Lost Desert Plot Discussion #13 (split)
Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:56 pm
Continue with the plot discussion here. 
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20501
- The plot
- The Fortune Teller
- The Temple of One-Thousand Tombs
Here is an example of a map: http://tim.arlott.com/jas/tombmap.jpg
It is Jasujo's map that she made using the grid method posted by Cerise. Of course, there are many methods, this is just one to give you an idea.
Here is a handmade map by XenaAndGabrielle: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/ ... ap-XaG.jpg
with an explanation of how she goes about it here.
Here is another map made by Twisted Sanity, who uses yet another mapping method: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/te ... ombmap.gif
Known Facts:
Eveyone's tomb, doors, and phrases are different.
Your tomb is the same to you each time you enter it.
All passages seem to be two way. You should be able to return to the room you came from. The door may not be in the same position, but one of the doors will return you.
There are three library doors and one statue room in each tomb. In the libraries, you can read a scroll, but the effects haven't been found yet. The statue asks for a prophecy, but the correct one hasn't been found yet.
Library doors
There are about 85 rooms, 5 doors in each room (a few might have a blank wall), and a total of around 425 doors.
If you read a scroll, you can't enter for 12 hours. If you get caught in a trap, you can't enter for 1-3 hours and your pet may temporarily be turned to a pile of sand.
There are 6 door colors and 4 door shapes. The riddles will only tell you the color and shape of the door you need.
Shapes:
A humble portal of stone (rectangle) [just a regular old door]
Mouth of the river (triangle) [think about it ... the place where a river starts will look like a triangle ... because it starts flowing out]
The aspect of a star (pentagon) [5 sides to a standard star]
Window into the soul (oval) [your eyes are ovalish]
Colors:
Blinding radiance of the sun (yellow) [the sun]
Thunderous clouds obscuring the sky (black) [makes it dark]
The waking dawn on the dunes (red) [at dawn, thing all look red]
Banks of the mighty river (green) [everything is green on the banks]
Kingdom of the lightgiver (blue) [the sky is the sun's (lightgiver's) kingdom ... and it is blue]
Bright guardian of the night (silver) [The moon is sort of silverish]
The combination does not tell you which symbol you need, but does limit your search to 12 possible doors to find your statue in.
After you find the Nuria faerie statue and go back to your library and read the scroll with the symbol that was on the statue's base, your pet now understands it. Nothing else has been seen to come of this as of yet, though.
The fortune teller's phrase has changed to: "I see ancient pharaohs laid at rest." You supposedly need to visit her and see this before moving on.
Then if you play a game of Pyramids, at the end you should see a parchment on the bottom of your screen. This looks to be a clue to rooms as each column has a number, color, symbol, and shape.
If you go the room under the single dot that your parchment describes, you will get an RE which gives you a dirty stone piece. Take that to the toy repair shop and you get a piece on your tablet. If you then go to the fortune teller, her phrase is changed:
"So... you've returned," she says. "Something remarkable is happening. I am receiving many images in my crystal ball, images of strange, distant places..."
"...yet I can't make out these images just now. Perhaps something will appear soon. You may view the Mysterious Tablet if you wish."
If the dirty stone piece that you get from your trapped room ends up being destroyed by Donny at the Toy Repair Shop (he sometimes has trouble cleaning it for some reason), then all you will need to do is go back to the temple immediately. Do not wait. You will receive a new piece that you can bring to Donny to try cleaning up.
A while after the first piece of your tablet is filled in, the fortune teller changes to this clue: "I see debris on a frigid battlefield."
That leads you to play a game of Snow Wars (not the flash game, the original HTML Battleship-like one), after which you should find your second parchment. On this one, you find the door under the double dots.
After the second piece, the fortune teller changes again, "I see a rivalry of five."
That leads you to place a bet and feed one of the poogle in Poogle Races to get the third parchment once you've placed your bet. On the third parchment, you find the door under the triple dots.
After the third piece, the fortune teller gives the next clue: "I see fortunes cast upon the waters."
This leads you to go to the Underwater Cavern. Simply go fishing, and you'll find the fourth parchment. You'll find the door under the four dots.
For the fifth clue, go to the fortune teller and get this message: "I see countless eyes." Then lose at Potato Counter and that gives you your next parchment. Find the door under the five dots and you're on your way.
On the sixth clue, the fortune teller says: "I see a great deal of fun." If you spin the Wheel of Mediocrity, then try to spin a second time, you'll get your sixth parchment. Find the door under the six dots to get the next piece.
