Eclipse and Equinox
By now, you will have been investigating the family of keystrokes suggested by Roger's revelation that the Gateway is where you start your new searches, and you have found that the combination 'ZBS-Lotus-Dog' gets you directly to the "chakras" selection page. Roger has installed some shortcuts, although this aspect of the game is handicapped compared to other implementations.
I remember watching someone try to get Lara Croft across a pathway of fire for hours! - and after finally succeeding, frantically saving that position as a place to immediately start from. There is no comparable relief in the WoW, and some of the endgame puzzles require a lot of actions to get poised for yet another failed attempt.
When we select the 'navel' chakra we are sent on the 'Tessaract' path. A puzzle setup is presented to us:
And a chance to ask for a hint is put up. The clues we see on this page turn out to describe a rare solar eclipse ("the light of day disappeared") - an eclipse that happened on an equinox ("the days of light yielded to the days of darkness").
I guess I'm not poetical enough - I needed the hint.
Ethan Siegel has just described a similar rare event, an eclipse during a solstice, but the general principle applies.
Here is our eclipse path:
As Roger describes, it starts near Western Samoa, proceeds across Asia, including the Altai mountains (part of the easternmost hard boundary between Asia and Europe that held back most of the Mongol invasions through history) and ended at Betpak-Dala (a desert in Kazakhstan).
The hint Roger gives to find the date of this eclipse is: you have been presented the first 15 Fibonacci numbers. Find the 16th.
And that's where we will pick up, next time.
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