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Post by MrKairo on Apr 14, 2016 12:43:47 GMT -5
In the Curator's most recent message (April 12 "Wherein a safe transition is described"), the Curator mentioned a pair of 16th Century alchemists, Valentine and Ripley. Some quick research turned up that Basil Valentine's most famous work is "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and Sir George Ripley wrote a poem about alchemy called "The Twelve Gates". Could this be a clue to how many passwords we will need for this edition's vault?
While looking these two up, I also found an essay that related these two works to a series of engravings called the Mylius Engravings and says that they contain "22 combinations of 7 interlinked symbols". I found this interesting because many people have pointed out that the symbols on the map appear to be made up of interlinked symbols (e.g. a circle with a dot, a square with a crooked line, etc). Not sure if this will lead anywhere... |
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Post by amanda on Apr 14, 2016 14:41:06 GMT -5
In the Curator's most recent message (April 12 "Wherein a safe transition is described"), the Curator mentioned a pair of 16th Century alchemists, Valentine and Ripley. Some quick research turned up that Basil Valentine's most famous work is "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and Sir George Ripley wrote a poem about alchemy called "The Twelve Gates". Could this be a clue to how many passwords we will need for this edition's vault?
While looking these two up, I also found an essay that related these two works to a series of engravings called the Mylius Engravings and says that they contain "22 combinations of 7 interlinked symbols". I found this interesting because many people have pointed out that the symbols on the map appear to be made up of interlinked symbols (e.g. a circle with a dot, a square with a crooked line, etc). Not sure if this will lead anywhere... I suspect that the key message might be a hint to the Issue 2 vault, since there were also clues for finding it. As for the interlocking symbols, that is indeed suggestive, given the map. I wonder if I take out size and orientation from the mix of symbols I've come up with of it would reduce to seven. |
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Post by draxxtarus on Apr 14, 2016 17:31:32 GMT -5
It is quite obvious the Curator does, at the least, peruse this forum. I do not believe I have ever seen the Curator post, unless done so under a pseudonym!
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 14, 2016 22:26:58 GMT -5
In the Curator's most recent message (April 12 "Wherein a safe transition is described"), the Curator mentioned a pair of 16th Century alchemists, Valentine and Ripley. Some quick research turned up that Basil Valentine's most famous work is "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and Sir George Ripley wrote a poem about alchemy called "The Twelve Gates". Could this be a clue to how many passwords we will need for this edition's vault?
While looking these two up, I also found an essay that related these two works to a series of engravings called the Mylius Engravings and says that they contain "22 combinations of 7 interlinked symbols". I found this interesting because many people have pointed out that the symbols on the map appear to be made up of interlinked symbols (e.g. a circle with a dot, a square with a crooked line, etc). Not sure if this will lead anywhere... I suspect that the key message might be a hint to the Issue 2 vault, since there were also clues for finding it. As for the interlocking symbols, that is indeed suggestive, given the map. I wonder if I take out size and orientation from the mix of symbols I've come up with of it would reduce to seven. I was lucky enough to find someone who reads about this. on pinterest. Size and orientation matters, since the symbols are already interlinked. Some of them. Think of the symbol from Harry Potter |
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 14, 2016 22:36:24 GMT -5
I think the cube art represents one of the inventions in the patient puzzle. |
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 15, 2016 10:33:15 GMT -5
I think I'm looking at this from a different point of view. I took art in college. I'm learning about, number codes. If something sounds wrong, let me know.
I was thinking about the Curator being here as well!
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 15, 2016 12:06:25 GMT -5
Does CJ Falk mean anything? I know I saw the name somewhere in my research, because it was a letter or two off from Falksen... It is what I got after translating the vegetable to Braille. |
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Post by thebardess on Apr 15, 2016 13:30:47 GMT -5
Does CJ Falk mean anything? I know I saw the name somewhere in my research, because it was a letter or two off from Falksen... It is what I got after translating the vegetable to Braille. I confess, I'm very confused. What vegetable are you referencing? And why would you translate it to Braille? |
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Post by amanda on Apr 15, 2016 13:36:26 GMT -5
Whatever else it may be, the cube part of the cube art is a pretty faithful illustration of the sculpture in the story.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 15, 2016 18:21:29 GMT -5
Me too I am confused. Why Braille? Where was the hint that led to it? Or did you just try out random things...
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 15, 2016 20:03:58 GMT -5
Me too I am confused. Why Braille? Where was the hint that led to it? Or did you just try out random things... Trying out random things. There was a plaque by a door, and I wondered what the braille alphabet looked like. The pips we're plotted out in grids that look like sections of the telephone wires in kick. There are also hidden letters in some of the pictures: a C and a J in a girl's hair. A B in the falls, and a p in a tattoo. |
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 15, 2016 20:15:05 GMT -5
Does CJ Falk mean anything? I know I saw the name somewhere in my research, because it was a letter or two off from Falksen... It is what I got after translating the vegetable to Braille. I confess, I'm very confused. What vegetable are you referencing? And why would you translate it to Braille? the vegetable is in the kick puzzle. |
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Post by thebardess on Apr 16, 2016 6:59:17 GMT -5
I confess, I'm very confused. What vegetable are you referencing? And why would you translate it to Braille? the vegetable is in the kick puzzle. Oh, okay *that* vegetable! I thought there was some vegetable reference in the Curator's email that I had missed! |
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 16, 2016 8:37:29 GMT -5
the vegetable is in the kick puzzle. Oh, okay *that* vegetable! I thought there was some vegetable reference in the Curator's email that I had missed!  |
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Post by mrsade11abea1e on Apr 21, 2016 7:14:42 GMT -5
In the Curator's most recent message (April 12 "Wherein a safe transition is described"), the Curator mentioned a pair of 16th Century alchemists, Valentine and Ripley. Some quick research turned up that Basil Valentine's most famous work is "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and Sir George Ripley wrote a poem about alchemy called "The Twelve Gates". Could this be a clue to how many passwords we will need for this edition's vault?
While looking these two up, I also found an essay that related these two works to a series of engravings called the Mylius Engravings and says that they contain "22 combinations of 7 interlinked symbols". I found this interesting because many people have pointed out that the symbols on the map appear to be made up of interlinked symbols (e.g. a circle with a dot, a square with a crooked line, etc). Not sure if this will lead anywhere... I suspect that the key message might be a hint to the Issue 2 vault, since there were also clues for finding it. As for the interlocking symbols, that is indeed suggestive, given the map. I wonder if I take out size and orientation from the mix of symbols I've come up with of it would reduce to seven. I found This works with the other symbols as well. I was wondering what everyone thought. |
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