Meditating
Meditation
To meditate, use a meditation rug. Skill builds to 20 on all tiles, after that you have to join a path to get further skillgain. Once you are on a path, skill-gain is limited to 5 times every 3 hours.
Paths
Starting and Following a Path
On certain tiles, there can be a pop-up after finishing meditating that allows you to start a path. There are thought to be many paths, though some are more easily found than others. Verified paths are: Knowledge, Power, Insanity and Nature. There are also rumoured to be Paths of Honor and Triumph.
To join a path you need to have 15 Meditation Skill.
Once you are on the path, a title will appear next to your name, similar to the champion title. Each step of the path brings a new title. At each step, you must wait for an increasing amount of time before you can advance to the next step on the path. Times between steps are shown in the section on Titles below. You can only follow 1 path.
The first question of each path seems to take the following form: "As you meditate upon these things you realize that there is a pattern of thinking that you can try to follow. If this path contains the truth or simply the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it may pose an interesting challenge. Do you wish to embark on the philosophical journey of the path of X? If you answer yes, you will be challenged by the selected path as you visit more places like this one and mediate.". Answering yes will make you an adherent of that particular path, with the title of Uninitiated.
For the second and subsequent questions of each path, the dialog starts as follows: "If the path of X contains the truth or simply is the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it poses an interesting challenge. The following question springs to mind", and is then followed by a new question with five possible answers.
Path of Insanity
Generally found in mines.
2nd Question
How come some people are rich and some are poor?
- It is natural
- Life is unfair
- Some people are unlucky
- There are not enough resources
- Who knows?
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "Too sane."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You feel certain that this is right." "Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Initiate of the path of insanity!"
3rd Question
Who has the most control of my fate?
- I have
- People around me
- The stars
- Natural Laws
- The government
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "Too sane."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You nod to yourself. Of course." "Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Disturbed of the path of insanity!"
4th Question
If I win the lottery, what determined it?
- Number of the ticket
- Person who pulled the ticket
- Simple luck
- Events leading up to the draw
- World history?
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: (missing)
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You try to pat yourself on the back." "Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Crazed of the path of insanity!"
Path of Knowledge
2nd Question
What is knowledge?
- Everything I have seen
- Lies are the truth
- Commonly accepted facts
- Information that I have accepted as a fact
- Applied experience
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "You don't feel that sense of revelation. The answer is probably too obvious."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You think 'I am on to something'. Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Initiate of the path of knowledge!"
3rd Question
What best constitutes a fact?
- Experience
- Anything I accept as the truth
- Logically verified information
- I trust nothing
- What a lot of people say
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "You feel that the answer contains holes."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You think 'That must be it' Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Eager of the path of knowledge!"
4th Question
Is there any absolute truth?
- Everything we experience is true
- Only what I decide to see within me
- No
- It is a joke
- What people decide
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: <not known>
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You think 'That makes sense' Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Explorer of the path of knowledge!"
Path of Power
Confirmed to be found in high places.
2nd Question
What is the ultimate purpose of power?
- To become insanely rich
- To dominate other creatures
- To get away with everything
- To enjoy the small things in life
- To achieve personal freedom
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "You need something more clear to light the path."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You think 'I am on to something'. Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Initiate of the path of power!"
3rd Question
What is money?
- Money is mainly control
- You can buy everything with money
- Money is mainly oppression
- Money is mainly energy
- Money is only numbers
If you choose the wrong answer you get the message: "Hmm. You feel no revelation."
If you choose the correct answer you get the message: "You think 'I This must be the path'. Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Gatherer of the path of power!"
Path of Nature
Leaving a path
If you have chosen a path, you now have the option Nature -> Leave path. This brings up a dialog that says: "Select quit to stop following this path. The result is immediate and dramatic".
Path leaders
Once you have reached level 3 in your chosen path, you will have a new option Nature -> Path leaders. This brings up a dialog that says "You consider the local leaders of the path:". No further information is currently available on this feature.
Titles
| Level | Delay to reach | Path of Knowledge | Path of Insanity | Path of Power | Path of Nature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | None | Uninitiated | Uninitiated | Uninitiated | Uninitiated |
| 1 | 12h | Initiate | Initiate | Initiate | Initiate |
| 2 | 24h | Eager | Disturbed | Gatherer | ? |
| 3 | 72h | Explorer | Crazed | ? | ? |
| 4 | 'about a week' | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Messages
You start meditating.
Failed attempt
- You fail to relax.
Others
- You recently meditated here and need to find new insights somewhere else.
