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Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T13:50:54Z

Flabyo: /* Seen Shapes */

{{Season2}}
[[Image:Radio 1's Big Weekend Logo.PNG]]
At [[BBC]] '''Radio 1's Big Weekend''', players found and matched symbols to try and stop [[Cyrus Quinton]] of the [[Third Power]] from launching the [[Neural Override device]].

==Seen Shapes==
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504279698/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504320491/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504339035/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504340241/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504308626/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504310328/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504311924/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504346639/ Paul]
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|1
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|Solid
|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504346943/ Paul]
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|1
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504314468/ Paul]
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|3
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504351879/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504352017/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504352409/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504354759/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504304732/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504339035/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504340003/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504304892/ Paul]
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|None Half Solid
|SB: _SilentlyBroken and friends via IRC from event 
Paul: Paul Denchfield's flickr (including link)
|}

==Map Pieces Found==

<gallery caption="Map Pieces Found" widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="6">
Image:Lamb yoyo rice.png|Set #1 lamb yoyo rice (tally) cork lynx view (tally) wife sack flag (Monk)
Image:Rice cork wine.png|Set #2 rice cork wine (Amadeus) dump dodo tank (tally) nail sack tree (Monk) arch tree quad (Hoolooovoo) arch mead quad (Hooloovoo)
Image:Cave tank cork.png|Set #3 cave tank cork (mcburrows) flag frog scum (mcburrows) lynx zinc tree (Monk) wife wine dodo (Monk) mead zinc book (Monk)
Image:Nail four hall.png|Set #4 nail four hall (Amadeus)
Image:Book pawn nail.png|Set #5 book pawn nail (tally) cave taxi tick (Amadeus)
Image:Moth lynx book.png|Set #6 moth lynx book (Monk) hall tick rice (tally)
Image:Tree four junk.png|Set #7 tree four junk (Amadeus) yoyo cave pawn (Onionring) sack view exam (Amadeus) goal tick flag (Onionring) yoyo taxi tree (Onionring) tick pawn frog (Onionring) nail view taxi (GasparLewis) book flag exam (Onionring)
Image:Junk moth yoyo.png|Set #8 junk moth yoyo (echidna)
Image:Lynx four wife.png|Set #9 lynx four wife (Amadeus)
Image:Flag fish junk.png|Set #10 flag fish junk (???) quad tick four (Hooloovoo)
Image:Cork junk tick.png|Set #11 cork junk tick (Tick)
Image:Frog nail wife.png|Set #12 frog nail wife (Tick) tank four pawn (Amadeus) flag cave nail (Kebie) dodo four goal (Monk) wine lynx yoyo (Jess)
Image:Fish lynx nail.png|Set #13 fish lynx nail (???) wife cork dump (Hooloovoo) wife rice tank (Hooloovoo) cave wine dump (Hooloovoo) cave rice dodo (Hooloovoo)
Image:Tree book goal.png|Set #14 tree book goal (???)
</gallery>

==Merged Map==
[[Image:Radio 1 Big Weeked Merged Map.jpg]]

{{S2HotWater}}

[[Category:Live Events]]

Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T12:27:52Z

Flabyo: /* Seen Shapes */

{{Season2}}
[[Image:Radio 1's Big Weekend Logo.PNG]]
At [[BBC]] '''Radio 1's Big Weekend''', players found and matched symbols to try and stop [[Cyrus Quinton]] of the [[Third Power]] from launching the [[Neural Override device]].

==Seen Shapes==
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504279698/ Paul]
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|1
|Lynx
|2
|Red
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|None
|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504320491/ Paul]
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|[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504346943/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504339035/ Paul]
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|SB & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/504304892/ Paul]
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'''Options''':
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**Blue
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'''Sources'''
*SB: _SilentlyBroken and friends via IRC from event
*Paul: Paul Denchfield's flickr (including link)

==Map Pieces Found==

<gallery caption="Map Pieces Found" widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="6">
Image:Lamb yoyo rice.png|Set #1 lamb, yoyo, rice (tally) cork, lynx, view (tally)
Image:Rice cork wine.png|Set #2 rice, cork, wine (Amadeus) dump, dodo, tank (tally)
Image:Cave tank cork.png|Set #3 cave, tank, cork (mcburrows) flag, frog, scum (mcburrows) lynx, zinc, tree (Monk)
Image:Nail four hall.png|Set #4 nail, four, hall (Amadeus)
Image:Book pawn nail.png|Set #5 book, pawn, nail (tally)
</gallery>

==Merged Map==
[[Image:Radio 1 Big Weeked Merged Map.jpg]]

{{S2HotWater}}

[[Category:Live Events]]

Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T12:14:13Z

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Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T11:57:37Z

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Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T11:53:33Z

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Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T11:50:32Z

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Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-05-19T11:46:22Z

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Library of Babel

2007-01-19T13:50:19Z

Flabyo: /* Extra Text */ Managed to make the same typo twice.

==Discovery==
One of the [[Leaked E-mails#Internal_Security|Leaked E-mails]] hinted at a "library" subdirectory:

{{quote}}
From: Garnet Reed 
To: Henrik Tanner 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm

Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
|}

== Message 1: Waking ==
This led to a hidden page:

http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/

The page has an animated Flash file with an id of "Thunderclap". ("A Combed Thunderclap" is a reference to the [[Jorge Luis Borges]] story, "Library of Babel". For more information, see "[[Puzzle Card Symbols]]".)

An eye opens, and text slowly appears. A transcript follows. The strikethroughs indicate words that are erased in the animation.

===Text===
{{quote}}
Waking. It was like waking into a new world
from a dream of all the old.
Or. No. Like opening my eyes
although I knew they were already open.

For a moment I thought I could see…
everything.

---

This is <s>not</s> important: I did not kill anyone.
I have not killed anyone.
Unless <s>by my silence</s> by remaining silent too long.
But I can’t.
I can’t.

---

I must continue in silence
because what would I say,
how would I convince anyone of what I tell you now?

That I did not kill anyone.

---

But someone did.

---

There are so many possibilities, numberless scenarios
and how do I know? How can I know which one is the
truth? Like the books in the Library of Babel, each
permutation may be the correct one, but is infinitely
more likely to be deceptive. A phantom. A dream.

---

I thought it was a dream. Or a beautiful simulation of a place I have
seen so many times before in photographs or video. I knew it at
once: the yellow cars driven along the streets, the steam rising up
from the sidewalk gratings. I thought: how marvellous. How real.
I stumbled and fell. I grazed my hand and the blood was real and
the pain was real and I began to understand.

---

I didn’t kill anyone. But someone did. And they’ll be looking for me.
|}

===Image Analysis===
The two paragraphs before the last have some letters that display before the others. This may be simply a visual effect or it may be a clue.

[[:Image:Paragraph1.PNG|Image of first appearing paragraph]]

[[:Image:Paragraph2.PNG|Image of second appearing paragraph]]

There are also strange images above the eye, at first they were thought to be kanji. Later arkai discovered that they are just letters turned sideways. These letters seem to spell "Waking" (just like the first word of the animation).

[[:Image:Weirdeye.jpg|Image of the eye, negatived.]]

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, various pieces of what appear to be 3P messages started cropping up in some of the LoB animations. In Waking, we have:

{{quote}}
08012070645 -
To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical diffculties.
|}

and:

{{quote}}
Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:
|}

(For an collected, ordered set of messages, see [[Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks]])

==Message 2: Realise==
On 01-SEP-06, the babel page was updated to show a series of book-ish images, in various forms of hiding. Clikcing the opened book image below the message section takes us to the old message section.

Firstly, the page showed a slew of leaves. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-1.JPG]]

Once cleared, text is plainly visible. There does not appear to be anything else of note at this point. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-2.JPG]]

Then comes the interesting part. After a certain amount of time (about a minute?) the leaves blow away, and the page turns blank. Moving the mouse over the page reveals a new much more hidden message. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-3.JPG]]

Finally, clicking in the upper left corner of the page reveals yet another message. Sometimes, this one is initially slightly obscured by leaves, but is plainly visible. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-4.JPG]]

===Text===
{{quote}}
I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help?
|}

{{quote}}
This is how it was, then. I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone. I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.
|}

{{quote}}
Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows
are less apparent than the whys, and even they
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know
you're already trying. Because those other people?
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't
know who will travel with you.

Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know.
|}

===Extra Text===

On the 19th of Jan 2007 the following message appeared in very small print on one of the leaves:
{{quote}}
19012701215

To Earth operatives: Package onboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
|}

== Message 3: Dissolution. Dissipating. Everything. ==
On 18-SEP-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once again, this time with a much more exciting, dramatic, and artistic animation.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Sometimes I asked myself if I planned it all. Of course I planned it 

I planned what had to be done, I planned how to do it. 

But I didn’t plan the end, only the beginning. The beginning is easy to explain, but dangerous. The end is harder, but safer. 

I’ll start with safe. 
|}

{{quote}}
There was no flash or bang or choir of angels.

---

There was a sense of dissolution, of dissipating, a sense of everything.

---

And then there was hard stone under my feet and steam and yellow cars and an intense cold. And a sound of ringing in my ears.

---

I stood up.

---

Blood on my hand, but that was not important.

---

People walking, uninterested, barely looked in my direction. I thought: people. Just like us. No different at all, after everything that’s been said.

---

There was ringing again.

---

I looked around. There was me, and the Cube, and the planet Earth. So far away from home it can’t be counted. And where should I go, and what should I do? Shelter first. There were buildings all around. I knew enough, I’d done enough research. And you’re not so different. Somewhere there would be a hotel or a library, somewhere warm I could sit and think. 

I began to walk. There was the sound of ringing again.

|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
I looked around. A small cubicle, a device with a keypad and handle was ringing. Something my research had not prepared me for?

I walked past it.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
After a minute or two, another such device, ringing.

I walked on.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
At the third ringing cubicle I wondered if I should do something. Was the ringing a warning? An elderly woman, smothered in a thick overcoat walked past without stopping and said:

---

Are you going to answer it?

---

I realised the meaning of the device.

---

I picked up the handset and put it to my ear.

---

On the other end a voice spoke.

---

It spoke my name.
|}

== Message 4: The arrangements have been made. ==
On 11-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again, this time with a 45x15 box of scrolling characters, sections of which formed themselves into words to form the below messages. The final message is left slowly fading in and out of focus. The background has the words "Receda's Revenge" upon it, very faintly - this update coincided with the updating of the [[Receda's Revenge]] site.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

WHAT?

I SAID

THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

I THOUGHT AGAIN OF THE INFINITE LIBRARY, OF THE WORDS ON WORDS ARRANGED ON OTHER WORDS.

OF THE WAY THAT WORDS PILE ON ONE ANOTHER, CREATING AND UNDWINDING MEANING.

OF THE PRECISE PATH LEADING FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE OPENED BY THE MEANINGS WE INFER.

---

"YOUR TICKETS," THE VOICE SAID, "HAVE BEEN BOOKED."

"YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN RESERVED."

"THE CAR WILL PICK YOU UP."

"YOUR ITEMS HAVE BEEN ORDERED."

"HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY."

"YES," I SAID, "OF COURSE, CERTAINLY."

---

NOTHING CAN DO THIS,
NOTHING AT ALL.
NOTHING CAN DO EVERYTHING,
NOTHING CAN BE EVERYWHERE.

I THOUGHT: I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED.
I THOUGHT: I AM AN INSTRUMENT.

---

"PLEASE WAIT WHERE YOU ARE, THE CAR WILL FOR YOU ARRIVE SHORTLY"

---

I STOOD ON THE CORNER, DIRTY-GREY SNOW
SLOPPING AT MY FEET, OBSERVING THE TIDEMARKS
OF SALT ON THE PAVING STONES.

I WAS COLD, I REALISED, VERY COLD.

I NEEDED A COAT. COULD I PURCHASE ONE?

WITH WHAT?

A THOUGHT OCCURRED.

I HAD BROUGHT ONE OR TWO ITEMS WITH ME -
NOTHING USEFUL, NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE.

COULD I SELL SOMETHING? FOR MONEY?

---

A CAR PULLED UP AT THE CORNER OF THE
STREET, HONKED ITS HORN ONCE.

THE BLACK WINDOW PEELED DOWN.

INSIDE, THE DRIVER SPOKE MY NAME.
THIS COULD NOT BE NORMAL.
EVEN HERE. NOT USUAL.

I NODDED ASSENT. THE BACK DOOR OF THE CAR
OPENED. I STEPPED INSIDE.

WAITING FOR ME ON THE SEAT WAS A COAT.
IN MY SIZE.

---

FLYING 

FLYING 

LIKE A BIRD 

ON THE WING 

ON THE WING 

AMAZING 

FLYING 
ON 
THE 
WING 
|}

===Extra Text===
The following text is split up and "corrupted" across various places in the animation:

{{quote}}
66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.
|}

== Message 5: To Begin. ==
On 30-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once more. On this occasion, the screen is filled with seemingly random grey letters, which move together and turn white to form words, then separate and fade back to grey. Certain phrases remain on screen, these are marked in bold in the following transcript.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Things are over here, 
Over and ended except that, 
As you can see, 
Not quite over for me. 
Or for you. 

I wanted to do this slowly, 
Quietly, 

But when no 
One else 
Is speaking 
A pin-drop 
Is as 
Loud as cymbals 

When no one else is moving, creeping is running 

I think of books, 
Books within books, 
Words within words. 
A play within a play. 

-----

'''Hamlet, William Shakespeare''' 

-----

The play’s the thing, it seems. 

So again. I have things to tell you. 
Things you’ll need to know 
And I know that you’re running in circles, 
Around and around and around and 
When you’re in a circle 
You need to know 
Where it 
Starts. 

Unlike black, I do not despise the circle. 

-----

'''The wonderful O, James Thurber'''. 

-----

It starts where it ends, and where it 
Starts is by finding the secret location. 

[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] is one place to begin. 

-----

'''The library of babel, Jorge Luis Borges'''. 

-----

The letters which are arranged and rearranged, 
in mathematical certainty, 
in search of meaning. 
Think of the names of the books: 

The plaster cramp, axaxaxas mlo. 

Of course, the books in that library have no author. 
But authorship is critical. 
Think of Pierre Menard or 
Of Johannes Valentinus Andrea, or 
Of Gunnar Erjfjord. 
Authors creare worlds, 
and worlds seep one to another. 

-----

'''History of the land called Uqbar, Silas Haslam'''. 

-----

Things have been closed here, closed up tightly, with 
No gaps, no room to breathe. We are all imprisoned, 
But our minds are free. '''Papillon, Henri Charriere''' 
And yet. It all begins with the arrangement of things, 
With asking a question and answering it. 

I’ve given you 
all you need to begin. Be simple. 
Start by answering the obvious questions. 

Everything leads on from the answers 
you already have. 

I don’t know how much I’ll be able to help you, 
But I’ll help you where I can. 

-----

'''Oh whistle and I’ll come to you my lad.''' 
'''Montague Rhodes James'''. 
|}

With the message done, the book titles and authors left behind form up into a grid, and a set of numbers appears. Dragging a letter in the message with the mouse reveals it's number.

hamletwilliamshakespearethew 
onderfulojamesthurberthelibr 
aryofbabeljorgeluisborgeshis 
toryofthelandcalleduqbarsila 
shaslampapillonhenricharrier 
eohwhistleandillcometoyoumy 
ladmontaguerhodesjames 

127 77 28 64 160 176 11 30

===Solution===
The mention of a secret location is a reference to {{Card|223|Secret Location}}, or more specifically the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|meta information on that card]]. Using the information given here by Combed Thunderclap, the hidden message on the card has been [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]].

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, the following text was hidden in the animation:
{{quote}}
Recommendations:
1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

== Message 6: Time Ticks On ==
On 11-NOV-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again. This new animation was much more graphically advanced than the other three, and, rather than simply have text on the screen, the narration was red by two narrators at the same time. The message spoke more of CTs journey on earth with the cube, and contained some cryptic puzzles.

=== Text and Narration ===
At the bottom of the screen:
be patient, this may take a while

In the animation:
the time has come.
click.

{{quote}}
Time ticks on and on and on. The days have bled together and I am a different person now, quite different, to the one I was. It's been almost three years. 1,095 days. 26,297 hours. 1,577,846 minutes. And there are the deaths. Days not lived and hours not perceived. I wish this had been different.
|}

{{quote}}
There was a clock in the hotel lobby. The car dropped me off at the door. I wrapped the cube in the coat because I did not fully understand that no one here would know it, that no one would shout "stop! thief!" 

I spoke my name to the clerk behind the desk whose red nails clicked on the marble surface as the hands of the clock ticked round and round and I thought now. Certainly now I will be discovered. 

