Too bad I don't like mushrooms :D Thanks for another nice puzzle :)

Figured out that they were mushroom types after all that. :D

Great puzzle! But what was the clue for the unlock pattern? I managed to guess it. 🙃

Could never find if there's anything called a chicken mushroom :p

Great puzzle again, can't wait for the next chapter! Gotta say, I never found out the actual mushroom that corresponded to the Chicken keyword but figured out the count by elimination. Thanks!

🍄mushroooooooom!🍄
Thanks for the great puzzle!

Really cool puzzles! On this site it's still something new for me (I almost haven't looked at the forum so far). It reminds me Notpron form of game (where I got stuck on the early stages :P).

Many thanks for doing it! <3

This was so satisfying. The studded door really tripped me up but then you said "let urself in" which just clicked. I was trying the "drapes" before by doing an upside-down U which wasn't working.

Hello! I was thinking the mushrooms were ordered by the # of mushrooms.
For example the Morel mushroom has 3, the Chicken mushroom has 4, the Girolle mushroom has 2, the others have 1
So I thought the # of mushrooms was giving the ordering ;)

Well done so far. I didnt spot any hiddens so far in Chapter 1.

Took a break after getting stuck on the studded door, but got here with a bit of luck and a fresh mind.

haha, my obstacle was that i dont know the names of them mushrooms, thanks for the great puzzles gordon.

Finally! I'm sorry I had to go through so many tracks to get it, obviously gastronomy is not my thing :(.

Thank you very much!

Mushrooms everywhere ... I feel so stupid not seeing that B!!
Thanks for the nature lesson!!

Stuck on stud door for 2 days straight "y u not just let urself in" really halp On to the hidden giveaway

Woo! Got it. That was fun. Looking forward to the next parts. And once again: thanks for the hint for Q1. Made me stop being lazy and checked out the MGS5 puzzle you'd hinted at to others.

Thanks for all your help! Definitely wouldn't have gotten it without all the hints

Finally got it! The mushroom part was really though for me, as not being a native english speaker I didn't realize it could refer to "xxxxx mushroom" as, in fact, the proper mushroom name (In spanish mushroom is the general concept, and the name of some specific mushroom is its own word - no need to add mushroom to it. So I saw Blew... and translated it as a verb, not thinking it as a mushroom name).

On the prologue I failed cause I thought itstoohard could only use text and I discarded the possibility of putting emotes (thus trying a "p" for "thumbs down", trying to use a letter that imitates the shape of the hand). That made me to drop trying and in my frustration I didn't even looked for the hidden ones.

In this first chapter, however, I feel like I cheated - too many hints read so I do not feel like I solved it; instead I feel like someone was patient enough to point me out in the right direction on every wrong turn I did.

And on the other hand, I haven't got the hidden giveaways - but that's fine as the main plot is what mattered to me.
I located something suspicious horizontally and vertically; but my knowledge of Gimp-fu is not good enough. Brightness, saturation, even trying changing to greyscale gradient... zooming in I get just some pixel dots. In fact, now I hate Gimp and Gimp hates me. It's mutual.

Anyway, that is me attempting this type of puzzles without much experience - and thus failing to realize things you see right on once you have done enough (same as escape rooms - I have done three of them and I usually get overwhelmed as experienced friends seem to solve it on fast-forward; it takes away the joy of solving it by yourself). What it is important is that even after all those missteps, I am actually quite happy to be playing your puzzle, and I like to have to take time and effort to solve it. Also, your put in scene of the puzzle is quite enjoyable in itself. It's like having a dungeon master taking their time to drop a riddle in-game. Thanks a lot for that effort and the many hours it has entertained me.

Thank you Gordon. 😁
Both for the story and for the fun of the puzzles.
And of course for the GA's.
You are creating a masterpiece here!!! 📚🎨

Thank you!

I came here looking for the answer to that pattern lock and just realized I was trying the right shape all the time... Figured out I was just drawing it carelessly so it would skip a dot or mess up direction... Oh well...