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Do we know if we can battle all those enemies after the plot ends? I'm not strong enough to beat the tentacle yet (and have a chance at it's stamp )

Do the choose your adventure more than once to get different prizes. Please make a guide to see all the different paths we can take.

Yes, please make a guide. I'm running in circles

I mean.. The choose your own adventure stuff is fun in theory... but I just could not find myself invested enough to read everything. Same goes for the walls of text that take the place of a story. Did we really *need* another fight between our main characters? Why split up if your goal is headed in one direction? Why the hesitation from Baelia to just let the group know that we already know the identity of the Malevolent Being?

It's just... It all feels like filler...

I beat the tentacle thing and nothing happened. Is something special supposed to happen?

Isabellone, look up guide on how to beat stronger foes. I know on yt there is a vid on how to beat snowager on hard with certain items. There are items that you can use that can defeat stronger challengers.

Whoa, was not expecting that artwork, it is a nice detail that adds to the urgency of the events unfolding at the moment.

I wish they would update the Explore map / Faerieland / Faerie City map to reflect the plot hub artwork. This would be like *mwah* *chefs kiss*

I got a lost nyx doll just by going trought debris and then keep going foward

my best BD pet is only like 165 HP idk how to beat this new guy :')

The achievement "Choose Another Path" can be unlocked by finding Lost Nyx Doll when helping Nyx out of the dark.

Okay I suppose the end of the chapter was... decent. But it makes me wonder what the whole war council was about if in the end that all didn't even really matter..

I have found the Nyx Doll but still can't click on continue. This puzzle is even worse than the previous 3, normal ones. I'd like a solution, please.

Text adventure wasn't bad. The little scale "puzzle" at the end wasn't much of one, but it was a fine gimmick for a five minute thing, and certainly more interesting that the constant in-party melodrama we keep circling back to. Always comes back to Faerieland in the end though, because of course it does; that's three plots in a row now if I'm not mistaken.

Ok, so how does one find the Lost Nyx Doll? I got the book "Nyx in Voidland".

Finding the Nyx doll doesn't solve the puzzle @feketmacska - you have to keep going until Nyx finds her way out of the dark. Eventually you'll get to an option with a ladder.

@isabellone Those stamps will undoubtedly be coming down in price in short order. The tentacle is tough, but not nearly as much so as Drakara, and the stamps seem to be common enough that I got two just from fighting it to my 30 items for the day. Betting they'll be on the SW within a day or two.

I found my way out of the dark. Did not find a Lost Nyx Doll. DID find Nyx in Voidland book. Did not unlock achievement.

@feketmacska What dkeeperr said. Jump down the hole, then "follow the song" by clicking on the choices that match the do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scale (contain the syllable in the words) in order.

To get the Nyx Doll go through the cracks in the debris before going down the hole and just keep attempting to go forward until Nyx decides this isn't going anywhere.

The tentacle having a harder difficulty rating than Drakara but being 10000000x easier to defeat is a cosmic joke.

They seem to have pretty much given up on evaluating difficulty at all post Act 2 up until this tentacle; everything from Pant Devil to Drakara is marked exactly the same 40-70-100, which I guess is the default. I'm assuming that wasn't a priority.

That’s because losing to Drakara is what you’re meant to do @dkeeper.

Did it really subtract 10 points for completing the achievement
Choose Another Path ?

It's funny, I don't think I followed those notes at all.. yet still found the exit XD

@mzmolly
It gave me 10(x2) for the achievement so it's weird if you got a deduction.

@neolikepets
That isn't why the difficulty rating isn't accurate. They just gave it the same rating as everything else as @flairina said. She also should've been the final boss at those stats. Plenty of folks can beat her, if I had more health I could also do it - I have the required weapons just not enough health to get there.

35 prizes from fighting the Tentacle on Extreme and no stamp, boo

Can TNT PLEAAASE make up their mind on the "difficulty" of opponents though???
Tentacle goes down in 2 hits but has a difficulty of 1750?? Meanwhile Dracara needs a super strong BD pet and a legit strategy and she's difficulty 100??

After "reading" (skimming through) the story, seeing the plot hub page, and then seeing the massive tentacle and its supposed ridiculous difficulty, I fully expected to eat dirt so I tried him on Easy first. He had 300 HP, and 600 on Extreme.. for real?!

For me it's the other way around on Drakara, I have the HP but not the weapons :')
Still saving up for the puzzle box.

I got the doll (and lost acheivement) by following the cracks guide until you could choose "go right" 3-4 times. I can't remember the exact amount but I just kept going right lol. Hopefully that's the same for everyone!

Hey, we got ourselves a Lion King.

I want to see Drakara take over the hidden tower and sell new void themed items

Lost Nyx Doll
the item to find to get the "Choose Another Path" achievement

Question, I'm the only one that is stuck at page 5? it says I skip a page but when I replay the others pages it doesn't get fixed.

