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[aliendial]

FINAL puzzle is to find Loki's real name, and this is what irc has been playing with:

In the final video after solving today's puzzles Loki told us about /lokiv -- this page makes it clear we are looking for all of Loki's actual names rather than her anagram.

earlier solve: LORELEY/LORELEI (in the language of the region where the murmuring rocks are found it is called/spelled Loreley; in english we would probably use Lorelei, don't know which is right).

From /collection plate we had figured out yesterday the shield was the symbol of: ODESSA (credit - I'm pretty sure - Scrooball in irc)

After getting all the puzzles today /more_answers had a multi-layer word find puzzle, which yielded hex (see above) which when translated into ascii gives us: KARA

So Loreley Odessa Kara? (or Lorelei?) This is all spec, gang. Make your own decisions.

Then at the end of the video this flashed: /roamingroaming, which sends you on a trip for the last of Loki's names: start from a "mystery spot" and follow the directions out and back, and we assume we are looking for a place that starts with "I" . UPDATE: Page has been reviSed to say "Mystery Spot, CA" (Many assume mystery spot means the Fremont Studio in Seattle where the secret party was held, but others are suggesting other starting points like the mystery spot in California or AMD HQ; another thought is based on AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT the letters "TANLI" under Loki's picture on this page - does it anagram to "Latin"? Does it mean a town in China is the mystery spot? Aaaaaahhh!). Here's the direction sequence from Loki's glasses/statements in the videos: R U R D L D L D (challenge: RIGHT, time clue UP, time solution: RIGHT, magic solution: DOWN, memories solution: LEFT, people clue: DOWN, people solution: LEFT, LokiV clue: DOWN)

If it's a state, we've probably got Illinois and Indiana covered. If it's a town, yikes. Good luck!


Oh and I take credit for none of this, although I did solve the word puzzle myself too. This is collected from all the great players in irc. Remind me if you're an original solver (remember I was in irc too, don't mess with me), and I'll add your name here.

[cglrcng]

Don't ask how or why....But I think you'll find the "I" name

[~NML]

grains

[MrBeefy]

I think it's coincidental, but there is an Iggy SG.

Which, like an horoscope, can be used to support my Ignatius hypothesis.

[konamouse]

Re: grains

[aliendial]

Lots of guesses going in today - is the mystery spot for /roamingroaming the Fremont Studios in Seattle? Is it that famous mystery spot in California that has its own website? Is it Odessa (Texas or Ukraine)? Is it the Bellagio? We have no idea - it may be none of these. You takes your chances here.

[cglrcng]

Sry Aliendial...

[doublecross]

FWIW I think it is one name for each of the four Lokis. The starting point for each is the directory given at the end of the 'round complete' video, thus each of the four has a single name, the initials of which spell LOKI.

on_the_run -> contact me -> Lorelei/y trail
collectionplate -> white boxes -> Odessa shield
more_answers -> complete the puzzles -> Kara wordsearch
roamingroaming -> distances and glasses clues -> I? trail

Incidentally, I've been using Google Earth to plot the map for the 'roamingroaming' fourth stage, but it is (or I am) not that accurate - doing all eight steps individually arrives about 100 miles east of doing it in two combined steps (1582.89 miles east and 304.48 miles south). Are there any better methods out there? Microsoft's own site, which one might have expected to use, doesn't seem to do this sort of thing.

Finally, I do not agree that this last name is anything to do with physics. We are told that her four majors are physics, stage arts, history and folklore. Surely those correspond to the four puzzle boxes, in that order. Time passing = physics, magic happening = stage arts, memories fading = history and people disappearing = folklore. The meta trails from each box did not relate to the subject of that box either, for that matter.

[aliendial]

Whatever tool you use, the destination is undeniably south of your chosen mystery point. I found two Tanli's in China, both south of Japan. No way you could end up near Inari Japan from those points. Rather you end up in the Pacific somewhere.

[RedHatty]

FWIW, I have entered a few answers, I thought I could simplify things by doing the simple math & then plotting the final point from the start point, (I used Mystery Spot, CA), it seemed to work, I also used Tanli, converting total mileage to degrees, etc.

Anyway, I had the chance last night to speak with a friend who is a cartographer by trade & he corrected my thinking, explaining that the N/S directions are VERY important to be done in the order given, as travelling 1000 miles at longitude 40 will take you to a much different place than travelling 1000 miles at longitude 20, due to the curvature of the earth.

So we (he) calculated it all over again, following each step and using his fancy dancy mapmaking programs, but hi tech & simple versions (very little difference by the way) and strangely enough, we end up on a Mississippi county that begins with "I", Issaquena.

I did not impose upon his time to try multiple starting points, and, honestly, the entire mileage thing may be complete misdirection, it may be another type of code completely, lord knows we have seen plenty of misdirection in this game.

But for those who are mapping this, please realize that as complex as these challenges have been - I seriously doubt, if this is as "simple" as mapping on a GLOBE, that the differences in distances due to the north/south relative positions have not been a factor.

Good luck all

[doublecross]

Of course, that explains it! Thanks (although I would have thought it was the east/west directions that were more important to be done in the right sequence).

Unfortunately I didn't get the same result when I tried it, starting at the Mystery Spot - I ended up near Georgiana, Alabama. No doubt I was being less accurate than your cartographer friend. My points visited: Spain, Ireland, Poland (almost exactly on Warsaw), Poland again, Germany, Sardinia, Illinois and finally Alabama. When did mine start going wrong?

[RedHatty]

I wish I could tell you Doublecross, unfortunately, I didn't have the foresight to log the private chat. I do remember Spain, poland, germany, sardinia & Illinois, but I don't think you can head due south from Illinois & end up in alabama by any stretch of the imagination.

[doublecross]

OK, thanks - quite encouraging. Actually Chicago is due north of western Alabama, by my calculations.

[Raze50]

location of final spot relative to beginning