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[SOLVED] "Automatic Writing" from Book One
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dashcat
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 		Mystes is also a word used for "Initiates" and as gb pointed out we were all Initiates in the first game. Avalon refers back to Glastonbury where Richard White was the last Abbott of Glastonbury and was also Dale's Professor White.

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Citizen Kane
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 		Might be jumping the gun, but I sent Dale a message:

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Hello Mr. Sprague.

I was looking through your comic book and was intrigued by your page on Automatic writing. After your Online correction of the page, I think I might have made some sense of it. I was able to to arrange the words into a short poem of sorts. I am sending a copy to you, hopefully you'll make heads or tails of it.

**************************************

Six fingers on one hand he had
(5- 4) (2 +1) (4- 2) (3
On the other only five
+2)(6- 5) (4+ 5)
with a grin he said
(1+ 1) (3 -3) (3
You look well, son, for someone not alive
+2) (4 -3) (2+ 7) (3- 2) (4
quickly lad, no time to think,
+1) (4+ 2) (3 -2) (1
your mind looks scattered anyway
+1) (1 +1) (6- 5)
yours to choose, make it real
(3- 2) (1+ 1) (3 -2)
careful now of what you say.
(4+ 1) (2 -1) (3+ 1)

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Some friends of mine have also noticed that, when arranged like that, the formulas also add up to give

132519205191561221121514

or

13 25 19 20 5 19 15 6 1 22 1 12 15 14

m y s t e s o f a v a l o n

Do the Mystes of Avalon mean anything to you? I didn't think "mystes" would be a word, or anything of any bearing, but another friend of mine pointed out the site http://www.experiencefestival.com/mystes, so I thought I might point it out.

I do hope you make some sense of this.

James Steele.

P.S. I really enjoy your comic.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:29 am
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Sylvia
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 		Way to go everyone!! And notice the new date on Professor Richard Whiting's website.

[Edit] I'm loosing it. Thanks Citizen Kane for pointing that out.

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Sylvia wrote:
Way to go everyone!! And notice the new date on Professor Richard Whiting's website.


Thanks! Everyone really came together on this. Very Happy

And, er... Sorry to break this to you, but I don't think it's updated. Would be nice if it was though, though we're not supposed to know about it this time around (Yet!?).

Quote:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function makeArray() {
for (i = 0; i<makeArray.arguments.length; i++)
this[i + 1] = makeArray.arguments[i];
}
function makeArray0() {
for (i = 0; i<makeArray0.arguments.length; i++)
this[i] = makeArray0.arguments[i];
}
function y2k(number) {
return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number;
}
var months = new makeArray('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December');
var days = new makeArray0('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');
var today = new Date();
var day = days[today.getDay()];
var date = today.getDate();
var month = today.getMonth() + 1;
var year = y2k(today.getYear());
//-->
</script>


I do believe that's why it has today's date on it.
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dashcat
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 		I'm not sure about whether we're supposed to find Prof Whiting's site now or not but if you check the links you will see the Avalon Project. This was in the last game too but we didn't use it if I remember correctly. There is a search bar on the page. Maybe we're supposed to use it to find a legal precedent for saving the libraray Smile Inputting Mystes didn't bring anyhting up.

Godzerra just mentioned to me that Mystes can be anagrammed to System.

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 		Awesome work, glad this one's finally solved.
Just thought I'd also point out that in the Last year's books ("Modern Classics") section of the The Pine Barren Poets page at the Library site, there is the book called "The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley".

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 		GREAT JOB!
But I think it's "Almost solved". We're not totally sure where it's leading us. In the past, we've found a new webpage after such a puzzle. Is there a webpage from MystesofAvalon?

Is there a link to that other Avalon page?
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konamouse wrote:
GREAT JOB!
But I think it's "Almost solved". We're not totally sure where it's leading us. In the past, we've found a new webpage after such a puzzle. Is there a webpage from MystesofAvalon?

Is there a link to that other Avalon page?


mystesofavalon: I tried com, org, net, info, but no site. Google doesn't show it yet if it is hiding under another *.xxx
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ilikepucks wrote:
Twas wondering through and thought I would offer my $0.02. I hope you don't mind an "outsider's" input as I am not actively playing this, but here goes...

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Using Citizen Kane's poem and doing the math on the numbers, I get 132519205191561221121514 which if you switch to alphabet gives "mystesofavalon". It looks like Mists of Avalon or Mysteries of Avalon. I don't know if some words can be switched or if my math is wrong, but it looks like it's trying to spell out something. Also, I don't know if either of those means anything to you guys as I didn't follow the first Wish either. Hope that helps.



How did you decide if a number was one digit or two? 13 could just as easily be AC as M.

Editied to add research:
Optatio Venatio - WISH in Action. See enaxor's translation of the words from CTW1.

It also mentions "Sixth of Never" so maybe the solve involves Sarah's journal?
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 		You people are amazing. To pull a poem out of 48 essentially random words with so few clues. It boggles the mind! Good job.
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MageSteff wrote:

How did you decide if a number was one digit or two? 13 could just as easily be AC as M.


A little thing I like to call trial and error. Wink
None of the other decompositions looked as nice as this one did. I wish I had a great solve to impress you with, but I just kept trying different things until it gave me a result.
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 		No one's brought this up yet, so I thought I'd throw it out there:

There is a quite popular book by Marion Zimmer Bradley titled:

"Mists of Avalon".

The book is Authurian legend, told from the points of view of Morgan La Fey (Morgaine) and Guinevere.

Morgan la Fey was Arthur's half sister, and Guinevere was Arthur's wife.

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 		Off topic me thinks, but while I was looking up 'Mysteries of Avalon' I came across this that I thought was quite cool and worth sharing:

Quote:
THE MYSTERIES OF AVALON:
"It is to this Avalon of the heart the pilgrims still go.
Some in bands, knowing what they seek.
Some alone, with the staff of vision in their hands,
awaiting what may come to meet them on this holy ground.
None go away as they came."

Avalon is the Inner Temple of the Celtic and British Mysteries, a landscape of the soul, a country of the heart. It is the land which the poet and mystic see in vision, where the artist and musician find inspiration; a timeless land of power and mystery that offers initiation and enlightenment to all those that embark upon the inner voyage.


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Citizen Kane
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 		Should this be counted as solved? Leave www.mystes.com puzzles in it's own section so we don't need to go back and forth?
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