The skin is just part of another puzzle. Walk around a bit more on all the different levels of the village.

The flower petal bridge puzzle is just to me finding the sequence that works. Have fun!

Hi Gronmo -

That patchwork is just a clue - what color goes with what sound.

There will be another clue; what color goes with what pattern.

There will finally be a puzzle, four colors provided; you select pattern and sound.

for the floor with the fog is there something before walking across this as i have tried and tried and fallen through and the patten changes every time

I just fell through a few times until the pattern became easy enough to remember. Then I saved the game and getting through was easy.

I've escaped from the prison now and went on the transport. After looking around in the new area I'm stuck again. I don't know what to do. I see that I can switch some force fields on and off but thats about it.

Start from the beginning when there's no forcefield up yet. Take the right path from the gondola (not the statue path).

Follow the perimeter and see the ancient symbol similar to Arco's door.
Note that the drawing has concentric circles. Also Sen staed something about the oracle.

You now have to follow the pattern of the ancient symbol - circle within the circle - without backtracking and going through any forcefield.

BTW - this includes going down the Galleries of heroes.

having trouble with the door with 3 bars across it. I found the three timer pads but cant get back to the door in time to get thru.... this is one where u ride the sky lift thing to get to them... any clues??

All I did was constantly rotate between the timers. I just figured that one of the was a starting point, moved to the very next one and then the third and that worked. Once you get all three bars open you can relax, they don't reset.

I checked different variations. The only one that works to stop the bars from retracting is:
Top first, middle and bottom bars.
If you did the bottom, middle and then top - it doesn't work.
If you did middle and then any of the other bars - it also doesn't work.

Here's the solution I found.

I solved it by accident because I thought I hadn't been fast enough and was going to skip the running part and just do the timer part, hopefully quicker the second time around. Only I found the second timer was inaccessible, when it would surely have run out if I'd gone straight for the door.

Here's the solution I ended up with

I started with the timer at the top left button,
then the timer at the bottom left button,
then the timer at the bottom right button,
then did the timer at the top left button again,
then used the top right button and ran for the door.

At least it worked with me. I think using the timer at the top left button the second time may have stopped the clock, but I'm not sure.

Anybody got any advice on what to do with the symbol-thingy when you go down the underwater elevator? I'm guessing the top symbols are numbers, but I have no idea how the bottom symbols are supposed to relate. Any hints?

Cheers

The symbols on the buttons are indeed numbers, they are 0, 1, 2, 3. Numbers in the base four.

The other three symbols are clues. Wandering around the village, you should have found three signposts, each with a collection of one of those symbols. Count them. It's HOW MANY symbols on each signpost that you need to punch in the numbers.

decimal to base four:

0 = 000
1 = 001
2 = 002
3 = 003
4 = 010
5 = 011
6 = 012
7 = 013
8 = 020
9 = 021
10 = 022
11 = 023
12 = 030
13 = 031
14 = 032
15 = 033
16 = 100

I'm still having problems with this one. Can you explain a bit closer about which route I'm supposed to run?

Hi gronmo,

Take the right path (not statue path) from the gondola.

Go around the perimeter. Sen notes the ancient symbol at one of the perimeter node and ponders about the Oracle. Note the concentric circles.

Once you reach the statue, take the inner right path and circle the park following the concentric circles in the ancient symbol.

After the second circle, take the middle path that goes down to the central lower level Galleries of Heroes. Walk to the end of the gallery and then go back up.

Turn right to the outer perimeter node. A cutscene will show a gondola coming up.

Turn right to the ancient sign node and ride the gondola.

Click on the link to see a full-sized photo-map of the Museum. Go through the force-fields in numerical order:

http://home.rochester.rr.com/ramahelp/Museum2.jpg

There is at least one more path for the museum gates...perhaps more.