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KChasm

For some reason that monologue is irritating you know, the song hurts and I'm bleeding--I keep thinking I've heard it somewhere, some book perhaps, but Google brings nothing, so...

In any case, though there's little to solve here, and it's not really an ARG so much as a puzzle trail, I'm having a bit of fun just following along. I just thought I'd put my two cents in.

By the way, does anyone know where that Japanese restaurant is? Anyplace with an actual revolving whatchamacallit is worth...er, "investigating", yeah, that's it. ;) It's not important at all, and undoubtedly will have little bearing on the puzzle trail, but I'm just curious...

(I wonder, though--do they actually serve fugu, or was that all just for the little skit? Because if they actually serve fugu, that narrows it down.)

EDIT: It's called Sushihiroba--sadly, none of the 17 fugu-approved sushi restaurants are run by Sushihiroba. No fugu for you. :)

**Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:06 pm

muffenman14

hey you guys the people from the 401wtf fourms found a webstie: buriedintheground.com and it shows a vid with a binary code. buried in the ground was the answer to "where is houdini buried?" k just posting the recent updates here.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:52 pm

muffenman14

ok and there is also another website called houdinismoon.com with a timer that ends in about a week

**Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:57 pm

Hydra · Guest

401WTF

**Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:57 am

Twee · Decorated Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 157 Location: sweden

Binary from the video on buriedintheground.com:

**Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:59 am

Uberg33k

Wow, a lot happens when you go to bed early. First, I see that 401WTF found the buriedintheground.com site before the show mentioned it. Was this what we were supposed to guess from the clues presented on magicstomach? If so, that's not a good sign. That would basically be a WAG. Every step in this puzzle trail this then has been a solid connection to the next. Makes me nervous about the future of this game.

On buriedintheground.com, I can't get the video to come up. It seems as if all of blip.tv is down right now. So I can't really comment until that comes back up. The one thing that has me scratching my head is that I saw the timer on the site late yesterday when it was still up. It was called finalcountdown.swf or some such thing. If you search Google, the only thing that comes up for that file name are sites related to 401. They were using Google analytics to track views to the page, so why didn't Google index the page? If they had done that, we could have found buriedintheground.com long ago using a simple search. I'm not saying that has anything to do with the game itself, but its just weird.

On houdinismoon.com, sitilhpytipe ... I know someone at 401WTF said its a medical term for appendicitis, but that's entirely not true. Epityphlitis is the another term for apendicitis and that just happens to be what you get if you reverse the letters. I'd still prefer if it were an anagram, because then we get such colorful solutions like "elitist hippie" and my favorite "shitty lip pie". Without being able to watch the video, there isn't much else I can gather from this page except for one detail on gameplay mechanics. If you look carefully at the meta data left by Photoshop for the moon picture, you'll see it was last edited on 8-14 at about 2:30pm. This means that there wasn't really any clue on this page until just before the show aired. This is telling in that it shows we may not be able advance to the next site, no matter what we do. If that's the case, I have to wonder why bother? I understand if they want to tell an episodic story, that's fine. Why mask it in riddles then? If this is supposed to be more of a puzzle trail, why not flesh out the entire trail and leave it to players to advance at their own pace?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:21 am

Uberg33k

If you hadn't heard it for yourself yet, the two bits of reverse audio in the video are "This might help you see better" and "Watch me cheat death, but not my own". Sorry, for some reason I couldn't get to blip.tv all day.

Edit : Couple more things. One, this was a rather expensive video to produce. The fact that its running at film rate mean this probably cost more to produce than some of the segments of 401 itself. Second a close up of the thingy floating in the water for your viewing enjoyment.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:00 pm

Uberg33k

It seems as if the game might change in the next episode. If you move your system timer forward, the clock will expire. The only thing it says when time is up is "Now!". Something that's timing based perhaps? Could we be at the end here?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:46 pm

401 · Guest

The reverse words are "Watch me cheat death...But not my own."

Peace

**Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:53 am

Uberg33k

**Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:30 am

Uberg33k

Score one for me! I know where the next 401 site is already and its just gone live.

Proof you say? This time when you set your system clock ahead to get the timer to zero out, you are greeted with the message :

"You gotta really wait til the timer runs out! =P"

Edit : Also, why is this hand drawn Houdini so damn hairy? It must have taken a considerable amount of time to draw in all that leg fur.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:39 pm

LordIllidan · Unfettered Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 737

**Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:18 pm

Twee · Decorated Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 157 Location: sweden

That Houdini is one hairy guy Shocked

Monkey legs. Ook ook!

I kept my hopes up for this one, but it doesn't seem like it will amount to anything. Now that the show might not make it to a second season I guess there wont be much need for marketing either.. Sad, I believed in the theme. Just not the lack of story, puzzles or well.. anything really.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:21 pm

Uberg33k