Some Island Event if chose correctly can give you some hints about the childern's parent and Biggle as well
I have seen enough Island Events to guess what happen to the children's parent,they are serching for other tribe,But reason why they left the village is unclear.
As for Biggle,they asked what happen to thegong which we know is broken into four pieces,but I still don't know why they want to know what happen to gongs and the next Island Event I gotten suggested that someone broke the gong for some reason not some sort of accident to the gong.
So I'm sorry if you don't understand all those thing butanyway if you has some sort of theory you can post them here

So I think the Gong has some sort of dangerous effect on villages.

Good theory Nemyar!

So Biggle want the Gong and Children's Parent want to hide the gong or something like that I think.So any Theory you want to share with us?

Nope, as I haven't got the biggle event yet.

Or some Island Event that you don't understand it's might help my theory

Well have you completed this the vine wall puzzle? Take a look at this message from it:

Well it kind of help make my theory true
is the gong is dangerous and one of the villagers broke it
I also think the recent one is written by children's parent

I don't know if it's dangerous. But I suppose they broke it for the best. As the gong may be in possesion, by someone. Does that make sence?

Maybe

Makes you wonder what the plot for VV3 will be. "The search for the Artifacts" somthing to that effect, cause the wall messages mentions "other" artifacts, and the only one here is the gong, so there is others, and its not in VV1 because i dont remember there being an artifact. So its somthing their planning for the third one, just a hint, like the cave message hinted to this one. and i havent seen any event with a biggle in it either. I have been pindering this one since my villagers uncovered the writings, and i bang the gong every day and only seen one bad thing, took tech points, everything else was good. Luck, food, skills. So well see, maybe one day itll say "the gong finally had its final effect and whiped out all your villagers" lol but i doubt it.

Or when the infants dissapeared during the night. They were 'carefully taken away'. ?!?! Dun, Dun, Dum!

What in the world is a biggle?
Did you say that it was an Island event?
I guess the further into the game you are the better the events.
I have everything,except all the science and the exploration.
And people are coming up with some fascinating things on thier games.
Great!

Well Some players know what Biggles is

Oh yeah did children said something about their parent hiding piece of something and then left.So that mean we are not helping them instead we are uncovering what they are trying to hide.

CP (Children's Parent in short)
B (Biggle in short)
YV (Your Villagers in short)

1) CP broke the Gong
2) CP hid the pieces and left the tribe to search for other tribe
3) YV fall off the waterfall
4) B realised that Gong are missing and thought it is YV's fault
5) Gong pieces found by YV

The only Biggles I've seen is an island event when it asked me if I wanted to let Biggles have a go at researching alone as he had something he wanted to try.

I said yes and it told me I remembered too late that I had no villager named Biggles (which I didn't, but I was not very far in the game and thought I'd forgotten a name), and that by the time my villagers got back he'd wrecked the research table and lost tech points.

I'm replaying the first game now, and there are a few things that could be considered the artifacts that the writing on the wall has said are being restored.

The Stoneheng thingy was destroyed.

The lagoon was dammed up, possibly because it had magical properties

The rock that gets turned into a statue seems very out of place. It was quite possibly once a larger statue that had been broken apart.

There was burried treasure, which could contain artifacts burried to get trid of their power.

I wonder what would happen if I renamed a villager "Biggles"?

I think the whole scenario is a set up for VV3! I know I just had to say it....
I think the original tribe left the children (and one adult, Tofu{food for thought?}) to go find the VV1 tribe to try and stop them from using magic and uncovering any and all artifacts.
Now this may not shock you but I also think that VV3 will have something to do with these "other" original villagers.
They might be "blown" off course and land on another island LOL!

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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We can't tell who Biggles is! You have to find out!!!

I had an event that asked me about Biggles. And it was about a person. It gave me a question and I had to answer one or the other.But like I said others have said that thier biggles was a thing. So what I'm wondering is if Biggles isn't any one thing?

Biggles is an Islander from another tribe.

To reveal spoiler begin highlighting here:

Biggles asks if he can be alone at the research table.
Decision 1: You allow him access and loose X amount of research points {amount varies}
Decision 2: You deny him access because you know he is NOT a part of yoour tribe. Nothing happens.

To end reveal stop highlighting here. Thank you.

I've seen the name Ginger used among the villagers, but never Algy.

