Pietros maze - Revision history

Scott at 19:20, 13 March 2007

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	===Solved Puzzles===		{{Season1}}
	====The Easy Part====
			==Solved Puzzles==
			===The Easy Part===
	The [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]] contained a link to download the program that [[Pietro Salk]] had apparently been writing during his brief awake from his coma.		The [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]] contained a link to download the program that [[Pietro Salk]] had apparently been writing during his brief awake from his coma.

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	# "I am not afraid"		# "I am not afraid"

	====The Hard Part====		===The Hard Part===
	*Maze 6 proved a bit harder to crack, however through a mixture of decompiling and/or finding files in the original controller.jar for the cross platform version of the maze, the following message was found.		*Maze 6 proved a bit harder to crack, however through a mixture of decompiling and/or finding files in the original controller.jar for the cross platform version of the maze, the following message was found.

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	====The Interesting Parts====		===The Interesting Parts===

	=====The Logs=====		====The Logs====
	*[[Michiko Clark]] made a comment on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]]		*[[Michiko Clark]] made a comment on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]]
	*She reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioning old files hidden in the maze.		*She reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioning old files hidden in the maze.
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	*'''The complete conversation can be read in [[Salklogs.doc]]'''		*'''The complete conversation can be read in [[Salklogs.doc]]'''

	=====The Shape=====		====The Shape====
	*[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 Simon] gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes.		*[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 Simon] gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes.
	*This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze.		*This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze.

Scott: ::Category::Conspiracy

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[[::Category::Conspiracy]]

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	*'''SteveC mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif this shape].'''		*'''SteveC mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif this shape].'''
	*[[Brian Enigma]] did a similar task, and got [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt the same shape in plain text].		*[[Brian Enigma]] did a similar task, and got [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt the same shape in plain text].


			{{Conspiracy}}

Scott: /* The Shape */

2005-06-29T16:06:55Z

The Shape

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	*[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 Simon] gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes.		*[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 Simon] gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes.
	*This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze.		*This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze.
	*SteveC mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif this shape].		*'''SteveC mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif this shape].'''
	*'''[[Brian Enigma]] did a similar task, and got [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt ~~a more familiar~~ shape].~~'''~~		*[[Brian Enigma]] did a similar task, and got [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt the same shape in plain text].

Scott at 23:10, 28 June 2005

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	=====The Logs=====		=====The Logs=====
	*~~A comment made by~~ [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]] ~~in which she~~ reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, ~~mentioned finding~~ old files hidden in the maze. This led ~~BriEnigma~~ to try some of the sentences from the message ~~- the maze of words? -~~ on the ~~[[salkfamily.com\|~~Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]]. The complete conversation can be read in [[Salklogs.doc]]		*[[Michiko Clark]] made a comment on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]]
			*She reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioning old files hidden in the maze.
			*This led [[Brian Enigma]] to try some of the sentences from the message on the Salk Family website.
			*Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]].
			*'''The complete conversation can be read in [[Salklogs.doc]]'''

	=====The Shape=====		=====The Shape=====
	*~~In a post on the Unfiction forums(~~[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 ~~link~~]~~), Simon~~ gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes. This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze. ~~[[Brian Enigma]]~~		*[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 Simon] gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes.
	mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://~~perplexcitycardcatalog~~.~~com~~/~~notes~~/~~maze~~/3.~~txt~~ this shape]. ~~SteveC~~ did a similar task, and got it [http://~~wiki~~.~~incognitus.net~~/~~ppc~~/~~index.php~~/~~Image:Salksymbol~~.~~gif pretty close~~].		*This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze.
			*SteveC mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif this shape].
			*'''[[Brian Enigma]] did a similar task, and got [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt a more familiar shape].'''

Scott at 23:05, 28 June 2005

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			====The Interesting Parts====

	*A comment made by [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]] in which she reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioned finding old files hidden in the maze. This led BriEnigma to try some of the sentences from the message - the maze of words? - on the [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]].		=====The Logs=====
			*A comment made by [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]] in which she reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioned finding old files hidden in the maze. This led BriEnigma to try some of the sentences from the message - the maze of words? - on the [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]]. The complete conversation can be read in [[Salklogs.doc]]

			=====The Shape=====
	===~~Unsolved Puzzles~~===		*In a post on the Unfiction forums([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 link]), Simon gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes. This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze. [[Brian Enigma]]
	In a post on the Unfiction forums([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 link]), Simon gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes. This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze. ~~Here's a small and inaccurate diagram showing roughly how the shape changes from one maze to the next.~~		mapped the entire empty space in every map, and came up with [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt this shape]. SteveC did a similar task, and got it [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:Salksymbol.gif pretty close].

	[[~~image:mazes.jpg~~]]

	~~Mapping~~ the Y, ~~Z axis of that gives you the following "symbol"~~:

	[~~[image~~:Salksymbol.gif]]

Scott at 18:56, 28 June 2005

2005-06-28T18:56:31Z

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SteveC: /* Unsolved puzzles */ adding a symbol

2005-06-28T16:04:47Z

Unsolved puzzles: adding a symbol

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	[[image:mazes.jpg]]		[[image:mazes.jpg]]

			Mapping the Y, Z axis of that gives you the following "symbol":

			[[image:Salksymbol.gif]]

Spugmeistress at 09:44, 28 June 2005

2005-06-28T09:44:19Z

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	*A comment made by [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]] in which she reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioned finding old files hidden in the maze. This led BriEnigma to try some of the sentences from the message - the maze of words? - on the [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]].		*A comment made by [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc\|radio interview]] in which she reported [[Pietro Salk\|Salk's]] death, mentioned finding old files hidden in the maze. This led BriEnigma to try some of the sentences from the message - the maze of words? - on the [[salkfamily.com\|Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]].

