Gobo and Lou were about to leave the Herbalist's House, when a drawer opened. Gobo reached inside, and found another note.
"Take this symbol and open a secret stairway near the Nexus device," he read, pulling what looked like a stick with a sphere on the top of it. "When you've accessed the grounds below the Nexus, you will be on your way to reaching Lilith and Wembley. Let's go, Lou!"
Immediately, Gobo and Lou raced out of the house and through the gateway to the Nexus device. Gobo put the stick on the floor, and a stairway opened up, leading downwards. The two Fraggles immediately ran down, and found a gigantic stone device, which looked somewhat like a stove. There was a note next to it.
"This ancient device can be used to forge the Dream Jewels that you'll need to open the next gateway where Lilith is hiding," Lou read. "Light the fire, and then try to find some gold that can be melted into molds to create the Dream Jewels. Gobo, what's gold?"
"A shiny, yellow, metal rock," Gobo explained, looking around. He spied a gold nugget on the ground and picked it up. "I think this is gold."
"Oh, it's so pretty!" Lou shouted. "And look, there are more Dream Pieces around here, too."
"Say, there's a house over there," Gobo said, pointing in the distance. "What say we mosey over there, and check it out, eh?"
"Okay. After you."
Gobo nodded, and walked over to the house, with Lou right behind him. The door was open when they got there, but immediately slammed shut before they could step inside. There were circles on the door with the symbols of the planets on them. They began swirling around, locking the door.
"Oh, rock beetles!" Gobo shouted, punching the door with his fist. He had actually pushed a button on the door, which moved some of the planet circles. When he realized this, he pushed another button, which moved some more of the circles, and a third button did the same thing.
"Hey, Lou!" he shouted. "I think I know a way to get in! Let's align these circles!"
Gobo immediately began pushing the buttons on the door, until the circles were perfectly aligned. Then they lit up, and the door opened. The two Fraggles walked inside, and looked around, but they couldn't see much, since it was so dark.
"Looks like there's a window up in the ceiling," Lou said, pointing. "Maybe we can open it to let in some more light."
Gobo climbed up the wall, and tried to pry the windows open, but they wouldn't budge. He took a closer look, and saw the window was controlled by a set of gears, and one was missing. He saw a panel on the wall that looked like it was missing a lever, too.
"This isn't easy, is it?" he asked.
"Well, here's a gear," Lou said, looking around the parts of the room she could see. "And here's a handle, or a lever, or something like that."
"Okay, let's put 'em in place."
Gobo took the gear, and stuck it in the window's mechanisms, while Lou stuck the lever into the panel on the wall. Then she pulled it, and the window opened. Sunlight poured in, allowing the two Fraggles to see everything in the room. There were shelves of books, models of the planets, and a huge telescope. Unfortunately, everything disappeared, and reappeared scattered around the floor. A ladder on the shelf had disappeared as well.
"Ooooohhhhhh . . . . ." Gobo growled, frustratedly. "Gosh dang it to blankety heck!"
"What?!" Lou asked, giving Gobo a weird look.
"I heard the Silly Creature from Outer Space say that once when he hit his finger with a hammer," Gobo said, shrugging. "I don't know what it means, but it sure seems like the right thing to say about now."
"Yeah, okay. If you say so. Come on and help me clean up."
Gobo agreed, and he and Lou began gathering planet models, gold nuggets, and Dream Pieces. Suddenly, Gobo found a strange looking gold round shape with a red center.
"What's this thing?" he asked.
"I don't know," Lou said. Maybe if we keep looking, we'll figure it out."
Gobo nodded, and began looking for the other missing planet models. On a hunch, he went outside to search. Lou found a key by the door, and a locked box in the room. She used the key to unlock the box, and found a book called "Magic and the Planets." She brought it over to a book stand, and opened it to see what it said.
"Arrange the eight planets on their proper shelves," she read. "Place the viewfinder on the telescope. Turn night into day and find what you seek in the sky. Once you have completed these steps, the stars will show you the way."
Lou looked on the other page, and saw that the text was completely scrambled again. She held her head in her hands and moaned.
"I don't know how much more of this I can take!" she shouted.
"What's wrong now?" Gobo asked, as he returned to the room carrying an armload of planet models.
"This book," Lou said. Gobo dropped the planets, and looked at the book.
"More scrambled words," he said, nodding. "Well, don't worry about that now, Lou. I found all the planet models, so let's start putting them back on the shelf, eh?"
"What's this?" Lou asked, picking up a gold disc with a red center, like the one they had found in the room. "Oh, another one of those weird disc things."
"Yeah, I think they go with the telescope," Gobo said. "But we've got to fix the ladder first, or else we won't be able to use that thing."
Lou nodded, and she and Gobo immediately began putting the planet models back on the shelves. As they did, the steps to the ladder began to return. The minute it was complete, Gobo ran up the ladder, and looked at the telescope.
"I hate to have to tell you this, Lou," he said, "but it's missing a piece."
"ARGH!" Lou shrieked at the top of her lungs.
