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Solver of Secrets
We have a new secret hunt!!! Let's go!! Since the original thread Black globe of slime - What's it for? started by forum superstar rabidfox has gotten so big that its pretty hard to keep track of things as they develop, especially for those just now joining the hunt. I thought I'd make a new thread as sort of a FAQ and current status hub. So I'll be updating this main post as progress is made.
What is the secret?
In the Catalyst Crafting introduced with Terror of Demogorgon, Muck's Ascension has a strange clue in its flavor text: To seek out the Sealed Altar.
Using some clues, especially a late addition from Steelstar's twitch channel, we found the Sealed Altar in top of Gloomhaven. You need be near it and stand around it for a little while for it to be useable. (no other items required. just patience and proximity. be close)
When attempting the use the altar, it'll deny you. However, after you complete a saga, you can claim the black globe of slime as your reward:
Following the riddle it'll lead you to 5 locations dropping their own uniquely colored globe, you want 6 in total.
**NOTE** You do not need to obtain the Black Globe or even find the altar first before finding the other globes. In fact you don't even need to own the expansion to find the other 5.
At the Fetid Cauldron, combine the 6 globes into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue). Then combine the top and bottom halves to make the Emblem
With the emblem, you can return to the Seal Altar and exchange duergar weapon for Strange weapon of Oozing Hunger.
All weapons have the same effects except the club:
Cub will have its effects update in a future update/fix per steelstar:
No orb, but shields are all the same:
some costmetics
hand axe and large shield
Maul
kukri
buckler:
Where can I join the discussion and/or find out more information?
The original thread, Black globe of slime - What's it for?
Arcanaverse Discord
DDO Discord
DDO Wiki
And of course, feel free post questions, ideas, suggestions, theories, your own updates/checks and what not here if you like. Will still be tracking all the above sources so you can continue to use those as well. 'll be updating this thread regardless as things go along.
Additionally if you want to join in on the live disucssion/hunt I stream Fridays at 6pm eastern at twitch/Arcanarverse
**Note to creators, if you are spending your stream(s)/making videos dedicated to the hunt, post it and I'll add you.**
Shout out to Steelstar and SSG team for doing another secret puzzle hunt! I and many others seem to love this stuff.
Update Tracker
7/24 - 7/25 update - Found gold globe and uncovered Muck's Ascension clue.
7/25 update - Added known clues so far for finding the Sealed Altar
7/26 - Solved!
What is the secret?
In the Catalyst Crafting introduced with Terror of Demogorgon, Muck's Ascension has a strange clue in its flavor text: To seek out the Sealed Altar.
Using some clues, especially a late addition from Steelstar's twitch channel, we found the Sealed Altar in top of Gloomhaven. You need be near it and stand around it for a little while for it to be useable. (no other items required. just patience and proximity. be close)
When attempting the use the altar, it'll deny you. However, after you complete a saga, you can claim the black globe of slime as your reward:
Following the riddle it'll lead you to 5 locations dropping their own uniquely colored globe, you want 6 in total.
**NOTE** You do not need to obtain the Black Globe or even find the altar first before finding the other globes. In fact you don't even need to own the expansion to find the other 5.
To find and form the oozing mark = black = ToD saga reward that gives us the means to find the others and gives us the instructions on what do with em)
Delve within the deepest dark = gold = Underdark, north west top path with oozes. (newly added?) Near the shrine
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple (TOEE is Zuggotmuy's home and Juiblex's rival. See fetid wedding ending)
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit (hinting at Avatar of Juiblex, Juiblex's blessed.)
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnain (hinting at those glass spheres vampire side that can reveal slimes)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional)
Six to three make two then one = instructions combine the 6 into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue), then presumably those two halves make the emblem.
The Faceless Lord's true blessing won = Praise juiblex ... not sure what do with the emblem yet. Signs point to a crafting table
Delve within the deepest dark = gold = Underdark, north west top path with oozes. (newly added?) Near the shrine
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple (TOEE is Zuggotmuy's home and Juiblex's rival. See fetid wedding ending)
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit (hinting at Avatar of Juiblex, Juiblex's blessed.)
