Doctor's Basement

[Robin of Spiritwood]

In Arx, under Doctor Daeva's house there's a basement with 2 prisoners. There are some things that don't make sense:

- There are 2 "Eternal Mirrors" on the wall as you descend, that look like giant bluish glowing arrows that are usable. If they get clicked, they make the usual mechanism noise, but nothing seems to happen. Anybody know what they do?

- In the platform area with the glowing loot boxes, there's a table. On it is a a weird little object. No name, but it has a floating inverted pyramid.
It is usable, and produces a glowing floating blue rune that rotates position over time.
Again, no idea what this does. It doesn't seem to interact with the Eternal Mirrors.

Anybody know what this thing is, or what it does?

And how do the glowing loot containers get unlocked?

[Yaldabaoth]

Probably cut content. Arx was rushed. Just lockpick the magic locks.

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Thanks.

On close examination, I found the rune inscribed on a little plaque on the wall just above the first little container as we enter from the stairs. Obviously intended as a clue.

There are 2 other similar plaques with additional runes, mounted above.

It looks like the start of a nice little puzzle. Oh well.

[EverNight]

I think I missed the basement. Where's the entrance?

[Robin of Spiritwood]

There's a floor hatch up against a wall on the first floor, past the dissection room.

[catjane56]

Found a solution to the glowing cabinets just by trial and error. Throw blood storm at them. One of the cabinets will be 'stuck fast'. Bless that one. Then you'll be able to lockpick it.

[ThunderElk]

Boy is this late, but yea, blood will open it. Blood storm, flesh sacrifice, or terrain transmutation to get them bloody.