Lost Desert Plot Discussion #2 (Split)

[Plagatus]

Well I used Notepad to map it all out. Mine's encoded to super-simplicity, though. Sample:

Code:

   6Tr 4Oc _b_ 4Ra _a_   2Ph 3Rw _E_ _d_ 1Ra   4Pr _e_ 2Tl 3Rc 1Rc   5Oa _N_ 4Tc 6Ps 2Td
   2Pw 2Ob 5Rw _?_ 5Tr   _G_ 3Ph 2Of 2Rf _H_    1Pa 2Pf _n_ 4Pw 2Od
   5Pc 4Rh 5Re 3Pr _I_   _y_ 3Oa _z_ 3Th 2Pb   1Pw 1Tl 1Rr _J_ 6Pw
   3Ps 3Rr 2Rh 2Rr 6Oe   5Pb 1Rw _P_ _Q_ _O_   1Oa 6Os 1Ts 1Tm 2Rl
<--3Pd 6Ob _R_ _Q_ 3Tr   1Oh 4Pm 6Oh _5_ 6Pa   -->
   4Rb 2Ps 5Th 6Re  !    3Rd _c_ 4Te 4Re 2Oh
   2Oa 5Rh 4Rc 6Tc _s_   4Ow 6Rh 4Ta 4Tw 6Tm
   1Ol 1Tb _$_ 2Pr _x_   1Rh 5Of 2Pm _%_ _y_
   2Ts 6Ol 5Ph 2Tw _X_   6Rl 4Pb 5Os _Y_ 5Rs
   6Pd 5Om 3Of 3Oh 5Oh   _L_ 1Pb 2Rd _O_ _S_

Anyway. Question. After librarying, until the temple is maneuverable again, what message does it give? I am receiving a "closed" message, not a rehash of "you read something and now you can go sit in the sand, you dork" message like when you stumble into a trap and come back too soon. Just curious if I'm supposed to receive a "closed" message before the 12 hours are up, or if the temple has gone out to supper.

Last edited by Plagatus on Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:12 am, edited 1 time in total.

[jojoneo]

I believe my message said something about the temple being locked

[Plagatus]

I was to choose black-triangle-_____ from my riddle.

Chose black-triangle-microphone (the thing that one guy calls "saf").

Got a statue.

Statue has pawprint on it.

My tablet has 3 pawprints on it.

[cyleigh]

Well, the 'translation' of the symbols that I posted before doesn't work.

My poem is:
The aspect of a star; Blinding radiance of the sun.

That would mean that I am looking for a yellow pentagram with either the Ra or Ankh symbol. I have tried both the Ankh and the Ra and both led to traps. On to find some more yellow pentagrams I guess.

[oogabooga]

Found my statue!

Riddle:
A humble portal of stone
Thunderous clouds obscuring the sky

So I went through a black rectangle door with a bird over it. My statue also had a bird on it, and a bird appears on my tablet (just one, though).

Now to complete the map and find my third library door... My map, by the way, consists of sticky notes cut into thirds and stuck next to each other on my wall. Maybe I'll take a picture when I'm done.

[XenaAndGabrielle]

Ugh 85 sets...I have...7? and I've been doing this for 2 hours...

Wait, can you define a "set"? I'm thinking in rows, I'm wondering if we're on the same page here...

By sets ... we just mean rooms. Each of these rooms has 5 doors in it (although had places where there were only 4 and a blank wall in place of where a door should have appeared).

I'm not sure how many rows I had ... since I didn't map that way.

I was to choose black-triangle-_____ from my riddle.

Chose black-triangle-microphone (the thing that one guy calls "saf").

Got a statue.

Statue has pawprint on it.

My tablet has 3 pawprints on it.

Am I that "one guy?"

Anyway, it is called saf ... because the symbol names are listed on the images. I can never remember the names of them all ... I just know the few I have had to work with.

So, each of the symbols has an actual real "name" ... but I don't know to actually call them. I call one a "bird" or "chick", one an "eye", one a "paw", and another a "cup"

I'm really glad people are finding their faerie staues! That is such great news!

Hopefully we will figure out a few more things as we play with the library and the statues a little more. The next version of the plot will hopefully give us some guidance, as well.

