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[CONTACT] Chat with Layla 24/05/05
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Brittł
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 		[CONTACT] Chat with Layla 24/05/05
http://www.geocities.com/drewbear2001/log052405.txt

From Drew
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Playing: Veil Nanoscience, The Myth of Objects
Watching: Doctor Who puzzle trail

Anyone remember Rookery Tower?

PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:04 am
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ib
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 		Okay, lots of info to go over, so here goes! >_<;;

ursos figured from goblin.htm:

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BY ERIC

SHALL I SING YOU A SONG OR TELL YOU A TALE
OF THE GOBLIN WHO WAITS BELOW THE HILL
WITH RAVNS HAIR AND DARKING SMILE
HE PLAYS A PIPE WHEN HE WEAVES HIS GUILE
A SPRITE IN EXILE WHO LIES AND WAITS
WITH FAIRY GRACE AND OLD HOBS HATE
MADE HE A BARGAIN WITH THE KING OF LIES
BOUND TO THIS EARTH FOR AN EVIL PRIUE
TO THIEVE A MAN WITH HALF A SOUL
THEN CONQUER HIM TO MAKE ONE WHOLE
IVE SEEN THIS FAE I KNOW HIM WELL
HE HOLDS MY BROTHER IN HIS THRALL
WE TWO SONS WERE ONE WHEN BORN
CLEFT IN TWAIN BEFORE THE MORN
MAKE FOR THIS SPIRIT EASY PREY
TO SIEUE HIS PRIUE WITHOUT DELAY
MY BROTHER SORROWFULLY REFT OF HAND
FELL ALL TOO SOON TO THE DEMONS PLAN
I LOST MY BROTHER THERE AND THEN
TO THE GOBLIN WITH THE WILY GRIN
AND NOW HES GONE TO THE FAIRIES PLACE
AND ILL NEVERMORE BEHOLD HIS FACE

There were bolded letters from the original goblin.htm turned out to be
"sordid," which led us to:

http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/sordid.htm


From the sordid.htm, we received more of the story:

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I've always known that the Artemes family was not the first to occupy Rookery Tower. The house is dates well back into the last century, and our parents purchased it less than a year prior to our birth. I hadn't before my research however, realized how many families.

It seems this house has been passed from hand to hand, with intermittent periods of vacancy since it was built in the early seventeen hundreds, each owner usually staying for less than five years. The records show each owner was plagued by mysterious events including flying and disappearing objects, strange music, and of course the ever-present 'shadow'.

In the very beginning of Rookery Tower's history there were even a series of violent and gruesome murders. Three men were found torn literally in half down the middle, as through by some giant, wild beast.

I have no doubt that this was the work of the Tall Man who haunts my brother. However, neither do I fear that this is the fate that awaits Richard. No, my twin is staring into a fate worse than death, that of complete corruption and consumption of his soul.

It pains me though, to hear the news of these grisly killings, when father has just received word by mail of a death in Richard's school. I would like to hope that my dear brother is not the cause of that poor boys demise. Not that I suppose it would bother Richard unduly, even if he were. By the next day he'd surely have forgotten his name.


After looking at the source page, there was some hidden information:

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K oamp fwii tb kgl mp mvgxcee ap ahre gwwnpvl voep nedp vn nkasud qsj xce vfuhnv. Elw gjnqavpoed eji oeejkilv, oisv Boq, zqd I czry xj cnjtf hzx lgqz, ajsa mrfx xzi biotgyier mvmjtf zg ps gprfiy wvlj.

Iuk T gsriog xqvl djwwpa. Is zg daj ysl egrrsff mro azii hr wpaeiph llz 'afqnbm' yp gwvoavfnf ij yso. Mo tbjg ty ypejx eufl vv lfzo sx ciz, utvutsiv mi tuw evrepv, zyhmvfi ahre xg ldmfwnm. Typc ket hr kqtektqww aaydu pnkz wmgc a flcae wzv vets, nff jaeysl lzae spfoep ejspnq zkt. Hv omvr'o rrkrvnu es ei rhrf K jacwiv lds asol. I ipqwqwee ojln np awvz cuankrvy, Vagcaev yvuco rwzzr vypvrv xi. Zmn 'cnjgnimpvk' hjn'g cpvw nsc zi aaydu pnkz wmgc a flwwoi, myl xcel vq uok diw acag A fv. Typc vs iog kgl typ wzeyoj ljht cfvcw dn zq dyoksij'w xeyd. Yoak wsnigy qjghmj zj nmxe qggz tylx vihoa ythnk jsm qt begvoei?

Elwc nal ojln yp mk gjnfukvuj si jemeyq ohkvd wwrne. V kcd typ parzs futhttsiv mitb ljl wrwpk sa hvk ellc. Tj zi ds pgwutzyk llz dnqu diks xzih, tuwp oe zd qsh dnqwgk, ffc xzit fbdnvw ez tsxoeef. Ohd? Ez, qq fmogzgy ij 'esmgceq ta ahv qeavdef'. Sj, hrvy'x llzy ndn.

There was also hidden in the source code days.jpg, which turned into
http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/days.jpg


From days.jpg, it was decoded from the tally marks

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1 4 2 1 4 1 1 5 6 1 5 1 1 6 3 1 1 5 \

Which, when translated into octal, (solved by myself! Very Happy *dances!* ) turned into the key word "banisM," guessed into "banish" by Hikari


which lead into...

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http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/banish.htm


Going back to the vig. on the sordid page, the key word, guessed in chat but tried by myself, was

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Charles Evans


The vig translates as:

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I have been to see my brother in that cesspit they call an asylum for the insane. The conditions are terrible, dear God, how I long to carry him home, away from the gibbering idiots he is penned with.

But I cannot fool myself. If he was not already mad when he entered the 'asylum' he certainly is now. It tore my heart just to look at him, crouched in the corner, humming that to himself. They say he sometimes falls into such a state for days, and cannot hear anyone around him. He didn't respond to me when I called his name. I remember when we were children, Richard would never ignore me. His 'caregivers' don't know why he falls into such a stupor, but they do not see what I do. They do not see the shadow that lurks in my brother's cell. What lovely dreams of vice does that demon grant you my brother?

They say when he is conscious he rarely makes sense. I saw the lines scratched into the walls of his cell. If he is counting the days with them, then he is mad indeed, for they follow no pattern. Mad? No, my brother is 'touched by the fairies'. Ah, aren't they all.


First time I solved anything. Yay~ Razz

PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:04 am
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 		days.jpg, if anyone's interested. Razz
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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:10 am
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 		... did nothing seriously happen after I left? Or is my computer just f*ed up, and it won't show me the rest of the chat log?
~Mossy... who hates her computer sometimes Confused ... no... all the time...
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She said, and went to draw the curtain.
~Edward Gorey, The Eleventh Episode

... what can I say? I'm a Gorey girl at heart.

Life's just a bowl of... syntax errors.

PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:14 pm
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 		Not that it is important by this point, but the picture counts out to

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1 4 2 1 4 1 1 5 6 1 5 1 1 6 3 1 5 \ .
which comes together in octal triplets as 142 141 156 151 163 15, but when you add a 0 to the end... you do get b a n i s h in its correct spelling.

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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:22 pm
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Hikari
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Arbitrary_Moss wrote:
... did nothing seriously happen after I left? Or is my computer just f*ed up, and it won't show me the rest of the chat log?
~Mossy... who hates her computer sometimes Confused ... no... all the time...



No, Drewbear (the person who was logging the chat) left soon after you did. Smile Nothing noteworthy happened, though.

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