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===Gravedigging=== | ===Gravedigging=== | ||
[[Image:Tow graveyard closeup.gif|frame|left|Players began exploring the graveyards.]] | [[Image:Tow graveyard closeup.gif|frame|left|Players began exploring the graveyards.]] | ||
The next puzzle was collaborative, involving lots of players working together to exhume graves and test the bones | The next puzzle was collaborative, involving lots of players working together to exhume graves and test the bones. There were three parts to this puzzle - finding ingredients, digging up the graves, and testing the bones. The tasks were not performed in sequence like the puzzle to find Ilere - the player could choose to do any of them in any order any number of times, although they had to wait five minutes before performing the same task again. | ||
This step began on 20 October and finished on 23 October, when the Spirit's bones were finally identified. Together, players dug up 129,764 graves and tested 129,700 bones to find the right one. | |||
When the Caretaker was satisfied that his records were complete, he could show players to some of the graveyards. Each graveyard was given a complicated name of random letters and numbers, "according to a complex coordinate scheme that [the Caretaker] devised" but would not explain. He gave the player a list of 25 - 30 graveyards, and when a graveyard was fully explored, he removed it from the list and replaced it with another. | When the Caretaker was satisfied that his records were complete, he could show players to some of the graveyards. Each graveyard was given a complicated name of random letters and numbers, "according to a complex coordinate scheme that [the Caretaker] devised" but would not explain. He gave the player a list of 25 - 30 graveyards, and when a graveyard was fully explored, he removed it from the list and replaced it with another. | ||
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Every time the player dug, there was a one in three chance of uncovering an item. Mostly commonly, this would be a ''Pile of Grave Soil'', which the player would leave behind so they didn't clutter up their Inventory. Any other items the player uncovered would be added to their inventory - this ranged from a Spooky Doughnut (the most common) to a Halloween Paint Brush (the most rare). | Every time the player dug, there was a one in three chance of uncovering an item. Mostly commonly, this would be a ''Pile of Grave Soil'', which the player would leave behind so they didn't clutter up their Inventory. Any other items the player uncovered would be added to their inventory - this ranged from a Spooky Doughnut (the most common) to a Halloween Paint Brush (the most rare). | ||
====Bone testing==== | |||
[[Image:Tow spirit's bones.gif|right|frame|The Spirit's "bones glow with an unearthly silver light."]] | |||
In order to test whether the dug up bones are those of the Spirit of Slumber, the user took some potion from Sophie, entered the graveyard, and found an open grave. The user could "Wait" at a grave being dug up until the coffin was exhumed to test it, as well as looking for a coffin already uncovered. | |||
If the user was first to the coffin with the potion, they were asked to "Continue", and were then given the mass and volume of one of the bones. They were then asked to decide how many drops of potion, up to 250, were needed to test the bone correctly. The formula for working out the number of droplets needed was ((mass/volume)^2) 25, that is, the density squared, times twenty-five. The result was to be rounded to its nearest whole number. | |||
If the player used too many or too few drops of potion, Gilly would either get charred by an explosion or sick from the fumes. | |||
After testing a bone, the user saw whether or not the bone was the Spirit's. If it wasn't, the user gained 150 [[NP]] and had to wait a while before being able to test a bone again. The user could return the potion to Sophie on the control panel after taking it if they were unable to, or did not wish to, test a bone. They would not be able to use the potion again for a five minutes. | |||
The Spirit of Slumber's bones were the 129,700<sup>th</sup> tested, and were found by the player [http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=heavenest heavenest]. | |||
==Prizes== | ==Prizes== | ||