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Azathoth666

If it's I O U NEO then I think it's a big easter egg. Yay! Easter Eggsess!

If it's I O U ONE, then I think it's just a little "hey thanks in advance" buried in there.

If it's just plain old fashioned co-incidence... hey... stranger things happen at sea, I guess...

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:56 pm

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I think it's a coincidence. If I stare at my wall long enough I can see the Virgin Mary, that doesn't mean my eyes are about to start bleedfingh...hey, whjat;'s thwe mattyer, I casn't sree thje screern anyumotre...

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:18 pm

danman_d

The code used for this is called betamaze. I've used it for another application, and even made a truetype font for it, but it doesnt have punctuation.

http://omniglot.com/writing/betamaze.htm

If you want, I can post the font I made.

-Dan

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:19 pm

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Azathoth666

Great smoking alternative text methods, Batman!

Nice work danman... I think I feel a little better that the PMs weren't sitting there in front of Photoshop for ten hours putting that puzzle together... Wink

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:35 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Whoa! danman, where were you before? That's so awesome...

http://betamaze.250x.com/

So the message is signed "-J."

Can I suggest "-Jesse"?

Mr. Green

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:19 pm

Darkshadow · Boot Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Pawtucket, RI

Wow, so many wasted hours. I guess the PMs are laughing.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:23 pm

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

? = parenthesis
! = comma
. = quote
: = ;

All the letters are right, though. It's really cool that you guys figured it out without knowing about the font...

**Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:27 pm

xnbomb

Good grief!

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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:23 am

Dark_Niles · Boot Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 32 Location: DeKalb, IL

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:20 am

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yeahyeah · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 282

it was probably more fun doing it the hard way :)

from now on all my communication will be done in betamaze.. :)

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:42 am

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yeahyeah's betamaze generator/decoder

chancesend

Danman - thanks for posting that.

I guess this solves the riddle of if the symbols are derived from the characters they represent. Or, to be more exact, it makes it unnecessary...

Though now I'm confused by the -J. I don't think it's Jesse, as someone mentioned, and James Avery wouldn't make much sense...

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:30 am

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yanka

"Jesse" could still make sense (maybe?), if Jesse = Caesar, Avery = Jesse's father, and Dina = Sylvia = Avery's ex-wife (who later divorced him and married Ryan Emerson).

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:14 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:21 pm

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yanka

Well, no... I guess at the present time (when she blogs, and is Dina) she doesn't really remember her past. She just has vague, flashing memories here and there, but she does not necessarily remember that she was married before Ethan/Ryan, and who she might have been previously married to. I think she wouldn't even know about Avery. But Caesar/Jesse would.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:29 pm

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