Draconity wrote:
Elric wrote:
Draconity wrote:
Honestly the number of handfuls of sand it took to uncover the Repository doesn't seem like a clue to me. If it were a clue, it seems like it'd be a rather awkward one. But considering that we don't really have anything else to go on...
...I really wish they'd put out the next chapter of the story.
Then why would the Repository be buried by that odd amount? Though I don't think we'll find anything until the Fortune Teller changes her message. But that Sutek's Tomb thing is still bugging me...
The Suppository continues!!!
Honestly I think it's a possibility that they just picked a number.
It's not really very odd when you think about it; it WOULD be strange, though, if it were an even number like 10,000.
Also, if that's the suppository, I really don't want to meet the patient.
I thought the number looked rather small considering the efforts folks were puting forth.
I decided to do a little math. I picked a conservative number of 20 for the average number of handsful of sand-- last I'd seen the highest number of piles carried by someone was 60 (though there was quite enough time after for that to have changed significantly), but figured to err towards the assumption that more people had slower pets. So 20 seemed a safe bet.
I took this and divided 104,034 by it and got ~5202 (5201.7). So with a conservative number of piles carried away, we only had 5200 people carrying? From all around the world? I found that difficult to believe (though it's feasable, I'm a skeptic).
I don't honestly know if my conservative number was too high, but if it's too low, that number of folks is even lower!
Which really leads me to two conclusions about 104,034: it's arbitrary or it's a clue.
*shrugs* my $0.02
So... would that make this The Suppository of 1000 Scrolls....?