The Lost Clock Emporium: details
Here’s a few details about the weird clocks in the Lost Clock Emporium.
The clocks are all regular analogue clocks, with the exception of Hades’ Timepiece, which has numbers and hands going counter-clockwise (so a mirror image of a normal clock).
The entire clocks are rotating clockwise at these rates (per day):
Clock | Clock rotations PD |
---|---|
Minute P.O.V. | -24 |
Hour P.O.V. | -2 |
Devil’s Clock | -13 |
Hades’ Timepiece | 26 |
About Hades
Here’s a side-by-side view of what’s going on with Hades Timepiece (click ‘Start’):
So comparing Hades to the normal clock:
- the hands are effectively swapped around in Hades’ clock (wrt a regular number dial); but the mirrored and rotating numerals mean it’s showing the correct time in its own frame of reference (entire clock rotating and with backwards numbers)
- an imaginary hand half-way between the hour and minute hand (on either clock, and in both directions) points at the place the numerals are mirrored around on the other clock