MYST HINA

Authors Moment: Well, I have had this idea since a more than a month ago and the urge to write it just can't be contained anymore. I hope you all enjoy this. Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina or Myst. As a warning, if anyone hasn't played or finished any of the Myst games (excluding URU), I suggest you stop reading unless you want to be spoiled.

The Star Fissure, the mysterious cliff of stars below the age of Riven. No one in that age knows nothing about it. Suddenly a man falls and he is holding a book. And he vanishes into the book and the book keeps falling.

"I realised the moment I fell into the Fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse which I only had a fleeting glimpse. I tried to speculate, where it might have landed, but I must admit however, such conjecture is futile. Still the question of the hands that will one-day hold my MYST book is unsettling to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close meaning that perhaps, the ending, has not yet been written." – Atrus' Journal

The book falls into a dessert. It lands on the sands and the wind blows sands all over it. It lies there, waiting for someone to find it.

Twenty-eight or twenty-nine years later, an archeological dig is searching the desert for ruins to an old civilization. During this digging someone comes across something in the sands. "Hey, part timer, look at this", yelled the man. His part time helper rushes to help him. "What is it Seta." "Well Keitaro", responds Seta, "I just found this!" Seta holds up a old book. It looks worn and on the cover was written the word MYST. "What could Myst mean?" asked Keitaro. "I don't know either but I doubt it has anything to do with our find, it could be just a lost book or journal", said Seta. Keitaro pondered this and said, "You have a point there. Is it okay that I hold on to it, just in case?" "Sure", said Seta, "I don't think I would have any use for that!"
a few weeks later

Hinata House, one of the most interesting sites in the Hinata Hot Springs in Japan. This inn was passed down in the Urishima family. However, though it looks good on the outside, what goes on inside is pretty interesting. (AN: This takes place before that forbidden annex incident just to let you know)

Behind the house, on the balcony, a huge amount of wind went up with the shout, "Gods Cry Secret Technique; Rock Splitting Sword!" The woman wielding that sword caused someone to go on a small flight briefly than land down and used his sword to hit the woman's sword. "Do you have to hit me that hard?" said the guy, who was Keitaro. "Come on, you wanted to spar with me so take it!" responded the woman, who's name was Motoko.

Meanwhile inside the Landlord's (Keitaro's) room, a fox faced lady by the name of Kitsune was looking around the entire room. "Okay Keitaro, let's see what you have been up to!" She started looking on his bookshelves then she pried into the trunk of things he brought from the dig. She was about to plow into it when she was startled by a shrill, "HI KITSUNE!" "Not now Su", responded Kitsune to the fornener. However in the shock the chest turned over and a brown book fell out. "Hey what is this", asked Su, "Can we eat it?" "Can we eat what" asked a familiar voice. Kitsune turned and to her horrer was Keitaro, along with Naru. "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING IN KEITARO'S ROOM?" yelled Naru. "Yea, I would like to know", said Keitaro. "Ummm you see it's like this..........uhhhhh?" "Wait, what is that you got there", asked Keitaro. "Oh, this, I found this book in your trunk Keitaro", responded Kitsune.

Keitaro took the book and looked at it. "Oh yeah, it's the book I found while helping Seta. It had nothing to do with the excavation so I decided to keep it!" "What does that word mean, MYST", asked Naru. "I don't know", responded Keitaro. "I think we should share this book with the others", said Naru. "You might be right. That way whoever lost it can get it back."

Soon, in the foyer, the entire Hinata Household was gathered around the strange book. Keitaro explained where and how he found the book. "The reason I kept it was because there was no date, no author, not even a sign to where it was made", said Keitaro. Motoko stood and said, "Are you wise in taking that book in Urishima, I sense something odd about it. It could be cursed or possesed!"

"Hmmmmm", said Kitsune, "Have you even tried opening it?" "Well.............NO!" Everyone fainted. "How do you know whats in it if you haven't even opened it", yelled Naru. "Leave Oni-san alone", yelled Kanako. Kitsune then said, "Why don't we just open it already?" and she did. Everyone tensed up epecting something to happen, but nothing did. Hey look at the front page", said Su. Everyone looked at the front page. What was on there was something they almost couldn't believe. There was a moving picture on there, that was showing an island of an odd nature. "See, I told you there was something odd about that book! I should get rid of it!" yelled Motoko. "NO! WAIT! We have no clue what it is. It could mean something", said Keitaro. "Yes, Oni-san could be right", said Kanako.

However, Shinobu became entranced by the strange picture. "It looks so real, I could almost touch it." She then reached out and touched the moving picture. As soon as she did, there was an odd sound and Shinobu faded out of the room like a mist. "SHINOBU!" yelled everyone. "Where did she go?" asked Su. "I think she entered the book somehow", said Keitaro. Motoko grabbed Keitaro by his shirt neck. "THIS ALL YOUR FAULT! I TOLD YOU TO GET RID OF IT!" Su then decided to do what Shinobu did. "I think all she did was place her hand on the picture, like this.........." And as soon as she did, she vanished. "NOT AGAIN!" "There is only one way to get to them", said Keitaro. He placed his hand on it, and he vanished as well. "KEITARO!" yelled Naru. "ONI-SAN!" yelled Kanako. They soon followed. Eventually almost every member of the Hinata house used the moving gateway on that book.
Myst Island

Shinobu materilized and she got shocked at her new sorroundings. "AHHHH! Where am I?" A few minutes later Su and then everone else came in. "Shinobu!" yelled Su. "We're glad your alright", said Keitaro. "Well Urishima, since you got us into this, any ideas on how to get us out", said Motoko. "Uhhhhh", said Keitaro as he scratched his head then he said, "Nope, not a clue." His response was met with huge blast from Motoko. "This is all your fault! If only you hadn't brought that accursed book into Hinata House, none of this wouldn't have happened." "Motoko there is nothing we can do. What's done is done, now we must find a way home", said Naru. "So what should we do", asked Su. "Like anyone would do in a new land, EXPLORE", said Keitaro.

"Besides we can't sail anywhere", said Kitsune, "Look at that ship, it's sunk!" Su looked ahead of them at a hill where there were some huge gears", "WOW! Look at the size of those gears! I can use them probably for Mecha-Tama Mach 78!" Everyone just sweatdropped at this.

"Hey everyone! Look what I found", yelled Shinobu. Everyone ran to where Shinobu was. "I found this note in the grass." "Let me see that", said Motoko.

