i agree with the number scheme and plugging in the numbers. are you also saying we need to find two more winch rooms 33(d and e) before we can activate the ark?

Harak is right.  To activate the 12 digit code, each winch rooms (in six separate rooms)controls two of the digits.  So 33a lets you adjust the first two digits anywhere betwee 00 and 99, and 33b controls the second two digits from 00 to 99, etc.

So unless the corresponding digits already match what you want in their respective winch rooms, you have to visit each room to change the code.

You may remember seeing these change when you were traveling earlier.  This was Esylia changing the digits to open the gate to the demons.  My "clue" was that you could pinpoint her location based on which of the digits were moving, but you guys decided to take an 8 hour rest instead.  Had you attacked Esylia back then instead of resting, the demons would not be there.  (You could have also viewed her through the viewer in room 30, but you had not explored that far yet.  My original expectation was that you would use the statue/robot controls in room 29 to attack her with the statue while viewing from room 30.)

Luckily, though, you got her before she went around plugging in every code she knows.  You may have noticed that she was using one code at a time, changing it each time you defeated the monsters that came through the portal opened by that particular code.  First was the undead, now the demons.

harak and i posted at the same time, great minds and all that :)

FYI, I'm still here, just a bit busy atm. I'm struggling to remember this stuff and Mal doesn't have very much info IC so I'm following along even if I'm not actively posting.

do the stairs in 21 continue up to the third floor?

Yes. Here is the map for Level 3.  All three levels can be seen together in the Maps and clues thread.



Note that you have not explored the area east of 32f.
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If you look at room 34, you will see that it is in the direct center of the building.  It is a square room (where the portal opens and the strange architecture existed) -- the Venue Ark room.

Think of that like a six sided die.  The six crystal focus columns each point into the center of one side of the six sided die (from below and above on the first and third floors, and from each side on the second floor).  The winch rooms move these crystals into the numerical positions, and when all six are in place (12 numbers), the focus of the crystals makes the Venue Ark work.

is the banging coming from the door leading into 29 from the stairs, or from 29 into our current room 30?
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It's the door between 26 and 29.

Borimer speaks to Kahan.

"We better check it out."

He goes and opens the first door (leading into 29 from 26) and then goes to within 10 of the second door (where the banging noise originates) to wait and see what occurs next with the would-be intruder.

He sees trickles of water going under the door, and then the banging stops.

a few questions:  is the water demon in room 15 and (up until now) exploring 2? if so, does this mean the west door in 16 is open, and we see the water demon in the room beyond?
what is the route of the tentacles returning to the ark room now that the death knight and co. has gotten its attention? are they retracting back to 15, or taking another route?

The large water demon is just west of the throne room in room 2.  It had tentacles out exploring room 2, but now it is sending tentacles out to explore the new invaders -- i.e., toward the Time Ark room (16) through the throne room (15).

The doors through which the water demon has moved have been broken open by the water demon as it moves, so I guess "open" is the right term.

You are not clear what kind of reaction the demon from the water plane will have to the demon from the plane of the dead (that just arrived).

does this mean its 1/4 dmg + full strength bonus? or is the death knight also partially immune to strength bonus, i.e. 1/4 dmg + 1/4 strength bonus?

I believe it includes 1/4 strength bonus, because the immunity is related to slashing and stabbing something whose internal and external body parts do not have any relative weak points (like vital organs), nor do they bleed when cut, regardless of how deep the cut is.

Also, a death knight has 75% magic resistance, though damage done to it will be full damage.

Good to know. But I don't think I'd be changing my actions. Shapfren has no reason to know or suspect of the silence zone yet, and no reason to suspect magic resistence either. (but is going to aim a little far away in order to try not to cause too much friendly fire)

She'd probably realize it as soon as it happened if she was caught in it. The fact that combat noises simply stopped and that she couldn't hear herself talking would be a couple good hints. :P

In reply to Kahan Singh (msg # 834):

she isn't inside the zone, the strongest noise she can hear is her own mandoline and she can also hear the demons fighting and the ghostly sound she created. Only ij Kahan told her she'd notice.

actually, my post is number #50, where I quote my post in #43 to show where his movement would be, but then kahan's post is #51, unless im missing something, which happens  :)

Guys I'm very sorry!!, on the other hand I didn't know we could cast on a silenced zone.

Your fireball didn't hurt us Shapfren, it was the death knights.  20d6 is pretty powerful!

You can cast from outside a silence zone and have the effect occur inside the silence zone (so long as the effect is not related to sound itself).

The rules state that a death knight can cast a fireball of 20d6 damage once per day, and it was casting it regardless of what everyone else did.  Just coincidence that Shapfren also cast fireball.

The death knight's spells are one of its more powerful features (like the fireball and the power word-kill that it cast on Harak).  That's why Kahan cast silence -- he knew from previous experience that this would at least delay its deadly spells.

I didn't realize there were two arks.  If I touch the Venue ark I could leave to Allevia, and at the right time now that the time ark is correctly set, yes?

Yes.  In fact, I thought the whole group was going to try to do that rather than engage the greater demon...not that it wouldn't perhaps follow unless it was delayed long enough for you to get through and for it to be stuck.

I'd love to stay and fight, but that wouldn't be fair now that I know the outcome of the last round.  I'll zap out on the venue ark.