The Violet Orchard – 4-Stage Cipher Puzzle

Happy Thanksgiving from the Portal. The Gathering, a harvest cipher maze, is free to play until 30 November. Enter The Gathering

🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Violet Orchard is this same chain as a place you walk through. Each stage is a terminal beside a locked gate, and solving it opens the gate. The maze also hides data fragments with a bonus message you can only get there.

Your progress and score are the same either way, so you can start in one and finish in the other. If you want the maze to be a surprise, start there.

🔒 See the maze (Elite) Solve it here as a page ↓

📜 Briefing

You wake inside a corridor where violet symbols drift down the walls like petals. Somewhere in this dream an orchard of light keeps its harvest, and the gardener who planted it has gone quiet.

Four gates stand between you and the last tree. Each one holds a message left behind by travelers who came before, and the rain never stops falling while you read.

1 Gate One - The Carriers Gate
2 Gate Two - Rain Under Glass 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
3 Gate Three - The Humming Bough 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer
4 Gate Four - The Final Door 🔒 opens with stage 3's answer

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