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What do I do in the fire realm?
1 of 17: First, take a look at what the tree is doing.
2 of 17: It's touching the crystals.
3 of 17: But it's not the only thing on the screen that can touch the crystals.
4 of 17: Have you tried clicking on the sun?
5 of 17: When you do, it will shoot bolts of lightning at the crystals as well.
6 of 17: Click on the sun a few times, and you should notice that the sun will do something else as well.
7 of 17: As long as your timing is right.
8 of 17: Whenever the tree and the lightning hit the crystals at the same time, a note will play.
9 of 17: The lightning shoots out at all the crystals in a particular order.
10 of 17: You want the tree to touch the crystals in the same order and with the same timing.
11 of 17: You can also change how the tree moves.
12 of 17: Have you tried clicking on the crystals yourself?
13 of 17: When you click on a crystal, the branch that touches the crystal will stop moving for a bit.
14 of 17: In fact, the tree will freeze for as long as you keep your mouse button held down.
15 of 17: A lot of this puzzle is just in fine tuning your timing, but the basic goal is to "reprogram" the tree so that its branches move in sync with the lightning, once you touch the sun.
16 of 17: One thing I found helped was to program the branches one at a time, starting with the second one the lightning touched. Just a bit after a branch touches a crystal (i.e., the crystal just starts glowing), click on that crystal. Then, wait until a branch is touching the very _bottom_ of the preceeding crystal in the pattern, and let go of your mouse button.
17 of 17: If you do this correctly, you should find that the tree touches the last crystal just before it touches the first crystal again. Click on the sun just when the tree is starting to touch the last crystal, and the lightning should strike the first crystal in the pattern at about the right time. Depending on exactly how good your timing is, you may need to do a bit of fine tuning, but I found this pattern should give you a good start at least.
