Entry 41 - Phil's Relto

They opened up the Spy Room and Phil's Relto from the old solo game. In the solo game, you could see a flip chart thought the telescope that red Bob O'Goobo (or something like that) which gave you a colour combination to enter into your Bevin garden lights. This granted you access to the Egg room in Bevin, which in turn granted you access to the Great Zero. We've had access to these things from the start, so the Spy Room really doesn't do anything now besides being the place were Phil's Relto book is kept.

Phil's Relto

I was very surprised to find that Phil's Relto is actually public. At the start this felt strange, but soon this place became one of my favourite public hangouts. Being the only public Age outside of Au'gura, it had a very different, and soothing, feel. I think lot of folks felt the same because the place has been popular over the past few days.

Also, in the old solo game you could climb around the back of the mountain in Relto. Apparently, you used to be able to this in the on-line version too (I've seen a You Tube video of it), but then Cyan put an invisible wall preventing a key jump (not exactly sure why). Well, at Phil's the wall isn't there so the top of the mountain was, once again, accessible. After numerous attempts, I finally managed to scale the thing. The third person camera sometimes goes wonky and stayed at the bottom of the mountain. This made the climbing more difficult, but it did allow me some nice pics of myself atop the thing.

Relto Mountain

On the story front, Phil has returned with Dr. Watson and Michael Engberg who have been all over, even to Releeshan and spoken with Atrus and Yeesha. They say the Bahro have been exercising their recently won freedom (freedom thanks to the Explorers), some for good and some for bad. Sharper also returned saying the war is coming into the cavern sooner than anyone thinks and that we should be prepared. The good Bahro are losing and he's off to help them.

In our Bevin things are not too good. I don't know the details of what happened but Anibus is gone and things have been very quiet, especially from Flora, Tayma and Petfam. Things seemed to have gotten very personal and I suspect they are all taking a breather.

HC