The note read:

"Catherine,

I've left you a message of utmost importance in our fore-chamber beside the dock. Enter the number of marker switches on this island into the imager to retrieve the message.

Yours,
Atrus"

"Who could this 'Atrus' be?" said Naru. "I hope he is kinda cute", said Kitsune. "I don't think you have a chance, this Catherine he wrote for could be his girlfriend or more", said Keitaro. Kitsune pouted at this possibility. "Fore- chamber", said Naru, "What could that mean?" Shinobu's eyes lit up. "I know, when I arrived here, I saw a metal door on the hill on the side of the dock! That might be the fore-chamber!" "Well, what are we waiting for", said Keitaro.

The entire group made their way down to the metal door and they opened it. Within the door was a long staircase leading downwards. They followed it and came apon a cauldren of water.

"This is what's down here. A bubbling pot of water?" said Motoko. "Hmm", said Su, "I wonder what this button does?" She pressed it despite everyone's protests. The water faded revealing a bunch of machinery.

"Why that water was just a hologram", said Kitsune. "Oh so this must be the for-chamber", said Shinobu. "She's right", said Kanako. She pointed to a display thing with a piece of paper in it. It read like this:

Settings- Dimensonal Imager

Topographical Extrusion Test . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Water-Turbulent Pool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Marker Switch Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

"Observe", said Kanako and she pushed the green button nearby. The panel slid open to reaveal a numbered panel. Kanako pressed the buttons below the numbers until they read, 40. She pressed another nearby button and after a few blips, the panel slid shut. "Let's try this now", said Kanako.

Shrugging, Motoko pressed the same button and in response the imager activated, showing, not water as before, but a grid. The grid rose and shaped itself into mountains, then it got color. The image circled a full 360 before reversing it's own process. "Quick, Kanako, do the same thing again but this time insert the number for the Marker Switch Diagram", said Keitaro. Kanako nodded at this and did as she was told.

When they activated the imager again it showed a podium with a blue- handled switch on it. "We saw those things around the island!" gasped Shinobu. "Okay, I suggest we split up and count all the marker switches we can find and meet back here!", said Naru. "AGREED", said everyone.

A few minutes later, a small group of the Hinata House group went their own way to try to find the Marker switches.

In the wooded area, Naru, Keitaro and Kanako came across three. One was near a brick shed, the second near a cabin that was near a huge tree that was surrounded by a brick wall save for a small staircase, and the third was found thanks to a little problem by Kietaro. While walking, he tripped and his hand came in contact with one of Naru's. . . . do I even have to say it. The next thing he knew it was the scream of, "HENTAI" and the major punch by Naru. Soon, bam, Keitaro hits a clocktower nearby. "That was rough", said Keitaro. Meanwhile across from him Naru yelled, "Listen, just because we are in a different world doesn't mean you have copping options!" "You leave Oni-san alone", said Kanako. "Hey, I found a third marker switch", said Keitaro. He quickly flipped it and swam back across the water. "Okay we found what we could find here, lets get back to the fore-chamber", said Keitaro.

Su and Shinobu found two marker switches. One was found near the rocket, despite the Su's attempt to try to find a way inside the rocket. The second was found near a fountain with a model of the second ship.

Motoko and Kitune found two, one was near the dock, ("why would someone sink a ship so near the dock",said Kitsune), a second near the giant gears and a third near a huge building which looked like an observetory.

Shortly afterward all the Hinata House girls came together to and tallied the entire total of marker switches. ". . . and that one on the dock is 8", finished Keitaro. "So, we can assume that the number we are supposed to enter is 8", asked Kitsune. "It's worth a shot", said Keitaro.

The group re-entered the fore-chamber and opened the panel. They made the numbers on the panel read, "08" and closed it. When Naru pushed the button on the projector a face of a man appeared and he looked concerned.

"Catherine my love", he said, "I have to leave quickly, something terrible has happened! It's hard for me to believe, most of my books have been destroyed!" After pausing he showed a look of deeper concern and said, "Catherine it's one of our sons!" He softened his look and said, "I suspect Achenar but, I, I shouldn't leap to conclusions. I'll find him and Sirrus as well." He then sighed and said in a voice of anger, "I should have known better to have left my library unchecked for so long!" He sighed again and then said more calmly, "Well, I have removed the remaining undamaged books from the library and placed them in the places of protection. You shouldn't have to use the books until I return. But. . . . 'sigh'. . . . if you got to access them remember the Tower Rotation. Oh, and don't worry Catherine, everything will be fine. I'll see you shortly." He looked and then said, "Oh wait. And erase this message after you viewed it, just to be safe." Then the man faded out and the message was over.

"Hmmm. By the way he acted he looked very concerned," said Motoko. "A library", questioned Keitaro. "Wait, I got it", yelled Su, "While we were looking for the marker switches, I saw this building near the observatory, I think that is the library!" "Well, let's go! We might find our answers there", said Kitsune.

The entire group headed on up to the library, which, as Su surmised, was the building next to the observetory. Inside the library they found several things on the walls. One was the bookshelf itself, beside the walls were two paintings, one looked like a staircase in the library, the other looked like the door they just came in. Beside both paintings were two separate books. One was blue, the other was red. Both books had a piece of paper of the books color beside them. Beside the blue book, was a fireplace and beside the red book was a map, probably of the island they were now on.

Motoko shivered at the red and blue books. Shinobu went near the map. As soon as she did, a bunch of marks went off. She jumped back then went near it. The others gathered near the map. "I wonder what those marks mean", said Kitsune. "Wait", said Keitaro, "Those marks look just like the areas where the marker switches were." "So you're saying if we didn't switch them on. . .", said Naru. "Yes, we wouldn't see anything." Su then noticed a blinking dot on the mountain behind the library. "I wonder what the deal is with this white dot." Before anyone could stop her, she touched the dot and a line formed and the longer she held the line kept rotating in a clockwise pattern. They then noticed the line kept turning red on four points, the ship, the tree, the rocket, and the gear. "I wonder what that means", asked Kietaro. Su stopped the dot to say, "Beats me." After saying that they heard a rumble and a whirr of machinery. "What was that", asked Motoko. "I have no clue. But I think we should check out that bookshelf", said Kanako.

