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[phoenix9]

not to make myself look stupid, but for some reason it seems like this stazi person might be gamem8ker. He is speaking very definatly.

If an admin or stazi whishes to disproove me, go ahead. Hes probably not, but i just get that feeling

and he didnt appear till the second appearence of i am where you talk

[SXG]

for the comic im guessing its the numbers in the top left hand corner....20cents...1march...then 02185....im thinkin the numbers needed are 02185...

[ralf]

Doubt stazi is actually gamem8ker. Wouldnt make sense.

[stazi]

think not who I could be. think what the clues reveal

[ninja_imp]

something interesting - a post from another forum:

STC - Society for Technical Communications

They are holding a conference in Seattle between May 8th and May 11th, and Microsoft are one of the Exhibitors.

Is this a coincidence?

http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/

http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/Exhibitors/exhibitors.asp

some other clever chap found this - cant take the credit

[OC3]

[mstang1988]

Does anybody know the clan ranked 1463 or a clan with 1463?

[stazi]

hehe im going to pretend that I'm stazi :p
I love guest names anyone can take them.

[senseBOP]

We still need to find out what was posted on 2:25GMT (or 7:25EST) to figure it all out, but even that is probably only a hint in some direction, and not the challenge itself.

As for the new hints, the gamem8ker is telling us to look back into the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which was discovered before on these forums, and which can be found here as a reference: http://eserver.org/poetry/kubla-khan.html

Below is the whole poem, I bolded out relevant parts, based on the hints we got so far...

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills --Refrence to the "sinful garden".
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. --Refrence to the Poppies.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover! --Refrence to the Werewolf.
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced;
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves:
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device, --Refrence to the muse, a tool/device.
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! --Refrence to the new MTV Teaser; Circles, Domes, Virtual worlds, etc.
A damsel with a dulcimer --Refrence to the muse, a dulcimer is a musical instrument.
In a vision once I saw: --Refrence to "a vision".
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played, --Refrence to the muse.
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 't would win me
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice! --Refrence to a muse/inspiration.
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware! --Refrence to the Werewolf.
His flashing eyes, his floating hair! --Refrence to the Werewolf.
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise. --Refence to "a sinful garden".
=======

Are there any users here from other forums, that are willing to search for posts by gamem8ker posted on 2:25GMT (7:25EST)? It will help us ALOT if we can figure out this little bit. We keep ignoring it, and I feel we realyl shouldn't.

[Starf]

Ever think that the gamem8ker is sitting looking over our attempts to figure this out, repeatedly banging his head off his desk muttering "how obvious do I need to make my clues?"

Well if he is, then I would just like to say this to him;

That bruise slowly forming on your forehead is nothing compared to the ones we've gotten trying to figure your riddle out. I personally have a headache and a skull shaped indentation on the desk in front of me.

[senseBOP]

I have to wander... Why is the gamem8ker removing all the previous hints from the team page every time? Does that mean that "it was just a muse" is not relevant anymore because know he was talking about the poem?

If so, then we know what the purpose of the poppies, "beware" and the pub was, but then, what is the purpose of the pictures with the math statements and coords?

[threepwood]

I like the Kubla Khan reference, as this was an Opium (poppy)-inspired poem.

SCT, or STC is Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A poet is a Muse, or perhaps the poppies were his 'muse'.
The 10^3 + 10^3 reference could be KK, or Kubla Khan (1000=K).

Not sure about the other numbers though... if following trend:

4 + 3 = DC (DC comics?), like the Marvel comics picture??
Area51 = EA (EA games?)

I'm very confused with all this!

[helusay]

Okay, here's a possibility. Do you think he might be talking about "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood?

Here are the lyrics:

The world is my oyster........ ha ha ha ha ha........
The animals are winding me up
The jungle call the jungle call who-ha who-ha who-ha who-ha
In xanadu did kublai khan
A pleasuredome erect
Moving on keep moving on-yeah
Moving at one million miles an hour using my power
I sell it by the hour I have it so I market it you really can't afford it-yeah
Really can't afford it

*shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top

**there goes a supernova what a pushover-yeah
There goes a supernova what a pushover

***we're a long way from home welcome to the pleasuredome
On our way home going home where lovers roam
Long way from home welcome to the pleasuredome
Moving on keep moving on
I will give you diamonds by the shower love your body even when it's old
Do it just as only I can do it and never ever doing what I'm told

Keep moving on got to reach the top
Don't stop pay love and life-oh my keep moving on on again-yeah
Shooting stars never stop shooting stars never stop

****shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top there goes a supernova what a pushover

Who-ha who-ha welcome to the pleasuredome welcome........ha ha ha ha ha........
Long way from home welcome to the pleasuredome

It's just a thought, I have had this stuck in my head ever since the first mention of kublai kahn

[Poddo]

Obviously we all need to work together to get this thing rolling. If we all collaborate at ONE forum instead of many different ones, maybe this will help. Forget points, forget seperate colonies. We just need to figure this out. I tried to make one, a simple one. http://ourcolony.proboards44.com Its worth a shot. I'm posting this on many other boards too. Get the word out. Lets get this thing solved.

[Atomicbomb22]

These might be oog but:


eden.com:has too many coincidences especially: vision in the headline, and the mention of "ten" on the bottom


also check out vision.com- the info on online community is weird.


DOes anyone else think that even though sometimes we're on the wrong track to the right answer to the xbox we still get small useless info about the xbox or its technolgies. i dunno maybe this game IS well thought out...