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I mean, um... Changes to The Watcher's Sanctuary. 
Anywho, before you read this topic I just want you to take a good long look (like you haven't already) at this picture:
[spoiler=Click to reveal smaller image.] [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Click to reveal larger image.] [/spoiler]
Now, take a look at this picture. It's how this place used to look back in The Path of the Shell.
[spoiler=Click to reveal image.] [/spoiler]
Goodness, there's quite the number of changes to this place.
There are two (really obvious) differences you'll notice within the first few seconds of looking at these pictures:
- The hologram is gone, which makes sense.*
- The color scheme has changed from orange to blue, which seems kind of, well, unnecessary. Sure, I think it looks better with the blue, but I don't see why the overall color scheme was moved to the opposite end of the color wheel. (By the way, I'm just going to note here that how the staircase changes from gray near the imager to blue is freaking amazing looking.)
[spoiler=*Click to reveal The Path of the Shell spoiler.]We most likely won't be doing that Myst Fireplace puzzle again that we had to piece together from different images like this. Of course there is still that doodle on the piece of paper in the second Kadish Vault that is suspicious looking, but that hardly concerns this topic.[/spoiler]
A few smaller changes that you may not have noticed at first glance:
- Oh boy, looks like the floor's been completely re-done. In the old version, there was just brown to blue (I think it was blue, you can't really see it). Now, it's brown to blue to orange again (however, right under the light, it looks yellow). Also, the orange diamond-patterned rug thingy right outside the imager is gone (which makes sense considering it wouldn't match the new design well). It's interesting to note that the orange sections are cracked, but the blue section seems to have intentional patterns on it.
- The upper walls have changed and now have a brand-new schmexy-looking design pattern on them.
- The lights are changed, and the shape (and obviously the color) of them work better with the new look of this place, in my opinion.
- The Ahnonay Linking book (on the bottom picture, it's on the pedestal to the right of the one with the notebook), as to be expected, is gone. We'll most likely be getting to Er'cana from here this episode (at least, I hope), and since Ahnonay won't be released until later, there shouldn't be a Linking Book there.
I was kind of shocked when I realized just how much has been changed, but at least it wasn't as dramatic as going from this to what we saw in TPotS. 
One last thing I'll mention here, on the picture there seems to be some blue thing in the upper-right corner, near the entrance to the room with the path of the shell. I'm not sure, it kind of looks like it's beyond the wall, like there's no more wall between the pub's main area and the path of the shell room, perhaps that's even the clock looking whatever-you-call it (what do you call that thing?).
Edit: Included full-size picture and updated observations and theories based on it.
Last edited by Ichabod_L on Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:26 am, edited 1 time in total.
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(blame Dan'ni at UruObsession for starting that rumour)