They all headed towards the bookshelf and checked out the books there Most of them were burned, but they found four journals that were intact. Kietaro was reading a book that talked about a place called the Channelwood age, Naru was reading one on the Selentic Age, Su was reading on something called, The Mechanical Age, ("what's a Mechanical Age, is it good", she asked) and Kanako was reading on a age called the Stoneship Age. "This looks interesting", said Keitaro. "Yes but what does these journals mean, how did he get to them", asked Naru. Then Kanako stared at the red and blue books and said, "Maybe we should try these two." Motoko once again shivered.

They first went towards the red book. When they opened it, they saw a similar design to the MYST book but it was nothing but red snow. Then Naru sugested, "Why don't we try that red piece of paper and place it inside?" Everyone agreed. They placed it inside and they heard a strange sound and so they opened the book and inside they saw a man.

The man noticed them and said, "Who are you?" Before they can respond he faded out and then they vaugly heard him say, "You must help me. Bring me a red page." After a bit of interference he said, "I can't. . . . I can't see you." Then he said something they couldn't make out, but they did make out, "I am Sirrus." "Did he say he was Serious", asked Su. "No he said he is Sirrus. He must be one of Atrus' sons", said Keitaro. Sirrus then said some more things but they couldn't hear him through the static. Soon the screen blanked out and they closed the book.

They thing headed for the other book, and this time they placed the blue page inside before opening it. The man in it suddenly said, "SIRRUS! Is that you." "Um no", said Naru. "Who are you. . . . I can't see you. . . . now!" Then after some interference he said, "I must have. . . .bring me. . . blue pages." "Who would have guessed", said Kitsune sarcastically. The man inside said something but they couldn't make him out, they did make out, "I must have, the blue pages." After that he said something they couldn't make out but then he faded out. "I suppose if we are to find out what is going on here and to get back home we must find these pages", said Motoko. "Yes, but I doubt there on this island, I didn't see any." "Maybe they are in those books that Atrus said he saved", said Naru. "You may be right, but we don't know how to access them", said Kanako. "'Tower Rotation' What did Atrus mean by that", said Keitaro. "Hey where's Su", asked Shinobu. "Oh, I am over here." They turned to see that the fireplace had a wall over it now and through a small window they saw the face of the foregner. "Su, get out of there", said Keitaro. "Oh, but I liked making these square patterns on the door." Everyone sweatdropped. "I don't think it is a good idea to draw on other people's property", said Shinobu. "Oh, I am not drawing, I just put a section and a square appears. If I push a square it dissapears." Everyone just face-faulted and Keitaro added, "Just get out of there." "OKAY!" Su quickly de-activated the door and got out of the fireplace.

They last thing the group looked at were the two paintings. "Why wold someone want paintings that show only doorways inside of this library. It doesn't make any sense", said Kitsune. "Maybe because they reperesent something.", said Keitaro, "I am going to touch it." With that Keitaro touched the painting of the wooden staircase. The painting swirled, after it swirled the bookshelf moved back and went down to form a small staircase and beyond it, a small hallway. "Hey that's what the paintings mean", said Kitsune. "The other painting must reverse the process", said Kanako. "I agree", said Naru, and pointing to the entrance of the library, they noticed the door was blocked with a wooden slab. "The paintings must represent what they open, and the opposite door closes", said Naru. "Enough chatter, lets go through this hallway", said Motoko. They all went through the hallway, it was wooden and had small lights on the ceiling to light the way. The hallway ended in a small cavern with an elevator. "I think we're supposed to get inside", said Keitaro. "Well Duh, Urashima", said Motoko. Then they noticed something, "Guys this elevator can't hold all of us." "Well, I got us in this so I will go", said Keitaro. "I will accompany you", said Naru. "So will I", said Su as he jumped on him. "And to make sure nothing funny happens, I will go", said Kanako. "Fine", said Motoko, "We will wait here for you to return. With that, Shinobu, Motoko and Kitsune all went back to the library.

The four went into the elevator. It was all metal and near the door was a blue button. Above the button was a word that said "Library". "Well, let's see were this goes", said Keitaro. He closed the door and pressed the button. The elevator rised and then stopped. When Keitaro opened the door he noticed the word had changed to "Tower". "So this is that tower that Atrus mentioned", said Keitaro. "Yes", said Kanako as they got out, "but how to make it rotate?" They looked it over, one point had ladder with a book sighn and the other side a point with a key sign. "Lets try climbing them", said Naru. Naru looked at the key one and Keitaro looked at the book one, but all they saw were slabs of stone. When they got down they looked dissapointed. "Oh well, I guess that thing with the little dot on the map didn't work after all", said Su. "WHAT", said everyone else. "Oh, didn't I mention, while I was pressing that flashing light on the map it showed the words "Tower Rotation" at the bottem. "I got it", said Naru, "We need to get back to the library!" With that they rushed to elevator and took it down.

When they got down to the library, they told Motoko, Kitsune and Shinobu what they saw, and Naru explained the solution. After the explination Naru went to the map and made the line on the tower icon to point to the rocket. Again they heard a whirr and a rumble. Naru then told Keitaro, Su and Kanako to follow her. They went up the elevator to the tower.

When they reached the tower, they noticed that nothing seemed to have changed. However, Keitaro climbed up the book ladder and saw that in the place of cement, was a overhead view of the rocket. "HEY IT WORKED", yelled Keitaro. "WHY, WHAT DID YOU SEE", asked Naru. "I saw the rocket from overhead", responded Keitaro. Naru, Kanako and Su went up the ladder. "Yep, that's definitly the rocket. I tried to open it but it refused to budge." "Probably because you don't have the access key." "Key", said Keitaro. "I have it, Narusegawa, check out the other ladder with the 'key' symbol on it." "Okay", said Naru. Naru did as she was asked and she found on the slab of concrete was a shiny plaque that said '59 Volts'. Naru ponderded this. After she told what she saw on the plaque to the other two Su said, "That explains those wires I saw leading from the rocket to the that strange shed in the woods." Naru then said, "I think we should take a closer look at that shed."

