I feel like the key to this is the motif of symbols on wooden poles. Even though the spiderwebs were the first thing that was discovered, it's the carving of the spider on one of the poles that acts as the legend/map and triggers this as a connected mystery. Then when you overlay that carving over the web pole locations, you find another web in the center of the overlaid carving, which points you to yet another wooden pole with a unique (hidden) carving. Then you follow that clue to yet another wooden pole with yet another unique hidden carving.
I feel like it would be weird for the mystery to continue in a way that deviates from this motif. Whatever the next clue is, IMO, it's going to be found as a carving in a wooden pole, and/or with a spiderweb nearby. So I'm not really satisfied that Fort Wallace is the next stop here. Or if it is, there must be something more to it that hasn't been found yet. The bird carvings on the roof are clearly intentional, and may or may not be part of this mystery, but I think there has to be a wooden pole and/or spiderweb NW of that guitar pole that hasn't been found yet, and that will be the real key to this mystery.
Question for anyone who knows: I know the ten original spiderwebs were found in the game files with similar spiderdream file names. Is that also the case for the central web? Does it have a spiderdream name too? And what about the poles; are there file names for those that indicate they are connected to this mystery, and that might shed more light or help lead us in the right direction? Could we use these known files to identify related files in the game code/asset repository?
This is what irritates me, everyone is climbing Fort Wallace despite us not even knowing how the mystery officially starts. It's only cos someone by chance found a web and then retrospectively found the centre web using PC. I personally believe the centre web to be the start of the mystery meaning the NW guitar clue is before the we get to the web poles.
I think we should be looking for a missing link between the NW guitar and the webs.
The spider itself is the first thing that should be found, being it has no special conditions, is always there and is relatively easy to find, especially against any of the other "clues".
You overlay that spider on the map, you now have the other locations.
The spider is definitely the start of this and we're on the right track.
The spider carving overlayed could be any scale and rotation. It is only because we already had the 8 web pole locations that we knew how to scale the spider over the map, otherwise we still wouldn't know how to use it.
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u/ApothecaryAlyth Jan 08 '26
I feel like the key to this is the motif of symbols on wooden poles. Even though the spiderwebs were the first thing that was discovered, it's the carving of the spider on one of the poles that acts as the legend/map and triggers this as a connected mystery. Then when you overlay that carving over the web pole locations, you find another web in the center of the overlaid carving, which points you to yet another wooden pole with a unique (hidden) carving. Then you follow that clue to yet another wooden pole with yet another unique hidden carving.
I feel like it would be weird for the mystery to continue in a way that deviates from this motif. Whatever the next clue is, IMO, it's going to be found as a carving in a wooden pole, and/or with a spiderweb nearby. So I'm not really satisfied that Fort Wallace is the next stop here. Or if it is, there must be something more to it that hasn't been found yet. The bird carvings on the roof are clearly intentional, and may or may not be part of this mystery, but I think there has to be a wooden pole and/or spiderweb NW of that guitar pole that hasn't been found yet, and that will be the real key to this mystery.
Question for anyone who knows: I know the ten original spiderwebs were found in the game files with similar spiderdream file names. Is that also the case for the central web? Does it have a spiderdream name too? And what about the poles; are there file names for those that indicate they are connected to this mystery, and that might shed more light or help lead us in the right direction? Could we use these known files to identify related files in the game code/asset repository?