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PUZZLE: Deadpoems.com foreword -Poem update Aug. 2
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Karmic_Crimewave
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PUZZLE: Deadpoems.com foreword -Poem update Aug. 2

A new poem has been posted at http://www.deadpoems.com/foreword.html :

Quote:
"aT Night ThE PaIN It sTArts TO eASe
As wOuNDs tHeY sTArT TO heAL
I wElcomE every nIGHtMare
ANd tHe FrEEDom ThaT I FeeL
reLEaSE ME nOW DeaTh"

a poem by Ann Starling


Certainly seems puzzlish.
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dmax
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Re: PUZZLE: Deadpoems.com foreword -Poem update Aug. 2

"aT Night ThE PaIN It sTArts TO eASe
As wOuNDs tHeY sTArT TO heAL
I wElcomE every nIGHtMare
ANd tHe FrEEDom ThaT I FeeL
reLEaSE ME nOW DeaTh"

I'd start by contending that the letters don't mean anything, but that the medium is where I'd look for a clue. It would be possible to have the right sequence of letters to upper or lower-case to make a cogent statement, but I'm looking at it from more of a numerical-sequence-encoded sort of thing.

e.g., using the number of capitals/lower case in a row

1-2-4-1-1-2-1-3-2-2-3-2-1-2-1
1-2-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-1-2-1-3-2-2
1-1-1-4-1-6-3-1-1-3 (that 6 sticks out like a sore thumb)
2-2-1-1-1-1-3-2-1-2-3-2-1
2-2-1-4-1-3-2-1-1

or

aTNightThEPaINItsTArtsTOeASe
AswOuNDstHeYsTArTTOheAL
IwElcomEeverynIGHtMare
ANdtHeFrEEDomThaTIFeeL
reLEaSEMEnOWDeaTh

just brainstorming

PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:54 pm
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transcendent
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Yup.. those numbers are definitely right.

I already tried did the same thing, but don't know where to go from here. Confused

PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:57 pm
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blag
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OK, taking lowercase as 0 and uppercase as 1:


aTNightThEPaINItsTArtsTOeASe
0110000101101110011000110110

AswOuNDstHeYsTArTTOheAL
10010110010101101110011

IwElcomEeverynIGHtMare
1010000100000011101000

ANdtHeFrEEDomThaTIFeeL
1100101011100100111001

reLEaSEMEnOWDeaTh
00110111101110010

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Running the string
0110000101101110011000110110100101100101011011100101010000100000011101000110010101110010011100100110111101110010
through a binary translator gives us:

da... da... dum:

"ancient terror"


though there seems to be some question as to whether the "t" in ancient is capitalised.

EDIT: I used the binary translator at http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php. In firefox, everything is lowercase. In IE, the T in ancient is in caps.


ancientterror.html isn't on deadpoems though Sad



PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:15 pm
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here is what ive tried that came up nil:

substitution cipher on both caps and small caps
vignere cipher on both caps and small caps
morse code
anagrams

for some reason, i got a different string of 1s and 0s than you did when i tried the binary. ill try again, but seeing as how hard it would be to come up with those words through chance, id say its confirmed.

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sequoya
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Garr, can't believe I missed all the fun, again! Very Happy Good work guys.

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Ancient Terror... could it be an email address, then, if not a page? ancientterrorSPLATdeadpoems.com? Hum.


The new picture on the foreword is kinda creepy.. 'deathangel.jpg'

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lucca
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fishing

I tried all the obvious web pages for it
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(www.ancientterror.com, etc)
and googled it, but nothing there either.
I wonder how this is related to Ann's two stories - that of digging up the graves for the chapel, and the disappearing attendant?

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Clopin
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Welcome to the community lucca Smile

Are those stories you talk off linked to Ann? I take you are talking about the stories at the CMH website?
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lucca
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Yes... specifically this part from the one story
Quote:
Before long, workmen reported hearing strange tonal vibrations coming from within the earth and seeing vague shapes resembling the human form. Some reported these apparitions following them around like lost lambs. One man alleged he had been accompanied home by one of these ghostly figures, and that she began residing in his house, wailing day and night


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The Watcher
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Tonal Vibrations, eh?

Would this be related to the urbanmythology.net sound article- in turn related to dreadhouse.com background noise?

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Schnell-Davis
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I liked blag's theory, but wasn't satisfied with the translator he used, so I wrote my own translator, and re-ran his decryption.

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The output I got was a perfect translation to "ancient terror" with all letters in lowercase, the space in the correct place, and no binary digits left over. This is way too unlikely to be a coincidence, so the phrase is definitely deliberate.

I would vote for marking this puzzle solved.

As for whether it's a real lead, a red herring, or just a general reference to something we'll see later on, who knows.

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Clopin
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Well I think we all agree on that being the solve for the message. But is the puzzle really solved? If this is a puzzle, it must lead to "something". And quite frankly, I'm not satisfied :p There must be more to it.
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docvego
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1st Rule of Fight Club, the players get a cookie when they solve a puzzle. We didn't get our cookie yet, so we must be missing something.



Could it be both Anagram and Binary? We had some really interesting stuff coming out of some of the anagrams
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:38 am
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blag
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I'm with those who say this isn't solved yet - I feel a solve should only come when we've worked out where to use the information we've discovered.

One thought: didn't someone find a username/password reference in the TT flash file?


[META] the binary translator I used is linked from http://unfiction.com/resource/otools.html - since this one is causing some confusion, is there a better one we could replace it with? Schnell-Davis, is yours in a web-friendly format?

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docvego
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[spec]
What if the username and password for something is
user: ancient
pass: terror

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