corvusrayven wrote:
No, seriously. Help.
Alrighty, I just got a very unusual random event. I was given a second crystal.
I will post the screenies below to explain. Has anyone else had this happen?
Edit: I removed the screenies because they were large
What a coincidence my 2nd crystal was stolen by a random event.
Anyway, on Neopets birthday i finally was able to grab a 2nd crystal from spike trap after i done my 3rd scroll sequence of 12 my 3rd crystal was stolen from RE and there was no crystal in any of the 3 traps, even after i got 1st from Chef & did 1st scroll sequence of 12. IOW until the 15th i was stuck for a week or so. On that same birthday, barely 15 minutes later, my 2nd crystal again got stolen again while walking in the repository.
I gave up then. A few days later the plot advanced and i was eager to continue. I started w/chef again, did 1st scroll sequence of 12, went to mystic room, waited for light, and then found sth in my spike trap. From there i went on and on, had to do all my sequences again but i written details down so no biggie. What was a biggie earlier on is that the traps didn't work. Anyway, i put my crystals in my SDB every time i gotten one, right away. Nothing bad happened in my SDB. One time, a crystal was replaced from SDB (hence "gone" yes) and a new one got in my inventory!
And-the point of this post- if you believe in the fable that it "disappears" after you enter & use the mystic room (i don't believe it at all since my test proved otherwise!) then you just remove it from your SDB
right before you enter that room and put your new crystal (or myst scroll) to your inventory as fast as you are able to with as least clicks as possible. This is what i did (except as stated above 1 time i forgot and nothing bad happened) and the sequence and getting of crystals does "count" then. It just works. Theres no safer way than this one AFAIK.