Fan Age expedition: Perlenstern’s Ages + The Maze [spoilers]
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:45 am
- The Maze Show Spoiler
Wianeroy, released in March 2009, is in a desert, with a building and a lake. The building has translucent windows, a fountain, and a room with a sofa. A poster welcomes the explorer to Perlenstern’s first Age and acknowledges the help of Rich and Wodan944 (whose works we will soon visit). It is possible to step between a plant and the internal building, to walk to the back: a gangway over a … large blob of brown matter
On the other side of the Age, you can jump in the lake, and fall to the bottom, filled with … more brown matter. Escape is at hand: a ladder leading to a tunnel, with numbers along the wall, which leads to a large room divided in two by a suspicious-looking yellow area. Think of the Word of God challenge from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: only a few tiles are solid, the others will drop you into a vat of tomato sauce. No panic link, thankfully, just a walk of shame through a hidden tunnel back to the room. The numbers along the tunnel wall are the key to find the correct tiles.
- Solution Show Spoiler
Soundgarden, also released in March 2009, is an experimental/utility Age, intended to showcase the various types on footsteps (woodbridge, metal, hardwood, tile, rug, grass, dirt, water, deepwater, stone) and ladders (metal, rope, wood) available in the game; each type has its own rectangular island (with no fence, so watch out).
The Maze, released in December 2008, drops the brave explorer in a corridor with a big blue button. The button shuffles the walls on one side, creating a long maze. Time to put your orienteering skills to the test
Those who manage to get to the other side will be rewarded with … another corridor, in a different style. The prize is solving the maze itself, after all!I do not know if the maze actually generates a new maze in a procedural way, or if there are a few pre-established configurations. In any case, they are quite long, so do not get discouraged. The Maze also incorporates an ‘anti-cheat’ feature: trying to /jump higher than the walls to see the end will land the cheater on a floor (that blocks the view) with a wide panic region.
A Twitch stream will be available for the next two weeks.
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For the next three weeks, I will take a break from the Expeditions: next weekend for Mysterium, and the following two I will be travelling. I will be back on the 30th
Art Farmer has offered to host extra expeditions in the meantime, so keep an eye for announcements!
Next time (August 30 at 11:00 KIT) we will visit two connected Ages by Ametist: Botan and Moysenland. Until then!
(Previous tour: Vaiskor & Hayal)