After getting down from the tower and explaining what happened to Kitsune, Motoko and Shinobu, the Hinata girls and guy headed for the shed, which wasn't too hard to find. When they entered it all Su said was, "Hmm, nothing here but a bunch of stairs heading down." "Well then why don't we head on down." So they walked down, they walked down, Keitaro slipped and accedently grabbed Shinobu's skirt. After she blushed, Keitaro got hit with a blast of ki energy from Motoko's sword and Naru gave him one of her punches with one word, "HENTAI!" Then after a few minutes they walked down some more and they reached a steel door. "Get back", said Motoko as she went near the button. The group noticed she had her sword out. "Why the sword Motoko", asked Shinobu. "We don't know what could be in there so get back!" "Motoko, just open the door", said Kanako. Motoko pushed the switch, the door swooshed open to reveal a panal, with two meters side by side, and to the left of them were red buttons. Beyond the panal were a bunch of electric generators.

The entire group stepped in and analyzed the scene. "I wonder what those two meters mean", asked Kitsune. "I propose we push all these buttons", said Su. "NO SU WAIT", said Keitaro, but it was too late. As she started pressing the buttons the meters started going up in perfect sync, until at a certain point the second meter dropped but the first kept climbing. Finally, Kitsune grabbed Su and Keitaro deactivated the switches. The first meter kept going to zero. "I wonder what happened to the second meter", asked Keitaro. "Maybe this will answer our question.", said Shinobu. To the left of the door in which they entered was a diagram showing that the first meter was for general power, the second was power being sent to the rocket and the switches were for the generators. "I see, this shed was to generate power to the ship, but when Su overpowered it, the circuit must have been cut off", said Naru. "So, we must find the circuit breakers", said Keitaro. "Not until we experement to see which switches would be the right combonation to make 59 volts of electricty Urashima", said Motoko. "Lay off Oni-san", said Kanako.

So the entire group experemented with the switches. After seeing which switches generate a different amount of power, and coming up with the right combo, Keitaro volonteered to go out to find a circuit breaker. He found two, on the towers that lead the power cable from the shed to the rocket. However, shortly just as he flipped one, Su thought they should try one now, a few seconds later a Kentucky Fried or should I say, Su Fried Keitaro walked in. After a few laughs, They flipped the right combo of switches and the ship got it's 59 volts.

After closing up the shed the entire Hina crew, headed for the rocket, the second they touched the door, it swung open. When they got inside, Su got a little disapointed. "I thought it was a weapon instead, all I see is a strange piano and a strange panal." The panal Su described was to the front, above the piano was a viewing window of some kind. The panel itself was 5 slides in a row, and a blue lever. The piano, which was actually an organ, was to the back. Kitsune tried a few bars on the organ while Keitaro and Naru experemented with the slides. Then suddenly Motoko said, "Hold it, Kitsune play that key and again and Urishima, hold that slide where it was. The two did as they where told and remarkably both sounded the same. Suddenly Naru realized something. "I've got it!" She dashed off and a few seconds later she returned with one of the journals to the library. "This is it. This diagram shows which keys to play on the organ." "So we just play those keys on the organ and we find the book", asked Shinobu. "That's partially true, we play the keys on the organ and match the sound with the slide in numeracal order", said Naru. "Well, that kinda seems obvious Narusagewa", said Kanako. "Well, lets get cracking then", said Kitsune.

Following Naru's instructions they played each key one-by-one and then postioned each slide to it's appropriate sound. Keitaro then pulled the blue lever. After the sounds went off secuitionally, the viewing window lit up and a book appeared. "WE DID IT", said Keitaro. "So now what do we do", asked Motoko. "We touch it Ayoma", said Kanako. When she did the viewing window showed a huge island with different techonaligies and even a identical spaceship. It almost reminded them of, "the MYST book", said Keitaro. "That's how he got to these worlds. These books transport us to these worlds." "Actually the term is link", said Naru. "What do you mean Narusagewa", asked Keitaro. "Well I read in this journal that these books are called Linking books, and that book that brought us here was one of his MYST linking books." "So you are saying that we won't be stuck there if we go through" asked Keitaro. "Exactly", said Naru. "What's a linking book? Does it taste good", asked Su. Everyone sweatdropped. "Enough of this chatter and lets go", said Motoko who barged through and touched the image. She faded out. A few minutes later everyone was , "back were we started", said Kitsune. "No we are not, look", said Shinobu.

Shinobu was right, beyond the door of the rocket was a similar pathway, but it lead across the water to a different landscape. It was all mostly brownish and dessert. They all exited the ship and as they did the ships door closed behind them with a 'whirr' and a 'hiss'. "Great", said Kitsune, "How are we going to get back!" "I don't think we will be needing that to get back", said Naru.

After walking across the pathway, the first thing they saw on the island was an old shed. "Hmm", said Kitsune. She took a good look at the device on the right to the door. It was small box with slides and to the right of the slides was a small speaker with a button below it. "I wonder what this does." She pushed the button and the slides lit up. They were in the same position and each emitted a sound, but it was the same, a blowing wind. "I guess this thing is the same as the code for the rocketship", said Shinobu. "Yes but we don't have a combo." "Then we should come back for this later", said Motoko.

After the shed they continued to explore the island. They saw many things, a chasm with lava in it. They could tell becasuse a staircase was leading up to a balcony over it ("Step out of line and I will throw you in there Urashima", threatened Motoko). Another thing they saw was an old clocktower. Eventually the pathway led to a ladder leading down into a wind blown tunnel. They could hear it and the breeze could be felt by them. They went in, turned on a nearby switch and headed to the otherside. At the other end of the tunnel, after climbing another ladder, they found a strange device. It was a bunch of radio dishes that were similar to other dishes they saw on the island. One was at the chasm, it was a dish with a brick console with a single button with a picture of the chasm. There was a microphone or something that was being dangled over the edge. They saw a taller, similar device near the clock tower, except the symbol on it was a clock face. They also saw one of them near the tunnel, only it showed a gust of wind on the symbol area. Out of curiosity they opened the small box below the tower.

In the box, was another panel. It showed the island in the tower's perspective below the screen was two arrow buttons, side-by-side and numerical gauge. Below them were five buttons, each with a symbol. From right to left they showed on each one, two drops of water into water, a steaming chasm (which they saw before), a clock face (also seen before), a strange crystal tower emerging from squiggly lines, and the wind symbol they saw recently. Finally below the buttons was a single button with a red "E" symbol on it. After pushing that button, all they got was nothing, just chopped up static.

