Lost Desert Plot Discussion #8 (Split)
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:00 pm
Continue with the plot discussion here 
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20458
- 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.
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.
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."
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, 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.
Previous thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20458
- 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.
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.
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."
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, 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.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:02 pm
rugrat0ne wrote:cat1205123 wrote:mercurius wrote:Has anyone else been finding traps behind regular doors? I've found 3 so far. . . .
What do you mean? I thought that all doors were trapped excepting:
Parchment doors
Library doors
Faerie door
Parchment doors are trapped, you just get a piece out of it as well.
Er...yeah. I ment more like doors that were different than the *other* 800ish.
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:02 pm
I just found a trap behind a normal door. 
one of these
one of these
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:02 pm
mercurius wrote:
Has anyone else been finding traps behind regular doors? I've found 3 so far. . . .
by regular doors, do you mean hallways?
if so go to internet options and select "check for newer versions of pages everytime".
That was happening to me and that fixed it.
And yes thats yellow
Has anyone else been finding traps behind regular doors? I've found 3 so far. . . .
by regular doors, do you mean hallways?
if so go to internet options and select "check for newer versions of pages everytime".
That was happening to me and that fixed it.
And yes thats yellow
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:04 pm
I've never come across a trap on any of my hallways/corridors/empty doorways/regular doors/normal doors or whatever you want to call them.
rugs
rugs
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:06 pm
rugrat0ne wrote:I've never come across a trap on any of my hallways/corridors/empty doorways/regular doors/normal doors or whatever you want to call them.
rugs
and you shouldn't, It's an option you can change in IE options
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:06 pm
well i went through one of the hallways, and got trapped. this only started after I put the first piece of the puzzle in. and I even went back to make sure i didn't just click one of the colored doors by accident
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:07 pm
susannahmio wrote:mercurius wrote:
Has anyone else been finding traps behind regular doors? I've found 3 so far. . . .
by regular doors, do you mean hallways?
if so go to internet options and select "check for newer versions of pages everytime".
That was happening to me and that fixed it.
And yes thats yellow
I'll try that and I'll also try not to click the "back" button on my browser like someone else suggested. Thanks! ^_^
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:10 pm
OMG o.o I just read from Split #4 page 7 until here over a span of.. erm.. 3 hours? lol! Waiting to get into the tomb again now to get my 3rd piece 
I'm glad I've mapped my tomb in my messy illegible handwriting!
This is a great plot thus far!
I'm glad I've mapped my tomb in my messy illegible handwriting!
This is a great plot thus far!
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:11 pm
haha, pencil_, same here, I've been reading all the splits for hours.
And I'm still behind! Just got my first piece ^_^;;;
And I'm still behind! Just got my first piece ^_^;;;
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:12 pm
Yay, I just got my first piece!
It seems like it took me forever to map out the temple, but the ball is rolling now!
It seems like it took me forever to map out the temple, but the ball is rolling now!
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:12 pm
Mapping the tomb out Definitely helped, but not if it doesnt have the door that I want to find 
*shrugs*
*shrugs*
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:14 pm
I haven't mapped my tomb yet...eheh...guess when I goto get my second piece I should do that
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:15 pm
So... according to the riddle thing on the front of the page I should be looking for a green triangle door. Should I look for that first or keep going to the library?
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:17 pm
y did i read a scroll im so irritated with myself