Woah... I just came back from taking my daughter to the doc and catching up on the board has made my head spin. Nice to get a little encouragement from TNT, and it's especially nice to know that we're not sitting waiting for something else to be activated.
Cranberry wrote:
Okay, people who have their lights/know their color pattern on the wall:
What have you tried?
Last night a couple of members tried matching the color pattern up with their mysterious tablets and using the card catalog to find the corresponding scrolls. (So if their first light was blue and their first symbol was lat, they'd go to the repository room listed beside lat in the blue card catalog.) The problem is that once they were there, they weren't sure which scroll to read -- should it be a blue lat, or a lat of some other color, or a different symbol (their faerie symbol, maybe)? What if there were a few blue lats, or a few faerie symbols? This is where we've been stuck since then.
Cran, I'm with you here. I believe the lights paired with symbols from the tablet could give us a "list" to look up in the card catalog, which gives us a "list" of rooms. But that is as far as anyone has gotten. We need more information to determine which scrolls to read once inside the correct room. (IF, this is the correct way to getting the rooms.)
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But the card catalog has to mean something. We just have to figure out if it's the only thing we need, or if there's something else.
As far as I can tell, the card catalog will be used to locate a certain room, from a certain color / symbol combination. We need to figure out are which color / symbol combinations to look up (and the theory above seems the most likely at this point.) There was also an interesting point made earlier about the order in which the colored racks appear.
XenaAndGabrielle wrote:
Dirtside is the real deal. So, we must focus our attention to figuring out the next things to try.
Like I said awhile back .... here is what I personally tried.
1) Reading all scrolls from my card catalog (Note: I did not do this in any sort of order). (Also Note: I did this *before* seeing the lights)
Result: Nothing special.
What do you mean the scrolls from the card catalog? Unless I'm mistaken, the card catalog would only give you a section / room name. Which scrolls do you mean?
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2) Reading the scolls from the card catalog that corresponded to the lights on the wall and the symbols on my tablet (16 color places ... 16 symbols on the tablet). Seemed logical. I just skipped the blank ones.
Result: Nothing special.
I agree with the 16 to 16 idea. But, how did you decide which scrolls to read?
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Ideas that I have throwing around in my head this afternoon while I work.
1) The 3 symbols on the side wall. There are 3 colors on top of the useless crystal. Perhaps these are related somehow.
I agree that we need to see if there is any purpose to the symbols on the wall, but I see them more as one "set" spanning across both walls.
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2) The library scrolls in the temple. We haven't really used them yet. The 12 hour lockout makes trying them hard .... but it isn't like you get locked out of the repository. I am hesitant to do this, since it seems like it was important to have read the faerie statue scroll last for other parts of the plot.
I agree. We did use them, like you said, to read the scroll matching our faerie statue's symbol. The only other thing I think may be important with them is the groupings in the different libraries. The descriptions were written to give us clues to find the correct libary door, but why were certain symbols grouped together inside? I haven't noticed any other groupings of 4, except in lines of the tablet.
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4) The "blank" spots on the wall. Perhaps we need to find a way to make spots appears in all places. I do think all the colors will end up red/yellow/blue, since those are the scrolls we can look up in the card catalog.
Well, I don't think making the blanks go away will help. They must have put them in for a reason. But I do agree that the logical match for the colors is the colors of the card catalog racks.
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Dirtside has spoken, though ... this part of the plot is waiting to be solved. So let's do it, fellow PPT'ers. Let's do IT!
I'm with ya!! Rah Rah Rah!
(At least until time to cook supper.... heh)
So, my thoughts:
The logical match for the colors of the lights is the colors of the racks in the "card catalog." However, the racks seem to be in different orders for different people. Perhaps we should do a little more information gathering on this point - gather together all of the variables we have identified so far and see if there is a pattern there. (ie. statue symbol, rack color order, light pattern, and crystal colors.)
To be able to use the card catalog, we would need a symbol and color combination. If we assume the lights are giving us the color, we have either 16 or 12 to look up. (12 if you ignore the blanks.) Therefore, we would need a sequence of 12 or 16 symbols to pair with those colors. The sequence of 16 symbols brings to mind the tablet. Is there a sequence of 12? The scrolls inside the temple libraries are 12 total, in groups of 4.... is there anything else?
We need information to direct us to the correct scroll, as well as to the correct library section or room. In order to find a specific scroll, we would need to know the symbol and color of the seal, and perhaps the size of the scroll.
Symbols are the same everywhere, so most anything with symbols could point us to a scroll.
The colors of the scroll seals have only appeared in one other place that I know of - the lenny conundrum.
Sizes, well, I'm not really sure that they matter, as the actual item scrolls and the scrolls inside the temple libraries are also different shapes / sizes and it hasn't seem to matter at all.
It seems that the LC would give us, at most, a sequence of colors to try. I did notice that in naming the repo. rooms, the symbols are used like we would use letters of the alphabet. (ie. On floor one, there are 2 sections: Lost Desert Genealogical Histories, Ahn through Kha, and Lost Desert Genealogical Histories, Lat through Tep. The symbols seem to be arranged in alphabetical order.) But I can't get a symbol to letter correlation from it.
So, is there anything else that might lead us to the information we would need to be able to identify which rooms to look up? or which scrolls to read once we determine the rooms? And should we gather data on the scroll rack arrangement?
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heh. my bad.
been lurking for awhile though!
