Hi,
I did find the perfect mud, hence the dragon but I can’t see the saiagan precipitate anywhere. Places says I have looked for sparks everywhere. Any thoughts?
@diggle: Sorry, I was too lazy to check previously whether that came from sparks or papers. You’ve missed a paper, then.
Some of the papers aren’t shown in the room description.
There are three papers in the Deep Stacks.
You’ll need to get rid of the coral.
What is rutilum actually?
I think from other spoiler-hidden hints above that it should be an amalgam of quicksilver, but I can’t seem to confirm this in-game. EDITED TO ADD: seems not to be true, judging by ritual results.
I think it’s a fictional metal made for the game. I don’t think it’s an amalgam of quicksilver. You do need that at some point, but I made mine another way (largely through trial and error; I didn’t see any hints for how to do it).
How do stop the pith from burning too quickly when making yang oil?
I’ve tried
Pour firing-resistance on the pith, pouring water on the pith, walking through water-filled rooms while carrying the pith, saying “entension” before lighting the pith, and substituting other wood instead of pith and none of it seems to work (or even be implemented).
These are all great ideas! You’ve solved a similar problem already with the blackwood.
Would anyone be kind enough to give me a nudge in the right direction? I think I’m close to where a lot of people are, but
I can’t figure out how to get into the dressing room.
I’ve
performed the Great Marriage and
fixed Aistheta.
I saw someone mention a solvent synthesis ritual which I don’t seem to know.
I’ve made bamuriatic acid, but have no idea where/how to use it.
I hoped to open the Storage Nook cabinet by reversing the lead weight inscription, but none of my attempts so far have worked (creating an Earthly/exhilarant/heavenly environment, trying to add something other than Gaian precipitate).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have all the materials to make the
perfect mud
but I don’t know the
word of emulgence. I’ve examined all of the available sparks with the oculus and I think I have all of the available papers.
Did I miss one somewhere?
You’re on the right track with reversing the lead weight inscription. Examine the ingredients involved.
Medium hint: Can you reverse one of the ingredients instead?
Large hint: Do any of the ingredients have easily-reversible components?
Answer: You can create counter-Gaian precipitate by using an anti-symmetric sequence instead.
Have you seen any mud anyplace else?
Where might you find mud?
There’s a pool in the Paper Garden.
Getting more specific as you open more hints:
To reverse the effect of the lead weight inscription you need to reverse something involved in performing the ritual.
Look carefully at the Gaian precipitate synthesis.
What about that symmetric sequence?
Make the Gaian precipitate with an antisymmetric sequence, and use that in the lead weight inscription.
“the deeper and purer the better”
If you recognise that, I guess you know it’s an environment condition for the perfect diamond: “an environment influenced only by living stone; the deeper and purer, the better.” Sounds a lot like the Deep Lab to me. But I can’t get there yet, and I presume I won’t be able to until Baros is fixed.
First question: is there already a solution I’m not seeing, given that problem statement? (Another interpretation of living stone? Earthy influences? I already tried adding all the stone chips I could find to a gestalt shelf.)
And next question, with major spoilers for what I presume is late-game: I already fixed Pneuma, and “reset” does not change that decision: should I have fixed Baros first instead? Somehow I can’t believe the game suddenly gets cruel with no warning, but I can’t see what else I should be doing.
First question: Nope.
Second question: I fixed Pneuma first and was able to proceed. You should be fine.
Thanks. I call shenanigans – the first puzzle made sense, but I don’t see why the ignition temperature would have any affect on the burning speed.
Now I’m stuck at the end:
I can perform the true Marriage in the Chancel, but it does nothing for some reason. I thought I might need to summon the dragon to me before performing it, but the game won’t let me perform the fulcrum anymore. The only other puzzle I haven’t yet solved is how to get the fourth glyph. Is there a way to get the chime from the chasm without the attractor ritual?
Haha! To my surprise, that was all I needed: made me realise that I don’t need to be in the Chancel in order to do the dragon subsumption. Thanks!
I’m stuck at the same place. Any ideas?
I am still stuck on the Great Marriage. Pretty sure this will be my “duh” moment when it’s complete, but still…
Conditions:
I’m using the Nave bound, have created an orderly environment, and am using the engraved billet.
Ingredients:
I’m adding the elemental earth, air, water, and the ignited gold rod (have also tried adding the elemental wood, just in case). (I’ve messed some with the order of adds but haven’t tried every combination yet.)
Finale:
I’m having no luck with anything for or in place of invoking the dragon. Have tried pretty much every binding and mathematical sequence I have, plus chimes and tones. I’ve tried putting the rutilum seal in too. Nothing seems to work or get me any closer.
In response to emshort’s previous hint:
I’ve experimented with my incomplete rituals, including the dragon fulcrum inscription, aura imitation inscription (with jade), and electrum phlogistication, but haven’t found anything that worked or gave new knowledge. (The only other one I haven’t completed is the granite solvent, but I’ve made other solvents.) I also tried the emergency dragon subsumption, though without a fulcrum, since I haven’t successfully made one yet.
Can someone nudge me in the right direction? Thanks!!
I figured it out, if you’re still stuck evouga:
Tellurian means Gaian.
I got to a state where it said:
"Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
" Is that the end? Did I “win” or “lose?” Is that a reasonable concept?
Putting the lead rod on the ledge and making it heavy does not work. I tried it and didn’t get even a custom library message (attempting to climb on the ledge afterwards just causes the game to go built the Attractor) so gave up that line of thinking, but maybe the counterweight from the Observatory works better? We can manipulate weight twice, so we break the counterweight’s cable, erase the glyph, make the weight lighter, carry it to the slab, erase the glyph… I’m away from the game for the next few hours so will have to try it later tonight.
What’re you doing with the billet? Are you sure you’re doing the right thing with it? I screwed this up myself.