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SpaceAngel
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 		Just added to friends- this looks really fun! The house picture is suitable creepy.

But if all they wanted was 'IT', why would they go all-out with the commandment refrences? I'm not dissing the idea (quite like it actually ;D ) just wondering why.

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 		Why? Because distracting you with the flavor of the text puzzle is half the fun for the PM Cool Yeah, PMs can be evil Twisted Evil
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 		x.x You're probably right.
'scuse the ignorance.

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 		We have an update! Challenge 2 is out - the answer is garden

Answer to challenge 1 was bible
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sMooTH WuN
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 		Im in with this one. Just sent my invite.

Second Blog (Since it wasnt posted here, I figured Id make it easier for people)

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2: GETTING OUT AND GETTING IN


You type in Bible.

To your relief, you hear a small click and the container opens. You remove the key and without knowing what to do next you place it in the car's ignition with hopes of it unlocking the doors. You frantically jerk the car door open and take a step outside.

As you do so, you see a piece of paper flutter from the floor of the car to the gravel outside. Before picking it up, you take in the landscape. The road your car is parked on goes so far back you can't see anything even mildly resembling an end. Your car is parked directly in front of a large, delapidated house. The road ends in front of the house as though it were a miles-long driveway. This place does not at all look like a pleasant place to live in.

As you wonder what you are doing here, you remember the paper. It is surprisingly intact. In your earlier frenetic state, you must not have noticed it.

(Click here to see paper.)

You compare your handwriting with that of the one found in the letter and it is unmistakable. You wrote this letter. You think to yourself, Did I really come here with someone named Zak, and if so, where is he now? Well... I must know Miyar and whoever they are, this must be their house. Of course, they'll let me in.

So if you are "T", then Miyar should welcome you regardless whether you remember who you are or not.

You close the door to the car, fold the letter and put it in your pocket, which, you just now realized, exists. You cautiously try to find the front door of the house, which is miraculously difficult being as there does not seem to be a front of the house.

You find that there are more than the regular "four sides" that houses usuallly have. The angles of the house are so obtuse that it might as well be circular. As you wander almost aimlessly, desperately seeking a main entrance to the obscure residence, you find multiple doors, some of which even curve slightly with the architecture of the building.

You make your way around the eerie home trying to count how many doors there are to choose from. You begin counting with the door next to the one directly in front of the car. You do so in a counter-clockwise direction. As you slowly pass each door you notice there are domino pieces, which appear to be detachable, placed in the wood of each entry. Every time you approach a new door, the domino piece changes in number. The order of the doors are as listed:

(All are pics of Dominos, to save confusion, Im going to post the # of dots on the left side, slash, # of dots on right side)

Door One
4/3

Door Two
0/1

Door Three
9/9

Door Four
2/2

Door Five
1/4

Door Six
7/7

As you make your way to the door in front of the car, you find a final door without a domino upon it. In its place, hangs an apple and an inscription reading:

Where fruit was fed into the womb
And was the start of temptuous doom

Underneath the riddle, you find the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, none of which repeat. You notice that the letters are on small, removable tiles which are about the same size of something very familiar. Something you've seen already. As you sit on the moist grass, you hold your head to try to make sense of this puzzle.

You think to yourself, What am I going to do next?


What was said on the piece of lined paper:

Quote:
Dear Miyar,
We've just now located your House after hours of driving. Zak doesn't want me to write this letter, so he's scoping out the place first. I wonder how you managed to buy property out here. You never cease to amaze me.

As always,
T.





BTW - I gots me a problem peeples, and Im wondering if anyone of you's can help me fix it. On MySpace, everytime I try to click on the "pics" link below peoples default picture, it either just X's out the page, or I get an Iexplore error message and the only thing I can do is X out. How can I fix this without having to get a whole new Internet Explorer?? Any help would be appreciated here.. I cant even look at the comments people left me on my own MS page.. it sucks.
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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		I hope this episode moves on a bit quicker than the last one...hopefully the PM isn't making it up as they go along...
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 		It seems the PM is picking up the pace. Interesting clue. I hope this becomes a little more social though. As of right now it just seems to be a race to see who can discover the new blog has been posted.

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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		Hopefully this pace will continue (assuming we get the solves as quickly). I like the riddley (is that a word?) aspect of this one, I'm not sure it will get more social or interactive, as it seems more a puzzle trail than ARG. I guess as the puzzles get harder we'll have to work together more though.
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sMooTH WuN
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 		lol I always feel like im the last to see these things..

Blog/Riddle #3, for those of you too lazy to visit the site:

Quote:
3: MEETING MIYAR


You make your way around the doors and place a tile in the space where each domino was previously, spelling out GARDEN as you make your way around. Going back to the door with the apple, you are glad to see it open.

