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no_moon
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 		The stickman thing has already been discussed at length in the previous forum (I forget where). It was blown up and inked in, and depicts a person jumping or being thrown out of a tall building, with many onlookers. (Creepy??)

The bicycle itself lies on a low wall with a fence, the type of which you'd find a bridge crossings to prevent jumpers, or even on train bridges. (Though why a bicycle would be in a place like that, who knows.)

The bicycle is pretty much unisex; despite the fact that from its shape it should be for women, it's ridden by nearly anyone here.

I would read the Japanese as "caution" especially next to those cones. Not sure why it says "entrance" there, considering there seems to be no entrance.... I'm feeling kind of like the platform is supposed to be platform 9 3/4. You can only see the entrance if you're supposed to see it? Razz

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punkbass
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 		SSS, did you try Jyuu? 1. I think you should try it because I don't want to steal your idea, and 2. RM hasn't been answering my emails anyway.

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no_moon
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 		What do you all make of the shadows in the picture of the bicycle (left side & right side) and the absinthe bottle (superimposed on the bicycle cards symbol)? Do you think they are meaningful or just coincidental?

I've been trying to think of things we might have missed but that might also be obvious....

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punkbass
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no_moon wrote:
What do you all make of the shadows in the picture of the bicycle (left side & right side) and the absinthe bottle (superimposed on the bicycle cards symbol)? Do you think they are meaningful or just coincidental?

I've been trying to think of things we might have missed but that might also be obvious....


The one on the absinthe bottle looks kind of like a backwards 14. I only think that's interesting because in the "I Am The Key" Image if you look under the 13 in "I Am The Qu13e now", the shadow text looks like a 14.

Not sure if that means anything... seems like there are "lying" numbers every where...

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no_moon
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The one on the absinthe bottle looks kind of like a backwards 14. I only think that's interesting because in the "I Am The Key" Image if you look under the 13 in "I Am The Qu13e now", the shadow text looks like a 14.


Yes! That is exactly what I was thinking. Besides that, the text itself in the "I am the Key" image has hints in the shadows.

"Between the echoes" may be a shadow?

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punkbass
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no_moon wrote:

"Between the echoes" may be a shadow?


I would have thought this applied to "Iriguchi" although, I suppose it could have double meaning.

One more thought, just throwing this out there but not sure if it has any relevance. Analyzing the picture below, I feel like I can account for all numbers between 1 and 9 except for 7 and 8. Not sure if it's important or not. Do you see 7 or 8 in here?
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supersekretsrsly
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punkbass wrote:
SSS, did you try Jyuu? 1. I think you should try it because I don't want to steal your idea, and 2. RM hasn't been answering my emails anyway.


RM hasn't answered my emails either. I've received at least two responses from the same muse on a previous occasion, so I'm not confident it's one email per muse. The speed of previous replies suggests that the lack of responses isn't because the PM has abandoned us.

And the handgun/pistol/weapon theme certainly isn't my idea - in fact it's yours. Jyuu is a nice guess too - it fits with Melpomene's allusions and with the qu13e theme, as it also means ten. My suspicion for hajiki was based on a crude phonetic interpretation, nothing more.

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What do you all make of the shadows in the picture of the bicycle (left side & right side) and the absinthe bottle (superimposed on the bicycle cards symbol)? Do you think they are meaningful or just coincidental?

I've been trying to think of things we might have missed but that might also be obvious....


The shadows are probably intentional, we know that based on the gun and the general level of depth in these photos. But I don't think it's the number 14, the number four has shadow in places where there shouldn't be shadow, while the number one is a tilted solid column.

"Criminal stickiness. Mr. Eyes Suspicious. The perception sneaks, is clever, but there - a sinister abstraction reminding me I'm in the dark and through. It's everywhere..."

I believe this alludes to the shadow and shadows in general, but I also don't think we'll be able to work out what it is until we have more information. We know based on the angle of the picture and the source of the shadow that whatever caused the shadow wasn't parallel to the bottle, so the source is probably a permanent fixture rather than an object.

EDIT: Actually I suppose the camera could just have been centred between two objects sat behind it, that would ensure there was no obstruction.

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I would have thought this applied to "Iriguchi" although, I suppose it could have double meaning.

One more thought, just throwing this out there but not sure if it has any relevance. Analyzing the picture below, I feel like I can account for all numbers between 1 and 9 except for 7 and 8. Not sure if it's important or not. Do you see 7 or 8 in here?


Interesting, you can find an 8 to the left of the index finger if you rotate the image 90'o clockwise and I suppose 7 can be found in IX by eliminating some of the lines.