The red-nailed woman said: 

"Yes, the suite is booked for you, yes, the charges have been taken care of." She smiled as she said this. 

She said: 

"And your travel documents."
|}

{{quote}}
She handed me an envelope. I tipped the contents into my hand. There were tickets, there was a device the size of a deck of cards with a screen and a keypad, there was a small turquoise book with blank pages. On the front it said: Laissez Passer, Nations Unies. In the back of the book was a picture of me. I recognised the picture. It is a serious picture, I am in a business suit. It was taken in Perplex City. 

In my hotel room, the video-screen welcomed me by name, and the music playing on the sound system was my favourite Earth composer. I took little notice of any of this, lay on the bed and fell into a sleep as deep as the world.
|}

{{quote}}
In my dreams, I wandered the streets of Perplex City. There was meaning in every street, in every turn, in every paving stone. I saw these numbers laid out before me: 

'''(7,8) + (6,6) + (7,8) - (6,6) - (-5,5) - (-5,5) + (7,5) + (6,5) - (6,5) + (7,5) - (6,4) - (6,4) + (8,4) + (8,4) - (8,3) - (-5,-2) - (8,3) + (6,-4) - (-5,-2) + (6,-4) + (7,-4) - (7,-4) + (8,-4) + (-4,-6) + (8,-4) - (6,-5) + (-4,-6) - (8,-5) + (6,-5) - (6,-2) + (8,-5) - (-4,-8) - (-4,-8) + (-2,-7) - (-3,-8) - (-3,-8) + (6,-7) - (6,-2) - (-2,-7) + (6,-7) + (7,-7) + (7,-7) - ''' 

and then I dreamed no more.
|}
When plotted, the sequence creates this [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r112/gulrad/ticks.jpg Pattern].

===Solution===
The code at the end was finally decoded by ilikepucks to reveal the proper order of the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|Wave 4 number strings]]. [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17532]

== Message 7: A journey. ==

On December 11, 2006, the page was updated again. In this one, a set of 16 glowing blue keys spin and swirl seemingly at random around the black screen. One of the keys is a hotlink: a small two-toothed key with a perfectly round handle. When this key is clicked, the others fall away, and the message begins. This key begins in the middle of the bottom of the animation when it begins.

=== Text and lines ===

The round-handled key settles in the middle of the screen.

a journey, it transpires.

the whole thing has been about a journey

Four small four-pointed stars form a square around the key in the order upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left. The key moves to the lower right corner of the animation:

And the thing itself,

A line is drawn from the upper left star, one unit at a time: west, west, south, south, west.

The key moves to the lower left:

a maker of journeys,

A new line from the upper right star: east, north, north, east, east, east, north, west.

The key moves to the upper left:

a joiner of points.

A third line from the lower right star: east, south, south, south, east, south, west.

The key moves to the upper right:

Travel, solidified.

The last star gets a line: west nine times, southwest

The stars are then labelled in the reverse order, lower left, S; lower right, D; upper right, R; and upper left, L. The animation screen splashes to white in a flurry of percent signs and monarch butterflies.

Motion, held fast.

A large, central, rectangular area of this last screen seems to be a link or hot spot, but it does nothing obvious when clicked on.

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, an extra key appeared at the start of the animation. This key contains the following text:

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough
Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised
|}

== Message 8: Flying ==
Another update occured again, on the 3rd of January. This time it is split in three;
* The first section looks like rotation on a combination lock (no punctuation or capitals), with a percent sign rearranging itself to the letters "Mod", four dots and a Clavus key;
* the second has letters and puntuation marks in groups of three in a spiral shape;
* The third has words on a clock-face.
* The conclusion shows the last 3 words, alone in bolder, stark contrast.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
and flying 
it was not 
as i expected 
i thought there 
would be wind 
a sense of motion 
exhilaration 
it was a box with 
blinking lights 
and plastic sealed food 
this is the moral 
i suppose 
if you travel 
fast enough 
it feels the same 
as standing still 
but nonetheless 
there were fluffy 
clouds like 
whipped dessert 
outside the 
window 
i wondered what 
it would be like 
to touch them 
-----
i had put the cube in the bag before my journey. 
a bag of the correct size was waiting for me in the hotel room, of course.. 
at the airport all bags had to be passed through a machine to examine the contents. 
i felt suddenly afraid, with that same fear. 
someone will see it, someone will know, someone will say 'the cube! stop thief!' 
i placed the bag on to the conveyor belt. 
there was no shout, no attack. 
i glimpsed the screen showing an image of my bag. 
it showed an assortment of objects within, just like everyone else's. 
-----
in a distant place i was met by another car 
the driver holding a board with my name written on it 
on the back seat there was an envelope with my name on
-----
     and 
    a 
   shovel.
|}

===Extra Text===
On 2007-01-18, a message appeared on this page:

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives: We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

==Index File==
===Extra Text===

Inserted 2007-01-12:
{{quote}}
05012072313

With immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

Library of Babel

2007-01-19T13:31:18Z

Flabyo: /* Text */ Added extra text that appeared on the 19th

==Discovery==
One of the [[Leaked E-mails#Internal_Security|Leaked E-mails]] hinted at a "library" subdirectory:

{{quote}}
From: Garnet Reed 
To: Henrik Tanner 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm

Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
|}

== Message 1: Waking ==
This led to a hidden page:

http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/

The page has an animated Flash file with an id of "Thunderclap". ("A Combed Thunderclap" is a reference to the [[Jorge Luis Borges]] story, "Library of Babel". For more information, see "[[Puzzle Card Symbols]]".)

An eye opens, and text slowly appears. A transcript follows. The strikethroughs indicate words that are erased in the animation.

===Text===
{{quote}}
Waking. It was like waking into a new world
from a dream of all the old.
Or. No. Like opening my eyes
although I knew they were already open.

For a moment I thought I could see…
everything.

---

This is <s>not</s> important: I did not kill anyone.
I have not killed anyone.
Unless <s>by my silence</s> by remaining silent too long.
But I can’t.
I can’t.

---

I must continue in silence
because what would I say,
how would I convince anyone of what I tell you now?

That I did not kill anyone.

---

But someone did.

---

There are so many possibilities, numberless scenarios
and how do I know? How can I know which one is the
truth? Like the books in the Library of Babel, each
permutation may be the correct one, but is infinitely
more likely to be deceptive. A phantom. A dream.

---

I thought it was a dream. Or a beautiful simulation of a place I have
seen so many times before in photographs or video. I knew it at
once: the yellow cars driven along the streets, the steam rising up
from the sidewalk gratings. I thought: how marvellous. How real.
I stumbled and fell. I grazed my hand and the blood was real and
the pain was real and I began to understand.

---

I didn’t kill anyone. But someone did. And they’ll be looking for me.
|}

===Image Analysis===
The two paragraphs before the last have some letters that display before the others. This may be simply a visual effect or it may be a clue.

[[:Image:Paragraph1.PNG|Image of first appearing paragraph]]

[[:Image:Paragraph2.PNG|Image of second appearing paragraph]]

There are also strange images above the eye, at first they were thought to be kanji. Later arkai discovered that they are just letters turned sideways. These letters seem to spell "Waking" (just like the first word of the animation).

[[:Image:Weirdeye.jpg|Image of the eye, negatived.]]

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, various pieces of what appear to be 3P messages started cropping up in some of the LoB animations. In Waking, we have:

{{quote}}
08012070645 -
To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical diffculties.
|}

and:

{{quote}}
Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:
|}

(For an collected, ordered set of messages, see [[Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks]])

==Message 2: Realise==
On 01-SEP-06, the babel page was updated to show a series of book-ish images, in various forms of hiding. Clikcing the opened book image below the message section takes us to the old message section.

Firstly, the page showed a slew of leaves. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-1.JPG]]

Once cleared, text is plainly visible. There does not appear to be anything else of note at this point. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-2.JPG]]

Then comes the interesting part. After a certain amount of time (about a minute?) the leaves blow away, and the page turns blank. Moving the mouse over the page reveals a new much more hidden message. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-3.JPG]]

Finally, clicking in the upper left corner of the page reveals yet another message. Sometimes, this one is initially slightly obscured by leaves, but is plainly visible. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-4.JPG]]

===Text===
{{quote}}
I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help?
|}

{{quote}}
This is how it was, then. I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone. I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.
|}

{{quote}}
Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows
are less apparent than the whys, and even they
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know
you're already trying. Because those other people?
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't
know who will travel with you.

Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know.
|}

===Extra Text===

On the 19th of Jan 2007 the following message appeared in very small print on one of the leaves:
{{quote}}
19012701215

To Earth operatives: Package oboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
|}

== Message 3: Dissolution. Dissipating. Everything. ==
On 18-SEP-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once again, this time with a much more exciting, dramatic, and artistic animation.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Sometimes I asked myself if I planned it all. Of course I planned it 

I planned what had to be done, I planned how to do it. 

But I didn’t plan the end, only the beginning. The beginning is easy to explain, but dangerous. The end is harder, but safer. 

I’ll start with safe. 
|}

{{quote}}
There was no flash or bang or choir of angels.

---

There was a sense of dissolution, of dissipating, a sense of everything.

---

And then there was hard stone under my feet and steam and yellow cars and an intense cold. And a sound of ringing in my ears.

---

I stood up.

---

Blood on my hand, but that was not important.

---

People walking, uninterested, barely looked in my direction. I thought: people. Just like us. No different at all, after everything that’s been said.

---

There was ringing again.

---

I looked around. There was me, and the Cube, and the planet Earth. So far away from home it can’t be counted. And where should I go, and what should I do? Shelter first. There were buildings all around. I knew enough, I’d done enough research. And you’re not so different. Somewhere there would be a hotel or a library, somewhere warm I could sit and think. 

I began to walk. There was the sound of ringing again.

|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
I looked around. A small cubicle, a device with a keypad and handle was ringing. Something my research had not prepared me for?

I walked past it.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
After a minute or two, another such device, ringing.

I walked on.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
At the third ringing cubicle I wondered if I should do something. Was the ringing a warning? An elderly woman, smothered in a thick overcoat walked past without stopping and said:

---

Are you going to answer it?

---

I realised the meaning of the device.

---

I picked up the handset and put it to my ear.

---

On the other end a voice spoke.

---

It spoke my name.
|}

== Message 4: The arrangements have been made. ==
On 11-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again, this time with a 45x15 box of scrolling characters, sections of which formed themselves into words to form the below messages. The final message is left slowly fading in and out of focus. The background has the words "Receda's Revenge" upon it, very faintly - this update coincided with the updating of the [[Receda's Revenge]] site.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

WHAT?

I SAID

THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

I THOUGHT AGAIN OF THE INFINITE LIBRARY, OF THE WORDS ON WORDS ARRANGED ON OTHER WORDS.

OF THE WAY THAT WORDS PILE ON ONE ANOTHER, CREATING AND UNDWINDING MEANING.

OF THE PRECISE PATH LEADING FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE OPENED BY THE MEANINGS WE INFER.

---

"YOUR TICKETS," THE VOICE SAID, "HAVE BEEN BOOKED."

"YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN RESERVED."

"THE CAR WILL PICK YOU UP."

"YOUR ITEMS HAVE BEEN ORDERED."

"HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY."

"YES," I SAID, "OF COURSE, CERTAINLY."

---

NOTHING CAN DO THIS,
NOTHING AT ALL.
NOTHING CAN DO EVERYTHING,
NOTHING CAN BE EVERYWHERE.

I THOUGHT: I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED.
I THOUGHT: I AM AN INSTRUMENT.

---

"PLEASE WAIT WHERE YOU ARE, THE CAR WILL FOR YOU ARRIVE SHORTLY"

---

I STOOD ON THE CORNER, DIRTY-GREY SNOW
SLOPPING AT MY FEET, OBSERVING THE TIDEMARKS
OF SALT ON THE PAVING STONES.

I WAS COLD, I REALISED, VERY COLD.

I NEEDED A COAT. COULD I PURCHASE ONE?

WITH WHAT?

A THOUGHT OCCURRED.

I HAD BROUGHT ONE OR TWO ITEMS WITH ME -
NOTHING USEFUL, NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE.

COULD I SELL SOMETHING? FOR MONEY?

---

A CAR PULLED UP AT THE CORNER OF THE
STREET, HONKED ITS HORN ONCE.

THE BLACK WINDOW PEELED DOWN.

INSIDE, THE DRIVER SPOKE MY NAME.
THIS COULD NOT BE NORMAL.
EVEN HERE. NOT USUAL.

I NODDED ASSENT. THE BACK DOOR OF THE CAR
OPENED. I STEPPED INSIDE.

WAITING FOR ME ON THE SEAT WAS A COAT.
IN MY SIZE.

---

FLYING 

FLYING 

LIKE A BIRD 

ON THE WING 

ON THE WING 

AMAZING 

FLYING 
ON 
THE 
WING 
|}

===Extra Text===
The following text is split up and "corrupted" across various places in the animation:

{{quote}}
66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.
|}

== Message 5: To Begin. ==
On 30-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once more. On this occasion, the screen is filled with seemingly random grey letters, which move together and turn white to form words, then separate and fade back to grey. Certain phrases remain on screen, these are marked in bold in the following transcript.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Things are over here, 
Over and ended except that, 
As you can see, 
Not quite over for me. 
Or for you. 

I wanted to do this slowly, 
Quietly, 

But when no 
One else 
Is speaking 
A pin-drop 
Is as 
Loud as cymbals 

When no one else is moving, creeping is running 

I think of books, 
Books within books, 
Words within words. 
A play within a play. 

-----

'''Hamlet, William Shakespeare''' 

-----

The play’s the thing, it seems. 

So again. I have things to tell you. 
Things you’ll need to know 
And I know that you’re running in circles, 
Around and around and around and 
When you’re in a circle 
You need to know 
Where it 
Starts. 

Unlike black, I do not despise the circle. 

-----

'''The wonderful O, James Thurber'''. 

-----

It starts where it ends, and where it 
Starts is by finding the secret location. 

[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] is one place to begin. 

-----

'''The library of babel, Jorge Luis Borges'''. 

-----

The letters which are arranged and rearranged, 
in mathematical certainty, 
in search of meaning. 
Think of the names of the books: 

The plaster cramp, axaxaxas mlo. 

Of course, the books in that library have no author. 
But authorship is critical. 
Think of Pierre Menard or 
Of Johannes Valentinus Andrea, or 
Of Gunnar Erjfjord. 
Authors creare worlds, 
and worlds seep one to another. 

-----

'''History of the land called Uqbar, Silas Haslam'''. 

-----

Things have been closed here, closed up tightly, with 
No gaps, no room to breathe. We are all imprisoned, 
But our minds are free. '''Papillon, Henri Charriere''' 
And yet. It all begins with the arrangement of things, 
With asking a question and answering it. 

I’ve given you 
all you need to begin. Be simple. 
Start by answering the obvious questions. 

Everything leads on from the answers 
you already have. 

I don’t know how much I’ll be able to help you, 
But I’ll help you where I can. 

-----

'''Oh whistle and I’ll come to you my lad.''' 
'''Montague Rhodes James'''. 
|}

With the message done, the book titles and authors left behind form up into a grid, and a set of numbers appears. Dragging a letter in the message with the mouse reveals it's number.

hamletwilliamshakespearethew 
onderfulojamesthurberthelibr 
aryofbabeljorgeluisborgeshis 
toryofthelandcalleduqbarsila 
shaslampapillonhenricharrier 
eohwhistleandillcometoyoumy 
ladmontaguerhodesjames 

127 77 28 64 160 176 11 30

===Solution===
The mention of a secret location is a reference to {{Card|223|Secret Location}}, or more specifically the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|meta information on that card]]. Using the information given here by Combed Thunderclap, the hidden message on the card has been [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]].

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, the following text was hidden in the animation:
{{quote}}
Recommendations:
1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

== Message 6: Time Ticks On ==
On 11-NOV-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again. This new animation was much more graphically advanced than the other three, and, rather than simply have text on the screen, the narration was red by two narrators at the same time. The message spoke more of CTs journey on earth with the cube, and contained some cryptic puzzles.

=== Text and Narration ===
At the bottom of the screen:
be patient, this may take a while

In the animation:
the time has come.
click.

{{quote}}
Time ticks on and on and on. The days have bled together and I am a different person now, quite different, to the one I was. It's been almost three years. 1,095 days. 26,297 hours. 1,577,846 minutes. And there are the deaths. Days not lived and hours not perceived. I wish this had been different.
|}

{{quote}}
There was a clock in the hotel lobby. The car dropped me off at the door. I wrapped the cube in the coat because I did not fully understand that no one here would know it, that no one would shout "stop! thief!" 

I spoke my name to the clerk behind the desk whose red nails clicked on the marble surface as the hands of the clock ticked round and round and I thought now. Certainly now I will be discovered. 

