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Rogi Ocnorb

If it is sirens we need, Kafka wrote at least twice about them:
About the Sirens
and their silence
No hits on homer, odyssey, parthenope, argo, nymph(s), shield, etc.

And, I thought it was all his men who had wax in their ears while he was chained to the mast without any wax.

EDIT: Well, our updates have stopped coming, so I assume "sirens" is the full kloo. I can't think of any more Ulyssian, Odyssian, Homerian or Kafkan references to try. Oh, and it isn't (a)weapon.html.

Any other ideas?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:17 pm

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GoodChild

Well....Sarians are an alien race from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel "At The Earth's Core" (Burroughs is the guy who wrote Tarzan) but I played around with some of the terms from the book and nothing led me to a new page. I'm pretty stumped about the whole thing.

EDIT: ha, well....nevermind that angle, i forgot it's SAIRANS. Please disregard.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:16 pm

jenni42ld

I can't help but think we've missed something. I still think there is something in the background of the answering machine file...I have been working on it but I don't know how to use the program - however, what I have heard is something IS there, but I can't get it to where I can hear it well. It also sounds like it's been sped up. Does anyone know someone on here who actually knows how to do these things?

Also, what happened to William? Has anyone had email contact with his (supposed) mother? Where have our characters gone? We got lots of updates for quite awhile, and now...nothing. Are we just waiting for the 13th? I thought we were trying to stop something from happening then. Did I miss something? Bang Head

**Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:36 pm

medioxcore

i produce underground dance music, so i know how to use sound forge, but i just moved across country and the PC i had the program on is still at my old home- it is my moms. if i had actually purchased the program, i would've been working on that clip a long time ago. but since i acquired it through slightly less than legal means, i am out of luck.
oh, and i emailed josephine a couple days ago and still haven't gotten a response. either we've missed something, or we're going to have to wait (unfortunately) until the 13th to see something happen.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:04 pm

Arbitrary_Moss

Hi guys... *pokes head in* ... can I join?

^^;

I haven't ARGed in a good long time, and just a few days away from Spring Break, I figured there was hardly a better time. Of course, I'm in the middle of final exams right now, and I'm pretty much useless anyway (hate to say it but 'tis true Razz

) but this looks like a pretty damn awesome ARG to me, sooo.... yeah. Here I am.

Oh, and happy eve of the thirteenth Wink

~Mossy

**Posted:** Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:56 pm

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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.

audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

No. No you may not join.

Cool

Feel free! You've got 42 hours to catch up before the game starts (the main game, anyway). Looking back, there's really not that much...

**Posted:** Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:11 pm

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Nothing. I'm taking a little break from ARGs at the moment. Expect to see me when I have any time to myself.

Rogi Ocnorb

Moss: The more, the merrier. Note that the "proust" page was only up for a few hours on that one day.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:37 pm

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audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

oh! a chat with our friend!

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:58 am

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Nothing. I'm taking a little break from ARGs at the moment. Expect to see me when I have any time to myself.

jenni42ld

AAAAND an update! Yay, finally! More base 64. I'd post the solution under a spoiler tag, but I don't know how. Sad

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:08 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

It decodes to:

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:26 pm

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audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

Hm..and for the title of the page "father of the wolf", I wonder if it relates to Hugo Wolf, a composer...

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:50 pm

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Austin · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 53 Location: uk

The image on the homepage is almost certainly an astronomical clock, see the one in Prague Old town for an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_clock - unfortunately, I don't know how to read one of these but I would guess it gives us a time (probably early afternoon GMT tomorrow).

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:06 pm

MageSteff

I haven't seen any conversation about THIS page

Which contains the image file "vfiles/VSYS402910.jpg" which references Hrunting Colony ... which is a location from the Traveller universe.

Perhaps this is a table top RP with ARGishness added.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:52 pm

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jenni42ld

Good catch! I was just googling "symbols" and trying to match up... ah well. Anyways - Astronomical clock, how to read. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1043218[/url]
So I think it's saying 10:30 or 11 pm on the 16th, unless I really read that wrong. It is kinda hard to read, and also I still can't figure out how you read the zodiac part.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:59 pm

JimK

Hey all. Trying to jump in and get caught up. Been reading a bit, but one thing is sticking out at me. In the meantime, can I get some kind of update on what we're trying to accomplish at this point?

For some reason the title of the main page (The Wolf for the Father) bothered me a bit. It seems awfully babelfish sounding to me, so I tried translating it:

Dutch: De wolf voor de vader
Spanish: El lobo para el padre

Seems, though, that I'm getting direct translations back from the phrase, probably not the original language that was put in. (although, as a side note, I never knew that Vader was dutch for father. Too bad Luke didn't know dutch...)

What else can I help with??

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:11 pm