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[2.27] Treasure Hunting
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While exploring some Elven ruins, you came across a Human caught
in a magical web. After you disarmed the trap and freed her, you
learned that her name is Meraliss and she is an explorer from Ehb.
Meraliss explained that the ruins are called the Vault of Therayne,
and an ancient artifact is rumored to be hidden somewhere within.
While looking for it, she became trapped and has been held in stasis
for three hundred years.
Though she has not found the treasure, she has no desire to continue
exploring the place. If you want to continue and find the artifact,
she'll reward you well.
Objectives:
* Explore the chambers behind the door.
* Release Treelus the Suffering from the magic binding him.
* Kill Treelus the Suffering.
* Return to Meraliss.
Welcome to, possibly, the most frustrating quest in Broken World. You'll
stumble into this quest while poking your nose into an underground chamber in
the Western Vai'lutra Forest. In the first room is a simple (Hah!) light
puzzle surrounding a woman in a stasis field. The light puzzle consists of
four columns, each with a light (currently lit) on top. Glowing lines of
light connect the columns, like this:
O-----O
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O-----O
When you click a column, the light reverses state and so do the lights that
are connected. In this puzzle, click a column in one corner and both it and
the columns in adjacent corners reverse state (going from on to off or off to
on). To solve the puzzle and open the stasis field requires that all lights
be off. This first puzzle is simple: click each column once (in any order).
The woman, Meraliss, is released from stasis and you can talk to her. She's a
field agent for the F&K Society. She gives you a key into the next room,
which leads to a more difficult puzzle. Once you solve that puzzle, you fight
the monster (Treelus), get a Lore item from him and return to Meraliss to end
this quest.
Killing Treelus also opens another door that leads to a third, more difficult
puzzle, which, in turn, leads to a fourth. Solving the fourth puzzle gets you
a small treasure chest with an Easter egg unique item. The third and fourth
puzzles are not part of this quest, so you can finish the quest without
finishing the puzzles. And the Easter egg item is useless.
Here are the solutions for the second, third and fourth puzzles. In each case,
the columns are numbered from left to right, then top to bottom with the
camera pointing due north. The solutions (along with the math required to do
this on your own) come from here:
http://clux.org/?p=entries&eid=1229
Second Puzzle
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A B
C D
E F
G H
A - D - E - H (in any order)
Third Puzzle
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A B
C D E F
G H I J
K L
B - D - F - G - H - I - J (in any order)
Fourth Puzzle
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A B
C D
E F
G H
I J
K L
M N
O P
B - D - G - H - J - K - P (in any order)
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