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UPDATE: Ewan's LiveJournal, May 15
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 		UPDATE: Ewan's LiveJournal, May 15
Thursday, May 15th, 2003
6:52 pm I'm sorry I haven't been updating this much lately. I've been busy filling scraps of paper with reams of numbers and letters and generally looking like a madman.

I think I'm starting to figure things out. Well, not the things that actually matter, but the puzzles that occupy my time.

My weedweb survey received a submission: "http://www.thoughtscapes.com/mute/ (don't move)"

Websense let me through to it, which is rare these days. The page was full of empty and filled-in circles, five to a group, with fractions beneath. Somehow I knew, as soon as I saw it, that it was flute tablature. I printed it out and hid the pages under my shirt.

I stole a cheap, plastic recorder from the music room and tried playing the song, assuming that the fractions denoted eigth, fourth, half, and whole notes, but the tune didn't ring any bells.

The notes names didn't seem to spell out anything as they were, but eventually I figured out that the note lengths were modifiers that transposed the note names up the alphabet. The message there revealed was, as usual, cryptic. ("not the flags or the monkey"???) What was helpful was "you must crack munin's coiled message from beginning to end".

With that in mind, I've been working on muninn_note.gif, and looking through all of the emails from mu_ninSPLAThotmail.com for clues. I think the decoded flute tablature implies that the "letter cube" contains a message, coiled from the alpha to the omega.

Working from the omega back: N SW NW S gives you "mu - N - I - N", so I guess he signed it.

The start was harder. I've been filling sheets of paper mapping out every possiblity. I finally found a lead at the end of his last message, though. Starting from the alpha: SW W NE NW E SW NW gives you "F - I - N - D - Y - H - S", "Find YHS", or "Find Your Humble Servant". It's the most promising lead I've come up with thus far.

I'm hoping it's not, from the alpha: SW W NE NW E E SE S, which gives you "F - I - N - D - Y - A - L - F", or "Findy Alf".

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:54 pm
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Perko
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 		Despite Ewan's enormously helpful push towards solving the munin_note, I'm unable to complete the message, after beating on it for quite some time now. It should be easy, but it's not. Help! It's driving me nuts

I had previously pointed out the alpha - omega path, and that mu-nin is likely the end of the message. So far so good.

The YHS = Your Humble Servant is a giant leap forward, if we can in fact take it for granted. I think we can, mu_nin's previous message ended "So I beseech you. Find Your Humble Servant". Capitalized, i.e. fit for being acronym'ed into YHS.

Unfortunately, I can't make much more headway. The most promising route seems to be "Find YHS in the land of the..." or "Find YHS in the land of d...". Beyond that I can't find anything reasonable. I also can't make any substantial progress at the end of the puzzle. Most likely it ends with "... more. Munin". It could be "Rome. Munin". And I can't make anything of substance in between, although I've found words such as "floral", "lulled", "delta" (2x!), "clued", "web", "warm", and "high", as well as a pair of "the"s. There so many possibilities, yet few good words seem to form! I'm thinking there are other weird acronyms like YHS, or foreign and strange words or abbreviations. I'd expect to find a URL or something that's searchable through Google to give a clear URL.

I'm having the most trouble with the two additional "mu"s. If they're part of the message, I can't figure out what words they belong to. The only good possible words that start with "mu" are "mud" and "mug". The word "murrain" is possible, never heard of it, it's an "infectious disease of cattle". Hardly seems likely. I'm leaning towards the 2 central "mu"s not being in the message at all.

I hope somebody else can get us further... I'd hate to have Ewan figure it out before we do!

Perko

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 10:08 pm
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 		My latest theory
Here's a link to the puzzle again:
http://www.geocities.com/hugh_inn/

This is my latest SPEC:

"Find YHS in the land of Mu". "Mu" is short for Lemuria, a mythical former continent that is the Pacific's answer to Atlantis. It seems just odd enough to be the right continuation, and it uses up a "mu". And it feels right that Mu-nin would be in the Land of Mu... Either that I'm going insane starting at this jumble of letters. Perhaps soon I'll be joing Ewan and Heph on the inside...

Curiously (considering the other recent msg pointing some to weblogs), the very first hit on "Land of Mu" on Google is this URL:
http://www.tsuibhne.net/mt/
which just happens to be a weblog, by a Matt Sweeney. But I don't find anything suspicious or Munin like about it. The most interesting thing I found was a link to "Lake Trout" which is apparently some band! Smile

There are also weird google hits on "Mu-mu land" and MuMu, mostly from Japan, but I don't think it amounts to anything.

If we could piece together the rest of the message, presumably we'd know what to look for.

Perko

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