A few steps inside and you can see nothing. All inside is black. You think of going back outside to find something you can light the room with. Maybe I could drive the car up and turn on the headlights, you think. As you turn back around to go out, the door slams with a ferocity wind could not have managed. The apple from outside is hit into your head in the process.

"You're even off to his start!" a female voice says, echoing through the room.

"Hello?" your voice echoes. "Who is that?!"

"A garden, your guess was? Yet, by the end,
your true education will have flowered by then.
For I am Miyar, your snake of some kind.
Oh, shall you be tempted 'fore I make you mine?
If you try, yet you fail, no worry shall come.
You shall die by then, so have struck yourself dumb.
How will you find a way out, I ask?
That, my dear Adam, dear Eve, is your task."

What? you think to yourself. So this is Miyar? She is a woman, then... You take some steps forward, thinking this will be the easiest way to get out. You stumble on what feels like the leg of a chair and hit the ground loudly.

Miyar cackles before her voice comes back.

"Aphrodisia, indulgence, covetousness
inactivity, fury, narcissism.
Oh, God, is it virtue that we lack?
What are we?
What are these?"

"What?! What does this mean? What am I supposed to say?" you shout.

"Well, I should hope you know, for I won't turn on the lights until you have the answer," Miyar says casually.

What do you say?



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
They are SYNONYMS for the 7 Deadly Sins..

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giafun
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 		just started this
yeah...
I don't have a myspace, so I can't post replies, but I just noticed that update four has been posted. Any ideas?

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JohnJimJoeBob
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 		The notes are in Italian and translate roughly as follows. The first for each uses Google Language Tools, the second uses freetranslation.com:

The first note...

"Do not boil these hair,
But do these things boil,
United to the soul and heart it
From what I can no longer live,
It can not. Most stay,
In the midst of strege
Debbi You always find"

"I give not boil these hair, But I give these things boil, United to the soul and heart it From what THE can no
longer live, It can not. Most stay, In the midst of bewitches Burnbeatings You always find"

The second note...

"Do not you bathroom, bathroom your heart,
What more can you love me,
And you can not leave me,
And with other women you can not go,
And that affair
With no other women you can raise."

"Not bath you, I wet your heart, That more you can love myself, AND more you do not can leave me, AND with
other women you cannot go, AND quell 'to deal With other women is not able lift you."

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sMooTH WuN
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 		this is tough.. I found this:

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"TO DO AN EVIL--per fare una malia--so that a man may be drawn from loving another woman, and only he attached to his wife--take three Indian chestnuts or wild horse-chestnuts (marroni d'Indi, marroni selvatici) and powder them fine, as fine as possible." (MARCELLUS lays stress an the same trituration.) "Then take a new earthen pot, and put into it the powder, and mix with it three drops of the husband's blood, or of the woman whom he loves, and put this blood with the rest, and, if it be possible, add to this as much more blood of either as can be obtained, and to this a half litre of spirits (a full pint) and some water, and boil it in a bagno maria (balneum Mariæ), that is, the pot in another pot of water, and when it shall have boiled for a quarter of an hour, put the pot under the bed, and then at midnight, the wife, should leave the bed and bathe the head of the husband a little, in the form of a cross, also bathe sotto negli in testicoli, and say:--

p. 328

"'Non bagno te, bagno il tuo cuore,
Che sempre più tu mi possa amare,
E più tu non mi possa lasciare,
E con altre donne tu non possa andare,
E quell' affare
Con altre donne non ti si possa alzare.'

("'I bathe not thee, I bathe thy heart,
That thy love from me may ne'er depart!
That thou shalt to me be true for aye!
Nor with other women go thy way,
Nor deal with them, be it as it may.')

And this must be done for seven nights, thrice in a night. Then throw the pot and all its contents into a running stream, saying:--

"'Butto via questo pento',
E butto via it pensiero
Del mio marito per altre,
E che porti tutto l'amore
E me che io pure tanto l'amo.'

("'Now I cast this pot away,
With my husband's thought to stray,
To others' love that I may see
Him true, as I shall ever be!')

And having thrown it into the water, walk away without looking behind you, and for three days after do not pass by that place."

"Rivoque fluenti--jace ne respexeris"--"by the running water--look not back again." This portion is as old as the days of VIRGIL, and I doubt not that the whole spell was ancient in his time.

The next is entitled, "TO INJURE AN ENEMY":--

"To make a man or woman suffer, take a peppercorn and a [illegible], such as is found in the fields, and boil it with the hair of the man or woman and repeat:--

"'Non faccio bollire questi capelli,
Ma faccio bollire questa robba,
Unita a l'anima e it cuore
Di quello che non possa più vivere,
E non possa. più stare,
In mezzo alle strege
Tu ti debbi sempre trovare!'

