The Great Tree

weldergeek · Great Tree Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 44

I have been thinking a little bit about these... Not sure if I have any idea what I am doing but one thing did stand out about the last one that was posted:

Professor Askew · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:20 am Post subject:

Drat! I can't believe I'm missing this. What a time to be temporarily locked out of the Cavern. Thanks for posting all this, folks!
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dcos · Great Tree Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1174

Hey just got a new Hood invivte this time from Ssahn. <-Note the full stop.
All that was on the imager was a message posted by ssahn on behalf of Tyrehl:

"Equally important?"

Thats all it said.

Tahgtahv · Explorer Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

I've noticed that the ones I've seen actual images of have groups of 1, 2, and 3 letters in the corners. Might this have something to do with determining the orientation for the triangles?

a'moaca' · Great Tree Member Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 29

D'Jerid · Explorer Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 14

Yesterday I found out that I had received the "5. (use the imager?)" KI-mail. I then linked to The Great Tree 'hood and came across Ssaahn., and when I displayed my KI-mail on the imager I was told to go visit four neighborhoods to get eight more of these puzzles. Along with the triangle puzzles, there was a broken up message on the imagers, but part of it was missing.

Later, I saw eEoaah in The Great Tree 'hood, and when I said what parts I had put together thus far, I was told that there was another neighborhood that I needed to visit to get the complete message. I've been to all five neighborhoods that seem to be in on this (Tyrehl., Ssaahn., Ssaahn, Penumbra, and eEoaah), and the complete message seems to be:

"Do you make what is there and what is not there equally important? These things as with all things are only separate when you choose it to be so. --Tyrehl--"

I'm thinking that this is a clue to solving these triangle puzzles.

Also,

Durin Mephit · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject:

Excellent detective work!
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Cycreim · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

Not sure if you guys got this one or not...

Rils · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:12 am Post subject:

I don't get it...

Was that note really from Penumbra? Do we need to combine the puzzles somehow, put them all together like pieces of pie?

Confused

D'Jerid, nice work coming up with that, I hadn't thought along those lines. Has anyone taken a look at doing the puzzles that way yet? I was out all day, but I'll see if I can work on it tomorrow maybe...

~Rils
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Cycreim · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:09 am Post subject:

Yeah, it really was Penumbra.

It seems to suggest a series of numbers...

0 (circle)
4 (square)
4 (rectangle)
1 (first grader)
1 (bis.)
3.14 (pi?)
2 (doublemint)
0 (hug toilet?)

Probably a dead end, but that's what I thought of.
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Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

I understand the clue.

If we examine the spacing between the letters in the original images, we will find that each pair of triangles may be merged together into a single triangle. Then, I believe an earlier proposal - to merge the triangles together - will also yield more. There are also errors in the puzzles where the incorrect letters were written.

The solution to #5 (the only one for which I have original screenshots - text transcriptions will not suffice!):

Up the left side:

... T ALWAYS BE SOMEIH ...
(The last I should be a T)

Down the right side:
... ING MOLDED SOMET...

Across the bottom:
AT ONCE UNSEEN BREATH

In order to solve this puzzle, we MUST have high-resolution KI shots of the triangles.
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D'Jerid · Explorer Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 14

Great job, Marten! I luckily already had high-res shots of these triangle puzzles on my computer, so I was immediately able to get to work.

I've gone through all of this combining the puzzles together, and then getting lines to put in order (by using the first and last letter of each line to match them up) and I think I have the complete message.

"Look at you! Now can you really say that you are one among many or many as one? Community may not always be something molded, something joined, or even a static way of looking at the world as you tend to do. The magic that has illuminated things once unseen breathes darkness also."

Rils · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Marten - nice work! And D'Jerid, thanks for doing the final legwork on this. that was a great puzzle. Now for the next one - what the jimmy does this mean?!

~Rils
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Professor Askew · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:19 am Post subject:

I spoke with Tyrehl last night.

This isn't finished.
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D'Jerid · Explorer Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 14

I figured that it wasn't. A couple of days ago I saw Ssaahn. again, and he hinted that there was more to it than just decoding the message, and that there is another part to all of this.

The question is, what?