unforum

[Obes]

[SOLVED][puzzle] AND.. Wonderland Spookiness

[Obes]

This didn't hit me before, but now it does.


"Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel."

Eric mentioned 'the Tall man'. Perhaps he is the 'black crow'. Crows are also a symbol of death, a bad omen. I think Tweedledum and Tweedledee were only fighting, it was the tall man that killed one of them (or both!) in the loft.

Going off of what was said in chat, Richard is hiding in the loft (or something I forget exactly because I don't have the transcript in front of me. But I think the rest of my post is accurate).

[Paradoxic]

The Tall Man, from what I can find online, is not an uncommon phrase. It is the name of the creepy evil grave robber in the Phantasm horror movie series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/ ). It is also a name that is given to honest and forthright people... so we have some rather differenting definitions of the term.

[Caterpillar]

[Flidget Jerome]

There's also a rather dodgy story that's supposed to be a Scottish legend, starring the Tall Man.

The phrase sounds celtic to me, but maybe I'm just thinking of the Long Man.

[Caterpillar]

The new text looks almost readable, especially given the alarm clock and the plain text message. I see possibs for "jealous", "awake", "alot", "I". Maybe just needs to be arranged in it's proper order.

[Flidget Jerome]

I've been trying to wrap the text around the clock and see what letters line up at the 10 and 4 positions. Got a few anagrams for obscure Greek goddesses and islands, but nothing that's actually yielding any solves.

[Paulzilla]

Does it look to anyone else like the cyphertext corresponds somehow to the plaintext above it? At about the right place in the sentance we have "jeal" and in normal text - "Jealous" and later the capital I, prehaps cooresponding to the "I will miss him"?

Wrong tree + barking? Perhaps - the rest doesn't fit that well, but still, any port in a storm

[Paradoxic]

I swear, its always when I'm typing up something that the answer is posted. Heh, good solve. Out of curiosity, how did you choose those numbers and get the answer from it?

[Caterpillar]

[Tiny]

[Obes]

I tried taking out all the letters that repeat (leaving the i and I in) and got an anagram of

I bind stump

But.. dead end. Back to pondering.


Obes.

[Paulzilla]

I've got

[Ursos]

If that string of letters is an anagram, it'll be tough unless we have a clue pointing to what it should say. And if it's a Vignere cipher, it'll be tough without a key... I've tried the Vignere with a number of different keys (Richard, Eric, Tall Man, I'm jealous, evil, shadow, I will miss him, etc). Nothing so far... And doing a rot on it didn't result in anything either.

*ponder*

[Max Steele]