***COMPLETE SPOILER*** Bogling Boggle puzzle

[Seraphine]

Step 1: Complete Bogling Star Signs shiny collection. No progress can be made without this collection unless you nabbed a copy of the completed book from Mort on live during the beta testing (you'll know if you did). While you're doing this you can also gather some gems that you'll be using later on, including a ruby, brilliant diamond, radiant emerald, sapphire and moonstone. These are just mining items and should be cheap to get. Get one of each.

Step 2: In order to hand the pages in for the book you need to find M'doidoi dolls. You'll need nine and you can find them in Argent Domain. Krondor has made a video for the achievement which can be found here: http://youtu.be/0DGW8c4NyWk
Once you find all 9 M'doidoi return the completed artifact set and the dolls to Omi, the bogling in the water near the Manufactory in TB. She will give you the book you need to go further, and it also has clues in it if you want to try the puzzle without a complete spoiler.

Step 3: To get inside the instance add the book to your collection and go to Eastern Holdings, around 8800.8750 there is a pond. Dive down and you will find a portal. Interact with the plaque at the door to get inside the instance.

The puzzle here is underwater so you'll want to bring either your water breathing trinket, potion, or simply use the air vents inside the instance that give you a breathing buff for 5 minutes.

During this step you will also need to visit Mort Grocer in Stillmoor and buy his Fat Worm Offering and also visit two other vendors that sell the fish, beetle, crab and apple offerings. Robyn Hutchinson in Freemarch is in the village with the disguised deep ones. She stands under a market stall and sells the crab and apple offerings. Vera Coyle is also in Freemarch on the east shore at Denegar's Stand. She sells the beetle and fish. Collect at least one of all of these offering items. Using an offering can be wasted if you use it incorrectly, so if you want to be sure just buy more than one of each.

Step 4: Upon entry you will see some pillars inside. These are the "traps" for your boglings.

The order is this:
Activate a star sign.
Locate the bogling and use your reactive ability with the right offering.
Lead the bogling back to the lamps and interact the right one with the correct gem (the correct gem should automatically work with it.)
When all five boglings are trapped you will get a key. The key opens a chest in the right-hand back room of the instance.

The combinations are the following, as deduced from the book "bogling star signs":
Zeek, sign of sword, lured by beetle into tin lamp with ruby
Pfeef, sign of club, lured by apple into silver lamp, moonstone
Mok, sign of axe (haft starts at door, axe blade criss crosses in middle) lured by fat worm into brass with emerald
Krell, sign of spear, (haft starts at right hand side near door, goes diagonal to left hand upper point), likes fish, locked into copper lamp with sapphire
Grimoo, sign of shield has a squiggly bottom, found on right hand side middle from entry, likes crab, trapped into gold lamp with diamond

The signs are shown in the image below, and you make them by clicking on the red gems on the ceiling above the lamps. Activate them one at a time, as if you have any other stars activated it will not work.

Reward: Achievement, purple item, dimension based on the BB puzzle instance.

[Straight]

You actually need 6 of the dolls, not 9.

Although Krondor made a video showing their location, I've made a video guide with an accompanying written a guide on obtaining them here: http://unofficialrift.com/?p=98

It includes co-ordinates for each doll as well as other directions.

[lillywaters]

Ok, so I got all of the dolls did not know I needed pages as well. Where is the best location to start looking for these pages? I have tried looking online but no go on anyone posting.

Thanks ahead of time!

[austlander]

Thank you for putting together such an excellent guide.

I do love a good puzzle but can honestly say that without some type of guidance I do not feel that I would ever have figured out how to get the Storm Legion puzzles started. Add to that the difficulty to put the artifact sets together and well.. still running around in circles here.

[Seraphine]

Lilywaters, I'm not sure if the artifacts are limited by zone but as the Bogling puzzle is located in Eastern Holdings you probably want to start your search there. It's also good to constantly check AH with the appropriate filters on; some people list them for heinous prices, others will put them up for 10 plat not knowing what they are!

As for the difficulty of the puzzles, no doubt they intended to make them truly challenging and promote sharing of information (for example I have been pooling info with Dispo and Sonoko, so props to them for helping with these guides) but there are some parts that seem to make very little sense. By making the artifact sets a requirement it's much easier for richer players to complete puzzles first, while poorer puzzle-people like myself have Omi's currency sitting here doing nothing for the sake of one last blue page. There's at least one puzzle that is random each time, so that should stall some of the people simply after loot.

On a related note I'll have a guide for both Knight's Tour and Black Box soon. Having fun completing puzzles is one thing, writing it all up afterwards is less fun. Without meaning to sound snooty I do hope people will have a good go at them before finding these guides. It'd be a waste otherwise.

[TehFrank]

and my post from the start of SL gets ignored

*goes back to delete it*

[Dyeus]

Okay, I can't find the lamps. I have looked everywhere with the boglings leashed to me. The only shinies are the air vents and a couple of artifacts. Where exactly are they located? What do they look like? Do they get a shiny glow?

[Dyeus]

nvm, turns out I needed to restart to see them...

[AlexTrickle]

I don't know if im going crazy - i completed first starsign, leashed the correct bogling (mok) and found the brass lamp but what is emerald? The lamp isn't glowing (tried relogging etc) and I can't see anything emerald?

[AlexTrickle]

In my haste i missed the opening paragraph of the guide where you explained the gems are ones from mining, now wasted my only worm offering. Sigh

[Raeniel]

So the M'doi doi achievement is only for 6 dolls, but there are 9 required for this puzzle? Is this correct or a typo? And if there are 9 dolls, where are the other 3?

[Raeniel]

Another note.... The apple referred to is actually a Fruit Offering. Seems the fruit and crab are only sold by Robyn Hutchinson in Lakeside Outpost, Freemarch. Says she's neutral but I haven't seen any neutral npc's there that were clickable to Guardians without the attack cursor. I sent my Defiant to buy the items for my Guardian.

[Riane]

Another note.... The apple referred to is actually a Fruit Offering. Seems the fruit and crab are only sold by Robyn Hutchinson in Lakeside Outpost, Freemarch. Says she's neutral but I haven't seen any neutral npc's there that were clickable to Guardians without the attack cursor. I sent my Defiant to buy the items for my Guardian.

You don't need a specific character for any of the items requires. The NPCs really are neutral. It's a bit of a trek for Guardians, but you can actually interact and purchase these items.

A Fruit Offering - Robyn Hutchinson - Freemarch: Lakeside Outpost
A Crab Offering - Robyn Hutchinson - Freemarch: Lakeside Outpost
A Fat Worm Offering - Mort Grocer - Stillmoor: Caer Thalos
A Fish Offering - Multiple NPCs - Freemarch, Stonefield, Silverwood, Gloamwood
A Tasty Beetle Offering - Multiple NPCs - Freemarch, Stonefield, Silverwood, Gloamwood

[Tamarama]

I've posted a guide to the Bogling Star Signs here. It uses a lot of the information in this thread and more. If you're looking for a challenge it maybe better to skip this guide as it makes the puzzle easy mode.