I wrote the original notes for Legends of Windemere back in college. That was 11-15 years ago and I was an idiot back then. Apparently, I thought I would have all the books written before I graduated because none of the traps and puzzles have solutions. This is the current one:
The titular Compass Key is needed to get into some temples. The second temple has a puzzle to open the front door that involves 6 colored pillars. They . . . do . . . something. I have no idea how this went when I first thought it up. I don’t even remember is thing was from my own mind or the game. I assume it involves the 6 gems on the compass key, but that’s a stupid puzzle that even Luke will figure out in a few paragraphs.
Let this be a lesson to anyone working on fantasy books. Make detailed notes about traps and puzzles. The alternative is to stare at your notes and realize the younger version of you might have been smarter.
To sum up:
Homer Simpson moment
Legends of Windemere 
Oh how you make me smile friend! Huge hugs
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Thanks. 🙂
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Oh my Gawd Charles I haven’t talked to you all day except for all those times I did. But we have not commented much. I misssssed you. So about this post…I forgot.
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I know. I got nothing done today because something was missing. I’m still staring at this 6 colored pillar thing. Between that and the character name issue, I’ve been confused all day.
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I was too. I was on the phone all day trying to fix my departments. I need my buddy.
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*hugs* I hope you got everything fixed.
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Still working on it. This is the day that never fucking ends.
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Seems to have been a really long week. We should skip to the weekend.
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Lets go get ice cream and pizza.
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And chocolate covered strawberries.
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And some freaking beer.
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I’m drinking Sam Adams Cherry Wheat as we speak.
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hmmm.
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Hmmm or mmmm?
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both..
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You’ve never had Cherry Wheat?
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Cold, crisp, tasty beer in my Edgar Allan Poe beer glass. Unfortunately, I never mastered pouring beer without the foam part.
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I like the foam the mustache is so cuuuuute
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It tickles.
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sounds like college you set a trap for adult you…
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I set several. I can figure out a few of them, but this one is a real pain. I’m thinking it has to do with each color coordinating to one of the six main heroes. Not sure the order though. One isn’t more important than the others. I might have an idea brewing though.
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I normally like puzzles but can’t help you with this one. The key to your memory has gone missing with your idiot self.
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I think I’m figuring it out. Probably not the original version, but it’s a challenge for the heroes.
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Kind of reminds me of the game Oblivion… there is a part with pillars and you have to use spells from the four branches of magic in the right order…or you get zapped
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Thinking something along those lines. The order is going to be the key.
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it is in the game… can’t tell you how many times I got shocked trying to figure that thing out…you have to find all the hints to know what to do and even then it doesn’t reveal the order…trial and error there…
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I have to figure out the clues for this puzzle. Maybe a riddle or a simple question to get the heroes thinking.
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As a security professional, I cringe at most “heroes have to defeat the traps to retrieve the magical artifact” scenes. Sometimes I want to redesign the system so that it’s more efficient (giant rolling boulder, anyone?) and sometimes I want to smack the heroes and explain how they could simply avoid the trap entirely.
Ah, well. I am no fun to watch heist movies with, either–with a few exceptions, they are just absurd.
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Sadly, traps are necessary in books that have dungeons and treasure hordes. This specific ‘trap’ is unavoidable since they need to figure it out to make a stairway appear.
Mental note: Never watch Italian Job or the Oceans movies with you.
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Actually, “The Italian Job” is pretty realistic in terms of the safe work. I can also recommend a film called “Thief” from 1981 with James Caan as a safecracker–the drill points are deliberately obscured, but it shows what penetrating a high security container is like.
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The original or the remake of the Italian Job?
I remember seeing Thief on the shelves of the video store I worked at. I kept meaning to rent it, but it was stolen out of the case during my second month.
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The one I saw had Seth Green in it, so I’m assuming that’s the remake. I didn’t realize there was an original.
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That’s the remake. The original had Michael Caine in the role of Charlie.
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If only my conscious self could learn from the vast knowledge that my unconscious self has.
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My unconscious self is a jerk. Gives me ideas right before I pass out. That moment where I’m falling asleep and can’t stop it. I think it’s revenge for me drinking in college.
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id, ego… I like your terminology better. 🙂
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I think I’m more Id-based than ego. I definitely work more off instinct and unconscious thought.
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I have no idea what is being said here
🙂
Hey Charles..
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I’ve had this happen once – packing and finding old papers and notes and wondering who the hell wrote that 😛
Ellespeth
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I think that happens to me every week. I always go digging into my notebooks.
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