Hope school doesn't take too much of your time!
Hope school doesn't take too much of your time!
The last two lines of the fifth verse still bother me. I think Sir B. is right when he suggests that the literary reference doesn't extend to them, but I'm still having trouble with them. They could merely suggest that the end of the riddle approaches (the death knell being for the life of the riddle), but I don't think Thingfish would have wasted lines in that fashion. That would mean that they're still relevant (and probably connect to the ideas in the first half of the verse), but I still can't put them in place.
Somewhere, Thingfish is laughing.
Well, I'll be back to examine this later.
This is where Thingfish posts "Bwahahaha!"
Oh, those lines aren't wasted...
GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!
I stand corrected. *gwa*
Well, if you notice in the FF games, various people do various evil laughs beginning either 'Bwah', 'Gwah', 'Kwah', 'Rwah', 'Fwah', 'Pwah' or, of course 'Mwah'. Gives me loads of options
Sir.B. really must be back at school rather than simply slacking off like he usually does...
Where are everyone else?
Wow, upon seeing this riddle I flashbacked to a year or two back where I first saw this riddle and did minor research yet didnt contribute much of anything. Now seeing it again I wish to try and see what I can decipher, seeing as its been over a year and nothing major has been figured outI may not be much help, but Ill try to add some ideas, and hopefully eliminate false ones. Ill also be darned if i come up with a solution seeing how I've never made it totally thru the 3rd disc
Well referring back to the anagram-age, assuming you divide the two lines of the 4th verse into 4 parts :
1) Confused the vulgar see
2) Vengeful death's course
3) Heaven's flute scourged
4) Even focus slaughtered
Each of these are anagrams of each other one if that serves to be of any use. Note: this is only a result of around 10 min. study and thanks to others i noticed this
Last edited by friscodude; 08-26-2005 at 12:10 AM.
Good to see you back, friscodude
It's been established that recognising that the first two lines of the 4th verse were split into sections that were anagrams of each other was simply the first step of solving the puzzle of those lines. The second step is to find one other anagram that can be made out of one of those sections (doesn't matter which, as they all have the same letters). The third step is then to examine that anagram and see how it tells you the full name of the answer.
I must say, however, the second and third parts are insanely difficult, so I wouldn't bother spending too much time on them at present
The answer's real name does not appear through the naturally course of the story, no.
Yeah, Thingfish, I really am back at school. I still have the weekends anyway, so expect another stab from me during the next few days. It's quite silly really, that when I finally get intent on actually solving the riddle, I start school again
Frisco: Glad to see someone else join the fray!
Thanks for the welcomes
Best get sorting, Frisco
I've been looking over the "anagram puzzle," and there's something that's not totally clear to me. Have we progressed to the point (the realization that the "half-lines" are anagrams) where "the" should be removed, or do we need to complete another step first?
You need to complete the anagram first. I believe that the whole stage of solving the puzzle is what we need to do first, then once we progress to the second stage, we then take out 'the'.
I'll figure it out later...
TBH friscodude, I think that Thingfish wouldn't want you to post up all the places they could be as it could attract random guessing. A while ago when I had a list of all NPC's in the game I asked him if I could let people know the link and he said not. I think he'd just prefer if you narrow it down - then - post it.
I'll figure it out later...
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