Metzetli Island Puzzle

    In the far southwest of Metzetli Island, on the tepui, there is a large temple that has an altar and several statues seen on other parts of the island. There are exile-powered doors in this temple that lead to a dangerous crypt for an unknown civilization, which is also an extremely dangerous hunting grounds. The doors to the crypt are open only temporarily, unless effort is done by hunting to maintain the facility's power. A shortcut directly to the crypt from the jungle is also accessible once the crypt has been opened directly from the tepui. The opening of this temple was first completed in January 2009 by the group Astrum Lumini. The doors were once again opened in January 2010, but the crypt was not conquered. In March 2011, the crypt was opened for the third time by Talin and company, and was phenomenally kept open for several months. There have been occasional expeditions since then.

Detailed Facts:

Locations:
• Numbers correspond to the map below.
• There are twelve known 'temples' that can be activated--three for fighters, three for healers along the river, five for mystics, and one for any class.
• Each class has "outer" temples and a "primary" temple. The outer temples can be activated at any time, the "primary" temple can only be activated after all other temples in that class are active.
• The healer temples are: Gloaming Tunnels (6), River Island (2), Deathroot Underground (9). Deathroot Underground is the primary temple.
• The fighter temples are: Northeastern mountains lava pit (3), Southwest Rainforest through the spider pit drop point (8), and high atop the basalt mountain temple (5). The basalt mountain temple is the primary temple.
• The mystic temples are: Southeastern rainforest ruins (7), northeastern basalt passes (4), the east shoreline (1), a secret chamber just west of the fighter southwest rainforest temple (11), and Deep Crypt (10). The southwest rainforest temple (11) is the primary temple. Deep crypt (10) is separate from the rest, but can only be charged when all primary temples (healer, fighter, and mystic) are activated.
• The "any class" temple is the crypt antechamber (10) which opens the doors to the crypt, but can only be activated when all temples (execpt Deep Crypt) are active.
• There is a Mystic-only observation room located in the northwestern jungle (a). It is seemingly for observation only, as a mystic there can tell which temples have been activated, but cannot influence anything directly.

  Methods:

• Temples are activated by a fighter, healer, or mystic stepping on the glowing sparks in the fighter, healer, or mystic temples (respectively). Temples can only be activated by members of their class; all subtypes of Mystics are valid for Mystic sparkles. Activating the fighter and healer temples will hurt the person charging them slightly. The Mystic temples will only take energy (but they will take a lot).
• A "charged" temple will show between 1 to 6 sparkles, depending on its charge status. The number of sparkles does not linearly correlate to charge time.
• Each "outer" temple is initially activated for three hours from the time of the last shock. Once all outer temples are charged, the "main" temple can be singly charged (lasts for ~1 OOC day, not timed). While the main temple is charged (i.e. at least one spark), the "outer" temples can *also* be fully charged up by standing on the sparkle after all the temples for that class have been activated. Six glowing sparkles will show up both in the observation room and at the temple's site when the temple has been fully charged, and this charge will hold roughly 7 OOC days for "outer" temples. The "main" temples at the basalt tower (fighter, 5), deathroots (healer, 9), and southwest rainforest (mystic, 8) cannot be fully charged until the primary sparkle in the tepui antechamber (10) has been activated. For the three "main" temples for each class, their full charge lasts much longer (just slightly over 30 OOC days).
• All temples can have their charge "maintained" as long as the initial conditions above are met. The charge state does not matter for charging other temples, so long as at least one sparkle is present.
• When all three healer temples are active, the outer door of the tepui temple will open, allowing access to the crypt antechamber and an altar (10). The altar makes you depart to Metzetli Crypt, so be careful if you're the only one in your group touching it. Once a single one of the three temples inactivates, the outer door is no longer passable until all temples are again active.
• When all three fighter temples are active, a hidden door in the west of the crypt antechamber will open leading to a small room. Once a single one of the three temples inactivates, the west door is no longer passable until all temples are again active.
• When the first three 'outer' Mystic temples are active, a hidden door will open directly to the west of the fighter sparkles in the southwest rainforest 'fighter' temple (temple 11, inside temple 8). In this chamber, there is a sparkle for that a Mystic must activate to activate, which opens the northern exit from the "fighter" passage in the tepui antechamber. In this room, there is a sparkle that any class may activate and charge, which opens the doors to the crypt in the antechamber and allows all primary temples--deathroots healer (9), fighter temple top (5), and southwest Mystic rainforest (8)--to be fully charged. NB: There is a bug with the display of the charge for the Mystic southwest rainforest. It will only display 3 sparkles even when fully charged; the Mystic should charge the temple until it begins to shock him/her.
• Inside the crypt, on the southern route, there is another Mystic sparkle which can only be activated if all other temples are active, so it is important to fully charge all three "main" temples after opening the antechamber. Activating this sparkle opens a passage directly north of the eastern landing on Metz. This passage leads to a small chamber with a rubble-blocked pathway and 3 mirrors. The yellow "Mystic" mirror leads to the southwest rainforest canopy right next to the northern entrance to Tepui. The red "Fighter" mirror leads to the bottom of the basalt temple (and a shortcut to the "main" fighter temple and basalt mystic temple, but requires a vine), and the blue "Healer" mirror leads to the northern route of the crypt. All mirrors lead to relatively safe first landings, and are two-way after the first mirror crossing. The second crossing from the Mystic and Healer temples is one-way (into the rainforest and into the crypt, respectively). The fighter entrance is two-way so long as the vine does not break.
• When the inner crypt Mystic temple is activated, a hidden two-way route opens in the Observation Room that leads to a shortcut to the Mystic temple in northwest Metzetli Island (temple 4).

