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[Trailhead] Behind The Yellow Curtain BTYC Ep5
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snorkle256
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yellowmazine wrote:
Is the hint yours, or was it supplied IG?


That is my hint to everyone else in case they wanted to solve it themselves.

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PC Tex Ripley
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 		gratz and well done all! Cool

I'm in /LURKHARD mode at the moment, but trying to keep abreast of things and updating the WIKI as things move on. Please feel free to add/change anything I've put on there to show your own POV on things, or update any of the character back stories etc, etc. or not Smile

If you are not into Wiki editing stuff but have any thoughts etc then drop me a line HERE on my wiki user page and I'll add/change stuff for you (not sure if you'll still need an account to do so though).

Both of the pre-live trail walkthroughs are up under Episode5 puzzles and the first seal walkthrough plus first letter.


Tex...
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inf.h5n1
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 		Well I also couldnt find time, or more accurate coulodnt find a pc with internet this week, so im pretty shocked by how much i missed. But its good to come back to humanity after a week in the middle of nowhere, i hope the army wouldnt be in my way for the next puzzles Very Happy Great job you all Twisted Evil Will read all the files and letters now. so seems this EP is pretty much similar to last one in its stracture.

anyway, does someone have a clue of what the number 1893 in the first puzzle signifies?

Btw, what is EP's email (or new email, since she changed it) and do we have or had anyway to connect with BG?

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PC Tex Ripley
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inf.h5n1 wrote:

anyway, does someone have a clue of what the number 1893 in the first puzzle signifies?


[SPEC]"In 1893, when Lovecraft was three, his father became acutely psychotic in a Chicago hotel room while on a business trip. The elder Lovecraft was taken back to Providence and placed in Butler Hospital, where he remained until his death in 1898"[/SPEC] is my thoughts given that we were looking at a picture of an Insane Asylum. I added it onto the wiki discussion tab for that clue in any case. Whether it becomes something else or means something else Dunno

inf.h5n1 wrote:

Btw, what is EP's email (or new email, since she changed it) and do we have or had anyway to connect with BG?


Eleanora stated in email when I queried it
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"The email address is my mistak [sic], probably when I registered the boot file on Qadhos server. The jet lag, the stress or the excitement I guess."


And strangely Razz it's on the WIKI. Not sure if I've mentioned that link before Laughing So it's the same as it ever was, eleanora.planteSPLATgmail.com - or it certainly was that when I asked about her email address on the Qadhos page Wink

Hope you're recovering...


Tex...


PS sorry if I've become a wiki bore Geek
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snorkle256
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 		so the next unlock should be open now, but I wonder if there is going to be an hour lag due to Daylight savings time....????????

-edit- its up

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PC Tex Ripley
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 		So the picture on the Yellow Curtain site with the post title of 1763 1814 1816 1819, has a filename of 18xx.jpg, and the signature of the artist in the bottom right, E. Blair Leighton.

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In 1816 by Edmund Blair Leighton, a few images around, but I like Christies for it's Lot Notes.


The years seem to identify end of wars/peace treaties? (sunday bloody sunday by U2 on the pop-up) Not sure of a definitive answer that ties all together :/ but maybe the 18xx.jpg and the painting name is the real clue? Dunno

on the pop-up 'Le Roseix' and the bistro chain got me to

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Vars-sur-Roseix, it has a small wiki with interesting info about a Frigate captain originating from there. Also the coats of arms that can be seen on the pop-up here.


The only link between the town and the year that I can see is http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_M%C3%A9duse

Where any of that links to '3' if at all, I have no idea, but food for thought...



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snorkle256
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 		That was about I found last night either.

You might need google translate to get good article about Vars sur Roseix

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vars-sur-Roseix&ei=nf59TdSmCYTorAHyp6DwBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvars%2Bsur%2Broseix%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Divnsm

And of course this shows info about Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys born there 1763, one of our other numbers.

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PC Tex Ripley
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 		Also, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Qadhos/201054276590352?sk=app_190322544333196 - a new challenge..?

or even a greater challenge..??

Eleanora's Facebook wrote:

Need help to track down Beatrix!


Eleanora's Email wrote:
Tex,

Sorry for going dark, after handing over the artefact, I needed to disappear for a while. I know Beatrix is out there looking for me as I am looking for her. Cat and mouse game...

I just logged-in to see the progress, as I see the system is slow to boot up but you manage to keep up breaking the seal quickly. This is really good! As long as they keep being easy, we should be in business. Only 3 seals left!

I will log out for while. I still need to figure out where Beatrix is and this part of the investigation is not going as I wish it was. If you have any idea on how I could trap her, don't hesitate. Did you know what was the last whereabouts of Beatrix or other Qadhos agent?



Tex...


ETA: tweets plus some ROT stuff up at http://barbizon-group.blogspot.com/ and EPs email above.
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snorkle256
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 		Rot13 is

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The map is online sir.

Same path as the letter.

Regards


and means exactly what it says

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http://qadhos.com/ltr/map.jpg


Here is the info just to maker sure the map doesn't disappear on us.

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Seal 1 Harley Warren Fate (8 spaces, third bold.)
2 Cursed Dynasty (7 spaces, 4 bold)
3 An unusual inheritance (two word, 8 spaces and 3 space, 7th bold)
4 A powerfull Artefact (3 words, 6 2 6, first letter in 3rd word bold)
5 Gateway to the Hyades (3 words, 3 6 4, 5th letter second word bold)

Last seal
B47869A202876EEA88F5081C1295975C3CFD7AAFB3A11ECB (7 blanks)*fixed
note says Blowfish on Webnet77
which is of course here http://webnet77.com/cgi-bin/helpers/blowfish.pl


-eta the most likely fill in the blank solutions with their bolded letter-
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1 hospital s
2 pickman k
3
4 Scarab of Osiris o (fairly confident)
5 the yellow king o (a guess at this point)


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 		Seal 4 going live today and we're still stuck on seal 3. Kinda reminds me how this played out last time around.

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snorkle256
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 		Seal 4's countdown came, hit zero then reset to 2 hours, now its up to 3 days. Presumably because we didn't get seal 3.

It's up today...

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snorkle256
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 		Seal 4 went live, I'm hoping that it is because somebody figured out seal 3 (fingers crossed)

Clue: The Ring, picture of two ladies probably from a movie and the music is "Voodoo People" by The Prodigy.
Yellow curtain clue: HWA and picture of a sarcophagus Hatnofer's Funeral Mask (Remember her?)

So where is everyone, it's been a whole lot of me talking lately...

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inf.h5n1
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 		back from the dead, im home for a week so ill have some time..

snorkle, how did you managed to find http://qadhos.com/ltr/map.jpg from the ROT13 text? making some reading and trace back on all the steps youve done to catch up with where you are, i hate how much you can miss in one week.

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inf.h5n1 wrote:
back from the dead, im home for a week so ill have some time..

snorkle, how did you managed to find http://qadhos.com/ltr/map.jpg from the ROT13 text? making some reading and trace back on all the steps youve done to catch up with where you are, i hate how much you can miss in one week.


Because it's stored in the same path as the letters which is in the ltr directory, adding the jpg was an easy guess as the letters are stored that way as wel.

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 		I'm still here -- just busy. Sad I have no idea if Seal 3 was yet solved. I am catching up now.

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