That little CYOA bit was honestly the closest I had to having fun with this plot since the Voidworks game way back towards the beginning. I got the doll and the achievement by going into the cracks and continuously going left. Once I was on the main path, it had to handhold me a bit to get me on the right path for the do-re-mi bit, though, and I wouldn't have gotten it without the hint here.

And at least something interesting is finally happening with the story, so all in all not a bad chapter, I suppose. Still can't wait for this plot to be over, though.

I found a lost Nyx Doll, and found Nyx in Voidland when I found the way out, earned the "Choose a different path" reward.

@ apophis @ flairinha

Xandra was right! What neopets and their owners do does not matter because of the brutal faerie hegemony. Yes, it's dressed up in delightful pinks and purples. But the hand inside that frilly mauve glove is made of cruel unrelenting iron. Dark faeries are just being honest about it.

I am not getting the achievement. It still says that it's incomplete. Did I do anything wrong?

Anyone else notice this?

If you reach a certain page of the puzzle, you get some choices, and one is a typo, lol. It's clearly supposed to say "go forward" but it says "go frowadr".

Wait, I found another and now idk if they're typos...There's also one that says "ro gigth"...UMMMM?

what weapons or strategy to beat the new challenger?

Okay, not typos...There's a whole page of them looking like that.

I'll stop spamming now, LOL. But I just wanna see this Lion King reference.

They're not typos, no. They are trying to get you on the correct path, and to notice what the text is telling you to do.

not to be callous but i'm so do-re-mi-fa-so-facking tired of the really predictable goatee-twisting dialogue lol. I wanted to see some Fyora chaos and what do I get. Lion King reference. This is legitimately the plot twist in the last season of Wheel of Time before it was cancelled re: the queen and her ~roommate~ betrayal. I'm almost surprised it wasn't a John Wick esque "she RIP'd my beloved petpet by accident and now must be punished" with that robot cammelior scene lol.

PUZZLE SOLVED!!! "Let's start at the very beginning" - a very good place to start!! If you know the Sound of Music song "do a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun!" then once you jump into the hole you can follow the pattern in the directions to get out of the puzzle! (For the prize I got Nyx in Voidland)

Also, note if you don't jump in the hole but instead keep exploring the cracks in the first room you can get a bonus prize for being lost. (I got the Lost Nyx Doll)

That did it! I got the achievement now!

can drakara just kick styx please

tried following the doh a deer a female deer thing and got the dead end, so WUT?

@grevyard why do want to kick a puppy!?

Also when did Styx become gray?

@hugsandtugsbear2 Styx accidentally got hit when Ozzy was trying to attack Nyx with the paint brush at the end Chapter 11. It's the last scene of Act 3

I see mention on what weapons needed to win the Drakara and tentacle battles, but I don't know where to find that info - can someone point me in the right direction, please?

Is anyone else just totally stuck on page 2? No matter what I click, it won't let me progress.

i like lore, but not when it come in the form of a wall of text, so i just read the summary and hope there's not an exam at the end of the plot xD

I didn't read and random click but what I found was that you don't always have to start from the beginning when you hit a dead end. If you get to a dead end and the First Hallway is a choice, go click the First Hallway. I was wondering what all the musical notes was about until I got to the choice of a musical note and the nice thing is you can pick the previous choice. So I did that when I got deadend (which I was wrong both times and was left with ti) and I then FINALLY got through. So go to previous choice if you want to test out all the paths.

I personally found the "choose-your-own-adventure" puzzle unintuitive. How you're supposed to interpret the clue "follow the song" is both too subtle and, to a degree, using meta logic. It's a puzzle where the person making it obviously knows what to do so they don't think how others would come to the same conclusion. Funny thing is I do think they realized this with some of the later choices trying to force/emphasize the solfège part in the choice you're supposed to pick, but I feel it's a little bit too late at that point.

First, let me go quickly over my experience with the puzzle. I got through the it mostly alright, figuring the best course of action was always some movement "forward". I tried to keep an eye out for anything music related in the paragraph, like if it mentioned a direction, but nothing stuck out (turns out I was looking in the wrong place, we'll talk about that). I believe my first deadend was the spiky/soft doors. Now, I kept being told the "darkness" was trying to keep Nyx there, so I thought this was a trap where the darkness would want you to go through the comfortable soft door rather then the spiky door. WRONG. Right after that was then the puzzle asking for the next note. "Ah, they probably want you to sing the solfège" so I clicked Do. WRONG. Ugh, Ti? Correct. Sure... whatever... I'm gonna use JN's guide to figure out what I need for the achievement and move on.

