r/myst

Hi all again, I had to create a new post so I could add my updated scribble. Please someone tell me if I am on the right track with this. I don't understand how what the order of the totems are when the last stone lifted has to be no.6 when there is obviously an 8 in the mix. Any help would be great fully appreciated, I am pulling my very thining hair out with this!!! Cheers,

I've had these since I originally bought them as they were released. Who's with me?

Hi fellow explorers, I am seriously hoping someone can help me. I am stuck in the puzzle regarding the ring of stones with the animal totems on them. I have watched heap of YouTube clips but nothing seams to work. I have attached what I think are correct details of numbers and animals but clearly I am wrong somewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

Wat Phu Phrao Temple in Thailand near the border of Laos.

Looks like it's straight out of Uru.

Recently, I came across a book in a second-hand bookstore that I simply couldn't walk past.

It's an old Russian edition of Myst: The Book of Atrus!

With original illustrations by artists S. Merkulov (cover) and A. Yeremin (black-and-white drawings).

As far as I can tell, this is a licensed translation, which, given the year (1997), sounds pretty wild.

Here's a brief description from the back cover:

"It's not easy at age 14 to learn from your father that you can create new worlds! Young Atr worships his father and sees him as his ideal. But a real shock awaits him: the object of his adoration turns out to be a cold and cruel cynic. The conflict between father and son escalates when the beautiful Katran appears..."

Notable quirks:

· The book is simply titled "MYST."("МИСТ")

· I've only flipped through it so far, but from what I can tell, there's no mention anywhere that this is connected to a game series.

· Atrus is rendered as "Atr," and Gehn is called "Gen" (a literal rendering of his name). D'ni called D'ni. ("Атр", "Ген", "Д'ни")

· Otherwise, the translation is pretty good, though I haven't done a side-by-side comparison yet.

In any case, this is a very interesting artifact. And I got it pretty cheap (~$6).

--- *** ALL KEYS USED *** --- Very sorry, all the keys are used now. Original post below:

Hi Folks, you might remember me posting a while ago, about my 'Myst adjacent' game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4556080/The_Clock_the_Queen_and_the_Door_on_the_Beach/

I'm looking for testers, and have a handful of keys to give away. You get access to a full pre-release copy of the game. If you find bugs ( you shouldn't ), great, but what I'm really looking for is, feedback from people who like this sort of game.

To be clear, it's not a Myst clone, there is no Lore, or book reading, but it does have a story of sorts and the same kind of feel.

If you're interested, please drop a comment in this thread, and I'll PM you a key. If you'd rather wait until it's released, it would help immensely if you wishlist it :)

How is the Moiety getting these moths to be attracted to this one spot and in the shape of the animal pictogram? For that matter how did they make sure only the flowers in the tree would be bloomed to form the pictogram of the beetle??

At first I thought when I found the sight-glass that since the white 'invisible ink' they used is made from the juices of a mushed up fruit, and since the moths were also attracted to the spilled paint bucket, that meant the fruit is a natural food of the moths and they're attracted to it. Maybe they glow white too because the juices get stuck to their wings when they fly around and land in it.

But there's no juices laid out on the ground here to attract the moths, so why the hell do they just all hang out here in this shape?

It just seems beneath the legacy of Riven to have something so gamey that doesn't actually make real-life sense..

I'm very torn about the change to Gehn's relationship with the starfield. It was such an ominous dangerous thing in his eyes in the original it's really hard to imagine he'd venture out into it and walk around on floating platforms.

But regardless what I really want to know is what the hell this is.

Yeah it's cool they took the round planet/rock from the old Riven Cyan-logo back in the day and made it a literal thing in the game world now, but some explanation of it's significance would definitely be appreciated. What IS this big ass rock, why is it affixed to a set place in space enough that something can be anchored to and rotated around it?

I know the distractingly obvious light-house lamp ripoff is supposed to be the device that charges the fire-marbles.. but WHY does it charge the fire marbles? What exactly is it generating energy from? From the sphere? From the starfield itself? Why does Gehn need to be in the starfield to generate power for the marbles?