Myst III: Exile : J'Nanin : How do I reach the door that's on the other side of a gap from some strange plants?
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How do I reach the door that's on the other side of a gap from some strange plants?
1 of 16: Those plants are the key to reaching the door.
2 of 16: If the door is at eye level, go down a ladder that's in front of you, so that you're walking around the plants.
3 of 16: There's one individual plant that you can take a very close look at (not the ones on the wall). When you do, you'll be looking through the plant and can move it around the screen.
4 of 16: Move it around slowly, and you should see that there's more to do than just look at the scenery.
5 of 16: The plant will pick up the sounds of whatever it's pointing at, if there's any special sound in that area.
6 of 16: These plants might respond to one of those sounds if you found the right one.
7 of 16: There's one sound in particular that the plants on the wall will respond to. If you don't know which one that is, you may want to look around the rest of the island for a clue.
8 of 16: Have you looked around the lake in the center of the island recently?
9 of 16: Try the side closer to the plants.
10 of 16: As you head from the plants toward the house, keep going forward instead of turning onto the bridge to the house. A path here takes you along the edge of the lake to an area with a smaller version of the plants that were on the wall up above.
11 of 16: Also notice a few other plants around here.
12 of 16: There's one on the water that you can touch to make it open its leaves.
13 of 16: And to the left of that is a plant with an animal in it. Squeeze the top of the plant, and the animal will scurry over to the plants on the wall. (You must have first "opened" the plant in between the animal and the wall, or the animal just goes back into hiding.)
14 of 16: Those plants on the wall puff out quite a bit when the animal gets close.
15 of 16: So the animal sound is probably what you need.
16 of 16: Go back up to the plants under the door and set the "sound plant" to listen to the animal down by the lake. The resulting sound will make the plants on the wall expand, and you can cross them to reach the door.
