Author
Message
GWing_02
Veteran
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Seattle, WA
[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
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:34 am
Last edited by GWing_02 on Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:39 am; edited 1 time in total
L.Boomer
Decorated
Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 170 Location: The Gym by the Beach, or the Beach by the Gym.
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
_________________So much muscle that I never have to flex...
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:39 am
GWing_02
Veteran
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Seattle, WA
Nonono that's the standard 404 page.
You want this:
http://lessonstolearn.net/thewalls.html
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:40 am
spriggan
Boot
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Cambridge, MA
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)
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
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
_________________--
kevin
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:50 am
Omnie
Entrenched
Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772
Filling in the list (I didn't write out the entire text when I was doing this, sorry):
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
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"
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:02 am
GWing_02
Veteran
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Seattle, WA
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"...
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:05 am
spriggan
Boot
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Cambridge, MA
here's a painting (!) by john martin, "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion":
http://artyzm.com/world/m/martin/sadak.htm
_________________--
kevin
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:14 am
Omnie
Entrenched
Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772
Ooh! Googling led me to this:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Linky (note the last line, I guess)
Which led to this:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
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!
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:14 am
Last edited by Omnie on Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:18 am; edited 3 times in total
GWing_02
Veteran
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Seattle, WA
AHHHHHH!!!!
I looked at that page too!!!
YARGH!
*ahem* nice find.
edit:
So the pattern of "not yet mourning"s vs. blanks is
0110010001100100
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:15 am
Omnie
Entrenched
Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772
GWing_02 wrote:
So the pattern of "not yet mourning"s vs. blanks is
0110010001100100
= "dd"
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
=D-day. That plus the "mourning" (DINA!!! Nooooo!!!) made me try the day that Dina'd died. So...
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Nov. 18th, and yes, I did have to look that up...
edited to add this last spoiler tag, just in case...
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
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.
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:33 am
Last edited by Omnie on Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:42 am; edited 2 times in total
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
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!!
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:36 am
spriggan
Boot
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Cambridge, MA
enh, i never played metacortechs so i'm not appreciating that side of it, i guess. still, this is fun.
_________________--
kevin
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:40 am
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
Hey, what can I say, I like nostalgia.
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:45 am
Display posts from previous: All Posts 1 Day 1 Week 2 Weeks 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year Sort by: Post Time Post Subject Author Ascending Descending