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[no_moon]

The lj hetiesmeup is not related to qu31e. See thread:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12969&start=360
Sticking to what information we get from emails and previous clues may be our best bet of solving this thing....

Also, I think I mentioned earlier, but if not, my apologies. I was in error about there being new photos. The "shimbashi" is a small bit of the larger "tokyo" picture. I went back and examined them more closely in the wiki earlier.

Update: going through the Vampires song right now; I've made out some additional lyrics so I'll put those up here.
Additionally, I noticed that the words "silent," "vampires" and "splinternails" are long and drawn out, so putting them together may yield another clue?

[supersekretsrsly]

I also thought it could have been from the musical you mention but I now think that's a firm no. And I agree that it's probably a 90s track.

There is a masked voice that played from 2:50 - 3:10 (very roughly) but my audacity skills are inadequate for the job. Sped up by 1.4x you can hear a distinct voice. See link below:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s12WMHTkBN55

"as you easily see (even?) *indecipherable* ... (for) themself/themselves for the taking*

It's not clear if this has been edited in, or was an easter egg in the original song.

[no_moon]

supersekretsrsly, that's seriously awesome. I vote it's "themselves" but to hear anything else clearly is somehow beyond my computer speakers' capabilities...

Also, upon visiting old posts, I noticed that sparkrent's journal lists "dance of the vampires" as the music he/she was listening to. It is probably this song, no?

I seem to recall that splinternails listed that as soundtracks at some point too....

Update
Following the Tanz der Vampire wiki, I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampires_Rock
It's a musical by Meat Loaf, British, based off of the other musical. That sounds much more likely, no?

One more thing:
Does anyone think that because "g10sha" (jitensha) was Japanese, that these others might also be?
I think some of the numbers are not done rightly, though, as only "gtensha" seems to work straight. The others do not make sense, mostly because there aren't enough vowels to pronounce them.

[supersekretsrsly]

I do recall reading that - Splinternails listed the song as Dance of the Vampires, his mood as sleepwalking (spaced I believe) and his location as an anagram of splinterworld.

It's funny because I also went down the path of looking at the British band you mention. Their youtube channel only had ~5 songs and they were remakes of rock classics. A poor candidate for original songwriting plus none of them sound like the lead singer in vampires.

The numbers to the left of gsh10a etc. refer to dates different things and suggest a connection exists between them ("one + two is three ..."). I think I've solved it:

[no_moon]

[supersekretsrsly]

[quote="no_moon"]

[jamesi]

I was alerted to the fact that this game seemingly resurrected and as such I have reinstated the forum. Have fun!

[punkbass]

[punkbass]

Official!

[supersekretsrsly]

Got a couple of ideas on what it might be:

Something to do with time, most probably clocks. Perhaps something to do with 9 o clock.

Trains, maybe the time of trains ...

Highly unlikely:

hajiki - Pistol

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I considered no_moon's observation and sought to replicate it below:

agsixh.
aixgsh
agsixh

If the pattern follows, we should be looking at the item in bold.

IX is nine, the clue is phonetic. Nine = nai, as seen in Oboenai so probably annai, to start. In Japanese this means guidance, information or a notice.

This reminded me of a pseudonym I'd seen before. Anais Tumach:

He knows you're looking, but use your name...
A misstake, a mispell.
Anais Tumach.

Could be a crude anagram of tsumannai. Melpomene once implied the third answer might not be a word; this is slang, and means bored. But I'm not sure on that front, it's just a possible relationship that might hint towards the answer.

But that's err, not what I want to focus on. The problem is the second part, GSH. Haven't quite worked out what this could be jisha (acolyte or a company one works for)? I don't know. I don't speak Japanese. If it's part of the word annai- then it doesn't fit with anything particularly well.

I've sent an email to Calliope with "annai jisha" as the third word. I don't think it's correct but I'd like to know if it's the right line of enquiry.

[no_moon]

[supersekretsrsly]

[punkbass]

To back your claim of it being pistol, On the last picture, where it says "I am the Key" on the bottom there is a shadow of a pistol as well. This was my basis for submitting "pistoru" once... but I think that was more of a Japanized version of an English word....

I say go for it... Although I haven't gotten any responses in emails for a while.

[no_moon]

[supersekretsrsly]

Later I'm going to take a look at the image of the bicycle. It's the final image in the blue category and it contains both of the solutions we have (an actual bicycle, and the Japanese word for entrance).

The Japanese text on the white column says 'Caution', or perhaps warning.

If you rotate the image 90 degrees anti-clockwise there is an odd depiction of a stickman engaged in some activity in the bottom right. The bicycle frame is female but may well be unisex.