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[TRAILHEAD?] Miyar's House
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sMooTH WuN
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Dbl Post.. I wanted to leave the last post for what we have so far, and this post for spec.

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

3 4 2 4! 4 3!
3 4 2 4! 4 3!


see a pattern anyone?!?! heh.. but what could this MEAN? Just some specs..



13! 7!
13! 7!

Both 13 and 7 are prime numbers..
13 is the 7th fibonacci number...

According to the Torah, God has 13 attributes of Mercy.
The Devil has 7 Deadly Sins.

This all could mean absolutely nothing.. just thinkin out loud here..

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

If this code were a Vigenere, what could be the password? Lets look at some facts of the Blog Post.

1. The Room is called "ENVY". (Which I got right, Might I add! lol).. does this mean the other rooms are other Sins?
2. There are two Etruscan Spells that needed to be translated.
3. Both spells came from: "Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition", a book written by Charles Godfrey Leland in 1892.
4. The first spell, has to do with what appears to be a lover scorned and getting revenge, or I assume Wrath/Anger?
5. The second spell has to do with making someone fall in love with you, so Im guessing Lust?
6. The note written by Miyar has three points of interest, that I am thinking of. a) The first is the word "gatherings" in quotations. Maybe this is her way of mocking what she does to people inside her house, or maybe we are to take note of this word, or synonyms of this word? Not sure. b) At one point Miyar cannot think of a specific word for "giving up in the middle". Im wondering if we are to find a word for this? Concede? Quit? Surrender? eh.. c) The final part of the note is clearly written in a different color ink (red). Why? To make it stand out? If so, I repeat, Why? Once again, not sure..
7. The code was scratched onto the bookshelf lining. There were books on the shelf. (I already commented that maybe the next step was just to look for the book containing the aforementioned spells?)
8. The code itself is perfectly lined up. Both lines. Same amount of letters, same amount of words. This has to mean something..
9. The exclamation points make me think its some sort of chant or invocation...
10. The end says "This is maddening..". Mad = Angry = Wrath? A stretch maybe?


Just some food for thought....gimme feedback people!!
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:46 am
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just noticed something else.
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LQN BYQBN SL JCRR! LCNS LQN!
DXR BCXBR BD GSUU! YSFB SXR!

Notice that the letters themselves are in the same pattern. I'm not too sure how Vigenere codes work, but this could be essential.

Smooth, I like your idea that we have to look for that book, but seeing as how we've had to have a specific action and a specific answer to continue, I think we have to put this code together with the book to get an action that has to be completed.

Also, I like your analysis of the parchment. "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." Does this mean that our main character "T." has done this before, but not remembered? And why can't Miyar think of a word for giving up?

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

Notice that the letters themselves are in the same pattern. I'm not too sure how Vigenere codes work, but this could be essential.


Just tryin to figure somethin out.. the LETTERS are in a pattern? I cant see any alphabetic pattern.. as I said before, they are in a pattern numerically, as in the same amount of letters per word, same amount of words per line..

and I only threw the book idea comment out there as a long shot.. I didnt want to sit here rackin my brain tryin to find out the solve for the code, when this could have been only a first step to solving it, you know what I mean?

Quote:
And why can't Miyar think of a word for giving up?


well due to the italian referencing, Miyar COULD be European, and cant find words for certain things.. but I doubt it. I definitely think theres a reason that Miyar cant think of a word for "giving up in the middle of something".

In vigenere, with the keyword as "incantations", the last word comes out to "Sky".. thats the closest ive gotten to anything legible..


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

What I mean is, take the fourth word, for example.
JCRR
GSUU
The third and fourth letter is the same in both lines.

BYQBN
BCXBR
The first and fourth letters are the same. I don't know if there's any significance that they're both Bs.

I don't know where I was going with this, though.


By the way, I keep hearing you talk about a Vigenere code. What exactly is that?

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Miyar just posted a bulletin titled "-Do Not-".