After looking at them, Naru suggested, "Maybe we should align them to their symbols." "Well duh, bitch", said Kanako. They agreed to try the clock symbol as their first start, however, when they got it there, they didn't hear any sound, only static was coming from the speakers. "Well that was a bust", said Kitsune. "No wait, Narusagewa is right, but think about it, we are not picking up anything because we didn't push the button near them. It might ativate the signal." "Urashima, you are a genious", said Motoko. They all left the panel and headed back across the tunnel (not forgetting to activate the switch of course). "After activating the clock and chasm switches, Su yelled to them, "Hey, I found a oasis on this island." "Really where", yelled Shinobu. "This way", Su said, pointing the oppisite of the shed. To their amazement, their was a lush green area with trees and grass. Nearby was a running stream and a device with a bench. Naru's face lit up and she said, "I know, where we are!" "What, what do you mean you know, "asked Kitsune. "We are in the Selentic Age. I read about it in that journal. You see, Atrus explained in that journal, that he spent his first night here on this spot, when all of a sudden this place began getting scorched by lava. He linked out but when he returned everything but this spot was damaged." "So what about the devices", asked Motoko. "I don't know, I saw drawings, but everything else about them somehow vanished. Atrus said so in his journal about that writing" "Well, at least we know where we are", said Keitaro, "Good work Narusegawa." Naru blushed.

"Hey look what I found", said Shinobu. In her hand was "A BLUE PAGE", gasped everyone. "Well, looks like we found that guy in the blue book's page", said Kanako, "Now to find Sirrus' red page."

They headed out of the oasis and started back towards the wind tunnel. Along the way the group noticed a road. "Lets see where that goes", said Kitsune. They followed it and came apon another man made staircase leading to another device button. The device was surrounded by a bunch of red towers with bizzare shapes. They were immiting a sound that sounded like a pan pipe. They went up to the console, but before one of them could push the button, they noticed something on the console. It was a red page. "We found it", said Keitaro, and then he took it and said, "I will keep it." After that, Kitsune flipped the switch and they all headed back to the console tower at the other side of the wind tunnel.

When they got to the tower, they noticed the sound of the clock was coming from it. "All right, so we do the same for the others right Naru", said Keitaro. "Well of course I am right", said Naru. "Lay off him", said Kanako. After following Naru's earlier idea, which of course worked Keitaro pushed the "E" button again, this time they got a sequence of sounds. On the viewer showed where the sound was pointed at. "I think this is the combo for that shed Narusagewa", said Keitaro. "I think your right", responded Naru. "Let's try to remember it then", said Motoko. The sounds they heard from the machine were, the pan pipes, the water dripping, the wind blowing, the lava, and the clock. After closing the panel they all headed straight for the shed.

Kitsune postioned the slides. As she slid each one, they emitted different sounds. She slide them all until they were in the same order they heard the sounds from the tower. After pressing the speaker button and when the speaker emitted the same thing they heard, the door opened. "Okay, well let's just see what is inside", said Keitaro. "You are too reckless Urashima, all we could know, Atrus could have sealed a great beast in there", said Motoko. Then she asked Naru, "Did he?" "No, not that I have read any."

They all went down a large hallway. At the end stood a weird looking ship. "Wow, I hope this baby has some missles on it", said Su. She ran up and pushed the button on the ship. Su ran in followed by the rest. "What do you make of it Su", asked Kitsune. "Hmm, it's just a lowly transport device." Su was found sitting at a chair that was facing a small window. Below the window were the buttons marked, "FORWARD" and "BACKTRACK". In between were two arrow buttons. Near the left arrow button was a speaker with a button on it. Near the right arrow key was a compass indiacator. "So what do we do now?" asked Motoko. "I guess we try to take a ride", said Kitsune. With that she pushed the forward button. As soon as she did, they felt the ship lower into a huge area. Before them were tracks and the speaker emitted a 'ding' as they landed. "I wonder what that sound meant", said Kitsune. "Well, since we have no were to go, how about we head North as the compass is indicating", said Shinobu. "Roger", said Su. After a lurch the car went forward then stopped at another intersection, then once the ship stopped the speaker emitted a 'whirr'. "I think these must be the tunnels Atrus mention in his journal, but, I don't know the purpose", said Naru. "That aside we can't go North", said Kanako, and pointing ahead to some sort of baricade she added, "It's blocked." "I think that sound was trying to tell us that", said Naru. "It emitted a different sound." She pushed the button and the sound repeated. "I get it",said Keitaro, "your saying these sounds indicate. . . ." ". . . different directions", said Naru. "Well I guess we have to discover that as we go along", said Kitsune. "I think these controls change the direction", said Su. She pushed the left arrow and in response the track disconneted, moved left and connected to another track. The indicator showed NW. Su pressed again and then there was a clear passage, and the indicator showed 'W' or west. "Let's try that way", said Kanako and off they went forward. Again when they landed the speaker emitted a 'ding'. "I think that means North", said Naru. Everyone agreed and so they positoned the ship North and off they went again.

After many hours and many wrong turns later, they finally found out the right directions to take. During that time you would hear things such as, "KEITARO, YOU IDIOT! NOT THIS WAY", or "Hey can I drive", "NO!" After one last cross area, the ship entered a different type of tunnel and then came to a halt.

"Well, I guess this were we get off", said Kitsune. Everyone got out of the ship and followed the tunnel at the end of the tunnel they found something fimalliar. There was a huge room with a metal table in the center. And on that table sat a MYST linking book. Keitaro grabbed it and said, "Well looks like we found another book", said Keitaro. "Why don't we use it to get out of this 'Age', Urashima", said Motoko. They opened it and they pressed their hands to it one-by-one.

They reappeared inside the Library on the Island. "Well that saves us some walking", said Keitaro. "Which page do we put in first", asked Naru. "I think Sirrus' page. He seems more sensible then that blue book guy." They agreed. As they approached the red book, Motoko once again shivered. They inserted the red page and then opened the book and again they say Sirrus' face among the static. Sirrus turned to them and smiled and said, "You have returned. After some interference, he said, "Thank you for bringing this red page". "Well, it was our pleasure", said Keitaro. "You must continue", said Sirrus. "WHAT", said Kitsune. "My name is Sirrus", said Sirrus after more static he said, "I beg of you to find the remaining red pages. . . 'static'. . .Release me from this book wich has become. . ." "Become what", asked Keitaro. "I need all red pages please", continued Sirrus. After some static he said, ". .don't waste time. . . but don't touch. . . . for my brother..." More interference but during this Naru yelled, "Your brother's what?" "My brother is. . . .", Still interfered by static they couldn't make out what he said, then Sirrus said, ". . AND I WAS WRONGLY IMPRISIONED." After more interference he said, "BRING THE RED PAGE TO ME!" After that there was silence. After closing the book Keitaro said, "I wish I knew what he was saying, and what was this about his brother." "I guess we should see the guy in the blue book about it", they both went near the blue book and once again Motoko shuddered. Shinobu put in the blue page she had and opened the book. The guy inside smiled amonged the blue snow and said, "You've returned!(static). . .you wouldn't return." After some more interference he said, "Thanks for rescuing. . ." "Well it was our pleasure", said Keitaro. "Out of curiosity who are you", said Naru. "Ah, I'm Achenar", responded the man. Everyone's hair just stood on end. This man is Sirrus' brother. ". . . but I beg you", he continued (An: the dots are were the static cuts him off), ". . . you must complete. . . all these blue pages. . . ." "Why am I not surprised", said Motoko. Suddenly Achenar's voice seemed a little harsher, "Don't listen to him. . . don't listen to my brother." More interference then Achenar said, "He's an allestical fool, and a LIAR! Please bring me the blue pages please! . . . the red ones! Don't bring the red ones!" After a little interference he looked sad and said, "I implore you. I've been wrongly imprisioned! You must free me. I will have my retrebution, you bring the blue pages. . . blue pages please!" After that Achenar's form faded out and Shinobu closed the book.

Kietaro then said, "So it turns out that both brothers are imprisoned in these books." "Not only that but they both claim to be innocent and they were wrongly imprisoned", said Naru. "I guess the only to find out who is really lying and who is telling the truth is to get the rest of the pages", said Kitsune. "She's right, it turns out they get clearer for each page", said Naru, "So if we get them, they can tell us the whole story of what happened." "Brilliant idea Narusagewa", said Keitaro. "Yes but, Sempai, were can we find the remaining pages", asked Shinobu. "They might be in the remaining three worlds in those other three books that Atrus saved", said Keitaro. "So where can we find them", asked Kitsune. "In those three other areas that line on the tower rotation screen turns red", said Naru, "One was in the rocket, the other three are in that giant tree, the sunken ship and that oversized gear." "Alright so which one do we do next", asked Motoko. "How about that giant tree", said Keitaro, "I think it leads to this place called the Channelwood Age." "Channelwood Age", asked everyone. Keitaro grabbed the journal off the shelf and explained,

"According to Atrus' journal, the Channelwood Age is a world of a huge lucious forest that is growing out of water. It seems that Atrus' encountered some tree-dwellers there and they worshipped him and another human like a god. Because long ago there used to be humans there and there used to be land. But eventually the land sunk into the sea. Now the tree- dwellers thought the humans sacrificed themselves to keep the land from sinking any further and as a result the humans were worshipped like gods. It turned out that Sirrus and Achenar seemed to enjoy this world. And well that's about it." He closed the journel and returned it to it's shelf. "It sounds a little interesting", said Kitsune, "Let's go!" "As long as there are no turtles in the water, I'll be fine", said Motoko. Everyone agreed to go to Channelwood. First they positioned the line to the big tree. ("It seems logicial, were else to hide a book that sends you to a world of trees, than a tree", said Keitaro.) Then After the tower had rotated Keitaro went on up to the tower along with Motoko and Shinobu. On the book ladder, the they got a veiw of the tree. On the key ladder, was a plaque with the numbers: '7, 2,4'.

"What can that mean", asked Motoko. "Search me, but I think we should investigate the area near the tree", said Keitaro.

Shortly after they headed down from the tower, and explained it to the others, they all headed to the wooded area. When they got near the tree, they noticed the log cabin that Naru, Keitaro and Kanako saw earlier. "I think we should start in there", said Kitsune. They all went in the cabin. Inside, on the far wall was a fire boiler, a close up painting of the tree to the left of it and a small red wheel to the right. Keitaro tried turning the wheel but nothing happened. "This is a waste of time", said Motoko, "Let's just go." As they turned they noticed a small safe to the right of the door. It was a three-numbered combo safe. "The numbers! That's what the clue meant", said Keitaro. He entered the numbers on the safe, pulled the lever, and the safe swung open, unfortunatly on Keitaro's head. He fell back and, as the girls were trying to catch him, his hand grasped Motoko's cleavege. After a huge blush, Motoko grabbed her katana and said in an angered voice, "KEITARO YOU INSOLENT MALE!" A few second later, Keitaro was a temporary shooting star on Myst Island.

After that, they looked at the contents inside. "All of that for a little box of matches", said Kitsune. "No, I think they are for the boiler. I think the reason the boiler is not responding is because the pilot light is out", said the bandaged Keitaro(AN: Don't ask me where they found bandages on Myst).

Keitaro took a match, struck it on the box, closed the safe, went over to the boiler and lit the boiler. Kitsune then turned the red wheel to the right, and in an instant, a roaring fire began in there. "Nothing's happening", said Kitsune. "Quick turn it all the way to the right", said Keitaro, "as far as it can go." "Okay", said Kitsune. Everyone looked on as Kitsuned did as she was told. After turning it to all the way, the needle on the boiler indicator was rising, after it reached the end, it fell back and they heard, "CRUNCH" sound. "What's that", asked Su. "I think it may be coming outside", said Naru. The gang rushed outside. But they noticed nothing until Shinobu yelled, "Girls, Sempai, look the tree! It's rising!" Shinobu was right. The giant tree was rising and rising. They then noticed a small wooden elevator in the bark rising out. "Whee it looks fun", yelled Su. Before anyone could stop her, Su climbed on.

The tree continued to rise until it reach a certain point. "Hey, you guys look like ants from up here", yelled Su. "How are we going to get her down", asked Motoko. "Don't worry, I think if I hold this button here, it will release the steam and let me down", yelled Su. After she said there there was a rush of hissing and the tree started lowering. The tree continued to lower until the elevator was on the platform. Su leaped out and gave Keitaro a kick. They group then noticed the elevator go up again. "I think the book might be below this platform", said Motoko. "I agree but how to get down there", asked Shinobu. "I tried with the button but unfortunatly it only allows me to that platform", said Su. Then Naru's eyes lit up, "I've got it, if it was the steam that pushed the tree up. . ." "Turning off the steam will make it lower."

