Lost Desert Plot Discussion #65 (Summary in First Post)

supRNurs · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:57 am

This post might help a little. I'll put the main part here though, for reference.

Quote:

On the prophecies, they seem to have common elements, each meaning the same thing:
Begining portion:
The prince of Qasala
Prince Jazan
The ancient prince
Middle portion:
will make vanish
will cause the disapearance of
will steal away with
Ending portion:
the city of Sakhmet
the desert capital
the great city
Leading to 27 different possible prophecies (unless I missed one some where.)

Edit:

deadlypker wrote:

This really doesn't have anything to do with the plot but supRNrs, your adventure is on the top 40! It's number 2. Congrats

Thankies!

I have to admit, I had no idea what you were talking about and had to do a little poking around to find the Top 40. (This was the first time I've attempted an Adventure.) Being on the top 40 list is pretty cool - and all thanks to PPTers - I don't post on Neoboards. So, thanks everyone. Glad you liked it and hope it helped with the boredom a little.

Historyteller · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:08 am

Kess wrote:

Current word pyramid "shot in the dark" list:

None of these words produce the cool chimes:

desert princess secret hint pyramid snot statue scroll
bride dead sand scarab ghosts speak temple tablet
evil quest glass find plan do not quit stone clue wait sit dust
let get go tell warn be send take want is are make the at on
in to them then a trust we did me be so for she

scamander is too long

not recognized as words:
yurble jazan nabile tomb
hissi
foreman
ruki
qasala
amira

these words make the chime:
neo words:
ixi
lenny
noil noils
sloth
quiggle
usul
neopia
non-neo words
yoghurt
dont
seer
letters
rod/rods
hunt
glasses
wort

Chimes:
Cheops
Geb
Hunt

No Chime:
Desert
Vile

Skynetmain · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:08 am

27 possiblities!

I ain't tryin' each one. I still like my idea of making each glyph into a letter, but if we do have to try each combo... :cry:

supRNurs · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:14 am

Skynetmain wrote:

27 possiblities!

I ain't tryin' each one. I still like my idea of making each glyph into a letter, but if we do have to try each combo... :cry:

I'm not exactly sure why we were discussing the prophecies again. Can you help out? What were you thinking of trying?

Devlish · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:27 am

genies_mystery wrote:

memyselfandi urs is called ra

mine is lat (the cup)

I am a lat too, and my prof says the ancient prince will make vanish the city of sakhmet

does anyone with lat have another prof?

Skynetmain · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:32 am

supRNurs wrote:

Skynetmain wrote:

27 possiblities!

I ain't tryin' each one. I still like my idea of making each glyph into a letter, but if we do have to try each combo... :cry:

I'm not exactly sure why we were discussing the prophecies again. Can you help out? What were you thinking of trying?

What am I thinking?! I'm thinking we need a different idea. It ain't even proven that using a different prophecy would work. We're talking about it since some late starters (assuming) mentioned it. At this point, anything is a good idea, but I ain't trying the 26 other combos until this weekend, if that is what we have to do.

Don't look at me for ideas right now. All I can think of is stuff that would mean we'd have to jack a ton of equipment from Sloth.

supRNurs · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:46 am

Skynetmain wrote:

What am I thinking?! I'm thinking we need a different idea. It ain't even proven that using a different prophecy would work. We're talking about it since some late starters (assuming) mentioned it. At this point, anything is a good idea, but I ain't trying the 26 other combos until this weekend, if that is what we have to do.

Don't look at me for ideas right now. All I can think of is stuff that would mean we'd have to jack a ton of equipment from Sloth.

OK... It's all clear now...

For the record, I'm pretty sure that trying any prophecy, other than the one at the bottom of your tablet will just land you in a trap. I thought maybe y'all were looking for some sort of pattern that determined which prophecy you got from the tablet.

I'm all for ideas ... The word pyramid thing was fun for a while, but I can't make any sense of the words we've found so far.

What in the world did I ever do on neo before the plot? o_O

Sloth!

Edit:

Devlish wrote:

I am a lat too, and my prof says the ancient prince will make vanish the city of sakhmet

does anyone with lat have another prof?

