The "Fortunate" Mystery.Follow

"The balance distinguishes not between lead and gold"

8 words

"The hippogryph has fair feathers but foul feet"

8 words

"Even the best party comes to an end."
"Even the best parties must end."

One person quoted the first, one person the second... the first one is 8 words long though.

The last one that doesn't quite fit this pattern is this one:
"A poor warrior blames his weapons"

Is this the exact text here or not?

I'm not sure if this is relevant at all or not... what are the strange apperatus passwords? I've never used them.

Lotan

Well from my recolection (please correct me if I'm wrong):

You trade the aparatus an Infinity Core, a colored chip, and then enter a password...is that correct?

My theories, along the lines of the aparatus idea:

1. A partner is mentioned and both of you are given a color that we think corresponds to an aparatus.

Now, since there is someone else involved here is what I propose: use a chip on your apparatus that is of your partner's color. They obviously have to play some sort of role...who ever said you need to use the same colored chip in the apparatus??

2. Perhaps you both need to activate your apparati at the same time?

Let me reiterate about Behemoth's Dominion, since there seems to be some confusion.

THERE IS NO LUCK RUNE IN BEHEMOTH'S DOMINION

I said this initially but I guess people got confused. The Luck Rune is in Qufim right outside the entrance to Behemoth's Dominion.

Thanks Divisortheory! I'll remove that from my post on the 1st page.

Also there was a link on the first post about the Strange apparati and one of the best posts about trying to figure it out. If you want any background info on them click here.

I'm also thinking the withering plant and luck runes are seperate from each other. I didn't mention this in my last post but in oldton movapolis there was a ??? that said "I'm thirsty". I'm thinking that the withering plant and that ??? may be related but not to the fortune quest.

Yellow - Earth - Apparatus: Gusgen Mines.

Gusgen is not North of Mhaura.

This puts a hole in the Apparatus theory. -_-

I was just thinking maybe this is more story line driven...



Xarcabard maybe? It is pretty far and northwest of Mhaura. It is also where a best party (party of the each nation's best) ended.



I'm thinking maybe near Castle O? It's north of Mhaura, and there was a cs in that area about a certain female hume that loved a poor gobbie in the story line.

Of course these are wild speculations.

You have a good point here. The hippogriff reference could mean an area where they are (Site #A01 maybe?).

Interesting.

Perhaps that's what you need to do...it would certainly help if you had a partner to help you in the fight I assume.

I'd partner up with someone and try it...see if it drops/pops something different.

bleh. we need to blanket every zone and find every luck rune there is...

**Edit: All fortunes submitted can be found at: Fortunes Read: A Supplement to The Forunate Mystery. Please post any new fortunes read there.

Okay, here is all of the Fortunes so far:



Purple.
West.
Daybreak Gambler.
The balance distinguishes not between lead and gold.


Blue.
Northwest.
Steaming Sheep Regular.
The hippogryph has fair feathers, but foul feet.

Blue.
North-Northwest.
Vampire hunter D-minus.
The hippogryph has fair feathers, but foul feet.

Blue.
Northwest.
First rate organizer.
The hippogryph has fair feathers, but foul feet.

Blue.
West.
Ace Angler.
The hippogriff has fair feathers, but foul feet.


Pale Blue.
A great distance Northwest.
Tearjerker.
Even the best party comes to an end.

Pale Blue.
North-Northwest.
Lower than the Lowest Tunnel Worm.
Even the best party comes to an end.


Black .
A great distance Northwest.
Night Sky Navigator .
The Poor Warrior blames his weapon.

Black.
Far Northwest. (Note: did it say this or "A great distance Northwest.")
Doctor Shantotto's Guinea Pig.
The Poor Warrior blames his weapon.

Black .
North-Northwest .
Savior of Knowledge .
The Poor Warrior blames his weapon.

Black.
North-Northwest.
Down Piper Pipe-Upper.
The Poor Warrior blames his weapon.


White.
West Northwest.
Knight in Training.
Ill gotten gil becomes gil ill gone.

White.
Far Northwest.
Crawler Culler.
Ill gotten gil becomes gil ill gone.

White.
South.
Pilgrim to Mea.
Ill gotten gil becomes gil ill gone.


Yellow.
North.
Qiji's Rival.
To love a person, you must love their faults.

Yellow.
North-Northwest.
Lizard Skinner.
To love a person, you muse love their faults.



Green.
West.
Clock Tower Preservationist.
Love and courage will find a way.


Red.
West-Northwest.
Star-Ordained Warrior.
The proof of an apple pie is in the eating.




So far the only pattern that sticks is the following: The color is correlated to the Wisdom Quote.

Does anything else jump out?

I will continue to post the fortunes here as they come in.


*Edited to add more Fortunes, keep them rolling in!!

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The other Fortune Teller NPC in Lower Jeuno is a Quest starter. You have to get your fortune told on 3 seperate days/occassions though to start the quest.

Perhaps this is similar...