Lost Desert Plot Discussion #109 (Summary in First Post)

[hiddenneggs]

Are you saying that if there is a primary colour on the 2nd crystal that the colour stays the same?

Yes. And I would go with that color, not skip/cancel/ignore it.

At least, that's how I'm guessing. Weaponnegg is still a pile of sand, so I can't try again to impale myself yet.

[norton4lf]

I can further confirm the 8 hour light theory, I got my first crystal light at 11:02am, I just now got light for my 2nd crsytal at 3:03am, so that would conincide with 8 hour intervals.... but more importantly, I can now see about working on the same portion of the plot as you all are. Wow there sure is alot of purple on mine lol, I dont like the purple, i had trouble seeing a difference between the purple and the blue on the scrolls.

[Daze]

Are you saying that if there is a primary colour on the 2nd crystal that the colour stays the same?

Yes. And I would go with that color, not skip/cancel/ignore it.

At least, that's how I'm guessing. Weaponnegg is still a pile of sand, so I can't try again to impale myself yet.

It has finally clicked into place. It is not 2 seperate Useless Crystals, but it is now one big Useless Crystal.

By adding the 2nd piece it now shows the secondary colours. So where I have primary colours the same, it was that colour on the 2nd piece of crystal.

Edit: spelling

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[Cranberry]

Are you saying that if there is a primary colour on the 2nd crystal that the colour stays the same?

Yes. And I would go with that color, not skip/cancel/ignore it.

At least, that's how I'm guessing. Weaponnegg is still a pile of sand, so I can't try again to impale myself yet.

Several of us did try leaving the 4 originals in, making 12 new scrolls to read, and we read them in card catalog and tablet order... nothing happened.

I think the 8 new ones are important somehow, because everyone has exactly 8. No one has 7, or 11, or anything but 8 new colors.

[purplecatlover2003]

i go to sleep and it all kicks of again, guess i have osme catcing up to do now, ive tried to read all the splits since i left last night but no doubt i have missed some. and i have to go out for a couple of hours shortly. oh well.

am i right in thinking that everyone is at trying to figure out what to do to get a third crystal?

and btw those of you with the chat room, i cnat use aol chat, so i cant come there.

[norton4lf]

well, im an idiot, there is no change in the spaces in the image the source reads ppporyxgpyxxxgrg



edit: i think i got it to do a pic
edit2: yeah im quite an idiot, its orange, i cant see it though.... even that i know its there i dont really see it.....

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[hiddenneggs]

When we got a "new" color, subtracted the old crystal's color from it to determine the color on the second crystal. So if we had a purple light now and blue before, we know the second crystal had a red spot.

When you read the scrolls, then, did you read the scrolls in the colors of the card catalog, or was it tried with reading the secondary-colored scrolls (in this example, a purple scroll of whatever symbol) in the location & order indicated by the (in this case red) card catalog?

[Cranberry]

Reading the secondary doesn't work, because there isn't just one of them. Sometimes there are none, and sometimes there are three or more.

Also, norton4lf, that's not a space; it's an orange.

[stinkyllama]

Unbelievably I'm still searching for a spike trap and it's 6am. *Eye twitch*

As for the theories--has anyone tried reading the actual colors given by the 2nd crystal? (I think someone might have mentioned this before but I never saw confirmation of failure or not.) **For instance, you have a Purple Tep and previously it was Blue. You go to the Red catalog and find the location but instead of reading the Red scroll, you would read a Purple one.**

Also, has anyone tried my long, tedious, uber un-fun theory from a thread or two back? Maybe this step could be a bit more evil and we would actually need to read more scrolls than before. **Using the Purple Tep again only this time you would ignore the previous color. This time you would look up both Red and Blue Teps in the catalog.** If everyone has 8 new secondary colors then using this theory we would need to read a total of 20 scrolls. Yikes.

Anyhoo, just thought I'd throw those wild ideas out there since nothing else has worked so far. Must....get....spikes....

[norton4lf]

wow, your right, I cant even see it, maybe its the gama is different on my computer? i was just gonna post that its orange... because i just pulled this from the source ppporyxgpyxxxgrg

[Cranberry]

So, we've all been under the impression that if a light was red the first time and is still red, both crystals have red colored spots, right?

Well, what if crystal one has a red spot, and crystal two has a blank spot? That'll still throw a red light on the wall, but there's no red+red... just red+clear crystal.

So THEN, we would indeed all have 8 colored spots on crystal number two. And I really think the 8 is important, because we ALL get 8 new secondary colors (purple/green/orange), and we all get 8 new primary colors (by subtracting the old primary color on our first crystal from the new secondary color on the wall). I think we do have to deal with primary only, as our card catalogs are still in primary colors and ONLY the scrolls listed in them appear only once in the proper section.

Does all that make sense?

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[Sylence]

I cant even remember the symbol my faerie was behind lol but I keep trying to find a spike trap and now that I need one I get sand and crushing inwards walls ugh

[Azzie]

I finally got my second crystal, after 6 tries. I'm at a family friend's house and on her computer so i'll make it to my light time which is in about 2 1/2 hours time. And if i'm still here i'll save the image and send it to my email address to check and keep at home.

[hiddenneggs]

Reading the secondary doesn't work . . . Sometimes there are none.

Once again, a beautiful theory is killed by an ugly fact. Sigh. Back to the proverbial drawing board. But thanks for the info.

On the good-news front, I just got spiked. And if memory serves I've got a couple hours before I'll see the light again, so I'm going to catch some Z's.


Why, oh why, did the plot have to heat up again just as I was gearing up for Nanowrimo?

[norton4lf]

I was wondering, would it be possible the triangle on the front of the new crystal holds the key to which scrolls to read first, maybe like subtract your old crystals color from each one in order, say your 1st crystal was YBR and the 2nd crytals triangle has GOP, would you G-Y=B O-B, well that just disprooved my theory, and further strenghtened the idea that im an idiot...