The Return of Dr. Sloth - Plot Guide

[333pet]

The Return of Dr. Sloth:

All the plot steps have closed!

Latest Update:
Update: 04/01/08 - Prizes Released: Here

Update: 03/24/08 - Plot scores released. Go Here to view your score.

Old Updates:

Update: 03/14/08 - Chapter 14 of the comic is out. Click the last panel of the last page to be taken to a secret ending.
Update: 03/11/08 - Chapter 13 of the comic is out. Token testing facility is closed.
Update: 03/07/08 - Chapter 12 of the comic is out.
Update: 03/05/08 - New token testing puzzle is out!
Update: 03/03/08 - Chapter 11 of the comic is out. Plus one more battledome opponent.
Update: 02/28/08 - Chapter 10 of the comic is out. Plus two more battledome opponents.
Update: 02/25/08 - Chapter 9 of the comic is out.
Update: 02/21/08 - Chapter 8 of the comic is out. Plus the first wave of Dr. Sloth's army!
Update: 02/19/08 - Chapter 7 of the comic is out.
Update: 02/14/08 - Chapter 6 of the comic is out.
Update: 02/12/08 - Chapter 5 of the comic is out.
Update: 02/07/08 - Chapter 4 of the comic is out. The shuttle bay puzzle is also out!
Update: 02/05/08 - A message decoding puzzle is out!
Update: 02/04/08 - Chapter 3 of the comic is out.
Update: 01/31/08 - Chapter 2 of the comic is out. Plus the Virtupets Space Station has got a makeover.
Update: 01/30/08 - Go to the space station and enter through double doors to enter a maze.
Start: 01/29/08 - Chapter 1 of the comic is out.

Links:

The Return of Dr. Sloth Comic
The Return of Dr. Sloth Neoboard
Virtupets Space Station
Maintenance Tunnels
Space Station Maze
Message Decoding Puzzle
Shuttle Bay Puzzle
1 Player Battledome
Token Testing Facility

Steps:

1. Read chapter 1 of the comic.
2. Complete Space Station Maze.
3. Read chapter 2 of the comic.
4. Read chapter 3 of the comic.
5. Complete message decoding puzzle.
6. Read chapter 4 of the comic.
7. Complete shuttle bay puzzle.
8. Read chapter 5 of the comic.
9. Read chapter 6 of the comic.
10. Read chapter 7 of the comic.
11. Read chapter 8 of the comic.
12. Fight the battledome challengers!
13. Read chapter 9 of the comic.
14. Read chapter 10 of the comic.
15. Fight the new battledome challengers!
16. Read chapter 11 of the comic.
17. Fight the new battledome challenger!
18. Help test tokens at the token testing facility.
19. Read chapter 12 of the comic.
20. Read chapter 13 of the comic.
21. Read chapter 14 of the comic.

Guide:

Plot Guide by 333pet, no copying allowed.
1. Space Station Maze:
Get to the door by changing the direction that Gorix walks in. Move the direction arrows and then press GO to start Gorix walking. You must go through each airlock before you finish the level. You must avoid the black holes and guards.

2. Message Decoding Puzzle:
Go to the space station click the door at the bottom. Click on the newly opened door (Middle Door). First type "4" and wait for next screen then type "2". You will be taken to a list of coded messages. Click one to be taken to the next screen. For the code with only ten choices just go through the combinations one at a time until you enter the correct combination. For the ones with 20 or 30 choices use the help solutions below. Refresh the page to get the ending after you have decoded all twenty messages.

Shuttle Bay Puzzle:
Go to the space station click the door at the bottom. Click on the newly opened door (Right Door). Move from one end of the room to the other without getting seen by any of the garoo elite guards. If you get in a straight line in front of a guard and they are looking at you, then they will capture you, and you will have to restart the level. You can destroy a guard by moving onto the same space it is standing on. You have to make to the door to complete each level, and then to the prisoners in the last level.

Token Testing Facility:

Single Person Tests:
1. Heat Test: Create control rods
To make a bar you must put a part with an exact amount of one metal into the furnace. To get that amount you can put as many bars as you want into the furnace as long as their combined weight is less than 10 kg. To find out how much of a metal a bar contains multiply the weight of the bar by the percentage of the metal. For example: If a bar is 4.5kg and 20% of that bar is Slothite then multiply 4.5 by .2 to get the answer of .9kg.

Metal (Amount needed to make a bar)
Meridillium (0.7 kg)
Slothite (1.1 kg)
Zafarium (1.8 kg)
Xweetite (1.9 kg)
Tikium (2.5 kg)
Kadoatite (3.3kg)
Tyrannium (3.6kg)
Neopium (4.4kg)
Dariganium (5.0kg)
Faeryllium (5.3kg)

2. Dissolving Test: Create acid solutions
Unknown!

3. Gravitics Test: Gather singularities
Click anywhere on the black map and either you'll get taken to a random place in neopia or you'll get a singularity.

