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eMouse
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 		[SOLVED] theunraveling.palimpsest
Thanks to ItsMeAgain, Coincidental leads us to...

http://www.theunraveling.com/palimpsest.html

The floating bits are a puzzle. I've downloaded all 25 bits and it doesn't look like they're scrambled. They seem to be text. I'll have a reassebled version up in a couple minutes.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:25 pm
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eMouse
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 		Here it is. The image says 'eighty one squared'. 81*81 = 6561

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:37 pm
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enaxor
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 		View source and you find "!--turnitupdrownitout--". The music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:41 pm
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LordKinbote
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 		The video game picture, I'm 99% sure, is the original SimCity.

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LordKinbote
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 		6561 upside-down is 1959. That has to be important.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:45 pm
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eMouse
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 		There's also the kid's version of Johnny... 'The Ants Go Marching'...

Quote:

The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching two by two,
The little one stops to tie his shoe
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching three by three,
The little one stops to climb a tree
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching four by four,
The little one stops to shut the door
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching five by five, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching five by five, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching five by five,
The little one stops to take a dive
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching six by six,
The little one stops to pick up sticks
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching seven by seven, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching seven by seven, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching seven by seven,
The little one stops to pray to heaven
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching eight by eight, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching eight by eight, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching eight by eight,
The little one stops to shut the gate
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching nine by nine, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching nine by nine, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching nine by nine,
The little one stops to check the time
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go marching ten by ten, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching ten by ten, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching ten by ten,
The little one stops to say "THE END"
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


81 is 9x9, so 81x81 is 9x9x9x9.

9x9 'stops to check the time'

and

10x10 is 'the end'

A clue, or teasing us that the end is near?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:51 pm
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eMouse
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 		And the background image...

Looks like an ant hill, some sort of rainbow-colored bird, a server farm, and SimCity.

The ant hill has plenty of ants and ties in to the song. I don't know about the bird. The server farm has a lot of servers, you've also got '9s' as a reference on uptime for servers (4 9s is 99.99% uptime). And SimCity...

The Rainbow Bee-Eater looks like a likely candidate for the bird.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:53 pm
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Jhrayvin
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 		Looks like there might be some more text underneath the "eighty-one squared" in the images--scraping off text is a theme here, after all.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:01 pm
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LordKinbote
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 		I think I got it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
We were thinking too hard. eMouse was close.

http://www.theunraveling.com/ninebynine.html

And that goes straight to:

http://www.theunraveling.com/solipsism.html


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dishboy
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 		Here's a copy of the ninebynine.html page, with the refresh commented out. For those who want a closer peek without the hassle...
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dishboy
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 		And for any who might be wondering:

sol·ip·sism
n. Philosophy

1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:13 pm
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LordKinbote
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 		New Puzzle page has been created...

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mmdoogie
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 		Take that eightyone squared image,
flip in horizontally, flip it vertically, and turn all of the white pixels black,
and all of the grey pixels white gives us this image...

Seems to be MYRMYDONS

I tried various logical page names based on this, but nothing in my
immediate search worked.

From this page,
http://www.online-mythology.com/myrmidons/

" I called them Myrmidons from
the ant (myrmex), from which they sprang."

Ties in with the ants on the page...

--mrm

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