Dernard's Notes: Notes on the Gem Door Dungeon

Background

Magically sealed door
9 gems embedded into the door
- Behind a clear layer, so the gems can’t be removed
Gems can be pressed to enter a password/code
- After 4 presses damage happens if the password/code is incorrect
- Touching gems with inanimate objects (e.g. a sword) directly does damage
Gems arranged in diamond shape (basically 3×3 with a 45° rotation)
- Order of gems:
  - Emerald
  - Moonstone, Amethyst
  - Pearl, Ruby, Topaz
  - Opal, Nephrite
  - Sapphire
Writing around the door and around the gems
- Some form of Elvish, Valid couldn’t read it though
- Matching the writing of the gems to writing on the door:
  - Topaz – Ruby – Amethyst – Pearl
  - First letters spell: TRAP
  - Didn’t try to enter this
Correct password/code:
- Opal – Pearl – Emerald – Nephrite
- First letters spell: OPEN
- Suggested by Nigel, even before we found the TRAP spelling

Magically sealed door
Couldn’t find a solution in session 75
Writing around the door (in readable Elvish)
- “Cowardice”
- “Sadness”
- “Envy”
5 gems (again behind clear layer)
- Arranged in a bow
- Order: forgot to write down
- Ruby, Jet, Sapphire, Moonstone, Citrine
Gems can be pressed, damage after the 3^rd press
- Initially it seemed 4 presses are needed, but we might just have been wrong
Failed attempt 1: Antonyms
- Antonyms to the three words: Courage, Joy, Sympathy
- Lengths of the antonyms, and matching it to the lengths of the gem names
- Citrine – Jet – Sapphire
Failed attempt 2: Lengths of words
- Matching lengths of the three words, to the lengths of the gem names
- Moonstone – Citrine – Ruby
Failed attempt 3: Colours and emotions
- Matching colours associated with the three emotions to the gems
- Cowardice: White (e.g. a white flag)
- Sadness: Blue
- Envy: Green (no green gem though; picking yellow instead)
- Moonstone – Sapphire – Citrine
No more attempts in session session 75
- We were running out of HP
Observation: The second letters of the game names
- Match AEIOU
- Might be irrelevant
- But since this is the second door, maybe there is something relevant here
- The second letters of three words thou would be OAN, so the ‘N’ is an outlier

What colors are the actual gems?

The three emotions also have colors associated with them

If the Moonstone was green, then we could match the stones to the emotions

But why not use a emerald for the green stone?

The first door could be opened by spelling OPEN.

Moonstone => the only stone that has an O.
Sapphire => the only stone that has a P.
Jet => four stones have an E. This is the only one that isn’t used for the other letters.
Citrine => two stones have an E. Moonstone is already used for the O though.

The second door seems only to need 3 inputs, so probably not the answer.

Also, this doesn’t use the three emotions listed.