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Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:48 am**

Does anyone remember the game play for the Heek Table and how it was suppose to work???

From my memory of my Beta testing days I believe that the background went like this:

You would get the ink from the Beetle to empower the Pen to write the Linking Book. The Idea of the game was to choose the Item that would over power the others.

The thing was the Beetle enjoyed eating paper.

SO

The Pen defeated the Beetle
The Linking Book was more powerful than the Pen
But the Beetle would eat the Linking Book

Have I gotten this correct or am I just getting senile??

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:30 am**

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Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:50 am**

How do you like that :lol:

I had it reversed :roll:

Pen beats Book.
Book beats Beetle.
Beetle beats Pen

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:57 am**

Wamduskasapa wrote::oops: How do you like that
I had it reversed

I think your previous version had some logic, Wam - I don't see why the beetle should beat the pen, given a pen is sharp and could inflict some damage on a beetle. But I can certainly imagine the book squishing a beetle. :lol:

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:58 pm**

Acorn wrote:
Wamduskasapa wrote::oops: How do you like that
I had it reversed

I think your previous version had some logic, Wam - I don't see why the beetle should beat the pen, given a pen is sharp and could inflict some damage on a beetle. But I can certainly imagine the book squishing a beetle.

RPS itself has similar non-logic in its rules.

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:13 pm**

The beetle eats the pen.

:ugeek:

Posted: **Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:36 am**

Tsar Hoikas wrote:The beetle eats the pen.

ah, of course - now you put it like that, it makes perfect sense

I don't have the same issue with RPS, Deledrius, I think paper wraps rock is fine - what would rock do to paper - flatten it? And the other two are self-evident.

Posted: **Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:09 pm**

Here's an answer I found on this thread: http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20431

Post written on March 22nd, 2010 on MOULa forum

August Knight wrote:Although Gehn had continuously noted in his lab journals on Riven that Ink formulations were a failure. And then judging from his lab that beetles had some vital clue in creating ink for pens...

I have only implied though my observations in D'ni that the beetles were used for ink, via blood? or ground up beetles? The only indication I've had of "beetles" in the cavern is the heek game, and it's associated rule of beetles winning over pens.

I often joke that the beetles eats pens...to explain heek rules
but by merit of logic:

pens are necessary to write books...(pens win over books)
therefore
bugs are necessary to create pens..(beetles win over pens)

And to paraphrase both August Knight & Acorn (see post above on this thread) ... books are necessary to squish bugs...(books win over beetles) :lol:

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What he misses (AK) is that the beetles are quite central in Gahreesen. There are representations of them everywhere.

Posted: **Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:32 pm**

Gahreesen's beetles are there to detect books on visitors... (IIRC because they can smell the ink)
So I thought the beetle wins over the book.
But maybe these beetles detect the ink on the pen...
The pen wins over the book, since you write on the book.
And the book wins over the beetle because... well, you know

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