Invisiclues

Of what significance is the filigreed carving of a compass rose?

1. We are a computer software company, not art critics.
2. The carving is a decorative hint of things to come.
3. Have you found a real compass rose yet?
4. You can find the real compass rose in the Bare Room, north of the Changing Room.
5. The carving is so well crafted. It might almost be a mold for the real compass.
6. PUT THE ROSE IN THE CARVING. Then see what happens.

How do I get out of the Octagonal Room?

1. You shouldn't leave anything important behind.
2. You should have brought the compass rose with you.
3. If not, you can still BLORPLE out, go back to the Carving Room, and retrieve the compass rose.
4. Putting the compass rose in the carving again "recharges" it.

Why are some of the runes silver and some lead?

1. As silver is a precious metal, there is probably something special about the walls with silver runes.
2. Have you tried fiddling with the runes, or touching them?
3. Did you bring the compass rose with you from the Carving Room?
4. TOUCH THE ROSE TO a silver runed wall (other than the north wall) such as THE WEST WALL.

Why are some of the arms of the compass rose silver and some lead?

1. The north arm of the rose turned to lead when the hole appeared in the north wall of the Carving Room.
2. If you haven't done anything successful (gotten anything to happen/change) in the Octagonal Room, don't read on.
3. Have you noticed that whenever you open a hole in the wall, the corresponding arm of your compass rose changes to lead?
4. Q: What is better than a compass that tells you where to go?
5. A: A compass that tells you where you've been!

Something's changed in the Octagonal Room, but I still don't know WHAT THE *#(?$)@IS GOING ON?!!

1. Each time you squeeze through an octagonal hole, you go to a new room, NOT to the same room with changed runes.
2. This puzzle is a symmetrical maze: each room has a slightly different description. See the next question for a full explanation.

I don't know, I don't know, I just don't know.

1. This is it. Read the following ONLY if you are completely defeated.
2. The Octagonal Maze is a three by three "square" of adjoining Octagonal Rooms.
3. You can go only through walls with silver runes, and only if the corresponding arm of the compass rose is silver. In other words. you can go in any direction only once. (See question "arms/silver/lead", clue 3, above.)
4. Within each room, any wall that borders another interior wall has a silver rune; each wall that faces out of the "square" has a lead rune. There are three exceptions: in the Central room, only the north. east, south and west runes are silver: in the Southeast room, the south wall is silver (since it leads back to the Carving Room); in the North room, the west rune is gold.
5. The Carving Room (or Maze Antechamber) leads you north to the Southeast room of the maze, transmutating the north arm of the compass rose. Therefore, you cannot go north again (see 3, above). The cube you seek is in the Northwest room of the maze. You can enter this room only from the North room (work out the logic for yourself). See the next question for how to cross that bridge.
6. There are four possible routes to the north room of the maze, all using the compass rose, of course:
         W. then NW. then NE.
         NW, then W, then NE.
         W, then NE, then NW.
         Actually, there are only three.

I've found a gold rune! What do I do now?

1. You can't do anything to the gold rune.
2. Maybe you can open the plug.
3. REZROV THE PLUG.