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[Caterpillar]

Re: text

[Muffin]

Hmm, I thought the circular symbol looked more like a 'no entry' symbol type thing. Also, has anyone checked for steg in the image, it looks pretty distorted in areas - but that could be effect...

To recap:

1) Quote by Vincent Van Gogh, missing the word 'line'.
2) Latin quote roughly translated as "Is truth when we consider thoroughly".
3) Symbols round the outside of the picture, in an unknown font.
4) A wood effigy of a man a la Blairwitch (is that a wicker man?).
5) A grate next to a kerb, some snow & with a yellow 'no entry' (IMHO) symbol on.

Okay. That helps not much.

[krystyn]

I thought it was a 'don't' symbol, except it's sort of odd that it's yellow.

[Omnie]

So, the Latin - is it sort of equivalent to "thinking it makes it true?" When we think it, it is true? Because that's all Matrixy.

(online Latin translators tell me that "cogitet" means he/she thinks (or will think, would think). Does the "nos" turn it into "we think?")

[edit] Oh, it turns out I have the original background saved. I didn't think I did, but yep. (apparently I just never delete anything, ever.) It was called "bg8x6.jpg," and it was, logically enough, 800x600. The new one is called "bg8+6.jpg," and it's 799x595. May or may not be completely irrelevant, but that '+' is funny.

[I need to stop editing] Ventimiglia has some awesome anagrams. I particularly like "main evil git." There's also "I'm vigilante!" and "I'm leaving it." Anyway, that word still confuses me, but anagrams make anything better.

[catherwood]

the teeny font

[Less and less]

I know this goes against the Metacortechs grain as such a clue was never used in the original game, but the chalkboard on the left seems to contain a lot of not-erased-enough writings. In particular, there's a big grid and some tiny letters (o...m...o) at the bottom.

[drizjr]

This is incomplete, but I'm posting this to maybe help someone else see what I think I see.
If the picture is turned so that the odd looking letters are on the bottom edge, they look like letters to me.
Starting at the right side of the picture..

[GWing_02]

Yeah, I see it too. I'll play around with it, see if I can get the words to show up clearer.

[catherwood]

ok, i've rotated my image, and increased the zoom, and added my solve of the letters so far... oh, but people are putting their answers in spoilers? Let me delete that... [edit complete]

[Ehsan]

[Caterpillar]

est veritas ut cogitet nos

I see "ut" as being used alot like "in order that" or "so that" or "that we may".

For example, I get this:
est veritas ut nos cogitatio

When inputting this:
is truth that we think

Maybe "Truth is that we think"

[BrianEnigma]

Hi, all. I just learned about the Metacortechs revival yesterday. I am back for now, but am not sure how much time I can devote to this stuff. I am just sad that my first post to this topic is "I can't think of anything."

Is there a more common name for that Blair-Witch-stickman in the picture? I have tried just about everything I can think of, but have gotten nowhere.

I find my eyes drawn to the yellow "no" symbol that Krystyn mentioned, plus does it seem like there are some red and blue splotches in there, too? It is hard to tell if they are part of the original image (vidcap?) or if they were intentionally added.

This got me thinking: is the "no" referencing the stickman or the grate? I know, back in the day, there was a text adventure game that had a grating you could adventure through to visit underground caverns, but you could shortcut into the caverns without going through the grate by standing in the house at the beginning of the game and typing "xyzzy." It is doubtful that this is connected with MU (and does not seem to lead anywhere URL-wise), but I just thought it was worth a mention.

[Caterpillar]

Okay, if I don't write this down here I will be able to see nothing else in this pic....it's creating a block, so I'll dump it.

I don't know if this means naught or not but I put these together:

"iframe name=poe" coupled with "Van Gogh" and the "stick man"......

And now I can see nothing but "Poe.Gogh.Stick" or "Pogo Stick".

[Omnie]

Brian!!! Hi!

So, remember I mentioned the bg8+6.jpg thing? Well, I was playing with it, and observe:

[Caterpillar]

I can sort of make out: