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[Trailhead]Third Realm

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:32 am

Mehetabel

Well, thirdrealm.org is certainly bizarre...

Three bowls and an apocalypse countdown, with these instructions:

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:16 am

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JBlaze · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 37

I believe I have been through every page now. The pages appear to be generated at random. Everything is regarding Apocalypse.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:52 am

AUZ505

here again all letters (seems like the people before missed some). You can easily browse them like Mehetabel already did: http://thirdrealm.org/content/xx.html

xx = 1 .. 59

Title from 1 -23: Clear
Title from 24-59: Murky

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:50 pm

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snorkle256

as far as the king gif goes, you can download it

http://thirdrealm.org/img/King%20in%20Yellow.gif

just right click and do a save as.

Its not viewable on the pc either nor does it contain tags inside for a normal gif

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:10 pm

Mehetabel

On the subject of the King, anybody feel like pulling all the references to a King in the content pages? Perhaps it's a legitimate file with the wrong extension, and there may be some clues... It's not txt, I can tell you that.

I have to go out for a while, just thought I'd drop that before I disappear.

[=EDIT=] A zip file called "King+in+Yellow.gif.zip" exists in the directory "thirdrealm.org/book/". The book is, in fact, behind the bowl. In fact, there's a whole other page, there, with the image of the King in Yellow (alt="Book"), and a Roman bust (alt="3") with the letters "D F G H Q O" under it.

'Scuse me while I go open this thing. [...] Contains a viewable gif of the King in Yellow, which is now attached, and is also the same one seen on the page.

However, the zip file (79K) and the image (80.6K) are both smaller than the original gif (230K), so I'm gonna keep poking it with a stick. Also, the PM is using a Macintosh, according to the zip contents, so whatever the other thing is, it might be some Mac-only format, like .bin.hex or some bizarre thing.

Things the gif from the img directory is not: txt, asc, zip, rar, gz, tgz, tar, gif, bmp, jpg, pic, png, pnt, pdf, doc, lit, exe, jar

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:55 pm

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RAD24

Not sure if it helps, but here's some info on a collection of short stories called "The King in Yellow": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_in_Yellow

The King in Yellow also has some Lovecraft connections (also mentioned on that page).

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:12 pm

Mehetabel

**Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:30 pm

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catherwood

**Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:34 pm

AUZ505

Someone from London reading this? Perhasp we have the check this Candid Cafe?

Additionally some communication on twitter:

**Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:15 pm

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Mehetabel

For those folks who missed out on the content pages, I backed them up, like an obsessive compulsive individual. Zip file with /content/ and /img/ attached, if anyone wants to pull out some data I missed.

Also, stars and candles bring light... wait ... bell, book, and candle... this sounds familiar. *runs off*

[=EDIT=] Bell, Book, and Candle: a 1958 romantic comedy, a German band, a method of excommunication. I'm seeing the third as being appropriately contexted for some of what we've seen, so far.

Sent: @thirdrealm If the bowl is a bell, then the light is a candle, is it not? less than 5 seconds ago

[=EDIT 2=] Oh, what? Is that the sound of a win? I think it is:
thirdrealm @penbrydd It is. Also, the King is in his lair,so one must read by night, by the light of the candle, since the King has become trapped.2 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to penbrydd

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catgirl789

It seems that the site's been changed and "The King in Yellow" is now on the home page. The page title has also been changed to "I mourn" andthe quote is "Some of these things were random, chosen for their qualities, not their resonance. In my universe, naught but random is." It seems that the timer is counting down to November 2nd 12:00 AM EST.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:13 pm

FreeAgent · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 15

I haven't figured out any significance in the fact, but in the twitter post "Burroughs noticed a number. Did you?" I'm pretty certain that he's referring to William S. Burroughs, who was the first person to notice the "23 enigma."

**Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:42 am

AUZ505

Candle

**Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:06 am

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Mehetabel

Oh, damn, I totally missed that. That makes perfect sense...

Okay, so we found the book, we found the candle, now we need to find the bell, I'm guessing. The bowl.wav sounds like the same noise the old index page made, but I didn't think to save it, so I could check...

Potentially important snippets of the code:

**Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:48 am

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