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drejl
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Comment: Will look at this tomorrow before/after work. Night!
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:44 pm
Leyton Stone
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Apologies Drejl everyone has seemingly been jumping the gun this evening myself included and I know the feeling I am 1hr behind you lol.
Now as for this... Okay so we have this video it still doesn't make it any clearer to me personally how it's s'posed to help us decode the 'letter'? to unlock the first part...?
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:08 pm
scottybrobro
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In the first circle link on http://www.polycystin.com/ it has the message
Quote:
"Mike, I left you a link : 5lgub3.
Remets ce lien à Eleanora
Which translates to:
Quote:
"Mike, I left you a link : 5lgub3.
Give this link to Elenora
Maybe we're supposed to contact Elenora and give her the 5lgub3 video link that was found? That might help us unlock the message with all the X's below.
In the second circle link we have:
Quote:
The artifact is the key Eleanora. Contact B.G.
Art Historian of the XIX century. Demande lui de t'aider à rechercher les travaux de Khnopff.
Which roughly translates into:
Quote:
The artifact is the key Eleanora. Contact B.G.
Art Historian of the XIX century. Ask her to help you research the works of Khnopff.
Searching for Khnopff i found this wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff
The paragraphs below looks like a definition for the word Sublime. The bolded le sublime translates to the sublime one . I tried to translate it in babelfish but without correct grammar it sounds like nonsense lol.
And the last circle link displays a western blot analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_blot
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:13 pm
Leyton Stone
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As for the second part....
"The artifact is the key Eleanora. Contact B.G.
Art Historian of the XIX century. Demande lui de t'aider à rechercher les travaux de Khnopff."
The French I translated to.
Quote:
Ask him to help you to look for the works of Khnopff.
It then goes on to say "Sublime (latin : sublimis, « qui va en s'élevant »
ou « qui se tient en l'air ») désigne dans le langage quotidien une chose grandiose et impressionnante (renversante), qui ne peut néanmoins être perçue ou comprise qu'avec une sensibilité très fine.
Comme concept esthétique, le sublime désigne une qualité d'extrême amplitude ou force, qui transcende le beau. Le sublime est lié au sentiment d'inaccessibilité (vers l'incommensurable). Comme tel, le sublime déclenche un étonnement, inspiré par la crainte ou le respect."
Or to us English.
Quote:
Sublimate (Latin: sublimis, "that goes while rising" or "that is held in the air") designates in the daily language a grandiose and impressive thing (reversing), that nevertheless cannot be perceived or understood that with a very fine sensitiveness.
As aesthetic concept, the sublimates designates a quality of extreme amplitude or forces, that transcends the beautiful one. The sublimates is linked to the inaccessibility feeling (towards the incommensurable). As such, the sublimates releases an astonishment, inspired by the fear or the respect.
I'm assuming we have to find something of Khnopff to do w/ Sublime as the answer?
And how are we contacting Elanor?
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:14 pm
PC Tex Ripley
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The 'artifact' is the key...
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works in Blowfish on the config.txt code to produce co-ords at Hangoa Roa (Easter Island)
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:18 pm
Last edited by PC Tex Ripley on Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:37 pm; edited 1 time in total
Leyton Stone
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Nice work Tex! I didn't even notice that... Guh!
So we still contacting Elanor via 778452429SPLATcraigslist.org?
If so I've sent her the link, I told her it was s'posed to come from Mike but I'm sending it anyway.
Edit: Any chance of seeing those Co-Ords?
Edit 2: Nvm got them. Although I'm not seeing E.Island.
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27° 9′ 0″ S, 109° 25′ 30″ W
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:22 pm
scottybrobro
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Here's what it looks like in google earth.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:41 pm
Leyton Stone
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Well that's odd...
Anyway good job guys.
I'm still trying to work out exactly what we're s'posed to be gaining from that first section 0_o
Elanors craigslist email came back negative, non-responsive and non-existent?
Edit: NVM. I found the gmail address and have shipped off an email explaining that Mike was informed to give her that link.
Just to be on the safe side I also asked Elanor who Heinrich was...
Although you guys may already know?
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:47 pm
Leyton Stone
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Also looking up Heinrich and XXIX I came across both:
Quote:
Heinrich XXIX (Count) of REUSS-EBERSDORF
And this interesting page w/ occult/rune type stuff but I doubt it's relevant.
http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:59 pm
MrToasty
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File link is now ready and goes to a 3-page letter:
http://www.polycystin.com/letter-p1.php
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:06 am
Greyelf
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All this activity has woken Greyelf up from his long sleep. It looks like we are going to have some fun! *smile*
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:37 am
daemon666
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Hey peeps, haven't really contributed to this site since "Geist" but this one's got me seriously hooked. Just finished reading the posts, currently checking out the abundant Khnopff links on the web. If I find anything interesting..... well you'll probably have found it before me. But I'll keep looking. Hope you don't mind me just jumping on board.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:22 am
Leyton Stone
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I'm trying to translate the the French letters but being as I cannot just copy and paste it, my writing w/ the understanding of â's, é's, ç's and other ê's etc it just aint working lol
I know that in April this started over Adam finding something a rock/artifact which supposedly came from New Zealand or he found it in N.Z and then his friend from N.Z Said it was a fraud or something along those lines.
And course not daemon; welcome aboard
Edit: The last part of the 3 page letter practically says that the website's now up and running and she feels she may have made contact w/ Adams last known contact in N.Z, now in Australia - She's going for a cpl weeks to meet them [as per her video] - She says she knows she's already asked a lot of us but would be entirely grateful were we to help her unlock the 3 enigmas on the site.
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:24 am
Zephonith
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Hey guys I've solved the first puzzle (the one found by clicking the uppermost circle on the Polycystin site). I was convinced for a while that it referred to Heinrich Himmler, which took me in a horribly wrong direction. But here's the solve:
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The linked video goes to some annoying girls talking about Foucault's Pendulum in the Panthéon in Paris. Foucault's Pendulum is a novel by Umberto Eco with a huge number of chapters (and also mentions stuff about the Thule Society and the Cult of Cthulhu). Chapter 29 begins with a quote by Heinrich Neuhaus.
Inputting "Heinrich Neuhaus, Pia et ultimissima admonestatio de Fratribus Roseae-Crucis, nimirum : an sint? quales sint? unde nomen illud sibi asciverint." (without quotation marks) into the box brings up...
Quote:
UNLOCKED! -- Decryption Service still loading. Unable to proceed further, please try again later.
Unfortunately I don't actually own the book so I don't know what the proper translation for this is (and my Latin's damn rusty). I guess I should get a start on the next puzzle then...
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:35 am
Leyton Stone
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Nice find Zeph! Is that French or Latin though? Have to keep it there in mind then if it's not allowing us to decrypt it yet.
Maybe we weren't s'posed to?
Also in the letter, 3rd page she mentions 2 other "Netsurfers" JI-Red and Nive Clothing? Maybe look around for them?
Updated Edit:
http://www.jired.com
It's French, it's a Software company and one of its taglines is
Quote:
A first class solution for all our clients in a respected timeline is our guarantee!
Actually... Maybe not. Strange it all seemed to fit and make sense but the whois has them as being created way back in 04. - Although a lot of the links on their site aren't operational and they're both French and English - MAJOR Coincidence perhaps?
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:42 am
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