Day 8

Okay, the numbers in the pods have nothing to do with time.

I went back to the Greeter's Guild and there was a new message on the viewer.

Hint for Payiferen: It is 2.4 tahvo behind Dereno.

This began to tweak my memory cells from when I played Path of the Shell where time plays a big issue in finishing the game. In fact, the game lets you play with a D'ni clock which allows you to figure out their units for time. So I dug out my old Path of the Shell notes where I found out that one tahvo is about 14.5 minutes - it is made up of 625 (25*25) prorahn.

So that comes out to be about 35 minutes after Dereno. At this point I was beginning to wonder if I was missing something that would have allowed me to work out these times for myself, so I hit the message boards to discover that these times were worked out by simply having a lot of people spend a lot of time in the pods until the portal appeared. Well, I sure as hell wasn't prepared to do that!

What I kinda want to do, though, is put together a chart of events for the three pods (portal appearance, sunrise, sunset). It seems that the periods (length of day) in each pod is the same (about 15 hours and 43 minutes - 65 tahvo). I should be able to use this to come up with a more systematic method than simply standing in a pod for hours. The length of day being the same seems to indicate that these pods are just different locations on the same planet. Are the hours of daylight the same? Could this help me nail down their locations on the planet? There's a fourth pod coming - what information will it provide?

Anyway, I wanted to catch the 20:29 portal in Negilahn which left me with some time to kill. I went to my neighbourhood Bevin but I've been the only person there now for a week. If I don't here from anyone soon, I'm going to be shopping for a new neighbourhood.

Another thing on the viewer at the Greeter's Guild was a list of Bevins that had Delin books. I had no idea what this meant so I figured I would go to one and find out. I went to Jazz's Bevin, and talked to Jazz (the only person there at the time). She seemed nice, perhaps I'll come back but I really wanted to find out about this Delin book. It turns out that some neighbourhoods (a minority) get a book to Delin instead of a Eder Tsogal book. I asked permission to check it out. It was lusher than Tsogal (sorry no pics - next time), but the size and the puzzle you had to solve was exactly the same.

Teledahn

But I put thoughts of Tsogal and Delin aside for now and decided I was going to make a little more progress in Yeesha's quest, so I went back to Relto and entered Teledahn, the last of that group of four Ages. Like the other Ages of its kind, I've done this a couple of times before. I'm going to be short on details, but again powering everything up is important (solar power this time) and I'll give the hint that there is something you need to climb into for a ride. The ride takes you to a power distribution room which allows you to open a hatch and drain a lake that you see right at the start of the Age. There is also an elevator which takes you to the office of Douglas Sharper, a key DRC character. In fact, if you can find it, there is a book which links you to Douglas Sharper's office in Ae'gura (the large public neighbourhood in the Cavern). I began leafing through Sharper's journal there and realized that a bunch of recent entries have been made. Unfortunately, I was getting close to Negilahn's portal time, so I had to put the journal aside for later.

Bahro Cave

The Negilahn portal appeared right on schedule, which took me to the Bahro cave where I snagged the next well piece. One thing I did notice while there though. The last time I was in Negilahn and pulled the power switch, it only lasted for a few seconds. This time, it last much longer. I'm not sure what this means, but I think I'm going to start going there at different times and start recording the length of time the power lasts for.

HC

PS: The lastest update from Cyan seems to have cured my issues running Uru on my computer. After deleting the game and redownloading it, it works fine. Full steam ahead!