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<!--QuoteBegin-ElectricSheep+Jun 26 2004, 10:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ElectricSheep @ Jun 26 2004, 10:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> TINP doesn't like passwords to be handed out at all, riddles can be given but passwords may not. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> The passwords are there for the lazy, those who don't want to actually work ou everything to get up to speed. People who just want to observe the progress and not actively take part. They're not exactly in plain site, they're not doing any harm because unless someone WANTS them, they won't by able to read them unless they copy and paste them. Considering they're in red and seperated from the rest, you can't really accidentally copy them.
I'll observe and follow the no passwords rule on his own forums, because that's where people go to actively solve the things. Here however, it doesn't matter as much.
I might reconstruct it however and put the passwords RIGHT at the very bottom so you can't inadvertedly read them while figuring things out.
If anyones seen this before, on the page with the skull looking tree, the eyes will ight up. The one on the left you hold tab and you can see letters. The other eye on the right comes up with the page with sentences you can go through, they read:
"Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend, Doth crows behind him tread."
Title of the page: "Philips K. ****'s Fortune Cookies"
The other clickable eye, on the left reads this, which I have no idea what it means.
LEVOS oooGTAHT .WONS
Title of that page is "We face each other across a small table."
that page with the 6 lines of text that you move your mouse over i noticed some stuff
1st it doesnt start with a qoutation mark yet it ends with one 2nd the last line flashes the some text after a few seconeds i got it into a gif editor and found it says "You are not of the path"
and ive been looking through the frames of treeface turnsout its all animated like its mouth moving and eyes glowing and stuff
Can't find a new password prompt anywhere, nor does the code for left or right seem to contain any links. We need to find another URL, unless this thing still isn't done. The page on the right seems to contain some poem that I'm sure I've seen before, and I believe the title (Philip K. D<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>i</span>ck's Fortune Cookie) is a reference to VALIS, the extraterrestrial being he claimed contacted him in his more drug-induced years. Hidden in the source is the message "The boss has a tumor in his brain." Whether any of this matters though, is unclear. The page clearly says we're not in the right place, after all.
The left page contains more references to Dance, Dance, Dance. I've got to read the rest of that sometime, it seemed like a good story, but I'll probably never get around to it, so here's hoping somebody with more knowledge of it can figure this stuff out. Off on a part of the page that goes below the limits of the normal pop-up is the following text: HTATDSENETCURDTNRHEOSEOLFH. Likely some kind of cypher.
<!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Jun 27 2004, 07:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Jun 27 2004, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The protagonist uses "Shovel that good snow" a lot of times in Dance, Dance, Dance" I believe. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, the entire left page is one huge Dance, Dance, Dance reference. There are a bunch of things you mouse over hidden in that gif which change your status line to various bits and pieces from this part where the main character apparently stumbles on the Sheepman's old room boarded up in the Dolphin Hotel. I didn't read that far, so I don't know exactly what's going on. Who is the Sheepman, anyway? He was only mentioned obliquely in the part I read, he was somebody at the old Dolphin Hotel. What's his significance? The TINP guy is obviously trying to draw a connection between Dance, Dance, Dance and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (or some other aspect of D<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>i</span>ck's work) but why's that important?
<!--QuoteBegin-007Bistromath+Jun 27 2004, 07:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (007Bistromath @ Jun 27 2004, 07:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Jun 27 2004, 07:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Jun 27 2004, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The protagonist uses "Shovel that good snow" a lot of times in Dance, Dance, Dance" I believe. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, the entire left page is one huge Dance, Dance, Dance reference. There are a bunch of things you mouse over hidden in that gif which change your status line to various bits and pieces from this part where the main character apparently stumbles on the Sheepman's old room boarded up in the Dolphin Hotel. I didn't read that far, so I don't know exactly what's going on. Who is the Sheepman, anyway? He was only mentioned obliquely in the part I read, he was somebody at the old Dolphin Hotel. What's his significance? The TINP guy is obviously trying to draw a connection between Dance, Dance, Dance and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (or some other aspect of D<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>i</span>ck's work) but why's that important? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I have (of course) read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, though my name actually comes from a Marathon Infinity level of the name ElectricSheep in a homage to the book. Now if I can find the time to read Dance Dance Dance and Alic in Wonderland I'll be all set to solve this thing. Maybe.
