Lost Desert Plot Discussion #126 (Summary in First Post)

[fzun]

Lamest.
Plot.
Ending.
EVER.

I never even finished the repository cause I never got to see the stupid lights.

[Kess]

It wouldn't surprise me to see Thursday's news released at midnight tonight, with the LC and stuff activated late. Seems like the LC and random contests make the news late on thursdays sometimes.

Reminds me it's been a while since we had a random theme ain't it? Next week is birthday week, so I suspect that all LD plot and comics will be wrapped up by the weekend.

[WockyChocky]

Don't feel bad, I never played Zero Wing, I'm just familiar with the phrase.

Now xyzzy... that one I know from first hand experience. You really want to feel like a gaming toddler, go look that one up.

As for the plot. I bet we don't get any poop on it till friday or monday.

xyzzy! From the old (1980) line-at-a-time text game named "Adventure"! ... plover.

[anjuna]

Now xyzzy... that one I know from first hand experience. You really want to feel like a gaming toddler, go look that one up.

xyzzy? Is there something about it on Neopets?

Now why do I read that as "blank/white - yellow - zz (glitch on neopets the other day) - yellow"? (Yes indeedy, too much LDP.)

Interestingly, it seems to be some sort of common code and/or mathematical formula? And the game it comes from has a phrase "...you are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike")? Sounds very familiar.

http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/c_xyzzy.html

Last edited by anjuna on Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[IanB]

Don't feel bad, I never played Zero Wing, I'm just familiar with the phrase.

Now xyzzy... that one I know from first hand experience. You really want to feel like a gaming toddler, go look that one up.

As for the plot. I bet we don't get any poop on it till friday or monday.

xyzzy! From the old (1980) line-at-a-time text game named "Adventure"! ... plover.

Colossal Cave!
Grues!

[Kess]

Just now.. for giggles. I tried entering "xyzzy" at my nuria statue.
Nothing. Jeeze I thought I would at least get a level for my pet.

[IcyBlue]

A post from a few pages back.... but I have a reply

Wow what do you know I found it, though unless there is a different link than the .SWF, I think it is not there anymore?

http://swf.neopets.com/games/g600_v8_31016.swf

I guess TNT is deleting older versions of the game. That link refers to v8. The current version is 14. So...

http://swf.neopets.com/games/g600_v14_31016.swf

Voila! It looks a tad different than before, eh? It also has some "directions"

[Glorfindel03]

you know what's interesting? The fortune teller says that Jazan has to wed a "Qasalan" princess. in the comic, we find that Nabile is a distant cousin to Amira, and they say Nabile is a "Sahkmetian" Princess. that would explain why nothing in the city has been restored... still evil mummy people, Jazan still *looking* like he's under a curse. you've noticed that in the last pic, Nabile as Queen is being offered food, and she looks horrified?

[norton4lf]

for some reason i think sakhmet and qasalan is the same or something

[GIR]

Alright, I decided I might as well try and get some more of this puzzle solved while I can, but... I'm stuck on the first crystal, as I do not understand the instructions. I have the colors that go with each symbol, but from there, I do not understand the whole directory/color/symbol/whatever it wants me to do.

kar ankh set nem
saf djo nem ra
djo ra fer fer
nem fer djo nem

red blue yel blank
red blue yel red
red blank yel blank
blank blue yel blue

red: kar saf ra djo
yel: set nem fer djo
blue: ankh djo fer nem

crystal color order: blue, red, yellow

That's my notepad file I made of my info so far. What do I do with it next? Could somebody please help me?

[Casi]

Alright, I decided I might as well try and get some more of this puzzle solved while I can, but... I'm stuck on the first crystal, as I do not understand the instructions. I have the colors that go with each symbol, but from there, I do not understand the whole directory/color/symbol/whatever it wants me to do.

kar ankh set nem
saf djo nem ra
djo ra fer fer
nem fer djo nem

red blue yel blank
red blue yel red
red blank yel blank
blank blue yel blue



red: kar saf ra djo
yel: set nem fer djo
blue: ankh djo fer nem

crystal color order: blue, red, yellow

That's my notepad file I made of my info so far. What do I do with it next? Could somebody please help me?

first put all your blues together, then reds, then yellow. Go to your blue catalog and find all the blue symbols. write them down in the order they appear in the catalog. Then go to the location next to that symbol in the catalog and read the blue scroll that has that symbol. Do all the blues like this, then the reds then the yellows.

[ashbashed]

Im growing weary of speaking to that dumb statue only to be thrown out on my butt!!!

[TopsyTourny]

Im growing weary of speaking to that dumb statue only to be thrown out on my butt!!!

I've got pillows in me breeches!

[ashbashed]

Im growing weary of speaking to that dumb statue only to be thrown out on my butt!!!

I've got pillows in me breeches!

All I have in my breeches are handfuls of sand

Edit: grammer

[labrat167]

All this time, I thought this was the Lost Desert Plot... apparently, I've been wandering around the Lost Plot Desert!! Heatstroke, anyone?