"Whoop, wait a minute, I think I see it now," Gobo said, climbing down the ladder. He picked up a long, metallic tube laying against the shelf. Then he walked over to Lou, stood behind her, and started massaging her shoulders.
"It's frustrating," he said, calmly. "I know this is extremely frustrating. I know you feel like just dropping this whole thing, but we can't."
"I know we can't," Lou sighed. "I know we can't stop until we find Wembley, but all of these puzzles, and missing parts, and hidden objects, and . . . . . Gobo, I swear, I feel like I'm gonna lose it any minute!"
Gobo knew exactly how Lou felt. She was physically tired, and mentally exhausted. She looked like she was about to burst into tears any minute, due to the frustration she was feeling.
"Why don't you just sit down, and take a break?" he suggested. "I'll take care of the telescope, and then I'll take a look at the book, and then I'll figure out what to do next, okay?"
"Okay," Lou sighed, and she sat down on the floor, holding her head in her hands, trying to pull herself together.
Gobo climbed up the ladder, and attached the part to the telescope. He looked through it, and saw the sky and the clouds, but that was about it. He tried to turn it, but it was too heavy. He was going to need Lou to help him, but he figured now was not a good time to tell her that. He figured he'd wait until she had calmed down. Instead, he ran back down the ladder and over to the book.
"What the heck?" he asked, as the words began disappearing. Suddenly, they reappeared again, in the correct order.
"Hey, Lou, guess what?" he said. "We don't have to unscramble these! They just unscrambled themselves!"
"Let me see," Lou said. She stood up, and looked, and then heaved a sigh of relief. "Finally, something's going right!"
Gobo turned the page, and groaned. There were some more scrambled words on the next page, and several more on the other pages.
"Spoke too soon," he said. "Sorry, Lou."
Lou heaved a sigh, picked up a pencil, and got to work. It was about all she could do. When she finished, she turned to Gobo.
"Okay," she said, "we have to use the telescope to find constellations in the stars. When we find one, it will create a mold to make a Dream Jewel in a forge, which is probably that big stone thing we found outside when we walked down the stairs. To find the constellations, we have to use lenses for the telescope, and that's what these round things we found are. But there's one thing, we have to do it at night."
"We can't wait that long," Gobo said. "There's got to be another way."
"Yeah, there is. There's something in this book about turning day into night. But I don't understand it."
Lou turned to the page in question. Gobo looked at it. All that was on the pages were some planet symbols, and a diagram of the moon and the sun, though some of the circles on the diagram were blank. The planets were labeled. Gobo looked around the room, and found a similar diagram, with the planets filled in. Acting on a hunch, Gobo touched the symbol for Mercury in the book, and it appeared on the opposite page. Then he touched the one for Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and they all appeared on the opposite page. The minute they did, it grew dark outside, and the stars came out.
"Yahoo!" Gobo shouted. "Now we're in business! Grab a lens, Lou, and come on up! I need your help turning this thing, it's heavy!"
Lou nodded, and took one of the lenses she and Gobo found up to the telescope. She climbed onto the telescope, loaded the lens in, and then went to the viewfinder to help Gobo find the constellation. When Gobo looked through the telescope, he found the lens had a series of stars on it.
"Okay, I get it," he said. "I have to match the stars of the lens with the stars in the sky. I have no idea how that's gonna create a mold, though."
"Magic is weird," Lou said.
The two Fraggles began moving the telescope back and forth across the sky. There were several constellations, and it took them awhile before they found the one that matched the lens. When they did, the telescope locked itself in it's position, and the mold appeared from out of nowhere.
"That's it!" Gobo shouted. "Go put in the next lens, Lou!"
Lou took the second lens, climbed onto the telescope, and switched them. Then she slid back down to Gobo, and they began maneuvering the telescope back and forth, until they locked on the constellation, and received the second mold. Gobo was so excited, he grabbed the two molds, ran down the ladder, and out the door before Lou could stop him.
"Gobo!" she shouted. "Wait a minute! It's night time out there! We won't be able to see if we don't turn night back into day!"
Lou ran out the door, and noticed that night turned back into day when she exited the telescope room. She was about to question how this could happen, when she remembered what she said earlier about magic being weird, so she decided to drop it. Instead, she went to the forge, where Gobo was putting logs into the bottom of the stove, and putting one of the molds into place.
"You wouldn't happen to have a match on you, would you?" he asked.
"No," Lou said, putting three of the Dream Pieces she found into the mold. "But I think I have an idea how to start a fire! Be right back!"
Lou ran back into the telescope room, and returned with a magnifying glass. She angled it towards the logs in order to catch the sun's rays. Finally, there was a spark, and a fire got going. Gobo took one of the gold nuggets he found and put it on the forge. It melted, and poured into the mold. As soon as it was cool enough, a Dream Jewel floated from it. It was in the shape of a sunflower, and had two red gems, and one blue gem. Gobo placed the next mold, and he and Lou repeated the steps to create a second Dream Jewel. This one had two yellow gems and one red gem, and was in the shape of a gear.
"I think that does it for now," Gobo said. "Let's take these up to the Nexus to open the next gateway!"