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Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave Hints
How do I analyze the frass?
1 of 16: Analyzing the frass is a matter of doing what you need to fill in the blank spaces on the top page of the clipboard. Aiiee! No, wait, don't panic; it's not as hard as it looks. Read all the way to the end of the hint for all the numbers you need.
2 of 16: Everything you need to know -- well, *almost* everything you need to know -- is on the clipboard Dr. Kim had you bring to her. Make sure you look at every page; there are six pages, and you need to look at all of them, whether you understand what you read or not.
3 of 16: Once you've collected frass from all six jars --
7 of 16: Okay, now you're *really* ready to start. Put the lens on the microscope and use it, then click a bag on the microscope and look at it. Ummmm -- so what?
8 of 16: What you basically have to do here is sort the pieces of frass, seeds, and bug bits. You're going to need to take notes, so get yourself a piece of paper and a pencil and let's begin.
9 of 16: Using the picture of the different kinds of stuff from the clipboard, pick up the seeds and the insect parts and put them on the tray at the left. Now look at the readout at the top; it tells you the weight of the frass. Write that number down on the paper, next to the color of the bag you're doing.
10 of 16: Now you need to know how many of each thing you have in this bag: how many seeds, how many bug bits, and how many, er, frass ... frasses, I guess. Write down these three numbers too.
11 of 16: Repeat this with all six bags, writing down the numbers you get: the color of the bag, the weight of the frasseses, and the number of seeds, bug bits, and frasseseses. (I know how to spell it; I just don't know when to stop.)
12 of 16: Now it's time to put it all together! -- The first number on the clipboard is the one for the type of plant. Look at the bottom of the clipboard to get the codes for the different plants. The red bag was under a miconia bush, so that's 10. -- The second number is the weight of frass. For the red bag, that was 99. -- The third number is the number of seeds. For the red bag, that's 12. -- The fourth number is the ratio of frass to seeds to bug bits, and you can find the codes for this on the fifth page of the clipboard. For the red bag, there were 10 bug bits, 11 frass, and 12 seeds, so the code is 405.
13 of 16: So go to the clipboard, and on the line for the red bag, type in: 10 - 99 - 12 - 405 (using your actual keyboard and pressing Tab or the mouse to move to the next space).
14 of 16: Repeat this process for all six bags and fill in the numbers you get. When you have all the spaces filled in, put the clipboard in the green "Formula" machine on the microscope table and push the button.
15 of 16: It should give you a huge number, over 100,000. No matter what number it gives you, go tell Dr. Kim what you got. If it's wrong, she'll tell you what row you need to double-check. If you got more than one row wrong, she will tell you the first row that's wrong; fix that one, put the clipboard in the Formula machine again, and go to Dr. Kim with the new number.
16 of 16: Good luck! This is a long involved process, but it's not that hard once you figure out what's going on.
