FAQ » Second Loxian Games walkthrough (week 1)
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good
Once you get comfortable in front of your computer and get your little grey cells ready, you enter the Secret Room of the Enya.com interactive castle where you find the following question: 'If green is in the mistletoe, what is in the embers?'. As a proper Enya fan you know that it‘s a reference to White is in the Winter Night and type 'crimson'. Now you get your first hint 'First see autumn' and the real challenge begins.
You don’t really know where to look and feel brave, so you pay a visit to the creepy Loxian Oracle and ask her where autumn is. She tells you to look in 'the city of constellations in the valley dot com'.
Heartbeat in the night
You type the address in your browser and find yourself in the City of Constellantions in the Valley. There is a library, gallery and observatory.
The Valley-Dwellers
After looking around, you find out that the gallery is hosting an art exhibition dedicated to The First of Autumn. The exhibit features six abstract videos with The First of Autumn played as background music. You watch all of them while your head starts to spin.
Snow
The Oracle wasn’t lying after all, there were messages hidden in the videos: six phrases written in blue and three numbers written in red.
- Video 1: Autumn has 4 numbers
- Video 2: Find them, 8
- Video 3: Bring them with you to the City of Days
- Video 4: Remember, 4
- Video 5: Find Autumn again
- Video 6: Find Autumn again, 9.
Now you know that you need four numbers but have only three. You rewatch all the videos to be sure that you didn’t miss the fourth number.
You didn’t.
As you are starting to warm up towards the Oracle (she might be creepy but helped you after all), you decide to see her again. You ask about the City of Days and she replies just 'dot com'. You bid her farewell and set off to thecityofdays.com.
Other parts of night
You can see some random numbers and among them also 9834. As you know that 8,4 and 9 are part of the autumn numbers, you guess that 3 is the missing one. You remember the four numbers as instructed by the video and go looking for autumn again.
The City of Days hides several locations that you can visit. One of them is the Hall of Memories containing a blurry group photo. You examine the enclosed caption closely and discover that one of the persons in the picture is named essa - autumn in Loxian. You click on his head and an input box appears. You enter the autumn password 9834 and the box shows a clue The name of the sixth city is the name you enter it by. You are thrilled.
The explorers
The hint is not helpful by itself - time to visit the Oracle again. When asked about the sixth city, the Loxian Oracle seems delighted and proclaims 'The sixth city: what a novel idea!'.
In order to find a novel that might be useful, you visit all the libraries related to the Games. Finally, the library of the City of Constellantions in the Heights contains a book entitled The book of cities that looks promising.
In the Heights
You open the book and find the City of the Last Autumn on the sixth page - the sixth city! You type its name 'the city of the last autumn' into the input box and voilà! You are rewarded with the first lost line:
You take your rest and look forward to the three remaing weeks. If you persevere and solve all the riddles, you obtain the complete poem:
His were the soft steps laid on the winter road
He winds his way through the solitudes of day
And the nights with nowhere to go
Beneath the stars he shared his heart with fallen snow
The End.