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| Numbers Book - Ignore Red Text |
I added the red text while messing around in Minkata. I now believe some of it to be wrong, so ignore it. The diagrams are compass directions and, I can only assume, the numbers represent distances. This is only re-enforced by the 625 and 125 at the top of the page which are numbers on two nearby flags that can be found in this Age. The 625 flag does look to be about five times the distance from the cage as the 125 flag, though I have yet to confirm this. Moreover, the compass pattern can be found on the roof of the cage structure. I now have some idea as to which direction to explore.
Needless to say, I went straight to Minkata and began running in the directions indicated on the first page. Some seemed to definitely connect to objects in the Age, but others seemed less clear. I tried linking to the night instance of the Age through the stone found by Corbin the other day.
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| Minkata At Night |
Again, a lot of running around (this time looking at the symbols and numbers on page two of the five page book) produced mixed results. What did happen, though, is I stumbled upon a third linking stone (Corbin's, the one in the cage, and now this one) - pressing it linked me back to the day instance of the Age, though I'm still pretty sure it wasn't the same one as the first stone. First off, I did find my way back to the cage and it wasn't from the same direction as from the first stone. Second, a different symbol glowed when I pressed on it (I'll get to that in a sec). The problem was, I couldn't find the third stone again yesterday. I decided to take a closer look at the linking stone.
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| Linking Stone |
On the right you can clearly see "find your path in the stars", but I want to focus on the center symbol. In the first stone, that links to the night instance, the fissure symbol in the middle glows when the stone is touched. With the third stone (the one I couldn't find again), it was the bottom left of the four circles that glows. When the stone pictured above is pressed (it's the one in the cage) the entire center symbol glows. One last thing to note is how the right two circles are different from the left two. I'm not sure what - if anything - this means.
So here is my theory. There are a total of six stones, which includes this middle one, that need to be pressed in the correct order, with the cage one being pressed last. I also think that when the cage stone is pressed the puzzle is reset. I further suspect that when one stone is pressed, a previously closed pit opens revealing the next stone. This may be why I had so much trouble finding the third stone, as I pressed the cage stone which may have reset the puzzle.
As for the book of numbers, when I was having trouble finding anything following the direction indicated I started to think that perhaps the center numbers don't represent distances, but I can't see what else they could represent. I'm back to thinking those numbers are distances but that not every symbol leads to an object - or perhaps objects could also include the numerous pits in this Age. I also think the numbers of any particular object could appear on any particular page in the book (except the linking stones - for which I think there is only one per page. In fact, the page number could indicate the order in which to press the stones.).
So here's what I've done. I've taken the coordinates from the books and mapped them using a common bit of software from high school math classes, Geometer's Sketchpad. I'm then going back to Minkata and I'm going to see how well measuring distances by timing how long it takes to run there works. I'll time myself running to the 625 flag a few times and see how consistently the times come out. If they're reasonably close to each other, I'll have a way to measure distance. Then it's explore each location, one by one, and noting what's there, if anything. No more endless running!
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| Map of Page 1 Objects |
One last thing. If you look up at the image of page one from the coordinate book, you'll notice the number 3125 in the bottom right. I've still no idea what this is about, other than to note that if it is a distance, it is further than any other coordinate in the book.
HC
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