On the seventh clue, the fortune teller will tell you "I see a rule that must be broken" Go to the Lever of Doom, and a pull will get you the parchment. The door under the seven dots will get your next piece.
The eighth clue, you are told: "Today's lotto number is [numbers]" Go to Kreludor, and fill in the Mining Corp. with the numbers, different to everybody. This'll get you the eighth piece of parchment, which will tell you which room to go to beneath the eight dot header.
Also, it seems the new clues are coming out at about 1:30 and 7:30 NST, every six hours.
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20501
- The plot
- The Fortune Teller
- The Temple of One-Thousand Tombs
Here is an example of a map: http://tim.arlott.com/jas/tombmap.jpg
It is Jasujo's map that she made using the grid method posted by Cerise. Of course, there are many methods, this is just one to give you an idea.
Here is a handmade map by XenaAndGabrielle: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/ ... ap-XaG.jpg
with an explanation of how she goes about it here.
Here is another map made by Twisted Sanity, who uses yet another mapping method: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/te ... ombmap.gif
Known Facts:
Eveyone's tomb, doors, and phrases are different.
Your tomb is the same to you each time you enter it.
All passages seem to be two way. You should be able to return to the room you came from. The door may not be in the same position, but one of the doors will return you.
There are three library doors and one statue room in each tomb. In the libraries, you can read a scroll, but the effects haven't been found yet. The statue asks for a prophecy, but the correct one hasn't been found yet.
Library doors
There are about 85 rooms, 5 doors in each room (a few might have a blank wall), and a total of around 425 doors.
If you read a scroll, you can't enter for 12 hours. If you get caught in a trap, you can't enter for 1-3 hours and your pet may temporarily be turned to a pile of sand.
There are 6 door colors and 4 door shapes. The riddles will only tell you the color and shape of the door you need.
Shapes:
A humble portal of stone (rectangle) [just a regular old door]
Mouth of the river (triangle) [think about it ... the place where a river starts will look like a triangle ... because it starts flowing out]
The aspect of a star (pentagon) [5 sides to a standard star]
Window into the soul (oval) [your eyes are ovalish]
Colors:
Blinding radiance of the sun (yellow) [the sun]
Thunderous clouds obscuring the sky (black) [makes it dark]
The waking dawn on the dunes (red) [at dawn, thing all look red]
Banks of the mighty river (green) [everything is green on the banks]
Kingdom of the lightgiver (blue) [the sky is the sun's (lightgiver's) kingdom ... and it is blue]
Bright guardian of the night (silver) [The moon is sort of silverish]
The combination does not tell you which symbol you need, but does limit your search to 12 possible doors to find your statue in.
After you find the Nuria faerie statue and go back to your library and read the scroll with the symbol that was on the statue's base, your pet now understands it. Nothing else has been seen to come of this as of yet, though.
The fortune teller's phrase has changed to: "I see ancient pharaohs laid at rest." You supposedly need to visit her and see this before moving on.
Then if you play a game of Pyramids, at the end you should see a parchment on the bottom of your screen. This looks to be a clue to rooms as each column has a number, color, symbol, and shape.
If you go the room under the single dot that your parchment describes, you will get an RE which gives you a dirty stone piece. Take that to the toy repair shop and you get a piece on your tablet. If you then go to the fortune teller, her phrase is changed:
"So... you've returned," she says. "Something remarkable is happening. I am receiving many images in my crystal ball, images of strange, distant places..."
"...yet I can't make out these images just now. Perhaps something will appear soon. You may view the Mysterious Tablet if you wish."
If the dirty stone piece that you get from your trapped room ends up being destroyed by Donny at the Toy Repair Shop (he sometimes has trouble cleaning it for some reason), then all you will need to do is go back to the temple immediately. Do not wait. You will receive a new piece that you can bring to Donny to try cleaning up.
A while after the first piece of your tablet is filled in, the fortune teller changes to this clue: "I see debris on a frigid battlefield."
That leads you to play a game of Snow Wars (not the flash game, the original HTML Battleship-like one), after which you should find your second parchment. On this one, you find the door under the double dots.
After the second piece, the fortune teller changes again, "I see a rivalry of five."
That leads you to place a bet and feed one of the poogle in Poogle Races to get the third parchment once you've placed your bet. On the third parchment, you find the door under the triple dots.
After the third piece, the fortune teller gives the next clue: "I see fortunes cast upon the waters."
