Quest:Puzzle of the Carvings

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Puzzle of the Carvings
Level 58
Type Solo
Starts with Stonecarver's Journal
Starts at Balin's Camp
Start Region Nud-melek
Map Ref [5.8S, 103.9W]
Quest Group Moria: Nud-melek
Quest Chain Stonecarver's Stash
Quest Text

Bestowal dialogue

The journal reads:

"Dwarf who makes me has no need for me.
Dwarf who buys me has no use for me.
Dwarf who uses me would not want me."
"I have a hundred legs and cannot stand.
I have no head and a long neck.
I cannot see, but I am neat as can be."
"A hundred arms, a thousand fingers,
And no eyes to see where it is I linger."
"With a knife, cut open my head,
Then weep beside me when I am dead."
"I have no eyes, yet once did I see.
I once had thoughts, now I'm empty."

And then comes this strange little verse:

"Hundred-arms comes before headless long-neck.
Head-cut-open is alone at the end.
Headless long-neck comes after dwarf-and-me and hundred-arms.
No-eyes comes after headless long-neck.
Dwarf-and-me comes after hundred-arms"

The plaques associated with this puzzle are here in Balin's Camp!

Background

You found a journal left behind by a stonecarver from a past age. It relates how he repaid a service from his friend Falgeirr by creating many stone plaques, inscribed with various simple images, and decided to keep some for himself, that he might leave clues for his own descendants as to where his family's treasure was hidden.

Objective 1

  • Press the first stone
  • Press the second stone
  • Press the third stone
  • Press the fourth stone
  • Press the fifth stone

The plaques are located in Balin's Camp in Nud-melek.

The journal that Melkólf Stonecarver left behind contained the following puzzles:

The journal reads:

"Dwarf who makes me has no need for me.
Dwarf who buys me has no use for me.
Dwarf who uses me would not want me."
"I have a hundred legs and cannot stand.
I have no head and a long neck.
I cannot see, but I am neat as can be."
"A hundred arms, a thousand fingers,
And no eyes to see where it is I linger."
"With a knife, cut open my head,
Then weep beside me when I am dead."
"I have no eyes, yet once did I see.
I once had thoughts, now I'm empty."

And then comes this strange little verse:

"Hundred-arms comes before headless long-neck.
Head-cut-open is alone at the end.
Headless long-neck comes after dwarf-and-me and hundred-arms.
No-eyes comes after headless long-neck.
Dwarf-and-me comes after hundred-arms."

The plaques associated with this puzzle are here in Balin's Camp!

First stone pressed
Second stone pressed
Third stone pressed
Fourth stone pressed
A final clue is revealed in carved writing along the tops of the stones

Objective 6

You have solved the puzzle of the carvings!