Assumes familiarity with the basic functions, terminology, and configuration patterns of the mysterious puzzle, as detailed on that page. If you have a new or incompletely spaded box, you'll have to hunt for these moves, of course.
Divided into stages. There's some flexibility about what order you can do the stages in, but this is probably the easiest order to do them in.
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PREPARATION:
First, make sure you have dehydrated eyedrops. You get this from opening old pill bottles - if you have the Underground Asylum open, you can get them by searching the old desk in the silent room repeatedly, or by fighting the spectral patient. If not, you can also fish on the docks after using a high test fishing line, and open any waterlogged crates you receive. Third Eye Hunters will also drop it on occasion in gang warfare, but I don't think that's a very reliable method unless you have high perception (confirm?).
Obviously, you can work on the puzzle while you're trying to get eyedrops - just do the stages that don't require them.
If you'd rather just buy some from the Omnimall, you may as well go the whole way and purchase eyedrop dust instead.
GETTING RED FLAKES:
(Skippable if you bought them from the mall)
- Make sure the 'small plate' in the tablet is in position 1 (i.e., "Tspecial" has never been used or has been used an even number of times). You can test this with Bspecial, Pspecial, or Tspecial.
- Get the puzzle into pyramid form and perform the "Pspecial" move that gets you red flakes. If the compartment won't open, you've screwed up, and have to do "Tspecial" again (see above).
MAKING BLOOD OF THE ANCIENTS
(Requires red flakes)
- Make sure the tablet's plate is in position 2. (If following from the above stage or from a fresh puzzle, you'll need to get the puzzle to tablet form and perform the "Tspecial" move.)
- Get the puzzle to box form and perform the "Bspecial" move ("Powder Pouring"). Place the red flakes inside the box.
- Get the puzzle to rod form and perform the "Rspecial" move, grinding the contents of the puzzle.
- Wait a day (one 'rollover')
- Grind again with the Rspecial move
- Get the puzzle to box form and perform the "Bspecial" move. You should receive blood of the ancients.
Note that the blood is untradable. You have to do this stage.
MAKING EYEDROP DUST
(Requires dehydrated eyedrops. Skippable if you bought them from the mall.)
- Make sure the tablet's plate is in position 2. (If following from above, you don't need to do anything.)
- Perform the Powder Grinding cycle again, this time with eyedrop dust. You do not need to wait this time.
- (If this is still unfamiliar to you, you want to use "Bspecial", "Rspecial", and "Bspecial" again.)
GETTING THE SKILL
(Requires all of the above stages to be complete)
- Get the puzzle to tablet form. Make sure you have 8 body free.
- Take the eyedrop dust and the blood of the ancients.
- Read the tablet.
In the beginning, men were mortal.