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnain (hinting at those glass spheres vampire side that can reveal slimes)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional)
Six to three make two then one = instructions combine the 6 into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue), then presumably those two halves make the emblem.
The Faceless Lord's true blessing won = Praise juiblex ... not sure what do with the emblem yet. Signs point to a crafting table
At the Fetid Cauldron, combine the 6 globes into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue). Then combine the top and bottom halves to make the Emblem
With the emblem, you can return to the Seal Altar and exchange duergar weapon for Strange weapon of Oozing Hunger.
All weapons have the same effects except the club:
Cub will have its effects update in a future update/fix per steelstar:
No orb, but shields are all the same:
some costmetics
hand axe and large shield
Maul
kukri
buckler:
Where can I join the discussion and/or find out more information?
The original thread, Black globe of slime - What's it for?
Arcanaverse Discord
DDO Discord
DDO Wiki
And of course, feel free post questions, ideas, suggestions, theories, your own updates/checks and what not here if you like. Will still be tracking all the above sources so you can continue to use those as well. 'll be updating this thread regardless as things go along.
Additionally if you want to join in on the live disucssion/hunt I stream Fridays at 6pm eastern at twitch/Arcanarverse
**Note to creators, if you are spending your stream(s)/making videos dedicated to the hunt, post it and I'll add you.**
Shout out to Steelstar and SSG team for doing another secret puzzle hunt! I and many others seem to love this stuff.
Update Tracker
7/24 - 7/25 update - Found gold globe and uncovered Muck's Ascension clue.
7/25 update - Added known clues so far for finding the Sealed Altar
7/26 - Solved!
What is the secret?
The start comes from taking the Black Globe of Slime as your saga reward when you complete the Terror of Demogorgon saga.
As you can see, it gives a fun riddle to follow. Points to us needing 6 items, taking 3 of them to make 2 halves. And then combining those 2 halves into a final item to then gets The Faceless Lord's (Juiblex) true blessing.
Additionally, in Gravenhallow, you can find the Fetied Cauldron with a couple npcs talking about it in quite vague terms. Like they don't know why they're keeping it.
What does the True Blessing do?
What does the riddle mean? Where do we find the globes? Current Status: 6 out of 6 found
How will I know if I found a Globe of Slime area/optional? What is the drop rate?
There is an added chest with each location found so far. Some are a little tucked away, but are very near their respective encounters. Look around carefully when searching.
For example, Muck optional now has 2 chests. The glass optional in white plume now has single chest where there were none before. The drop rate of the globe is not is not 100% but it does seem high. I've only had to re-roll a chest once so far to get a globe.
What's Next? Finding the Sealed Altar
Now that we've made an Emblem (which doesn't got into any bags btw nor does double clicking on it do anything). It was pointed out to that flavor text on the Muck's Ascension.... it points to a Sealed Altar to find.. As far as where to find it? Either we need to use clues we already have.. or there is another clue to find.
Sadly the npcs near the fetid cauldron didn't have new text and poking around randomly hasn't been fruitful. And exploring with my potentially bugged legendary jellysight isn't so great (if they're needed to see the Altar like Steps)
What Clues do we have to find the Sealed Altar?
Take theses with a grain of salt. Its early days.
Where can I join the discussion and/or find out more information?
The original thread, Black globe of slime - What's it for?
Arcanaverse Discord
DDO Discord
DDO Wiki
And of course, feel free post questions, ideas, suggestions, theories, your own updates/checks and what not here if you like. Will still be tracking all the above sources so you can continue to use those as well. 'll be updating this thread regardless as things go along.
Additionally if you want to join in on the live disucssion/hunt I stream Fridays at 6pm eastern at twitch/Arcanarverse
**Note to creators, if you are spending your stream(s)/making videos dedicated to the hunt, post it and I'll add you.**
Shout out to Steelstar and SSG team for doing another secret puzzle hunt! I and many others seem to love this stuff.
Update Tracker
7/24 - 7/25 update - Found gold globe and uncovered Muck's Ascension clue.
7/25 update - Added known clues so far for finding the Sealed Altar
What clues are there currently?
Where have we checked?
