[PUZZLE]Empty House?!: Wiggins Quote c.1860.

kellylen · Post by **kellylen** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:19 pm

maybe zipp is telling us NOT to listen to him

selizabeth · Post by **selizabeth** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:36 pm

darn.

TheeBerean · Post by **TheeBerean** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:41 pm

kellylen wrote:maybe zipp is telling us NOT to listen to him

Or along the same line of thought... perhaps one of the six-stringed messages is a red herring and we should ignore it... or perhaps, more likely we have the wrong interpretation for one of them and we need to "mute" it as to not allow it to throw us off...

hmmm

~tb

avalon_usagi · Post by **avalon_usagi** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:42 pm

Or "muting himself" could be killing himself.

But I still don't think that would be all he'd be telling us. There must be a lot more to the message.

Aja · Post by **Aja** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:04 am

Random thoughts for the day:

"Mute" doesn't always make something silent; take a trumpet mute for example - it just changes the sound that you hear. If we're thinking in terms of six strings of text, maybe "mute them" means to change what we hear, i.e. rearrange the text.

If you take the messages and split them into separate parts, could these be the six strings?

IS THIS THING ON
CHECK ONE
GOOD CHECK
FILL THE HOUSE
NO AUDIENCE
NO CURTAIN CALL

That's all I got for now.

LesterG · Post by **LesterG** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:17 am

are those note playable? maybe hearing it would ring any bells?

Aja · Post by **Aja** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:22 am

LesterG wrote:are those note playable? maybe hearing it would ring any bells?

Interesting idea.

giddeanx · Post by **giddeanx** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:58 am

kellylen wrote:maybe zipp is telling us NOT to listen to him

So we shouldn't listen to him when he says to not listen to him?

kellylen · Post by **kellylen** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:13 am

damn catch 22

maybe using zipps guitar thing we can get something out of it all?

giddeanx · Post by **giddeanx** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:20 pm

The notes are playable but they don't make a recognizable tune.

http://www.dustinstacey.com/isthisthingoncheckone.mid
http://www.dustinstacey.com/goodcheckfillthehouse.mid
http://www.dustinstacey.com/noaudiencenocurtaincall.mid

Unscathed · Post by **Unscathed** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:01 pm

The first two sound extremely recognizeable, but I can't figure out where it comes from. I'm trying to, though. :/ No idea on the last one.

owldragon · Post by **owldragon** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:18 pm

Aja wrote: If you take the messages and split them into separate parts, could these be the six strings?

IS THIS THING ON
CHECK ONE
GOOD CHECK
FILL THE HOUSE
NO AUDIENCE
NO CURTAIN CALL

That's all I got for now.

I like the idea of it being strings of text that we're supposed to "mute". I think that has real potential.

Googling "mute" and "text", I came up with this for a possibility:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

It's a file-sharing program. Perhaps what we need can be found on there by searching for the right strings of text?

TheeBerean · Post by **TheeBerean** » Sun May 20, 2007 7:10 pm

owldragon wrote:
Aja wrote: If you take the messages and split them into separate parts, could these be the six strings?

IS THIS THING ON
CHECK ONE
GOOD CHECK
FILL THE HOUSE
NO AUDIENCE
NO CURTAIN CALL

That's all I got for now.
I like the idea of it being strings of text that we're supposed to "mute". I think that has real potential.

Googling "mute" and "text", I came up with this for a possibility:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

It's a file-sharing program. Perhaps what we need can be found on there by searching for the right strings of text?

Not a bad idea.... I'll look into it. Honestly, though... its new to me.. someone with more networking experience may be better able to to check this out than just me alone. Also... anyone else notice the weird quote at the bottom of the page? almost seems like an ARG puzzle itself :-p

They say, "DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN."
Their lips move, but no sound comes out.
Who really listens to the people on TV?

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Sun May 20, 2007 8:04 pm

owldragon wrote:
Googling "mute" and "text", I came up with this for a possibility:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

It's a file-sharing program. Perhaps what we need can be found on there by searching for the right strings of text?

that is a wonderful find! So much to go through. Wow , if this is the key , how awesome.

The creator is pretty interesting, (http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer) but I cannot find a connection to Jeromy or the game other than he is in NY. (not that there has to be)

did you check out his (the creator of that site's ) hypertext fiction? very cool and made me really miss Gogo and HSA, right up her alley!!!
I love that stuff.

and the swarm intelligence makes me think of Bree.
I will keep looking, good find!!!