the fictional script of the Star Wars universe. It reads, in Spanish, "Vaya a nuestra Discord y reaccione," which translates to "Go to our Discord and react."

Of course, this was not merely a plug for our Discord. Quite a few people showed up on our Discord server, trying to find the next step. Many of them attempted to trigger the bots, such as our custom-written Zaphyr, to respond with something. However, the solution lay elsewhere.

Discord has reactions, in the form of emojis. Servers can add custom emojis, which is what we did. I made this 32x32 image to fit within the Discord emoji constraints, handwriting the letters in a small pixel-based font of my own design. As far as I am aware, The Peninsular#7987 is the only person to have found this emoji as the solution, and they have my congratulations.

Looking at the contents of the emoji (which can be downloaded and zoomed-into through various ways), the letters themselves are text encoded in MIME base64. Decoded, we get this URL:

wintreath.com/index.php?part=2048

Which leads us to a game of 2048!

But the tiles look rather odd...

The last step of the puzzle is left as an exercise to the reader.

It was also fun seeing people send us various responses and counter-puzzles! For instance, we received this message from Baikerbanur/athdot of New Hyperion, which was rather fun to work through:

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/ t s r i f / o i . b u h t i g . t o d h t a / / : s p t t h

Best of luck in cracking the final segment! I'll be back with the full solution and another puzzle soon.

—taulover, Thane of Embassy Dispatches