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[puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
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Shad0
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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
Dorkmaster wrote:
I think that if there is any significance to these words, I think that MeKiwi has stumbled upon it:

That hand and boot are both body references, and if a clockwork rat had been working on you, maybe you'd notice a difference in those same types of places... Mind you, it's just forming now, but I think that's the idea we're heading towards here... at least it makes the most sense (other than a simple typo, which makes the absolute MOST sense!)

From today's 404 page:

The Sleeping Princess wrote:
When she woke up, there was a small electric iron at the bottom of her right leg instead of a foot...

The Sleeping Princess also wrote:
The next time Perdita woke up, she found an egg-beater where her left hand used to be...

Shocked

EDIT: I also can't help being reminded of poor Melissa, before the Pious Flea had totally corrupted her. In the first Operator's Monologue (from Phase 2), she complains about what SPDR is doing to her:

Melissa wrote:
A patient should be able to stop the doctor from cutting off her foot to make a new nose or [SPDR interrupts] elbow or...

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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
Shad0 wrote:
Dorkmaster wrote:
I think that if there is any significance to these words, I think that MeKiwi has stumbled upon it:

That hand and boot are both body references, and if a clockwork rat had been working on you, maybe you'd notice a difference in those same types of places... Mind you, it's just forming now, but I think that's the idea we're heading towards here... at least it makes the most sense (other than a simple typo, which makes the absolute MOST sense!)

From today's 404 page:

The Sleeping Princess wrote:
When she woke up, there was a small electric iron at the bottom of her right leg instead of a foot...

The Sleeping Princess also wrote:
The next time Perdita woke up, she found an egg-beater where her left hand used to be...

Shocked

EDIT: I also can't help being reminded of poor Melissa, before the Pious Flea had totally corrupted her. In the first Operator's Monologue (from Phase 2), she complains about what SPDR is doing to her:

Melissa wrote:
A patient should be able to stop the doctor from cutting off her foot to make a new nose or [SPDR interrupts] elbow or...


Wow, good correlations, Shad0! It's definitely looking (to me) more and more like Perdita is alluding to Melissa's situation!

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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
MeKiwi wrote:
Wow, good correlations, Shad0! It's definitely looking (to me) more and more like Perdita is alluding to Melissa's situation!

You want some more correlations? How about the original MAYDAY text, from before the Pious Flea got his claws on her?

Melissa wrote:
First thing I should do, make a signal.

The crew will come get me if they can.

Head is full of sand and it's hard to think.

But they won't stop looking for me.


I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M HERE


I'd fight for them. I'd die for them, any

of them. I would never abandon the crew.

They won't abandon me. They will come.

They will come for me.

Melissa also wrote:
There are people who love me. I know that even though I can't remember them. I will not be forgotten. I will not be forgotten.

There are people who love me. There must be.

Melissa's crew sure sounds a lot like Perdita's long-lost family to me. She got separated from them, and she's trying to find them. She's even leaving prearranged signals for them. (From Chapter 1: "When it was time to go, the family would look for the red balloons and come and get her.") And by the way, who "spent hours every day preening in front of her mirror"? Why, Perdita, in Chapter 1!

So, for the moment, I think that Perdita = Melissa, and that Clockwork Rat = SPDR.

But, boy, am I in the wrong thread.
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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
Shad0 wrote:
But, boy, am I in the wrong thread.


LOL! Laughing

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 		Also, note:

Quote:
But she bit her lip, in the exquisitely fetching manner she did when perplexed.,


The punctuation error on perplexed has yet to be changed, lending credence to the idea that missing/extra/whatever letters might lead to a file name (or maybe just a sentence. You know).

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 		If the typos are intentional, and are referring to body parts, then I wonder why they corrected "years and rears" to "years and years." A rear is a body part... Razz
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 		years and rears...
When I first saw the 404 page, I saw the years and rears thing too. Then I came here and saw that it had been fixed.

So I refreshed my browser (MSIE), and it STILL says years and rears.

I opened a new browser (Netscape 7.1), opened the page, and STILL see years and rears.

I LIKE rears, but I am not sure that that could come through via my browser...

Does this mean something (besides that I have maybe shared a bit too much)?
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Rob wrote:
So, for uncharted (ducking the flying trout), what do you make of this typo:

Quote:
The night stretched on much as the last one hand.

It reads as "...last one had." if you leave your brain in auto-correct mode, but I refuse to believe in a typo in this context. Am I crazy?
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 		Re: years and rears...
ariock wrote:
Does this mean something (besides that I have maybe shared a bit too much)?


That you're behind a caching proxy?
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mindule
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 		rears (years) hand (had) pluck (luck) boot (booth)

Those are all the spelling errors I found...I couldn't find them all listed together previously in the topic. Think it could mean anything at all?

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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
mindule wrote:
rears (years) hand (had) pluck (luck) boot (booth)

If this is the quote to which you are referring:

The Sleeping Princess wrote:
Perdita forced herself not to cry, because she was a brave girl, and full of pluck.

then I don't think "pluck" is an error.
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mindule wrote:
rears (years)

Old - been fixed by the PMs.

mindule wrote:
pluck (luck)

http://www.ilovebees.com/404 wrote:
Perdita forced herself not to cry, because she was a brave girl, and full of pluck.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pluck wrote:
Pluck, n. 2. Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.


bleh, shad0 beat me, but I have a better argument Smile.
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 		Right now I'm thinking that this is most likely typos (as Shad0 points out, they wouldn't show on a spellchecker).

However, the only thing that makes me think that they aren't just typos is the actual words that are typoed - hand and boot. Both of those are areas modified by the Rat, right? Specifically, her hand is replaced with an egg-beater and her foot with an electric iron. As to what significance that may have, well, erm... I'm thinking about it. Smile
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 		The current spec is that the Rat is SPDR and Perdita is Melissa, huh?

Wouldn't the Flea be the Rat? He is the one following along with the girl (Melissa) and the one who has insiduously replaced parts of her ( Reveal and Seek appearing in Melissa's memories and output ).

I still question that SP is on our side. She keeps encouraging us to enhottenate the axons, but what purpose does that serve for her? If it was a "bad day" for Melissa and the Flea when the SP showed up, then why is it that the SP seems to be encouraging us to gain her trust. I think it's a possibility that the SP has revealed herself to us in a certain way to gain our trust.

Could she fit somewhere else in Perdita's story besides the role of Perdita??

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 		Re: Found more
Shad0 wrote:
There are at least three possibilities:

(1) The PMs will fix the rest of the typos.
(2) Too many of us have noticed the typos already, so the PMs will reverse-engineer some sort of explanation, like when they blamed all the wrong coordinates on SPDR and posted a completely new table.
(3) This was a puzzle from the beginning.

While I think #3 is less likely, that is absolutely NO reason not to investigate it as if it is definitely a puzzle. I've been wrong before, and I'll certainly be wrong again. (Many many many many times, no doubt).

Just wanted to point out something: If #2 ends up being the case, what's the most likely reverse-engineering? We can't blame an SPDR here, and Pious Flea hasn't made any headway (or, at least, not enough to start making the Princess make typos.) [SPEC] I propose that option #2 makes this a puzzle just as much as #3.
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