stateful clues

Active Investigation Leads

These are the active clue clusters most likely to guide decisions. Resolutions and narrower questions remain tracked on Open Threads.

Envy, Hammerguard, and Lostvein

Lead Current clue state Source
Belburn tithe system Belburn still pays Envy’s tithes or gifts, even after Lady Evalina Hartwall was pushed into the ground beneath town hall. data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md
Buried dragon beneath Belburn town hall User clarification confirms the buried dragon is Lady Evalina Hartwall, one of Envy’s enforcers. data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md
Armoured wagon toward Belburn An eight-wheeled metal-clad wagon with armoured lizards travelled toward Belburn; later Noxia/wasp leads may explain it, but the exact mission remains important context. data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md
Lostvein uprising Rumours confirm wasps are going crazy and Noxia blood was found; the uprising is already spreading by road gossip. data/4-days-cleaned/day-60.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md
Hammerguard / mountain city Envy’s mountain site has active forges, jade construction, bridge-building, a dragon role, and unclear military or prison logistics. data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md
Elven husks Rescued husks remain altered and unresolved; their nature, recovery, and possible use as vessels remain open. data/4-days-cleaned/day-60.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md
New Queen and Old Queen The Old Queen / Countess is dead; the New Queen is travelling, likely within Noxia wasp hierarchy, but her destination and relationship to Envy’s plan remain unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md
Succubus-like courier A courier linked to Envy’s operations appears partly clarified by later verification, but her specific mission still needs source integration. data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md
Hammerguard resistance and Envy lure Copper’s enclave provides covert routes and says Envy is vulnerable to insults against her image or worship; the party plans an old-throne-room trap and possible Wrath statue lure but has not acted. data/4-days-cleaned/day-63.md
Great Removal and elven husks Groushin describes the husks as soul-gapped post-Removal vessels and dark elves as a separate underground people; this remains testimony, while the husks’ condition and the invisible dark elf’s death are unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-63.md

Browning, Grand Towers, and Divine-Scale Machinery

Lead Current clue state Source
Browning’s near-godhood Everard Browning is close to completing a godhood ritual, using crystal and Grand Towers control systems. data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md
Founder armour / Alfred The party powered Founder armour called Alfred, linking Founders, Grand Towers, and the old control systems. data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md
Tremon’s altered body Tremon’s body is tied to crystal, a pale caster shielding it from the Sultan, Ennui’s arm, and a larger completion question. data/4-days-cleaned/day-57.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md
Shield remote near Grand Towers A shield remote exists near Grand Towers with no obvious reversal path. data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md
Browning’s table phrase Browning’s phrase and the flight of the gold ends had an effect after his table spell was countered; the exact consequence remains unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md
Dangerous library knowledge The blue dragon teacher, stasis or imprisonment, dead mind worm, and dangerous library knowledge remain unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md

Joy, Hannah Joy, Ennui, and the Rings

Lead Current clue state Source
Joy’s repeated deaths Joy died six times; the graves and clone research suggest repeated attempts to keep or return her soul. data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md
Ring bargains Joy’s ring and Dirk’s ring mention bargains, darkness, sorrow, souls, infinity, and bringing Joy back. data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md
Hannah Joy erased Hannah Joy was wiped from time and space, but clues suggest traces of her survive in memories, visions, and Hartwall material. data/4-days-cleaned/day-44.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-57.md
Ennui’s survival work Ennui, Thomas, Joy, Hannah, rings, clone limits, dark deals, and barrier power remain entangled. data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-44.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md
Battery is the clue Mr Moreley’s draconic book says the writer tried to stop what they were doing, used dome plans, and that what they would use for a battery was the clue. data/4-days-cleaned/day-44.md

Void, Garadule, and Elemental Prisons

Lead Current clue state Source
Cold dream and Void! A dream of a black-hole town hall included the voice where is he I know you hide him, possible Garadule connection, Void!, and a white dragonscale. data/4-days-cleaned/day-21.md
Garadule’s identity Garadule is tied to the Terror of the Sands, the Prison of the Sands, void, one of the eight, the barrier, and later sphinx-protector history. data/4-days-cleaned/day-01.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-50.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md
Salinus prison leak Later clarification identifies Salinus’s prison leak as the cause of poisoned land around Seaward; the poisoned crystal entity remains unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-14.md
Void elemental release Ruby Eye’s misfired return, the released void elemental, Pride’s death, and a recognized prison under Lewshis/Anorazorak remain active. data/4-days-cleaned/day-51.md
Dome/prison consequence Destroying Papa Marmaru’s dome may cancel pacts and release prisons, making it a strategic and moral clue, not just an engineering problem. data/4-days-cleaned/day-52.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-53.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-54.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-55.md

Memory, Identity, and Hidden Control

Lead Current clue state Source
Everchard memory tampering Missing pigs, missing militia, shifting memories, altered Malcolm Donovan, vanished townsfolk, and memory worms led to The Mother, Betrayer’s children and Garadule. data/4-days-cleaned/day-01.md to data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md
Core repaired under GUILT label A repaired Core arrived marked GUILT; its sender and connection to The Guilt or Brookville Springs remain unresolved. data/4-days-cleaned/day-09.md
Goldenswell prison network Memory grubs, off-book prisoners, bag-headed figures, snake-bodied emissaries, Duke’s office politics, and Envy/Noxia suspicion remain active. data/4-days-cleaned/day-34.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-35.md
Removed elven emotions Envy, Wrath, Pride, The Guilt, and other emotional fragments may overlap with Excellences, prisoners, demons, or gods’ tools. data/4-days-cleaned/day-35.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-36.md
Valenth Cardonal’s shutdown Cardonal shut herself down so a smoke creature would not take her over; she describes Dotharl as one of her mother’s early creations. data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md

Barrier, Tri-moon, and Pylons

Lead Current clue state Source
Tri-moon growing and falling The observatory measured the Tri-moon growing; attacks on the Barrier and shield pylons may accelerate the shard’s fall. data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md
Seaward flickers Flickers crawl horizontally toward the pylon, cluster around 9 am, avoid midnight, and intensify when Geldrin’s crystal shard touches the Barrier. data/4-days-cleaned/day-12.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-13.md
Peridot Queen pylon knowledge The Peridot Queen has seen all eight pylons and reacts worryingly to Geldrin. data/4-days-cleaned/day-13.md
Daytime Tri-moon anomaly The Tri-moon appeared during the day about 16 hours early, complicating the countdown. data/4-days-cleaned/day-34.md
Countdown inconsistency User confirmation says the Tri-moon occurs every 30 days; Day 61’s three-day estimate and Day 59’s six-day Belburn marker likely reflect inclusive or local counting. data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md