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Slyfingers
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 		For Abaddon's text, the message he sent UH is the key.

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Kingdom of the Middle Saxons = Middlesex. It was divided into 6 hundreds, one of which is ossulstone, which is the key to use for a Vigenere cypher. The translated text comes up as text from a perplex city card (#228 second series) with some stuff added.


Given the translation, I'd have to say that Abaddon is a player.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:54 pm
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echidna
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 		Yep - a player with a Perplex City fixation by the looks of things.

The decoded message is taken from the backs of 4 Silver PXC cards - 228, 227, 226 and 225. The full translation for anyone who wants it is (I don't see any need to spoiler this but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong):

Quote:
"The lift shaft is a little different to what you remember. It seems to be darker and smaller than before. The shaft is lit every five metres with white lights that alternate from left to right. Every ten metres there's a doorway and a ledge, and every fifty metres is a sign on the opposite wall with a crest.

Climbing down the shaft, you pause at a crest. It looks familiar - it has a geometric shape in the centre, with names surrounding it and a motto above. Sometimes the shape is different, sometimes the names are swapped around or changed, sometimes the motto is altered. It's possible that crests are repeated - there must only be a limited number of possibilities and combinations, you think - but you
haven't seen it happen yet.

Approaching a door, you spot a smear of blood against a ladder rung. You're not sure whose it is - it might be yours.

You step onto the ledge and open the door.


"Come in," says another raven-haired woman siting in a leather armchair. She's studying a piece of silver metal, turning it over in her hands. "Sit down."

You gratefully fall into the chair beside her. and she passes you the piece of metal. "Do you recognise this?" she asks.

It's as long as your forearm and has a sharp edge running along one side. The shape suggests that it's a shard that has broken off from a larger piece of metal; one side is dull and pitted, while the other is brighter and smoother. It feels warm, somehow.

You don't recognise it in the least, but she insists that you keep trying. After a while, you both hear a faint clattering outside the door. Someone is approaching, and it is time to leave.

You nod to the woman, and open the opposite door.

The room has the shape of a message. You pause to catch your breath and stop your hands from shaking and look around slowly.

Everything in it has a meaning and a purpose. The floor is tiled in a sequence that seems frozen in movement. The chairs and table are carved from dark oak, with ripples and curves and spirals etched into their surface, insinuating expressions and equations. You lean in closer to the table and see the pattern proceed further and further into wood, covering every space with its branches. In the few minutes that you have, you try to read a little more.

Somthing moves on the edge of your vision. It's time to leave. You walk over to the far wall, running your fingers across the tabletop. The vibrations recite a tale to your nerves, in a language you can't quite comprehend.

The door out of this room is made of glass. It slides open.

"You can't come through" says another man, blocking the doorway. You try to squeeze through anyway- doesn't he understand you have to keep on moving?

"I said you can't come through!" he repeats, worriedly. "You're not supposed to be here, it's dangerous. You'll have to go back the way you came."

You turn around, and without warning charge into him, knocking him over. The room- more like a corridor- is almost a mile long, with strange objects and sculptures of people you almost recognise. There's not enough time to look at them carefully, since the man will be up and running after you soon.

You weave your way through, keeping up a steady pace, and after a few minutes make it to the end and open the door.


I'm not entirely sure what the point of Abaddon's post was Confused - we don't even know yet how the passages relate to Perplex City so they clearly have nothing to do with Deus City. By strange coincidence, I happened to write the puzzle on card #228 for PXC but a coincidence is all it is, I reckon.
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WolfHawk
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echidna wrote:
By strange coincidence, I happened to write the puzzle on card #228 for PXC but a coincidence is all it is, I reckon.


Ah HA! so you're a pro at this, eh? Wink

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echidna
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WolfHawk wrote:
echidna wrote:
By strange coincidence, I happened to write the puzzle on card #228 for PXC but a coincidence is all it is, I reckon.


Ah HA! so you're a pro at this, eh? Wink


God, no Shocked . It was more down to luck than judgement - they used to accept a lot of player-created puzzles and I was lucky enough to get a few of mine accepted Smile .
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Mimosa`Kitten
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 		Omega
I was just looking through trusted and not trusted on my profile and realized that I'd been trusted by someone I've never seen anything of, Omega. I checked his profile and all it has is I AM..., there's a yahoo address and an age, but I was just wondering if anyone here knew who he/she/it was or why their trust list was a mile long.

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notgordian
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 		I'm fairly sure Omega is one of Enoch's extra accounts.

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WolfHawk
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 		I was wondering about that myself, thanks, ng.

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notgordian
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 		And the hits just keep on coming. New user on the interface, Blue karma, and a Registered Citizen. Lisa Graham, everybody. 35 years old, so that makes her five years old in 2007 time.

Got a response to my welcoming inquiry--

from Lisa
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This thing's on? The TIA said it wouldn't be activated until Blue District went live! They can't get anything right sometimes.

Anyway, hi Michael. I hate to rush off so quickly, but there's work to be done. I'll see if I can keep up, but it's supposed to be the blue guys who are my priority.


So it sounds like she's going to be the Blue District handler, and that the Blue District might be going live the same time Red does (supposedly sometime next week). Sweetness.

So get on that, morelaak! Wink

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