Lost Desert Plot Discussion #5 (Split)
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:21 am
Continue with the plot discussion here 
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20404
- The plot
- The Fortune Teller
- The Temple of One-Thousand Tombs
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 85 rooms, 5 doors in each room, 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.
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 to one of the rooms 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."
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20404
- The plot
- The Fortune Teller
- The Temple of One-Thousand Tombs
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 85 rooms, 5 doors in each room, 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.
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 to one of the rooms 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."
Last edited by Jasujo on Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:37 am, edited 3 times in total.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:22 am
w00t! I went to the room that had the smallest number, 1, first. A green triangle with the cirle with 2 lines symbol on it.
This stone fragment sure is dirty. I wonder who could clean it?
I went to the fortune teller and didn't get it filled in. I suppose I need to clean it? There's just the standard item dropdown options.
The door slams shut behind you and water begins to pour from hidden alcoves! It looks like you're going to have to spend some time bailing your way out of here...
You find a strange, broken piece of stone on the floor.
It seems to be dirty; what could it be for?
This stone fragment sure is dirty. I wonder who could clean it?
I went to the fortune teller and didn't get it filled in. I suppose I need to clean it? There's just the standard item dropdown options.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:23 am
YES! I went to the place that corresponded to the thingie on the pyramids game thingie...and...
The door slams shut behind you and poison gas begins to fill the room! You try to escape, but after a few moments you find yourself... falling... unconscious... maybe... you should... take... a nap...
Something has happened!
You find a strange, broken piece of stone on the floor.
It seems to be dirty; what could it be for?
Edit: Where would you clean something at...?
The door slams shut behind you and poison gas begins to fill the room! You try to escape, but after a few moments you find yourself... falling... unconscious... maybe... you should... take... a nap...
Something has happened!
You find a strange, broken piece of stone on the floor.
It seems to be dirty; what could it be for?
Edit: Where would you clean something at...?
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:24 am
Here's a screenie of what happened when I went to one of the doors directed by the map:
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:25 am
Eee! Take it to the toy repair shop to get a fragment of you tablet. Take it back and it gives you the chance to fill it in. I gained a new symbol.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:26 am
Huggles wrote:Eee! Take it to the toy repair shop to get a fragment of you tablet. Take it back and it gives you the chance to fill it in. I gained a new symbol.
Eeee! I'm so excited I could scream. But I won't. Because then I'd wake up my sister.
Editedit: Then the fortune teller's saying changes:
"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."
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:28 am
Was the fortune teller change for everyone who went there, or just the ones who'd found their statue?
Also, did anyone go back to her after they found their piece(s)?
edit: once again someone got there first... lol
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p.s. Anyone else wish their pet would stay a pile of sand just a little bit longer? They're highly amusing to watch in the battledome (i'm easily amused)
Also, did anyone go back to her after they found their piece(s)?
edit: once again someone got there first... lol
rugs
p.s. Anyone else wish their pet would stay a pile of sand just a little bit longer? They're highly amusing to watch in the battledome (i'm easily amused)
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:30 am
wait, I can't get the parchment during pyrmids. can anybody help me????
is it constant, or does it pop up every once and a while?
is it constant, or does it pop up every once and a while?
Last edited by -Ducky- on Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:31 am, edited 1 time in total.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:30 am
I just wanted to say that thank goodness so many of us actually took the time out to create maps. 
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:31 am
I'm trying playing Scarab 21, to see if I can find another sheet. See you in a bit with info.
EDIT: Didn't get one. Trying again.
EDIT: Didn't get one. Trying again.
Last edited by cat1205123 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:32 am
there are 3 desert card games! play the other two! they might have the other 2 peices of parchment! that would be 12 fragments! hurry!
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:32 am
-Ducky- wrote:wait, I can't get the parchment during pyrmids. can anybody help me????
It comes up after you finished the game.
Arrrgh, annoyed that I visited the library this morning, can't attempt to get tablets for another 10 hours odd.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:32 am
Once you have your piece, do you have to decide on which spot to put it? Does it correspond with the numbers on the parchment?
*bangs on locked door of temple, crying in frustration* Waaah! Lemme in! Lemme in!
rugs
*bangs on locked door of temple, crying in frustration* Waaah! Lemme in! Lemme in!
rugs
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:33 am
rugrat0ne wrote:Once you have your piece, do you have to decide on which spot to put it? Does it correspond with the numbers on the parchment?
*bangs on locked door of temple, crying in frustration* Waaah! Lemme in! Lemme in!
rugs
No, it just says "Oh look, you have a piece. Click here to add it."
(Just not in those words)
Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:34 am
My map is all text based, and not entirely finished. But since I do have many rows, sets of 5 door rooms, grouped together, I just click the arrow all the way to the left and look for the first door. It's not precise, but I can at least find out where I am.
And I'm pretty sure you need to finish the game of pyramids.
And I'm pretty sure you need to finish the game of pyramids.