Metamorphosis — The Treasure Hunt

[ Back to the Trunk ]

Stage 10 of Twelve — Lock 10 · The Rope Knot Lock

The Missing Sentence

This door is bessieraymond.com, one of the twelve doors of the test hunt. The trunk itself waits at test.tenwordcipher.com.

Test build. No account is needed at the doors. This page holds exactly one clue; solving it reveals the key word for Lock 10. Carry the word back to the trunk and type it at Lock 10 to turn the lock.

[ The Bill ]

The rope act is printed on a bill with a hole in it: one sentence walked off the page before the ink dried, and the management will not reprint it. Bills, however, travel — and this sentence was trusted to another door of the house, where it is still written down.

The rope was on the mark. The drum went quiet. [ — — — — — ] Then the knot slipped like water and he was free, and the house came down.

[ The Clue ]

One sentence is missing from this bill — you can see the gap in the paragraph above. The sentence lives on the Séance door, test.masterofeverylock.com, in a panel called [A Line Left on the Table], just under the séance board. Go and read it. The sentence names a small winged creature — that creature, one word, is Lock 10's key. Type it here.

The missing sentence is kept under a panel called [A Line Left on the Table], underneath the séance board on the Séance door.

[ Visit the Séance Door ]

Read the sentence there, then come back to this page — your browser's back button will bring you home — and type the creature's name below.

[ Hint ]

It burst from the rafters at a séance, and every head at the table turned.