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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3933994" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>(OOC: I think I got the answer from the way the description arranged them in order from one to seven and paid so much attention to eyes--I'm assuming this was copied from boxed text, but they should have probably like mixed them up a bit I guess)</p><p></p><p><span style="color: red">"This is a combination lock, so each of these pictures probably corresponds to a number. The note mentioned 'looks to', and these are arranged in order from one to seven eyes, so that is probably the mapping between beast and number on this end of the combination. Unfortunately, the note included a different set of monsters. We may be able to map both ways, though. The chimera is six because it has three heads, the cyclops is one, the medusa is questionable because all the snakes in the hair have many eyes, but we'll just try two first and assume the maker of the combination was not so clever, an umber hulk I don't know for sure since I don't know much about it, but we can try each possibility there, and the basilisk has two. Sunrise means we turn east, so maybe right, and sunset would be turning left. We know this umber hulk thing can't have two eyes because it sits in between medusa and basilisk, so we don't have to try that."</span></p><p></p><p>(OOC: I doubt anyone has the right Knowledge to know in character that an umber hulk has 4 eyes, but eventually they will try the combination 6-1-2-4-2, which I believe to be correct.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3933994, member: 29014"] (OOC: I think I got the answer from the way the description arranged them in order from one to seven and paid so much attention to eyes--I'm assuming this was copied from boxed text, but they should have probably like mixed them up a bit I guess) [color=red]"This is a combination lock, so each of these pictures probably corresponds to a number. The note mentioned 'looks to', and these are arranged in order from one to seven eyes, so that is probably the mapping between beast and number on this end of the combination. Unfortunately, the note included a different set of monsters. We may be able to map both ways, though. The chimera is six because it has three heads, the cyclops is one, the medusa is questionable because all the snakes in the hair have many eyes, but we'll just try two first and assume the maker of the combination was not so clever, an umber hulk I don't know for sure since I don't know much about it, but we can try each possibility there, and the basilisk has two. Sunrise means we turn east, so maybe right, and sunset would be turning left. We know this umber hulk thing can't have two eyes because it sits in between medusa and basilisk, so we don't have to try that."[/color] (OOC: I doubt anyone has the right Knowledge to know in character that an umber hulk has 4 eyes, but eventually they will try the combination 6-1-2-4-2, which I believe to be correct.) [/QUOTE]
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