The mystery of Triskabiblios continues. I've had to put my updates in this new post asthe last one was starting to take too long to load. Thanks for all your help. Anyway...

Sorry if any of you were troubled by my disappearance. I was only away as I had to sleep and then go out today! Anyway while I was away a couple of things arrived in my inbox. Neither make muchsense. First up another note from Orkid:

Orkid's mails beforethis were a lot more structured and made alot more sense.Could Orkid be losing it? Interestingly myother email, from Islington, also has a similar mixed up style:

(the URL doesn't work but I've reproduced it exactly)

What this all means I don't know, but hopefully it will help out in your advanced investigations - you seem to be doing well. Can I expect an old style vinyl record in the post soon? I'm not sure I like the idea of Islington knowing where I live.

That's all the communications I've had today. There have been a couple of commments on older threads with links to vibration13 pages, but with the ".com" missing. I think these were hoaxes. What I did do is interrogate my comment database to see what comments Islington has made. I've got ascreen shot of the results here:

That's all I have. If I'm not around tomorrow don't worry. I have to be in Newbury most of day.

GOOD LUCK.

UPDATE: I know that most of you have probably picked up on this (some of you are probably members already) but the forums at unfiction make for valuable reading [hello duckie].

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BTW - it's almost 3am here. I'm going to die if i don't sleep soon. i'm out much of tomorow. i expect chaos when i return.

btw(2) - I left my answer phone on if whoever i'm meant to call wants to try ringing me.

Sleep well Graeme. Blessings Abound!

We're sorry. We did not find a listing for the phone number you entered.
The phone number "(315) 213-7292" is a Auburn, NY based phone number and the registered carrier is Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc. However, due to number portability, some numbers have been transferred to a new service provider other than the registered carrier.

Well, well, well. Thank you, yellow pages. NY, huh? I might just drive to Auburn and give them a piece of my mind for hosting part of this randomfest.

Right i'm going to bed and this time i mean it. I'll transcribe (some how) any emails, phone call or parcels i receive tomorrow.

well, it's something like that. Because it's a phone number to Colgate University.

How much do any of you know about Duckie? I keep getting strange references to him.

Triscal D. Islington
The Duck Knows Where They Are?
Royal Duck hunt
The Ghostly apparition of the Duck with the infinity sign.

Sorry Duck if I'm off, but something is strange there.

bollox. i'm getting the directory listing at

http://www.triskabiblios.com/

now. i'm going to have to read it all.

damn damn and double damn.


oh bed how i miss you.

The Duck Knows Where They Are? Like from the google thing? http://www.theatreroyal.co.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=151
Wouldn't it rock if it was just a complex rubber ducky hunt? Personally, that's something I could go in for.
'Night, Graeme. 'Night to all of you, probably.

Don't worry, there isn't much to read. What IS that flash thing? (my flash trial expired, haha) *makes a big pot of coffee*

lol

I guess most of you are reading the Unforum. Someone posted this there. I figured I'd post it here just in case you weren't looking over there.


orkidquantum (8:39:58 AM): cos... I stoped noing the DIfRence ahwrn IslingTon R-arg.g
evilwurm6669 (8:39:59 AM): i like the idea of ARGS but i dont think id be much good at it, but im reading up and talkign in some forums and stuff
orkidquantum (8:40:12 AM): You're actually talking LIVE to the creatorr right now
evilwurm6669 (8:40:16 AM): the difference between reality?
orkidquantum (8:40:20 AM): I'll tell you anything you want to knwo
orkidquantum (8:40:23 AM): Just ack#
evilwurm6669 (8:40:26 AM): wait the creator of..
orkidquantum (8:40:27 AM): I kmean ASK
orkidquantum (8:40:36 AM): TRIskaBiBlios
orkidquantum (8:40:40 AM): the AAAAAArg
orkidquantum (8:40:44 AM): </meta>
orkidquantum (8:40:54 AM): sory the curatin just rose too ERyl on the show
orkidquantum (8:40:57 AM): oh ewell
orkidquantum (8:41:00 AM):
ASdflkm, Q+A

right i found nothing new from the directory listing. seemed to have seen it all b4 in one form another. perhaps that's hwy we get it like that now. anyways - my bed is actually shouting at me now. have to get up early and drive to newbury tomorrow so this is killing me. g'night all. good luck. hope to post another update tomorrow.

