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[PUZZLE] Are you the seventh son?
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Idran1701
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 		Taking the numbers to refer to the letters in the given planets, I get "SAIEVEMNESN". I can see how one would get "seven" out of this group, but I haven't looked for any anagramming of the remaining letters yet.

Edit: "NAME IS SEVEN"?

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 		Explain this solve a little more thoroughly please. You got the letters from the names of the planets in.... what? Modern names? Sephiroth names? Something else?
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tommymcgrarh
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 		BTW: for anyone who missed it, SPH stands for...
SevenPlanetHexagram

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Idran1701
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 		The names of the planets according to Amanda/Ed's recently posted hint, as linked by Ratteler earlier. http://www.urbanmythology.net/hexagram.html

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Kender
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 		The flash file at sevenlastwords.html seems to be broken.
It is called touch.swf, and it does have some functionality involving touch:
When you click in one of the squares you can hold down the left mouse button and use the mouse to 'scratch' the black away, revealing letters.
Unfortunatly the current touch.swf increases visibility of the letters by 0 each time you move over it. This should probably have been a bit more than that.

That's why I'm posting the letters as I found them:
Code:
v   a   r   i   a   r   t   a   o   c   q   w   i   b   j   e
u   h   a   n   x   c   z   f   s   f   a   g   m   u   n   i
a   s   d   p   k   h   y   t   a   a   v   l   a   i   j   k
h   a   u   p   k   m   d   y   d   r   a   c   x   y   t   b
m   b   v   d   p   f   o   j   r   r   g   u   n   m   t   i
s   c   v   e   o   b   a   b   b   a   a   w   f   y   r   d
a   e   s   a   r   w   n   y   g   w   d   r   t   p   u   k
n   g   g   k   u   f   k   a   d   e   b   a   m   a   o   l
a   y   r   u   t   a   a   y   j   i   z   x   n   u   f   h


Use this in combination with 'Seven Last Words' to solve.

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tommymcgrarh
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Kender wrote:
The flash file at sevenlastwords.html seems to be broken.
It is called touch.swf, and it does have some functionality involving touch:
When you click in one of the squares you can hold down the left mouse button and use the mouse to 'scratch' the black away, revealing letters.
Unfortunatly the current touch.swf increases visibility of the letters by 0 each time you move over it. This should probably have been a bit more than that.


actually, a decompile reveals that moving over SOME of the letters reveals .5 of the alpha. I just figured this out, and havent tested much.

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Kender
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 		I made a mistake (again)

Only 7 letters can be scratched, and they do work: They spell
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'pyramid'. So on to http://www.theseventhsons.com/pyramid.html


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Kender
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 		Now we're stuck with two pyramids with letters and the text 'in and out'.

The left pyramid spells "Apollo spared young ilioneus" and the right one spells "His healing made him immortal"

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Idran1701
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 		Dashcat found the answer to this one in chat.

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http://www.theseventhsons.com/immortal.html


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Kender
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 		Dashcat on IRC got us:
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http://www.theseventhsons.com/immortal.html


Let's get decyphering again.. sigh..

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eMouse
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Idran1701 wrote:
Taking the numbers to refer to the letters in the given planets, I get "SAIEVEMNESN". I can see how one would get "seven" out of this group, but I haven't looked for any anagramming of the remaining letters yet.

Edit: "NAME IS SEVEN"?


A few solutions I've tried...

Septimus
September
Sun
Sol

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 		Maybe this is the hint to www.theseventhsons.com/1.html ?

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Kender
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):

JustLurking discovered that the text on immortal was rotted. The first letter rot 0, the second rot -1, the third rot -2, etc..

The result: city of a thousand gates
This is the name Luxor is given.
In ancient times Luxor was known as thebes

So now we have thebes.html
Clicking there we get another 7th son logo (black background) on threshhold.html. This one leads us to another password page called literal.html.

RobMagus found the password by looking at the thebes page. It's 'maze'.


So now we have this image with "a square of mixed up words"

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 		To be complete. On this page you see:


Quote:
Eteocles and Polyneices both wanted to rule Thebes after the death of Oedipus. Ultimately Eteocles held the throne and Polyneices was in exile. He rounded up an army from Argos and attacked Thebes. In the ensuing battle, Thebes held out, but Eteocles and Polyneices killed each other. Polyneices and the other six leaders of his army are the Seven Against Thebes.

The sons of the Seven came back to attack Thebes again, and sacked it.


So, to reconfirm:
Purple (entry) Who are you? "seeker"
-> (antechamber) What do you seek? "knowledge"
-> (portal) What did you enter as? "seeker"
Red (hall) Who are you? "initiate"
-> (turns) What have you given up? "myself"
[missing connection between sph/hexagram puzzle to get to "sanctum"; NAME IS SEVEN?]
? ->(sanctum) Who are you? "adept"
White (sanctum) ->
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passages -> sevenlastwords -> pyramid -> immortal -> thebes ->

Black
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(threshold -> literal) Where do you want to go? "maze"

next will be:
Yellow (??????)
the:
Blue (?????)
finally:
Green (?????) - I think this is where the 1.html goes

1.html -> maze -> contact email and login (perhaps the end of the line)
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Idran1701 wrote:
Taking the numbers to refer to the letters in the given planets, I get "SAIEVEMNESN". I can see how one would get "seven" out of this group, but I haven't looked for any anagramming of the remaining letters yet.

Edit: "NAME IS SEVEN"?


So just to clarify, this is how you got SAIEVEMNESN?

You took the list from the hexagram page and used the numbers from the sph page going clockwise around?

Saturn - 1,2
Jupiter - 4,6
Venus - 1,2
the Moon - 1,4
Mercury - 2
Mars - 4
the Sun - 3

And that gives SAIEVEMNESN.

What made you decide to skip the "the" before moon and sun?

Using "the" would give us SAIEVETMESE. But there's no N in that which gives us the SEVEN.

Just trying to follow along here Smile
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