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Three interlocking pieces added up
A piece near animals
One piece is a lucky strike

I'm stuck on the second clue, racking my brain and the site for what could be "near animals"...?

There's a number of animal silhouettes in the Princess Jones video - snake, bird, dragon, whale - and some more in the most recent video. I noted a squirrel, bat, cat, and monkey.

This is getting buried under solved ones.

Added up... I wonder if the Atlantean numbers in the latest comic has anything to do with this? It looks like they're on a fragment that could be part of something larger.

for reference! (it's not at all speculative, I just haven't updated the text from last year, LOL)

In the comic, the numbers are '7854'.

Oh hay what's this



A lucky strike indeed!

And then over by the animals, there's



Unfortunately, I can't get a good look at that one, hrm.

Those slabs definitely look like they fit together. let me squint here...

I'm pretty sure the order goes comic/animal/falling piece! Now just to figure out whether we need to add up all of the numbers, or whether it's line-by-line (and if the latter, which way should the whole tablet be oriented?).

Sometimes when I look at these puzzles and the work going I to slicing clues apart and examining every piece, and trying again with different light, and then sticking it in the microwave, and seeing how it moves to rock music vs classical, and grating it into dust to mulch into paint...

And I'm like, nah, it wouldn't take that to figure it out, that'd be crazy, Kim's not that mean.

But it works. And Kim is that mean.

And we love her anyway, because she's kinda the perfect sort of mean.

Is it possible that it's the puzzle pieces themselves? Three interlocking puzzle pieces, and the sum of their numbers? "Nearest to the animals" could be Puzzle5, "A lucky strike" could be Puzzle7.

Question, because I've been kinda absent-- when the hero has laser eyes and blows holes in the floor and wall, revealing animal symbols, is that pertinent to this?

Good to keep in mind in case the path they're on now doesn't pan out. Or you could simultaneously work out different ways that could be entered as an answer.

I reckon we will also have to be sure we are reading these pieces the right way up!

I don't think so, Heimdall - but that probably has something to do with Puzzle8, which we haven't unlocked yet.

Gotcha!

Quick question while I play catchup and ignore my real work (LOL), the non-comic pieces, which videos are they from?

Credit where credit is due: Darth_Angelus and I work together on all these puzzles, so make sure to throw some mean shade/love his way too