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[grumpyboy]

[SOLVED] The Unraveling.Fearsome

[darkphan]

The following poem contains a lot of the words from fearsome. I am going to go through and remove words from that list that exist in the poem and see what is left...

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/acrostic.html

[darkphan]

Ok, I removed each word as they appeared in the poem from the top of the Fearsome webpage, and end up with the following words:

their
the
the

And words that appear in the poem, that are not on the list (or I ran out of on the list are as follows):

elizabeth
logic
zeno
have
besides
each
has
read
a
endued
being
employed
called
forget
called
Always

EDIT: Still updating, as i went though the list fast the first time

[Kender]

The fearsome version has one 'the' changed into a 'their'.
It is also missing a lot of the first words from the poem:

ELIZABETH it surely is most fit
Logic and common usage so commanding
In thy own book that first thy name be writ
Zeno 1 and other sages notwithstanding
And I have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of contradiction
Each poet if a poet in persuing
The muses thro their bowers of Truth or Fiction
Has studied very little of his part
Read nothing, written less in short 's a fool
Endued with neither soul nor sense nor art
Being ignorant of one important rule
Employed in even the theses of the school
Called I forget the heathenish Greek name
Called anything, its meaning is the same
Always write first things uppermost in the heart

It is also short one 'a'.

From: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/acrostic.html

[Kender]

Be wary, there are different versions of the poem out there.

Some state Elizbeth in stead of Elizabeth.
Some state persuing in stead of pursuing
Some state 'zeno' in stead of 'zeno 1'

[dashcat]

Never mind

[Kender]

I put up a version where I enlarged the little floating dots and froze them in their startposition:
http://kender.xs4all.nl/fearsome.html

These are the characters in the beetles:

[Kender]

This is the text from the image at the bottom (the page itself seems to force some browsers to high CPU)

[Marklar]

When I tried to open/edit the page in Word, the gif's displayed as yellow scarab beatles, which face different directions.

I've attached the page, but if it's easier, here's a description of which way they face:

1- right
2- right
3- right
4- right
5- right
6- down
7- down
8- left
9- left
10- left
11- left
12- left
13- up
14- up

They also flap their wings. The pattern of flapping is

1-12 All at once
13- Once
14- Never

The page also has a post script (which I can't view on my computer because I'm missing a file)
but the page encoding was defaulted as US-ASCII. (...If that might be important.)

[Edited to reflect that I do, in fact, know my right from my left.]

[charming_ant]

Poe wrote "The Gold-Bug", which includes a rare scarab, hidden treasure and a cipher. The solution to the cipher is given in the story, but since I'm terrible at decoding, I'm not sure whether it can connect in any way to the puzzle on the fearsome page.

I just thought it was too coincidental that darkphan posted the Elizabeth poem by Poe, and there are flying gold scarabs on the fearsome page.

http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Poe/THEGOLDBUG/

[darkphan]

[Varin]

[eMouse]

The characters are in the right order? If so, I think 'traged.' should be 'tragedy'.

[konamouse]

[Kender]

The final bugs letters are:
"mantragedyhero"

Found by putting poe's code: