heyo, one of the writers here! thx for your feedback! i think we struggled quite a bit with tone shift as originally i was meant to write everything but of course the project was v ambitious (and i have a small baby oop) so another team member v kindly jumped on a bunch of the dialogues but you can definitely feel the shift in style between us. and the shift in style between my 3AM writing lol. i did intentionally lean in to the cliches, like tried to go for that agatha christie sorta vibe as i've never tried the genre before and with the time limit i wanted to ham it up a bit.
omg im so sorry about that riddle, we are going to update the hints to be much more sensible as i wrote it when my brain was running on fumes. so the starting word for the password is 'lenore' and then the hint for the cipher is mean to lead you to the number of letters in crandock (8), so we are wanting you to shift lenore alphabetically by 8. i don't think literally anyone has gotten to it without needing it explained yet, my b.