 Q: What puzzles are here?
Q: How do I solve the chemistry puzzle?
Q: What does that symbol above the tea mean?
Q: How do I solve the square "Another Stone" puzzle?
Q: What am I supposed to do with the "8" link on the AnotherStone page?
Q: How do I solve the Doomed Soul dominos?
Q: I've found the thief.asp file. Is this supposed to be a puzzle?
Q: What puzzles are here?
A: Always start by exploring. There's a lot to be found here that isn't a puzzle. Be sure to read all of Laia's Meditations carefully.
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A: Also, most of these puzzles won't make proper sense until you've gotten all the Responses in Sophia's Temple.
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A: Almost all of the puzzles here are related to Sencha, the mysterious figure who first led you to Evan Chan's autopsy report.
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A: There's more than just the chemistry puzzle on that page.
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A: There's an obvious link labeled "Doomed Soul", in which you see a series of dominos, as well as another link to a file called "thief.asp."
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A: There's also a link in the tiny character in the Japanese painting, taking you to a file labeled "AnotherStone," and a link inside of that taking you to pages labeled 1-8.
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Q: How do I solve the chemistry puzzle?
A: If you're reading this, you didn't completely finish the "Site-seeing" part of the Journey.
For your own sake, please go back and do so. This part of the Journey depends on your having explored
all of the sites thoroughly.
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Q: What does that symbol above the tea mean?
A: It means "mu." It means "nothing" or "nothingness," or, perhaps better,
as an answer to a question, it unasks the question. ("Don't ask.")
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Q: How do I solve the square "Another Stone" puzzle?
A: The theme of this puzzle is Japanese.
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A: Don't just look at the words.
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A: Look at the shape of the image.
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A: It's a perfect square.
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A: It might help if you printed this out.
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A: And then you cut it out of the page you printed it on.
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A: Now you have a perfect square with words on it.
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A: What do the Japenese do with perfectly square pieces of paper?
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A: Take a look back at Doomed Soul.
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A: That's right, they fold them into origami.
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A: In particular, you might try folding this sheet into a crane.
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A: If you don't want to do it yourself, we can show you what we got when we did it.
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A: The crane says "I killed Ivy" on the back.
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Q: What am I supposed to do with the "8" link on the AnotherStone page?
A: Click on it. Explore it.
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A: You may notice that there are oddly shaped image maps.
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A: You can press Tab to cycle through them if there are more than one (ie if the shape is hollow).
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A: Starting with 1.htm, they seem to spell something out.
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A: Watch out. The sixth character is hollow, but the hollow part is very tiny.
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A: They spell...
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A: Jane Doe
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A: Where would you find a Jane Doe?
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A: Jane Doe is the name given to people who cannot be identified ...
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A: ... because they are either dead or unable to communicate.
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A: Where would you find a dead person?
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A: At the Coroner's Office, of course.
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A: Try entering "Jeanine Salla" first.
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A: OK, now try entering "Jane Doe".
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A: You can also reassemble the pictures,
but there doesn't appear to be a clue in the assembled version.
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Q: How do I solve the Doomed Soul dominos?
A: This is pretty tricky... so work on it a bit before you reveal.
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A: The dominos are a code.
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A: It's another letter code.
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A: We couldn't solve it without a hint of our own.
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A: You should have already explored this site carefully... perhaps you know what hint we're talking about.
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A: It's a hint from Laia.
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A: It's in one of her Meditations.
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A: It's her Not Entirely Sober meditation.
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A: Try solving this one before doing the Doomed Soul puzzle.
Q: How do I solve Laia's sample puzzle?
Q: OK, I've solved Laia's sample puzzle and figured out the pattern.
What's the solution to the Doomed Soul puzzle?
Q: That's all very nice. But what am I supposed to do with the answer I've got?
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Q: How do I solve Laia's sample puzzle?
A: What happened recently in Laia's life?
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A: Just before that, Loki attacked.
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A: Laia sent us an e-mail explaining what Jeanine had done to solve the problem.
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A: She wiped Mephista.
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A: What could this message say?
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A: Look for the most common dominos.
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A: Those dominos are vowels.
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A: The first word has eight letters.
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A: The 1-1 domino is "E".
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A: The 2-2 domino is "I".
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A: There aren't too many two letter words that start with "I".
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A: The second word is "IS".
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A: So the 2-6 domino is "S".
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A: So the first word is something like ?E??IS??
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A: We're going to give away the first word now.
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A: It's "MEPHISTA".
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A: So the second word must be ?EA?, where both the first and last letters are the same.
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A: And the only appropriate word is...
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A: "DEAD".
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A: There's a pattern to this code that you have to figure out.
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A: What dominos do we already know?
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A: Try writing them all out in domino order. (01, 02, 03 ...)
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A: Then try writing each known letter under its domino.
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A: There's two things worth noticing here. One thing to notice is about the vowels, and another thing
to notice is about the number of possible dominos.
Q: What am I supposed to notice about the vowels?
Q: What am I supposed to notice about the number of possible dominos?
Q: OK, I've noticed. What now?
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Q: What am I supposed to notice about the vowels?
A: All of the vowels we have are doubles.
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A: And all of the doubles we have are vowels.
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A: They're also in alphabetical order.
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Q: What am I supposed to notice about the number of possible dominos?
A: If you're like most of us, there are 7 x 7 = 49 possible dominos.
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A: That's a lot of possibilities.
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A: There's a plausible assumption that you can make to limit the number of possibilities.
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A: You can safely assume that it doesn't matter which way the dominos are oriented.
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A: So whether the small side comes first or the big side comes first doesn't matter.
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A: That means that 01 and 10 are really the same.
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A: So you can cross off 10, 20, 21, 30-32, 40-43, 50-54, and 60-65.
