Finished the game! Some questions about clues that I never ended up using... (Major spoilers obviously!)
Hi! This was one of my favourite games in 20+ years of gaming and I had to really hold back tears when I read the >!Blue Prince manuscript!<! :) Major thanks to everyone who helped me on my previous post and recommended Blue Paths to me, I would have never gotten to the end otherwise! Managed like 80-90% of it myself, but desperately needed some nudges from there. (Especially being a non-native English speaker..! Also I would not have had the patience for the numeric cores. I understand what to do, just... no thank you. I have done enough fantasy math!)
Anyway there are a few clues that I have saved in my screenshots folder, which I haven't seen mentioned on this website: https://unsolved-puzzles.github.io/unsolved-puzzles/blue-prince/
It could be that I'm just not connecting how they're related to puzzles I've solved using other clues. Do let me know if that's the case!
The numbers 1-8 on the Orrsphere map. I saw the same pattern outside surrounding the birdbath in front of the tunnel and tried clicking them in that sequence, as well as a few other areas I can't remember where you can find a similar shape, but obviously nothing came of it. Is this pattern used anywhere?
Speaking of, there's a lot of little details on both those maps that never really went anywhere..? The tower, the guy holding some page, the degrees, the mountain path... Are those anything?
The Clock Tower note - was this just a hint at Eraja being a poetic society? I tried messing with the weathervane but nothing came of it.
The arrows on a few clocks, the board in the safehouse, the study shelf... Are these truly nothing?! From the very beginning I thought they must be something related to time, like they're clock arrows and that's some sort of key (i.e. clock 11:05 or 13:55... or because there's an arrow between them, the length between those, so 2 hours..?) but when I asked my initial questions here I was told those are just part of the game's art and not something to be worried about. But they look way too deliberate to be an accident, it's bothering me lol.
The "we are retreating east" note - did I miss some lore somewhere? I'm confused what this is about. Not sure what SD is either.
Herbert's unfinished letter - I don't have the patience anymore to try this myself, but has anyone tried applying still water to it? I assume this is just a funny note and nothing more, but the still water thing just popped into my mind as I was going through my screenshots :')
The blueprint at the end of the red letter with number 2 on it. I can't even tell what it's of... Is it of the closed exhibit? It doesn't look like it at all.
Not a clue who Marae Bohl is, is her recital date or location related to anything?
One of the conference rooms chairs has a slightly different marking in that blueprint cutscene that has "within a timely manner" subtitles. Tried interacting with it but didn't find anything. Is this simply me descending into madness..?
Laboratory blue note - just lore? I feel this way about a lot of blue notes... They were supposed to be helpful, and some were, but are a lot of them really just lore? Same for the one about Alzara, about Clara's death, about 8 gems being removed from the crown, about Herbert being born 3 years before his brother Simon, the dog names, the expedition to the south key and some others... just lore..? "Months are slightly longer than days"..?? Uh, yeah, I sure hope they are?
When a treasure is buried in the Pool room it opens up a hole with this little box. Same pattern as the Boiler Room belt puzzle that I've heard hasn't been solved still.
(no screenshot) Are the statues in the chapel... anything? I wrote down what they look like but that never really seemed relevant anywhere. Saw at least one of the same statues in the basement, possibly more elsewhere.
OKAY that's all I can think of for now! If you have any thoughts on any of these I'd love to hear them thank youuu :)