Having played the solo game before, I didn't pay much attention to the journals and manuals that are scattered around Uru, but I was frustrated enough with figuring out everything that the KI can do for me, that I finally went to the manual that can be found in the classroom at Bevin.
Thank goodness I did. At Bevin is a viewer that can be viewed by everyone in my neighbourhood (19 people as it turns out). The manual gave instructions on how to post stuff using your KI. I posted a picture, my nick, and a bit of my background with an invitation to contact me if you want to begin going through Uru as a team.
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| Folks chilling at the Greeter's Bevin |
We'll see what comes of it. If nothing, I'll start shopping for a new neighbourhood. I then went to the Greeter's Bevin which had about a dozen people in it (not as busy as last time). I took a screen shot of the portal times and then inquired if there was anyone interested in taking a shot at opening the door of Eder Tsogal? A traveler named Todoni volunteered right up. It took a bit of waiting, but we soon had the eight people we needed.
The puzzle requires one to stand by the journey door (that was me) and then the seven others to go to one of seven journey cloths. When they press the cloth, a symbol appears on the door and it doesn't take much to figure out that the symbols are the numbers 1 to 7. You then press the door and the symbols begin to repeat themselves in the random pattern. The door watcher calls out the numbers in order and, one at a time, they lock in their journey cloths to open the door. Sounds simple, no? Well, no. Soon there was about two dozen people in the Age to watch and when that many show up you have to shout (with /shout) to be heard, which meant some of the commands got lost. As we were closing in on organizing ourselves well enough, real life was calling me back so I had to go. Oh well, maybe next time.
While off line I looked over the portal times I had gotten a screen shot of and decided to take a shot at the 14:17 in Dereno. I'm glad I did. At first, nothing appeared to be happening at the appointed time, until I threw the power switch and a silvery portal appeared before me. Walking into it I linked to a Bahro cave (pretty much the same as the one you go to in Yeesha's quest). There was a spiral symbol on the wall, which I pressed, that caused a stone to disappear. I jumped into the Star Field under the cave and linked back to Relto. In Relto I had a new piece added to my well.
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| My well at Relto |
The two lower stones have been there for a bit, but I didn't notice exactly what I did to earn them - perhaps completing the Cleft and the first batch of GZMs. But, clearly each level requires four stones, and it seems obvious that two of the upper ones are going to be found in Negilahn and Payiferen. I will obviously be going back to those two. The thing is, I still don't know what the scattered blue buttons in those Ages are for, other than they play various animal sounds. There are also the numbers on the floor which I will post here.
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| Payiferen - 13 | Negilahn - 18 | Dereno - 25? |
I'll explain the D'ni number system in another post sometime, but I'm fairly confident of the first two. I just don't know what the X means - maybe 25 (their number system is base 5). I suspected the numbers had something to do with the length of time between the portals opening until I noticed that the period for Negilahn and Dereno are exactly the same.
Obviously, some more thought or information is required. At last, I feel like I'm mysting!
HC
PS: Perhaps the numbers refer to the start times. If Dereno is 25, it is 7 D'ni hours after Negilahn. Dereno schedule is 74 minutes after Negilahn making a D'ni hour 74/7 or about 10.57 minutes. If this is true then Payiferen is 5 D'ni hours ahead of Negilahn, which is about 53 minutes. Doubt I have it but it is worth a shot.
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