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A: That assumption restricts the number of possibilities to 28.
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Q: OK, I've noticed. What now?
A: Now you should have a list that goes 00, 01, 02, 03 ... 05, 06, 11, 12 ...
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A: Now with a couple of guesses you should be able to fill in the rest of the letters.
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A: If you still can't quite get it, there's one more hint we can give you.
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A: You've already noticed that thing about doubles and vowels.
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A: So cross them both off your list.
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A: So now your list should contain 01, 02, 03, ... 05, 06, 12, 13 ...
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A: If you still can't get it, we're going to spoil it next.
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A: The rest is just the alphabet as you already know it.
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A: So the answer is:
00 A
01 B
02 C
03 D
04 F
05 G
06 H
11 E
12 J
13 K
14 L
15 M
16 N
22 I
23 P
24 Q
25 R
26 S
34 T
35 V
36 W
44 U
45 X
46 Z
55 Y
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Q: OK, I've solved Laia's sample puzzle and figured out the pattern.
What's the solution to the Doomed Soul puzzle?
A: If you've gotten that far, just keep going.
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A: The answer isn't very clear, I'll admit.
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A: Especially that last domino, which is almost entirely covered up.
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A: The last domino has only one hidden dot.
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A: So it's a 22 domino.
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A: That means that the answer is...
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A: Jackson Wheti
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Q: That's all very nice. But what am I supposed to do with the answer I've got?
A: Well, what does it appear to be?
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A: It looks like someone's name.
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A: Where can you try out character's names?
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A: Well, you can try them at the Coroner's office, but Jackson Wheti isn't in the coroner's office.
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A: Where else can you enter the names of various characters?
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A: There's really only one other place worth mentioning.
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A: We're going to give it away next.
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A: You can try Jackson Wheti on Sophia's Temple.
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A: After entering your Nickname/Secret, try entering "Jackson Wheti" on the left and "Fear" on the right.
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A: Can you guess any other names that might work?
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A: Read Wheti's entries carefully.
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A: Another full name is mentioned.
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A: That name is...
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A: Johnnie Greenstreet.
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A: "John Greenstreet" also works in Sophia's Temple.
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A: His name also works in PACO, the coroner's office.
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A: But that's another puzzle entirely!
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Q: I've found the thief.asp file. Is this supposed to be a puzzle?
A: Yes.
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A: It's one that we noticed quite easily, because there's quite a lot of us.
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A: Try viewing thief.asp in a different browser.
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A: There's separate messages for almost every browser on the market, including a few really obscure beta-only versions of IE.
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A: You can try to find a list and spoof thief.asp yourself with different UserAgent strings...
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A: Or you can just use our list of UserAgents:
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A: Here's a complete list, and here's a list of the ones we've found to work:
Mozilla/1.0,
Mozilla/2.0,
Mozilla/3.0,
Mozilla/4.0,
Mozilla/5.0,
Mozilla/7.0,
Mozilla/1.2 (Opera/2.02),
Opera/3,
Mosaic/1,
Mosaic/2,
Mosaic/3,
Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.305beta (Windows 95)
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A: These return the following:
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A: Mozilla/1.0: So now you wake Bev up and you get her well.
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A: Mozilla/2.0: Two gits are coming to wipe me in a fewoh,here they come
now, smile for the camera, don?t like the look of this place. Ugly
buggers.
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A: Mozilla/3.0: Right, so, Im dead. Yeah, thats right.
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A: Mozilla/4.0: Dear ratbastard Gilbert:
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A: Mozilla/5.0: I did not have Crane killed, although he did steal from
me.
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A: Mozilla/7.0: and remember Im on you my dead eyes are watching you
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A: Mozilla/1.2 (Opera/2.02): and if Bev isnt right inside two weeks a bloody bible worth of
Screw You is going to every cop in three countries,
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A: Opera/3: dates times orders and by the way I crackd your tax returns too so
unless you want to join Geoff & Jackson in Bendover Palace you take
care of Bev
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A: Mosaic/1:
Ah shit. Time to die.
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A: Mosaic/2:
So Im out from under and wont be doing any more dirty work.
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A: Mosaic/3:
Waste of good rope in about 6 months. Anyway tune your radio to the
copwaves and youll hear about it in the next half hour cause I just
let them know where to find the body
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A: Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.305beta (Windows 95): Why? Because Ive got
sniffers so far up your ass they can smell your breath,
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A: We speculate that the best order is:
Mozilla/4.0,
Mozilla/2.0,
Mosaic/3,
Mosaic/1,
Mozilla/3.0,
Mosaic/2,
Mozilla/1.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.305beta (Windows 95),
Mozilla/1.2 (Opera/2.02),
Opera/3,
Mozilla/7.0,
and a final message from Sencha: Mozilla/5.0.
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A: So the solution, we think, is:
Dear ratbastard Gilbert:
Two gits are coming to wipe me in a fewoh,here they come
now, smile for the camera, don?t like the look of this place. Ugly
buggers. Waste of good rope in about 6 months. Anyway tune your radio to the
copwaves and youll hear about it in the next half hour cause I just
let them know where to find the body Ah shit. Time to die.
Right, so, Im dead. Yeah, thats right. So Im out from under and wont be doing any more dirty work.
So now you wake Bev up and you get her well.
Why? Because Ive got sniffers so far up your ass they can smell your breath,
and if Bev isnt right inside two weeks a bloody bible worth of
Screw You is going to every cop in three countries,
dates times orders and by the way I crackd your tax returns too so
unless you want to join Geoff & Jackson in Bendover Palace you take
care of Bev and remember Im on you my dead eyes are watching you
And a final message from Sencha:
I did not have Crane killed, although he did steal from me.
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