Mark: Community
| Name | Levels | Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community | 1 | –241 | Rune Forest, Arcane Archipelago | |
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"Help a stranded orc in Rune Forest survive, by retrieving him a tasty fruit from Arcane Isle." Find the desert island in Arcane Ocean in the Arcane Archipelago. The island is a 3x3 grid, with each room containing a stone head. The sleeping heads puzzle can be completed by lulling all the stone heads to sleep. When you sing a lullaby (using the social), you will change the awake/asleep status of the head in your current room as well as in adjacent rooms (north, east, south, and west). The puzzle is timed. When all the heads are asleep, pull on the tree in the center of the island to retrieve a coconut. Find "an out-of-place orc" in Rune Forest. He will say some gibberish to you. Say "yes" to give him the coconut and receive the Mark. If you fail the sleeping heads puzzle, you will be unable to re-enter for a few days (not sure exactly how long). --- See also: http://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/~n-kato/lightsout/index.html * select 3x3 from the drop down list. * click on edit and toggle the colors to whatever state the heads are in. * click on solve and lullaby the heads in the order displayed. --- Another method to do the puzzle: to put all the heads to sleep - think of the area as a tic-tac-toe grid numbered thus: 123 456 789 walk across the 456 row looking north put 123 to sleep from squares 456. walk across the 789 row looking north put 456 to sleep from squares 789. you will end up with one of the configurations below - where x=asleep and o=awake if you are really lucky the bottom row will be asleep but more likely... go to each of the squares following the relevant grid and lullaby - obviously you will wake some but if you do the whole sequence they will all be asleep with the last lullaby. xxx xxx oxx 5, 3, 5, 7, 1, 3, 6, 9, 2 xxx xxx xox 7, 2, 9, 5, 7, 1, 3, 9 xxx xxx xxo 5, 1, 5, 9, 3, 1, 4, 7, 2 xxx xxx oox 6, 1, 5, 7, 9, 3, 1 xxx xxx xoo 4, 3, 5, 9, 7, 1, 3 xxx xxx oxo 7, 5, 6, 4, 9, 5, 7, 9, 3, 1 xxx xxx ooo 8, 5, 4, 2, 6, 8 Pyramus+ --- "For helping a fellow adventurer in their time of need, the Powers granted thee a Mark." |
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pull tree
You tug and tug on a palm tree...
And a coconut falls out!
With a loud PLOP, a large coconut falls onto the sandy beach, startling the great stone heads awake!
A great stone head wakes up with a start, at the sound of the falling coconut!
A Small Desert Island - N -
(-------------------------------------------------) W <---(M)---> E
- S -
The gentle ocean water constantly laps at the sand of this small island,
an omnipresent sound due to the dimensions of the sandbar. Barely more than
a few rods wide, and rising only a few feet above sea level, it seems
possible that the entire island might be temporarily submerged by a high
tide. A lone palm tree stands in the center of the island. And but for its
coconuts, there is no sustenance to be had here. There is barely more shade
than food, provided only by the several towering stone heads littered about
the place.
A milk-rich coconut is here, begging you to break it open.
A long, deep green palm frond lies on the ground here.
A great stone head is here, grumpily awake.
You take a milky coconut.
......
A Narrow Trail - N -
(-------------------------------------------------) - <---(M)---> -
- - SE
You are on a narrow trail deep within Rune Forest beneath a leafy canopy
so thick the sky is almost completely hidden. On either side of the path
are many tall trees, some of which have been torn from the soil long ago by
lightning and lie among the vegetation. Small forest animals momentarily
appear and then disappear from sight into the undergrowth. There is an
opening to the forest west of here, The narrow trail continues north and
there is a road through the forest to the southeast. A bronze sign hangs
from a tree trunk.
A pitiful-looking orc stumbles through the forest, bleary-eyed and raving.
A giant flesh-eating gnat is here, sucking the blood from a decaying carcass.
A giant flesh-eating gnat is here, sucking the blood from a decaying carcass.
'Toechewer!@' an out-of-place orc exclaims to you. 'You have coconut! Need food, me have please?!'
An out-of-place orc begs you for a bit of gold. You graciously let him peep at your fortune.
'Yes' you say to an out-of-place orc.
'Thank so much, Toechewer!' an out-of-place orc exclaims to you. 'Me love you, me have energy now!'
An out-of-place orc eats a milky coconut whole.
'Me owe you great deal, can find home now!' an out-of-place orc exclaims. 'Bye Toechewer!'
An out-of-place orc scampers into the underbrush.
For helping a fellow adventurer in their time of need, the Powers have granted thee a Mark.
You have been granted The Mark of Community!
You gain 50 practices!
You gain 248,400 experience points!
Archon:
You gain 54 practices!
You gain 100 archon points!
You tug and tug on a palm tree...
And a coconut falls out!
With a loud PLOP, a large coconut falls onto the sandy beach, startling the great stone heads awake!
A great stone head wakes up with a start, at the sound of the falling coconut!
A Small Desert Island - N -
(-------------------------------------------------) W <---(M)---> E
- S -
The gentle ocean water constantly laps at the sand of this small island,
an omnipresent sound due to the dimensions of the sandbar. Barely more than
a few rods wide, and rising only a few feet above sea level, it seems
possible that the entire island might be temporarily submerged by a high
tide. A lone palm tree stands in the center of the island. And but for its
coconuts, there is no sustenance to be had here. There is barely more shade
than food, provided only by the several towering stone heads littered about
the place.
A milk-rich coconut is here, begging you to break it open.
A long, deep green palm frond lies on the ground here.
A great stone head is here, grumpily awake.
You take a milky coconut.
......
A Narrow Trail - N -
(-------------------------------------------------) - <---(M)---> -
- - SE
You are on a narrow trail deep within Rune Forest beneath a leafy canopy
so thick the sky is almost completely hidden. On either side of the path
are many tall trees, some of which have been torn from the soil long ago by
lightning and lie among the vegetation. Small forest animals momentarily
appear and then disappear from sight into the undergrowth. There is an
opening to the forest west of here, The narrow trail continues north and
there is a road through the forest to the southeast. A bronze sign hangs
from a tree trunk.
A pitiful-looking orc stumbles through the forest, bleary-eyed and raving.
A giant flesh-eating gnat is here, sucking the blood from a decaying carcass.
A giant flesh-eating gnat is here, sucking the blood from a decaying carcass.
'Toechewer!@' an out-of-place orc exclaims to you. 'You have coconut! Need food, me have please?!'
An out-of-place orc begs you for a bit of gold. You graciously let him peep at your fortune.
'Yes' you say to an out-of-place orc.
'Thank so much, Toechewer!' an out-of-place orc exclaims to you. 'Me love you, me have energy now!'
An out-of-place orc eats a milky coconut whole.
'Me owe you great deal, can find home now!' an out-of-place orc exclaims. 'Bye Toechewer!'
An out-of-place orc scampers into the underbrush.
For helping a fellow adventurer in their time of need, the Powers have granted thee a Mark.
You have been granted The Mark of Community!
You gain 50 practices!
You gain 248,400 experience points!
Archon:
You gain 54 practices!
You gain 100 archon points!
| Zenturen | to put the heads to sleep use "lullaby head" |