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Aura: Fate of the Ages Hints
How do I know where to put the additional tuning forks?
1 of 22: You can narrow down the choices substantially just by making note of what color is on the handle of each fork.
2 of 22: Notice the ribbon of color around the base of each plate? Just match the color of the tuning fork to the color of the plate to narrow down the options.
3 of 22: For each individual plate, you'll need to figure out where to place the forks associated with it. What is the purpose of a tuning fork?
4 of 22: It's to reproduce a specific sound.
5 of 22: This is, in part, a sound puzzle. Solving the location of the additional tuning forks will require some careful listening. (So be sure that your sound is turned up as you work on this section.)
6 of 22: The first step is to listen to each of the scattered tuning forks.
7 of 22: You should note that, out of all of the scattered tuning forks, only four unique pitches can be heard.
8 of 22: That would seem to relate to the fact that each plate has places for exactly four tuning forks. However, you'll need some additional information to help you determine where each tuning fork will go.
9 of 22: Look through your journal carefully, to see if you can find anything there that relates to this puzzle.
10 of 22: There is a page in the journal that has a picture of one of the tuning fork plates, as well as an image of something else.
11 of 22: Does that image to the right -- the long triangle shape with the 4 bars hanging from it -- look familiar?
12 of 22: It should -- you can find something similar in this room.
13 of 22: In four different places.
14 of 22: Look carefully at each of the four mirrors.
15 of 22: What do you see beneath each mirror?
16 of 22: Each mirror has a set of 4 bars -- or pipes -- beneath a long triangle figure, at the very bottom of the mirror.
17 of 22: If those were pipes (such as in a pipe organ), or bars (such as on a xylophone), how would the different lengths respond, in terms of the pitch they would produce?
18 of 22: Shorter bars -- when struck with a hammer, for example -- produce higher pitches; longer bars produce lower pitches.
19 of 22: The bars beneath each mirror indicate, in a similar way, the order of the pitches associated with that mirror.
20 of 22: Once you know which mirror corresponds with which plate, you'll need to determine the exact order of the tuning forks for each plate. You might find it helpful to go back to the notes in the journal for more information.What can I learn from the journal?
21 of 22: Use the pattern of pipes hanging under each mirror to determine the order of the tuning forks for each associated plate.
22 of 22: You will now need to figure out which forks have the higher or lower notes, and place them in the appropriate places around each of the four plates.
