Piercing the Veil (solution)

by Andrew Lin

From the discussion, you can reconstruct enough information about the grid to find the words in it and their arrangement. The notional grid is shown below:

CUBA (Image) Outline of Cuba	SHIRAZ (Text) Cryptic clue	GNOME (Image) Icons of the WoW classes accessible to gnomes	POLYBIUS (Image) Polybius square, eventually replaced by a picture of Polybius crater	EIGHT (Text) Seuss cryptarithm
SLIPKNOT (Video) Person tying a slipknot with no actual string	QWERTY (Object) Bag of keyboard keys (123456 ASDFGH ZXCVBN)	LINUS (Video) Clip of Life Without Lucy, audio replaced with ”Linus and Lucy”	WAFER (Audio) ”A wafer thin mint” from Mr. Creosote with “wafer” muted	SACKBUT (Image) Rebus: SACK + BUTT - T
ICBM (Image) Things that are also ICBM names: Trident, Atlas, Peacekeeper	CONFLUX (Image) Magic card “odd man out” puzzle; odd cards out are all in Conflux		TROY (Video) Clip from Troy	PHLOX (Image) Picture of Phlox
SPANDEX (Object) Piece of spandex	ETHYL (Text) Chemistry puzzle	BOINK (Image) Photoshopped frame from the Calvin and Hobbes comic	CHANG (Image) Picture of Chang	JUPITER (Audio) Clip of Holst’s Jupiter
SOUTH (Text) Cryptic clue	FARGO (Video) Clip from Fargo	WISTFUL (Text) Cryptic clue	POCKY (Object) Sample of Pocky	SNORLAX (Text) Pokemon puzzle (Pokedex entry) (MH2K puzzle)

You can work this out as follows. First, many items can be placed without reference to others:

Row 1, column 1 is CUBA, from comments #10, #14, and #16.
Row 1, column 2 is SHIRAZ, from comments #11-12 (content, row), #28 (content, giving IR AZ), and #64 (location; there is a cryptic clue in this cell, and this is the only one in the row). (You have to figure out POLYBIUS, at least a little, first.)
Row 1, column 3 is GNOME, from comments #22 (location) and #61 (content).
Row 1, column 5 is EIGHT, from comments #19-20 (content) and #96-97 (location).
Row 2, column 1 is SLIPKNOT, from comments #17 (column), #96 (row), and #97 (content).
Row 2, column 3 is LINUS, from comments #17 (location, audio) and #62 (video).
Row 2, column 4 is WAFER, from comments #10 (content, column) and #89 (content, row).
Row 3, column 1 is ICBM, from comments #30-35.
Row 3, column 2 is CONFLUX, from comments #22 (location) and #90 (content).
Row 4, column 3 is BOINK, from comments #17 and #18.
Row 5, column 1 is SOUTH, from comments #11 (location, content) and #28 (content; “rose petal?” as in “compass rose”).
Row 5, column 3 is WISTFUL, from comments #11-12.
Row 5, column 5 is SNORLAX, from comments #22 (location) and #49-50 (content).

Other items are placed in relation to these:

Row 1, column 4 is POLYBIUS, from comment #59 (the rest of this row is occupied already).
Row 2, column 5 is SACKBUT, from comments #36-39 (content) and #61 (location, content).
Row 3, column 4 is TROY, from comments #52-55 (content, row) and #10 (column; row 3, column 2 is occupied already).
Row 3, column 5 is PHLOX, from comments #64 (row; the rest of this row is occupied) and #70 (content).
Row 4, column 2 is ETHYL, from comments #22 (location) and #47-48 (content).
Row 4, column 5 is JUPITER, from comments #10 (content) and #63 (location, content).
Row 5, column 2 is FARGO, from comments #27-28 (content, row) and #10 (column; the one in column 4 was found above).

Finally, from comment #50, the three packages are in different rows and lettered from top to bottom. So the two open cells in row 4 must contain package B and the missing Star Trek character. But by comment #61, that character is in column 4, pinning down the remaining locations.

Row 2, column 2 is QWERTY, from comments #27-28 (content, package letter) and #90 (content).
Row 4, column 1 is SPANDEX, from comments #41-42 (content) and the fact that it must be package B by elimination.
Row 4, column 4 is CHANG, from comment #61 and elimination.
Row 5, column 4 is POCKY, from comments #41-42 (content) and #61 (package letter).

The extraction is slightly obscure, but fortunately hints are sprinkled throughout the discussion. Note that no word contains a repeated letter, suggesting that you should look at the letter content. Then note that adjacent words share zero or one letter:

CUBA     -A- SHIRAZ       GNOME    -O- POLYBIUS -I- EIGHT
               R            N                         T
SLIPKNOT -T- QWERTY       LINUS        WAFER    -A- SACKBUT
  I                                      R
ICBM     -C- CONFLUX                   TROY     -O- PHLOX
               L                                      P
SPANDEX  -E- ETHYL        BOINK    -N- CHANG        JUPITER
  S                         I            C            R
SOUTH    -O- FARGO    -F- WISTFUL      POCKY    -O- SNORLAX

Trace the path through the grid to find the answer, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.