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[Uberg33k]

Barber of Seville I believe. Too bad geocities is down.

[Xestrix]

DbD in the IRC channel, and my girlfriend both think it could be Pagliacci.

I guess we'll have to wait until the site's bandwidth is renewed~

EDIT: My girlfriend (who is too shy to join uF), found http://econ.la.psu.edu/~hbierens/Voices/Caruso_vesti_la_giubba.mp3

I'm almost positive its a match. Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci.

[Uberg33k]

[Ecks51]

Bandwidth

[Britt³]

Re: Bandwidth

[Xestrix]

[DeadbyDawn]

The words from the Pagliacci page.

[Ecks51]

Do we have anyone who can translate?

[Xestrix]

Still no luck on the translation :/

I did however build a quickstart for anyone wanting to jump right in:

[THE HARLEQUIN SAYS]
I: Email
| |
| 1: From: TheHarlequinSays(SPLAT)Gmail.com > "Remember me!" [attachment: img]
| | |
| | i: The attached image leads to http://www.myspace.com/theharlequinsays
| | ii: The mySpace provides us with two new images: [img][img]
| |
| 2: From: TheHarlequinSays(SPLAT)Gmail.com > "wikipedia it."
| |
| i: Wikipedia confirms the 3-sided figure to be a triskelion, leading to http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/
|
II: GeoCities
| |
| 1: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/
| | |
| | i: A cryptogram is found in plain sight after the question: "what does the harlequin say?"
| | ii: Solving the cryptogram with the viginere key "rememberme" gives us:
| | |
| | | saint-saens plays his piano
| | | the dance, it begins.
| | | imperative that know your next step --
| | | don't fall.
| | |
| |iii: "saint-saens" and "the dance" leads us to the opus: "Danse Macabre",
| | iv: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/dansemacabre
| |
| 2: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/dansemacabre
| | |
| | i: Another text block gave us some key phrases: "the more modern version, though.", "it's a series", "there are still more after."
| | ii: Google brings us to the "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" book series, "Book 14: Danse Macabre" is followed by "Book 15: The Harlequin"
| |iii: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/theharlequin
| |
| 3: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/theharlequin
| | |
| | i: Another text block, some more key phrases: "but you have imbibed too often, and now your head is hazy", "you thought your kind could hold their drink!",
| | "they do make the best kind, after all...dark, rich, and creamy.", "Go hIfreann leat!"
| | ii: Everything points towards ... Guinness! (An Irish brew)
| |iii: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/guinness
| |
| 4: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/guinness
| | |
| | i: Key Phrases: "all you can think about are the diamonds", "she stole your heart", "it must've been that clover", "what did i miss?"
| | ii: The phrases all contain a suit from a standard deck of cards, the missing suit is spades
| |iii: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/spades
| |
| 5: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/spades
| |
| i: Another text block, this time a dead end
|
III: MySpace
| |
| 1: Pics
| |
| i: A new image is uploaded: [img]
| ii: The image contains the text: "uttara ka 20" and "purvi 77"
| iii: Google reveals the words uttara and purvi to be Hindi, and translates them to north and east
| iv: Locating the global coordinates [20 north, 77 east] reveals the center of India
| v: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/india
|
IV: GeoCities
| |
| 1: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/india
| | |
| | i: Key Phrase: "you know the source of her problems."
| | ii: Viewing the page source reveals: nextstep="diamondsragirlsbestfriend"
| |iii: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/diamondsragirlsbestfriend
| |
| 2: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/diamondsragirlsbestfriend
| | |
| | i: An image of an engagement ring gives us are next url
| | ii: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/engagementring
| |iii: [NOTE]: The ring is engraved: "With all my love -J"
| |
| 3: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/engagementring
| | |
| | i: This time a set of symbols appears to be the main element
| | ii: Google reveals them to be an old venetian script called Venetico
| |iii: This reference to Venice leads us to our next url
| | iv: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/venice
| | v: [NOTE]: The symbols can be translated to the English phrase: "She loved you"
| |
| 4: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/venice
| | |
| | i: Another cipher confronts us immediately
| | ii: Running the cipher through a cryptogram solver reveals: "EVEN THOUGH YOU DANCE WITH ANOTHER, SHE WILL NEVER MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE COLUM?INA."
| |iii: The key name is assumed to be Columbina, and wikipedia informs us that Columbina is a character in a play, and her lover, is the Harlequin
| | iv: The play turns out to be Commedia Dell'Arte, which brings us to our next URL
| | v: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/commediadellarte
| |
| 5: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/commediadellarte
| | |
| | i: This time we are only given an image, which thanks to a familiar blue outline, is indicated to be a link
| | ii: Clicking on the image we are given: http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/opera1.wma [media mirrored to save site bandwidth]
| |iii: [NOTE]: http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/opera1.mp3 is provided for those without wma support
| | iv: Listening to the opera, it is identified "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci, an opera concerning a man in a Commedia Dell'Arte
| | v: Pagliacci turns out to be the correct information and our next url is set
| | vi: Appending the GeoCities URL gives us: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/pagliacci
| |
| 6: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/pagliacci
| | |
| | i: A hidden string of binary leads us farther on this page
| | ii: Converting the binary to ascii reveals: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/harlequin
| |
| 7: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/harlequin
| | |
| | i: http://geocities.com/triskelionharlequin/ redirects us to http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/harlequin.wma [media mirrored to save site bandwidth]
| | ii: harlequin.wma turns out to be a very quiet, very static-y French dialogue, possible a poem being read
| |iii: The wma file was augmented to clear some of the static and amplify the voice, file at http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/harlequin-clean.wma
| | iv: [NOTE] http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/harlequin.mp3 is provided for those without wma support
| | v: [NOTE] http://xestrix.com/dev/storage/ARG/harlequin/harlequin-clean.mp3 is provided for those without wma support
[END OF CURRENT PROGRESS]

[Ecks51]

Xestrix, very nice. Good outline structure, it shouldn't be difficult at all for people to jump in.

[Uberg33k]

[Will 2.0]

Just dropping in to peek. You mentioned some french? I've taken it for 5 years, I might be be of some help. Where do i hear this french?

[Ecks51]

[Dr. Nox]

I listened the file. As far as I can say, this is French (I am French myself) but seems to be spoken my a non native speaker. The pronunciation is clumsy and there are large parts I cannot understand. It seems to be a love poem. It could be (badly) translated from another language because the syntax seems very much off....

Here is what I could get (questions marks are for the parts I cannot get):

[Uberg33k]

I cleaned the file up myself. I think its a bit easier to understand.

http://scott.r.olsen.googlepages.com/harlequin.mp3