Phantasm Delivery

Solution

This puzzle is a mashup of several puzzles from a previous hunt, “Puzzle Parcel” by GhostSalt (“Phantasm” hinting at Ghost and “Delivery” at Parcel). Each section combines the mechanics of two or more puzzles to extract a few letters.

Section I: Sentences

• The sentences are warning labels similar to those in Warnings (solution), hinting at modules.
• Then, each pair of modules (one left-aligned, one right-aligned) should be treated similarly to how Start and Finish (solution) works: there is one module that was published chronologically in between the two.

  Earlier module	Later module	In-between module
  Presidential Elections	Tasque Managing	Maroon Cipher
  Character Shift	Dragon Energy	Uncolored Squares
  DNA Mutation	Boob Tube	RGB Hypermaze

• The first letters of those modules are MUR.

Section II: Cog image

• The image is reminiscent of those in Cognition (solution).
• The center letter (C) maps to Orange, Blue, Black (Big Circle).
• Given the clockwise arrow, we should use the arrangements of colored dots on the clockwise cog in the original puzzle.
• This extracts the letters XUT.
• The +20 in the corner indicates to Caesar-shift these letters forward by 20, similar to the +4 in The Bow (solution).
• The result is RON.

Section III: Hand signs

• The hand signs are reminiscent of those in Gang Signs (solution).
• Converting the hand signs into decimal, we can find the number/color combinations in Binary LEDs.
• We can now apply the mechanic from Grand Speeches (solution) to associate A/B/C/D with directions (A = right, B = down, C = left, D = up) and follow a path through the Binary LEDs manual.
• We then notice that some locations are indicated as “?????” and some as “*****”. Just as in Blankety Blank (solution), we extract the ones with asterisks.
• The numbers indicated by asterisks are 13, 15, 22, giving us MOV.

Section IV: Colored grids

• Start by solving the Binary Puzzle:
• Extracting the squares with question marks from left to right (since there’s one per column) yields 101010.
• Similar to Puzzling Grids (solution), we can look that binary up in the Binary Grid manual and then overlay the 5×5 bitmap with the given 5×5 grid of letters, yielding YBMNOG.
• This reminds us of The CRT TV (solution), which wants us to basically play Color Decoding, but this time we are directly given the information we need to look for:
  • YBM = Yellow, Blue, Magenta = column 2 = I
  • NOG = no Green = row 6 = E

Putting it all together

The extracted letters spell the clue phrase MURRON MOVIE. Murron is the name of the wife of William Wallace in the movie Braveheart.

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