You do realize that this puzzle most likely leads absolutely nowhere, it is probably an homage to the universal thought that everything is meaningless, everything, and nothing leads anywhere, there is no spoon, matrix like ****. I for one find it creepy but hey I'm still on the second page after Asia Awaits... what do I know, eh?
<!--QuoteBegin-DarkATi+Jul 4 2004, 03:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkATi @ Jul 4 2004, 03:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You do realize that this puzzle most likely leads absolutely nowhere, it is probably an homage to the universal thought that everything is meaningless, everything, and nothing leads anywhere, there is no spoon, matrix like ****. I for one find it creepy but hey I'm still on the second page after Asia Awaits... what do I know, eh?
~ DarkATi <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Indeed, what do you know? You presume too much, this riddle much like no other. Definitely not your stereotypical puzzle in any bit.
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The passwords are there for the lazy, those who don't want to actually work ou everything to get up to speed. People who just want to observe the progress and not actively take part. They're not exactly in plain site, they're not doing any harm because unless someone WANTS them, they won't by able to read them unless they copy and paste them. Considering they're in red and seperated from the rest, you can't really accidentally copy them.
I'll observe and follow the no passwords rule on his own forums, because that's where people go to actively solve the things. Here however, it doesn't matter as much.
I might reconstruct it however and put the passwords RIGHT at the very bottom so you can't inadvertedly read them while figuring things out.
If someone wants to just wiz through it, there's the passwords.
But if someone wants to "get it," they don't have to look at the passwords.
"Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend,
Doth crows behind him tread."
Title of the page: "Philips K. ****'s Fortune Cookies"
The other clickable eye, on the left reads this, which I have no idea what it means.
LEVOS
oooGTAHT
.WONS
Title of that page is "We face each other across a small table."
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1st it doesnt start with a qoutation mark yet it ends with one
2nd the last line flashes the some text after a few seconeds i got it into a gif editor and found it says "You are not of the path"
and ive been looking through the frames of treeface turnsout its all animated like its mouth moving and eyes glowing and stuff
Oops, and it seams that the left eye link reads:
SHOVEL
THATGooD
SNOW.
backwards.
Edit 2: Interesting pattern in that:
SHO
THA
SNO
There is always one repeting letter when you read them downwards.
The left page contains more references to Dance, Dance, Dance. I've got to read the rest of that sometime, it seemed like a good story, but I'll probably never get around to it, so here's hoping somebody with more knowledge of it can figure this stuff out. Off on a part of the page that goes below the limits of the normal pop-up is the following text: HTATDSENETCURDTNRHEOSEOLFH. Likely some kind of cypher.
Yes, the entire left page is one huge Dance, Dance, Dance reference. There are a bunch of things you mouse over hidden in that gif which change your status line to various bits and pieces from this part where the main character apparently stumbles on the Sheepman's old room boarded up in the Dolphin Hotel. I didn't read that far, so I don't know exactly what's going on. Who is the Sheepman, anyway? He was only mentioned obliquely in the part I read, he was somebody at the old Dolphin Hotel. What's his significance? The TINP guy is obviously trying to draw a connection between Dance, Dance, Dance and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (or some other aspect of D<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>i</span>ck's work) but why's that important?
Edit: Or perhaps the other book by the author of DDD, "A Wild Sheep Chase"
Yes, the entire left page is one huge Dance, Dance, Dance reference. There are a bunch of things you mouse over hidden in that gif which change your status line to various bits and pieces from this part where the main character apparently stumbles on the Sheepman's old room boarded up in the Dolphin Hotel. I didn't read that far, so I don't know exactly what's going on. Who is the Sheepman, anyway? He was only mentioned obliquely in the part I read, he was somebody at the old Dolphin Hotel. What's his significance? The TINP guy is obviously trying to draw a connection between Dance, Dance, Dance and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (or some other aspect of D<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>i</span>ck's work) but why's that important? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have (of course) read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, though my name actually comes from a Marathon Infinity level of the name ElectricSheep in a homage to the book. Now if I can find the time to read Dance Dance Dance and Alic in Wonderland I'll be all set to solve this thing. Maybe.
there is a new password box in the darkness.
Realm: Dorothy and Scarecrow
Click the top light that used to come up with Phoenix to get it.
I'm too lazy to work on it, but I'm sure you other people have the time! Go go go! The Ultimate Riddle calls to be solved!
~ DarkATi
~ DarkATi <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed, what do you know? You presume too much, this riddle much like no other. Definitely not your stereotypical puzzle in any bit.
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