Head right. Let's find out where these pipes go.

Keep following the pipe.

follow the pipe RIGHT

[Silliness]Suggest to the group to move forward while hugging the pipe[/silliness]

Just make sure that we feel the temperature of each pipe before we turn the wheels.

EDIT:

Link to image for WR

We need to find the source of the heat/cold fast, so I can follow the "movement" of the heat and show it on the map.

Thanks Xobim. You don't need to give me a link though. It was the picture that wasn't loading, so I couldn't have seen it with or without a link.

Do you mind if I 'improve' on your map?

(to see the map, go to http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showt...784#post388784 )
Currently, we know that the left pipe is the source of the warm liquid and/or cooked spaghetti bolognese. Valves have two values: 0 and 1, 0 being its original state (the state we found it in) and 1 being an altered state (it becomes 1 when we turn the valve). So, as you can see, we have turned both valves, so their values are 1.

Now, the coloured numbers. They're very similar to your 1 and 2 system. Each pipe has a 1 and a 0, and the colour determines whether a pipe is cold or not when the valve has a specific value. To avoid confusion, boxes are used to show which pipes a particular valve affects. If both numbers have the same colour, it means that the temperature is unaffected by the valve's value, although valves from other boxes may affect the temperature.

Now, the longest pipe has a red 01, and a red/blue 01. Using my boxes and my red arrow, you can see that this is not contradictory. It just means that the pipe is cold, that the lower valve is unable to affect the pipe's temperature, and that all the bottom pipes have been deprived of their warm liquid and/or cooked spaghetti bolognese.


I just finished reading ToU 1. :D

Yeah, follow pipe right.
*goes to read ToU 2*

Look behind dome.

EDIT: Map updated.

Very nice, I couldn't have done it better myself. Thanks! :)

Hmmm. Have Shuri and FooCanoe stand on the "3" plate while the rest of the group stands on the "4" plate.

Tell Fooruman to lick plates.

Look behind dome and accidentally find a machinegun.

Go back. Left, turn valve. Turn around, go right, and then back to the dome. (Ok, we need compass directions. I'm getting confused :p)

Knock on door. Listen for the gears.

Go straight ahead.

Dip Katana into stream. Go back to the previous intersection and try to take out the wheel.

EDIT: Map updated.

apparently by the hints radium was kind to drop us, we were supposed to head to the dome and crack it open. What does everyone say? Should we explore pipes and freeze to death or should we head back to the dome?

Edit:

Obiously, the puzzle at the dome is weight related. I would have tried standing all on one number before heading off.

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody thought of 'smash dome with katana'. :p
I say explore the pipes. At least the heated ones.

Hell, the numbers tell how many people need to be on the plates to open the door......

I just finished reading ToU 2 and still no update. :(

And whatever happened to these sprites?
EDIT: Plothole between ToU 2 and 3...what happened to SC 3.0 and the JJ2 level? Did Shuriken ever finish playing TTR?

Hey, I was out getting food D=. Awesome people need to eat too.

And ah, yes, those sprites. Originally the battle system sprites were going to change depending on the spell effects (those ones are normal, bloodlust, poison, hypnotize, and dead, respectively). Eventually Risp and I noticed this would take WAY too much spritage (taking all the possible combinations into account) and just went with rollover text. I think I still have all Shuri's sprites somewhere, too.

... originally Haste was going to turn people's sprite red. JJ1 tribute most people wouldn't get.

As for that plot hole, by the end of ToU2 I was pretty much just telling Lem to kill time and throw stuff at you. Presumably ToU3 picks up a few hours after the end of ToU2.

Mr. Gambino already tried that, I believe... and it would open up a new question of who would actually go through the door while it was open.

Anyway!

I drew my sword and dipped it into the liquid. When I removed it, it had a thin layer of smoking ice on its blade. That was disappointing. "I'm going to go see if I can take out the wheel from the last valve," I called to the party.
"With your ICE POWERS sword?" Uberbob asked.
I looked at my blade, which was still ice covered. "Sure."
I sprinted along the pipe through the windy wasteland until I was back at the valve. I tried pulling the wheel straight up, even standing on the pipes with it below me, but to no avail. It was very well made for a piece of rusty machinery. Whoever took out the last wheel must have been very strong. Or had a wrench.

[img]http://www.foxmage.com/u/map/LabtB.png[/img]

Turn right (W) and then towards the buildings in the distance...

I would head back to the dome, and get everyone onto one button.

I kind of stopped playing long ago ( might start again? ), but it the liquid is really that cold, and we're ever in the need to blow up something, remember the good old fact that sudden change in temperature blows up rocks. Or rusty metal.

But getting that cold stuff to a rock is very hard with no buckets or something alike...

anyway: do a 180° spin and go back to the party at the removed valve. Then go right.

What Xobim said.

Get dagger.

Going with Xo/WR because 2>1

I went back to the party. "The wheel was stuck on good. I couldn't get it off."
"Even with your ICE POWERS?" Uberbob asked.
"... yes."
We proceeded to follow the pipe to the right. It eventually led us around to the side of the rock mass, where the pipe vanished into the cliff face. Another pipe (I felt it: cold) nearby was coming out of the ground and running across the stream.
L33tz4n, still looking cold and riding in Fooruman's canoe, frowned. "So this is a dead end?"
"Looks like."


[img]http://www.foxmage.com/u/map/FeedR.png[/img]

Go back to the cave entrance, facing it, then go right.

EDIT: Map updated. It's now too big, so I'm just giving a link: http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1333/mapup4.png

Head towards the god(-) tower...

(North from cave entrance)

I gotta react faster... ;)

Go back to the broken valve and follow the cold pipe. Try to keep warm while doing so.

WR, do you mean head back to the first valve, turn it, and follow the pipe?

I think we should head towards the dome. We have not expirimented enough with the door.

We would follow the pipe, but not turn the valve.

Look at my map. We're currently at the cliff. Going back to the cave would mean that we would be facing it, yes? When we're at the cave entrance, we follow the pipe right, keeping in mind that the positions of the left and right pipes have been reversed.

What kind of 'experimenting' are you proposing?

And Xobim, I think we'll freeze to death if we follow the unheated pipes.

I was thinking of placing party members on one plate only and seeing what happens. AFAIK, we only did what the numbers suggested.

Oh? then you have my vote then! That's sort of what I wanted anyway.

Wallace, there was a river between you and the tower.

"Follow. We have a long walk," I said, turning and starting back to the cave entrance. Once we reached our starting point I took a right, leading down a pipe as of yet unfollowed.
Eventually the pipe took another split. In front of us and to our right, just beyond the fog, I could make out what looked to be shafts of light, probably from the surface, or even the ice cave. Over the wind, I could hear a loud hissing to my left.

[img]http://www.foxmage.com/u/map/ByjunkL.png[/img]

Feel the pipes.

feel the pipes, then follow the warm one.

Edit: ^Okay, go Left

Looking at map edit: Looking at the T (With no wheel) by the cliff, it looks as if that pipe might connect to the "Box Claw". What would happen if the heat is turned on it? I'm betting that dome is a heater shed, and there's bound to be tools in there (Maybe a valve wheel?)

Now assuming the Dome is right in front of us, Turning the valve on stright ahead would route the heat back to the dome. If we complete the circut, what would happen? It could heat the pipe a lot more, now that the heat is being returned...

Turn wheel. Feel the pipes. Turn wheel back, and go left.

I'll update the map after Radium's next post.