The red-nailed woman said: 

"Yes, the suite is booked for you, yes, the charges have been taken care of." She smiled as she said this. 

She said: 

"And your travel documents."
|}

{{quote}}
She handed me an envelope. I tipped the contents into my hand. There were tickets, there was a device the size of a deck of cards with a screen and a keypad, there was a small turquoise book with blank pages. On the front it said: Laissez Passer, Nations Unies. In the back of the book was a picture of me. I recognised the picture. It is a serious picture, I am in a business suit. It was taken in Perplex City. 

In my hotel room, the video-screen welcomed me by name, and the music playing on the sound system was my favourite Earth composer. I took little notice of any of this, lay on the bed and fell into a sleep as deep as the world.
|}

{{quote}}
In my dreams, I wandered the streets of Perplex City. There was meaning in every street, in every turn, in every paving stone. I saw these numbers laid out before me: 

'''(7,8) + (6,6) + (7,8) - (6,6) - (-5,5) - (-5,5) + (7,5) + (6,5) - (6,5) + (7,5) - (6,4) - (6,4) + (8,4) + (8,4) - (8,3) - (-5,-2) - (8,3) + (6,-4) - (-5,-2) + (6,-4) + (7,-4) - (7,-4) + (8,-4) + (-4,-6) + (8,-4) - (6,-5) + (-4,-6) - (8,-5) + (6,-5) - (6,-2) + (8,-5) - (-4,-8) - (-4,-8) + (-2,-7) - (-3,-8) - (-3,-8) + (6,-7) - (6,-2) - (-2,-7) + (6,-7) + (7,-7) + (7,-7) - ''' 

and then I dreamed no more.
|}
When plotted, the sequence creates this [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r112/gulrad/ticks.jpg Pattern].

===Solution===
The code at the end was finally decoded by ilikepucks to reveal the proper order of the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|Wave 4 number strings]]. [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17532]

== Message 7: A journey. ==

On December 11, 2006, the page was updated again. In this one, a set of 16 glowing blue keys spin and swirl seemingly at random around the black screen. One of the keys is a hotlink: a small two-toothed key with a perfectly round handle. When this key is clicked, the others fall away, and the message begins. This key begins in the middle of the bottom of the animation when it begins.

=== Text and lines ===

The round-handled key settles in the middle of the screen.

a journey, it transpires.

the whole thing has been about a journey

Four small four-pointed stars form a square around the key in the order upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left. The key moves to the lower right corner of the animation:

And the thing itself,

A line is drawn from the upper left star, one unit at a time: west, west, south, south, west.

The key moves to the lower left:

a maker of journeys,

A new line from the upper right star: east, north, north, east, east, east, north, west.

The key moves to the upper left:

a joiner of points.

A third line from the lower right star: east, south, south, south, east, south, west.

The key moves to the upper right:

Travel, solidified.

The last star gets a line: west nine times, southwest

The stars are then labelled in the reverse order, lower left, S; lower right, D; upper right, R; and upper left, L. The animation screen splashes to white in a flurry of percent signs and monarch butterflies.

Motion, held fast.

A large, central, rectangular area of this last screen seems to be a link or hot spot, but it does nothing obvious when clicked on.

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, an extra key appeared at the start of the animation. This key contains the following text:

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough
Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised
|}

== Message 8: Flying ==
Another update occured again, on the 3rd of January. This time it is split in three;
* The first section looks like rotation on a combination lock (no punctuation or capitals), with a percent sign rearranging itself to the letters "Mod", four dots and a Clavus key;
* the second has letters and puntuation marks in groups of three in a spiral shape;
* The third has words on a clock-face.
* The conclusion shows the last 3 words, alone in bolder, stark contrast.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
and flying 
it was not 
as i expected 
i thought there 
would be wind 
a sense of motion 
exhilaration 
it was a box with 
blinking lights 
and plastic sealed food 
this is the moral 
i suppose 
if you travel 
fast enough 
it feels the same 
as standing still 
but nonetheless 
there were fluffy 
clouds like 
whipped dessert 
outside the 
window 
i wondered what 
it would be like 
to touch them 
-----
i had put the cube in the bag before my journey. 
a bag of the correct size was waiting for me in the hotel room, of course.. 
at the airport all bags had to be passed through a machine to examine the contents. 
i felt suddenly afraid, with that same fear. 
someone will see it, someone will know, someone will say 'the cube! stop thief!' 
i placed the bag on to the conveyor belt. 
there was no shout, no attack. 
i glimpsed the screen showing an image of my bag. 
it showed an assortment of objects within, just like everyone else's. 
-----
in a distant place i was met by another car 
the driver holding a board with my name written on it 
on the back seat there was an envelope with my name on
-----
     and 
    a 
   shovel.
|}

===Extra Text===
On 2007-01-18, a message appeared on this page:

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives: We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

==Index File==
===Extra Text===

Inserted 2007-01-12:
{{quote}}
05012072313

With immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks

2007-01-19T13:29:52Z

Flabyo: typo

Assuming that the numbers on the "Extra Text" in the [[Library of Babel]] are dates, this is an attempt to collate the various messages in a correct order. All "dates" are (sic), despite the weird differences between "207" and "270".

References to [[Leaked_E-mails#Operation_Visor | Project/Operation Visor]] have been leaked before. (See also the [[Receda%27s_revenge_2_log#ENDGAME | Receda's Revenge 2 log]].)

{{quote}}
05012072313

With the immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel is to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

{{quote}}
08012070645 - To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical difficulties.

Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:

66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.

Recommendations: 1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough. Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised.
|}

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives:
We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

{{quote}}
19012701215

To Earth operatives: Package onboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
|}

Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks

2007-01-19T13:29:31Z

Flabyo: Message that appeared on 'Realise' on the 19th

Assuming that the numbers on the "Extra Text" in the [[Library of Babel]] are dates, this is an attempt to collate the various messages in a correct order. All "dates" are (sic), despite the weird differences between "207" and "270".

References to [[Leaked_E-mails#Operation_Visor | Project/Operation Visor]] have been leaked before. (See also the [[Receda%27s_revenge_2_log#ENDGAME | Receda's Revenge 2 log]].)

{{quote}}
05012072313

With the immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel is to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

{{quote}}
08012070645 - To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical difficulties.

Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:

66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.

Recommendations: 1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough. Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised.
|}

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives:
We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

{{quote}}
19012701215

To Earth operatives: Package oboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
|}

Library of Babel

2007-01-18T12:58:51Z

Flabyo: /* Message 8: Flying */ Adding 3p message that appeared here today

==Discovery==
One of the [[Leaked E-mails#Internal_Security|Leaked E-mails]] hinted at a "library" subdirectory:

{{quote}}
From: Garnet Reed 
To: Henrik Tanner 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm

Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
|}

== Message 1: Waking ==
This led to a hidden page:

http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/

The page has an animated Flash file with an id of "Thunderclap". ("A Combed Thunderclap" is a reference to the [[Jorge Luis Borges]] story, "Library of Babel". For more information, see "[[Puzzle Card Symbols]]".)

An eye opens, and text slowly appears. A transcript follows. The strikethroughs indicate words that are erased in the animation.

===Text===
{{quote}}
Waking. It was like waking into a new world
from a dream of all the old.
Or. No. Like opening my eyes
although I knew they were already open.

For a moment I thought I could see…
everything.

---

This is <s>not</s> important: I did not kill anyone.
I have not killed anyone.
Unless <s>by my silence</s> by remaining silent too long.
But I can’t.
I can’t.

---

I must continue in silence
because what would I say,
how would I convince anyone of what I tell you now?

That I did not kill anyone.

---

But someone did.

---

There are so many possibilities, numberless scenarios
and how do I know? How can I know which one is the
truth? Like the books in the Library of Babel, each
permutation may be the correct one, but is infinitely
more likely to be deceptive. A phantom. A dream.

---

I thought it was a dream. Or a beautiful simulation of a place I have
seen so many times before in photographs or video. I knew it at
once: the yellow cars driven along the streets, the steam rising up
from the sidewalk gratings. I thought: how marvellous. How real.
I stumbled and fell. I grazed my hand and the blood was real and
the pain was real and I began to understand.

---

I didn’t kill anyone. But someone did. And they’ll be looking for me.
|}

===Image Analysis===
The two paragraphs before the last have some letters that display before the others. This may be simply a visual effect or it may be a clue.

