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[classical]

The wiki is pretty much all but dead by now :B but I'll forward you the cliffnotes version I wrote for Obs a little while back.

[Fanysynthesis]

I've been a lurker for forever, but I stopped coming to the forums for awhile cause of school. Anyways, I found this thread yesterday and spent the whole night reading all 70+ pages, and it might be too late to play now, but if you guys need any help with Chinese, I'd be glad to assist.

I have to go to class right now, and I'm assuming you guys haven't figured out that picture with Chinese symbols yet? I'll take a look when I come back. ^^

[classical]

Hayyy jaeneul! Welcome to the brood. :B
We would appreciate any help you can give! As far as I know, several Chinese speakers have had a look at it and couldn't make since of the thing. So we're stuck there. But uh, don't let that discourage you, haha.

[E.Y.E. Spy]

@classical: Send me the Cliffsnotes too, please?

No, I'm not in the order.

My Internet connection's been out all day, and I just got back on.

[TTHSK]

I got this

[Tempestdevil]

So now we have, in order:

perimeter
cubits150
cubits60
cubits21

either we have the dimensions of a place, or we have some kind of cryptic riddle that we need to figure out.

Unless this isn't following our count of blog warnings, in which case we might have more than 4..

[syntacticAtrocity]

we easily have the dimensions of a place. given the origin of cubits and the nature of the game, that much is clear. it will be a masonic or ancient ruins of some sort (herod's temple, great pyramid, etc.)

cubits themselves are constructs of the golden ratio used in art from the beginning of time. it's odd that the perimeter numbers themselves, 21 60 150, are so close to the ratio itself too.

[Wulf74]

[syntacticAtrocity]

I'm so happy I live in Western Canada and am by default free from person to person ARG interaction (unless it was TT -_-)

[Fanysynthesis]

I still haven't figured out exactly what the Chinese words are yet, but the big one in the middle next to the word "small" that someone mentioned before MIGHT be this word: 畜. It means something like "animal", but I'm not sure yet.

Are the Chinese words on the paper supposed to be a "key" to something? Since he asked how to say "key" in Chinese?

[Wulf74]

[Fanysynthesis]

Ohhh! The way your brother's friend deciphered it actually does make a lot of sense, I was thinking it was some kind of prayer paper as well. Chinese people usually have these prayer papers that are usually burned as to "send" it to whoever has passed away.

小畜 <--- Unless it's supposed to be one word, that's what I got from the characters in the middle as well.

So is the clue we have yet to figure out just this Chinese paper? xD

[Wulf74]

[syntacticAtrocity]

with regards to the perimeter puzzle, i think we are forgetting an important piece of information:

the_45_126_81_63_117_9SPLATyahoo.com

that is Rich Adams's email address. the 6 digits, preceded by the word "the", are intentional and most likely related to our perimeter dimensions.

it's probably worth noting that Rich Adams is the author of watership down. the number sequence is most likely a literary reference from the novel and will give us context surround the perimeter.

[Fanysynthesis]

^ Oooh, that makes sense! So someone with the book is gonna have to do some digging? Are we supposed to email the email address after we figure out what the cubit measurements stand for though?