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[SteveC]

Slight revision, I've turned my symbol upside-down as I think that's how it should be displayed.... Still no recognition though, well, I'm not sure cassandra's "Macaroni M on stilts" counts, and my thoughts of a bad wig just aren't useful.

[Leeravitz]

I've stayed out of this one mainly, as it's not my field of expertise. But just to go on record in reference to the revelations derived via the coding:

1. Don't know how I feel about 'solving' something by brute force exactly...not so much because I feel this is 'bad form' on our part (apparently, it would seem like solving the mazes manually could literally take a year!), but because, again, it seems to me a somewhat illogical, slightly crappy way to set up the puzzle. Just as many of us were left scratching our heads in bafflement as to how the correct solve for the Recon key puzzle could actually be held to be correct when it *barely* made linguistic sense, so, too, here. We have a programme that either a) can only be manually battled through over a ridiculously long period of time; that is, if it can be manually navigated at all, which seems to be a moot point or b) we were intended to bypass the impassable maze mapping after a while, and start to hack the code. Fine, except the PM's surely know as well as we do that such a necessity leaves us with a bad taste in our mouths, takes a lot of the fun out of the actual puzzle solving, and riddles a number of us with guilt over whether or not we should accept the puzzle as truly 'solved' or not. In a practical sense, who cares, so long as we can progress in the game. But one can't but think that the PM's would have done a whole lot better to have created a solvable puzzle, which we might have found rewarding us piece by piece, and spared everybody this bother - I don't imagine anyone (or few people, anyway) would have willingly starting hacking the code if we'd seen that the mazes were smoothly progressing...

2. Just imagine we *were* still playing the thing through maze after maze with sentences being painstakingly revealed to us every other week or so (if we're lucky) - not only pretty tedious, but can you think of a better way to keep us all bogged down in minutiae for the next year and a half whilst MC still try vainly to get the cards on the market?? Frightening thought, innit??

[ariadne_ac]

SPEC

[Leeravitz]

Hmmm. *If* it's a '3', then we've come across the usage of that number before, in reference to the Cube - it's what the tally marks indicated on the ASCII coding that we lifted from the Recon's key...The obvious hypothesis then was that the Cube's sides were simply being numbered, in the manner of a die...Is a fondness for '3' indicative of some association for those who are only interested in the symbolisation of *half the faces* of the Cube?!!? Like the 'dark side' of the Cube?? Ah. hell, now I'm talking silly...

[cassandra]

cubed = to the 3rd power. 3 dimensions. etc etc


Edit: it's possible that the symbol is a 3-dimensional "3," or at least the beginnings of one...

[Bongadoo]

Personally I thought it was a necklace first time I saw it.

I've been through all the pictures in Academy and Sentinel and can't find anyone wearing anything similar, or tattoos, earrings etc..

[spugmeistress]

[cassandra]

well, if it's a necklace, perhaps it's a lowercase omega. As in, last, the End, etc. Did they speak greek?

[Seej]

Well, Ruth Coralhouse probably did.

[BrianEnigma]

[noone]

I think you've made a mistake regarding the symbol. Mine just looks like a 3 (correctly orientated). I used the MazeViewer utility that came with the controller jar. It's very useful...

Incidentally, I also have a bot that (eventually) negotiates mazes 1 through 7 - but I guess we're passed that now.

[cronogenesis]

am I the only one still looking at the message. The real maze has to do with words. He worked at the sentinal *hint* *hint*, son this could be an actual clue, a pointer to his death or just the stress of perplexian life. I think we should wait for Sylvias reaction.

[nynxer]

so...

[nynxer]

simon?

[noone]

BTW the "broken" URL is:

http://salkfamily.com/sheisalwaysalittlebehindmejustoutofview/

"It wouldn't be the first time" seems a lot more poignant...