Well, the real secret to the Ebon Egg was that it had to be cancelled out. The keying the word cancelled. Anything that could be used to negate it would have worked. A portable hole worked because it tried to move it elsewhere, thus negating it from where it was, and it resisted, thus burning itself and the portable hole up.
When the divination was cast, I wasn't able to tell you to go get the other thing, which by the very name of it would have given you answer, but instead had to give advice based on what you could do at that moment. The only thing on you, then, was the portable hole.
At least you didn't attack it and let it become sentient. The module did say to let you come up with your own solution but the things you tried I just didn't see as doing it, given the solutions they offered. As it was, it was a good thing you did destroy it because it was growing on it's own and would have become sentient on its own in just a few days anyway.
I was worried at how you were going to figure out how to destroy it actually. I didn't think you'd take nearly as long with the lock, but they did set it up that you would focus on the positions of the skulls and not just trying to learn the order. When you kept trying to make the skulls be one way or the other, I had to bit my tongue to keep from yelling out, "forget which is up or down and just turn them already."
Josh did verify more than once that the skulls moved the other ones despite which way it faced, which I kept hoping you would notice and realize meant which way it faced was irrelevant. Ah well. I wish I could have had the destruction of the Egg be more dramatic for you all, but sometimes saving the world is anti-climatic. -Frisk
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Date: 2006-11-19 06:19 am (UTC)When the divination was cast, I wasn't able to tell you to go get the other thing, which by the very name of it would have given you answer, but instead had to give advice based on what you could do at that moment. The only thing on you, then, was the portable hole.
At least you didn't attack it and let it become sentient. The module did say to let you come up with your own solution but the things you tried I just didn't see as doing it, given the solutions they offered. As it was, it was a good thing you did destroy it because it was growing on it's own and would have become sentient on its own in just a few days anyway.
I was worried at how you were going to figure out how to destroy it actually. I didn't think you'd take nearly as long with the lock, but they did set it up that you would focus on the positions of the skulls and not just trying to learn the order. When you kept trying to make the skulls be one way or the other, I had to bit my tongue to keep from yelling out, "forget which is up or down and just turn them already."
Josh did verify more than once that the skulls moved the other ones despite which way it faced, which I kept hoping you would notice and realize meant which way it faced was irrelevant. Ah well. I wish I could have had the destruction of the Egg be more dramatic for you all, but sometimes saving the world is anti-climatic. -Frisk