Woo! Metamancer is alive! And I missed a bunch of posts.
Well to start things off, I'm updated my map with landmarks and potential undiscovered areas. The pinkish dot is where "LOOKING FOR TROUBLE" pointed us, for those that don't remember.
On an interesting note, I've noticed that the colors on the ground map match the colors on our map (with one exception which we'll call an anomaly for being the starting point). Based on that, I've also made a map with the potential colors of the rest of the areas as well. It was a little tough because some of the colors aren't the easiest to see so I had to guess sometimes. Lighter colors are the areas we haven't visited.
Given what we know about MANCY, I'd be curious to know exactly what significance the color of an area has. We've thus far discovered that there are eight MANCITYPES, which match the colors on the map. So potentially these are areas strong in that MANCITYPE. We can also see that creatures and such appear match the MANCY of the areas they are in. Stimpers are brown (MIGHTYMANCY) and are found in the brown area. The blue guy (TRANSYMANCER) is found in the blue area. LARINOIDS (PRISMANCY) are found in the purple area. Theoretically we can therefore conclude that the people playing cards in front of us are ANTITHEMANCERS or related to ANTITHEMANCY in some way.
Also of interest is that there is a single area related to METAMANCY and the end of a passage with most of the other MANCITYPES present. The area basically screams "important" and we should totally check it out at some point.
In terms of those we're traveling with though, on a meta note Stanstan's name is "Stan-stan" and he is a "MANCY-MANCER". The repetition might be a thing with that MANCITYPE. The Rainbow-colored METAMANCER also only had one METAMANCY symbol when casting his MANCY at the TRANSYMANCER, interestingly, meaning that he is potentially only ESOTERIC ECHELON 7 and NOT an ARCHMANCER since we only displayed one when casting our MANCY.
For now though, I think we should ask Gilly and Stanstan if they are part of the COUNCIL OF EIGHT, as they seem to match the various teasers we've seen. Also we should give Stanstan the GNARLY CHITIN we have, as it's a MANCI MANCITYPE. And we should LARINIZE or MULTILARINIZE CHARM THE SOCKS and use it on the ANTITHEMANCERS.