Quote:
A letter is a letter, and taken across,
like a search-a-word puzzle, the lesson is lost
if you look too hard. If your tries are in vain,
what do you lose if you can't lose pain?

-DLSVQ
-JXGFB


I looked up Vigenere codes, and I think I understand it. If the code in step 4 isn't a Vigenere, this could be telling us the way that we should solve it, but I can't figure out what this is supposed to say, either.

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Quote:
A letter is a letter, and taken across,
like a search-a-word puzzle, the lesson is lost


ok this obviously means its not to be read across.. so either railfence or something else?

Quote:
what do you lose if you can't lose pain?



feeling?...consciousness?? lol
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Word Search Puzzle

There is a word search puzzle under pics in Miyar's myspace.

I think we will find the key there.

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Good spot Teri. Not found many words yet, but working on it. so far I've found:
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Abandonment
Vigenere
Envy
Gluttony
Wrath
Pride
Greed
Hope
Carnation (?)
Serpent
Seven
Lust
I'm ignoring some shorter words which don't seem relevant.
It looks like a lot of letters will be left over though so not sure how we use this..

BTW. Giafun is you join it means you can edit posts, people can PM you etc.... also on the letter patterns, it's not quite a match as B also appears in BD but not in SL, but there does look like repeated words in there.
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sMooTH WuN
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
Good spot Teri. Not found many words yet, but working on it. so far I've found:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Abandonment
Vigenere
Envy
Gluttony
Wrath
Pride
Greed
Hope
Carnation (?)
Serpent
Seven
Lust
I'm ignoring some shorter words which don't seem relevant.
It looks like a lot of letters will be left over though so not sure how we use this..

BTW. Giafun is you join it means you can edit posts, people can PM you etc.... also on the letter patterns, it's not quite a match as B also appears in BD but not in SL, but there does look like repeated words in there.


I definitely agree, line two of the code is an exact mirror of line 1. Good find on the Word Search, Teri. Up until a few days ago, my browser wouldnt let me look at pics on myspace without shutting down. Now that I downloaded Firefox, that problem is fixed, so Im gonna look at the pics asap. I'll let you guys know if anything comes up.
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(BTW: This is giafun, but I decided to change by username.)

Alright, apparently Miyar really likes to mess with us when she know's we're having trouble... Really nice job on that word search, Teri. I don't think I ever would have thought to check the picture section.

The word "carnation" looks like it might be a part of "REINcarnation," but I still don't think this word has been used yet. I found some, too:

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Miyar
Zak
House


But that's it.

Any idea how this is going to help us?

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another word search puzzle

There is another word search puzzle under pics

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I think I found something.

I think I may have the second word-search solved.



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I found the words:
seven
miyar's
sloth
envy
lust
greed
pride
gluttony
wrath

The leftover letters spell out USETHEVIGENEREDIAGRAMINANOTHERWAY and then it seems like a bunch of random letters.

So it spells out "Use the Vigenere diagram in another way."


So... how do we use the Vigenere diagram in another way?

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Re: I think I found something.

giamarie wrote:
I think I may have the second word-search solved.



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I found the words:
seven
miyar's
sloth
envy
lust
greed
pride
gluttony
wrath

The leftover letters spell out USETHEVIGENEREDIAGRAMINANOTHERWAY and then it seems like a bunch of random letters.

So it spells out "Use the Vigenere diagram in another way."


So... how do we use the Vigenere diagram in another way?



Wow, awesome find Gia! so the vigenere Diagram.. I found the word "Vigenere" in the first word search.. maybe thats the diagram spoken of?
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That is a possibility. I looked up "Vigenere" on Wikipedia and the page had a picture of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vigen%C3%A8re_square.svg.

Now, the second word-search could be telling us more about the first, but I think it might be in actual reference to this square... or "diagram." I was thinking more along the lines of us using Vigenere's square in a way different from the Vigenere code itself.

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backwards? vertical?
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