Question about Oroi and the Crown [Spoilers]

[Larsson2016]

I'm on my fourth playthrough, and I've kept the crown a secret from six and myari so far. I've just arrived on Elboreth and I'm outside of Oroi's house. Is there a way to give Oroi the crown without her place being trashed like it has been in my previous games? All the other times six and myari knew about the crown, but now they don't. Is there a way to give Oroi the crown while it still being a secret from six and myari?

[pev69]

I think her place is trashed only if you ask her to try to activate the crown.
If you got the crown in secret (sent six to the ship and opened the chest yourself), when you ask Oroi to look at it you get the option of sending six out ("personal matter"). And when you come back later you can again send six out if you tell it you thought someone was listening out (or similar, cannot remember exactly), but DO NOT tell six to just follow your order, it does not work and botches the whole thing.

[pev69]

Anyway, to get even a bit more spoilery,

I think the whole crown thing is slightly stupid in that whatever you do with it, it does not affect the plot at all, and, after all that teasing about it being some kind of device, you barely get to even know what the crown was really for, you almost have to deduce it yourself. My deduction: It was used to record those "robot head message/personalities" one of which you see in the Emperors' graveyard. In my first playthrough I thought it might be some kind of "transformer", that it could turn into a robot of some kind. Later I thought it might be some kind of mind control thing (either controlling the wearer or the wearer controlling others. Finally I think I had enough info , was it from Myari, that it is a recording thing.

[worstcase11]

You can have Oroi analyse the crown without her workshop being ransacked - just be quick about it. If you get it back before Myari gets impatient - no matter whether you were able to keep it secret or not - the workshop will be fine.

[Aachen]

It’s possible to have Oroi do her work on the thing and avoid the subsequent ransacking, yes.

In my second run-through, I kept discovery of the crown on the down-low. Ignored any dialogue to show the thing off and explored a few more sites. Myari eventually informs one of command words.

As I was aiming for Enkei, I had deliberately deferred showing the crown to Oroi till I felt she’d seen enough other stuff. When I did intend to broach the subject, the subject of sliset initiated a sequence after which I could convince Six, at its end, to go watch for interlopers (Oroi even helped a little!). Thereafter, once the mechanist was done, I took the device to Myari. Oroi wasn’t bothered by bandits at all.

[Shalkka]

I had another strategy how Six would not be present but prompted "ask another thing" for Oroi where the only remaining option was crown related and started to seek way to not select the single option. It is good to know that I am not screwed.

[löyly]

I've only had one play-through and didn't know Oroi's place could be trashed o.O Nor did I know it was possible to send Six away before finding the crown. What I did was avoid Myari and Iox like the plague (I got very suspicious of her after that message on the hermitage moon, and also Iox seemed like a bunch of colonialist a-holes very early on). I showed Oroi the crown early in the game and came to pick it up again soon afterwards.