[Dottoe]

0w or Ow Game is probably the location.

For the young at heart in the city ow game...

[Threadbare]

LatentMoths wrote:

Could "Carne Vale" be referring to "Death Valley"? Carne can mean flesh which is the origin of the word carnage or death. Vale means valley. There was the picture of the forest in the diary. Death Valley National Forest? What do you guys think? Still working on the mysterious link by the way...

I've been quickly lurking this thread for a while now, so I'm not entirely sure of what's going on here but I think I can help with this.

Even though "carne" does indeed mean "flesh", the word for "valley" is not "vale", but "valle" (or many other variations depending on wich romanic language you're using, but, as far as I know, the 'l' it's always double).

As someone posted already, the words "carne vale" are the ethimological origin for the word "carnival", that in most non-English speaking countries it's the name we give to Mardi Gras.

[booba]

Or maybe not....

Because the diary followed many of the oddities of House of Leaves, see under CODES, COLORS here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

the 9 or (,) could be a message to someone as in this

Quote:

The check mark appears on the lower right hand corner of page 97. It is possibly a reference to Pelafina's letter requesting that Truant "Place in [his] next letter a check mark in the lower right hand corner. That way [she'll] know [he] received this letter" (House of Leaves 609). It also appears to mark the starting point of the book's more eccentric formatting patterns. The check mark is not present in the UK edition of the book

ETA: On Mr Motley:

Quote:

motley [ˈmɒtlɪ] n 1. a motley collection or mixture 2. (Clothing & Fashion) the particoloured attire of a jester 3. (Performing Arts / Theatre) Obsolete a jester

[booba]

On the superscript w (if thats what it is)

Quote:

ʷ superscript w means labialized

or to make round

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labialisation

So now we have a rounded "O" which it was before

I've got something on the "9"or (,), back soon...

[Dia Renalda]

Any of these would be clever for the Jester to send her to... but how do we choose? How are we supposed to know? And has anyone figured out what that bloody 9 is there for?

Check out what annaz said on Grace's blog post about where to go. She may have a point?

[Ashe1024]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an exhibit going on "Fra Carnavale and the Making of a Renaissance Master"

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry has done Carne Vale parades.

Then, and this one is near and dear to my heart because of my hometown... Carne Vale in the US is the celebration of Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras in the US originated in Mobile, AL. It's where the Mardi Gras Museum is as well.
(Love how New Orleans likes to steal that title though. lol.)

[Ashe1024]

LatentMoths wrote:

url decoded Spoiler (Rollover to View): It's a Bifid cipher with no keyword which gives http://youtu.be/HulUOB8XZ1s The Braille on the video translates to "museum". Here is the website I used for the decoding http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/bifid.php

Great job.

You guys have decoding skills that I would kill for. lol. I have no clue where to start on half these ciphers. heh.

[LatentMoths]

url decoded

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

It's a Bifid cipher with no keyword which gives http://youtu.be/HulUOB8XZ1s The Braille on the video translates to "museum". Here is the website I used for the decoding http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/bifid.php

[Dia Renalda]

It's better than we have so far. It's much better than inviting a six year old to the "Valley of Flesh."

[LatentMoths]

Could "Carne Vale" be referring to "Death Valley"? Carne can mean flesh which is the origin of the word carnage or death. Vale means valley. There was the picture of the forest in the diary. Death Valley National Forest? What do you guys think? Still working on the mysterious link by the way...

[Dottoe]

It is a youtube address if it's a website at all, I've never seen any other site set up that way.

I don't know if it's throwing me off, but, ".yo/Ut" is in there :/

[punxtr]

Yeah, I tried working out a Vigenere key for it using passphrases from the diary, but that's not creating a workable passphrase.

For instance, decode with BZEE gives you http:// but the rest you can't guess. BZEE isn't even a word we've already encountered.

[Sha-Zoobie]

there's a new post from grace.

in the comments section looks like another clue thingie:

isxt://qbsse.yo/UtyWXV8YH1x

[runninsavvy]

Dia Renalda wrote:

It sounds like another riddle, with the way it is written. "These" is a plural, so... "These are big golden _______s." Now, would the whole phrase be the cheat code, or would the 'answer' to the riddle be the cheat code? If so, what are golden items that they might be referring to? Stars, suns, apples? I don't know. That's my two cents for the cheat code so far.

Could it be eggs? Jack in the beanstalk? just a guess...

[amandel]

Yaha, lotsa possibilities. Am *Yummy* hoping it's: These are big golden trout lakes.