In development
Riddle Scout
and the Atlas of Seven Seals · A Puzzle Adventure
Peter N. Liptak
Your first badge can wait. Something is erasing the Library of Hidden Things—and your field journal may hold a way through.
This book is taking shape. A publication date and purchase edition have not been announced here.
Upcoming books at Exile Press ↗An initiation interrupted.
You arrive at the Library of Hidden Things to join the Riddle Scout Society. Your companion is an observant, occasionally overconfident fox. There should be an initiation, a little exploring, and perhaps a first badge. Then you discover that an instrument is missing from the atlas.
Books begin to lose their endings. Maps lose alternate routes. A corridor that was there a moment ago disappears. Your unindexed field journal still remembers what the official maps have forgotten. It is time to start paying attention.
Read the world. Change the story.
In Riddle Scout and the Atlas of Seven Seals, puzzles belong to the places you explore. Cavern echoes, words with more than one meaning, and the movement of an observatory’s machinery can all carry evidence. Solving something should change what happens next.
The fox can be wrong, and you can correct him. Drawings, observations, and a willingness to question an apparently settled answer matter as much as a clever guess. The adventure is built around the reader doing the discovering.
A field journal in the making.
An illustrated pilot explores the opening route. The wider book is being developed around seven connected sectors, with layered hints and an accumulating trail of clues. The full adventure and its puzzles are still being written and tested.