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Fifteen Days Of Darkness [Ministry of Argon/VA]
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On that YG site, if you go to the About Us page, the picture of the man in the captain's outfit has a comment of "Captain Trevor Bailey... Star man!"

The page's title is "ygyg_new.jpg", but that's neither on the OoO site, nor the YG site (and either's images sections).

Edit :

Funny that a quote from the movie 'Da' came up, and the site's designers are 'daDa-design'

Edit 2 :
Oh lord..The daDa-design page is ATROCIOUS. Like...just...wow.. Jesus Christ. I think my eyes bled a little.. *shudder*
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I'm searching for a link between Einstein and Dartford (Holy Trinity Church in Dartford and the Einstein quote about God and Dice). But I just can't find one.

(also bear in mind the **I IDE - I'm fairly sure thats what the letters are).

Anyone care to help me look into it?

[EDIT] Tumblin' Dice are a band who seem to be from Dartford. http://www.tumblin-dice.co.uk/gigs_2010.html

[EDIT2]Keith Richards was from Dartford - quote from wikipedia:
Gibson Les Paul Juniors: Richards has regularly used both single-cutaway and double-cutaway Juniors since 1973. The one he is most frequently seen with is a TV-yellow double-cutaway instrument nicknamed "Dice", which he has used since 1979.

Arrrgh circumstantial!
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Got the Dartford one - postcode for Holy Trinity is DA1 1DE

So, DA from there, YG from the Man, ID from Jesus. BB or 22, maybe, from Mozart - maybe LO from the SRI note. Or any other suggestions? What's our word?

Major Edit! We're in!! A little experimentation and our word is revealed. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdaloid?wasRedirected=true

Entering the word into the password box takes us to:

http://theorderofoborot.com/13a.htm

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theclaw wrote:
the Bull is Sonata for piano no. 8 KV 310 A minor - 1. Allegro Maestos
Not sure about the Eagle, the font is tricky to read. I'll look into it.


Just saying all other clues have been 2 letters up until now - perhaps "BULL" is KV?

[EDIT] PUZZLE SOLVE NINJA'D!

The 13a page just leads to the "penultimate" puzzle (if the name is to be believed):
http://theorderofoborot.com/PENULTIMATE.htm

To be honest, I guess for this one we have to bring the chess into play (lolpun). I can't see any other clues at all..
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Cunning clicking on that leads to:

http://theorderofoborot.com/FINALMOVE.htm

Which, in turn, leads to:

http://www.jigidi.com/solve.php?id=VQMF9NCP

Annoyingly, my iPhone won't display the jigidi page.

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I knew there was a link in there! I saw the "dot" image in the source code... nice clicking my friend.
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Ya'll jealous of my mad jigsaw skills, yo.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/PDF/pdf2010/28Jun/Xing%20et%20al.pdf

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http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Puddingbat/puzzle.jpg
Ditto.
http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Puddingbat/puzzle1.jpg Here's a clear up.

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Try
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http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/PDF/pdf2010/28Jun/Xing%20et%20al.pdf


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distilled wrote:
Ya'll jealous of my mad jigsaw skills, yo.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/PDF/pdf2010/28Jun/Xing%20et%20al.pdf


I actually found my way through the site from the main page. Regenerative Chinese herbs eh?

Xing Et Al wrote:
The effect of continuous dark culture on adventitious
shoot formations indicated that 15 days of darkness
resulted in a high regeneration frequency (82.6%). Dark
periods longer than 15 days inhibited this caulogenic
response.

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OoO
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JayD
Post subject: Mercy
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I am at Vladimir's mercy - he has left me sanity, something I was not prepared to do for him.
I can only speak the truth...