To the right of the palm there is text with some elements removed. The font has the same flare as that in the upper left and the bottom left. It has been mirrored perhaps just to throw us off a little. Combined with the text in the top left and using the text in the bottom left as a guide it spells CHIA, with a strong possibility of additional letters.

http://tangorin.com/general/chia

I do feel that a nudge from the PM would be highly welcome at this point. There are over 40,000 logical ways to solve the sequence '1, 2, 3, 4, 5', and what may appear obvious may not be so. At present, our only hope is to find the third word that Melpomene sought. But Melpomene no longer responds, and the other muses respond with cryptic references (if they respond at all). I know what they refer to, but it isn't helping. Looking at these images is all very well, but I still don't know what I'm actually supposed to do and I can't see that changing.

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sirgreentoad
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 		Has anyone tried combining the pictures.

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There are 3 things Random Martin was especially known for: drinking, painting, and disappearing.

When I last saw him, he was doing all of them at once.


Made me think that maybe 3 pictures needed to be combined since he was last seen doing all of them. I tried to combine the hand with the art and I got the following. The ink in both seem to line up. The M in small is circled and there is now a 4 between the ring and small finger. Maybe there is something else that needs to be combined.




Any thoughts?

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supersekretsrsly
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sirgreentoad wrote:
Has anyone tried combining the pictures.

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There are 3 things Random Martin was especially known for: drinking, painting, and disappearing.

When I last saw him, he was doing all of them at once.


Made me think that maybe 3 pictures needed to be combined since he was last seen doing all of them. I tried to combine the hand with the art and I got the following. The ink in both seem to line up. The M in small is circled and there is now a 4 between the ring and small finger. Maybe there is something else that needs to be combined.




Any thoughts?


That is an interesting idea and the cohesive pattern above the fingers may mean it's intended, but I don't think this particular combination is the answer.

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no_moon
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 		Is it just me or does the funny scribble on the left now resemble the crowd from the small picture from the bicycle photo? And that key looks like the building....

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punkbass
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Melpomene no longer responds, and the other muses respond with cryptic references (if they respond at all). I know what they refer to, but it isn't helping. Looking at these images is all very well, but I still don't know what I'm actually supposed to do and I can't see that changing.


I think I have gotten one, rather cheeky, response from any of the emails in the last few days, if not week.

You're comment above sounds like you have been getting clues, and that you even know what they refer to? Are these clues that Random has asked you to keep private? If not, perhaps they could benefit the group.

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sirgreentoad
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 		Perhaps the riddle
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One memory at the price of another; for to appease the shadows, one must betray the light. I asked the ghosts to paint their souls - so now I must listen to their shade

is for intended for the combination of the images. I have only used the "shade" of the painting to apply to the hand image.

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JamesDiGriz
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 		Really have no idea what is going on here, but noticed:

/*
ICUCME
Beware numbers, count onLies
012017211305.031513
*/

as a comment in the CSS

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supersekretsrsly
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punkbass wrote:
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Melpomene no longer responds, and the other muses respond with cryptic references (if they respond at all). I know what they refer to, but it isn't helping. Looking at these images is all very well, but I still don't know what I'm actually supposed to do and I can't see that changing.


I think I have gotten one, rather cheeky, response from any of the emails in the last few days, if not week.

You're comment above sounds like you have been getting clues, and that you even know what they refer to? Are these clues that Random has asked you to keep private? If not, perhaps they could benefit the group.


I've only received a couple of responses and haven't received a response to my most recent messages. None of them have been secret in nature, generally just allusions to posts on this forum. My last response read:

Quote:
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.


This is referencing the quote from Anais Tumach which contained an additional s on the word mistake. So the word 'miss' appears relevant.

JamesDiGriz wrote:
Really have no idea what is going on here, but noticed:

/*
ICUCME
Beware numbers, count onLies
012017211305.031513
*/

as a comment in the CSS


The number sequence translates to @qu13e.com, which is the email address we've been corresponding with. The local part of the email that we're aware of is a name of one of the nine muses.

Beware pops up quite a lot, beware secrets, beware, and heed this warning...

Does anyone know of anything about the concentric circle that appears in almost all of the paintings?

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sirgreentoad
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 		This redit is gaining traction http://www.reddit.com/r/NoSleepSleuths/comments/2g59rl/s_p_l_i_n_t_e_r_n_a_i_l_s_related_things/

One of them mentions the 4 on the hand image looking like the astronomical symbol for Jupiter. Here is a nice chart.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=42569.0;attach=19188;image

It does look like it.

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