			==Unsolved puzzles==
			In a post on the Unfiction forums([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=170389#170389 link]), Simon gave us co ordinates for a closed off shape in some of the later mazes. This may have something to do with Pietro talking about the room at the heart of the maze. Here's a small and inaccurate diagram showing roughly how the shape changes from one maze to the next.

			[[image:mazes.jpg]]

Spugmeistress at 07:53, 28 June 2005

2005-06-28T07:53:26Z

New page

The [[salkfamily.com|Salk Family website]] contained a link to download the program that [[Pietro Salk]] had apparently been writing during his brief awake from his coma.

*It turned out to be a maze and initially required a laptop with OSX and inertial sensors to control it.
On the 25th an update was issued saying they had found a bug and fixed it.
On the 27th a cross platform version was released with a seperate tilt control .jar file, which seems to have later been updated to a smaller version with less files.

*Maze levels 1-5 were solved fairly quickly (BriEnigma's maps: [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/a.txt|1] [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/b.txt|2] [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/c.txt|3] [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/d.txt|4] [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/e.txt|5]) producing messages at the end of each level.

1: "I am dreaming now"
2: "All I am is dreaming"
3: "I will wake soon and when I wake I will die"
4: "I know this to be true"
5: "I am not afraid"

*Maze 6 proved a bit harder to crack, however through a mixture of decompiling and/or finding files in the original controller.jar for the cross platform version of the maze, the following message was found.

"In my dreams, I am walking in a maze. I am following someone who is always just a little too far ahead. A moment before I round one corner, she rounds the next. I never see her, not even a glimpse of her cloak.
She. It is a woman, then, my quarry. I follow a woman, walking in this maze. The place is quiet. There is no sound but that of my footsteps on the floor. I cannot see the floor, it is too dark. The walls are blank. It is a maze. I made this maze and now I am caught within it.
The adherents of ancient religions compare the darkness of this life to the
wandering in a maze. Only with the light of eternal truth, they say, will we be set free. But there is no light to follow. Only a woman, whom I know to be ahead of me.
I walk a little faster. I know, without knowing how I know, that she also walks a little faster. Only a little. Only just out of reach.
I try to remember who she is, this woman always ahead of me. I think that I know. I think that this maze is knowledge, that I have pieced it together, like the construction of a complex puzzle. I used to make puzzles. I do so no longer.
She does not tire. She does not hunger. She does not thirst. Her
speed is steady, increasing when mine increases, decreasing when mine does. If I stopped, she too would stop. This pursuit could last forever.
It must not last forever. I have no time left. Moments only. Moments are all we have, of course. I remember something, a fragment, a conversation. A woman pushing a slip of paper toward me across a table. It is gone again. I walk on.
I call out in the darkness: "Who are you?" My voice returns to me. It asks me the same question. I almost know the answer.
In fury, I begin to run. I urge my body forward. Ahead of me, her speed
increases. I strain. My lungs ache. I am no nearer to her. I run faster, as
fast as I possibly can. I will never catch her. I collapse to the floor of the
passage. I sit with my back to the wall, breathing hard. I despair. My time is almost up. If only I could turn the timer over, set the sand flowing in the other direction.
I consider this. Yes. I think I may know how to proceed. I stand up. I turn
around. Yes, this is how it was. I walk away from her. And now she begins to pursue me. I am not afraid. This is how it must be. I have created this maze. I am its author.
Through dimly-lit corridors, she pursues me. She travels at the same pace as me. When I slow, she slows. When I quicken, she does likewise. Nothing appears to have changed. But everything has changed.
I am the author of this maze. I know its every turn and bend, its every blind alley. I know its heart. Now, she is following me. Now I control our
destination.
Counting in the half-light, I pass by one entrance, then another, then another. The passages appear identical. I am looking for the heart of the maze. I choose carefully. This place is larger than one might have expected.
I lead her along the route I have chosen. She is always just a little behind
me, just out of view.
We come at last to the place I have chosen. The heart
of the maze. I know, I think I know, what will happen here.
The centre of the maze is an empty room. This is the secret at the heart of
every maze. She knows it too. Emptiness, a space at the heart.
The room is long. It is unbending. It is as large as the maze itself. This is a mystery beyond explanation.
I walk slowly up the length of the room. Slower than slow. She is behind me. She knows what will happen now.
I reach the far distance. This is impossible, of course.
I turn around.
I see her.
She sees me.
She speaks a series of words. They mean nothing to me. They mean everything. They are this story.
It is time for me to go. "

*It seems we would have revealed this message 4 letters at a time at the end of each level solved.

The program would have output the following message when you solved all the mazes:

"I understand what I must do. There is a maze. I am to lead others through it. I must. We must find her, we must discover the truth, the heart. I have placed my maze in this maze of words. The words are the maze. They will lead those who must come after me. It is time for me to go"

*A comment made by [[Michiko Clark]] on her [[michiko_radio_1.doc|radio interview]] in which she reported [[Pietro Salk|Salk's]] death, mentioned finding old files hidden in the maze. This led BriEnigma to try some of the sentences from the message - the maze of words? - on the [[salkfamily.com|Salk Family website]]. Every sentence of the message, from the one in Maze 1 to the 'time for me to go' leads to a URL containing various pieces of the [[Salk logs]].