Cilian wrote:
I'm taking a controversial viewpoint. This was harder than the LDP. The LDP was tedious and long, but not that tricky to figure out. I say this was harder, especially the later constellations. I don't think the rewards will be even close to the ones from the LDP, but come on, that was five months long.
Speaking as one of the people who actually figured out how to do several of the scroll-reading steps during the LDP: that plot was way harder. This mini-plot was pretty much all tabbing around clicking pictures (which was easy because there was always only one new place added on the map, so you knew exactly where to start) or clicking various punch bowls/levers/gears until stuff happened, which you could very well do with no strategy at all (most of the people who got their water plant fixed early on lucked into it, while there was no way to luck into your proper scroll combos during the LDP). Only one time did it take Neopia at large more than a few minutes to figure out a step of this plot (the shop interest clue). Some of the LDP steps took us days as we read scrolls in combination after combination trying to figure out the trick, which I can guarantee gave some of us many a sleepless night.
I mean, just LOOK at this:
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This time, eight of the 12 red, yellow, or blue colors from the first wall pattern were overlaid with another color, turning them into green, orange, or purple, as shown:
Combining the new color pattern with the Mysterious Tablet would result in eight color-symbol pairs in which the color is green, orange, or purple. (The four remaining primary color spots are ignored in this step.)
To complete this step, the player had to read the eight relevant scrolls in reverse order, from right to left. In the above example, the order would be: green lat (cup), purple set (vase), green kar (leaf), purple fer (paw), green kha (fish), purple kha (fish), orange ahn (ankh), and green ra (sun). But how did the player find those scrolls, since the card catalog doesn't contain green, orange, or purple entries?
In the example above, the first scroll that would need to be read is a green lat (cup) scroll. To find the location of this scroll, the player would have to read a blue and yellow lat (cup) scroll. Once the second of those two scrolls was read, it would reveal the room location of the green lat (cup) scroll. When the player proceeded to that room and read the green lat (cup) scroll, this fact would be recorded and the player could proceed to the next purple, orange, or green scroll.
The "component" scrolls -- in this case, the blue and yellow lat (cup) scrolls -- could obviously be read in one of two orders (blue first or yellow first). Which one the player should read first was determined by the left-to-right order of the card catalogs in this step.
Repeat this process for all eight secondary-color scrolls, and the player was given the next clue: "This clue does not exist." This is a reference to the fact that Jelly World does not exist; the player had to find a jelly blob trap in the Temple.
That was one step! And that took us days to figure out.
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