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[supersekretsrsly]

Re: Pre Game Show

[qeken]

reddit guys

[no_moon]

qeken, thanks for joining us!! I did notice that the thread on reddit lost steam, but wasn't sure whether that was because things were going forward as private messages, or because there just simply wasn't any information to be shared there.

Unfortunately, as written above, we've kind of been spinning our wheels after some initial discoveries, too....

Right now I think we've kind of agreed to sit tight until we hear again from the PM with another riddle to solve. Whatever we've got really isn't enough to go on.

The latest clue has been about Clockstop the Whys, and I'm in agreement that it somehow means a pause in the game.

While we're paused, maybe we can take this as a chance to put together what isn't on the German wiki, and try to find out what happened to the English wiki. It seems there are still links remaining to it, but it's inaccessible....

[qeken]

Re: Reddit guys

[Syke]

Qeken,

i just saw your message.

I kinda lost track of this one after it was moved to Chaotic Fiction...

in any case, there IS a user by the name of SuperSekretsrsly.

I suggest you message him.

[punkbass]

Kokonotsu

[no_moon]

Punkbass, that was amazing. I completely agree that kokonotsu must be of importance here, and you are totally right in the way these words are configured into some kind of matrix. I didn't really see it before!

I also notice now that once you remove the numbers, the remaining letters are actually all the same (shag) although of what importance that is.... I am not sure yet.... I will think about this. It might be those remaining letters are actually the key to the orientation of the numbers, or an addition to the numbers that would make them make sense.

I feel this is the first REAL progress we have made with this puzzle in days! Ghosts should be images yes, images that recall memories... apparitions....

Listening to a shade implies synasthesia, the confusion of one sense with another (again Nabokovian...). While it's possible a stegged audio file is in there... maybe. Might be a good idea to look.

Also your idea of kokonotsu might be related to scramble squares? I found this for some suggestions on how to solve:
http://users.wfu.edu/masonsk/scramblesquares.pdf

[supersekretsrsly]

Good stuff PB.

As far as I can see, if ghosts are images the names refer to the muses (at least for the initial 9 images), their secrets are revealed on the completion of puzzles and these secrets hold the key to unlocking - and solving - qu13e. This is based on an old email of Melpomene's:

[no_moon]

I thought a lot about the ghosts last night, and the thing that Punkbass said about the line that doesn't add up in the square.... I read an article about those magic square thingies, and it had a lengthy explanation about the middle number being a key to solving the whole puzzle. So I went back to the middle picture.

Ghosts are also spirits. There is a line in the middle of that poem, "canspiritsee," which I note can be an anagram for "canister spies." This cannot be a coincidence. (It left me wondering if this phrase can be found in other parts of the puzzle.)

I thought again about what else that could be, because obviously if we need a secret key to a secret door.... Or if we need a ghost's name that keeps secrets, which hold the key....

Solving for that anagram, I came up with "secret is pain."

Maybe I'm totally off-base, but I wonder if that is important somehow.

[RikaLeigh]

Hi, just letting it be known I am here/returned. I have never stopped searching, just silently poking around quiet corners of the internet. It is so good to see new life breathed in to old ghosts.

[no_moon]

Rika, it's a great comfort to hear that you're lurking (and now posting!). I had read your posts in the previous threads and your findings were pretty awesome. Also, I really appreciate that you speak Japanese... now there are two of us.

Old ghosts indeed. I'm waiting for a reply from splinternails right now, but I should mention that he said the confusion of color and sound is indeed meant to be synathesia and splinternails has it. Hopefully later I'll be able to share further information on what that means.

[qeken]

I emailed qu13eSPLATqu13e.com, asking about the vampires song.

Me: what is the purpose of the song, Vampires. Is it important?
Can i have a clue about anything?
Qu13e: "A song by any other name would sound as sweet. Or sinister. But a song is
just a song. Music for the masked masses."

Observations/thoughts:
The first sentence is a variation of a line from Romeo and Juliet "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Probably nothing.

"Masked masses", a Google search came up with nothing of importance to me, except for one thing which was about groups of people in Japan wearing masks over their mouths, due to diseases.
Only other music related result was a song by The Blockheads.
once again, i apologise if i am behind.

[punkbass]

Canister Spies

[RikaLeigh]

Let me preface this by saying I have no answers, only speculation, and I have not yet caught up on this latest incarnation of the qu13iverse. This may run long

My working theory is that the third word that is not a word is 911, or something very close. I believe this because:
--when I explored that direction of thought, Melpomene died. I think it triggered the next stage, but I have never discovered what comes next.
--one response from Melpomene was "But there's a sound that rings somewhat familiar." Could be a telephone reference, such as 911.
--one response from Melpomene was "In a word, yes and no; not 109, but closer than one might guess…" 911 is very close to 109.
--agsIXh = ags09h g10sha hg01as that is 911
--from the whois page for qu13e.com Registrant City: OBOENAI
Registrant State/Province: IX
Registrant Postal Code: 1101
Oboenai 91101. Unremember September 11th 2001.
-- the image with the building, the stick people, I believe to be 9/11.

I believe this is not a game. There is no linear progression, but a system of tendrils that spreads across layers and years. I have found ghosts of splinternails dating back to 2002. This is an art installation, a communication method, a social experiment perhaps. There are no coincidences. That being said, not every tendril leads to a clear cut answer.

I believe it is correct that it is not in our best interest to share everything.

The current splinternails page has been live since at least May.

Oh, and I don't speak Japanese. I just google a lot.

And I am so deeply pleased that there's activity again. I have notebooks full of thoughts and puzzle attempts. Now I need to catch up on everything y'all have accomplished when I wasn't looking.

[no_moon]

canister spies