("'I do not boil the hair alone,
But all these things together thrown,
With his heart and soul that he,
May perish and for ever be
Only in witches' company.'")


http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/err/err17.htm
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 		dbl post


is anyone alive out there? im havin a hard frikken time with this... it is odd however that both lines of the code have the same exact number of letters in each word.. railfence? im not too good with those kind of ciphers..
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 		this one has me stumped too - I have no idea where to find the key

ETA the actual blog, maybe some of our crypto geniuses will pitch in here
Quote:
4: THE ENVY ROOM


You count on your fingers, 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6...

"They're supposed to be the seven deadly sins, I suppose, but there's only six..." you say loudly, to be sure that she hears you.

"That's correct," Miyar says slowly. "Envy is missing. I suppose you can guess where you are, then?"

"What do you mean?"

"Look around you," she laughs as she says it.

The lights flicker on, and, although dim, you can now at least see what's around you. The walls are a deep, forest green. The room is cluttered and the furnishings are makeshift. There is a patchwork sofa with cushioning coming out of the arm and back rests. It seems as though someone had to throw it together in a short amount of time.

"Miyar?!" you shout. "Miyar?!" There is no answer.

You look closely at a plaque on a wall. You can barely make out the words.

"'Non faccio bollire questi capelli,
Ma faccio bollire questa robba,
Unita a l'anima e it cuore
Di quello che non possa più vivere,
E non possa. più stare,
In mezzo alle strege
Tu ti debbi sempre trovare."

Another one, directly next to it, has a similar design.

"'Non bagno te, bagno il tuo cuore,
Che sempre più tu mi possa amare,
E più tu non mi possa lasciare,
E con altre donne tu non possa andare,
E quell' affare
Con altre donne non ti si possa alzare."

You look around some more and see a piece of framed parchment on a different wall.

(Click here to see the parchment.)

On the only wall that has nothing hanging from it, you see a bookshelf filled with books. On the shelf lining, letters are scratched in a manner of hurry and fear.

LQN BYQBN SL JCRR! LCNS LQN!
DXR BCXBR BD GSUU! YSFB SXR!

This is maddening, you think.

What do you do?

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sMooTH WuN
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 		ok.. we need to put our heads together here.. if people start throwin out suggestions, maybe itll help to jog someone elses brain.. even if you dont think the suggestion is correct, throw it out anyways, thats how this all works..

here is the 4 Blog Posting, with translation:

Quote:
4: THE ENVY ROOM


You count on your fingers, 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6...

"They're supposed to be the seven deadly sins, I suppose, but there's only six..." you say loudly, to be sure that she hears you.

"That's correct," Miyar says slowly. "Envy is missing. I suppose you can guess where you are, then?"

"What do you mean?"

"Look around you," she laughs as she says it.

The lights flicker on, and, although dim, you can now at least see what's around you. The walls are a deep, forest green. The room is cluttered and the furnishings are makeshift. There is a patchwork sofa with cushioning coming out of the arm and back rests. It seems as though someone had to throw it together in a short amount of time.

"Miyar?!" you shout. "Miyar?!" There is no answer.

You look closely at a plaque on a wall. You can barely make out the words.

"'I do not boil the hair alone,
But all these things together thrown,
With his heart and soul that he,
May perish and for ever be
Only in witches' company.'"



Another one, directly next to it, has a similar design.

"'I bathe not thee, I bathe thy heart,
That thy love from me may ne'er depart!
That thou shalt to me be true for aye!
Nor with other women go thy way,
Nor deal with them, be it as it may."

You look around some more and see a piece of framed parchment on a different wall.

(Click here to see the parchment.)

On the only wall that has nothing hanging from it, you see a bookshelf filled with books. On the shelf lining, letters are scratched in a manner of hurry and fear.

LQN BYQBN SL JCRR! LCNS LQN!
DXR BCXBR BD GSUU! YSFB SXR!

This is maddening, you think.

What do you do?



The note on the wall says:

Quote:
Hello and welcome to my house.

You may or may not have been a guest at one of my other previous "gatherings," but I can assureyou that either way, you will have a wholly gratifying experience.

I give a deep apology in advance to the fools who assume they can make it and -oh, whats the word?- give up in the middle. My house is not for the faint of heart and you should know it well, for once you enter, I have only provided one way out.

You should know better than anyone else whether you were made for this hou[cut off by side of paper]
If you believe that you can take on the challenge, then welcome!

If not, go back before you have no choice but to stay.

Miyar



Thats all we got.. I sent Miyar a Myspace message and got a reply:

My MS Message to Miyar:

Quote:
The Envy Room is definitely a step up on the difficulty level. It may take us a bit longer than the last ones..


Miyar's reply:

Quote:
That's what I was hoping to do.


Eh, it was sort of a fishing expedition.. I didnt want to ASK.. but I thought if I opened a line of communication with Miyar, maybe a hint would be thrown in there...
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