3/ back to the puzzle image - most probably recognized this as the alien font that was on "the list" page before it was decoded and translated to english decoding the letters from the initial image gives a link: tiny.cc/iwantaspot
4/ this links to a google form with some ground rules: "stick with your tribe for each challenge" "all answer to be written in lowercase and without spaces"
5/ right off the bat you get hit with this banger. decoding the letters gives cl, the symbol for chlorine on the periodic table
6/ many got stuck here (carbon tetrachloride??) close, but not quite. the answer was tetrachloroethylene
7/ solving the above gets you to the next stage. very convenient, and quite frankly, suspiciously clean areas that were dissolved. may want to save that for later
11/ taking a closer look, the first letters give us an answer which makes sense with the riddle posed above: c rossbow a xe s word t aser r ope a rrow t rident e xplosive d art
12/ now for the final challenge. remember that piece of paper with the conveniently dissolved spots? i think that will come in handy here
13/ congratulations. you have solved the puzzle!
14/ in total, 22 people have solved it 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 the fastest was @MistakenPres, who completed the puzzle at 3:16PM CT congrats MP, you win a spot! plz dm your eth address thank you to everyone who participated!