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[Puzzle Solved] Behind the kitchen
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n00b
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 		Re: [Puzzle Solved] Behind the kitchen
Roland wrote:
the newest post from the princess says that we can spy on the queen from a path behind the kitchen... kitchen = recipes... a quick check let me note there is no recipe3.html on the links page... A jump over to recipe3.html leads to... NEW Secret Axons!

Hi guys, pretty new to this, so could someone please explain the process behind solving this? How did you get "recipe3" from "behind the kitchen"? Thanks!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:05 pm
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mc.schroeder
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 		recipe... kitchen...
does that ring a bell?

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NMZ
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 		Re: [Puzzle Solved] Behind the kitchen
n00b wrote:
Roland wrote:
the newest post from the princess says that we can spy on the queen from a path behind the kitchen... kitchen = recipes... a quick check let me note there is no recipe3.html on the links page... A jump over to recipe3.html leads to... NEW Secret Axons!

Hi guys, pretty new to this, so could someone please explain the process behind solving this? How did you get "recipe3" from "behind the kitchen"? Thanks!

These things are a lot of trial and error. I'm new to this ARGs as well, but I've been following ILB for a month or two, so I've picked up a couple things. Melissa mentioned a kitchen in her latest 404 update. You guess at some URLs. Perhaps you try simply kitchen.html. No go. There are a couple HTML files on the site named recipe1.html and recipe2.html. Inferring that recipes are things you find in kitchens, you try some other URLs. Maybe recipe.html. Then try the obvious sequential order -- recipe3.html. There. You're in. Just have to guess at the clues and try different things.

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n00b
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 		Re: [Puzzle Solved] Behind the kitchen
NMZ wrote:
n00b wrote:
Roland wrote:
the newest post from the princess says that we can spy on the queen from a path behind the kitchen... kitchen = recipes... a quick check let me note there is no recipe3.html on the links page... A jump over to recipe3.html leads to... NEW Secret Axons!

Hi guys, pretty new to this, so could someone please explain the process behind solving this? How did you get "recipe3" from "behind the kitchen"? Thanks!

These things are a lot of trial and error. I'm new to this ARGs as well, but I've been following ILB for a month or two, so I've picked up a couple things. Melissa mentioned a kitchen in her latest 404 update. You guess at some URLs. Perhaps you try simply kitchen.html. No go. There are a couple HTML files on the site named recipe1.html and recipe2.html. Inferring that recipes are things you find in kitchens, you try some other URLs. Maybe recipe.html. Then try the obvious sequential order -- recipe3.html. There. You're in. Just have to guess at the clues and try different things.

Gotcha. I'm still not familiar with all the links, I'm ramping up as fast as I can. Was there just recipe1 and recipe2 before the recent update, and all these new recipe pages (3 through 8 ) just added since the new 404 page? Thanks for the reply to my original question.

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 		No, there have always been several recipe pages, but it was noted very early on that recipe3 was 'secret' ie. not linked to on the site but still existed. The kitchen reference made many familiar with this anomaly instantly think of recipe3. And that's how you solve ARGs Smile
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Mukaikubo
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 		I think a better 'link' to the two intertwining spiral staircases is DNA.

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t-toe
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Mukaikubo wrote:
I think a better 'link' to the two intertwining spiral staircases is DNA.


yeah, but then what is this window that Melissa is looking out of in the tower then?
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yeah, but then what is this window that Melissa is looking out of in the tower then?


Since Mellisa is spending all of her time trying to communicate with the crew members in the outside world, the window seems like a metaphor for some link to the outside. It is a way to send and recieve data to the world, but no something you would travel through your self.

It sounds like Mellisa is busy lookig around outside of the box she is stuck in.

Edit - added quote and cleaned errors

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 		Re: window reference
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yeah, but then what is this window that Melissa is looking out of in the tower then?


Since Mellisa is spending all of her time trying to communicate with the crew members in the outside world, the window seems like a metaphor for some link to the outside. It is a way to send and recieve data to the world, but no something you would travel through your self.

It sounds like Mellisa is busy poking around outside of the box she is stuck in.

And taking it one step further..

The reference to a twisted pair of staircases could easily be a reference to twisted pair cabling that makes up most (if not all) non-optical data cable (voice or data).

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 		Re: window reference
truegent wrote:
The reference to a twisted pair of staircases could easily be a reference to twisted pair cabling that makes up most (if not all) non-optical data cable (voice or data).


I've been trying to get my head around this all night and that makes a lot of sense to me.

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 		Long time lurker, first time poster. I have no idea if this is the right place to post this...but it looks like the Flea may be patrolling the "kitchen". On rare occasions you can see Fleatext in other recipe pages...I'm looking at a pageview of recipe4 right now that has his white italic mantra overlaid on it:

Seek the truth

Behold the truth

Reveal the truth

That is the law and the whole of the law

Also, I don't remember which recipe it was--might have been recipe2--and I can't seem to get it again, but there was one point today where I saw the

Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
That is the law and the whole of the law
Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
and so on ad nauseum

from an earlier Phase, overlaid four times on one of those recipes. Has anyone else noticed this?

/added later/ Okay, I just found the single-runthrough mantra on recipe2. I'll keep looking for other instances until someone trouts me or something. /added even later/ SPEC: if these only appear on recipes 2 and 4, they may have been intended as clues that point toward a secret on recipe3, just in case we needed one. /added even later still/ Woah! Okay, just found the annoyingly long version again. It's on recipe2, and this time it's overlaid six times. If you're looking for them, don't get discouraged if they don't show up; they're rarer than most imbedded text has been to date.
/final edit/ Ho-kay, I hereby trout myself. Trout Booyeah. I found the topic discussing the flea text in the General forum, and it seems my spec was wrong because it's been found pretty much throughout funstuff, even on the Comatas page and such.

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 		I'm not convinced this is trout. I've not seen mention of corruption on the recipe pages before now. Though it's quite possible that I've missed it in the millions of posts that flood in every second.

-- Malrog is prone to hyperbole. Wink
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 		Twisted-pair cables sounds right on the money. So the question is...what's the architecture of Dana's system? Sounds like there are two main components, linked by a single connection (hence the "no place to hide"). Anyone have a regular correspondence with Dana and can ask about this?

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Malrog wrote:
I'm not convinced this is trout. I've not seen mention of corruption on the recipe pages before now.


It is trout, of a kind. The 'seek the truth' etc - flea text - corruption appears to jump from page to page so it's not been specifically discussed as being on the recipe pages, but has been discussed before. This has been discussed in the General forum.

(edit - found other discussion)
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Trynian wrote:
Twisted-pair cables sounds right on the money. So the question is...what's the architecture of Dana's system? Sounds like there are two main components, linked by a single connection (hence the "no place to hide").

Taking this a bit forward...
The computer that Melissa and company 'landed' on is a web server. How would she get access to the POTS (telephone system) to make the calls? She (or the SPDR) builds a ladder/stairway/cable connection to ANOTHER computer. This may be leading us to find this other system. That in turn may give us the means to communicate back to Melissa and 'assess the damage' as she has requested (it is hard to assess anything when you can not report the findings back to the requester).

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