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AUZ505
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Yaslana, welcome on board.

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thirdrealm If you are in the dark, take a candle to illuminate your path.

thirdrealm @AUZ505 That is correct. You do not know. I *know* nothing. I am only a prophet and therefore a repeater. Free the Yellow King.

thirdrealm @AUZ505 Words. The world is made of words.

AUZ505 @thirdrealm And we do not know the type of the lock to free the Yellow King

AUZ505 @thirdrealm candle, flame, oxygen. What is the key: the words itself or the place they led to? candle has no own site so I assume words.


So the words are the keys. Still not sure how a candle helps in freeing the king.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:38 am
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Just thought id pop in to say if there are any more London drops I may be able to do them for you as I live in south London (cant promise though). Bit dubious about doing the first drop as its over a week old.

Also I haven't read the whole thread but a world of words is surely a book, if the key is a candle burn the book maybe?

Or could a world of words be a map?

probably useless but oh well.
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Prizefighter-Inferno
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www.thirdrealm.org/book/ exists, but I think it was something used earlier on, unless something on that page becomes more relevant now..

Map or atlas would be the other way to go, but so far nothing exists for those two unless a clever synonym is being used...
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:36 am
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Yaslana
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Thanks for the welcome! ^_^

This just popped into my head:: Illumination is used sometimes for the process of learning something... ((see Illuminati, the Illumination, the (Era of) Enlightenment, etc.))

to me:: 'when "in the dark", take "a candle" and "Illuminate" your path', means something like: if you are lost or don't know/understand, use a tool (book/teacher/resource) and learn something.

Also, to free the Yellow King, it seems like we have to be 'Original'? in order not to be a repeater/Prophet (who takes what someone says and spreads it to other people).

There's something we don't understand yet, we need to 'learn' what we don't *know* to free the King. Maybe we need to look at something in a new light? ((no pun intended))

I'm really convinced a Candle is synonymous with "Knowledge", but I can't think of any good words for it which lead to a new page.

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AUZ505
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What I think is that "candle", "flame", "oxygen" are passwords to decode the king+in+yellow.gif in which definitely something is hidden. But none of the hints given makes me able to understand how we can decode this file.
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Ditto on the headbang Laughing Have tried those words and quite a few others as the PW with Hide In Pictures. That desteg tool is speciifically used for bitmaps and gifs yet no joy here. Kewl finding those new pages tho', AUZ.
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I've tried sticking candle and candle.html on the end of everything since the 'illuminate the path' comment... Although, illuminate is to bring light to, so perhaps I need to be trying light and not candle...
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AUZ505
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The latest tweeds - just in case not verybody is following me:

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thirdrealm @AUZ505 The Yellow King is a door, the Yellow King is behind a door, the Yellow King is behind a lock, the Yellow King is a lock.

AUZ505 @thirdrealm looking for a door but I still can not see one

thirdrealm When there are no more turns left in a maze, the way out is to look for a door.


I additionally received this private message:
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thirdrealm: When using a key, one must consider the original source of the outer walls that held the King. This will lead you to the proper use.


Damn... I always tried to work directly on the unzipped gif - but the outer walls that he is referring to is probably the zip-file itself.
/me starting to look if the zip file contains additional hidden data

EDIT: Nothing unusal found on the zip-file Sad

So the outer walls that held the king is the zip-file, so zip is the original source, I guess. But the gif inside is not a zip. Still no idea about the proper use.
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Yaslana
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Some Tweeds that popped up about an hour ago::

(three hrs ago)
Quote:
ThirdRealm: When contemplating the source of a prison, consider the quarry, not the walls.


(1 hr ago)
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ThirdRealm: The outer walls are 173. Contemplate the quarry. This will guide you in the usage of the CANDLE to unlock the second walls, 231.
ThirdRealm: Things are transient. In this day and age, that equates to: "Save early, save often."


I would normally love to throw myself at the puzzle/lock/key/door... but I'm running Linux and have yet to find a good "opener/concealer" program that will run on my system. ((If anyone knows of a good one, please shoot a link my way))
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:33 pm
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AUZ505
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Just to clarify some things.
The 173 is the zip file and the 231 is the gif contained within. I do not understand the "contemplate the quarry" hint.

EDIT:
Maybe the "quarry" is the 1 KB file found in the strange MACOS folder ??
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Spoiler
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Sorry, been lurking and was waiting to see if anyone got this because you're so close. I figured it out this morning when the quarry clues started showing up.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Yes, the Mac OS data fork is the clue.

The outer wall is the zip, noted by the size. The source or quarry refers to the source of the zip. Mac OS.

The inner wall is the GIF (noted by the size). Using a Mac stego tool (there aren't many) Pict Encrypt, and using the password Candle, reveals a embedded URL in the GIF.

http://theyellowkinglair.blogspot.com/



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AUZ505
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You are a hero, luxandpoe Rock On

I wonder why this gif file is so big, if it only contains one single url.
Perhaps you could try to desteg the resulting gif again, maybe with "flame" and "oxygen" since thirdrealm said before:
"Unlock to find to unlock to find to unlock to find to unlock to find."

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I wonder how the PM assumed that someone will have a MAC to use the software we needed.
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Have you guys watched any of the videos that are linked from the King's site?

Because some are pretty weird.

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AUZ505
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Seems like there is more to do:
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thirdrealm In the dark and without a candle, it is often helpful to speak. The voice can help one find their way.

thirdrealm The candle extinguished, you grope in the dark, only to find the 3rd wall of the prison. The Yellow King still lies within.


As FreeAgent wrote, there are several weird videos linked from the Yellow King Blog. Also there is this "kinetike" image that looks like a puzzle. And we still have the two sites on thirdrealm: \flame and \oxygen.

ThirdRealm.ord now redirects to the new blog.

EDIT:
The quote "Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake, The shadows lengthen" is from the book "The King in Yellow".

So many misteries and so less time: 7days, 12 hours
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Kinętikę means "Agent of Action", according to a site I found using Google: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~Mclennan/BA/AGEDE/Fire.html (interestingly enough, the article is about fire)

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Indeed, in alchemy Fire is considered the primary agent of change (more on this later), and Empedocles, the 5th century BCE magician-philosopher credited with the Doctrine of the Four Elements (Tetrasomia), distinguishes Fire as the Agent of Action (Kinętikę) among the Elements


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