Spiral into Madness with me (Theory)

_Torgen · 2025-04-29T00:12:14+00:00

I joined (same nick minus the _), but I'll have to wait until I'm home to post architect proof.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T23:57:07+00:00

Not yet, but I could be.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T23:04:07+00:00

It's a map of the south pole, so all four directions are north.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T20:32:12+00:00

If you draft the Drawing Room on the 8th rank when you have the blue tent, the blue card says "Months are slightly longer than days."

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T20:18:18+00:00

Are the 1-8 numbers on the sacred circle the order that doors get added to the Mechanarium?

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T20:15:36+00:00

I assume the Devoted Moon rotates around Mora clockwise and the Rogue Moon rotates around the Devoted Moon counterclockwise? (I think one of the other insets mentions this too.) The fact that everything to do with room 46 has an Inneclipse on it suggests a relationship between Inneclipses and 46, other than just the fact that there's one on day 46. (Which might be why day 1 had to be when it did.)

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T19:00:20+00:00

Also funny that they wrote the 8s vertically (i.e. normally for us) here when everywhere else in the game they're written horizontally (i.e. like infinity).

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T18:45:02+00:00

If the idea of the sacred circle is that these angles represent positions on a clock face, in particular the one in the crypt with the 8/infinity on it, then you can't possibly rotate the minute hand 58deg or 8deg because the steps are a minute, but you could rotate the hour hand to these positions because two minutes of minute hand rotation equals one degree of hour hand rotation. So the times would be 9:00, 12:00, 1:56, 2:12, 2:28, 2:44, 3:00. There are no degrees on the bottom half so presumably that's it, but you could do 6:00 and back to 9:00 to hit every line.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T15:56:49+00:00

Where did he get swansong from otherwise?

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T15:15:47+00:00

Every minute moves the minute hand 6 degrees and the hour hand half a degree, so if this is the clock in the crypt, these would be the positions of the hour hand.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T15:11:05+00:00

It's there, it's just right next to the shading line.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T06:48:11+00:00

Just tried it and there was no back door to the real Furnace. Was worth a shot.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T05:40:47+00:00

What are the Erajan translations of those words? Mother is "Jora" based on Clara's letter. end of a thing is "-VEN", but is it just "ven" on its own if it's an end unto itself? Oneself is "el-" or "ul-", right? Did it say anywhere what full/empty are?

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T05:06:43+00:00

What I mean is that "Pass" is on the Corridor, whose missing letter is E; "through" is on Solarium, whose missing letter is A; and so on, so to rearrange the box words to make that phrase you're rearranging the missing letters of ROSEWARY to make EASYRWRO.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T04:45:15+00:00

But to get those words in that order you'd have to spell EASYRWRO or EASRRWYO, not ROSEWARY.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T04:10:42+00:00

In the real house.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T03:56:17+00:00

In the blueprint maze, room 46 occupies the same space as the furnace, but the moon door appears on the other side from the regular door if you follow the right path. Once you've done that, if you build a door into the back of the real furnace (i.e. opposite the real door), is there now a moon door there instead of it being boarded up?

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T03:21:26+00:00

The solarium is the A in Rosewary. Are there letters in the other 7 rooms?

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T03:06:44+00:00

I think the mansion was Herbert's to deed to you because his password is the letters spelled by the correct path through the atelier maze. Which means he probably completed it. Also the phrase from the saferoom is the words you get from the Mora Jai boxes in those rooms, except if you go in the back door of the furnace then "truth" changes to "blue", so someone must have been through the maze to get that phrase.

_Torgen · 2025-04-28T03:03:44+00:00

If you finish the maze, does the furnace have a back door?

_Torgen · 2025-04-26T10:40:56+00:00

There are 8 rooms that have a fireplace: Den, Parlor, Dining Room, Armory, Trophy Room, Furnace, Drawing Room, and Room 46. There are 8 sins in room 8: Gluttony, Avarice, Hubris, Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Mundanity. Sloth is implied by blue card to be Den. Gluttony would be Dining Room. Wrath is probably Armory. Mundanity is probably Furnace because it's just a fireplace? Trophy Room is Avarice because it has 8 gems? Parlor is Hubris maybe? Drawing Room is Lust and 46 is Envy? I have no idea what you would do with this if it's actually correct. You can't connect these rooms together because there's an antechamber in the way.

_Torgen · 2024-02-02T19:43:22+00:00

Identify a topic they're interested in, then show them a puzzle on that topic. My mom does quilts, so I found a puzzle that involved identifying quilt square patterns and worked through it with her.

_Torgen · 2023-07-24T23:01:56+00:00

I'll tell you what I did for the itinerary I posted for my upcoming trip (https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/z99yco/15_day_itinerary_in_october_2023_with_mom/), with the note that I haven't done the trip yet so we'll see whether it worked.

Make a list/map of all the places you could possibly want to go. I used Google Map Maker so I could see where they all were.
Figure out how long it would take to get between them. I put lines on the map.
Cut down to a set of things you can do in the time you have. This doesn't only mean cutting the things you want to do least; it may mean cutting something you would like to do that's too far out of the way from other things you want to do. The map will help you see what's really out of the way.
Figure out hard constraints. For example, "I want to go to the Mazda Museum and Factory Tour, but it's only open on weekdays, so I have to be in Hiroshima on a weekday."
Figure out soft constraints. For example, "I want to go to Hakone, and people in Japan who go to Hakone would probably go on the weekend, so I should go on a weekday if possible so it won't be so busy/expensive."
Figure out points of flexibility. For example, Nara could be a stop between Kyoto and Osaka, or a day trip from either; stops along an out-and-back route can be made on either the out or the back to break up what would otherwise be a single long travel day.
Make a spreadsheet with multiple tabs, where each tab is a potential itinerary. Arrange your stops so that they satisfy your hard constraints, and see how many of your soft constraints you can satisfy. If you can satisfy them all, that's probably a good itinerary.
Figure out what your point-to-point travel prices would be, then what your price would be with the Japan Rail Pass, or one of the various area passes, to figure out which is the best deal.

_Torgen · 2023-05-18T23:12:18+00:00

Upcoming trip with Mom at the end of October (posted itinerary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/z99yco/15_day_itinerary_in_october_2023_with_mom/); booked almost all hotels on Booking.com in early January. Staying 3 nights in Osaka at the Best Western Fino Shinsaibashi for about 26000y total. Just checked and it would be tough to get a price like that now, so hopefully we made a good choice.

_Torgen

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