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 |