[[:Image:Paragraph1.PNG|Image of first appearing paragraph]]

[[:Image:Paragraph2.PNG|Image of second appearing paragraph]]

There are also strange images above the eye, at first they were thought to be kanji. Later arkai discovered that they are just letters turned sideways. These letters seem to spell "Waking" (just like the first word of the animation).

[[:Image:Weirdeye.jpg|Image of the eye, negatived.]]

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, various pieces of what appear to be 3P messages started cropping up in some of the LoB animations. In Waking, we have:

{{quote}}
08012070645 -
To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical diffculties.
|}

and:

{{quote}}
Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:
|}

(For an collected, ordered set of messages, see [[Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks]])

==Message 2: Realise==
On 01-SEP-06, the babel page was updated to show a series of book-ish images, in various forms of hiding. Clikcing the opened book image below the message section takes us to the old message section.

Firstly, the page showed a slew of leaves. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-1.JPG]]

Once cleared, text is plainly visible. There does not appear to be anything else of note at this point. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-2.JPG]]

Then comes the interesting part. After a certain amount of time (about a minute?) the leaves blow away, and the page turns blank. Moving the mouse over the page reveals a new much more hidden message. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-3.JPG]]

Finally, clicking in the upper left corner of the page reveals yet another message. Sometimes, this one is initially slightly obscured by leaves, but is plainly visible. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-4.JPG]]

===Text===
{{quote}}
I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help?
|}

{{quote}}
This is how it was, then. I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone. I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.
|}

{{quote}}
Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows
are less apparent than the whys, and even they
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know
you're already trying. Because those other people?
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't
know who will travel with you.

Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know.
|}

== Message 3: Dissolution. Dissipating. Everything. ==
On 18-SEP-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once again, this time with a much more exciting, dramatic, and artistic animation.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Sometimes I asked myself if I planned it all. Of course I planned it 

I planned what had to be done, I planned how to do it. 

But I didn’t plan the end, only the beginning. The beginning is easy to explain, but dangerous. The end is harder, but safer. 

I’ll start with safe. 
|}

{{quote}}
There was no flash or bang or choir of angels.

---

There was a sense of dissolution, of dissipating, a sense of everything.

---

And then there was hard stone under my feet and steam and yellow cars and an intense cold. And a sound of ringing in my ears.

---

I stood up.

---

Blood on my hand, but that was not important.

---

People walking, uninterested, barely looked in my direction. I thought: people. Just like us. No different at all, after everything that’s been said.

---

There was ringing again.

---

I looked around. There was me, and the Cube, and the planet Earth. So far away from home it can’t be counted. And where should I go, and what should I do? Shelter first. There were buildings all around. I knew enough, I’d done enough research. And you’re not so different. Somewhere there would be a hotel or a library, somewhere warm I could sit and think. 

I began to walk. There was the sound of ringing again.

|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
I looked around. A small cubicle, a device with a keypad and handle was ringing. Something my research had not prepared me for?

I walked past it.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
After a minute or two, another such device, ringing.

I walked on.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
At the third ringing cubicle I wondered if I should do something. Was the ringing a warning? An elderly woman, smothered in a thick overcoat walked past without stopping and said:

---

Are you going to answer it?

---

I realised the meaning of the device.

---

I picked up the handset and put it to my ear.

---

On the other end a voice spoke.

---

It spoke my name.
|}

== Message 4: The arrangements have been made. ==
On 11-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again, this time with a 45x15 box of scrolling characters, sections of which formed themselves into words to form the below messages. The final message is left slowly fading in and out of focus. The background has the words "Receda's Revenge" upon it, very faintly - this update coincided with the updating of the [[Receda's Revenge]] site.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

WHAT?

I SAID

THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

I THOUGHT AGAIN OF THE INFINITE LIBRARY, OF THE WORDS ON WORDS ARRANGED ON OTHER WORDS.

OF THE WAY THAT WORDS PILE ON ONE ANOTHER, CREATING AND UNDWINDING MEANING.

OF THE PRECISE PATH LEADING FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE OPENED BY THE MEANINGS WE INFER.

---

"YOUR TICKETS," THE VOICE SAID, "HAVE BEEN BOOKED."

"YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN RESERVED."

"THE CAR WILL PICK YOU UP."

"YOUR ITEMS HAVE BEEN ORDERED."

"HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY."

"YES," I SAID, "OF COURSE, CERTAINLY."

---

NOTHING CAN DO THIS,
NOTHING AT ALL.
NOTHING CAN DO EVERYTHING,
NOTHING CAN BE EVERYWHERE.

I THOUGHT: I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED.
I THOUGHT: I AM AN INSTRUMENT.

---

"PLEASE WAIT WHERE YOU ARE, THE CAR WILL FOR YOU ARRIVE SHORTLY"

---

I STOOD ON THE CORNER, DIRTY-GREY SNOW
SLOPPING AT MY FEET, OBSERVING THE TIDEMARKS
OF SALT ON THE PAVING STONES.

I WAS COLD, I REALISED, VERY COLD.

I NEEDED A COAT. COULD I PURCHASE ONE?

WITH WHAT?

A THOUGHT OCCURRED.

I HAD BROUGHT ONE OR TWO ITEMS WITH ME -
NOTHING USEFUL, NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE.

COULD I SELL SOMETHING? FOR MONEY?

---

A CAR PULLED UP AT THE CORNER OF THE
STREET, HONKED ITS HORN ONCE.

THE BLACK WINDOW PEELED DOWN.

INSIDE, THE DRIVER SPOKE MY NAME.
THIS COULD NOT BE NORMAL.
EVEN HERE. NOT USUAL.

I NODDED ASSENT. THE BACK DOOR OF THE CAR
OPENED. I STEPPED INSIDE.

WAITING FOR ME ON THE SEAT WAS A COAT.
IN MY SIZE.

---

FLYING 

FLYING 

LIKE A BIRD 

ON THE WING 

ON THE WING 

AMAZING 

FLYING 
ON 
THE 
WING 
|}

===Extra Text===
The following text is split up and "corrupted" across various places in the animation:

{{quote}}
66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.
|}

== Message 5: To Begin. ==
On 30-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once more. On this occasion, the screen is filled with seemingly random grey letters, which move together and turn white to form words, then separate and fade back to grey. Certain phrases remain on screen, these are marked in bold in the following transcript.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Things are over here, 
Over and ended except that, 
As you can see, 
Not quite over for me. 
Or for you. 

I wanted to do this slowly, 
Quietly, 

But when no 
One else 
Is speaking 
A pin-drop 
Is as 
Loud as cymbals 

When no one else is moving, creeping is running 

I think of books, 
Books within books, 
Words within words. 
A play within a play. 

-----

'''Hamlet, William Shakespeare''' 

-----

The play’s the thing, it seems. 

So again. I have things to tell you. 
Things you’ll need to know 
And I know that you’re running in circles, 
Around and around and around and 
When you’re in a circle 
You need to know 
Where it 
Starts. 

Unlike black, I do not despise the circle. 

-----

'''The wonderful O, James Thurber'''. 

-----

It starts where it ends, and where it 
Starts is by finding the secret location. 

[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] is one place to begin. 

-----

'''The library of babel, Jorge Luis Borges'''. 

-----

The letters which are arranged and rearranged, 
in mathematical certainty, 
in search of meaning. 
Think of the names of the books: 

The plaster cramp, axaxaxas mlo. 

Of course, the books in that library have no author. 
But authorship is critical. 
Think of Pierre Menard or 
Of Johannes Valentinus Andrea, or 
Of Gunnar Erjfjord. 
Authors creare worlds, 
and worlds seep one to another. 

-----

'''History of the land called Uqbar, Silas Haslam'''. 

-----

Things have been closed here, closed up tightly, with 
No gaps, no room to breathe. We are all imprisoned, 
But our minds are free. '''Papillon, Henri Charriere''' 
And yet. It all begins with the arrangement of things, 
With asking a question and answering it. 

I’ve given you 
all you need to begin. Be simple. 
Start by answering the obvious questions. 

Everything leads on from the answers 
you already have. 

I don’t know how much I’ll be able to help you, 
But I’ll help you where I can. 

