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[RING][Trailhead] Find the Lost Ring
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MrToasty
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RedHatty wrote:
MrToasty wrote:
Check the related images under the podcast there as well - need to translate the tablet?

Unfortunately, the parts that we probably need are the ones that are scratched out

Yeah, that's what I get for posting before watching the full podcast. Wink

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:06 pm
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Elle_P
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 		There's a chance that Eli actualy doesn't believe in the Lost Ring, but he calls it an urban legand and it sounds like he's had people (NPCs) ask him about it before. So if he doesn't believe it, he still knows more than us, he probably knows what the legand is!

I think the best way to approach him might be in the guise of a serious participant in the historical study, and then maybe once you have his trust, maybe he'll bring it up ("argh, these idiots won't leave me alone") and then ask him what's bothering him and for the backstory. I could try it if I have time.

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teu cer
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 		Hi
I'm JJason's friend who he asked for a quick-and-dirty translation of the Diego video for him the other day. (I sent him one, though others beat me to it so it never got posted - and y'all clearly understood his accent a touch better than me)

After that, I figured I'd get involved in this. I've been reading this thread, and since foreign languages seem to be required I'll state right now that my Spanish is good and I have a passing knowledge of Portuguese. (I also know an itty bitty bit of Esperanto; my vocab in that sucks but there are good dictionaries online, so if any comes up beyond "trovu la ringon perditan" I'll be sure to let you guys know what it says.)

I contacted larissa through youtube (I figure even though I'm better at Spanish, Portuguese is a less-well-represented language here so I'll attack things on that front.) Still waiting for a reply. I didn't ask for any new info yet, just because I wanted to establish myself as someone she can talk to; but in a bit I'm gonna be all over the Renata lead.

Also, I think it seems pretty clear that these are all current Olympians, while Renata was in the *last* Olympics (or rather, should have been); sure, for some of the athletes it likely wouldn't be their first time, but I'm guessing the ones with the tattoos are new to the Games or they might have been abducted or whatever four years ago - which, I assume, is what happened to Renata. So I think Renata is a very different sort of clue (clew?) than Ariadne; if nothing else she's proof this is older than a single Olympics cycle. (Sorry if this has already been mentioned; I'm still working my way through the thread.)

(Also: I've registered a login name, teucer, on this site, but made the mistake of putting a character in my password that is probably responsible for why I can't get entering it to work. I'm awaiting a new password. So, sorry about the anonymity.)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:25 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Ordinary citizens; Abducted by aliens and genetically enhanced, over the last 4 years, to become the first intergalactic Olympic team. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:59 pm
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 		Help with translation
I've set up a group of multi-lingual Esperanto speakers who are offering to help with translations between the various languages needed here.

The group's only been up a couple of hours, and there are already speakers of German, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Dutch and (I think!) Catalan, all of whom also speak Esperanto.

There are no Asian languages represented yet, but it is the middle of the night there right now. I'd expect to have at least Japanese and Chinese by morning.

So if you've got a message you'd like to have translated, by an actual person who speaks the target language, give it a go! Head over to:

Quote:
www.TrovuLaRingonPerditan.com


And don't forget you can kick off a free Esperanto course yourself too:

Quote:
www.lernu.net


PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:04 pm
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riquardo
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It's a link to a ballet that featured a piece called "Blind Man's Buff", cited as a source for that alternative spelling of the name of the game.


Ok, I was so "stranged out" by the sheet music .pdf that I didn't even read the title apparenly.


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Oh, and I like Kona's take (above) very much!


I like it to. And just out of curiosity, since we're dealing with lots of different languages, the word "kona" in portuguese (same phonetics, different letter in the beggining) is a curse word for a part of female anatomy!

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 		Renata
looking for Renata
During the 2004 Athens games the only Renata on the team of 271 athletes was:

Renata de Oliveira Burgos (born January 3, 1982 in Jaú, São Paulo) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who represented her native country in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She's as resident of Ribeirão Preto.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:09 pm
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enaxor
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 		Re: Help with translation
Anonymous wrote:
I've set up a group of multi-lingual Esperanto speakers who are offering to help with translations between the various languages needed here.


So if you've got a message you'd like to have translated, by an actual person who speaks the target language, give it a go! Head over to:

Quote:
www.TrovuLaRingonPerditan.com


And don't forget you can kick off a free Esperanto course yourself too:

Quote:
www.lernu.net


That's awesome. Thank you! Well I guess I should make that "Dankon"! Very Happy
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esperanto-tim
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 		Re: Help with translation
enaxor wrote:
That's awesome. Thank you! Well I guess I should make that "Dankon"! Very Happy


Ne dankinde, amiko mia. Very Happy

/me has just only just noticed that my last two posts were as "Guest", not as me. D'oh!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:21 pm
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agentNim
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 		Re: Renata
looking for Renata
FlatCat wrote:
During the 2004 Athens games the only Renata on the team of 271 athletes was:

Renata de Oliveira Burgos (born January 3, 1982 in Jaú, São Paulo) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who represented her native country in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She's as resident of Ribeirão Preto.


There was also Renata Costa, who was on the (silver medal winning) Brazilian women's football team, also at the 2004 games.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:29 pm
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fonograph
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Avatrix wrote:
riquardo wrote:
I love this guy's personality! You heard what he said, just forget about the ring. Go on, carry on, FORGET THE RING, leave this forum, nothing to see here! It's going to be tought to break him to give us any clue.

We may have to provide decisive evidence (I've played too much Phoenix Wright) convincing him that the ring is important to his own research.




He already knows about the ring! He's afraid of it!

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 		Re: Renata
looking for Renata
agentNim wrote:
FlatCat wrote:
During the 2004 Athens games the only Renata on the team of 271 athletes was:

Renata de Oliveira Burgos (born January 3, 1982 in Jaú, São Paulo) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who represented her native country in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She's as resident of Ribeirão Preto.


There was also Renata Costa, who was on the (silver medal winning) Brazilian women's football team, also at the 2004 games.

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XaRen
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 		Ariadnes Blog is down
I was just checking on Ariadnes Blog and it looks like it is down at the moment.

Kai left a message and is talking about a new video? Have we seen this yet?

Here is his message on the Blog

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Ariadne - Hope you got my video. I promise, we will figure this mystery out. Consider it my number one mission until further notice.

First thing, I need to get the site reconfigured for seven bloggers. (I think you should invite Larissa too.)

So I'm taking the site down for an hour to test some things.

I won't have new things up right away, but the testing will help speed things up... (you'd be surprised how hard it is to set up a website in 7 different languages!)

I'll surprise you with the new site sometime in the next day or so. Wink

--Kai


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Torakira
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 		While looking at Eli Hunt's website at http://www.thelostgames.com/home.html , I've noticed that in the bottom right corner, there is a section about sayings from "Thinkers of the ancient age". Now, I was reading these when I noticed that
"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows." -Epictetus 55-135 AD
would often loop itself a couple of times before changing to another saying.

Could this mean something?

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SirQuady
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 		I was posting a video response to Ariadne's intro video when i noticed that Kai had just, just, JUST posted a video response himself, under his own Youtube account, kaitotherescue



YouTube: Link

He appears to like his liquorice!
Also he says he's redoing findthelostring.com so that it will be where all seven bloggers...which fits with the fact that the site is currently down.

EDIT: We now are in a new forum section, yay!
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