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Vandino
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if you look at sides of the picture and above the third line of text, there's some really faint symbols. I've tried to mess around with the color levels to make them more visible and this is the best i could get. it also looks like there's a little bit of writing right at the bottom center of the piece of paper.

i think i see a face in this paper too, which makes it two pictures in a row with a face in them.

oh, and i think that the poem says "lest", not "left"

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Joseph Anthony
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 		Qu13e
Hello All
It is about time I joined the convertsation.

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With the latest picture change I checked the source code. The title of the .jpg is qu13egins QU Begins. This is just a random thought it might not mean anything. Qu13e = Qube (Cube). Just caught my attention.


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labfly
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 		Re: Qu13e
Joseph Anthony wrote:
Hello All
It is about time I joined the convertsation.

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With the latest picture change I checked the source code. The title of the .jpg is qu13egins QU Begins. This is just a random thought it might not mean anything. Qu13e = Qube (Cube). Just caught my attention.


welcome, joseph anthony
the qu13egins is more than likely just saying that the pre-game is over now
(imo)
but what the 13 is.. is still a mystery-- its been used as several
letters and sometimes just to separate a word -- but i'll check previous posts to be sure
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SnareRushJunkie
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if you look at sides of the picture and above the third line of text, there's some really faint symbols. I've tried to mess around with the color levels to make them more visible and this is the best i could get. it also looks like there's a little bit of writing right at the bottom center of the piece of paper.


The hidden symbols are Greek letters, and can be written on your computer by using the font called "Symbol". I've tried decoding them a little bit, but haven't been making much sense out of it. I'd try more tonight, but unforunately I have a bunch of physics homework to do. Just figured I'd post this here in case anyone else wanted to take a shot at it.

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Delusional
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 		Not sure that it helps any but the comments in the propertys of the qu13egins.jpg says,
"Everything is a QlU13E..."

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Vandino
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 		nice catch delusional

opened the graphic in notepad and found pretty much the same thing in the top line:
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c   l   o   c   k   s   t   o   p   E v e r y t h i n g   i s   a   Q l U 1 3 E . . .   C l o c k s t o p   t h e   W h y s


edit: tried checking the properties on all the older graphics to see if there was anything there we'd missed ... there wasn't.

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draghkar
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 		everything is a c1u3E led to a password in the past, when the site was still a flash called soulcellar.

The password was :

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u4tercesa


however this password doesnt lead to anything atm.

I will post the spreadsheet with the flash info later here..

I also tried enhancing the picture a bit so the greek comes out right, its attached.

Greetz,

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draghkar
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 		as prommised, here the spreadsheet, it has some things in it that were already posted here, but all the flash pictures are in there as well.

furthermore,

maybe someone can tell me how to start a wiki, or start one themselves.. There is enough info to warrant one i think.

Greetz,

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 		okay... noob question but here it goes anyway...

Advance Googling the phrase "Clockstop the Whys" brought me to an in-game site. However, the article that google comes up with brings up an error. My question is does anyone know what the article was about or what was contained in that article? I'm hoping to find some answers from that information.
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 		the source has changed:

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<!-- += -->
and "The Keeper of Things" is now included in the keywords



our source so far:
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<!-- Rebirth. Tenth. Movie. Twenty Four. -->
<!-- 2453705.45325-23 -->
<!-- 334-22 -->
<!-- 7 * 3 -->
<!-- =+ -->
<!-- +9 -->
<!-- &#43&#47&#92 -->
<!-- +7 -->
<!-- &#61 * &#47 &#92 -->
<!-- +GO -->
<!-- +4 -->
<!-- 13 -->
<!-- += -->

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Delusional
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 		I could only make out the writing in the center of the jpg i believe it says
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"Warn you, what"
the rest is to dark.
I don't have any image editing software, So if some one else could try and clean it up a bit it would be appreciated. Smile

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Vandino
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 		when we had =+ in the source code, we interpreted it as 20

now that's it's +=, should we look at it as being 12 or 02?

edit: did a google on the keeper of things, and found this on the splinterworld site:
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"the keeper of things: One of our longest ever faithfuls, knows where to remember forgets. Doesn't say much, but only because his tongue's gone missing."

it was in the list of names that i think i posted sometime back

also, i just noticed that the title of the post where the i found the name was "Eno Trap, U4 Sterces", which is pretty close to the password that draghkar found, "u4tercesa"


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Vandino wrote:
when we had =+ in the source code, we interpreted it as 20
now that's it's +=, should we look at it as being 12 or 02?


i noticed that too-- i'm wondering if qu13e thinks they used =+ for "21"
(i'm sure its hard to keep track of all this from behind that ominous gate--
and its dark.. maybe they misread the "code"-- just a spec)

also: i've been playing around with the latest jpg and i can't get a clear enough image of those bg letters to figure it out-- i enhanced it and it still wasn't enough
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Delusional
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 		Haha i just noticed this in the source
<!-- QU13E (c) 2005. All stegs reserved. -->

So now we just have to find out how the jpg is steged and a password.

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 		+ is 10
= in front multiply by 2 (So =+ you read as two tens)
after add 2 (+= you read as 10 and 2)

&#61 * &#47 &#92 decodes as =/ (logically should be 16) so /\ represents an 8.

GO equals 5
Or is 5 also GO!! ?

13 is in there as a statement. Its not congruent with the rest but that would make sense now wouldn't it?

It sure looks like a alternate decimal mathsystem. Same as our system the order important to the meaning.
I'd rather get 100$ then 001$. Same numbers alternate meaning. Just a bit different from what we know as numbers. Lucky us its a countdown and not a tax-sheet. Wink

Reminds me of roman numerals. Abstract maths. I am so reminded of the fun I had reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach". All you puzzeler out there find a copy and try to read it.
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