3. Ge'airram

After waking up from the stress of the link, I thought a bit about which linking book I would use next.  I decided to just go for the grey/black one, since it was next to Gaelin.  I opened it to the last page, and I could see a dark island with what appeared to be an observatory.  There also appeared to be a large island in the distance.

I place my palm on the image, and linked.  I arrived on a rocky platform, with the planetarium a short distance away.  A door was ahead, so I walked up and entered it.

Ahead of this door was another door, so I opened it to reveal a tunnel, leading to the observatory.

When I reached the end of the tunnel, I found myself in a large room.  I decided to take a look at the telescope.  I sat in the comfy chair, pressed a red button on my left-hand side which brought the scope closer to me, and then peered in.

In front of me was a viewhole filled with stars.  Three blue buttons were below the viewhole.  I copied them into my journal:

The three blue buttons

Below these were three circular black buttons.  I experimented with the blue buttons.

I discovered that whenever I pressed the correct combination, I was rewarded with bright stars on the screen.  Each time I did this, I pressed the left-most black circular button that I had not already pressed, and the stars appeared on the black circular button that I had pressed.

I decided that there was some kind of code involved here, so I wrote everything down in my journal:

Code for left black circular button:  circle, square, square (press left black circular button).

Code for middle black circular button:  triangle, circle (press middle black circular button).

Code for right black circular button:  square, triangle, circle (press right black circular button).

Once I had completed all three, I copied the results into my journal:

The telescope results

Since I had solved the 'puzzle', I decided to leave the telescope to see what else there was to see.  I pressed the red button on my left-hand side, moving the scope back into it's original position.

On my right, I discovered a door, with a panel next to it, with three blue buttons, identical to the ones on the telescope.  I decided to press them in the order I had pressed the ones in the telescope: circle, square, square, triangle, circle, square, triangle and finally, circle.

Presto!  As I pressed the buttons, a constellation formed on a small screen below the buttons.  When I completed the sequence, the stars all joined into a solid line and morphed back and forth into stars.  After a few cycles, the door opened!  I quickly copied the result into my journal:

The door puzzle result

Inside the newly accessible room, on a table, I discovered two books.  One had a symbol on the front, so I copied the symbol into my journal:

The journal symbol

I noticed that this was the same as the symbol on Agmis's seventh journal on Gaelin.  I opened it and discovered that it followed on from his last journal.  Again, I copied the most important entries into my journal and copied the Age's symbol:
 

Eighth Journal of Agmis                Journal Entry 736                     I don't think the age is yet complete.  Surely even partially complete it stands as one of my more               advanced attempts.  It is fairly cold here due to the fact that night reigns over the day. As was the               purpose.                     Despite the frigid air, the view of the stars is spectacular.  I am happy to have written it just for               Noira.  I'm sure she will be pleased with her wedding gift.              Journal Entry 738                     Today was the day.  Two souls promised to be there on end for each other forever.  And I've               presented to her the gift.  Of course she seemed ecstatic with that beautiful smile.  Although she               deserves more.  I have already begun plans for a structure on the small island, a place where she               can observe all those bright wonders in the sky.  It is far too late to be writing.  I will turn in tonight               and fill out all the details of this astounding day in tomorrow's journal.              Journal Entry 768                     The construction of the star viewer is nearly finished.  It's of a fairly simple design.  A rotating               dome amidst the rocks.  The telescope was harder to create.  Discovering the technological               aspects of the telescope was just as tedious as learning how to write.                     Several friends from Gaelin will be bringing the last materials needed for the telescope and in a               few days.              Journal Entry 771                     She hasn't left Ge'airram in nearly 3 days!  It seems that Noira has come closer to the stars               than I had anticipated.  I am starting to feel like I come in second hand.  Of course not, yet I hope               she comes back to Gaelin before this frigid air numbs her senses.  I don't know how long she sits               in there, watching the flow of stars move across the universe.  Perhaps feeling that she is there               with them, among the place where light and dark merge to create beauty, she feels complete.              Journal Entry 1263                     With K'aastor desecrationial rampage among our ages, I've installed a code for the store room,               lest his madness get any further.                   To get into the store room one must press on the symbol for Gaelin two times.  Then the symbol               for Ge'airram once, then Cissar twice, and finally Alev once.  The symbols represent an important               figure in each age.                   I've found myself constantly putting in the wrong code with this new security, sometimes I               myself must reset the lock and try it again. Ge'airram

Hmm.  There's some interesting insights in here.  This K'aastor seems to be a tidbit strange.  Its a good thing I've been putting down the symbols for these Ages, because otherwise I probably wouldn't be able to enter Agmis and Noira's storeroom.

I wonder which of the books in the book room are Cissar and Alev?  Hopefully I'll find out soon.  This is getting more and more interesting.

I closed the journal, and turned my attention to the other book, which was clearly a linking book back to the K'veer book room on D'ni.  It is.  After checking everything was in order...  it was...  I placed my palm on the image, and linked.

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