-----

'''Oh whistle and I’ll come to you my lad.''' 
'''Montague Rhodes James'''. 
|}

With the message done, the book titles and authors left behind form up into a grid, and a set of numbers appears. Dragging a letter in the message with the mouse reveals it's number.

hamletwilliamshakespearethew 
onderfulojamesthurberthelibr 
aryofbabeljorgeluisborgeshis 
toryofthelandcalleduqbarsila 
shaslampapillonhenricharrier 
eohwhistleandillcometoyoumy 
ladmontaguerhodesjames 

127 77 28 64 160 176 11 30

===Solution===
The mention of a secret location is a reference to {{Card|223|Secret Location}}, or more specifically the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|meta information on that card]]. Using the information given here by Combed Thunderclap, the hidden message on the card has been [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]].

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, the following text was hidden in the animation:
{{quote}}
Recommendations:
1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

== Message 6: Time Ticks On ==
On 11-NOV-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again. This new animation was much more graphically advanced than the other three, and, rather than simply have text on the screen, the narration was red by two narrators at the same time. The message spoke more of CTs journey on earth with the cube, and contained some cryptic puzzles.

=== Text and Narration ===
At the bottom of the screen:
be patient, this may take a while

In the animation:
the time has come.
click.

{{quote}}
Time ticks on and on and on. The days have bled together and I am a different person now, quite different, to the one I was. It's been almost three years. 1,095 days. 26,297 hours. 1,577,846 minutes. And there are the deaths. Days not lived and hours not perceived. I wish this had been different.
|}

{{quote}}
There was a clock in the hotel lobby. The car dropped me off at the door. I wrapped the cube in the coat because I did not fully understand that no one here would know it, that no one would shout "stop! thief!" 

I spoke my name to the clerk behind the desk whose red nails clicked on the marble surface as the hands of the clock ticked round and round and I thought now. Certainly now I will be discovered. 

The red-nailed woman said: 

"Yes, the suite is booked for you, yes, the charges have been taken care of." She smiled as she said this. 

She said: 

"And your travel documents."
|}

{{quote}}
She handed me an envelope. I tipped the contents into my hand. There were tickets, there was a device the size of a deck of cards with a screen and a keypad, there was a small turquoise book with blank pages. On the front it said: Laissez Passer, Nations Unies. In the back of the book was a picture of me. I recognised the picture. It is a serious picture, I am in a business suit. It was taken in Perplex City. 

In my hotel room, the video-screen welcomed me by name, and the music playing on the sound system was my favourite Earth composer. I took little notice of any of this, lay on the bed and fell into a sleep as deep as the world.
|}

{{quote}}
In my dreams, I wandered the streets of Perplex City. There was meaning in every street, in every turn, in every paving stone. I saw these numbers laid out before me: 

'''(7,8) + (6,6) + (7,8) - (6,6) - (-5,5) - (-5,5) + (7,5) + (6,5) - (6,5) + (7,5) - (6,4) - (6,4) + (8,4) + (8,4) - (8,3) - (-5,-2) - (8,3) + (6,-4) - (-5,-2) + (6,-4) + (7,-4) - (7,-4) + (8,-4) + (-4,-6) + (8,-4) - (6,-5) + (-4,-6) - (8,-5) + (6,-5) - (6,-2) + (8,-5) - (-4,-8) - (-4,-8) + (-2,-7) - (-3,-8) - (-3,-8) + (6,-7) - (6,-2) - (-2,-7) + (6,-7) + (7,-7) + (7,-7) - ''' 

and then I dreamed no more.
|}
When plotted, the sequence creates this [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r112/gulrad/ticks.jpg Pattern].

===Solution===
The code at the end was finally decoded by ilikepucks to reveal the proper order of the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|Wave 4 number strings]]. [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17532]

== Message 7: A journey. ==

On December 11, 2006, the page was updated again. In this one, a set of 16 glowing blue keys spin and swirl seemingly at random around the black screen. One of the keys is a hotlink: a small two-toothed key with a perfectly round handle. When this key is clicked, the others fall away, and the message begins. This key begins in the middle of the bottom of the animation when it begins.

=== Text and lines ===

The round-handled key settles in the middle of the screen.

a journey, it transpires.

the whole thing has been about a journey

Four small four-pointed stars form a square around the key in the order upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left. The key moves to the lower right corner of the animation:

And the thing itself,

A line is drawn from the upper left star, one unit at a time: west, west, south, south, west.

The key moves to the lower left:

a maker of journeys,

A new line from the upper right star: east, north, north, east, east, east, north, west.

The key moves to the upper left:

a joiner of points.

A third line from the lower right star: east, south, south, south, east, south, west.

The key moves to the upper right:

Travel, solidified.

The last star gets a line: west nine times, southwest

The stars are then labelled in the reverse order, lower left, S; lower right, D; upper right, R; and upper left, L. The animation screen splashes to white in a flurry of percent signs and monarch butterflies.

Motion, held fast.

A large, central, rectangular area of this last screen seems to be a link or hot spot, but it does nothing obvious when clicked on.

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, an extra key appeared at the start of the animation. This key contains the following text:

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough
Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised
|}

== Message 8: Flying ==
Another update occured again, on the 3rd of January. This time it is split in three;
* The first section looks like rotation on a combination lock (no punctuation or capitals), with a percent sign rearranging itself to the letters "Mod", four dots and a Clavus key;
* the second has letters and puntuation marks in groups of three in a spiral shape;
* The third has words on a clock-face.
* The conclusion shows the last 3 words, alone in bolder, stark contrast.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
and flying 
it was not 
as i expected 
i thought there 
would be wind 
a sense of motion 
exhilaration 
it was a box with 
blinking lights 
and plastic sealed food 
this is the moral 
i suppose 
if you travel 
fast enough 
it feels the same 
as standing still 
but nonetheless 
there were fluffy 
clouds like 
whipped dessert 
outside the 
window 
i wondered what 
it would be like 
to touch them 
-----
i had put the cube in the bag before my journey. 
a bag of the correct size was waiting for me in the hotel room, of course.. 
at the airport all bags had to be passed through a machine to examine the contents. 
i felt suddenly afraid, with that same fear. 
someone will see it, someone will know, someone will say 'the cube! stop thief!' 
i placed the bag on to the conveyor belt. 
there was no shout, no attack. 
i glimpsed the screen showing an image of my bag. 
it showed an assortment of objects within, just like everyone else's. 
-----
in a distant place i was met by another car 
the driver holding a board with my name written on it 
on the back seat there was an envelope with my name on
-----
     and 
    a 
   shovel.
|}

===Extra Text===
On 2007-01-18, a message appeared on this page:

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives: We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

==Index File==
===Extra Text===

Inserted 2007-01-12:
{{quote}}
05012072313

With immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks

2007-01-18T12:55:44Z

Flabyo: Adding message from 'flying' that appeared on 18th Jan.

Risk

2006-12-08T00:44:33Z

Flabyo: Removing the extra 192+ that crept into the ticks table

From the digit before the -, you have a corner of key square to start at:
:1 = top left, 2 = top right, 3 = bottom right, 4 = bottom left

Use the number string to move along the streets:
:1 = N; 1.5 = NE; 2 = E; 2.5 = SE; 3 = S; 3.5 = SW; 4 = W

When you reach the end, take the nth letter of its name, where n is the number after the - at the end of the string.

FRBPULAFHPOSMLUCNIDYMENDBKIELGTPDOAAKILTIO

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
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|'''Card'''
|'''String'''
|'''Letter'''
|'''Consensus'''
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|#029+
|1-14443432.5-3
|F
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#058+
|2-21122214-4
|R
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#029-
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|B
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#058-
|4-23232.534334-1
|P
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#040-
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|U
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#040+
|2-11444414412-3
|L
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#063+
|3-34-1
|A
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#060-
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|F
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#060+
|1-414141414144144441-1
|H
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#063-
|2-414441141-1
|P
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#090-
|3-433333334-2
|O
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#090+
|4-4444444443.5-1
|S
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#094+
|1-1114112321-1
|M
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#094-
|2-4111111441-2
|L
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#096-
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|U
|[[Image:Tick.png]] ?
|------
|#136-
|4-143334-3
|C
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#096+
|1-222233332-4
|N
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#188-
|2-21121111221-4
|I
|[[Image:Tick.png]] ?
|------
|#136+
|3-2333234-1
|D
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#188+
|4-11122221412234-2
|Y
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#191-
|1-344411444443-1
|M
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#191+
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|E
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#192+
|3-3333322333332-4
|N
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#203+
|4-33223333234-4
|D
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#192-
|1-444444114411112-1
|B
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#218+
|2-4444433333323-2
|K
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#203-
|3-11144144144443-3
|I
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#222+
|4-1414411122-2
|E
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#218-
|1-44334-3
|L
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#156+
|2-111221111112-4
|G
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#222-
|3-34433333432-4
|T
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#235-
|4-222233332222.5-1
|P
|[[Image:Tick.png]] ?
|------
|#235+
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|D
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#237-
|2-1222323-2
|O
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#236-
|3-2112223-2
|A
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#236+
|4-4333223323-3
|A
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#250-
|1-343-2
|K
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#156-
|2-2232-4
|I
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#237+
|3-3333334433334-1
|L
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#250+
|4-3322333333333332-1
|T
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#253+
|1-1111211112-4
|I
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|#253-
|2-111114441114114-1
|O
|[[Image:Tick.png]]
|------
|}

