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Idran1701
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Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73
Let me get IRC really quick, and I'll do that. :D
Edit: What server is that?
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:06 am
RungeKutta
Veteran
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Frostbite Falls, MN
Here's the voice that appears right before and right after the tones. I wont say what I hear so it doesn't influence what you hear -- since it isn't too clear. Some type of voice synthesis or vocodor or something.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:30 am
Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2465 Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios
ASCII GIRL not being sure if the picture is important or not, i sent an email to reed asking for a picture of his grandmother. when i get a reply, i'll post my exact email... Just in case the page goes down, as dreadhouse pages have been doing, here is the one and only, ascii girl {stop drooling}
i did no resizing {did not want to change the effects}
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:03 am
dashcat
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 816 Location: Under the bed
This probably isn't important and was probably figured out on IRC but it wasn't posted so here goes.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:15 am
Idran1701
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Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73
Hmm. That fits with what I was thinking earlier.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The numbers might represent words or letters from a specific Dickinson poem. Does anyone know if the voice at the start might be quoting from some specific piece of hers?
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:17 am
enaxor
I Have No Life
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
I found this poem by Dickinson, although matching the numbers to letters doesn't seem to produce anything intelligible, it is interesting.
Quote:
Whoever disenchants
A single Human soul
By failure of irreverence
Is guilty of the whole.
As guileless as a Bird
As graphic as a star
Till the suggestion sinister
Things are not what they are --
_________________10/05/2007, 04/23/2009, 07/02/2015
The world is a much dimmer place.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:31 pm
dishboy
Unfettered
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Atlanta
I'm kinda doubting the numbers represent characters from a poem, or something of the sort. There are several numbers which are repeated numerous times, such as 9. It is likely that such a common character in our code would appear more than once in the poem, so why not use other places it appears, instead of always 9?
_________________-- dishboy
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:11 pm
Phunk
Guest
Nice Find!! I think that definatly has something to do with this puzzle. I cannot make out much of what the male computer voice says, but even before i saw your post I thought i heard something about (dis)enchanted ones. But what could this poem mean?
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:13 pm
ironchefmike
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Brookline, MA
Phunk wrote:
Nice Find!! I think that definatly has something to do with this puzzle. I cannot make out much of what the male computer voice says, but even before i saw your post I thought i heard something about (dis)enchanted ones. But what could this poem mean?
I heard "(dis)enchanted" , too. I thought perhaps that the first words spoken by the male voice is "muse (is?)" and the last word, instead of "ones" might be "wines" or "vines".
Googling "Emily Dickinson" and "muse" brings up, well, quite a few unhelpful links.
"Emily Dickinson" and "wines" or "vines" also scores a couple of hits. Will take a further look down this road.
Mike
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:30 pm
Lobo
Boot
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 23
This is the tones file edited slightly to produce a more harmonic, slightly more pleasing to the ear tone to try and determing if anyone can recognize a song here. It is also sped up a bit.
edited to add a cleaned up normal and reverse message.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:22 pm
Last edited by Lobo on Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:59 pm; edited 1 time in total
dishboy
Unfettered
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Atlanta
ironchefmike wrote:
I heard "(dis)enchanted" , too. I thought perhaps that the first words spoken by the male voice is "muse (is?)" and the last word, instead of "ones" might be "wines" or "vines".
It also could be "disenchanted once".
By the way mike, welcome - and excellent first post! I don't think you got any props for finding the initial solve, so ... job well done.
_________________-- dishboy
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:46 pm
ironchefmike
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Brookline, MA
dishboy wrote:
It also could be "disenchanted once".
By the way mike, welcome - and excellent first post! I don't think you got any props for finding the initial solve, so ... job well done.
Thanks dish,
My first ARG (actually, I played Majestic, but I don't think that counts). I was lured here by the Halo/ilovebees thing, but that game is taking a little more legwork (and therefore time) than I can put into it, so I'm playing the role of bserver on that one.
Anyway, I'm sort of leaning back to the voice saying 'disenchanted ones'. I was hoping that perhaps the numbers could be somehow made into a phrase based on the letters that appear on a touch tone phone. Problem is that there are so many '1's in there. Does the phrase 'disenchanted ones' tell us to ignore the '1's in the code?
Taking out the ones:
220693942735292469899627983977043859274945982839
Don't know what to do with the zeros. Perhaps a wildcard or space.
Just grasping,
Mike
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:08 pm
dishboy
Unfettered
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Atlanta
[quote="ironchefmike"]
dishboy wrote:
Anyway, I'm sort of leaning back to the voice saying 'disenchanted ones'. I was hoping that perhaps the numbers could be somehow made into a phrase based on the letters that appear on a touch tone phone. Problem is that there are so many '1's in there. Does the phrase 'disenchanted ones' tell us to ignore the '1's in the code?
Taking out the ones:
220693942735292469899627983977043859274945982839
Don't know what to do with the zeros. Perhaps a wildcard or space.
Just grasping,
Mike
I dunno, good spec on the ones/1s, but there aren't enough 0s for it to represent proper word spaces...
_________________-- dishboy
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:19 pm
The Watcher
Unfettered
Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493
Speaking of the voices, Jamie's answering machine greeting is obviously voice-synthesized as well.
I'm sticking to my theory that JC is a guy.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:55 pm
Tien_Le
Charter Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 878 Location: corner of no and where
more message attempts We're still trying to figure out what this message says. The mp3 posted above is much easier to listen to.
I took the best stuff I found in chat to come up with:
Re-use this mess to send Chan ted finds.
Doesn't make perfect sense, but it's closer than what we had before.
here's another possibility:
<Satanis7> reuse this list disenchated ones
and:
<Wishi-san> reuse this mess to send ?chanted? lines
any more ideas?
_________________consume less; live more
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:01 pm
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