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GuyIncognito
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BTW, rose, did you find this just by randomly re-checking the libraryofbabel-page or was there a clue about the update somewhere?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:42 pm
Joe
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just for completion, this page is called Dissolution
so we've got
Waking
Realise
Dissolution
also.. I don't think they're talking about new york (city anyways) they don't have phone booths, they've got those stands with like six phones in little cubby holes on the sides of the road..
and some thoughts from a coder..
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
dissolution.html doesn't exist (yet)
and libraryofbabel/dissolution throws out an error message though it wouldn't work properly with just the flash (which could lead to more clues) as the background colour is changed with javascript..
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:57 pm
GuyIncognito
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Actually, Joe, http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/dissolution works fine...as does dissolution.swf...looks different though, as you suggested (grey background).
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:13 pm
Joe
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*points up*
what he said..
was generating a weird error before (permissions were set wrong..) either way I pulled it from my temp files.. was a LOT easier to read, but nothing special..
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:18 pm
AtionSong
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Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 352
Joe wrote:
just for completion, this page is called Dissolution
so we've got
Waking
Realise
Dissolution
Technically, this page is called "Dissolution. Dissipating. Everything."
Anagrams anyone?
For WakingRealiseDissolution:
IGNORED AWAKE ILLUSIONISTS
...No.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:02 pm
32_footsteps
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Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Somerville, MA, USA
Wait, why are we assuming that all three pages are from the same person?
We know clearly from the second page that there are "fellow travellers." We could be looking at multiple people trying to reach out through the Library of Babel's site. Heck, one of them could even have been an innocent bystander too caught up in all this.
It could be that Combed Thunderclap is not the name of an individual, but a group. Seems to me that assuming CT is a person as opposed to a cadre might be as much spec as the rest of this post.
(32 is hereby consumed by the RSM, unable to finish the post.)
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:07 pm
rose
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BTW, rose, did you find this just by randomly re-checking the libraryofbabel-page or was there a clue about the update somewhere?
Yes, it was random checking. I checked earlier and then after the Sentinel updated and I decided the futures were basically telling us not to do anything and I wasted some time reading the Aenid (to see if the sailing reference might have to do with the trip Violet and Scarlett were taking) I checked again. I am not sure when the page was put up.
Also, I agree that CT could be anything or anyone - I suppose different people could be posting calling themselves "I" .
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:23 am
drinkmonsters
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32_footsteps wrote:
Wait, why are we assuming that all three pages are from the same person?
We know clearly from the second page that there are "fellow travellers." We could be looking at multiple people trying to reach out through the Library of Babel's site. Heck, one of them could even have been an innocent bystander too caught up in all this.
eeehhhh i think fellow travellers refers either to the cube (which is pretty dangerous if it can transport someone across the universe just by touching it), or the third power.
I don't see much we can do with the information we are gaining from CT except to narrow down the search... are there any puzzles left unsolved as far as the library of babel goes?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:25 am
ampetrizzo
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Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 54
{SPEC} Not New York Well, the woman in the recording was definitely not a New Yorker. She had what I think was a British accent of some sort (I'm American so please forgive my ignorance of British accents). Of course, that doesn't rule out the idea that she may be a foreigner in the city, but it really doesn't seem likely.
::sigh:: I was so hoping it was New York, what with the grid layout to the city and it being within the States so I can get there easier, but I guess the line about yellow cars and steamy grates was too obvious.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:51 am
drinkmonsters
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the woman in what recording?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:57 am
jonc
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drinkmonsters wrote:
the woman in what recording?
The one that says "Are you going to answer that".
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:09 am
GreenWindmill
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Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: Midlands, UK
Is there any link between the words appended to the web address? I.e. Waking, Realise and Dissolution?
From some quick web searching they seem most closely connected with buddhist beliefs. Just wondering if it was possible to anticipate another message or is it more likely that further messages aren't accessible even if we were to guess the next word?
Just impatient for more information!
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:46 am
Mikeyj
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I don't think anything need be read into the accent of the woman. She doesn't sound like an old woman either. Yellow cars has been emphasized twice now though.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:30 am
achenar
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32_footsteps wrote:
Wait, why are we assuming that all three pages are from the same person?
(32 is hereby consumed by the RSM, unable to finish the post.)
I believe the first waves' card message - our first sighting of CT - uses the word 'me'. That probably indicates a singular person.
And GreenWindmill - nah, we probably can't access anything more yet. They're just spoonfeeding us on the libraryofbabel page for the moment, looks like.
You're free to search, mind, but I'm too lazy.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:53 am
GreenWindmill
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nah, we probably can't access anything more yet. They're just spoonfeeding us on the libraryofbabel page for the moment, looks like.
Yeah, that's what I thought but wanted to be sure. We're getting spoonfed plenty at the moment - it seems like a long time since we fed ourselves anything!
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:18 am
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