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Post by stupidstupiddan on Dec 29, 2016 20:37:45 GMT -5
Just to clarify, I know a few of us have opened The Vault, but has this one been solved "the correct way" yet?
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Post by Geodus on Dec 30, 2016 4:18:55 GMT -5
Not as far as I know, and that's what this discussion is for.
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Post by jackoat on Dec 30, 2016 13:18:17 GMT -5
So far I am still drawing a blank on this puzzle.
I have been to every location and created the same list of libraries.
If you go to satellite view and drill down to the closest possible 3x3 square and then you take the street view symbol and drag and drop it to the square you can sometimes get right to the location the picture was taken from.
If you drop the street view symbol on the very first location (harder.locate.prime) you can get to the side of the building and see words written on the sidewalk in chalk. If you do the same on the second location (cage.flops.probe) you end up standing in the library beside shelves of books. Shelves JN 2.2 - JN 3.0??
I haven't gotten through the whole list but it is pretty amazing to see some of these locations.
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Post by jackoat on Dec 30, 2016 13:30:00 GMT -5
Also trying to determine if 157.2144 is the dewy decimal number for a certain book.
Which it is not... lol
150 is the class for Psychology but 157 is no longer used (formerly was Emotions)
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Post by ladybug on Jan 2, 2017 16:14:41 GMT -5
Also trying to determine if 157.2144 is the dewy decimal number for a certain book. Which it is not... lol 150 is the class for Psychology but 157 is no longer used (formerly was Emotions) Probably a real long shot, but there's a book: www.scribd.com/document/319908038/Liberty-of-1572144
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Post by jackoat on Jan 3, 2017 0:28:00 GMT -5
Also trying to determine if 157.2144 is the dewy decimal number for a certain book. Which it is not... lol 150 is the class for Psychology but 157 is no longer used (formerly was Emotions) Probably a real long shot, but there's a book: www.scribd.com/document/319908038/Liberty-of-1572144I don't have a scribd membership but from what I could read in the free preview it doesn't look like it gets us any closer to the answer to the sundial. Good find though.
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Post by JulytoNov on Jan 24, 2017 17:26:25 GMT -5
Don't know if means anything, but the website name is one letter different from what is shown at the top of the page when I print it out: atfancdteoamot v. atfancdmeoamot
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Post by hawkeye on Jan 24, 2017 18:54:09 GMT -5
My wife and I noticed that in one of the parapathology columns (issue 2, I think; I don't have it with me), Dr. Patel mentions that Andrew McCabe mutters "books", "coordinates", and "scytale". The first two seem like they could be related to the harvest time page, so maybe the third is a clue on how to interpret what we've gathered from the page. I've tried applying one to the items listed on the webpage, the names of the things they correspond to, and the locations of those things. I've tried using the numbers on the webpage as parameters, and when they didn't reveal anything useful, I tried brute forcing a wide range of parameters, but still didn't find anything. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or maybe there's really nothing here.
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Post by kite on Jan 24, 2017 20:26:55 GMT -5
I did find myself wondering whether Patel's column about Andrew was simply a reference to Myles' activities in Volume 2, which hawkeye and I haven't seen yet. (I am the wife from the above post. Sorry if tag-teaming the forums gets confusing.) Would books, coordinates, scytale have any relevance to vol. 2? If not, it certainly seems like it could be a clue to something. We've been combing through the story elements in vol. 3 (the Curator columns, letters, and Patel's columns), trying to figure out if they could have relevance to this puzzle. The puzzle relationship diagram seems to indicate that the Sundial/Harvest Time puzzle relies on all four issues; is that merely in the sense that they all contributed to the rebus solution, or is there more to it? jcgrech's observation about the web page title is interesting. Sometimes a typo is just a typo (even from MPC), but we've certainly seen them be intentional. I wondered if the letter change could be meant to make the letters anagrammable, but came up with nothing interesting when I tried.
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Post by ariock on Jan 24, 2017 21:34:36 GMT -5
Don't know if means anything, but the website name is one letter different from what is shown at the top of the page when I print it out: atfancdteoamot v. atfancdmeoamot
This is interesting! I tried the alternative spelling, and it also goes to a website that appears to be owned by MPC. The problem with this sort of thing is that it COULD be a part of the puzzle or it COULD be a mistake. OTHERSITE.com gives a 404 error (if you put ORIGINALSITE.com/404, you'll see the same error message. Using that, I tried OTHERSITE.com/library and /libraries and /library.htm(l) and /libraries.htm(l) and similar permutations of harvest. and got nowhere. Assuming it's a mistake, it's a REALLY WEIRD mistake though, right? You wouldn't register a domain name mistakenly like that, would you? And if you did, why not make it redirect to the correct site? Or maybe the 4th issue was going to be called something other than "At the Mountains of Madness?" A M M O M? Momma backwards? I'm getting a little weirded out by this line of inquiry, so I'm putting it down for now.
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Post by k80 on Jan 25, 2017 8:53:46 GMT -5
I did find myself wondering whether Patel's column about Andrew was simply a reference to Myles' activities in Volume 2, which hawkeye and I haven't seen yet. (I am the wife from the above post. Sorry if tag-teaming the forums gets confusing.) Would books, coordinates, scytale have any relevance to vol. 2? If not, it certainly seems like it could be a clue to something. We've been combing through the story elements in vol. 3 (the Curator columns, letters, and Patel's columns), trying to figure out if they could have relevance to this puzzle. The puzzle relationship diagram seems to indicate that the Sundial/Harvest Time puzzle relies on all four issues; is that merely in the sense that they all contributed to the rebus solution, or is there more to it? jcgrech's observation about the web page title is interesting. Sometimes a typo is just a typo (even from MPC), but we've certainly seen them be intentional. I wondered if the letter change could be meant to make the letters anagrammable, but came up with nothing interesting when I tried. As a rule, the only thing that reaches back from Volume 3 is backstory. It was designed to stand on its own without having done the first two volumes.
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Post by k80 on Jan 25, 2017 9:02:45 GMT -5
If I understand a scytale correctly, that's manually exactly what we did to get the web address in the first place.
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Post by hawkeye on Jan 25, 2017 12:48:37 GMT -5
If I understand a scytale correctly, that's manually exactly what we did to get the web address in the first place. I wouldn't say exactly, but yes, it did occur to me that it is similar enough that that may be what he's referring to.
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Post by Geodus on Jan 25, 2017 12:51:57 GMT -5
I got briefly excited this morning when I realized that the numbers 15, 72, 1, and 44 could work the same way as what3words -- i.e., they could be an IP address. Unfortunately, a reverse DNS lookup of 15.72.1.44 shows it has no records, but I determined that all the 15.72.1.* addresses are owned by Hewlett Packard. Is there some other way they could form an address?
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Post by jhafnermd on Jan 30, 2017 23:50:25 GMT -5
I got briefly excited this morning when I realized that the numbers 15, 72, 1, and 44 could work the same way as what3words -- i.e., they could be an IP address. Unfortunately, a reverse DNS lookup of 15.72.1.44 shows it has no records, but I determined that all the 15.72.1.* addresses are owned by Hewlett Packard. Is there some other way they could form an address?
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