Myst 2 Riven Chapter 4

2018: English translation by: Dick Leeuw Screenshots and Web Lay-out by Louis Koot

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Upon arrival you will see a door through the windscreen of the tram, in the corner on the right side of the Tram. This tram station has 2 platforms. But the Tram has only one exit door on one side. You can now only get off on the left. If you want to leave the tram to the right platform, you will have to turn the Tram first. But don't do this now.

You automatically turn left. At least that happened to me. If that is not the case with you, go left yourself. You see the entrance of a tunnel. Go through the tunnel and then up the iron stairs. As you go up these stairs, take a look to the left and to the right once in a while to enjoy the view

Above you will find the landscape of Plateau Island for you. Follow the walkway over the island all the way until you are on the lift platform in the rock. During your trip along the path, take a look at the left and the right to see how the landscape keeps changing. The first part of the path goes through the "Swamp" and then the path takes you through the "Rock Garden". Almost at the end of this "rock garden" the path goes over a large round hole. Look down here.

So there is apparently a space under the island. Would that be the Observation Room that Ghen talks about in that one loose diary page on the table in his laboratory? You find out later. Continue on the path. The path then goes up via a staircase between the walls and now you are in the gorge of the "Miniature Riven". You actually walk through a large water bowl and all 5 Riven Island are in miniature. So it is actually a large, lifelike Riven map.

Continue along the path until you are in the crack on the lift platform. You then turn around automatically. Look carefully at the bottom left of the screen, because there is the elevator button in the wall. Press the button and the elevator will bring you up. Above you will find a short path that ends above the Water basin with the Miniature Riven. Just stay and turn around and get out of the elevator.

You are now at the lake of Plateau Island and you see in front of you a large dome-shaped building in the lake. In the Dome building you will find the Floor plan Room, but you cannot enter it because the walkway has not been rolled out. Turn right and then go 5 steps ahead, over the wooden path that is built over the lake. and ...... at the end of the path you will reach a Viewer and, in the distance, you will also see the Marble Dome of this Island.

Click on the Viewer to get back into the close-up of the thing. Well ..... this Viewer is broken so you cannot see the symbols on the Dome.

Yet you can open the Dome simply by clicking the button again in quick succession. The Dome on the other side of the lake, will open.

Turn around and go back 5 steps along the path to the Dome Building. Also pay attention to the wooden Wahrk Totem poles that stand here in the lake around the dome. Those Wahrk Piles are still important later in the game. At the Dome, turn left again and now across the lift gap to the end of the short trail and ...... You now look over it:

Look down. You are standing above the Water basin with the Miniature Riven. In the Water basin you can see the 5 Riven Islands. From top left to bottom right you see: 1 = Crater Island, 2 = Temple Island, 3 = Prison Island, 4 = Plateau Island, 5 = Jungle Island.

At the bottom of your screen you see the square control panel and on that panel you see 5 buttons in the shape of the islands. Number these 5 buttons now, from top left to bottom right, as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and then press button 1, so press the button for Crater Island. Take a good look at the Crater Island. On the Crater Island you can see water bubbling up and the water then forms a Relief sphere. You have now activated the miniature Crater Island.

Leave it like this and turn around and go back through the crack to the lake and ........... Now a gangway has been rolled out over which you can enter the Dome building.

Apparently the gangway is rolled out as soon as you have activated one of the islands in the Water basin.

Go inside the Dome and up the stairs and ...... you are zoomed in on the 3D Relief Floor Plan. It's a grid of 5x5 squares......so there are 5 columns and 5 lines. Name the columns from left to right as A, B, C, D, E. Name the lines, from top to bottom as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This grid is a coordinate grid

In the Magnifying Glass you see the island that you have activated on the panel above the water basin and that is Crater Island,.

You now have to find out, for each of the 5 islands, what the exact coordinates are of the Marble Dome on that island. Crater Island is now selected and you see that it consists of 4 squares, each square is divided into 5 x 5 squares. It is a little bit difficult to find the Marble Dome on Crater Island because it is underground, look for an indentation in the surface of the island. That is the spot of the Marble Dome. You find the correct spot when you click the squares in the magnifying glass. You can click on the magnifying glass lever to rotate the map, but you have to take the orientation of the squares into account. You must determine the coordinates squares are in the original position. In this picture you see the location of the Marble Dome on Crater Island

Go back to the panel above the water basin and now activate Plateau island on that panel.

Go back to the Dome building and zoom again in on the grid. In the magnifying glass you now see the grid of Plateau Island. Now find the coordinates for the Marble Dome on Plateau Island

All right.....I hope you now get the hang of it. Go activate, on the panel above the water basin, the other 3 islands and then find the coordinates for the Marble Domes for those island to on the grid.

Note from Louis: Look........It's difficult to explain this coordinates puzzle , and it is best that we do not bother you any further with trying to explain it to you. Just play around a bit with it and try to find out de coordinates of all 5 Marble Domes on all 5 island. You need those coordinates to solve the Marble Game, on the roof of the Golden Temple, to supply power to all Marble Domes. But if you do not understand this puzzle then it's not a great disaster because I give you the solution here......

Here are the coordinates of all 5 Marble Domes on all 5 Islands, placed in a table.....

