


I placed two more marbles in the right locations, though I wasnt sure of their colors. The Temple Island dome, standing on a pillar of rock and dwarfed by its enormous brother right next door. The Bookmaking Island dome, placed behind trick doors in a cave on Gehns private island. The Village Island Dome, high in the treetops, gated off from the villagers that lived beneath. It would be used soon.įirst I placed the marbles I was sure of. The trap book weighed on me, lying in my pack with my pens and journal. They had reason to be, so much of this Age was falling apart at the seams.īut I had one last obstacle between me and Gehn. Most of it had been so barren, but the few people I saw were scared. Id seen so much of this Age in my time here. It felt like my last trip around Riven as I headed back to the Great Golden Dome. The grid had 6 colored marbles after all, and the only one missing is purple. Looking at the colors I do have, process of elimination might not be out of the question though. 3 unknowns, with a spare color makes for far too many permutations. And the color light for the Bookmaking Islands symbol is broken, so I dont know that color. I dont think theres any earthly way of getting to the island with the giant tree stump, so I dont know that symbol either. The Dome on Map Island had a broken viewfinder, so I dont know its symbol. This worked out less well than I thought. Going back to check each one would be even more time consuming. So I just need to figure out the symbols and the colors. The domes themselves had a symbol to open each one. Unfortunately, the last light had been broken, but it should do as a place to start. It just took a little playing around to remind myself of them. It had been made to monitor the village and the pipe connections underwater, but it was also information on the color symbols The giant survey room had given the information. I just had to turn the tram around and take a short elevator ride. And fortunately it was on the same island. Of course I had a better idea about the colors of the domes. With a little mental numbering I had something I could put in the big grid. But the crater on top of it was still shown on the map. The dome on Bookmaking Island was underground, of course. It was a quick job to find the other domes and their locations. The map had been left on Temple Island, and it took just a moment to find the Dome, nestled on its own pillar of rock.Ī large grid of 5x5, with each square subdivided into 5x5. Thankfully, Gehns own lackeys had their map of the island. I had to place the right marble in the place where each dome is on the map. So thats what the marbles represented, the domes for each island. The water still shimmered in the sunlight from when I last played with it. Take the tram (Which had become increasingly pedestrian) to the Map Island and follow the path.

For Gehn, the important thing would be his books, each of which is housed in a smaller dome. Through Gehns workshop, hitting the Tram button on the way, and to the Tram stop So what do the marbles represent, along with their placement on grid? Perhaps the locations of something important. Next through the insides of the Great Golden Dome and over the massive footbridge to Bookmakers Island Thats their purpose, and this grid is supposed to represent that. These buildings are meant to power the books. The other side of the Age, sure, but it gave me time to think.įirst through the Gate Room, rotating the room around once more to take the other path There was a place to look at a map, the water and metal pin contraptions on the Map Island. This might be a grid representation of Riven.Īfter all, Catherine said it all used to be one island, right? The pieces would fit together before they broke apart. This dome is connected to a smaller dome on each of them. I think theyre the five different islands. This grid it has dark lines, and the shapes theyre in, I think Ive seen them before. Part 16: Entry 16 - Solving the Dome Soundtrack The Red Cave