So, here's my problem with the puzzle. As we now know, at some point in the puzzle the choices you pick start including the solfège and those are the ones you're supposed to pick. First problem: inconsistency. Only at a later point does the "solfège choices" come into play, despite being told early on to follow the song. MAYBE had the choices followed the solfège as soon as they said "follow the song" I would have caught on... but probably not. Why? Because second problem: clue are in the choices, not the paragraph. (Cont.)

This is meta logic. This goes outside the boundaries of the puzzle's presentation. The choices are Nyx's actions, sometimes her thoughts. But the paragraph makes it clear Nyx doesn't know what's going on, so why would I think to search for the choices for the clue? A clue, if you remember a few seconds ago, doesn't show up until later choices. And as I said, I think they realized as they put emphases on the solfège parts in some of the choices. But at that point it's too late, we have no reason to think the clue would be in the choices, and for the ones which have the emphases they're written in a way it can just be presumed that it's showing Nyx's confusion and exhaustion (not helped that there were previous choices where it was Nyx essentially giving up which I found later led to deadends, so if you got one of those I could see you being weary of choices which shows Nyx faulting).

So, yeah, in the end it was more a guessing game then using the "follow the song" solution cause, in my personal opinion, you couldn't unless you already knew what to do. How could they have fixed this? First, don't include the hint "follow the song" until right when you need it. Or, describe the song is coming from a certain direction so Nyx follows it for a little while, but then when she gets to the doors she has to switch tactics. Speaking of which, it should have been the doors with the solfège clue and not the choices. Like the Spiky/Soft door is a good example, you'd want to be "SO"ft. If the final part of the puzzle was a series of doors with different attributes where the right choice was the ones having the solfège part (this is also when Nyx would be told to "follow the song"; or if you want to be cheekier "follow the sound of music"), it would have felt more natural and within the parameters of the puzzle.

Argh, I cannot figure out how to get Nyx through the maze. Any advice?

Oh, nevermind I got it. Don't know how...

A big thankyou to relatively - your comments really helped, I had got totally stuck trying to get the achievement - your post helped me crack it immediately

Anyone else not getting points from collecting void essences? Haven't for the past 9 days of collection.

I'm almost positive I lost points when I collected my void essences today and yesterday lol I think someone else.pointed that out, too

sorry, why's everyone talking about the lion king?

@smarag because in the story, king Mufasa was betrayed by his brother Scar who let the former fall to his death. I don't agree that "character drops another character to death" is always a reference to the lion king, honestly it makes sense considering they (Fyora and Drakara) were battling were at the top of the Hidden Tower

@smaragdeidechse

Last page of the chapter has a Lion King reference.

what a cliffhanger ending.

@popplia oh yea, I guess I was wrong then. Drakara's sentence is indeed a reference. thanks

Lore-wise, it is a pretty interesting choice to frame the Darkest Faerie as a Satan-like figure and I like it.

Is anyone else not getting the 100pt bonus for first time defeating a new enemy?

Tips on beating that weird tentacle? My Neopet is equipped with Thundersticks, Grapes of Wrath, and Lens Flare, and I managed to get to the third round, and it was a draw

block it's dark after all the freeze you use

@apophis324 I'm assuming they're going with a wall of text because when they were doing it slower, with all comics, people complained about its length, so this was to placate the complainers...who now have something else to complain about, I guess.

Wow. So this plot really is just emo Champions of/Battle for Meridell, huh?

Also, you don't have to make up a bunch of random/inconsistent lore to justify someone wanting to topple Fyora. Xandra proved that. This is just... a lot.

Ok uh, on the points checklist is says you earn 70 points when you 'Battle Otherworldly Nether Tendril for First Time'. But, I just did (and lost, b/c it has like 500 HP lol) and, didn't get any points (I checked and my point total on site is the same as on here so nothing was gained when I fought and died).
So, do you have to beat it for the points? If that's the case I think that should be specified somewhere.

Guys, you do know the phrase "Long Live The King" existed WAY before Lion King, right?

Infact, it existed since the 15th century. Also it's only partial the original phrase, the whole phrase is "the king is dead, long live the king". Said to have been first declared in France in 1422 upon the accession of Charles VII after the death of his father & previous king, Charles VI. In addition to being an announcement of a new ruler (usually the child of the previous), its meant to mean that the transfer of the sovereignty occurs instantly to the heir thus there is no "gap" where there is no ruler: the (previous) king is dead, long live the (new) king. And of course you can swap out "king" for "queen" when appropriate.

Here's the full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king!

@ dave: True, though at the same time it also feels like its a cliche. Lion King certainly popularized it, but since the phrase is a historical one I recall it being said in other places. Also a little history lesson never hurts.

Echoing what fozfyre said a couple comments above- I just fought the tentacle for the first time but lost, and I didn't get the 70 points. I know this week of plot is nearly over, but I think the requirement might need to be worded a lil differently 😅