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PUZZLE IDEA
[The Abyss is under onslaught! It's matter of time before Lucrezia manages to pierce through and reach unfathomable power! Her way to direct the EX energy into the gate is by focusing it through a device placed very close to the Abyss. A quick look shows it's too sturdy to be destroyed, but it seems to require precise calibration. This is your chance!
To a side there's a board with 56 empty panels, surrounded by all sorts of weird additions. Among them there are five steel knobs shaped like suns and moons. There are two coils of cable nearby for you to use.
You must connect the knobs -- moon with moon, and sun with sun with sun, making sure the cables don't overlap or pass through any of the objects on the board while also covering as much of the board with them as possible. An example of connecting two of the knobs!
Once that's done, press the panels that are left empty to ruin the configuration Lucrezia had set! How many panels would that be?
(HEY FELLOW MODS: So, this here is a proposal for puzzle. The idea is to make it only a single puzzle, to be solved after there have been answers of what's going on in Antumbra -- in other words, Lucrezia's turn to be confronted. IC it could be like some keep Lucrezia busy and fighting while the rest mess with that device. By the way, that isn't a definite plan, it's just a scenario for this post's purposes.
I have been thinking and maybe, instead of forcing the players to reach a single correct answer, we could instead make it so the closest their solution get to the answer, the better things go for them, such as for example -- just an example, this is not a definite plan -- the closest they get to the answer the longer it will take for Lucrezia to get it fixed while everyone deals with Rembrandt. Since this puzzle can be difficult, especially if you're not used to puzzles, that may be a good approach.
I was going to make it moon phases themed, but the graphical assets I got for that were...not very good, and trying to fix them didn't help much, so I decided to go for sun and moon theme.
By the way, this is the solution I have. There are 16 empty panels)
To a side there's a board with 56 empty panels, surrounded by all sorts of weird additions. Among them there are five steel knobs shaped like suns and moons. There are two coils of cable nearby for you to use.
You must connect the knobs -- moon with moon, and sun with sun with sun, making sure the cables don't overlap or pass through any of the objects on the board while also covering as much of the board with them as possible. An example of connecting two of the knobs!
Once that's done, press the panels that are left empty to ruin the configuration Lucrezia had set! How many panels would that be?
(HEY FELLOW MODS: So, this here is a proposal for puzzle. The idea is to make it only a single puzzle, to be solved after there have been answers of what's going on in Antumbra -- in other words, Lucrezia's turn to be confronted. IC it could be like some keep Lucrezia busy and fighting while the rest mess with that device. By the way, that isn't a definite plan, it's just a scenario for this post's purposes.
I have been thinking and maybe, instead of forcing the players to reach a single correct answer, we could instead make it so the closest their solution get to the answer, the better things go for them, such as for example -- just an example, this is not a definite plan -- the closest they get to the answer the longer it will take for Lucrezia to get it fixed while everyone deals with Rembrandt. Since this puzzle can be difficult, especially if you're not used to puzzles, that may be a good approach.
I was going to make it moon phases themed, but the graphical assets I got for that were...not very good, and trying to fix them didn't help much, so I decided to go for sun and moon theme.
By the way, this is the solution I have. There are 16 empty panels)
