Collectors Vault

[goorguel]

I´m not sure if the way you solve this quest is important or if i found a little bug out there, but when i first used the keys and then entered the combination, the vault would not open and i could do nothing about it

[arathalion]

hmm, this forums layout is ... different. might take some getting used to.

in answer to your question

the first line says that all three numbers = 9
(a+b+c=9)
the line says that says something about soing something with 6
(a+b=6)
the third line says that the first number is 5
(a=5)
(no i cant remember teh riddle of the top of my head, sorry)

the math is fairly simple
so we no that

a=5
b=6-a
c=9-(a+b)

a=5
a+b=6
5+b=6
b=1
a+b+c=9
5+1+c=9
c=3

or

a=5
b=6-5
c=9-6

so
a=5
b=1
c=3

[cal1s]

off-topic:
you can choose which display mode you wanna use in this forum.

Originally Posted by arathalion

hmm, this forums layout is ... different. might take some getting used to.

[lurchman]

Really, you don't need to do a lot of math. The answers are in the riddle itself. Each question has a number in it. It's the number you need. The only trick, is that the numbers are backwards. If you take the numbers as you read them, they're 3-1-5. Just reverse them. Sometimes the harder you look, the less you see.

[WilDCaT]

I am not gonna pretend I understand the whole riddle, only parts of it.

I took the first line. "Nine are we when taken are three." or something along those lines and interpreted as when you take (enter in) 3 numbers for the combination they add up to 9.

So we have 3 numbers and have reduced the possibilities to combinations that add up to 9.

Then I took the 3rd line. "None survive our first less five." Ok, I interpreted that one quite literally as we take our first number, take away 5 from it, and we get 0. Therefor our first number is 5.

I wasnt able to clearly firgure out the second line. But after the 1st and last line (and my thought process, no idea if im right) you have 5 possible combinations.

5-4-0 ; 5-0-4 ; 5-1-3 ; 5-3-1 ; 5-2-2

5-1-3 of course being the answer.

Thats how I got it in the end. Took me ages though.
I might have taken the riddle too seriously, but hey I got there in the end.

[zebogen]

I have a problem with this quest. I did it before I did the first Neeshka v. Leldon quest (the one where you steal his coin), and now I can't complete either quest. Both are still in my journal, and I don't know what to do. Leldon is just standing in the Collector's vault, and it won't let me talk to him.