Lost Desert Plot Discussion #117 (Summary in First Post)

[mousapelli]

Post the fourth Crystal and the mysterious scroll:

Went to talk to the Chef Yurble: no change

looked at card catalogue: no change (from how it was when i was getting the fourth crystal)

Took a look at the tablet: no change

I'm off to have a look at my Nuria statue, but others don't seem to having any luck there. Has anybody with this much done tried clicking around the comic some more? In particular that weird picture of not-Nabile, or the clickable tower?

[mogster500]

red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

blue set Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

The Stacks, Western Archives purple set found


red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

yellow set Artisan Licensing Records, Rukis found

Historical Index Reference Room orange set found


red eye Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

yellow eye Desert Flora found

Lost Desert Literature (poetry) orange eye found


yellow tulip? Asparagus Recipes found

blue tulip? The Annals of Insanity found

Anubis Toxicology Reports green tulip? found


red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

blue set Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

The Stacks, Western Archives purple set found


This is where I'm at.

red leaf Stairwell Landing and Astronomical Records

yellow leaf Artisan Licensing Records, Rukis

orange leaf

[Sacrilege]

The bit about Amira not being a true princess is added in by the fortune teller herself? How does she know that she's not a true princess? And what are we supposed to pull off? Let Jazan marry someone he loves?

The fortune teller must be as old as Jazan. And, again, I say Nabile!

She did specifically say that Amira isn't a Qasalan princess, which could be true. Amira is a Sakhmetian princess which may not be the same bloodline as the Qasala royalty. However, Nabile could be of the bloodline of the Qasalan royalty. Jazan could've gotten stuck on the "Princess" part of the prophecy which is why he started stalking Amira. Hmm, I wonder where we've heard of the evil character not getting the full prophecy before.

OH. Qasalan! I now know where I went wrong

Thanks to both of you!

[Cilian]

Hey Mogster, what is it specifically you're having a problem with? Finding a room? Finding a scroll in a room? Something completely different?

[Hangman]

red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

blue set Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

The Stacks, Western Archives purple set found


red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

yellow set Artisan Licensing Records, Rukis found

Historical Index Reference Room orange set found


red eye Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

yellow eye Desert Flora found

Lost Desert Literature (poetry) orange eye found


yellow tulip? Asparagus Recipes found

blue tulip? The Annals of Insanity found

Anubis Toxicology Reports green tulip? found


red set Rejected Marriage Proposals found

blue set Sakhmetian Archives, Room 110 found

The Stacks, Western Archives purple set found


This is where I'm at.

red leaf Stairwell Landing and Astronomical Records

yellow leaf Artisan Licensing Records, Rukis

orange leaf

You've done everything exactly as I would have done it... You're sure you've clicked on the purple set scroll? Cause you might have accidentially just opened the rack and forgot to click it? (I don't know if this would affect the red leaf being there or not, but who knows...) And otherwise, you can try what Casi did and look at every rack from every possible angle...

[mogster500]

Hey Mogster, what is it specifically you're having a problem with? Finding a room? Finding a scroll in a room? Something completely different?

I can't find a red leaf scroll in Stairwell Landing and Astronomical Records. Someone said that they had to find a scroll in the same area and they found it by looking for it on the right side, I'll check it out.

[Lythiaren]

I've read through the thread and, in response to plot speculations, I'd have to think Jazan is going to marry Nabile. Plenty of hints toward it too... she's one of the few people who bothered to learn Qasala's history, she's worried about him and the whole curse thing, and on top of that, he gave her special treatment. I mean, what kind of evil overlord gives an ordinary prisoner a handmaid and allows them to wander around the palace?

[Hangman]

Post the fourth Crystal and the mysterious scroll:

Went to talk to the Chef Yurble: no change

looked at card catalogue: no change (from how it was when i was getting the fourth crystal)

Took a look at the tablet: no change

I'm off to have a look at my Nuria statue, but others don't seem to having any luck there. Has anybody with this much done tried clicking around the comic some more? In particular that weird picture of not-Nabile, or the clickable tower?

