This is not porn

[russotto]

Checking back -- it says "He who rules by the sword" -- it doesn't have the "dies by the sword" part. Once you get that, you end up at the page with Alpha Hotel etc.

[Clodfobble]

What do you mean "once you get that?"

I've tried every Username/Password combination involving "dies by the sword" and knots that I can think of.

[YellowBolt]

Username: Alexander
Password: Gordian

Should I be making it this easy for you?

[perth]

No!

[YellowBolt]

Okay. I'll shut up now.

[jaguar]

there are 3 sets of 3 number groups on the enxt page, my guessing is they are ascii codes (random guess + looking at number range and distribution) but I can't seem to find anything on my mac that'll let me enter them, on a PC just hit hold down alt and type th number, can someone do this?

079 110 032 116 104 101 032 090 117 105 100 101 114 122
101 101 013 010 084 104 097 116 032 111 108 100 032 102 105 115 104 105 110 103
032 115 101 097 044 013 010 084 104 101 032 070 097 101 105 114 105 101 115 032
115 116 111 108 101 044 013 010 084 104 101 032 098 111 121 115 032 111 102 032
077 097 114 107 101 110

084 104 101 032 111 108 100 032 110 097 109 101 032 111 102 032 116 104 101 032 115 105 116 101 032 111 102 032 116 104 101 032 098 111 121 039 115 032 100 105 115 097 112 112 101 097 114 097 110 099 101 032 105 115 032 116 104 101 032 110 097 109 101 032 111 102 032 116 104 101 032 112 108 097 099 101 032 121 111 117 032 109 117 115 116 032 103 111 046

104 101 098 098 097 110 032 111 108 108 097
032 118 111 103 097 108 097 032 110 101 115 116 097 115 032 104 097
103 117 110 110 097 110 032 013 010 104 105 110 097 115 101 032 104
105 040 099 041 032 040 101 041 110 100 097 032 116 104 117 032 013
010 117 117 040 097 116 041 032 117 110 098 105 100 097 040 110 041
032 040 117 117 041 101 032 110 117

[YellowBolt]

Hold down Alt? Holy crap, then I wasted SOOOO much time translating from an ASCII table.

[jaguar]

I knew I was on the right track

If you really wanted to waste time you could apply some more basic oldschool cryptoanalysis and work it back from there based on letter distribution but it's hard to do it with a sample size that small.

[russotto]

The first two are plain ascii

On the Zuiderzee
That old fishing sea,
The Faeiries stole,
The boys of Marken

The old name of the site of the boy's disappearance is the name of the place you must go.

The third is:

hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan
hinase hi(c) (e)nda thu
uu(at) unbida(n) (uu)e nu

The Dutch message (De jongen....) is babelfish-translated as "the boy will only die", but I suspect a bad translation.

(The Zuiderzee IS the old name... the new name is IJsselmeer)

(grumble... it's dot-htm, not dot-html)

[Happy Monkey]

Originally posted by YellowBolt
Hold down Alt? Holy crap, then I wasted SOOOO much time translating from an ASCII table.

Alt, and type all three digits (including leading zeros, if any) of the number on the numeric keypad.

[YellowBolt]

Originally posted by russotto
(The Zuiderzee IS the old name... the new name is IJsselmeer)

(grumble... it's dot-htm, not dot-html)

Yups.

[jaguar]

(The Zuiderzee IS the old name... the new name is IJsselmeer)

(grumble... it's dot-htm, not dot-html)

doesn't work for me.

[YellowBolt]

www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm

That ought to work... I must say, you're all solving these at a lightning-fast pace. It took me and some other people a whole day to get this far.

[Beestie]

I copied that sound from the first page. Its a series of numbers. It took a while to filter out the static but here's what I came up with:

8, 2, 7, 5, 1, 2, 6, 7, 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 9, 2, 0, 5, 3

No guarantees - best I could do.

Not sure what its good for but maybe it'll help later

[Clodfobble]

Got the tree sign one pretty fast but I'm stuck at the "in the darkness" page, the CuriosityKilledTheCat prompt.