Multiple Person Tests:
1. Heat Test (Thermal Exposure Test)
Use the lever to move your rod closer to the radiation. You want to be 10-15 spaces away from the white glowing beam. Click the lock when you have it positioned correctly.

2. Dissolving Test

Read the name of the acid next to your name. Click on the matching acid:

First Row (left to right)
1. Hydrosloth
2. Transtyran
3. Meridell
4. Flourokad
5. CyanoFaerie

Second Row
6. Perneo
7. Zafaric
8. Tikitonic
9. Xweetic
10. Oxydariganic

Take total acid, multiply by 1000. (Notice that the amount you enter is in ml.) Multiple it again by the percentage next to your name. (Example: If your pecent is 95, multiply by .95) Enter the number, then click the lock.

3. Gravitics Test (Gravitics Exposure Test)
To get your first coordinate move the singularity (Black Dot) to the upper left corner. To get your second coordinate move the singularity to the upper right corner. Then open a spreadsheet program like excel.

In box A1 enter your first coordinate
In box B1 enter your second coordinate
In box C1 enter "=(A1^2-B1^2+400^2)/800"
In box D1 enter "=SQRT(A1^2-C1^2)"

This will give you the coordinate for the last singularity.

Puzzle Solutions:

Space Station Maze Solutions:
Maze 1 Solution
Maze 2 Solution
Maze 3 Solution
Maze 4 Solution
Maze 5 Solution
Thanks to Mathbits for rooms 2, 3, and 4.

Solutions for codes with two modifiers:
Solution

Help for codes with three modifiers:
The following are lists of possible combinations sorted by key symbol. The first letter in each combination represents a key symbol. The next three letters represent three modifiers. Finally the last letter represents the result.
Lists by 333pet, please don't copy.
Lists with a "8" key.
Lists with a "C" key.
Lists with a "T" key.
Lists with a "V" key.
Lists with a "X" key.
Lists with a "Z" key.

Battledome Challengers:

Wave 1:
Garoo Elite Junior Squadron (8)
Garoo Elite Strike Commanders (35)
Garoo Elite Specialist Riilan (175)
Wave 2:
Mutant Grundo Scouts (10)
Virtupets Militia (66)
Wave 3:
Primary Grundo Bot RZ894 (300)

ONLY Post in the Plot Guide thread if you are talking about events in advancing the plot itself. Any rumors/discussion/battling should go to the General Thread

[mathbits]

Thanks for doing this.

[+darwin]

There's something new today:
http://www.neopets.com/space/ros/tubes.phtml

Maze-like game... I wish I had kept note of things before finishing it. There's 5 levels and you have to make sure all the doors are shut before you can move on to the next level. 2nd level was the hardest in my opinion.

[Scarblade_]

Great, so does this mean we get another lame puzzle?

[mathbits]

I forgot to take a picture of the first one, but I have a screenie of the solution for the ones after.

The point of this is to go through all open doors to close them, and exit through the green door at the end.


A Series of Tubes (solutions)

1st room: (someone else screenie, and crop properly, like mine)

2nd room:

3rd room:

4th room:

5th room:

Just triple click the first one, triple click the second one, double click the third one. The picture will make the arrows look almost invisible.

Also, I forgot to copy+paste the little blurb above each room. If someone could do that, that'll be great.

[PilotGrarrl]

mathbits Wrote:I forgot to take a picture of the first one, but I have a screenie of the solution for the second one.

For the second one, the arrows go like this: <-- --> <-- -->
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Dang, it lines up fine in edit mode?! Basically that arrow on the generator below the second one should point up. Man, that's probably isn't very clear. Well, it isn't hard 'cuz I did it!!

[mathbits]

Hey, I'm taking screenies for rooms 2-5. Somebody do 1.

@333Pet: If you happen to see my previous post, feel free to put it in your initial post.

[raziel_03]

1st room:
I've got to get to Grundo's Cafe, but the only way to get there without being seen is through these maintenance tunnels. I'll have to use this control panel to set up the gravity generators and pressure doors before I try to get through here, or I might fall out an airlock!

2nd room:
That was easy... but this place looks a little more complicated. Hey, is that some kind of robot over there? I better be careful, even maintenance robots on this station can be deadly... for some reason.

3rd room:
These maintenance tunnels are getting ridiculous! It's like they were designed by some kind of sadistic mastermind, intent on preventing maintenance from being accomplished easily or safely. Oh, well, I'll give it a shot.

4th room:
Good grief, how many more of these maintenance tunnels can there be?

5th room:
This had better be the last one! At this rate, Grundo's Cafe will be closed by the time I get there.

Final dialog:
Finally, I made it out of there! Now to meet up with my contact...

[parondante]

Ihad the same text in 3,4,5 than only three should.

[333pet]

mathbits Wrote:Hey, I'm taking screenies for rooms 2-5. Somebody do 1.

@333Pet: If you happen to see my previous post, feel free to put it in your initial post.

Thank you for the screenshots!!! I just got screenshots of rooms 1 & 5 to go with yours.

[mathbits]

Yo, no problem =) We'll all keep updated with this.