Using the idea they turned off the steam, ran outside and, as Naru and Keitaro hypothesized, the tree started lowering, when the elevator reached them, they all crammed into it and let me tell you it was a tight squeeze. "You better not be touching me Keitaro", said Naru as the lowered into the cement, then the elevator halted. The room below the platform was lit by a single bulb. There columns everywere that looked like tree trunks, and the entire room was painted like a forest. In the center was table that looked like a stump and on it was the linking book. "Well, ready or not, here we go", said Keitaro. Keitaro opened the book, the image inside showed a huge forest growing out of water. There were houses in the trees and there were platforms over the water. On a mountain sat a windmill. After looking at it, one-by-one, the group pressed their hands to the image.
Channelwood Age

The entire group materialized on the wooden platform, pathways. "Well, I think we should get exploring", said Kitsune. As the group looked around, they noticed all the pathways had pipes all over it. At the points where the pathways split up the pipes had these strange swithes. They were red switches that ran over two dotted, yellow lines that went in two different directions."I wonder what these pipes are for", asked Naru. "We will soon find out", said Keitaro.

As they went further along they noticed a small elevator. "Let's try that", said Kitsune. She got inside it but when she closed the door and pulled the lever inside, nothing happened. "I think it needs a power source", said Naru. "Forget the elevator, lets use the stairs", said Motoko as she pointed to a spiral staircase. However the staircase was blocked by a door and the door was locked. "Look", said Keitaro pointing to a small rocky hill. "There's a windmill on top, let's check there." The group followed the pathway to the path that led up hill to the windmill's interriors. Inside the windmill was a huge tank of water that was being filled with water from the channels. Su studied the turning piston nearby. "I think the wind mill is whats bringing up the water." "Hey look here", said Naru. Near the bottom of the tank was a valve and the tap was connected to the long hose that connected to the pipes. "I think that everything here is powered by normal water. The reason nothing is running is because the tap is off." "Well lets turn it on baka", said Kanako. After she turned it on, they left the windmill, though nothing seemed to have changed they heard the trickle of water.

However when they went to the path that went to the elevator they noticed that no sound was heard of trickling water. They went back to investigate, Keitaro then noticed one of the valves was turned in the direction towards the elevator. "I think we need to turn these switches in the direction we don't want the water to go", said Keitaro. At first they thought he lost it, but after he turned the switches and went back to the elevator, they heard a hum of power coming from the nearby generator. They all squeezed into the elevator and Kitsuned pulled the lever. At the top they were on a huge tree house village. "Where are we", asked Naru. "Given where we are in, I think this is the village that the tree-dwellers lived." "Well, we aren't going to find much if we just stand around."

As they explored the area, all they could mostly find withing the houses were broken furniture and piled up stuff. Mostly dead-ends. Shortly, they came apon a two things, an elevator and the top of the stairs. Everyone seemed happy, until they realized the door to the stairs was locked and the elevator needed power.

As they headed toward the original elevator, Motoko noticed something. "Wait a minute", she said. She followed a bunch of bridges to a gazebo-like house. On one of the windows of the house was a small lever. "Here goes nothing", she pulled the lever and in the distance she saw the door to the staircase open. "ALL RIGHT MOTOKO", yelled everyone, who of course followed her.

Before heading down, Keitaro stopped them and said, "No stay here and wait for me." "Why", asked Shinobu. "Because, if I am right, this will lead me to the generator for this elevator, I will then re-route the water to it then when I get back we can take this elevator to the next level." Everyone nodded, agreeing that one person can do the job, and that Keitaro was volunteering.

After a while, he returned from below and informed them that the elevator was now running. They all squeezed in and took the elevator to the next floor.

The next floor wasn't as crowded as the second. The bridge seemed to switch from one house to another, with one house in the middle.

They followed the bridge to two doors. One was steel-barred door meant to block the bridge, but it was open. The other was a metal door leading to the inside of the middle house. They went in, and inside was something like a creepy wooden, small temple. There was a raised table with spikes on the edge, to faces on the walls and a bunch of candle holders near the walls. As they stepped in a blue light shone from the table and a face appeared. The face looked familiar to them somehow, but he spoke in a strange tounge. "AHHH! YOU DEMON!" yelled Motoko, she took out her sword and yelled, "SHINMEI ARTS SECRET TECHNIQE! ROCK SPLITTING SWORD!" A blast of ki filled the room but the face didn't flinch. A instant later the face vanished, and so did the blue light. "I wonder who or what that was", said Keitaro. Shinobu approached the table and touched the innards and said, "I wonder what this is fo. . ." She was grabbed by Motoko just in time for the inside went in and the spikes shot up to reveal somethin similar to a bear trap. Then the table returned to normal. "Let's get out of here", said Naru. "Look there is a back way", said Keitaro. He was pointing to a open wooden door. They followed a small wooden hallway that led to the other side of the open, steel-barred door they saw earliear. They also notice the house nearby.

They followed the bridge and entered. Inside, the entire room was bare, save for a bed with no mattress, a strange machine and, "A BLUE PAGE!" Kitsune took the blue page. Meanwhile Su oggled the strange machine. "I wonder what this does." The machine had a barred window over a view screen and below the screen were four buttons, one was lit. Su pressed the lit button. After a breif bit of static the same face they saw in the temple appeared and spoke the same thing. "That's why your weapon didn't phase it, it was a holigram", said Keitaro. "Where have we seen that face before", asked Kitsune. "I know who it is", said Kanako, "As a disguise master, it's my duty to remember faces and that seems to be a younger Achenar." "So this must be Achenar's room", said Keitaro.

They continued to view the movies on the other buttons. The other two were just Achenar speaking that strange language, which Keitaro believed was probably the language of the tree-dwellers. However, on the fourth, a completely different, but again familiar person spoke, in english, which everyone recognized as, "SIRRUS!"

"I hope I pushed the right button, my dear brother", said Sirrus in the imager, "What a very interesting device you have here. I'm not erasing anything important am I?" He chuckled and then said very seriously, "Remember, he is preparing. Take only one page, my dear brother." With that the image faded out.

"I wonder what he meant by that", asked Keitaro. "I don't like that smirk he had on his face", said Shinobu. "Anyway, we must press on", said Kitsune.

The entire group went out of Achenar's room, and went past the 'shrine' because what was inside still creeped them out, and as they approached the elevator, they noticed the third house behind it. "I think that might be Sirrus' room", said Shinobu. "Let's check it out", said Keitaro.

