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[Renna]

Neither do I? I did a bit of looking into this too...Can you re-post the reddit thread please?

[Twiler]

The reddit thread is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/pathologic/comments/2d8gj8/are_you_feeling_feverish_pathologic_remake_arg/

I think the morse in the video translates to:

[Renna]

Thank you, Twiler......I must admit I'm not such a great puzzle solver when it comes to this!

[Twiler]

The level of complexity in that note puzzle has left me rather intimidated.

[Renna]

[Twiler]

With all the talk of circles and followers, I suspect that the solution to this puzzle will be part of the URL of a google circle page; They seem to have the form https://plus.google.com/*********************/about, so if we get an appropriately long number...

[Twiler]

Another message from Voronika:

[Nadif]

There's definitely something written in reverse on the left side of the photo. See pics:





I think it's "Gaudium" ("Joy" in Latin); it would fit with the Psalm theme, but I still don't know what to make of it. Tried it in the "secret" form but no cigar. And there's no Psalm starting with the word "Gaudium"; in fact AFAIK that word only appears once (or twice, depending on the source you rely on) in the entire book. Ideas?

[kira1000]

I am unsure, what I do know is that we most likely won't receive any more e-mails from Voronika going by what she said. She never even responded to the message I sent her which is a shame.

[Twiler]

Good find.

It seems that Oscar Wilde wrote a poem called 'De Profundis' in prison, a similar story to that of Ovid writing 'Tristia' in exile; There's also a sequence of emotional states that begins with 'Tristia' and ends with 'Gaudium'. I don't know how to tie this together. My best idea is to look for another poem/book with a latin name written from imprisonment/exile.

With regards to the numbers above, someone on the reddit thread suggested that the clue could be pointing towards a site on the .info domain. Perhaps it has an address of the form www.[number].info.

The clue states: 742138670 next but one squared info

It could be that 742138670 needs to be split into smaller numbers (say, 7, 42, 138, 670) which form a sequence or series, and the solution is the square of the 'next but one' in the sequence/series.

[Twiler]

Hold on, one of Voronika's messages had this as a subject:

[Nadif]

[Nadif]

Ok, WILD speculation - most likely just the result of sleep deprivation, but it's a curious coincidence at least.

In today's clue, we found the word "Gaudium" written in reverse. In that same photo, there's a family posing in front of a plane with the number "52".
_{(The plane, btw, is an Antonov AN-2, but at this point I think that's not relevant)}

Now, if you throw "Gaudium" at me, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Gaudium et Spes (eng. "Joy and Hope") , a key apostolic constitution from the Second Vatican Council: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudium_et_Spes

It has 93 paragraphs.
Guess what's the topic of paragraph 52?

Family.

It's a long paragraph, but look at its first lines:

[Nadif]

742138760NEXTBUTONESQUAREDINFO has been solved by Reddit user Kteby:

[Nadif]

Still no progress on the really important stuff, but, in the unlikely case that it's relevant, I think I may know where the last photo (regardless of the fact that it has been most definitely altered in Photoshop to some degree) has been taken.

Does this landscape look familiar?


(source: http://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/246082/rf-00410-dosaaf-rosto-antonov-an-2/)

That's Chelyabinsk-Kalachevo Airfield, and yes, that's an Antonov AN-2; there are at least two of them stationed there, still flying and all; I think you can even spot them on Google Maps. I'm pretty sure that's the spot.

Do I know what to do with this info? Hell no. I think it's too late to try contacting Voronika, she said that herself in her last email. But maybe someone smarter than me can get something out of it.