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As many already know, there's something new in the lower Pellet Bahro Cave that wasn't there in The Path of the Shell.
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Which is actually an identical (not similar, actually identical) copy of the "outline" of this:
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This of course leads many to speculate that once we finish Ahnonay, we'll get to the lower Pellet Bahro Cave, and they'll be an imager code which we can use to get a message (most likely from Yeesha) in the Cleft. While I believe this to be true, there's one little problem: How are we going to get the combination?
I'm afraid what we did in The Path of the Shell won't cut it here. In that game, for those of you that don't know, there were clues spread out through all of the Ages we went to (The Watcher's Sanctuary, Er'cana, The Ahnonay Temple, and Ahnonay) that referenced specific lines in "The Words of the Watcher" to give us hints at what to do. Putting all those clues together, we were able to solve the three puzzles near the end of the game, leading up to the final one. One of these puzzles required us dropping a pellet with the specific combination given to us in the upper Pellet Bahro Cave (which is still there) in the hole there, and then going to the lower Pellet Bahro Cave from Ahnonay, which was 14 1/2 minutes in the past. If you waited that amount of time (minus what it took to get you there), the pellet would fall down and light up the walls of the cavern, revealing Yeesha's Life Story along with a clue for the final puzzle in The Path of the Shell. Though Yeesha's Life Story can still be seen on the walls, the clue for the puzzle, most likely, is not there. In fact, in Myst Online: Uru Live, we haven't been given any of these clues in the places that they've been. We have "The Words of the Watcher," yes, but we simply have that as reading material dropped in The Watcher's Sanctuary.
I'm afraid we won't be time-traveling this time, and I also know that a lot of people are going to try that and be, simply, unsuccessful. The fact of the matter is, your Bahro Stone will link someone to the top or bottom of the Pellet Bahro Cave should they have access to your Er'cana or Ahnonay, in much the same way the Ashem'en books transports someone to that silo should they simply use the book that was placed in your Er'cana. You don't even need to be there to share the stone (which actually doesn't work out anyways, it only causes some glitches in the game). Take that into account, and it would be impossible for the game to have you "travel though time."
(Of course, a very unlikely situation would cause the "time-travel" to happen again, but have the two halves of the Pellet Bahro Cave be separate Ages, which would only reveal the time traveling as a hoax and raise questions as to how the pellet gets to the top half and drop down 14 1/2 minutes after you drop it in the first one. However, there's very little chance of this happening.)
The way I see it, the game is going to have a randomly chosen combination for each avatar's Pellet Bahro Cave. This combination will not be activated until you reach the lower half from the Bahro Stone in Ahnonay, and even once activated, will not be viewable unless a pellet is dropped down. Once in the lower half, you'll have two choices: You can discover the combination by yourself, or have someone help you.
To do it by yourself, you would simply drop a "proper" pellet (one with the combination on the walls of the Pellet Bahro Cave) from the upper half into the lower half, and then run around and jump like a maniac trying to see the combination. Though you'll be able to see it, it will require most likely more than one pellet, and good jumping skills. Though you'll be able to discover the combination for yourself, there may be something else down there which you cannot see by jumping around, which is why it will help to do it together.
To do it together, you'll need at least two people (one of whom should be you). You can be in either the top or bottom half, though I suggest bottom half if it's your own Pellet Bahro Cave. Send someone else an invite to your Er'cana (or invite them to your Relto, but it is easier if they have an invitation that they can use again once they link out of the Pellet Bahro Cave). Make sure you have a batch of the "proper" pellets ready for them to use. They'll link to to the top half with a pellet, where it will drop down and illuminate the cave, allowing you to write down the combination, or take a picture of it, along with being able to see if there's any other clues down there to get (or you can just look around at the nice pictograms). You can always simply invite someone to Ahnonay and have them go to the bottom half and tell you what the combination is, or take a picture for you, but it is much easier and effective for the person whose cave it is to be at the bottom.
But that's just my theory, what do you think?
Wow I've just realized how many times I've used the phrase "Pellet Bahro Cave."
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