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Agent Lex
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Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
[BoL/SiD] [Puzzle?] GraueMacht code wheel So, Lunsford got a GraueMacht code wheel sent to her, containing astrological references, LB *and* Umbrati fonts, and lots of other stuff.
Picture of the code wheel uploaded to my site here (warning - nearly 2 meg! It's huge! Seriously!).
I'm thinking this directly relates to the stuff on the login page, and presumably gives the day's password. By the way, I think the ?'d Umbrati character is 0.
ETA: Unidentified astrological symbols: circle with a + in it is Earth/Terra.
Circle with a dot in and a pointy-arrow - Uranus. (see the table here )
ETA2: Chinese astrology signs, clockwise from Pluto:
Dog
Tiger
Monkey
Rooster??
Ox
Dragon
(Bad) Horse
Goat?
Rabbit
Snake
Pig
Rat
(link )
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:12 pm
Lunsford
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Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 1602 Location: With Rorschach
well, what does it all mean? Does this make any sense to anyone?
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:38 pm
highwind767
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 501 Location: In the skies
Just noticed the stars in the background. Could be possible they refer to the Zodiac constellations, so I'm gonna try and get them into Photoshop and see if I can get a match.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:37 pm
Lunsford
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Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 1602 Location: With Rorschach
Once again, I am sorry it's so large everyone
I was trying to make the tiny things bigger.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:40 pm
highwind767
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 501 Location: In the skies
Better large and confusing that tiny and impossible to make out.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:44 pm
Agent Lex
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Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
highwind767 wrote:
Just noticed the stars in the background. Could be possible they refer to the Zodiac constellations, so I'm gonna try and get them into Photoshop and see if I can get a match.
Good idea. Western zodiac is the only thing from the login page I think we don't have referenced already.
Once I get home I'll not-Photoshop up a simpler version with symbols replaced by words, I think.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:54 pm
icerimp
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Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 230 Location: Los Angeles, CA
I'm working on editing the image to make it more round, so that I can build the code wheel.
After that, it seems pretty straightforward. After you line up the two symbols (Planets seem to match with Lightbringer text, while Zodiac symbols match with umbrati), the blue line on the wheel will point at the letter of the code.
Edit: Then we need a username. Maybe someone else was mailed that part?
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:37 pm
Agent Lex
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Got a wheel in the mail myself! Will post pics asap. Which will be a while, sorry.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:20 pm
pancito
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Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 2095 Location: In my happy place.
Lex,
Same or different?
ETA: Blog here .
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:25 pm
Lunsford
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Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 1602 Location: With Rorschach
Well, looks like he is doing the best he can to get his equipment running so he can keep the game going!!
We will be trying to figure out the wheels (me and lex have so far gotten them)
Anyone get anywhere on the constellations?
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War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
Next time you wave, use all your fingers.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:57 pm
Agent Lex
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Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
pancito wrote:
Lex,
Same or different?
Same, I think. Also have a note with it. Important part, we have 96 hours!
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:04 pm
icerimp
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Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 230 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Lunsford wrote:
Well, looks like he is doing the best he can to get his equipment running so he can keep the game going!!
We will be trying to figure out the wheels (me and lex have so far gotten them)
Anyone get anywhere on the constellations?
Pancito and I were finding random zodiac constellation maps.
http://fantasymaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/stars2.jpg
If you go off of Aries, which is on top of Neptune on the wheel, and figure the rest of the constellations match the order as the chart there, you can take a guess at their locations.
Really interested in if the wheel Lex got is the same.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:09 pm
Last edited by icerimp on Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:20 pm; edited 1 time in total
Lunsford
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Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 1602 Location: With Rorschach
have you tried to decode a couple of the characters to see if it matches mine Lex?
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:13 pm
pancito
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Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 2095 Location: In my happy place.
We like picses=venus and earth = scorpio so far, but it looks like pluto=libra which throws sequential order off. NONE of this is firm, just best guess so far.
ETA: Oops, aries=neptune, too
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:15 pm
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Franz Kafka
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Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 54
I thought I'd mention the 'Astrological Symbols' are Alchemic symbols, that correspond to elements named after planets. For example, Neptunium corresponds to Neptune.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:17 pm
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