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Kain211
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[DESCRY] Divination Board I think its time it got its own thread. Now, any ideas on what the answer is to reaccess it?
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:02 pm
Olly
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Well the words need to be decrypted first to figure out what the picture means, I'm sure of that.
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:09 pm
ALISDAIRPARK
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best I can get from a straight letter switch is "poia einai i" however this isn't right as the middle i is different. I don't get anything from ROT or Babelfish from this...
edit: could be poia etnai i, but still get nothing.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:14 pm
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We may need to translate from Greek to English, then.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:12 pm
ALISDAIRPARK
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yup, just did it, it means Who am I? so we need the name of Tom's brother.
I've tried Tom'd brother, and Tom's twin with no luck. Also tried Pollux, and Castor, based on the star clue.
Not getting anywhere, but my thinking is the stars, and the text in greek point to the greek names of the stars being Castor/ Pollux. (this also ties in with the mention of Acheron). However I've tried all the variations of their names I can think of with no luck. It may also be significant that the red circle does not circle anything
"Feed RUMI the correct sequence of symbols (in this case, I suspect, the symbols will be our own alphabet)" from the blog. Do you think correct sequence means we are not after a word?
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:25 pm
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Also a random tidbit that might not mean anything, but the picture of the stars and the circle is called "lock" and the picture of the greek, "Who am I?" is called "key". So I'm leaning more towards the star type names.
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:28 pm
leakingpen
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having pulled up a real star map, i cant make it fit to anything around gemini.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:49 pm
RedHatty
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Standard twin names are close to each other - Like Tom - Tim. But Tim, Timothy & Timotheos Don't work.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:50 am
ALISDAIRPARK
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My theory is we have to solve Raph's page to release Tom, and then we will get the answer... the only flaw in this is that there does seem to be clues on the page (stars, greek text, who am I? etc.)
EDIT: Actually I'm not sure why this thread is seperate from the Gemini one, I think the two should be combined?
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:08 am
Kain211
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I made it a seprate thread because Gemini is getting a bit crowded.
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:51 pm
Kain211
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Ok, major brain blast! It said there are 4 feinds walking the earth right? Were talking about paranormal things right? Well, what four brothers are most common in paranormal mytholgy? The four horse men. It makes sense dosent it?
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:19 pm
Olly
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Kain211 wrote:
Ok, major brain blast! It said there are 4 feinds walking the earth right? Were talking about paranormal things right? Well, what four brothers are most common in paranormal mytholgy? The four horse men. It makes sense dosent it?
Already tried it: War, Pestilence, Famine and Death.
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:34 pm
Kain211
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Ahh...well just because it isnt the answer dosent mean it itsnt them
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:36 pm
RedHatty
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
My theory is we have to solve Raph's page to release Tom, and then we will get the answer...
Well, I don't see a place for Raph's page, but the hebrew characters on the page (linked from the blog) spell NIMROD
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:56 pm
ALISDAIRPARK
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what do you mean by you don't see a place for Raph's page? I don't follow your thinking?
I'm guessing it is in response to my post as you quoted me, but I don't understand the link. What I meant was, my theory is we solve Raph's page which will release Tom, then by communicating with him we can get his brother's name. Just my theory.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:19 pm
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