Confused

EDIT Vlad on FB clears a couple of bits up....
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Vladimir Sirin
The black king has fell, White is trimphant. We have Jayden as we desire. He can only speak the truth and as for energy, I am using his now. Let us see how Benjamin likes it when Gad attacks... Not only the devil can cite Genesis for his own purpose...
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Vladimir Sirin My friends - I ask of you each one question to put to him - I will be able to control his mind and get only truth for the duration of this weekend. Put your questions here and I will convey them to his mind directly. Once again - thank you.
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Vladimir Sirin What was the file though - I glimpsed something in his mind at the end - but I cannot read it while I keep control... Can someone work out what was going on - there must be on overall theme or link through the whole thing...


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So, an overall theme. Shall we summarise each of the pages: *steals list from The Claw*
Quote:

http://www.theorderofoborot.com/ANSWERSTOGOHERE.htm
An image of a sun over a city which appears in both night and day. Words at the bottom read: "??????????? rays creep through the twilight..." we discover that "CREPUSCULAR" refers to animals which come out at twilight but also to rays of sun which come through the clouds at twilight.

Quote:

http://www.theorderofoborot.com/CREPUSCULAR.htm
We see a depiction of the movement of heavenly bodies, and superimposed over the front is an angel holding a shield with a Thorn rune on it. We discover the shield is the symbol for "TORUN" – a city in Poland (Torun also means thorn).

Quote:

http://www.theorderofoborot.com/TORUN.htm
An image of Yggdrasil the great tree from Norse mythology. Words at the bottom read: "Which weapon maketh the world tree?" the L in World appears lighter and so we infer "word tree". We discover the answer is SPEAR, being a weapon, but also an anagram of pears.


Quote:
http://www.theorderofoborot.com/SPEAR.htm
In this page we see the "chalice" symbol with light shining behind it. The words "Little Johnny Flynn circles around and finds which fishy number?". The clue was that the chalice symbol contains the shape made when two circles overlap, this shape is called the Vesica piscis: "The mathematical ratio of the width of the vesica piscis to its height is the square root of 3", we found the root of 3 to 15 decimal places: 732050807568877.

Quote:

http://www.theorderofoborot.com/732050807568877.htm
This page showed the picture of the man and the Blue Whale with the spoof song "Little Mouse" by the fictional band "Jack Morgan" with the words "who's Jack's band?". The man was Carl Von Linne, a biologist who named the Blue Whale "Balaenoptera musculus" – the link is that musculus could be interpreted as "Little Mouse" which should lead us to Jack Morgan's Little Mouse and we find that he's part of the fictional band "Canterbury".


Quote:
http://www.theorderofoborot.com/CANTERBURY.htm
The vitruvian man with the latin phrase: "quam vetus eram primoris vir ut nex venit" – translated as "how old was first man when violent death came?" – Adam was 930 years old, we responded with the latin for 930: CMXXX.


Quote:
http://www.theorderofoborot.com/CMXXX.htm
Big red and blue capsule with APO 30 and zzzZzzzzz. We get a number of clues from Vlad and we reach the conclusion that it is: OXAZEPAM.


Quote:
http://www.theorderofoborot.com/OXAZEPAM.htm
A picture of Christ on a throne, with symbols surrounding him – each representing an apostle. A BULL, LION, MAN and EAGLE. At the centre is a book. Each of these symbols can be clicked and leads to a new page. The book leads to a google search for the letters "ID" the rest of the pages needed to be solved. See below:

http://theorderofoborot.com/MAN.htm
A clipboard and a board room. Two stars are stuck to the clipboard near the top. We are able to make our the name "Captain Trevor Bailey" near the top. This leads us to a company website www.ygyg.com/profile. From this we get the letters YG..

http://theorderofoborot.com/EAGLE.htm
A big picture of a rolling dice, and a picture of a church, plus the letters in the top corner **1 1DE. The church is the Holy Trinity Church in Dartford. We discover the postcode for the Holy Trinity Church in Dartford is DA1 1DE, so we get the letters DA.

http://theorderofoborot.com/BULL.htm
This shows a piece of music by Mozart. From this we get the first two letters of his name "Amadeus" (although QI viewers will know he never went by the name Amadeus!). So: AM.

http://theorderofoborot.com/LION.htm
Finally, we get a note regarding some sort of computer program "IMP". The SRI is Stanford Research Institute, an important research contractors. It is found that the "IMP" crashed as such: "The first communication test between these two systems took place on October 29, 1969 when a login to the SRI machine was attempted, but only the first three letters could be transmitted. The SRI machine crashed upon reception of the 'g' character.[6] A few minutes later the bug was fixed and the login attempt was successfully completed." It is concluded that the two letters from this must be "LO"

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=id&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1408&bih=899
This is the ID search.