This leads you to go to the Underwater Cavern. Simply go fishing, and you'll find the fourth parchment. You'll find the door under the four dots.
For the fifth clue, go to the fortune teller and get this message: "I see countless eyes." Then lose at Potato Counter and that gives you your next parchment. Find the door under the five dots and you're on your way.
On the sixth clue, the fortune teller says: "I see a great deal of fun." If you spin the Wheel of Mediocrity, then try to spin a second time, you'll get your sixth parchment. Find the door under the six dots to get the next piece.
On the seventh clue, the fortune teller will tell you "I see a rule that must be broken" Go to the Lever of Doom, and a pull will get you the parchment. The door under the seven dots will get your next piece.
The eighth clue, you are told: "Today's lotto number is [numbers]" Go to Kreludor, and fill in the Mining Corp. with the numbers, different to everybody. This'll get you the eighth piece of parchment, which will tell you which room to go to beneath the eight dot header.
Also, it seems the new clues are coming out at about 1:30 and 7:30 NST, every six hours.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:58 pm
I really like the layout by Maraqua.net. It's is very graphic intensive (for us that needs that kind of thing)
http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum/lost.html
http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum/lost.html
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:01 pm
stampsyne wrote:I really like the layout by Maraqua.net. It's is very graphic intensive (for us that needs that kind of thing)
http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum/lost.html
That's actually http://www.maraqua.net/'s Lost Desert help page. Or, at least, they're using it.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:04 pm
kirichan wrote:stampsyne wrote:I really like the layout by Maraqua.net. It's is very graphic intensive (for us that needs that kind of thing)
http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum/lost.html
That's actually http://www.maraqua.net/'s Lost Desert help page. Or, at least, they're using it.
Yeah I think it's coming from the same site, it's just the maraqua.net domain points/is parked to http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum, kinda like how my domain lothwe.com points to lothwe.hostultra.com
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:05 pm
no i know that they are not flash and i know they are on different worlds. i am trying to see if there is a nother pattern that can help us find out what the others will be. like all games have a certain object in them or something. and even if i did ask the same question that has been asked it is very hard to keep up with all these posts. the pages are flying.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:06 pm
Well, I am actually glad the neocola machine wasn't used. I general hate senseless inflation. I'm just really paranoid about being hit by it, so I buy in advance... and on that note, I just bought a nerkmid.(NOTE: I do no advise doing this: No sane neopian would ever buy a nerkmid unless...)
I was meaning to get the avatar (and a spiffy item) anyway, and now I can satisfy both my senseless desire for useless blobs of pixels and my inflation paranoia at the same time
(I repeat, unless your head is on backwards, do not buy a nerkmid)
I was meaning to get the avatar (and a spiffy item) anyway, and now I can satisfy both my senseless desire for useless blobs of pixels and my inflation paranoia at the same time
(I repeat, unless your head is on backwards, do not buy a nerkmid)
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:08 pm
YAY! I finally found my faerie! 
Now off to bed, it's midnight here, can't wait till morning for the next clue
Now off to bed, it's midnight here, can't wait till morning for the next clue
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:19 pm
Can someone help me? The last two times I've entered the tomb and tried to get to my door, I've ended up in a trap (when I haven't clicked a trap door). Do I need to clear my temp files and cookies?
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:21 pm
darkelflord30 wrote:Can someone help me? The last two times I've entered the tomb and tried to get to my door, I've ended up in a trap (when I haven't clicked a trap door). Do I need to clear my temp files and cookies?
It wouldn't hurt to clear your cache. Your cookies should be okay, though.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:26 pm
kirichan wrote:darkelflord30 wrote:Can someone help me? The last two times I've entered the tomb and tried to get to my door, I've ended up in a trap (when I haven't clicked a trap door). Do I need to clear my temp files and cookies?
It wouldn't hurt to clear your cache. Your cookies should be okay, though.
Cache and Temp files are the same right?
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:27 pm
Okay, that just ticked me right off.
I thought "got some time to kill, shoud be safe to read another scroll."
Until I friggin got to my library, a library that previously contained 2 unread scrolls...
Now it contains a random piece of crap selection... that I've already read 
So basically, I just wasted my last good chance to finish up some of those stupid scrolls.(11 out of 12 of which are likely just red herrings anyway)
Well, I think I'm going... to do... something for the next 12 HOURS
Why did it have to turn random now, it was so stable just a little while ago *sniff*
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:30 pm
I'm back! I did my usual thing by going to Neopets first before coming here to read stuff. These puzzles are too fun!
