resembles a "major population center", appears to be merely a construction site for more ritual objects. The area is covered by rickety purple scaffolds, water hoses, and building materials. Only three objects have been fully constructed: A dusty footlocker (which cannot be opened in-game, but its insides viewable in one of its trailers), a black stone statue with a built-in lamp, (which Sam connects his detalion to.) a stone tablet that the statue's lamp is aimed at-and when the detalion is attached, OLD Living -ship coordinates for Matia's zone appear in a layout similar to the wood tablets in the living islands area, and a primitive, almost Charles Babbage-like mechanical computer. Nothing is known what this area is meant to be, nor where in the plateau it is. The only clue is dripping water from the temple above. Balloons Sam's starting location. Similar to the Living Islands, organic balloons are clustered in a gaseous atmosphere. Base Three was set up here, authorized by Dr. Frances Bremmer. Dr. Richard Hoviz' log is here, as is Bremmer's, the only two logs viewable in the CD version. On the edge of Sam's first balloon area are several compasses and a horn with coils jutting from its bell. The horn itself, with an elaborate gold apparatus behind it, makes automated blasts of air. Next to Hoviz' log is a large device shaped like a musical instrument, which, after pressing gold tabs with the same markings from each compass in a unique pattern, it seems to suck blue pearls used as money from the atmosphere through the horn's coils. The symbols on each tab also create wheezing sounds of alien words, which are also used with the mechanical computer on Bosh. A cable car, leading past several mushroom-shaped hot-air balloons, connects one of the organic balloons to what seems to be a massive flower hovering a few meters from the surface. After experimenting with a pair of gas collection devices and a message from Dr. Bremmer, it turns out that this flower was actually a launch site for several blimps. It seems that the collectors would fill any blimp(s) in the area for flight. By the time Sam arrives, there is only one. Bremmer's log mentions that a scientist named Susan recently used another one. Nothing else is known about this realm. Matia's Zone Matia is the most mysterious Argilan area of them all. Everything