Pony Island

Pony Island

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How To Learn The Truth, The Full Truth, And Nothing But The Truth!
By Reina Hearts
Have you "beaten" the game and still feel like you don't know the "full truth" about yourself? Well, this guide might shine a light to finding that out... Maybe... It's questionable...
   
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Introduction
So, you just beaten Pony Island for the first time... CONGRATULATIONS!

And yet... it doesn't feel like you know the Full Truth about yourself...

That's where this guide comes in... It will guide you to finding the Full Truth about yourself... or, at least, the Full Truth that'll net you a cool achievement... We can't spoil EVERYTHING now, can we?
Where To Begin... Again...
First things first, in order to know the Full Truth, you going to need to ask some questions... What are those questions? And to whom are we asking them to? The answer the latter question, we must always ask one of three demons (which we'll all nickname "Baphomet" due to purposeful irony) hidden throughout Pony Island... There is always one Baphomet hidden within each Act of the game with each proceeding Act taking longer to reach Baphomet than the last...

For example, finding Baphomet in Act 1 will take less time to reach than finding Baphomet in Act 2, which takes less time to reach than finding Baphomet in Act 3... And with the last two Baphomets "actively crucial" to finding the Full Truth, the word "patience" comes to mind when the word "speedrun" isn't available... However, we'll get to this later as we'll focus on the questions themselves...
The Questions In Question...
Out of the three questions you're always preseted to ask whenever you meet Baphomet, you must be able to ask all five questions in total to know the Full Truth... In other words, you'll have to play through Pony Island, at least, twice before you know the Full Truth... Simple, yes? However, there are a couple of things that could hinder your progess of knowing the Full Truth:
  • The moment you collect all of the tickets in the game (with exception to finding them all during the first playthrough) will send you to the game's "alternate ending"... So, if you haven't reached a certain Baphomet beforehand, then you must start your Full Truth-seeking playthrough again...
  • Selecting an Act other than Act 1 to start your Full Truth-seeking playthrough if you choose not to start from the Prologue... It's the most common of hindrances because seeking a question you haven't been presented to ask, especially certain questions, will not potentially show up when you start looking for them via Act-jumping, per se...
Now, in regards to the five questions in question, they are as follows:
  • Who Was I?
  • When Did I Die?
  • Where Did I Die?
  • Who Killed Me?
  • How Did I Get Here?
You probably asking why the last two questions are under spoiler tags... The reason for this is that those questions are most likely revealed under certain conditions on top of the first three questions being the most likely to appear more than once...
How To Tip The [Important] Questions To Your Favor...
The process to make the [important] questions appear is as easy as not Act-jumping... Explaining it might not be...

To make the first three questions appear, you just have to find Baphomet for the first time... In other words, even if you did Act-jump to Act 2 or Act 3, the Baphomet you encounter within said Act will ask the first three questions because it would technically be the first encounter with Baphomet if you didn't already encounter Baphomet from a previous Act...

To make the fourth question (aka the first question under the spoiler tag) appear, you have to find the second Baphomet after encountering the first Baphomet and asking the first a presented question... By doing this, the question that was asked from the first Baphomet will be replaced with the next "unanswered" question, aka the fourth question...

To make the fifth question (aka the second question under the spoiler tag) appear, you have to find the third Baphomet after encountering the first and second Baphomet and asking them both a presented question... Since the porcess would be the same as making the fourth question appear only done twice in one playthrough, the last "unanswered" question, aka the fifth question, would appear...

It may all sound complicated like trying to make sense of a gamble, but since each question is set to appear depending on the first Baphomet you meet and asked when given the chance to, it sets in motion the next pending questions that will (or will not) appear because you can't ask the same question twice when it has already been answered once in a continuing playthrough... on top of the fourth question presented before the fifth question when another question must replace the space of the answered question to make sure Baphomet presents three "unanswered" questions each time you meet one after the other...
Conclusion
And there you have it! A way to learn the Truth, the Full Truth, and nothing but the Truth!

And yet... There are those that would say that the questions are still given at random... Well, to a certain extend, questions can be presented in a different order than listed within this guide... However, the process to make "unanswered" questions appear isn't as random as one might think...

Also, for those that forgot which questions they already answered, they could simply revisit Act 1 at least three times, asked each presented question once to Baphomet during each revisit until you know that you asked each question already, and then use that moment to continue through the next two Acts, finding those Act's Baphomet, and asking the "unanswered" presented question that replaced the previous question from before... thus all leading to unlocking a cool achievement...

Regardless of how you do get from one Baphomet to the next, as long as it's done through a continuing playthrough instead of through an Act-jump, you're more likely to see every question once even if you can't "answer" them all in one go...

Now, there's just one more question left unanswered... How does one spot Baphomet in order to get a set of three questions to asked? Well, as I said before, we can't spoil EVERYTHING now, can we?
24 Comments
BandyLake 3 Nov, 2019 @ 4:15am 
Its totally boring guide
Domojestic 23 Nov, 2017 @ 9:09pm 
Dude, a guide is supposed to GUIDE someone. Don't be obscure.
bugc 16 Aug, 2017 @ 3:25am 
Yeah I don't like this guide.
eg; I just want a "Go to Act, ask first question,", "Continue to act 3, ask second question"


Thanks to g-mecha for the most simple solution.
Go to Act1; Type the password Baphomet and ask the first question, exit to main menu and repeat.

You can't unlock the complete achievement if you have not encountered all the Baphomets in-game for the remaining 2 questions.
DaFawkes 16 Aug, 2017 @ 12:59am 
Who wrote this drek? It's so muddied with words trying to sound profound that could've easily been condensed into "Talk to the hidden character, ask questions in all three locations." You don't even go into explanation on what the answers are and what importance they actually have (which, to me, would've been a more fascinating read!)

Anyways, downvoted and dissapointed. I'll find answers elsewhere. Thanks for the waste of time. :D
Cynder 10 Apr, 2017 @ 7:20am 
ГАИД ХУИНR
vn_weeb 8 Apr, 2017 @ 4:08pm 
This is overly verbose for no gain whatsoever. What a load of words to describe something extremely simply. You really need to work on this.
☣ Leech ☢ 5 Feb, 2017 @ 3:17pm 
@Trigkon
Thank you!!!!!!!
Reina Hearts  [author] 1 Oct, 2016 @ 12:38pm 
@Buddermario7: That can happens when you try to give Baphomet a question that's not one of the 5 possible questions worth answering... or you gave the same question more than once... :lucif4r: Regardless, it should not stop you from asking the important questions that only Baphomet can answer... :ponycrusader:
Buddermario7 1 Oct, 2016 @ 8:53am 
I found the second baphomet, but he just says, "DO NOT SPEAK IN RIDDLES." What do i do
Tanija 13 Sep, 2016 @ 1:01am 
Thank you, it finally worked for me :D