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[Caterpillar]

Does anyone know what we're supposed to do with the answer to the "riddle"? Stick it on the end of a page name? Enter it in the "submit box"? Email it?

/me confused.

[labfly]

[Glecius]

I did a little thinking about the Aki and rising sun reference. My brain tells me we are ALMOST there due to one thing we neglected, we didnt finish the clue.

"Her" name has the sound of the rising sun. What does that mean to me? It means we found the word(s) that mean rising sun, yet they arent names that sound like it. Anyone have ideas on what names might follow this, assuming my mind isnt playing tricks on me after yesterday?

The possibility of looking for a place could also make sense, but I think that would most likely be a different page and not an e-mail address, just doesnt seem it would make sense. Yes I'm still confused, I'm hoping we throw enough ideas out there to finally make something "click" in someones head.

Another thing that caught my attention is the page name, solitairea. Spelled that way it refers to the card game solitaire, as solitary is spelled differently, and the only "a" card is the Ace. Maybe that might trigger something in someone, or maybe I have further confused everyone. If so, I'm sorry, but I'm as frustrated as the rest of you, so I'm trying to think of anything that might help.

[Ekplixi]

Did everyone see

[Vandino]

i've been looking around google's cache of splinterworld for a while today, and i found some girls names, but none of them seemed to have any relation to the key clue


but i did find this kinda creepy thing in random's blog

[Glecius]

I think those are from a previous game, as it is dated 2002 and both sites are "Under construction" meaning they were removed or arent yet incorporated in this game. The livejournal is where the blogs for sparkrent came from (so it is in-game) and we do need to contact random wilson if we can. As for the Latin lettering, it is FAR too faint and nothing in my aresenal provided me any extra ways to see it any clearer.

[Maria Cottrell]

[Glecius]

[Delusional]

[Ekplixi]

[Vandino]

yeah, i did notice that, but i tried looking up some kinda table of characters for japanese symbols, but haven't come up with anything (not like i'd be able to read 'em anyway ...)

the last half of the email is what we pulled from the comments section on the image. it ROTed out to atquthirteenedotcom, or @qu13e.com

[Ekplixi]

I found a shift-JIS table--it's here.

http://www.rikai.com/library/kanjitables/kanji_codes.sjis.shtml

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to make too much sense...I'll keep looking at it but if anyone else sees anything, let me know.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure that this wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-JIS can help us decode the message. Unfortunately, I'm awful at math, so it doesn't make much sense to me. Can anyone make sense of this?

[Caterpillar]

Re: Aki , Nippon

[Glecius]

Well, Randomeis had a chat today with Decima on IM. Basically, she said she thinks the entire qu13e.com is just another website splinternails is opening (I'm guessing it is a real person, or thinks it is?). I didnt get all of the details of the conversation because I had to leave and go out to dinner. Decima mentioned someone named neobitch, who was the old splinterbitch, dunno why. She also said someone else had text messaged her the website, my guess is thats the only reason she knows anything about it. What does all of this mean?

Honestly, I dunno. I am really hoping a more experienced ARGer can shed some light. To me, if this isnt a real ARG, someone simply used it as a marketing tool for their website, knowing we would run out searching for any info we could and keeping it at the top of search engine lists. Then again, this information could be incomplete and maybe it is a real ARG (as my thoughts of the meaning are). Until further information can be provided to prove we are doing nothing more than helping someone publicize their new website and actually wasting our time looking for something that doesnt exist, I'm not beating my head against any more walls.

Please make your own opinions and decisions, but I'm hoping someone will make this a little clearer for me before I make any decision to remove myself completely.

*EDIT* Also today someone also mentioned sparkrent anagram could be prankster, coincidence?

[Vandino]

I know you guys already found this out, but i was messing around with that source code from the solitairea page, i copied it and took out all the <!-- --> symbols, saved it, opened it up, and it just brought up the password box, then brought me to a black page when i put in the correct password. So I'm pretty sure there aren't any secret codes hidden in the source

oh, and explixi, i looked at that shift_jis table, and i don't think it work, because the lowest value on the table was 81 3f, but i don't think any of the numbers in the source are even close to that high.

not like i'm a computer expert or anything, just my II cents