Island	Square on panel water basin	Squares on the grid = coordinates
Crater Island	1	B4
Plateau Island	4	A2
Temple Island	2	A1
Jungle Island	5	D2
Prison Island	3	B1

Have you found all the coordinates or you are just fed up with this puzzle then just take my solution. If you have also opened the outer shell of the Marble Dome here on Plateau Island then you are ready here. You now know for each Marble Dome the yellow symbol and the coordinates. What you don’t know yet is the color that belongs to every Marble Dome. We are going to find out that now.

Leave the Floor Plan and head back the lift platform in the crack. The elevator button is located at the bottom left of your screen.

Press the elevator button and you will go down. Follow the path across the island and descend the stairs back to the tram station.

Don’t start the Tram because you will not leave this Island yet. Because you have now reversed the Tram you can now enter the other platform.

So turn left and get out of the Tram again and .......... On the platform turn to the left, if that does not happen automatically, and then you go to the door

Open the door by clicking on the door handle and then go 3 steps further through the dimly lit corridor.

Before you is the round Water chamber. On the left side of path is a lever. Click on the Handle and ........ out of the water in the round room, a Golden Lift Booth now rises and the door opens automatically. Enter the elevator cabin and then click, on the bottom left of your screen, the button and ............

The cabin closes and lowers while it also rotates a quarter turn. When you are on the bottom, you realize that you are now in the "guts" of the Plateau Island, the door opens again.

Go 4 clicks ahead through the Lava Room and then continue 4 clicks through the tunnel and then .......... you see a guy standing in the tunnel.

The guy is frightened and he runs away to the left. Follow the guy into the side hall and you can see how the guy is getting away with the Tram.

This Tram connects the Plateau Island with the tram station, at the bottom of the Wahrk Idol on the Jungle Island. Turn around and return to the main tunnel via 2 steps.

Turn left and continue 3 times ahead through the main tunnel and then ...up the long stairs and .............

So you are here under the lake of Plateau Island. You will see a Left Handle and a Right Handle. On the Right lever you see a Red Button. Click on the Red Button.

The throne is turning around and you are now looking through the lake. You can now see a lamp in the middle of the screen. The lamp hangs at the bottom of one of those Wahrk Totem poles that you saw standing in the lake. There are 6 of these totem poles in the lake, so there are 6 lamps.

Now click the Right Handle. The right lever folds to the left and now the Round Color wheel comes down.

Look down and you are zoomed in on this color wheel. On the Color Wheel you see 6 pentagonal buttons and on each button you see a Yellow Symbol. So these are the Yellow Symbols that you have also seen on the Marble Domes. Have you noted which Symbol belongs to which Marble Dome? At each button you see a "Label" with a hole in it and you see that on the bottom of the wheel there is a Red Marking

If you press the button that is in the Red Marking, you will see a Lamp lights in a certain color in the round window. Well, that color belongs to that symbol. If you click on the "label" of the button that is to the left of the Red Marking, then that symbol button appears in the red marking and you can click on this button again to see which in color the lamp will light up. This way you discover which color belongs to which symbol and so you know which color belongs to which Dome.

When you have the symbol of the Jungle Island in the Red Marking, a Red Lamp will light up, then you suddenly look back through the lake and a life-size Wahrk comes to swim you.

The red Lamp is apparently the signal for the Wahrk that it is feeding time and the animal expects to be fed. If you press this symbol 4 times or more on this symbol button you will notice that the Wahrk will become a little bit more angry and eventually he will ram your throne.

So if you have put the symbol in the red mark for each of the 5 islands and then clicked on that symbol, the lamp will light up in a certain color. However .... at the Crater Island the lamp does not light up. The color that belongs to the Crater Island you have to "gamble", but it is not a big gamble. Here are all 5 symbols again with the corresponding colors.

When you've found all color combinations, click Up and then back on the Right Lever to remove the Color Wheel. Then click on the Left lever and another wheel will come down. Zoom in again. This wheel also has a large window with left and right a button. Around the wheel are 4 "Labels". Click the Right button. In the screen you can now see the Lagoon of the Jungle Island. You can view different points of the lagoon by clicking on the 4 "labels". One of the labels shows you the shadow of a kind of fish on the rock and the shadow is also mirrored in the water. Watch the WHITE EYE

This is the missing 5th animal that belongs to the 5th Wooden Eye that you found in Ghen's laboratory and on which the D'ni number 1 stood. Now you know all 5 animals which you have to click on in the Moiety Cave on the Jungle Island, there are 25 stones with animals on it. Click the Left button. You now look at Prison Island via a camera in Catherine's Cell. Keep looking calmly until you see Catherine appear and disappear again. It may take a while but Catherine will appear and you will see her disappear.

We now know the Coordinates of the 5 Marble Domes and we know which Color belongs to which Island. So we could now solve the Marble puzzle, but we are not doing that right now. We also found the 5th animal with which we can now solve the tombstone Puzzle in the Moiety Cave on Jungle Island to travel to the Moiety (the rebels of Catherine). We are going to do that first because we also want to learn the 5-digit code with which we can open the Funnel Telescope. If we do not do this now and first solve the marble puzzle, the Domes will open to go to the "Universe of Ghen", then you will never find the code for the Funnel Telescope and then you cannot finish the game

Look up again and click on the Left Lever again to make the wheel disappear and then click on the Red Button of the Right Handle again to turn the Throne back to the stairs. Then go down the long stairs and continue to the side tunnel and enter the Tram station again. Press the blue button to call the tram from Jungle Island.

Enter the tram, turn the tram and start tram and enjoy the ride again and you will arrive at Jungle Island again

2018: English translation by: Dick Leeuw Screenshots and Web Lay-out by Louis Koot