Halloween at the Portal. The Hollow, a haunted cipher maze, is free to play until 2 November. Enter The Hollow

4 stages · Hard · Premium

THE VIOLET RAINFALL

🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Violet Rainfall 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.

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📜 Briefing
You wake inside a machine that dreams. Every corridor around you is made of slow violet code, pouring from a ceiling you cannot see and fading before it touches the floor. Somewhere in this place a sleeper named Wren once left a trail of messages, so she could find her own way home.

She never returned, and the corridors have begun to forget her. Four gates stand between you and the heart of the dream. Each holds a note she wrote in the strange language of the falling code. Read them in order and perhaps you will learn where she went.
  1. 1 Gate One - The Pale Square
  2. 2 Gate Two - The Ceiling Thread 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
  3. 3 Gate Three - The Hollow Alcove 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer
  4. 4 Gate Four - The Curtain Chamber 🔒 opens with stage 3's answer

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