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Theo's uninitiation mission
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Khaos
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 		Got a reply from Theo :

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Congratulations on completing your missions. Your desynchronizations were satisfactory and now, as promised, We will share with you something of great importance.

Legend has it that in 1920, one member of the original six was left behind -- and this lost agonotheta became the first counter-agonotheta. This document, which has been in Theo's possession for the past four years, was allegedly created five years after the original agonothetai left – and today members of Theo believe it is an artifact of the first counter-agonotheta's work. It passed into the hands of the Theo network when an agonothetai of the 2004 team defected to work with us. He recovered it at an abandoned Codex hiding spot.


Attached was this pic :


(full view)

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On the pic, there are some underlined/written words :
try to
follow 7 circuits
the up down
(wonderful ?) no no start to weave
cause

and some random letters in the middle i have a hard time to read (but definitly not sounding english)

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runeix ftlr
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 		yeah, i got exactly the same message
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vertically the letters run: a, r(T) , t , Q( O) , 1 (l), b , a , e , p , h , a
horizontaly left: b , y , h , o , l (1) , u , o , a
horizontal right b, i , d , t , m , n , i , 1 (l)


Well have a look for your selves

Matt

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Khaos
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 		Think i've got the code answer... just give a few minutes...

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You need to put a 7-circuit labyrinth (upside down) over the random letters and follow the circuit to find the hidden message


But it's quite hard and i'm still trying to find the exact way...
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Khaos
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 		I'm unable to sort out anything... i wonder if i've got the right
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labyrinth shape

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bryanflurry
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 		Here's my attempt so far(I'm not sure if I got the right letters):

boliausdfytedomphtnhyTiabal
reversed:
labaiTyhnthpmodetyfdsuailob

eta: I missed a letter, back to the drawing board

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Khaos
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 		That's only a spiral shape... a labyrinth shape goes back and forth

Here's the best i got so far (but one letter is outside and it doesn't mean anything) :


(full view)
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AUZ505
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Weezel wrote:
RiotGrrl wrote:
AUZ505 wrote:
How did it worked so far?

You send Theo the information about the task you made up for Khaoe as well as the location where you want to perform your task.
and
Khaos send Theo the information about the task he made up for you and the location where Khaos plans to do his task.

Now you got an approvement and will exchange the tasks with each other?


Wait, is this how it works? I think Mauro and I did it wrong then... We exchanged locations and tasks and e-mailed Theo our plans in this way. I guess we did it entirely wrong then? :\


We did ours that way too.. we both sent a copy of the message. You would *think* it was supposed to be totally random and each person sends their task blind.. but, part of the mission is to explain WHY it wouldn't be something that they would do, so you gotta know why...

June and (I) sent our missions in together, and we were approved...


I am still confused. But now elite.fencer and I received an email from Theo after we send out our tasks together:

TheoLive wrote:

This mission is not approved.

... That is why you each must separately send Us your location and your task for your partner WITHOUT COLLABORATING.

Come up with new plans, and resubmit.


So it is like I assumed at first. Partners have first to send the tasks to Theo separately. Do not why some people have been approved making it differently ?

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Tenchizard
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 		I've been able to get a labyrinth on the pic, putting the B where the runner would start and and it reads:

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baetylusdilodomphalabyrinth


So I think I'm on the right track... I'll try to work on it a bit more

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momonga
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Partially figured out the labyrinth. It's also not upside-down, but right-side up! The words are: baetylus 'diloo' omphalabyrinth. Okay, I don't know what a diloo is. I might have messed something up there, so that's what I mean by 'partially figured out.' Omphalabyrinth could also be ompha labyrinth, or omph a labyrinth, or just one mess of a word! Who knows. What's really interesting is the information on a baetylus:

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n Greek mythology, the term was specially applied to Omphalos[3], the stone supposed to have been swallowed by Cronus (who feared misfortune from his own children) in mistake for his infant son Zeus, for whom it had been substituted by Uranus and Gaea, his wife's parents (Etymologicum Magnum, s.v.). This stone was carefully preserved at Delphi, anointed with oil every day and on festal occasions covered with raw wool[4]


EDIT: Oops I see Tenchizard posted two minutes before I did! Okay it looks like the rest might be:
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baetylus do omphaloi labyrinth. Er, unscramble maybe? Or maybe that's the order.. Also, the problem here is that I took some liberties to rearrange 'dilooompha,' in case my labyrinth is slightly off or something. So it might still be 'diloo ompha labyrinth.' Razz


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Khaos
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AUZ505 wrote:
So it is like I assumed at first. Partners have first to send the tasks to Theo separteley. Do not why some people have been approved making it differently ?


Goes like this :

1 - choose a location
2 - choose a task for your partner
3 - send your location and your partner task to theo
4 - theo approve
5 - send your partner task to your partner (NOT the location)
6 - Wait for your partner to do the same
7 - Follow your partner instruction.
8 - When done, mail theo any pic/video you got.

At any time you can cheat by talking to each other, but from theo's point of view, you MUST NOT.
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Khaos
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momonga wrote:
Oops I see Tenchizard posted two minutes before I did! Okay it looks like the rest might be


Could you post a pic ?
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Khaos
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 		So it seems to point to
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the delphi omphalos, what so special about it ? do we have to do run labyrinth around it ? Or is there something hidden there ?

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momonga
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Khaos wrote:
momonga wrote:
Oops I see Tenchizard posted two minutes before I did! Okay it looks like the rest might be


Could you post a pic ?


Sure, here it is. I drew it by hand instead of on the 'Kiddies' page.
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Canzonett
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 		We need to remember that Theo most probably is the villain here and is trying to seduce us to do things which are likely to result in a catastrophe ..


Latin baetulus < Greek βαίτυλος (baítylos), a meteoric stone.
from Hebrew (beth el)?
http://www.livius.org/ba-bd/baetyl/baetyl.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_%28Israel%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_%28disambiguation%29


By the way, why are we posting all this in spoiler form?!

Edit: OK, I'm unspoilering this ...

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Tenchizard
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 		here's the poster with the labyrinth on it, red is the seed pattern, green are the lines
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