Quick question (clue? what clue?)

[jeffh]

Just reading through The Whispering Cairn for the first time, and I have a question. How exactly do the extended fingers on the carving on the sarcophagus in area 7 "represent a clue to the location of the true tomb" (page 23, first paragraph under heading "The sarcophagus")? I don't see the connection.

[Sean Halloran]

jeffh wrote:

Just reading through The Whispering Cairn for the first time, and I have a question. How exactly do the extended fingers on the carving on the sarcophagus in area 7 "represent a clue to the location of the true tomb" (page 23, first paragraph under heading "The sarcophagus")? I don't see the connection.

Three fingers on right hand = three turns of the arrow clockwise (to the right). Very subtle.

[jeffh]

Sean Halloran wrote:

jeffh wrote:

Just reading through The Whispering Cairn for the first time, and I have a question. How exactly do the extended fingers on the carving on the sarcophagus in area 7 "represent a clue to the location of the true tomb" (page 23, first paragraph under heading "The sarcophagus")? I don't see the connection.

Three fingers on right hand = three turns of the arrow clockwise (to the right). Very subtle.

Hmmm. Not only subtle, but ambiguous. I can see that being interpreted in various other ways, and no clear way of knowning which is right.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

[Erik Mona]

Indeed, it's not really meant to point the direction of ultimate victory. If anything, it's to further encourage the players to mess with the sarcophagus, whether they "get" the clue or not.

--Erik