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[PUZZLE] The Walls (3D Maze)
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GWing_02
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[PUZZLE] The Walls (3D Maze)

Things to notice:

Truncated letters, large letters in the corners.

I'll work on finding and archiving all of the paintings later.

http://lessonstolearn.net/thewalls.html
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:34 am
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L.Boomer
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The corner

Ok kids I stumbled on
this page :
http://lessonstolearn.net/thecorner.html

The page is Titled "it is missing".
Quote:

HAVE YOU SEEN IT?




Keep It To Yourself




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GWing_02
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Nonono that's the standard 404 page.

You want this:
http://lessonstolearn.net/thewalls.html
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spriggan
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here's what i've found. each pic has text with a missing letter, and a greek letter. i've listed these by greek letter (including letters for which i found no pictures) in alphabetical order, followed by what i guess is missing letter in the text (not sure of one of them), and then the text, with the what i think is the missing letter denoted by an underscore. i thought i explored the whole maze but there are missing greek letters; maybe there are more?

(should i spoiler out the stuff i found or just leave it plain text? not sure how much people want to find this stuff on their own)

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alpha

beta

gamma: (e)
the prodigal child returns
l'ang_ sans ailes

delta: (w)
_ith memory washed out they may revisit the earth alone

epsilon

zeta

eta: (e)
there's absolut_ly no music now there's almost nothing

theta: (r)
the other side of this wall
almost as if i could put
my hand right th_ough it

iota: (s)
and it will save us
if we believe it
and we _hall safely cross

kappa: (o)
how we tried we tried so hard to remember clinging t_

lambda: (f)
by other ways, by other ports
thou to the shore shalt come.
not here, _or passage

mu: (o)
you will not know how to foll_w me

nu: (d?)
and prometheus _oth how we loved and lost and won the battle lost

xi: (l)
held here inside four times two times three times 5 wal_s

omikron: (i)
out of th_s life every land is exile

pi: (v)
such things are contri_ances like so much here

rho: (i)
three times the sun had reached the watery s_gn of pisces

sigma

tau: (n)
stretched out to her
his despairi_g arms
eager to rescue her

upsilon

phi

chi

psi

epsilon: (a)
that thou this very day h_st drunk of




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Omnie
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Filling in the list (I didn't write out the entire text when I was doing this, sorry):
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Here's each missing letter matched up with the corresponding Greek letter's place in the alphabet:
1 T
2 H
3 E
4 W
5 A
6 T
7 E
8 R
9 S
10 O
11 F
12 O
13 B
14 L
15 I
16 V
17 I
18 O
19 N
aka "the waters of oblivion"


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GWing_02
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Oh wow. I was only halfway done when you posted that. Good job.

But what does it all mean!?

Okay, so this appears to be a book written a long time ago. Scouring web pages for clues...
Or it could be the Bob Dylan song "Too much of nothing"...
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spriggan
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here's a painting (!) by john martin, "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion":

http://artyzm.com/world/m/martin/sadak.htm
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Omnie
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Ooh! Googling led me to this:
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Linky (note the last line, I guess)

Which led to this:
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http://lessonstolearn.net/lethe.html

Lethe: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive

So incredibly appropriate, re: Dina and Ethan.

More Dina = happy omnie!

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GWing_02
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AHHHHHH!!!!
I looked at that page too!!!

YARGH!

*ahem* nice find. Razz

edit:
So the pattern of "not yet mourning"s vs. blanks is
0110010001100100
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Omnie
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GWing_02 wrote:
So the pattern of "not yet mourning"s vs. blanks is
0110010001100100

= "dd"
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=D-day. That plus the "mourning" (DINA!!! Nooooo!!!) made me try the day that Dina'd died. So...

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Nov. 18th, and yes, I did have to look that up...

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1118.html


edited to add this last spoiler tag, just in case...
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And now we're on GC/Garbage Collector! Also affectionately known as AI Dude. Well, that and Scratch title snarking. He would so hog the title to post his little message.


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This is so freaking amazing and cool.
I cannot get over this.

Shoot. And I was all ready to go through the maze and document, too! That maze puzzle was SO Dina. Major applause.

And the next step? AWESOME!!

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spriggan
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enh, i never played metacortechs so i'm not appreciating that side of it, i guess. still, this is fun.
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krystyn
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Hey, what can I say, I like nostalgia. Very Happy

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