Keep in mind, its a good idea to re-check these. We may of missed something!
In addition to the quests above where we found something... largely been trying to use the wiki for Oozes to brute force finding it. Still plenty to check.
The start comes from taking the Black Globe of Slime as your saga reward when you complete the Terror of Demogorgon saga.
As you can see, it gives a fun riddle to follow. Points to us needing 6 items, taking 3 of them to make 2 halves. And then combining those 2 halves into a final item to then gets The Faceless Lord's (Juiblex) true blessing.
Additionally, in Gravenhallow, you can find the Fetied Cauldron with a couple npcs talking about it in quite vague terms. Like they don't know why they're keeping it.
What does the True Blessing do?
Short answer is, we don't know yet, from the wiki mine (https://ddowiki.com/page/Fetid_Cauldron) we know that this part of the puzzle ends in a Slime Emblem... I suspect it'll be a crafting option.. but details are unknown still and I don't expect we'll truely know until after the raid released, but we're still on step two, finding the stuff.
What does the riddle mean? Where do we find the globes? Current Status: 6 out of 6 found
To find and form the oozing mark = black = ToD saga reward that gives us the means to find the others and gives us the instructions on what do with em)
Delve within the deepest dark = gold = Underdark, north west top path with oozes. (newly added?) Near the shrine
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple (TOEE is Zuggotmuy's home and Juiblex's rival. See fetid wedding ending)
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit (hinting at Avatar of Juiblex, Juiblex's blessed.)
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnain (hinting at those glass spheres vampire side that can reveal slimes)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional)
Six to three make two then one = instructions combine the 6 into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue), then presumably those two halves make the emblem.
The Faceless Lord's true blessing won = Praise juiblex ... not sure what do with the emblem yet. Signs point to a crafting table
Delve within the deepest dark = gold = Underdark, north west top path with oozes. (newly added?) Near the shrine
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple (TOEE is Zuggotmuy's home and Juiblex's rival. See fetid wedding ending)
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit (hinting at Avatar of Juiblex, Juiblex's blessed.)
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnain (hinting at those glass spheres vampire side that can reveal slimes)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional)
Six to three make two then one = instructions combine the 6 into two halves. top (black, gold, green) and bottom (pink, gray, blue), then presumably those two halves make the emblem.
The Faceless Lord's true blessing won = Praise juiblex ... not sure what do with the emblem yet. Signs point to a crafting table
How will I know if I found a Globe of Slime area/optional? What is the drop rate?
There is an added chest with each location found so far. Some are a little tucked away, but are very near their respective encounters. Look around carefully when searching.
For example, Muck optional now has 2 chests. The glass optional in white plume now has single chest where there were none before. The drop rate of the globe is not is not 100% but it does seem high. I've only had to re-roll a chest once so far to get a globe.
What's Next? Finding the Sealed Altar
Now that we've made an Emblem (which doesn't got into any bags btw nor does double clicking on it do anything). It was pointed out to that flavor text on the Muck's Ascension.... it points to a Sealed Altar to find.. As far as where to find it? Either we need to use clues we already have.. or there is another clue to find.
Sadly the npcs near the fetid cauldron didn't have new text and poking around randomly hasn't been fruitful. And exploring with my potentially bugged legendary jellysight isn't so great (if they're needed to see the Altar like Steps)
What Clues do we have to find the Sealed Altar?
Take theses with a grain of salt. Its early days.
So, piecing together threads of lore...
Juiblex appears to be making Muck into one of their Avatars. So anything Muck or Juiblex related seems to be in play here.
Durk's Got a Secret = Muck's spawn location.
The Pit = housed the Avatar of Juiblex as well as a host of Troglodyte Juiblex cultists.
If it Wasn't for Bad Luck = We find some gnome scoffing at the other sect Juiblex followers been trying to assemble an Avatar. This is most likely referring to the Pit
To my knowledge so far, the only other place where Juiblex has a focus is the Fetid Wedding.. but more as a foil to Zuggutmuy. Still there could be other clues left to find. NPC dialogue, flavor text... weird sections of the map.. who knows, keep an eye out seekers!
So what does that tell us?
Not much.. been over those quests a ton and never noticed any Altar's sealed or otherwise that were special. So we're likely missing a clue still or we need to make some leaps of logic using meta knowledge.
What kind of Meta Knowledge?
Well, the Jellysight is an oddly special item that likely have some significance. Step's puzzle required special goggles to see the altar. And while I have been running around mostly with those goggles on... I have the legendary version which the overlay doesn't work. (working on acquiring a heroic set).
Odds are the Altar is in the new content. It just makes the most sense to put the Altar somewhere in the new content just like Steps. Alternate options are the 3 main quests listed above.
Most crafting/trade 'Altars' are in a 'safe place' or in places that aren't too hard to be made safe so people aren't constantly attacked while trying to craft.
The emblem itself is weird, it doesn't go into a bag like a normal crafting ingredient. Could be a bug or could be required to see/use/unseal the Altar. Possibly in combo with Jellysight... The same could be said for Muck's Ascension itself to I suppose.
Steelstar was also kind of enough to let us know that everything we need currently exists. If I interpret his messages correctly, no need to wait for the raid or the unreleased quest.
Juiblex appears to be making Muck into one of their Avatars. So anything Muck or Juiblex related seems to be in play here.
Durk's Got a Secret = Muck's spawn location.
The Pit = housed the Avatar of Juiblex as well as a host of Troglodyte Juiblex cultists.
If it Wasn't for Bad Luck = We find some gnome scoffing at the other sect Juiblex followers been trying to assemble an Avatar. This is most likely referring to the Pit
To my knowledge so far, the only other place where Juiblex has a focus is the Fetid Wedding.. but more as a foil to Zuggutmuy. Still there could be other clues left to find. NPC dialogue, flavor text... weird sections of the map.. who knows, keep an eye out seekers!
So what does that tell us?
Not much.. been over those quests a ton and never noticed any Altar's sealed or otherwise that were special. So we're likely missing a clue still or we need to make some leaps of logic using meta knowledge.
What kind of Meta Knowledge?
Well, the Jellysight is an oddly special item that likely have some significance. Step's puzzle required special goggles to see the altar. And while I have been running around mostly with those goggles on... I have the legendary version which the overlay doesn't work. (working on acquiring a heroic set).
Odds are the Altar is in the new content. It just makes the most sense to put the Altar somewhere in the new content just like Steps. Alternate options are the 3 main quests listed above.
Most crafting/trade 'Altars' are in a 'safe place' or in places that aren't too hard to be made safe so people aren't constantly attacked while trying to craft.
The emblem itself is weird, it doesn't go into a bag like a normal crafting ingredient. Could be a bug or could be required to see/use/unseal the Altar. Possibly in combo with Jellysight... The same could be said for Muck's Ascension itself to I suppose.
Steelstar was also kind of enough to let us know that everything we need currently exists. If I interpret his messages correctly, no need to wait for the raid or the unreleased quest.
Where can I join the discussion and/or find out more information?
The original thread, Black globe of slime - What's it for?
Arcanaverse Discord
DDO Discord
DDO Wiki
And of course, feel free post questions, ideas, suggestions, theories, your own updates/checks and what not here if you like. Will still be tracking all the above sources so you can continue to use those as well. 'll be updating this thread regardless as things go along.
Additionally if you want to join in on the live disucssion/hunt I stream Fridays at 6pm eastern at twitch/Arcanarverse
**Note to creators, if you are spending your stream(s)/making videos dedicated to the hunt, post it and I'll add you.**
Shout out to Steelstar and SSG team for doing another secret puzzle hunt! I and many others seem to love this stuff.
Update Tracker
7/24 - 7/25 update - Found gold globe and uncovered Muck's Ascension clue.
7/25 update - Added known clues so far for finding the Sealed Altar
What clues are there currently?
Beyond the riddle itself, each other globe of slime ingredient found so far as the same flavor text. Which heavily hints at the their found outside of the Terror of Demogorgon content. And with everyone running the new content.. it's weird no one has found it simply by luck at this point.
Also, each one has been a red named Ooze and, so far at least, each of the ones found so far have been a different type of ooze.
