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[rowan]

Re: Question for Rowan72

[garamir]

Re: OOh! I know! Ooh! Pick me!

[kingchaos2]

[GloryFish]

[spec]

Considering the idea that the Princess is locked in by a code sequence, imagine it as a string of numbers: 746938...

We have numbers assigned to the three choices: the 4 Holy Truths, the 11 Fathful Apostles, and the 7 Deadly Sins. I am not sure how we can deduce the whole code string but perhaphs this set of numbers (Truths, Apostles, Sins) represents the first digit in a sort of combination lock.

Suppose 7 is the correct choice, the Sleeping Princess will go down that path and find three more choices, which we will have to assign numbers to and then tell her which one to go down. Eventually she will reach the end and be free leaving us with a string of numbers representing her decryption code.

It would make sense, then, that finding the code string first would make guiding the princess through it easier than simply trial and error each time. We only would have to figure out which numbers each phrase represented.

Problems with this spec:

-Right now I have no idea how we would go about finding this supposed "code string." It might not exist yet, or it may never exist.

-So far we don't know what happens after the Princess goes down a "correct" path. Perhaps (as this spec assumes) she will find another set of phrase/number combinations. However, she might not.

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I hope this is clear.

[Nuriko]

In an answer to the Holy Truths question, I found this:

The four Holy Truths
What then is the Holy Truth? Birth is ill, decay is ill, sickness is ill, death is ill. To be conjoined with what one dislikes means suffering. To be disjoined from what one likes means suffer- ing. Not to get what one wants, also that means suffering. In short, all grasping at any of the five Skandhas involves suffering. What then is the Holy Truth of the Origination of Ill? It is that craving which leads to rebirth, accompanied by delight and greed, seeking its delight now here, now there, i.e. craving for sensuous experience, craving to perpetuate oneself, craving for extinction. What then is the Holy Truth of the Stopping of Ill? It is the complete stopping of that craving, the withdrawal from it, the renouncing of it, throwing it back, liberation from it, non-attachment to it. What then is the Holy Truth of the steps which lead to the stopping of Ill? It is this holy Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
http://www.gotaro3.homestead.com/DalaiLama2.html

It's the same (just more complicated) as Phaedra's Noble Truths.

For the apostle thing, Peter also denied Jesus three times. Let's spread that love around.

[Trynian]

From the web site:

[Nuriko]

[Clayfoot]

3 balloons

[enfusion]

what about the complete opposite? maybe we would get a string from somewhere else (puzzles, or whatever) -- and we could use that code string to free the princess (by making her choose the right balloons).

[GloryFish]

[tinkers_damn]

[SPEC] Possible Code

[TridenT]

From the thread about posting phone experiences:

[Ceantari]

Re: What do we know

[Trynian]

[Nuriko]

Re: 3 balloons