You know what? Let's go through this firefly puzzle thing, one step at a time.
1. The tunnel is dark. What do you do?
-Feel around
2. Sorry, that won't work. It's dark. You can't find anything
-Flashlight
3. Nope. You can't carry anything back with you from the surface
-Fire marbles? You know, from the Bevin?
4. Sorry. You can't pick stuff up either. And you can't move stuff through the linking books.
-Can I light something on fire? There's a lot of wooden stuff here, and it's hot
5. Wrong. Totally wrong.
-Um... I give up
6. Here's a hint: it's in the other garden age.
-What? I thought I couldn't move stuff through the linking books?
7. This is an unexplained exception.
-Oh, thanks. Oh, fireflies. Can I catch them?
8. Well, yes and no. They'll sort of hang around you.
-Oh, that's cool I guess. *runs* Hey, where'd they go?
9. Sorry, they don't like running
-Oh, that's cool I guess. *walks* Hey, where'd they go?
10. Sorry, they don't like rain.
-I see... *walks carefully, avoiding rain, and links* It worked!
-Wait, where'd they go!?
11. You gotta watch out for that steam vent in front of the link-in-point.
-Well, crap. *repeats previous steps, then avoids steam vent* OH CRAP
12. Yeah, you'd think you would figure out by now that they wouldn't want you to walk through the water either.
-But they don't touch the water, it's like ankle-high... Whatever *repeats previous steps, but this time jumps over the river. Then jumps behind the waterfall* Huh?
13. They don't like jumping.
-But I jumped before
14. You can jump once, but that's it
-That doesn't make any freaking sense!
15. These are one-jump fireflies. Now shut up and make it so you only have to jump once.
-Can I step over the thin part of the river?
16. You probably could, but that'd be too easy.
-I guess I have to build a bridge of some kind?
17. Pretty much.
-I can kick this fish-basket around. It'd be nice if I could just pick it up, but this isn't so hard.
18. That's the spirit!
-I could make a second bridge for behind the waterfall if I could use this big pile of miscellaneous wooden stuff. Do I need a second bridge?
19. Not yet.
-But I will later?
20. Well, yes.
-So why can't I use this stuff?
21. It's just part of the "background," you can't use it.
-Riiiight. So what do I build the second bridge with?
22. There are more fish baskets up there. After a mini-waterfall to ensure that you lose your fireflies
-Oh, thanks. Why do I need the second bridge? Can't I jump once?
23. You can, but you need to save the jump for another tiny river that any normal person could just step over.
-Okay, screw this. I'm going to play Paper Mario.
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