Also, the message you get outside the temple when you can't go in is:

"The temple door seems to be locked, however. Perhaps you should come back later."

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[Sacrilege]

I found the statue!
My riddle was:
A humble portal of stone
A humble portal of stone

The door was a black rectangle with the ankh (ahn)
The statue has a duck on it (ben)

Hmm that's pretty weird.. you are the first person that has 2 identical phrases for the riddles.. I've always thought that they have to pick one from each group to tell the door shape and colour..

what is your riddle.

It's 'The waking dawn on the dunes; A humble portal of stone', but the fact that it was a red rectangle gave that away.

We have identical riddles! ;o I haven't attempted at looking for my faerie yet.. but once my map's completed..

[supRNurs]

So I went through a black rectangle door with a bird over it. My statue also had a bird on it, and a bird appears on my tablet (just one, though).

This is the first time I've heard of someone's door symbol matching their statue's. And now I see no other pattern in the symbols whatsoever! lol

Thanks to all who have posted & please keep it up. Maybe something will become clearer....

Anyone else see any type of pattern?

[ILoveGames]

does anyone have the link to the card that nepets took down.

[supRNurs]

I can't find a link off hand, but have the quote from the card, if that's what you're interested in.

“If the tablet were correct, the prince they had followed to the ruined city was… nearly a thousand years old”

It has been tried, unsuccessfully, as the prophecy. I've also tried the quote from the Qasalan sceptre tcg. Maybe we should be keeping a list of the things tried that have failed....

[XenaAndGabrielle]

I found the statue!
My riddle was:
A humble portal of stone
A humble portal of stone

The door was a black rectangle with the ankh (ahn)
The statue has a duck on it (ben)

Are you sure your riddle wasn't:

Thunderous clouds obscuring the sky
A humble portal of stone

? I'm guessing you cut and paste wrong.

[kathrynmw1]

My map took me four hours and I found 84 rooms. Does everyone have the same number of rooms?

You may have more map to go. I was at it two days and found 423 rooms.

This is how I maped my rooms. I first entered the palace and used the left arrow to move to the first room available. I then took screan shots moving from left to right until there were no more moves to the right. I then pasted all these shots together labled them A and underneath them I numbered each door. Then I entered the first corridor starting from the left. If it went back to where I was I wrote that it lead to A, if it went to somewhere else I repeated the whole screan shot process and labled it B and wrote on my list that door A _ goes to B doors. By taking the screan shots and labeling each door I was able to look through and see whether I had been there before or not. I ended up with 32 different sets of doors.

I am pretty sure I have all my rooms maped now. I just need to start opening them and see what's in them.

[ILoveGames]

maybe the key is in who the prince is.

[XenaAndGabrielle]

My map took me four hours and I found 84 rooms. Does everyone have the same number of rooms?

You may have more map to go. I was at it two days and found 423 rooms.

This is how I maped my rooms. I first entered the palace and used the left arrow to move to the first room available. I then took screan shots moving from left to right until there were no more moves to the right. I then pasted all these shots together labled them A and underneath them I numbered each door. Then I entered the first corridor starting from the left. If it went back to where I was I wrote that it lead to A, if it went to somewhere else I repeated the whole screan shot process and labled it B and wrote on my list that door A _ goes to B doors. By taking the screan shots and labeling each door I was able to look through and see whether I had been there before or not. I ended up with 32 different sets of doors.

I am pretty sure I have all my rooms maped now. I just need to start opening them and see what's in them.

Once again ... let's not confuse ourselves. A "room" we've been talking about it just a set of 5 doors.

So there are 85 rooms ... 5 doors in each room ... so a total of 425ish doors. Like I said, 2 of my places where a door should be ended up just being a wall.

Fuzz, you might need 1 more room. kathrynmw1 ... sounds like you have it all.

[Plagatus]

Am I that "one guy?"

I guess. Whoever has that HTML document with a bajillion pictures. If it was you, thanks, I've been giving that URL to my friends so I don't have to actually bother explaining much to them in my normal disjointed fashion.

Black-triangle-set results in a trap for me. Is there only one statue per person? I mean, that'd make sense, if after you filled in your tablet you got something to say to the statue. Just wanting to verify.