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple = Gelatinous Cube Living Pool
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit = Arcane Ooze Avatar of Juiblex
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnai = Black Pudding Huge Black Pudding (red-named)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional) = Gray Ooze Muck
Jellysight Goggles needed for anything? So far, it doesn't seem like the jellysight goggles are needed, but my legendary ones are bugged so not impossible
Leaving us with one final piece, Delve within the deepest dark... we think...
Also, each one has been a red named Ooze and, so far at least, each of the ones found so far have been a different type of ooze.
Kill what lives in rival's home = green = TOEE quest 2, water temple = Gelatinous Cube Living Pool
And look deep where his blessed roam = pink = the pit = Arcane Ooze Avatar of Juiblex
Break the glass in which they slept = gray = whiteplume moutnai = Black Pudding Huge Black Pudding (red-named)
And don't forget where secret's kept = blue = durks got a secret (muck optional) = Gray Ooze Muck
Jellysight Goggles needed for anything? So far, it doesn't seem like the jellysight goggles are needed, but my legendary ones are bugged so not impossible
Leaving us with one final piece, Delve within the deepest dark... we think...
Where have we checked?
Keep in mind, its a good idea to re-check these. We may of missed something!
In addition to the quests above where we found something... largely been trying to use the wiki for Oozes to brute force finding it. Still plenty to check.
To my knowledge the following have been checked (each notable ooze area/encounter) by myself or a community member for the bonus chest.
A Miner Sacrifice
Another Man's Treasure
Burning down the house
Caged Beast
Fathom the Depths
In the Belly of the Beast
Invitation to Dinner
Kill 10 Rats
Kind of a Big Deal
Last Stand
Rainbow in the Dark
Restless Isles
Searing Heights
Seeds of Decay
Slave Lords
Soul Survivor
The Captives
The Coalescence Chamber
The darkness and the light
The Haunting of Saltmarsh
Thralls of the Fungus Lord
Tomb of the Blighted
Total Chaos
Vault of Night 2 & 4
Wake Me Up inside
Whispers of Return
A Raven at the Door
Keying off of "Delve within the deepest dark" clue some more quests/areas that aren't really ooze based:
The Depths of Darkness + whole depths chain
Underdark area, Demon Lord Optional
Desire in the Dark (entire chain and quest)
Into the Deep
The Darkness and the Light
Caverns of Korromar
Dreaming Dark
And the dead shall rise
the captivves
If it wasn't for bad luck
Some others
fear factory
all of CO6
all delera for thrall of necromancer
keepers sanctuary
proof is in the poison
missing in action
sunken sewer
sacred helm
all of STK
ruined halls
forgotten caverns
lair of summoning
sacred bounty
tear
all of tangleroot
Search and Rescue
Missing in Action
A new Invasion
Offshore Account
Creeping Death
A Miner Sacrifice
Another Man's Treasure
Burning down the house
Caged Beast
Fathom the Depths
In the Belly of the Beast
Invitation to Dinner
Kill 10 Rats
Kind of a Big Deal
Last Stand
Rainbow in the Dark
Restless Isles
Searing Heights
Seeds of Decay
Slave Lords
Soul Survivor
The Captives
The Coalescence Chamber
The darkness and the light
The Haunting of Saltmarsh
Thralls of the Fungus Lord
Tomb of the Blighted
Total Chaos
Vault of Night 2 & 4
Wake Me Up inside
Whispers of Return
A Raven at the Door
Keying off of "Delve within the deepest dark" clue some more quests/areas that aren't really ooze based:
The Depths of Darkness + whole depths chain
Underdark area, Demon Lord Optional
Desire in the Dark (entire chain and quest)
Into the Deep
The Darkness and the Light
Caverns of Korromar
Dreaming Dark
And the dead shall rise
the captivves
If it wasn't for bad luck
Some others
fear factory
all of CO6
all delera for thrall of necromancer
keepers sanctuary
proof is in the poison
missing in action
sunken sewer
sacred helm
all of STK
ruined halls
forgotten caverns
lair of summoning
sacred bounty
tear
all of tangleroot
Search and Rescue
Missing in Action
A new Invasion
Offshore Account
Creeping Death
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