  Tidbits and Reiterations:

• The order of activation between the "outer" temples does not matter, although they must both be activated before the primary temple can be activated. (Again, primary temples are: deathroot for healer (9), basalt temple top for fighter (5), southwest rainforest (11) for mystic).
• Once a temple is activated, it appears as 'active' in the mystic observation room. Each temple corresponds uniquely to a spark in the observation room.
• All temples can be "charged" which means they stay active longer. You will see 6 'observatory' sparkles appear nearby each of the temples when this occurs, and the charging sparkle will change its function (e.g. it will hum, shock, or something 'different') when it is fully charged. The 'decay' time is different for different temples.
• The 'outer' temples can be charged after the 'primary' temple of a certain class is active. The 'primary' temples can only be charged after the sparkle inside the tepui antechamber has been activated. For example, after the rainforest fighter temple, lava fighter temple, and basalt temple top are all activated, the lava and rainforest fighter temples can be fully charged, but the basalt temple top will still only retain a 3 hour charge. After the sparkle inside the tepui is active, the temple top can also be fully charged.
• Charging the temples has no effect other than lengthening the time of effect from several hours to several days--it is highly recommended, and nearly essential, to fully charge the temples to obtain this benefit.
• Charge status of each temple is persistent throughout a chaos storm, so you do not have to restart progress.
• Inside the Crypt, there is a Mystic sparkle in the 'southern' route. Activating this sparkle opens up the mirror access from the jungle directly to the crypt. Map of crypt here (minimap from Gorvin. Click on a snell in the minimap to get a photostitch image of the crypt, by Gil-Galad and myself; currently broken.).
• Alts can be left safely at several temples: Fighter Basalt Tower (5), Mystic Basalt Highlands (4), Mystic Southeast Rainforest (7), Mystic Southwest Rainforest (8), Healer River (2), and Metz Antechamber (10). Alts can be left semi-safely at Fighter Rainforest (8), Mystic Shoreline (1), Healer Gloamings (6), and Fighter Lava Basalt (3). Alts cannot be left at Healer Deathroots or Mystic Crypt. Alts are reset during chaos storms and may also bring the Wrath of the Gods upon you, so be warned.
• If a single temple from a class loses its charge, you can go and recharge that one temple fully. If you have more than one temple lose its charge, you will have to go through the whole process again (for whatever class the temple is, fighter healer or mystic), and you will not be able to charge the antechamber sparkle.
• When "your energy surges outward violently!" occurs when stepping on a sparkle, you are no longer charging it. It is either fully charged, or you need to activate more temples to fully charge it.

• The basement of the basalt temple has a power supply for the 'permanent fighter' sparkles in the observation room. It has no active use for us.
• The healer sparkles in the hidden southwest rainforest temple (off to the side of temples 8 & 11) are a power supply for the 'permanent' healer sparkles in the observation room. It has no active use for us.
• The 'broken' trialyths on the tepui are directly above the 'hidden' trialyths in the southwest rainforest fighter temple, but they do not do anything themselves.
• The "Mystic" mirror in the mirror room is (at least currently) broken.-->
• There is currently no way to clear the blockage in the mirror room.
• The observation room is primarily for observation, but the mystic there can also charge the "northwest Basalt" mystic temple by moving between the two locations, but only when basalt mystic temple is active (otherwise it is one-way from basalt to observation room only).
• It is possible that the 'one sparkle' main temple charges and the Mystic temple charges may be increased in duration in the coming weeks (noted June 2011.)
• The pit drop to the southwest rainforest "fighter and mystic" temple only works if it is not raining. If the weather is raining: wait, or ask a Mystic for help. (Thanks Brisk! Note June 2023.)

• For activating every temple (strategy performed Autumn 571):
• Trip 1: Hunt: Go through jungle and gloamings, dropping a healer off at the gloaming river temple. Continue to the back entrance to deathroots (aka "river exit from rainforest"). Go through deathroots snell 2 to the 'main' temple. Activate the main temple, then have the two healers at the gloaming and river temples 'charge' their temples by standing on the sparkles until a triangle of 6 'sparkles' appears (this will do quite a bit of damage). Go back into the rainforest to the eastern drop point into the river (not by deathroots), drop in there and run northwest to reach the river healer temple.
• Trip 2: Hunt: Drop a Mystic (illusion-breaking required, but JM or AM will work fine once inside) off in the twilight plateau temple. Continue on and drop a fighter off at the basalt penthouse "main temple." Leave both there until the end of Day 3.
• Trip 3: Pre-hunt: Activate the "twilight lava" temple and the mystic shoreline temple. You have 3 hours from this point. The mystics should remain here until the 'primary' temple is activated, leaving a healer or fighter guardian to keep crawlers away.
• Trip 3: Hunt: Go through front entrance of deathroots, activate the healer temple there (its 3 hours timer will have expired from Day 1, but the auxiliary temples will still be active). Continue on to the rainforest mystic temple, activating that temple. Continue on to the rainforest fighter temple, activating and charging that temple, while the fighter dropped off on Day 2 activates the 'main' temple. Charge the primary Mystic temple while you are there. Continue on to the main tepui temple, charging the sparkle in the antechamber on the west side. Return to the primary Mystic temple in the rainforest and fully charge it, then return to the Mystic rainforest temple and fully charge that. The fighter at basalt temple top can fully charge that temple now as well. The other two mystics should fully charge their temples and then they may leave. This group can either then go onto tepui and begin hunting the crypt, or may leave via Trip and fully charge the healer temple there.
• Day 4: Hunt the crypt via the southern "Mystic" route and activate the mystic temple within. Now the crypt may be accessed from the jungle, and the sparkle activation is no longer necessary (as far as we know). Cautious people may wish to continue recharging temples as necessary.