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Let me help you sort it out for you, Dtierce & also for Janaba who seems to have missed something about Tunnelgang's key. I'll make the parallel with Ehren's last post which was very clever of him to post
.
1) Let's begin with Ehren's stuff:
I had already a clear conception of how Elodea worlds were all interconnected. For me, Elodea stands at the top & covers the 3 other ages. Unterwelt is under the waterfall area. Schaztkammern is a bit decaled from Unterwelt & is under the tallest hills of Elodea (cross hill & shack hill) & Tunnelgang is a very narrow place in-between Unterwelt & Schaztkammern.
From Elodea, we cannot see the other parts. From Unterwelt, we can see on 3 different floors Schaztkammern immense cavern. The obvious would be the sun portal. There are also 2 alcoves on upper floors carved in the rocks giving nice vistas.
From Unterwelt, when you look through the hospital's blue windows, you can peek at the maze leading to Tunnelgang. You can figure out where it's located that way.
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HINT--->) From Tunnelgang, you can fully see the treasure rooms themselves as one room of Tunnelgang has a jointed wall with the huge treasure hall.
From Tunnelgang & from Schaztkammern, you can see the other ages since the lava flow is the same between ages & the room with the cloth (of Schaztkammern) is also paged in Tunnelgang (although as Ehren mentionned it to me...the cloth is on the reverse side, left hand palm
).
I was amazed to see that,
1st, Ehren has the possibility to do tricks like paging all the ages in a single big world (I know he has mentionned he tweeked himself his URU:CC install & he is not using the usual UAM/Drizzle tool/Offline-KI setting like we all do) &,
2nd, that it fits in reality
2) Back to my ... (
HINT--->):
How come I'm saying that you can fully see the huge hall in treasures room from Tunnelgang? Is there something Janaba missed about the "Key room in Tunnelgang with nothing working...". The journal there does explain to you some backstory, nothing about the key though.
You have 4 directions written in german. Anyone can understand:
N for Nord
S for Süd
O for Ost
W for West
Nord, Sud, Est, Ouest ... or North, South, East, West as you can see the similarity of pronounciation/spelling between french, german, & english is astonishing.
Wandering in Tunnelgang, you'll see 4 rocks on the ground with one letter each, that could be of great help to anyone interesting in mapping those worlds, I'm thinking of Ainia right now
. You'll also, in a corner of Tunnelgang, see a little note on the ground with this written on it: WSON.
In the last room of Tunnelgang, the one looking like a "nexus", you'll see some letters on the ground... You should maybe try something in that room, there might be more to it than just linking to another Elodea's part
Look closely at the walls, I'm sure you'll see something on one of them...like if someone had carved a rectangle in it. Maybe there's something there ?!!?!
I dunno, I've suddenly lost my memory ----------------
On another topic: Janaba is right. Here we talk abundantly about Dulcamara's merits, let's not forget other age writers who did deliver & surely are about to do just the same nice ages with a lot of interactions, places to visit, flaws
, discoveries, & so on. You would be surprised to know that each time I'm going to R'Osha... Korv... AHHH the Calena's 2nd age LOL, i'm always paying a small visit to my dear raccoon friend and laugh out loud when he emits his sound
(I go right next to him...after having jump over walls & have a chat with the sweet, lovely, & quite cute squirrel
)