Lost Desert Plot Discussion #138 (Summary in First Post)

[anjuna]

Why 100k? Was that number one revealed to be significant?

Oh, I supposed, among others(?), that since he has 100,000 HP and each can only "draw/win" once (somehow hopefully taking away at least a measly 1 HP from him) that it would take that many users.

But according to the math thus far, I don't know if there are even that many total users participating in the plot? If so that would be amazing, but would also take a long time before the masses, all or most of the Bell curve, essentially, to catch up to where TNT would even begin to consider forwarding a clue, in my opinion, but I also know they like to surprise us (at least with red herrings). (*Goes to Underwater Fishing hoping to catch a Red Herring.*)

[Smokytyger]

I think they're just cooking up some mind numbingly complex something or other... either than or thinking of a way to make me go from ATR to The Stacks, Western...

and now I'm finally caught up.

[freddyflinstone]

I think they're just cooking up some mind numbingly complex something or other... either than or thinking of a way to make me go from ATR to The Stacks, Western...

and now I'm finally caught up.

I am enjoying the wait - I have been to sick to make my brain function and test theories and navigate the nasty area called anubis

[Gitanesabr]

With our luck, they will bring the next part out tomorrow (Wednesday) and, if you are like me, you know that's Badge Challenge day at Pogo.

[Skynetmain]

With our luck, they will bring the next part out tomorrow (Wednesday) and, if you are like me, you know that's Badge Challenge day at Pogo.

At least you won't be on the road all day. Stupid holidays. When all you want to do for Thanksgiving is watch DVDs and play Neopets, family has to ruin everything

[TDG]

Plot should be finishing or at least Razul should be beaten tomorrow. Remember the caption contest ??

[Kess]

I'm wondering... what is the point of weakening Razul by one point per person who battle him, when everyone one-shot kills or draws against him? The people who are only just now fighting him are still fighting him at 100,000 health, not 99,999 or a reduced number.

Will they give some kind of bonus to the 100,000th person to defeat him? Will they decide to call him 'defeated' when they slow down to less than a dozen people killing him per hour? Or some other benchmark?

[ScottNak]

I'm wondering... what is the point of weakening Razul by one point per person who battle him, when everyone one-shot kills or draws against him? The people who are only just now fighting him are still fighting him at 100,000 health, not 99,999 or a reduced number.

Will they give some kind of bonus to the 100,000th person to defeat him? Will they decide to call him 'defeated' when they slow down to less than a dozen people killing him per hour? Or some other benchmark?

Most likely he's not a communal boss. What I'm imagining is we'll ahve another part of the plot (most likely not coming for a while, since we're approaching the thanksgiving break. I mean... who works? What? I have class tomorrow? Oh. You mean i DONT ... right!... err back to the point) we'll be able to get ANOTHER weapon (that doesn't fall apart) and voila end?

[Skynetmain]

This may seem a little off topic, but it does relate to something we did earlier: is anyone else still selling their Handfuls of Sand? If so, for how much? I just want to know if there is still demand for them in case I ever feel like selling.

[Cilian]

This may seem a little off topic, but it does relate to something we did earlier: is anyone else still selling their Handfuls of Sand? If so, for how much? I just want to know if there is still demand for them in case I ever feel like selling.

Shop wiz has them running about 1500 so somebody must be buying them if they're still that expensive.

Odds are getting lower and lower that we'll have anything new for the week. Unless we get something tomorrow. Thanksgiving will shut down the office I'm sure, and they already said in last weeks neopian times that there won't be an editorial this week so my guess is it will be a skeleton crew if anyone at all from tomorrow evening until Monday.

[CWisgood]

I don't really understand how I translate the qasalan tablet. Can someone help me?

My symbols are:

pek zer daq kor
kor gan waz gan
ak ak ur qa
kil zer ak don

[ELiPteK]

So... with everyone cringing with uncertainty about the next piece of hell that TNT could throw at us, I just thought I'd point out some of what they have left as unused choices:

- There are two clickable areas in the comic where Sakhmet disappears
- The mysterious scroll has not yet disappeared from our inventories
- At the start of everything, we were told that if we 'happened' to come across any scrolls during the plot that we should hold on to them tight
- The statue told us that speaking the correct prophecy would result in treasures beyond compare (which arguably have not yet been received)

Just a couple unused puzzle pieces that ambitious LDP-ers might want to keep in mind

[stampsyne]

I don't really understand how I translate the qasalan tablet. Can someone help me?

The order is your tablet order for your FIRST translation.

You do it backwards in your SECOND translation to get the correct prophecy for obtaining the weapon from your faerie statue.

If you read the sequence forward in the second translation, you get a mountain of scarabs.

Edited for clarification

Last edited by stampsyne on Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:46 am, edited 2 times in total.

[CWisgood]

No, I mean in what order do I do it.

[arogance1]

No, I mean in what order do I do it.

Do it from the last symbol (don) then go backwards:

don, ak, zer, kil, qa, ur, ak, ak, gan, waz, gan, kor, kor, daq, zer pek