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''End location (PXC)'''
|'''Card on reverse'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|pos Reflex Way, F
| 
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|pos Belle Avenue, 3rd, L 
| 
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4 ENNEEENW
|4-23232.534334-1
|pos Myers Avenue, 4th, R neg Polygon Approach, 1st, P
| 
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|pos Reflex, 1st, R
| 
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|pos Ascent Lane, 1st, A
| 
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1 WWWWWWWWW(SW)
|3-433333334-2
|pos Stephenson Road, 1st, S
| 
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
| 
| 
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
| 
| 
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1 ESSSESW
|4-143334-3
|pos Descent Road, 1st, D
| 
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
| 
| 
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
| 
| 
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
| 
| 
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
| 
| 
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
| 
| 
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3 WWSSW
|neg Holl Lane, 3rd, L
| 
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
| 
| 
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
| 
| 
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
| 
| 
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
| 
| 
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
| 
| 
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|pos, Meridian, 4th, I neg Peroido, 1st, P OR Camelia Lane, C
| 
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-10-30T23:17:32Z

Flabyo: Linking to the 'secret location' solution.

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.

==Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
|
| O
|
| L
|
| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
|
|
| T
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| P
|
| M
|
|-----
| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| C
|
| O
|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
|
|
| M
|
| B
|
| E
|
|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
|
|
| D
|
| T
|
| H
|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
|
|
| U
|
| N
|
| D
|
|-----
| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| R
|
| C
|
|-----
| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| A
|
| P
|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
|
|
|
|-----
|}

This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: This list is still in the process of being collated - may not be exhaustive
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for current discussion

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins.
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

{{Card|084|Insights}} Unrelated to the others, it says "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"

{{Card|223|Secret Location}} Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 105, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145". 
This message was [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]] on the 30th of October, 2006.

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

-----

{{CardCat}}

Library of Babel

2006-10-30T23:15:25Z

Flabyo: Linking to the 'secret location' solution.

Secret Location Meta Information Solution

2006-10-30T23:12:07Z

Flabyo: Solve for the 'secret location' meta information

==The Meta Data==
The card {{Card|223|Secret Location}} has a list of numbers printed on it in a faint yellow ink, these numbers are not related to the other numbers in the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|wave 4 meta information]]. They form an encoded message that is a clue to the location of the [[Receda_Cube|Cube]].

==Combed Thunderclap's Example==
In [[Combed_Thunderclap|Combed Thunderclap]]'s [[Library_of_Babel#Message_5:_To_Begin|Library of Babel]] update on 30th October 2006 we were given a method of decoding a string of numbers using a series of book titles and their authors.

The update gave the following books:
{{quote}}
Hamlet- William Shakespeare 
The Wonderful O - James Thurber 
The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges 
History of the Land Called Uqbar - Silas Haslam 
Papillon - Henri Charriere 
Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to you my Lad - Montague Rhodes James 
|}

If you remove all spaces and punctuation, you get the grid given by [[Combed_Thunderclap|Combed Thunderclap]]:
{{quote}}
HamletWilliamShakespeareThewonderfulOJamesThurberT 
helibraryofbabelJorgeLuisBorgesHistoryofthelandcal 
ledUqbarSilasHaslamPapillonHenriCharriereOhwhistle 
andIllcometoyoumyladMontagueRhodesJames 
|}

Counting the characters and picking the ones given by the numbers gives:
{{quote}}
N(127) O(77) W(28) B(64) E(160) G(176) I(11) N(30)
|}
ie:
{{quote}}
Now Begin
|}

==Using the Example to Solve the Secret Location puzzle==

The solution to {{Card|223|Secret Location}} gives you five books and their authors. Using the full names of the authors, you can generate a grid as in the example. If you have the correct names for the authors, the message decodes as:

{{quote}}
Five fingers point 

half the world 
realm 
region 
feature 
last mystery 
|}

The correct names for the books and authors can be found in the thread on [http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=749 Perplexorum], and are not posted here so as to avoid spoiling the puzzle card for those that have not solved it.

Library of Babel

2006-10-30T22:36:13Z

Flabyo: Correcting a typo

Library of Babel

2006-10-30T22:29:53Z

Flabyo: Added transcript of 5th library of babel message

List of gold card holders

2006-10-07T21:57:45Z

Flabyo:

This is a list of who owns which gold card.
If anyone could add to this, it would be appreciated.
Note: Bolded names are not the final owner, i.e., the card indicated has been established as a prize in a competition, or is for sale on eBay.

{{Stub}}

{| cellpadding=5 border=1
|-
| '''Number'''
| '''Owner'''
| '''Signed?'''
| '''How They Got It'''
| '''Link'''

|-
| #025
| xxsammisamxx
| Yes
| Card Pack
|
|-
| #033
| MikeyJ (fool)
| Yes
| ebay
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110040255852 EBAY LINK]

|-
| #062
| '''undecided'''
| Yes
| eBay
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/257-The-Cube-GOLD-PERPLEX-CITY-Wave-4-perplexcity-RARE_W0QQitemZ110039237015QQihZ001QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #075
| GIIRyudo
|
| Scarlett Code
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=268016 UF link]

|-
| #080
| '''undecided'''
| No
| eBay-?
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PERPLEX-CITY-LIMITED-EDITION-GOLD-257-THE-CUBE-80-333_W0QQitemZ190030407935QQihZ009QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #083
| '''Undecided'''
| No
| Ebay
|[http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110039503824 ebay link]

|-
| #085
| '''Undecided'''
| No
| Ebay
|[http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110039503824 ebay link]

|-
| #088
| '''SteveC'''
| No
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
|

|-
| #090
| Ixalon
| No
| Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PerplexCity-Gold-257-090-333-The-Cube-Perplex-City_W0QQitemZ130022590441QQihZ003QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #093
| manleym
|
|
|

|-
| #095
| Unrealt87
| No
| Boardgame Testing
| IRC

|-
| #097
| '''undecided'''
| No
| eBay-?
| [http://cgi.ebay.com/PERPLEX-CITY-NEW-WAVE-4-GOLD-257-THE-CUBE-PERPLEXCITY_W0QQitemZ170025499436QQihZ007QQcategoryZ219QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #101
| Kradlum
|
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #152
| Ficklepickle
| No
| Card Pack
|
|-
| #159
| number9dream
| No
|
|
|-
| #161
| '''undecided'''
| No
| Card Pack

|-
| #168
| Sophiecat
|
| Card Pack
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 UF link]

|-
| #217
| gmsmigun
| No
| eBay-Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Perplex-City-GOLD-card-The-Cube-257-Wave-4-perplexcity_W0QQitemZ230023070550QQihZ013QQcategoryZ2535QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #237
| simonw2000
|
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #242
| doublecross
|
|
|

|-
| #248
| rgmward
| No
| Card Pack
| [http://www.perplexcity.com/profile/view.qbuild?player=rgmward Perplexcity Profile]

|-
| #258
| '''Undecided'''
| No
| Ebay
|

|-
| #280
| ben9000uk
| No
| Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLD-Perplex-City-Card-257-The-Cube-LIMITED-EDITION_W0QQitemZ230029746676QQihZ013QQcategoryZ141174QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #286
| xxsammisamxx
| No
| Card Pack

|-
| #299
| Flabyo
| No
| Cubefest 06 prize

|-
| #325
| Seej
|
| Video Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15644&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #326
| ksjackson
| Yes
| eBay-Video Comp
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Perplex-City-GOLD-Card-257-The-Cube-perplexcity-RARE_W0QQitemZ280015656523QQihZ018QQcategoryZ2535QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
|
| randomkevlar
| Yes
| Video Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15644&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 UF link]

|-
|
| '''Jaffasworld'''
| Yes
| Jaffasworld-Card Pack
| [http://jaffasworld.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=47_178 jaffa's world link]
|}