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[UPDATE] The Ooze Zone - 18 Aug 06 - Hush, Anna page
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jojojojo
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 		Well, it would be distasteful, but, this is Aiko we are talking about. She has a dodgy past, and, correct me if I am wrong, but she didn't seem to be that close to Anna.

Rose: If my idea turns out to be right, I would be delighted, but it seems a little far fetched. And I never have been able to suss out something successfully before!
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 		[quote="rose"]
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I went about a year ago out to Jones Beach to try to find something hidden there. I wasn't able to find it - I was expecting something big and obvious- but I was willing to go back, as were other people, to try to find it. The consensus from the boards and the chat was that the clue was no longer there because someone had hacked the page and that the game had moved on. Based on that assumption, we gave up exploring. I am sure at that point it would have been called a banana if that term,which I find a bit derisive and condescending, had then been in use.

I have later learned that we were wrong in that assumption. There had been something that I couldn't find in the bushes there and that we should have gone back to find it. The confident assessment of the situation as a "banana" in not having a clue or puzzle was wrong.

Luckily, at that early stage, the Jones Beach item was the sort of puzzle that could be corrected by the PMs in helping us move on- as we get deeper into the Cube puzzle, I don't think we can rely on them to produce those corrections.


Rose, not only do I agree with you, but I'm so glad you posted this because I remember that one piece vividly. Before you volunteered to go out, I call each of the half dozen friend I have in NY and tried to convince them to go out to Jones Beach. I remember being so happy that you went, but it always bothered me that the clue was not found and that the receda trail was set up to move on without it.

I never did catch what had happened to the Jones Beach clue after that, so thanks for posting that. And its a perfect example of why its important not to pass things off to quickly (although, in that particular case, had we not eventually recieved the next URL from another source I don't think we would have).

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 		Hmm, interesting thought jojojojo, i'll have to add that address to my messenger. And log-in more Wink Still, if it were an anagram, I'd guess the Q would be matched by a U. I'm pretty sure I double checked the syllable count, but maybe there's an alternative way to turn sound into numbers.

Meanwhile, off-topic...

Rose wrote:
Spec is what fuels the solving process in those sorts of puzzles.


I agree on this. I'm quite happy to get banana'd or even trouted if it means there's a posibility that either a) someone makes an obscure llnk, and/or b) it just gets people to think in a different direction. There are a couple of instances where the path of thought gets "trapped" (I can think of Shuffled and the Crypto back door at the moment), and "constructive" spec is a healthy way to work around that. i.e. an observed answer may obviously be complete tripe, but the method used might open up some further creative thinking.

Just my thoughts - don't want to hijack the thread. Channel that energy into solutionifying things Wink
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Scribe wrote:
CQHECKBADDIBA

Meh. Probably random, unless anyone can think of a "Baddiba" ("bad ibba"?) and a reason why a Q would interrupt a perfectly good word...


treat this as the off-the-top-of-my-head spraff that it is, but looking at the above, and thinking of von's recent letter puzzles and the 'words have no meaning, only sounds' stuff, the first bit of this says...

seek you a cheesey...

SEE QUEUE AITCH EE SEE...

can anyone else get anything sensible out of it by looking at the the sounds, rather than at the word ? or do i need to up my medication ? Smile

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I'm pretty sure I double checked the syllable count, but maybe there's an alternative way to turn sound into numbers.


I seem to get only 9 syllables from 'My ears are filled with meaninglesswords', which would make an I, not a K.

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 		Very true. I think I was fighting off a wild bear at the time, so it may have slipped in... *ahem*

Well, that makes it even more meaningless. Back to the drawing board!
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Antony C wrote:

I seem to get only 9 syllables from 'My ears are filled with meaninglesswords', which would make an I, not a K.

Ant C


depends on accent - you could get 1 for EARS or 2 for EE-ERS...

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 		Are we possibly seeing Elephants here?

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thalamus wrote:
Scribe wrote:
CQHECKBADDIBA

Meh. Probably random, unless anyone can think of a "Baddiba" ("bad ibba"?) and a reason why a Q would interrupt a perfectly good word...


treat this as the off-the-top-of-my-head spraff that it is, but looking at the above, and thinking of von's recent letter puzzles and the 'words have no meaning, only sounds' stuff, the first bit of this says...

seek you a cheesey...

SEE QUEUE AITCH EE SEE...

can anyone else get anything sensible out of it by looking at the the sounds, rather than at the word ? or do i need to up my medication ? Smile


I'm thinking more along the lines of "Seek you H E C (or HEC)"

(Yorkshire... in case you're wondering bout the H)

any ideas what this could be an abbreviation of would be greatly appreciated - I can't think of anything at the moment!
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I'm thinking more along the lines of "Seek you H E C (or HEC)"


or maybe even " Seek you H easy"

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 		What I find odd is that the page is called "Libermemoriam" book of memories, yet the entire page only contains a single poem.

Hardly a book...

I expected there to be a place to post your thoughts about Anna, and to pay respects.

Maybe the poem is a puzzle to such a place? To deter trolls?

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ArcySparky wrote:
What I find odd is that the page is called "Libermemoriam" book of memories, yet the entire page only contains a single poem.

Hardly a book...

I expected there to be a place to post your thoughts about Anna, and to pay respects.

Maybe the poem is a puzzle to such a place? To deter trolls?


"liber" can be translated as page or paper also, too. But, I like your idea that there may be a book somewhere.

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 		Right. I was hoping that this wouldn't be needed, but apparently some members of unfiction do not understand the purpose of the RSM and the banana.

Calling something a banana, or saying that it invokes the mysterious presence of the RSM does not mean that we should no longer speculate and must NOT be used in this way. It implies a personal feeling about a text, script, whatever and a... would you believe, humerous... nod and a wink to several totally over the top pieces of speculation that this board has enjoyed in the past.

To prounounce something as a 'banana' is not an insult, nor is it dismissive. To feed something to the RSM is also not an insult, but a celebration of how sometimes, we all get over-excited and are prone to a little bit of sillyness. The RSM started as a character I created for a bit of fun. It appears that it is now determined to bite me.
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 		Is it possible we're not the people who Aiko intended to understand the message?

Could it be for the 3rd Power?
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 		ok, so maybe I've been staring at that page for too long but...

Can anyone else make out faint words in the stripy lines in the background? Like a book used to hold the page down in the photocopier being picked up?

Only sound = noise on the page?


EDIT: By the way, the background is a William Morris print

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