just a little treat and hidden easter egg some people might remember from when they played myst (1994)
remember how there's three islands but four directions you can rotate the fortress toward?
a purely utilitarian player might realize that there's nothing there and skip it entirely! ...but maybe you'll remember there's that telescope that shows absolutely nothing when you're connected to the other three islands...
and at that point you realize "wow, shit. achenar wasn't fucking around with those black ship pirates."
the skies are also a brilliant, clear, tranquil blue, way different than the way atrus described the age's gray, turbulent skies in the library's surviving journal. if you remember what the old man said, the storms would never end until the enemy suffered a great loss.
really cool bit of loose-end-tying there!
