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Wulf74
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Cleptomanx wrote:
I keep wondering what she means by "all my instructions"... Could someone refresh me (or direct me to the link) on what the instructions were. Besides seperating the souls into groups and figuring out what the visions mean, what were her instructions?


I've been trying to identify the instructions as well. Aside from the "put the souls into groups" and "help" - I haven't seen much else. When I get more time today, I'm going to comb through the chat log a little more thoroughly.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:42 pm
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Ziola
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Wulf74 wrote:
Cleptomanx wrote:
I keep wondering what she means by "all my instructions"... Could someone refresh me (or direct me to the link) on what the instructions were. Besides seperating the souls into groups and figuring out what the visions mean, what were her instructions?


I've been trying to identify the instructions as well. Aside from the "put the souls into groups" and "help" - I haven't seen much else. When I get more time today, I'm going to comb through the chat log a little more thoroughly.


This is what was pointed out by Zita at the end of that chat, before she/he/they (for the record, she didn't say she preferred being referred to as a she. someone {damned if I can remember and/or find it} asked her if it was alright if they referred to her as a she and she said it was acceptable)

Quote:
<Zita>: Only when you find who they belong with can they help you. Real souls who once roamed the land, they aim to guide you.
<Zita>: Decide what is right and what is wrong. Each mistake you make will only get you closer. Root around until you can make sense of them.


I feel like this is staring me in the face and I can't see it because it is too close. And what's with the other names she mentioned in the beginning? I understand that she is trying to establish some frame of reference as to how many she is and has been, but mentioning that many names stands out (especially since a quick search only showed "modern" references, not historical)[/quote]

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:22 pm
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massive
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Wulf74 wrote:
I got an email back from Zita - see attached.

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Obvious is best in times like these. Regarding these groups. Decide on the two groups then arrange them. Each mistake you make will only get you closer. Remember to look at all my instructions.


You know, it's funny that with all this talk about the name of the game that we didn't notice that

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The capitalized letters in Zita's code spell 'ORDER' ... but what order? I tried alpha by first name and last name and made no progress.


ETA: Evidently things need to be repeated when we just skim the chat Wink

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<Zita>: Only when you find who they belong with can they help you. Real souls who once roamed the land, they aim to guide you.
<Zita>: Decide what is right and what is wrong. Each mistake you make will only get you closer. Root around until you can make sense of them.


NINJA ETA2:

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Looking at the spreadsheet (solid work btw), I think the art / music division is right ... looking at the initials of the artists in the "grouped by birth" section, it almost spells out "BURNING" and the musicians spell out "SAMEDI".


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Wulf74
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massive wrote:

You know, it's funny that with all this talk about the name of the game that we didn't notice that

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The capitalized letters in Zita's code spell 'ORDER' ... but what order? I tried alpha by first name and last name and made no progress.



NINJA ETA2:

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Looking at the spreadsheet (solid work btw), I think the art / music division is right ... looking at the initials of the artists in the "grouped by birth" section, it almost spells out "BURNING" and the musicians spell out "SAMEDI".


Good catch, and I feel a bit embarrassed now Embarassed. I'm gonna have to go back to the other email I got back from Zita. I had just posted the relevant parts to it - not the entire thing, and it was worded/structured much the same way. I'm betting I missed something there as well.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:24 pm
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-redemption-
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Hey,
I'm new to ARGS, but I figured I'd give it a shot,

SAMEDI is the name of a voodoo god responsible for the souls of the dead. Zita mentions a skull in one of her visions, and Samedi, supposedly, has the head of a skeleton.

I'm not sure if a voodoo god is relevant, but here's the wiki..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Samedi

PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:39 am
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Zyconis
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New Zita email

Just got it today got it about 20minutes ago.

I translated it and got this:



See you saw how the spirits could help you. Dbphen

Saw those words

Had a vision of many shades of green, a community, with many small windows of colour. A place for creativity.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:23 pm
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Wulf74
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Rambling aloud here, hoping to find a connection. What we think we know so far:
- Zita (St. Zita patron saint of maids/servants, also helps to find lost keys).
- An ivy covered building (good condition in an urban area, 2 small sets of doors in either end of the building, all are black in color)
- A metal sculpture (huge, abstract, indescribable)
- A princess (red hair, blue skirt, blue cardigan, modern dress, blank expression on her face)
- A young blond man (earring, blue jeans, black shirt, brown shoes)
- Tears (??)
- A young boy and a mother
- Black and white floor (in an email to Zita, I asked if the floors were enclosed like in a hallway or a building or within a structure but separate from it, like a chess board, the answer was simply "yes" - heh but to which one?)
- Hallways (are at 90degree angles in relation to each other)
- 2 Halls (Becca and her sister)
- Blood (related to Becca's sisters death?)
- A doll (??)
- A skull (reference to Samedi?)
- The 13 souls apparently divided into either physical (painters/sculptures) or more mental like composers/musicans. Then massive caught the SAMEDI & BURNING within the groups.
- The most recent email sent to Zyconis, with another reference to a building, this time indicating IMHO a residence for a community of artists.
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While putting this together I got the idea to run SAMEDI and BURNING through an anagram site. Both came up with lots of results. The only one that looked promising to me was "Burg Inn" - but I wasn't able to find anything from that. SAMEDI returns several results in Latin (I think) - but I didn't have enough time to translate them.
I also started searching for artist communities - and it's probably not related but I discovered that another term for it is a "studio collective".
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Enough rambling - I just climbed off an airplane, so maybe this will make more sense tomorrow.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:12 am
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Zyconis
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I'm thinking the windows with colour is talking about stained glass windows, and my girlfriend agrees.

Some kind of art school maybe?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:18 am
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Darkcoffeejazz
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I'm more curious as to the "Dbphen" part.


Also, the question is this: Is this place a part of the physical world, or of the cyber world?

BTW, I'm new. While I may not be able to help with codes, I can at least offer opinions, and maybe think outside the box. Random comments of mine have led to epic things in my Mafia games before.

My reasoning behind the physical/cyber question is that, windows can relate literally to windows, yes. But we also call things like this page a "window". Or my browser does anyway. *Darn "open a new window" option*

Shades of green? Not sure of that part. A place of creativity? I'm wondering if it's art related, yes, but it could also be related to writing, perhaps.

Community? There's plenty of that on the internet.

Many colored windows? Not sure either.

Even if this is overthinking/off base, I'm wondering if Zita is talking about a webpage of some kind. Perhaps a forum or blog? Or maybe some instructional site?

*is most likely way off base, and is rambling*

Also, is Zita's contact info in this thread somewhere? I'd like to try it out sometime.


In case all of you (and maybe Zita?) are wondering, my email is zanar2004SPLATyahoo.com


EDIT: Just a thought, but is "Burning Samedi" a musical group/anything at all? And does that relate to our current vision here?

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Lurker here ^^ Just thought I'd give my two cents: Deviantart is a green website, artistic community, and has "windows" that display the creations.

Maybe search there?

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Wulf74
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Anonymous wrote:
Lurker here ^^ Just thought I'd give my two cents: Deviantart is a green website, artistic community, and has "windows" that display the creations.

Maybe search there?


Interesting idea - I went to the site, and searched for a bit. The problem is (until I can spend more time with it Confused ) - the information we have is generic enough that each search I did came back with multiple results. Some looked like they might be related - and other obviously not so.

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Mezzi
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Ddphen

Hello! New to ARGs here, thought I'd get my feet wet with this one.

Ddphen appears to be an abbreviation of the chemical compound. Google turns up results for both 2,9-dimethyl-4 ,7-diphenyl-phenanthroline (which makes little sense to me) and diphenhydramine.

Doesn't appear to make any sense with the information Zita provided, but as she said, mistakes may lead us closer.

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church
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welcome mezzi

not exactly new here but been out the loop for a while ,i did a few little aargs a couple of years ago (project zeus )and others but the last one i really was involved with was discovering the chemical symbol of ethinol along with a few others (bruce) when we did benjamin stove so as you can guess im rather rusty but piggybacking till i find my feet again hope no one minds and hey i might even get something right for once (not a f***ing chance ) anyway im here lurking and waiting to strike
hahahahahahahhahahhahaha

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Darkcoffeejazz
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!

Not sure how relevant this is, but here goes:
I just found a profile on DeviantArt. They have a skull picture.
The name of the profile?

BurningSamedi.

This is where I found it:

http://burningsamedi.deviantart.com/art/30-11-08-107752324

I don't think it's related though, since it was uploaded in like, DECEMBER.

*hey at least I'm trying, so meh.*

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church
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 relevant

this could be a good call it could be a fart in a mist but it is constructive and we have to look at everything put forward and i for one think dark coffejazz could have something here

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