I imagine that few, if any, other players of VV2 will understand the above remark, so perhaps I ought to explain. You had to be a boy in the UK around the same time as I was. The Biggles books were a long series of boys' adventure stories written by WE Johns between the 1930s and 1960s. The hero, Biggles, was a pilot who fought in both the First and Second World Wars; his two great friends were named Ginger and Algy. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles

Arggh arnie.. you just HAD to remind me how old I am

Hi all a few days ago I lost all my villagers but 1. I let the game run in hopes for the babies but today 2 grown ups form the other tribe found thire way through the cave to the other villagers. Now I'm happy lol

Lou

I also reminded myself how old I am.

So is Biggle and Children's Parent somehow connected?

I think "Biggles" is just a name from a guide; I came across it in the events guide and assumed it just meant "John Q. Villager". As always, though, I could be wrong

And now I see that I am *cringe* Ignore previous =0P

Gosh!....this is so like.......mind boggling!!!! ( however, I think that biggles guy in those books is COMPLEATLY irrelevent to the actual secret!)

As is Biggles to the villagers - and that's exactly the point

i rename every villager that has orange clothes, Biggles, and then i kill them off. i know that's evil, but they remind me so much of Biggles.......because of him, my village got killed.....so all of his folowers must be put to death!

I like to think that the Biggles in the game is perhaps WE Johns's character who had flown in on a special mission. Maybe the LDW programmer who first thought of his name had read the books.

However, the Biggles in the books wouldn't have stooped to such a low-down trick as does the Biggles in the game. It is more worthy of his arch-enemy, Erich von Stalhein.

Ran a google search on Biggles; here are some of the things listed:

Biggles

1. is a Pioneer Air Fighter
2. is an Artist and Graphic Design
3. is an Australian Organization for people who have an interest in William Earl Johns’ books
4. is a Python module for the creation of publication-quality 2D scientific plots. Its features include an elegant, high-level interface, a simple TeX interpreter, and postscript, png, gif, svg, and x11 output formats
5. is a restaurant located in Buckinghamshire
6. are gourmet sausages

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how do you get them to read the writing on the wall??

I had biggles and i hate him. i wish there was a third choice if you get it a second time that said "kill him"

Well, where is Tofo now? He just left the kids alone!?

Some of the kids born in VV2 don't seem to be as motivated as the waterfall pair or the lost kids. Is this just because survival isn't such a problem any longer, or is it because the bad mojo of the gong area is negatively influencing them?

The wall writing certainly indicates that the gong of wonder is not such a good thing. It seems to be as detrimental to the serenity of the tribe as the golden child, just a little less intrusive. Is the VV1 golden child actually the product of some island magic? Is the entire island of Isola really such a good place for the villagers to continue to build a civilization?

The only logical conclusion for the series is for the islanders to leave this island. They would need much stronger powers than they currently possess to defeat the insidious ancient magic of Isola.

Will VV4 begin with the return to the volcano island to reclaim the original civilation? Maybe they could spend a lot of time out on the ocean searching for their old home? Survival on a large ship (an ark?) could be an interesting segment. They could move around Isola and pick up any other villagers from VV1, VV2, and VV3 who want to leave the island, fishing and loading coconuts and produce for the long search.

Then Biggles must be a good guy. He is probably trying to prevent the villagers from putting the gong back together.

If it is the Biggles from WE Johns's books he must be a good guy!

Who is this "They" and who wrote them? Childern's Parent or Biggles?

I think it can compared to Hitler burning books to take away knowledge. Or maybe just a combination of ignorance, superstition and fear in that tribe that broke it.

Oh did you noticed the someone who written the messages must be pretty advanced, because until you get the correct technology, your villagers can't read the writing.

I don't think it would be Biggles, since he shows up again, and he isn't ancient when he shows up.
I've always thought that the writing was from the villagers that once inhabited that side of the island. This would include the children's parents.
And yes, they were very advanced. When they were there, they probably had all the tech, but years of neglect and disregard changed that.

That advance is to be able to clear the vines. It's only because the vines are covering the writing that the villagers can't read it.

I have to put in a theory now:
The parents were afraid of the children getting hurt by the gong (since it's so unpredictable), so it was dismantled. The gong was stolen from Biggles' tribe (maybe VV3?), and he wants it back.