You need to move 10 tiles in one direction to meditate again when you get this message. Note that you can still join a path after meditating even if you receive this message, so it can be safely ignored.
- This is indeed a special place.
You have found a special tile that belongs to a path.
- You decide to start pursuing the insights of the path of knowledge
Message you get if you choose yes in a path dialog (see below)
- You still need to let your progress sink in for several hours
After meditating again on a special tile (after choosing path dialog) you get this message on top of the recent meditation message.
- You gain no inspiration here for your own path.
If you meditate on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you will chosen you will receive this message.
- You should return here when you have become better at meditating.
(?) You have found a "special tile" but do not have the required skill to start a path.
Successful attempt
"You fall into a trance."
- A sense of hopelessness suddenly strikes.
- Are there people who are soulless?
- Are they after you?
- Are you all that honest?
- Can something good come from small children fighting with each other?
- Can you change anything in your life for the better?
- Can you freeze water with thoughts?
- Can you picture a situation where could you kill someone?
- Does everything have a shadow somewhere?
- Does hurting someone really hurt you more?
- Does meditating really help anything?
- Do you know anyone who has had a perfect childhood?
- Do you know anyone who has not had a tainted childhood?
- Do you let too many things slip?
- Do you often lie or take chances when you are asked to speak?
- Do you taint people by complaining about things to them?
- Do you try to control things you should not or can not?
- If something sees light as something else, how does it look?
- Is it better to protect a child or let it risk a severe bruise now and then?
- Is it possible to move along the chain of time?
- Is it really the same river the next time you step into it?
- Is fear and hate the same thing?
- Is love a large hole that needs to be filled or is it something else?
- Is there a physical representation of chance?
- Is there a smallest particle?
- Isn't life really pretty disgusting?
- Isn't most things very predictive?
- It sure is a nice day.
- May your mere appearance change the course of events?
- Maybe we all have our problems?
- Should children really be allowed to sort out their indifferences themselves?
- Should you accept when someone destroys what you love?
- Should you be doing something completely different right now?
- Should you trust someone more because the person sounds more convincing?
- The light in a drop of water.
- The sky lifts your heart.
- The thought of the highest mountain makes your mind wander.
- The thought that someone is watching strikes you.
- The image of a small baby surrounded by snakes comes to mind.
- The vision of slow flowing rivers calms your mind.
- This place reminds you of home for some reason.
- What do the gods want?
- What if light and dirt is the same thing, just in different shapes.
- What is the difference between an arrow fired and an arrow sheathed?
- What is the difference between words spoken and words thought?
- What is the smallest thing you can do that has effect on another person?
- What is your spirit made of?
- What lies have you been told this week?
- What makes trees grow?
- What would you do if you possessed most knowledge in the world?
- When? When when when?
- When you judge and limit someone, does that limit you as well?
- Where does my soul live as I leave my body?
- Which path should you choose today?
- Will you care about what happens after you are dead?
- Who decides who is allowed to complain about something?
- Who has the right to lock someone up?
- Who was that?
- You consider the wind and the places it goes.
- You decide not to breathe at all. Does the future already exist?
- You envision fire along the horizon. Dark clouds above.
- You envision yourself teaching to the masses.
- You feel the Earth and what walks on it
- You feel like laughing like a donkey.
- You focus on breathing.
- You listen to the wind.
- You ponder the miners, digging deep in the darkness of the mountains.
- You think about how people can torture each other and who decides who will live and who will die.
- You think about hurricanes and volcanoes and how it would feel to be one.
- You think about rain.
- You think about sunshine.
- You think about the craftsmen, tinkering and toiling.
- You think about the sea and the creatures that swim in it.
- You think about your barriers for learning and how to remove them.
- You think of aggression and violence.
- You think of all the people that decide your fate.
- You think of the things that interest you most.
- You think of the various ways people become the best at something and whether you should adopt some style.
- You try to clear your mind.
- You try to recall all the faces you have met.
- You try to recall if someone said that the gods don't play dice.
- You try to think of nothing here.
- You wonder how far you can go.
- You wonder how you would study and learn a book of lies.
- You wonder if it is possible to find knowledge that in no possible situation would save lives.
- You wonder if the future exists but we only see parts of it like a mountainrange.
- You wonder if there is something really interesting out there that you haven't heard of.
- You wonder if time can move backwards somehow.
- You wonder if you always try to decide on the best option.
- You wonder what you would say if you got to tell the whole world one sentence of truth.
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