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y2kbozo
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 		SOLVED (almost!)
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When you display the sounds in a frequency/time format you get the letters "sorodactyl" (or that's what I see.) Unfortunately, this does not seem to be a valid file or directory on Mythosphere. Here are the images, maybe someone else can get the next step.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:33 pm
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Varin
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 		omg, you are amazing. What did you use to find that out?

/me bows down before y2kbozo
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y2kbozo
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 		Frequency display
This was done with CoolEdit 96, an early CoolEdit demo.

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grumpyboy
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 		Re: SOLVED (almost!)
y2kbozo wrote:
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When you display the sounds in a frequency/time format you get the letters "sorodactyl" (or that's what I see.) Unfortunately, this does not seem to be a valid file or directory on Mythosphere. Here are the images, maybe someone else can get the next step.


wtg y2k, i would've never thought of that...

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Varin
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 		i cant find any reference anywhere to a sorodactyl either. The closest I could come up with is

Quote:
sclerodactyly - Stiffness and tightening of the skin of the fingers, with atrophy of the soft tissues and osteoporosis of the distal phalanges of the hands and feet.

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 		Nice y2k... I was gonna try that, but was too lazy, and thought it was too farfetched, heh Smile

Did you extract the sounds from the swf file? If so, could you post the sound files for us to play with? Thanks

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y2kbozo
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 		WAV files
Here's a ZIP of the sound files:
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dmax
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 		as you've all found out, the word "sorodactyl" doesn't show on google.

I tried anagramming it, and found nothing interesting except this
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SLAY DOCTOR

which would be quite a plot development....
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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 		y2k......that is so utterly cool!

It looks to me more like soradactyl....but nothing's working or coming up for that either.

On second look, nevermind, the "a" is very clearly formed.

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danman_d
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 		Solve
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If you stretch the spectrogram window more, you can see that the 'O' is actually a 'g', so instead of SORODACTYL, we have SORGDACTYL.



I immediately realized we had it out of order. With a bit of moving around, we obtain DACTYLSORG



Not wanting to pull a Coroner Sweborg, I tried http://www.dactyls.org

Sure 'nuff.

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 		Way to go, danny!


I see nine images of various six-fingered hands. You can rotate the sequence by moving the mouse to the left or right. Clicking on any one of the images brings it closer, clicking again returns it to the original position.

Another beautiful job of Flash programming by the illustrious PM's

Now all we have to do is figure out what it means...
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Elijah Snow
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 		Some observations...

Nine pictures of hexadactyls (six-fingered hands)

One pic seems to show a castle icon (Avalon) in the palm of the hand...

One hand is holding a key...

One pic seems to be the glove of the six-fingered man from The Princess Bride...

Other than this, I can only assume that each pic represents a "tumbler" in a lock that when clicked in the correct sequence sends us ot the next site.

Thoughts?

ES
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Elijah Snow
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 		Found some sites related to each image via Google image search...

The Hexadactyl holding a key

The Numbered Hand

Sadhus, a holy man of India

The glove from The Princess Bride

Four down...five left.

Sorry can't stay. Need to fetch more info.

**Edit: The rest of the hands, save one, seem to be "home-made". One of the five remaining is actually a close-up of the holy man's extended hand. The other hand photo (back of hand, fingers pointing to the right), I just couldn't find.

ES
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Myssfitz
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LazarusLong wrote:
Way to go, danny!


I see nine images of various six-fingered hands. You can rotate the sequence by moving the mouse to the left or right. Clicking on any one of the images brings it closer, clicking again returns it to the original position.

Another beautiful job of Flash programming by the illustrious PM's

Now all we have to do is figure out what it means...


You can also get the pictures to go farther away and smaller. I even got them to flip upside down when they were far away. Just kkep double clicking.
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Elijah Snow wrote:
Found some sites related to each image via Google image search...

The Hexadactyl holding a key

The Numbered Hand

Sadhus, a holy man of India

The glove from The Princess Bride

Four down...five left.

Sorry can't stay. Need to fetch more info.

ES


Elijah,

On the page with the Sadhu holy man, go down to the bottom of the page and then scroll to the bottom and then scroll to the right. There are two more of the hands on this page. (Total of 3 hands on this page).

Six down... 3 three left.
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