Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:02 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: Perplex City » PXC: General/Updates
[UPDATE] Library of Babel - ticks
View previous topicView next topic
Page 5 of 9 [121 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Next
Author Message
ALISDAIRPARK
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 1646
Location: Everywhere else
Sophiecat wrote:
Just that one word I can't make out.

S


that would be "paving stone" I think.
_________________
Absorb what is useful <> Reject what is not <> Add what is uniquely your own
Playing : http://cerebrumachine.com and http://www.westunfictionopia.info

My charity page: http://www.justgiving.com/alisdairpark3

PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:26 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
AtionSong
Unfettered


Joined: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 352
bit1313 wrote:
Doesn't the contents of the envelope as described match the back of the earlier cards?
A phone, a passport and an envelope?

EDIT - And Sente is in a business suit in the picture too...




By golly, you're right. It's all there:

Envelope=right side manilla envelope.
Picture of someone in a suit=Sente pic
Passport=left side (Can anybody get a picture of a laisser-passer to compare?)
Phone=At the top left corner of the card

Could it be that CT got a pack of Perplex City cards?

[SUPER-SPEC]
The numbers given in the animation range from 2 to 8

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

"Ask the simple questions first" from letters=Early cards
Early cards=answers from early cards are needed letters?


Perhaps a match up then:

WARNING: Card Answers Within
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Card #2=Designer Flakes
Answer:1-A, 2-E, 3-F, 4-B, 5-C, 6-D

Card #3=Earth, Sea and Moon
Answer=Journey to the Center of the Earth

Card #4=Zoo Zanyum
Answer=elephant, giraffe, lion, monkey, polar bear, snake, zebra

Card #5=Out On a Limb
Answer=The Lorax

Card #6=Winning Lines
Answer=1-Italian, 2-Spanish, 3-Dutch, 4-French, 5-German, 6-Swedish

Card #7=Aromarama
Answer=1-Coconut, 2-Mint, 3-Banana, 4-Chocolate

Card #8=Mind Candy
Answer=
A- DAN HON, B - MICHAEL SMITH C - ADRIAN HON D - HANNAH BORASTER E - PAUL MCCORMICK F - ANDREA PHILLIPS G - ADAM MARTIN H - MIKE WHITAKER I - FIONA SILK J - NAOMI ALDERMAN K - JACK DIXON L - DAVE BLAKE M - DAVID VARELA N - JEY BIDDULPH


Perhaps the numbers refer to various letters that spell out important words...

Major spec here!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:03 pm
Last edited by AtionSong on Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:31 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
bit1313
Decorated


Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 164
Location: Western PA USA

 		Didn't someone give the model of the "phone" at the top of the card? I thought it was a smart phone...

Bit1313

linky here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16858

looks like you speced this before AtionSong

PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:06 pm
 View user's profile Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
ampetrizzo
Boot

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 54

 		Well, if that's Ct's passport on the back of the cards, then he went to Japan.



Look at the lower immigration stamp. It's the same as on the back of the PXc cards.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:13 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
angadeon
Boot

Joined: 31 Aug 2006
Posts: 38
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 		He was in Japan in 1998?

Nevermind, I see what you're saying...the one on the cards don't expose the date.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:22 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
ampetrizzo
Boot

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 54

 		What's the significance, if any, of "be patient, this may take a while?" A clue to solving the puzzle, perhaps?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:57 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Scribe
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 300
Location: Brighton, UK
ampetrizzo wrote:
What's the significance, if any, of "be patient, this may take a while?" A clue to solving the puzzle, perhaps?


Perhaps. Or possibly just a "this may take a while to load" warning for those on slow connections... I'm going with Occam on this one Smile
_________________
"O, there has been much throwing about of brains."

http://exmosis.net/
http://twitter.com/exmosis/

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:17 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
hobyrne
Guest


 		Transporter accident
Hi all.

The operation of the cube reminds me of the Star Trek transporter. In at least one episode, the transporter did not *move* a character, it *copied* him (Riker, TNG, later showed up in DS9). Could CT be a 'copy' of someone who still lives in PXC?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:06 pm
 Back to top 
hobyrne
Guest


 		Sign suffix
Every number pair appears an even number of times, and each pair is followed by a '+' sign the same number of times the pair is followed by a '-' sign. So, for every "( 7 , 8 ) +" there's a "( 7 , 8 ) -", etc.. This, and the fact that there's a sign at the end of the list, leads me to believe the signs are more associated with the pair *previous* than the pair *following*. It also means, if + means forward and - means backward, and the pairs are ( x , y ) coordinates, the overall sum is ( 0 , 0 ) , i.e. you will end up exactly where you started if you follow these directions. (Actually, you end up where you started a few times during the trip.)

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:22 pm
 Back to top 
Soulsproximity1
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 135

 		So does this mean CT could be Sente!!!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:50 am
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Infernux
Guest
PuzzledPineapple wrote:
OK, here's a plot of the numbers as a path. Basically (having picked a scale) you use the first number to go along and the second to go up (standard xy stuff) and + to go forwards and - to go back (more standard stuff). Two -s make a +. If you can make anything out of this I'll be impressed.


ok, here are my thoughts. I like the paths, i think that it might have to do with the answer. When he was handed the passport, the language it was in sounded like french. Perhaps we have to transpose that path onto a world map with france and it points to where the cube is?

Or, he said he dreamed of wandering the streets of Perplex City. I dont have a map of perplexcity, or enough cards to form one, but maybe the coordinates corespond to what streets he wandered down. I dont have a map but like, (7,7) corner of two streets, and + means going up and - means backtracking. Just a thought

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:54 am
 Back to top 
Infernux
Guest


 		sorry for the double post, but i forgot to add

Could also try to transpose the path onto a map of the perplexcity world.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:58 am
 Back to top 
Scribe
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 300
Location: Brighton, UK
Infernux wrote:
sorry for the double post, but i forgot to add

Could also try to transpose the path onto a map of the perplexcity world.


I'm still on this line of thought, although not geting too far with it just yet...

Still, you can find one map of PXC at http://www.perplexcitymap.com/, and another which was used for the aero-doodad thingy over at http://stuff.perplexcitymap.com/aeromap.png.

I figure these might come in handy to people with some time Smile I've tried trying to fit the paths I posted before on to the second map, but can't see any obvious way (but I might be being thick here...)

It's made more difficult because I'm not sure if the (7,4) co-ords refer to constant units (as the plots in this thread so far assume), or something else such as street turnings (i.e. 4 streets across in one place may differ width-wise to 4 streets across somewhere else)... If it's related to roads, then the former seems more likely.
_________________
"O, there has been much throwing about of brains."

http://exmosis.net/
http://twitter.com/exmosis/

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:10 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
wonkothesane
Boot


Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Newcastle

 		...
I was thinking about numbers and how you might trace a diplomatic passport and i came across this site http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayHierarchy&lang=eng&rec_nbr=206831&node_state_all=0&page_nbr=1.0&

Do canadians know how to count to five ? Is this the point ?

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:31 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
angadeon
Boot

Joined: 31 Aug 2006
Posts: 38
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 		*laughs*

Yeah, Canadian Government has about the same sad mix of intelligence vs. ignorance as most...
But I think you are misinterpretting the format (unwieldy as it is) of the folders... The open folder (Page 1) is not identified as such. Click on the (+) beside the folder just above Page 2 and you get some confirmation.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:12 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 5 of 9 [121 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: Perplex City » PXC: General/Updates
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group