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The Aster Bequest · Season I

The Keystone: a golden dodecahedron that glows from within.

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A genius hid his fortune in lines of light. Follow them.

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Follow the line
Julian Aster, very old, looks into the camera from his dark art-deco study.

Everything I built, Aster Works and the Underlay itself, goes to the one who finds my Keystone.

The video will, released the night he died to every screen on Earth.

I · The Will

Everything he built goes to the one who finds his Keystone.

Julian Aster designed impossible buildings. Then he vanished for thirty years to build the Underlay: a hidden layer of light, memory and geometry laid over the real world. The night he died, his will went out to everyone.

“Everything I built, Aster Works and the Underlay itself, goes to the one who finds my Keystone. I hid it where I hid myself.”

Julian Aster, the Architect

II · The Underlay

Raise the Lens. The world was drawn with a compass.

Your phone becomes the Lens, a brass-and-glass instrument of Aster's design. Through it, the streets you know show what he hid: lines of light, his sigils on old walls, and doors where there were none.

A city at dusk. Through the Lens, gold lines of light join its tower, its domes and its port.

Move the Lens over the city

The Lens: two overlapping round lenses in an engraved brass frame with an ebony handle.

The Lens

Two circles of smoked glass in one brass frame: the vesica piscis, the first door. New filters come with the story: light, sound, time, heat and memory.

  • Sightings

    The Architect asks for the world: “Show me a circle that holds water.” Your camera answers, and a memory opens. Every sighting can be solved at least two ways, wherever you live.

  • Nodes

    Where his lines cross, real places around the planet open special rooms and season events. Always optional on the story path.

  • Memory rooms

    Step through a door into a handcrafted 3D room built from his life: twenty to forty-five minutes of story, mechanism and light.

III · The Language

He wrote it in the oldest language there is.

Circle, line and ratio. The Underlay is built from sacred geometry, told as art, mathematics and history: Euclid and Pythagoras, Plato's solids, Islamic girih, Gothic rose windows. Every lock is a real construction, and every puzzle is fair.

Draw it with a compass

Two circles, each through the other's centre. The first door, and the shape of the Lens.

The five keys

Each act's key is a solid. Assemble them, unfold them, turn them to the light: their shadows hide symbols. The fifth, the dodecahedron, Plato's shape of the cosmos, is the shape of the Keystone.

Seven kinds of puzzle

  1. Compass and straightedge

    Draw real constructions with the Lens to open his locks.

  2. Proportion

    Find φ in a room's architecture, then in your own street.

  3. The solids

    Assemble, unfold and rotate them. Their shadows speak.

  4. Cymatics

    Tune the brass plate until the sand draws his sigil.

  5. Light

    Turn the rose window's panes until the pattern is whole.

  6. Tiling

    Complete girih and Penrose floors, one tile at a time.

  7. Labyrinths

    Trace them in AR on a real floor, or walk them in a room.

IV · The Rooms

A life, told in rooms.

Every memory is a handcrafted 3D room. Turn it, take its mechanisms apart, follow its light. Each one hides part of his story, a clue to the next key, and secrets for those who look closer.

An observatory with nested brass-and-glass Platonic solids, a telescope and a marble floor inlaid with gold.Concept art

1962

The Observatory

Five solids, one inside the other. Turn them until the stars agree.

A brass plate covered in sand that forms a geometric pattern, among organ pipes and tuning forks.Concept art

1971

The Sound Room

A room that listens. Find the note, and the sand finds the shape.

A round chamber where a giant rose window projects a coloured pattern onto a black marble floor.Concept art

1983

The Rose Window

Turn the panes. When the light is whole, a door opens.

A ruined hall in the rain, with a glowing gold labyrinth inlaid in the wet marble floor.Concept art

1996

The Labyrinth

The night he vanished. Walk it slowly.

The campaign

  1. PrologueThe WillThe hunt begins
  2. Act IChildhoodThe Copper Key
  3. Act IIThe WorksThe Jade Key
  4. Act IIIThe FallThe Crystal Key
  5. Act IVThe City of LightThe Keystone

The Prologue and Act I are free.

V · The Race

One Keystone. The whole world.

Every season opens a new wing of the Underlay and a global race: three keys, three gates, one Keystone. The first to open each gate is named forever in the Hall, and everyone else can still finish.

  1. Key I
  2. Gate I
  3. Key II
  4. Gate II
  5. Key III
  6. Gate III
  7. The Keystone

The Hall · Season I

First to open Gate I

This line is still empty.

When a gate opens, the whole world hears it.Gate I opened in Buenos Aires
OBELISK Group's black tower over a city in the rain.

The Adjusters

You are not the only one hunting. OBELISK's AI agents occupy nodes and rooms, set traps and leave false clues. Push them out with puzzle duels, alone or with your guild.

  • Clues, keys and advantages are never sold.
  • Race puzzles are made for each player, so answers can't be shared.
  • Prizes and official rules will be announced before Season I begins.

The hunt begins

Episode 1 is free.

Play the Prologue and Act I free, then unlock the whole story with one purchase. First on iPhone and Android.

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