It's not tofu, it's Tofo!

LOL it still sounds like food.

My theory as far as the gong is. Evidently the villagers believed that the gong had some kind of mystical power.
Enough to cause the villagers to fear it.
Maybe in the wrong hands what is in someways a good thing ends up tragic. It could be made to do evil along with the good and maybe they figured out how to use it without just hitting the gong.
The artifacts that they are mentioning might have to do with the gong,the treasure,the idol,the ruins and maybe the golden child may have something to do with the whole scenario.
And whatever VV3 has instore for all this will put it in perspective. There might be more artifacts to be discovered in VV3.
I had an Island event that one of my villagers had found a mysterious ball. The children wanted to play with it,It glowed. I decided not to to let them play with it.
It ended up being a crystal ball which made the girl switch bodies with another villager.
Some of the Island events have alot to do with magic. And I love the mystery of it.

I got it all worked out now. The villagers destroyed the artifacts from the first tribe (the temple, chipped the magic statue down to a rock, damned up the lagoon, buried the treasure) because they knew that while the magic idol was standing (when you rebuild it, it says it was as if the idol was always in the rock), the "cursed child" could be born by baptizing a baby in the lagoon. When performing a ceremony at the temple with the buried artifacts, he would regain his power. With his power back, he could ring the gong to bring forth a great evil.

In the next village, the child is locked up in a cave. The people destroying the artifacts attacked the first village, and captured the child, and are now looking for a mystical dagger, the only weapon that can kill it. Of course, your villagers don't realize it is evil until after the solve a puzzle to free him, and he runs off, leading from there into VV4

My theory is that the stairs next to the gong lead up to a plateau on the side of the volcanic mountain

at the top there is another set of destroyed puzzles and artifacts (no fishing here...alternative food supply must be found) and there is another artifact of great power such as a magical chalice

when the chalice is peiced back together, the villager who drinks from it gains enormous powers, but also great greed

he seeks to increase his powers so he return to the gong and rings it, but instead of more pwwer, the gong awakens the idol from VV1 who goes on a rampage destroying the villages and the remaining villagers are cast out to sea on rafts with no memory of their true past and land ashore and begin again

i forgot to say that they think they have fled another island that was destroyed by volcano because the Divine Power wants to give the villagers another chance to not be so greedy

also that the GC is supposed to battle the new evil power, but has yet to win

You know what? I had know idea that the waterfall was made out of stairs. DUH! That waterfall could be stairs that once was a temple. The tribe could be some ancient civilization.
It could have been destroyed by some one wanting more power and in trying to get it he destroyed everything and everyone other than a handful of tribe members.
Just a theory.

Yo I'm Happy that this Thread is going strong.

I have finally found out what a BIGGLE is. And I did the wrong thing oops!

I was just looking through this thread and it seems to me that Biggles isn't the same thing.
Mine was asking about wether or not to allow Biggles to do a certain thing.
So then what is BIGGLES an object or a person?
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