I've just checked the clickable towers, but there's nothing there...

And I don't think you'll find anything at the Nuria statue, I've looked through the source code already and tried every possible prophesy (the new one about Jazan, both with and without a period at the end, the new one about the princes, with and without period, my old one with and without period, the two new ones combined with and without period, my old one combined with the princess-one, both with and without period... and that's where I ran out of ideas )

[Runevalkyrie]

I completely messed up on my third scroll sequence to get my fourth crystal and I tried redoing my first symbol (since I knew where the white scroll is) and I'm not getting the confirmation. Do I need to reread my white scroll for that sequence or what?

Each symbol has a different sequence which you have to figure out even if the symbols are the same. My sequence was BEN KAR KAR BEN and I needed to find it for all of them.

The white scroll location is the same but you still need to do the unneccessary busy work for it to work.

(Hope that made sense)

That doesn't help me actually.

- I read the white scroll for the first RA in my sequence (going through the steps and all.)
- I messed up with the second and third signs by doing them in thew wrong order.
- I reread the scrolls for the first RA (to start over) and didn't get the confirmation of where the white scroll is (although I know where it is.)
- Can I continue with my second sign or do I need to reread the scroll for the first RA in my pattern?

Last edited by Runevalkyrie on Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:08 pm, edited 2 times in total.

[mogster500]

Hey Mogster, what is it specifically you're having a problem with? Finding a room? Finding a scroll in a room? Something completely different?

I can't find a red leaf scroll in Stairwell Landing and Astronomical Records. Someone said that they had to find a scroll in the same area and they found it by looking for it on the right side, I'll check it out.

I tried going around the whole circle of scroll racks, and no changes. Maybe they actually messed up.

[mousapelli]

Post the fourth Crystal and the mysterious scroll:

Went to talk to the Chef Yurble: no change

looked at card catalogue: no change (from how it was when i was getting the fourth crystal)

Took a look at the tablet: no change

I'm off to have a look at my Nuria statue, but others don't seem to having any luck there. Has anybody with this much done tried clicking around the comic some more? In particular that weird picture of not-Nabile, or the clickable tower?

I've just checked the clickable towers, but there's nothing there...

And I don't think you'll find anything at the Nuria statue, I've looked through the source code already and tried every possible prophesy (the new one about Jazan, both with and without a period at the end, the new one about the princes, with and without period, my old one with and without period, the two new ones combined with and without period, my old one combined with the princess-one, both with and without period... and that's where I ran out of ideas )

You've done a really thorough job of that, which is great, but I think that the stuff the fortune teller tells us actually can't be the right thing, because it's the same for everybody.

I went back to the comics, since that's where we got the original chunk of the prophecy, but nothing clickable about the not-Nabile portrait. I also went to see if clicking on the symbols in the first three tablets in a different order would finish the whole thing, but any time you click on any of them, it just sends you immediately back to the tablet page.

Hmm.

[Cilian]

Hey Mogster, what is it specifically you're having a problem with? Finding a room? Finding a scroll in a room? Something completely different?

I can't find a red leaf scroll in Stairwell Landing and Astronomical Records. Someone said that they had to find a scroll in the same area and they found it by looking for it on the right side, I'll check it out.

I tried going around the whole circle of scroll racks, and no changes. Maybe they actually messed up.

Have you completely left the area and gone back?

[mogster500]

I found it, thanks guys!

[Fuzz]

I just finished reading my scrolls after the third crystal, and I got the message about strange diagrams. What do I do next? I assume I'm looking for the corresponding trap, but can someone confirm that and tell me what to do once I enter the trap? Thanks

[ashbashed]

I found it, thanks guys!

Where was it?? Just an oversight or when you left/returned it was there then?