moving signposts

[abbasrawas2007]

any idea on how to do the moving sign post side quest/rumour?

[HeraldOfOpera]

The signpost directions are exact straight lines. If you're still having trouble, maybe come back when you've learned how to swim.

[worstcase11]

You have to go to the open sea area north of Harbour city. And a bit further north to the northern coast. There should be an NPC who doesn't want to fight but who will tell you about the moving signpost. (Obviously you need to be able to swim for this quest.)

Step on the green pressure plate (PP) right next to them for the first signpost to pop up.
(1st one will point south.)
Now you have to move following the directional arrow exactly until you step onto the next pressure plate.

Ignore all other plates that are not directly in the line of the arrow.

If you did hit the right PP a new signpost will pop up. Follow the direction exactly again.
You will have to swim around between a lot of the islands and activate a lot of PP in that manner until you end up on an island with two magicrab statues. Step on the last PP there and a station building will rise from the ground. You get a new shortcut and an archangel to battle.

[Ryallen]

But one of the signs doesn't point anywhere, it just points east and there's nothing in a straight line that direction. I even pressed all the buttons that are in that direction and none of them worked

[Shazza]

Originally posted by Ryallen:

But one of the signs doesn't point anywhere, it just points east and there's nothing in a straight line that direction. I even pressed all the buttons that are in that direction and none of them worked

They have to be pressed in sequential order. If you ran from A to B, then pressed the wrong button, the real B wouldn't work because you need to go back to A first.

Screenshots would help in your case, but I can tell you the quest ain't bugged or lying about direction.

[Fortuna]

If it helps, think of the overworld as being a grid, with each button taking up a tile for an idea of grid size. You need to follow the exact line of tiles that the button is on in the direction the sign is pointing to get to the next one.

I recognised the puzzle kind from one of the handheld Zelda games, and knowing that was a pixel game with the overworld literally being tiles made it easier to visualise what I was doing with this one, where the grid isn't quite so obvious.

[Saver Sigonith]

I had this problem too. One of the last few signs points to the right, and if you look on the map there's nothing straight to the right. But if you swim straight to the right, turns out the map is a liar and the four little islands in the corner are just slightly higher up than they look and connect.
Hope that helps anyone struggling with this later!

[Sensei Le Roof]

Did I just fight Timecube...?

[Michelle Onceuponymous]

Originally posted by Saver Sigonith:

I had this problem too. One of the last few signs points to the right, and if you look on the map there's nothing straight to the right. But if you swim straight to the right, turns out the map is a liar and the four little islands in the corner are just slightly higher up than they look and connect.
Hope that helps anyone struggling with this later!

THANK YOU! This is the one I was stuck on and kept having to start the puzzle from scratch bc was trying to brute force which button the game thought was to the right of that sign. Other guides were not helping!

[Saver Sigonith]

Yay! I'm glad it helped.