The room was furnished nicely, with a nice bed, a carpet, and two tables were aside from one another. "Well now this guy sure knew how to live", said Kitsune. They examined the room. In the two drawers apart from one another, one contained nothing the other contained bottles of ink and a red page. "All right", yelled Su, "I have found a red page!" "Good hold on to it", said Keitaro.

They searched the drawers below the bed, they found a knife in one drawer and in the other, "All right some liquer", said Kitsune. She grabbed a bottle and began to drink, but Naru swiped it from her and said, "Kitsune know is not the time to get plastered!" Keitaro than brought something up from the liquer bottles. "Hey look what I found." It was a half of a note that was torn horizontally and it read like this:

ch Vault Acess

and of Myst

ted in very plain view on

Myst, and access can be

easily if the simple

followed. First locate

Switches on the island

hese swithces to the

n go to the dock and

rn the Marker Switch

he 'off' position.

"It's probably some discarded message", said Motoko. "No way, I am going to save it", said Keitaro. With that he pocketed the note. "Marker Switch, hey, the note is reffering to those switches back on the island", said Keitaro. "And the not refers to the Island as. . .", said Motoko. "MYST", shouted Keitaro, "we now know the name of where we are." "Yes but I doubt anyone has ever stumbled on this island", said Motoko. "You are right", sighed Keitaro. "Let's just go down and find a way back to the island or Myst or, I don't care", said Naru.

They left the room and headed back to the elevator. They took it down and, they decided to take the stairs then be foolish and take the elevator down.

Once they were on ground or should I say, water level, they began searching the pathways for some clue. Then Kitsune yelled to them, "HEY OVER HERE!" The voice was coming from a path a little ways from where they entered the world from. Kitsuned was standing near a generater with a lever in it. Across the water was another bridge, pathway, but with no pipes. "I tried pulling it but I get nothing", said Kitsune. "Okay, you all stay here while I re-derect the water", said Keitaro and rushed off. "I will help you Sempai", yelled Shinobu as she dashed off to join him.

Shortly, Keitaro and Shinobu returned. "Pull it Kitsune", said Keitaro. Kitsune pulled the lever and in response, planks of raised wood, came out of the water and formed a bridge. "Well there we go", said Kitsune. With that they all crossed the bridge. Soon they came apong another length of pipe and it was connected to a generator for a elevator. "I suppose this needs power too", said Kitsune. "You heard her Urashima, go back and redirect the water." Before Keitaro could go Naru said, "No he can't." "Why not", asked Motoko. Naru pointed the direction the piping was coming from. There was no bridge and no pipe at on point. "There is no way the water can get here." Su however analyzed a small crank on the pipe. "I wonder what this does?" She turned it and as she did a length of pipe came out, soon it connected to another pipe on the other side. Everyone noticed this and Keitaro said, "Su, you are a genious!" "Now go and change the water route", said Motoko. Keitaro went, did what he had to do and returned. "The elevator should work know", he said. They went in and took the elevator to the second floor where they ended up in a small shack near one of the tree houses. When they opened the door a light went off. The room was bare, except for one thing. "Alright the MYST linking book", said Keitaro. Again, one-by-one, they linked out of Channelwood.

Myst Island.

The group again appeared in the center of the library. "Well, now that we got some pages, let's see if we can get some answers", said Keitaro. "RED BOOK FIRST", yelled Su. Again, as Su picked it up Motoko shivered, only this time, Naru noticed. "What's wrong", asked Naru. "Something about the book just gives me bad vibes", said Motoko.

Su inserted the page and opened the book and the face of Sirrus appeared among the red snow. "Ah you have returned", he said. "A.. . additional. . . page." ". . .free me from my pris. . .on this forgotten island of Myst." "I told you this island is called Myst", said Keitaro. "Quiet and listen", said Motoko. "I see that you are. . . I am called Sirrus." "Yes we know", said Kanako, what do we do now. "I need the other red pages. . .you must search, you must bring. . . two more, of the red. . ." "Hear that, just two more to find", said Su. "I am released, I promise", continued Sirrus. After a bit more static he added, "But don't touch the blue pages. That's were my. . .my wicked brother Achenar." "What about him", asked Keitaro. "He's man's distorted mind and senses. He disgusts me." Sirrus showed that clearly on his face. "Do not release Achenar. . . thirst for distruction in his mind. . . .it's never ending. Bring me the red page. Release me and I promise all of you will be greatly rewarded." "Really how, by payment or by a making out with me", said Kitsune. Sirrus showed a look of horror on his face and said, "Uh, we will discuss that later." Then he said, "In any case you must help me. . . . to help me." With that he faded out.

"Well I am not too sure, about what he says about Achenar, because Achenar said Sirrus is a liar", said Keitaro. "Yes, but then again, that Acenear acts like he has a few screws loose", said Shinobu. "Well the only way to find out more is to talk to him", said Kitsune as she took the blue page she had and inserted it into the blue book. She opened it and Achenar's face appeared. He smiled and said, "Ah you're back! Good!" "Still more blue pages you must find. . . . More, you must have some more. It's all I ask of you." "Don't worry, we will find them", said Shinobu. "It's been so long", said Achenar, "It's been long since my brother Sirrus wrongly imprisoned me withing this book! STUPID SCHEMES!" "He told us you were a killer", said Kanako. ". . .pretty speech", said Achenar, "and his greed which is endless." After a bit of static he said something they didn't understand. But then he said, he said, "Do not bring the red pages to him. He'll trick you. . . he tricked our father!" He looked sad and angry as he said this, ". . .hidiously murdered our father! He'll trick you, he'll murder you. Don't touch the red pages." More static then he said, "I beg of you, bring the blue pages! (static) . . .listen! You must obey me! (static) The blue pages are my only hope! You must help me! You must help me!" With that he faded out.

After placing the blue book back on the shelf Kitsune faced the crowd. "Well, this is one bad predicament." "Yes, I have seen sibling rivelry but in this case, I can't seem to trust either side", said Shinobu. "Yea, none of their story's add up." "I guess in order to find out more is to continue exploring and finding the remaining pages, for BOTH books", exclaimed Keitaro. Eveyone agreed.

To be continued. . .

Originally I wanted one chapter for each game, but I realized it would be WAY too long. So I decided to split the games into two chapters for each. But don't worry the other half for MYST is here too. Just move on!