The 7th clue had me thinking for awhile ... I really thought it was "Cheat" ... but once I went to the Space Station and remembered the lever (which was the thing I had even guessed... *grin*) ... I knew it would be it.
Got the 7th piece finished ... and then got my 8th piece "lottery" clue. Of course, I first went to the lottery ... but the numbers weren't real lottery numbers. Then went to the mining corp ... because of the 8 numbers.
I am *SO* glad it wasn't the neocola machine. I was really hoping it wouldn't be ... and I was sorry that the speculation on that started. It made so much more sense for it to be the mining corp. /applauds TNT!/
So ... just waiting to get into temple again for my 8th piece. Fun Fun Fun! Only 4 more to go. I just realized I will be in meetings when the 12th and final tablet piece is released.
How sad it that? *sigh*
It has been rumored by people that they get virus alerts when visiting maraqua.net ... so that is just something to keep in the back of your mind. Not sure about the truth to it, just wanted at least let people know what I'd heard.
Make sure you don't use the "back" button on your browser. It doesn't work in the temples.
Hit refresh in the library ... sometimes you will get a new scroll selection.
Anyway ... finally caught up with the thread ... so now I can post again!
The 7th clue had me thinking for awhile ... I really thought it was "Cheat" ... but once I went to the Space Station and remembered the lever (which was the thing I had even guessed... *grin*) ... I knew it would be it.
Got the 7th piece finished ... and then got my 8th piece "lottery" clue. Of course, I first went to the lottery ... but the numbers weren't real lottery numbers. Then went to the mining corp ... because of the 8 numbers.
I am *SO* glad it wasn't the neocola machine. I was really hoping it wouldn't be ... and I was sorry that the speculation on that started. It made so much more sense for it to be the mining corp. /applauds TNT!/
So ... just waiting to get into temple again for my 8th piece. Fun Fun Fun! Only 4 more to go. I just realized I will be in meetings when the 12th and final tablet piece is released.
How sad it that? *sigh*
stampsyne wrote:I really like the layout by Maraqua.net. It's is very graphic intensive (for us that needs that kind of thing)
http://www.freepgs.com/neoforum/lost.html
It has been rumored by people that they get virus alerts when visiting maraqua.net ... so that is just something to keep in the back of your mind. Not sure about the truth to it, just wanted at least let people know what I'd heard.
darkelflord30 wrote:Can someone help me? The last two times I've entered the tomb and tried to get to my door, I've ended up in a trap (when I haven't clicked a trap door). Do I need to clear my temp files and cookies?
Make sure you don't use the "back" button on your browser. It doesn't work in the temples.
Rain_rTw wrote::x Okay, that just ticked me right off.
I thought "got some time to kill, shoud be safe to read another scroll."
Until I friggin got to my library, a library that previously contained 2 unread scrolls...
So basically, I just wasted my last good chance to finish up some of those stupid scrolls.(11 out of 12 of which are likely just red herrings anyway)
Well, I think I'm going... to do... something for the next 12 HOURS
Why did it have to turn random now, it was so stable just a little while ago *sniff*
Hit refresh in the library ... sometimes you will get a new scroll selection.
Anyway ... finally caught up with the thread ... so now I can post again!
Last edited by XenaAndGabrielle on Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:33 pm
yeah when i go to that site i dont get the trojan, but when i go to maragua.net i do.
while i was there i saw this. any truth to it:
while i was there i saw this. any truth to it:
Prophecy: second of all I think the prophecy that the statue wants are the riddles below. As you can see each statue has a different symbol on it. So if you know the riddle for that symbol then I think that's what the statue wants ! And she will reward you .. but this is all I know.
the profecy...
"man can discover eternal life overcoming his dead end in the chapel of the evil abyss when the sun rises with the moon"
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:38 pm
ILoveGames wrote:yeah when i go to that site i dont get the trojan, but when i go to maragua.net i do.
while i was there i saw this. any truth to it:Prophecy: second of all I think the prophecy that the statue wants are the riddles below. As you can see each statue has a different symbol on it. So if you know the riddle for that symbol then I think that's what the statue wants ! And she will reward you .. but this is all I know.
the profecy...
"man can discover eternal life overcoming his dead end in the chapel of the evil abyss when the sun rises with the moon"
None whatsoever.
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:45 pm
Lost in the temple looking for my third door
It's been over 45 minutes now..Ah well, figures
It's been over 45 minutes now..Ah well, figures