Yes, Thanks Hoppper! Here is the actual solve in case you do not want to read through all the posts to get to it:
"The solution is
BADLANDSWROVRLK
use the woodgrains only, except the beetle one.
Must use a 3-D perspective to see the woodgrains as a set of 5 patterns. (Column, Row) pairing.
Vert=1, Hor =2, Right Knothole = 3, Left Knothole =4, Center Knothole =5.
Simple enough.
I am SOOOOOO exhausted. Mark and I are on different time zones and neither of us has slept much since Sun morning. Thanks to Carolyn!!
-David"
Trapape,
I did get the story on the Menagerie site. I missed it the first couple times as well. The 1.2.and 3 in the circles at the bottom of the page are the page links. Click on them and then it brings up the ppicture. You have to scroll down to see the story. Right click on the picture, (not the background) and save it to your desktop or documents and you can then print it. Same with the story. Even so, it is still a little blurry to me. Good luck!
Lucid, I'm sorry about the token not being there, but I'm glad you had a good safe trip. I'm really glad to hear you are not giving up on the solve end. I have a theory about finding Pook. A lot of misspellings in the solutions, and even a few extra letters, (like in the dragonfly). Maybe these are all used to anagram the local for Pook?