Overall, we get the word AMYGDALIOD. Clicking on the main image on the oxazepam screen and entering this word in the password box leads to:
http://theorderofoborot.com/13a.htm which has a hidden link (easiest to find by holding control and scrolling the mousewheel – it will change the resolution of the screen and the link will move, making it easier to see). The link leads to: http://theorderofoborot.com/PENULTIMATE.htm which in similar hidden link fashion leads to: http://theorderofoborot.com/FINALMOVE.htm

Which, in turn, leads to:

http://www.jigidi.com/solve.php?id=VQMF9NCP
This is a simple jigsaw which, when reassembled, shows an address for a paper written by Xing Et Al on the regenerative properties of a certain Chinese plant: http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/PDF/pdf2010/28Jun/Xing%20et%20al.pdf

Phew, well that took ages. What themes can we see – I think I need to lie down...
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I'd just like to say a big well done to all of those who assisted on this series of puzzles, and a thank you to the PM for a really nicely designed section of the ARG. It was very satisfying each time we broke through to the next layer and the final password breakthrough was a real "punch the air" moment, to quote the immortal John Shuttleworth.

Edit: The consistent theme in each is of duality and transience.
The movement of night to day
Old "knowledge" to new science
Creation and destruction
Not sure on this one
Or this one, although the love between man and mouse is a beautiful thing.
Birth to Death
Not sure here, although you have wake to sleep, red blue, etc
Then with Jesus you have God in Man.

I was wondering if the actual words formed a sort of pattern too:
Darkness creates a weapon that allows a medication to grow (in cantebury?) that Jayden believes will give him godhood? Maybe....

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I've missed the start of this, so I may be missing connections. Well, the plants regenerated best when left for 15 days in darkness. Each image had the alt tag "night and day". Oberon means werewolf/transform.

    Crepescular - the rays of light shining through the clouds.
    Torun - a thorn, also a city in Poland... hmmm birthplace of Copernicus who studied the heavens. Published the first book on a heliocentric solar system.
    Spear - the symbol of the fish in christian mythology often means the giver of life (icthys, the feeding of the 5000 etc).
    732050807568877 - this is odd, not sure where to go with this. Perhaps just a joke by the PM (curse you!).
    Canterbury - not far from London, where a lot of VA/MoA/OoO stuff occurs. Notably the home of Canterbury Cathedral which is a heratige site. I'm sure there is a significance here, but I can't grasp it.
    CMXXX - the death of Adam, the death of man? Transcending humanity, evolving into something new?
    Oxazepam - a sedative used to treat anxiety amongst other things.
    Man, Bull, Lion, Eagle - The apostles, followers of Jesus. Symbolism in these pictures allude to the creation of the technological age (IMP being the beginning of the internet), Einstein and God.. I dunno, nothing really from YGYG.com, and Mozart.


The final few images are disorienting and mad, they seem to convey the insanity which lies deep in the center of his mind. Then finally we reach the article on the rejuvenation of plants after 15 days of darkness, which seems the crutch of the entire game. I just don't know how to tie it all together...
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Canterbury could be said to be the seat of our countries Christianity: St Augustine and Æthelberht of Kent were quite matey and Aethelbert was the first British Christian king?
Also a later archbishop of Canterbury was Ælfheah aka Alphege which is a link to previous args through the st alfrge church in Greenwich?
Alfrege was also know for his massive organ whilst bishop at Winchester:
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While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

*snort*

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