Ahh... now I get it, I think...
If it's statue symbol to prophecy that you are trying to match up, there are 12 possible symbols and 27 possible prophecies, so I think you'll find that those with the same symbol can have different prophecies.

jetsam_andrea · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:57 am

Devlish wrote:

genies_mystery wrote:

memyselfandi urs is called ra

mine is lat (the cup)

I am a lat too, and my prof says the ancient prince will make vanish the city of sakhmet

does anyone with lat have another prof?

I saved mine :

You speak the words of the prophecy to the statue:

The ancient prince will make vanish the city of Sakhmet

Suddenly a bright light shines from above...
It's opening!

Yes i am a lat too.

Lats with The ancient prince will make vanish the city of Sakhmet:

genies_mystery
Devlish
Jetsam_andrea

Skynetmain · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:57 am

All right y'all. I'm officially abandoning my glyph=letter idea as bad. Reasons: Djo, Nem, and Ra to name a few. I also wish to voice my complaint about the choice of glyphs. I want the Stargate symbol dagnabit! For those that don't know, the Stargate symbol looks like the Angstom symbol.

O≈Å
^
Like what I put above, for those that never took chem or phys.

Edit(s): Tried to get the symbol to look right.

IanB · **Posts:** 331 **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:25 pm

I continue to believe that this has something to do with the tablet and the translation. Partly because we got scarab'd when using that translation, partly because the Fortune Teller says we should look at it again, and partly because the symbols could not translate into these phrases (because the same symbol is used to represent different words).
The symbol on my statue is FER, FER appears twice on my tablet (row 1 symbol 2, and row 3 symbol 1) - the positions equate to words 2 and 9 in my translation "prince of". I tried just those two words at the statue and fell into the trap :cry:

Still, right now any ideas is better than none, (even those of late starters, which I'm not!) but I'm off to bed!

Ian

XxAlchemistxX · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:14 am

My prof: The prince of Qasala will cause the disappearnace of the desert capital

And my symbol is RA (The Sun)

I believe the name of the Eye is TEP

supRNurs · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:23 am

IanB wrote:

I continue to believe that this has something to do with the tablet and the translation. Partly because we got scarab'd when using that translation, partly because the Fortune Teller says we should look at it again,

I agree with your reasons - they all could indicate that there is something left to do with the tablet or prophecy.
Also:
The prophecies do not end in a period (although TNT could just be lazy)
It had pretty much come true before half the people ever spoke it to their statues.
The TCG card is Qasalan Tablets (plural)

But this part:

IanB wrote:

and partly because the symbols could not translate into these phrases (because the same symbol is used to represent different words).
The symbol on my statue is FER, FER appears twice on my tablet (row 1 symbol 2, and row 3 symbol 1) - the positions equate to words 2 and 9 in my translation "prince of". I tried just those two words at the statue and fell into the trap

I don't get. How are you equating symbols to words in the prophecy statement? The prophecy could be anywhere from 8 words to 13 words, and the tablets have 16 symbols. o_O

And good night - hope you read this tomorrow!

Kess · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:24 am

I tidied up the list and alphabetized it so it would be easier to find suspicious/likely words that have already been tried

NO chimes:

a are at be be bride clue
dead desert did do dust empire evil find for
get ghosts glass go goal hint in is
let make me not
on plan princess pyramid quest quit
sand scarab scroll secret send she sit snot so speak statue stone
tablet take tell temple the them then they thief thieve to trust
vault vile wait want warn we wed

scamander is too long

not recognized as words:
yurble jazan nabile tomb
hissi amarna plover xyzzy
foreman ruki qasala amira

Chimes:
neopets
ixi kau lenny noil noils
sloth quiggle usul
neopia cheops geb
non-neopets
yoghurt
whats
dont
seer
letters
rod/rods
hunt
glasses
wort

genies_mystery · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:29 am

the reason we keep falling into a trap is the fact that we dont have the whole prophecy

stinkyllama · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:50 am

I know someone has mentioned it several times on previous boards but what exactly was the clue that no one got in the last plot? The one where TNT had to post extra clues to guide you there...

Just wondering how vague the original clue was in case this is a repeat of that situation. Thanks!

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