Riddle game - Something for you scientists

[Gale]

yeah, so I'm guessing the change in the tenses of "be" is likely the key to this problem. nothing else stands out to me. "have been" is perfect progressive past tense. "be" is just present tense. there's also a comma in the newer version of the phrase.

 

[Omega_6]

I got it now...it is <<haven[/color]>>

 

[Gale]

ok, so when you listen to her voice its just a song..

 

[JamesU]

how do you get her voice?

 

[Gale]

misc/voice.mp3

its in the source.

 

[Omega_6]

how do you get her voice?

It is a short song and it doesn't loop, just refresh the page and you should hear it again.

Or do what Gale did.

 

[Gale]

for some reason i can never hear the background noise, so i have to do that.

 

[JamesU]

maybe we have to edit the sound? how do you get to that wav editor thing from the run box in Windows?

 

[Kazza_765]

It doesn't sound like there is anything hidden in the sound. Perhaps it is the notes themselves that are important. I haven't done aural training for years, but I can have a go at figuring out what those notes are, perhaps someone better than me will need to do it.

 

[dduardo]

Perhaps we need to find the note of each tone played? You can use audacity to do frequency analysis and it will tell you the note:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[Gale]

well, i was trying to think of how those symbols could be explained by the song and it doesn't look like any music symbols i know. and by the sounds it doesn't seem like the notes of the song directly correlate to the symbols either.

i can probably find out the notes, but it will take some time. i think that would be silly though because there's not as many notes as symbols and like i said, i can't see any correlation myself.

 

[Omega_6]

My tuner can "read" the notes that it hears...so let me see if i can find it...
Nevermind...

 

[Kazza_765]

ooh, didn't think of that, I'll try it with my tuner. I checked the id3 tags, nothing hidden there

edit: nope the notes are overlapping too much to get anything, will need to be done by ear.

 

[Gale]

to me it sounds like E, A, B, C, D, E. its definitely straight up a scale. so again, i don't think its significant.

 

[Gokul43201]

I've got some time now...people where are we ? A url please ?

Edit : Okay, I think I'm there. Don't know how omega cracked tha last one though...

 

[Omega_6]

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/dora/haven.htm"

 

[Kazza_765]

Its definitely in C major, no sharps or flats.

 

[Gale]

i gave you the first 6 notes, I'm positive that's what they are. but like i said, i don't think its significant. any other ideas?

 

[Omega_6]

i gave you the first 6 notes, I'm positive that's what they are. but like i said, i don't think its significant. any other ideas?

Maybe by "how to read" it means in terms of music...like in what key.

But it doesn't seem to be working...

 

[JamesU]

again, we can try editing it, reversing it, speeding it up.. etc.

 

[Gale]

the key is E minor, the scale is natural, what else would you like to know?

 

[Omega_6]

again, we can try editing it, reversing it, speeding it up.. etc.

I'm for going backwards, except this laptop is loaded with graphic and animation software only. But I'll do it if no one else will.

I'm not asking for anything...just thinking out loud.

 

[JamesU]

well in notpron, there was a riddle where you had to reverse a sound and speed it up 3 times to hear some voices

 

[Gale]

i'm looking at the symbols. some of them aren't double sided, as,nd that one is slanted. how could music convey that kind of thing? the slant could be sharps or flat, the only sharp in E minor is F. umm, i don't know what the double sidedness could be though. also none of the symbols have more than 5 horizontal lines...

 

[Kazza_765]

Perhaps those symbols have meaning somewhere else in the world. Like, I was thinking braille perhaps, but that doesn't seem to be it. They look kind of familiar to me, but maybe that's just from doing other riddles.

 

[Gokul43201]

Those signs look like they might belong to some ancient nordic rune...

Edit : I take that back. I looked at some Nordic runes and only a couple of those symbols appear in them.

 

[Gale]

they reminded me of the symbols in the graveyard. also, yomamma, in not pron they gave you the sound as a file. i recorded the song into sound recorder, and i'll speed it up and play it backwards..

 

[Gale]

uh yeah, haha, speeding up and reversing isn't at all helpful. they're just notes, and they're already high pitched and slow.

 

[Kazza_765]

I've just been through a symbols database and can't find any connections.

(It did have some very obscure stuff though, like the one with three horizontal lines through it is used by vagrants in England and the US to mark places where police live, or people that call the police live)

 

[Gale]

so I'm wondering if the song really has anything to do with the symbols, maybe she's trying to tell us in a different way. also, the picture is called dea.jpg. i searched dea and found that it means some goddess.

