The nosy Thoom continues his investigations!
So what's the deal with the statue? A number of exiles did some research on what happens when you pump the bellows. What were the results? What is the significance?
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AUTHOR: Haze
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DATE: 08/04/2003 06:55:06 PM
There's a website somewhere listing hundreds of exiles and what message they got... I think Neige put it together? I cant remember the URL... anyone?
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AUTHOR: Callia
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DATE: 08/04/2003 07:55:14 PM
A huge, though not complete list can be found at:
http://members.aol.com/snapstar/tiki.html
Other people had other lists. I think Baff had one which may have had additonal names on it.
Never did figure out what it meant though.
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AUTHOR: Sunblaze
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DATE: 08/04/2003 08:20:19 PM
I think it is just more of a toy than just a mystery. The GM's must be thinking weird thoughts when that was put in the game.
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AUTHOR: Baff
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DATE: 08/04/2003 11:08:32 PM
Probably a few additional names on my list, but not many.
Also, some (not all) of the dups on that list are probably wrong. People heard other people's phrases and thought they were hearing their own.
I keep my phrase on an F-key, and occasionally hit it when I find something new to see if it will trigger anything. Nothing yet. Tried a lot of places that seemed likely when it first appeared, but I don't always remember now.
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AUTHOR: Odes
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DATE: 08/05/2003 10:51:43 AM
I researched this for a while (standing on the shoulders of those who had done the cataloging).
The text as far as I can tell means nothing. I have attempted to decipher it in a variety of different ways. So it's either gibberish or I haven't hit on the Rosetta Stone.
So far as I can tell, not a crumb of evidence relating it to anything else anywhere in the lands has come to the surface. It doesn't look like anything anywhere, it doesn't sound like anything anywhere. I think it fell out of the sky from an alien civilization.
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AUTHOR: Callia
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DATE: 08/05/2003 07:07:32 PM
Well... Some of the names and messages on my list may well be in error, as we did gather some from other lists. But for the ones we gathered for ourselves, we were pretty careful to make sure we were actually having each exile hear their own message, and not someone elses.
We made pretty sure to only have one exile at a time listen, also.. it's the exile standing at the shoulder who is supposed to hear the message. Or rather I guess I should say for whom the message is for. And one shoulder is dominate, although I forget which, might be the right hand one (as you look at the head).
As for what it means.. hmm. I think that the head is tapping into something intrinsic in the makeup of each exile who listens to it. There's a lot we don't know about who and what we are. Ocasionally, one can catch a glimpse of it. The fortune teller at the fair that was held 10 years after the Ripture War was a good example. Another example would be the names we got "apended" to our own when we went down into that Zork (?) maze one April fools day.
I think there's something there.. some meaning.. but I'm not sure how to get at it.
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AUTHOR: Baff
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DATE: 08/05/2003 07:59:08 PM
"Zork (?) maze"
Rogue/Hack.
Has anyone created a character, found out what their phrase was, deleted their char, recreate their char with the same name, and checked to see if the phrase is the same?
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AUTHOR: Tyking II
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DATE: 08/07/2003 07:52:33 AM
You'd have to wait a couple of months for the same name to be free again.
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AUTHOR: Baff
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DATE: 08/07/2003 03:55:15 PM
Thought that might be the case, but a few months isn't that long for a mystery that has lasted years.
I would think Resetus wouldn't change it, but maybe worth the few moments for someone with a pile of junk characters.
Posted by Para at August 04, 2003 06:42 PM