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[brimstoner]

Sunday Bloody Sunday

[Mountain Girl]

Has anyone else checked the Tortuga forum lately? This newest one is just creepy (Ben Ben from Hong Kong)

http://forums.tortuga.com/viewtopic.php?t=194

[shylilembrace]

Jackalope i love that you actually tried that idea but whatever you do DO NOT barrage the page with those combinations would induce another meltdown at the very least. [/Ma'ammode]

[TheJackalope]

Who would have thought that there were over 1,000,000 combinations for 1790 alone. Well, I did if I recall, but when my brain thinks that it can make a program to do something, there's no stopping it. I've made programs to solve all sorts of stupid things Sudoku, Word Searches, Anagrams, Othello/Reversi, Tic-Tac-Toe, Black Jack, Poker. If you can think of something stupid to try and solve, I've more than likely at least tried to work out a C++ solution for it. It is my personal belief that if I throw enough code at a problem I'll crack it, hence my signiture.

[shylilembrace]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Zoning out on a conference call, I came up with the attached.
For those in the Freemasonry camp (I'm not one, personally), It should make entering those conversions for Gematria easier.
It'll run on any machine that has a visual basic interpreter.
If your AV software is up to snuff, it should cry foul when you try to run this file.
Jackalope or any VB-savvy people should be able to confirm that it a benign file.
Just save it to your machine and look at it as a text file if you like.
Remove the '.txt" from the end of the filename to make it work.

EDIT:
Download function of UF does something weird to the filename.
You can call it anything you want as long as the extension is ".vbs"

[ThatDeadDude]

Seems to me that unless Rogi or Jackalope feel like writing something and letting it input random combinations of letters all night at risk of crashing the web server, we're going to have to wait until something new is thrown at us.

[Law of Five]

If we are getting a little downtime over the next few days, I thought it might be a good time to congratulate our collective selves for doing so well up to this point. As a group, we've proven ourselves quick to respond to changes, adept at researching (how _did_ you get that Japanese link, Shylil?) and able to discuss the various leads rationally and discard dead-ends. We've yet to have even a single flame war in this thread and I think we've managed to keep the number of redundant posts to a minimum, while maintaining some space for the chit-chat. I think a newcomer could read our posts to date fairly quickly and see where we have taken this and why. I think after events of the last couple of days, we can rest assured that Islington is watching!

So well done everyone, enjoy a few days' potential rest and get ready for Sunday and the weeks and months (years?) ahead.

"You ain't seen nuthin' yet"

Law of Five

[angel2k10]

ah shucks law ur gonna make us all blush i fell all warm and fuzzy inside now (even though i ain't done anything except confuse myself alot lol)

[shylilembrace]

[hlpr]

[Moongazer]

Thanks Jack for all that work. I won't pretend to begin to understand what you and Rogi are doing, but I have tried your words, which don't work - but neither do the hundreds which I have put in! I have tried everything I could think of to do with Paine, Blake, Keys, locks, prison, Bastille, Washington, Lafayette, Freemasons, Islington, Angel, sun, moon, books, Japan, America, France, London, monuments, etc., to no avail, and now it would appear that this avenue was a waste of time in any case, rather like all the effort everyone made investigating "1970".

A box which appears, requiring a Keyword, should indicate that this is something we can find from the clues we have been given, e.g. the Date/Japanese Sunday/Paine/Key/Red Lion, or by employing some lateral thinking, whereas we seem to have been led up another blind alley.

Am I alone in beginning to find this "Game" rather tedious. It seems to be moving at a snail's pace, with the clues too vague and with too many possibilities to gain much satisfaction from such a time-consuming task.

I found this on the first day at LazyLaces, and have read every post both there and here, and have followed up every single Link. However, their thread, which generated such activity to begin with, has been virtually abandoned, largely because Graeme, who instigated this whole thing with such initial enthusiasm, has ignored developments and failed to participate. Even here, most of the original posters have disappeared, including several Scribes, leaving just a hardcore of about a dozen following this with any real interest.

At first it seemed a real challenge, and I was fascinated watching all you clever people unravelling the Scribe pages, Directories and Book Zero. Having eventually plucked up courage to make a few posts, I was so excited when my discovery of the Bastille Key apparently immediately led to a new page, as I felt I had at last made a useful contribution, but it seems to have just led to another dead end. Bearing in mind that this is only Book Zero, if we are to move through 13 books with only an occasional ambiguous snippet every few days, I wonder how many will have the time and inclination to stay the course.

If we do have to wait until Sunday for the next move on Book Zero, surely we should have something to do on the Scribe pages (which seem to have come to a halt) in the meantime, in order to maintain momentum.

Sorry if this seems a moan, but, unlike some of you who are trying to fit this in around work, I am lucky enough to have quite a lot of free time and would enjoy working on it if there was something we could do, but I can feel my enthusiasm waning, and in the busy run-up to Xmas soon I am sure more and more people will feel they could find something more useful to do with their time and it will just run out of steam.

[shylilembrace]

i'm pretty sure it will start moving faster after we get book zero. Right now you just have to be patient and be glad it's not melting down again.

[brimstoner]

Oh and hello to me as well . I am new here and while we have some down time just wanted to say hello. The game is great and I am really glad to have contributed with all of you. I hope to continue.

[sollune]

Welcome Welcome one and all.

~soll