 

[JamesU]

dea also means 10^30, which is probably irrelivent

 

[Omega_6]

I have a hint! Type in <<abnoba[/color]>>

It is the second part of her name...

 

[Gale]

oh i didn't think of that. i just looked at the symbols and saw the name didn't fit... nice one.

 

[Gale]

>>druidlands its translated from the ogham alphabet. [/color]

 

[JamesU]

so..who knows what *thqrk sfaz means?

 

[Gale]

ok for the next one, i found out that the faint weapon is called a morning star, which is a clue in the source code.
and in castlevania the flam whip is twice as strong as a morning star...?

 

[Kazza_765]

There is text in the picture saying "The roots go home"

 

[JamesU]

I got the morning star thing, just not the flame

 

[Kazza_765]

Perhaps this has relevance. The word lucifer is from a latin word meaning "Morning star"

edit: One site also said lucifer wielded a morningstar, called 'lucifer's hammer'

 

[Gale]

so we have to figure out what "home" is? i was trying to see where morning stars were used, but most sites just refer to their use by peasants. still not entirely sure what flame means, except that its just some other weapon i guess? and next to the morning star in the picture, is that some other stick?

also, kinda thought it was funny how all the sites say morning stars didn't actually have chains... i wonder if the author made that mistake, or if its delibrate?

 

[Gale]

haven't heard from gokul, dduardo and even omega in a while. you guys have ideas?

 

[Omega_6]

haven't heard from gokul, dduardo and even omega in a while. you guys have ideas?

I'm sorry, but I'm reading an interesting "story" about about Lucifer and Azrael...so I'll be back in a few.

 

[JamesU]

so...I'm up...any ideas?

 

[Boxcutter]

Happy Birthday yomamma.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Ah I finally get what 1337 means I was going to ask, one small step into the 20th century for me.

OK get STEAL but why haven

OK and where is the writing on the picture apart form Druid lands? And where did morning star come from, it's not in the source code? That aside nice work there, wish I was around when you did it.

OK morning star/Venus no link whatsoever to Abnoba I can see in Google? Diana yes(huntress God of the moon) And a link to the Danub via Danu her daughter, it's source in fact Mt. Abonoba. Looking for her roots or origins, I can see none, mother of Danu from where the river comes from goddess of rivers and births herself.

Celtic one of the Sidhe, they all come from Tir Na Nog? No one knows where the Sidhe originated they are alien though, it is thought they came from another world or land fleeing a battle? No luck there? I'm drawing blanks again.

In conclusion pass, she appears to have no origin or roots, or if she does it's an abstract or metaphorical one that you need? The Celts originiated from? No one knows for sure? Somewhere around the Alps seems to be the best guess.

Maybe it's a tree root we're looking for

 

[Omega_6]

Ah I finally get what 1337 means I was going to ask, one small step into the 20th century for me.

OK get STEAL but why haven

OK and where is the writing on the picture apart form Druid lands? And where did morning star come from, it's not in the source code? That aside nice work there, wish I was around when you did it.

OK morning star/Venus no link whatsoever to Abnoba I can see in Google? Diana yes(huntress God of the moon) And a link to the Danub via Danu her daughter, it's source in fact Mt. Abonoba. Looking for her roots or origins, I can see none, mother of Danu from where the river comes from goddess of rivers and births herself.

Celtic one of the Sidhe, they all come from Tir Na Nog? No one knows where the Sidhe originated they are alien though, it is thought they came from another world or land fleeing a battle? No luck there? I'm drawing blanks again.

In conclusion pass, she appears to have no origin or roots, or if she does it's an abstract or metaphorical one that you need? The Celts originiated from? No one knows for sure? Somewhere around the Alps seems to be the best guess.

Maybe it's a tree root we're looking for

Well, Gale got morning star from the source and there also seems to be a morning star in the picture.

P.S. Unless I didn't read your post correctly you seem to be still on the blackforest one about the girl...the answer to that one is <<druidlands[/color]>>. Now the next one is still ripe for the solving.

 

[JamesU]

anyone notice that "morning Star" and "*thqlrk sfaz" have the same amount of characters in each word

 

[Gale]

so i think we're looking for "home" right? but aside from looking for places the morning star originated from, i can't think of any other homes. anyone have ideas?

 

[JamesU]

I was thinking in some weird way...*thqlrk sfaz=morning star and using however that was translated, home=[something]

 

[Davorac]

Hi

Hi everyone, I'm just a lost computer scientist who got dragged into this puzzle by a friend. I'v completed every level up to 27 by myself, save "tempest" and "666", where you guys helped me out, without knowing it. I just thought I'd make my prescense known, and stop lurking.