Wow. Well, if that's true, at least it's back to a nice, red background, right?
What a mess, though. If it really did go down in flames, they should have thought it out a bit beforehand. The info on this game looks like a map of Tokyo by now (tub of hyperactive bait, with random numbers and characters strewn about scenically)

From Duckie at Unforum's :

Mountain Girl: I've been around since ILB, all the way back when I went by Sarah Roberts, then Sarah Kiddo (please don't ask)
It would be odd, fingering myself as the PM by basing the thing on my own school/nickname, but as I'm actually convinced the PM is insane, and this game is making me insane, I could quite concievably be working on the game every time I'm not trying to solve it, and just blocking it out.
I must be very subconscoiusly good at flash though Wink
OK, just a very roundabout answer, I'm legit, and there was a point this afternoon I was actively considering that I was actually making this all up (no sarcasm here, I really did consider it) so I guess I am going insane.
Toby sent me a nice little shopping list via email! Woo.

Toby sent me a nice little shopping list via email! Woo.
Quote:

Do you have the following:


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OK, now this:


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What is this? Has it been solved yet? Is there any way that I can help?

i know this is a long shot, but does anyone know who jamie kane is? her name was in one of the files. and when i googled Triskabiblios i found

http://www.argn.com/archive/000309wikipedia_jamie_kane.php

dont know if this was already posted but i found it to be too much of another coincidence

It's a he, and although i haven't been following it, it is an Alternate Reality Game, sponsored by the BBC. Jamie Kane was supposed to have died. The link to the site is www.jamiekane.com or www.jamiekane.co.uk. I'm not sure which

He was a singer/musician or something. Like I said, i know it's an ARG, but not much more than that. Wish I could have helped more.

Um.. Call me lazy, but I didn't read all of the 500 posts on the other page, so I don't know what's going on. Could someone possibly post a recap of the most recent happenings? Thanks!

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12293&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

I'd say that this would be a good place to start. =)

I went to Graeme's scribe site thingie. I just wanted to know why a square appears in the middle of the page if you tap tab a few times. I'm not good with websites, so I wondering if anyone else knew why.

Check this out Sha-Zoob. It will help greatly.

http://www.wonderweasels.org/13books/guide.html

In the email I got (That last one that mountain girl posted) It is signed "IsLing TO bee?" and IsLing is obviously islingwhatshisface.

The emails and IMs that people have been posting just seem to be getting wilder and wilder, and all english and punctuation is being thrown out the door.

like I said before, "the curtain rose too early" might refer to the index being accessible, and "rose" as in the girl orkid wanted to meet.

who knows?

WOW. Just checked in since yesterday and spend about an hour and a half reading all of the comments. Feel silly for the post I left yesterday....

Mountain Girl - where did you guys get that phone number? (315) 213-7292 I didn't see it anywhere. I've tried looking it up, since I'm in New York, to no avail...

People you keep on talking about coincidences, but that Islington guy clearly said there's no such thing as a coincidence. That should be kept in mind.

..Holy crap, this comment is too long.

Okay, here comes a post that has barely anything to do with this puzzle.

I've been getting 4 hours of sleep every day for this whole week, and it was starting to affect me in ways that it hasn't affected me before. D:

Then I read this first part yesterday and it got me all paranoid. And then I come here today and the background changes. I'm feeling a little less paranoid since I got some more sleep, but still, this is kinda weird.

If I knew at least one of you more closely, maybe I'd be less paranoid since I'd at least trust someone and do this together. I'd want to get involved but I'm not very smart at this crap. However, I think Islington might be interested in me, since I've gone through so many 'coincidences' in my life that it's not even funny and I'm starting to think my life is pretty badly rigged(in the best way possible). Sadly, I don't think any of my frequent 'coincidences' have anything to do with the number 13, though.

So far I have not gone to the site or the unforums or whatever because I don't want to get involved, but I have been clicking on related links hosted by lazylaces. Is cool to watch.

Also, I didn't see anyone mention saying what was in that .fla? I have flash that is not a trial, but like I said, I'm kinda paranoid about all this.

Also, about the index meltdown whatever: There was somewhat of an 'internet puzzle conspiracy' when the clock crew's site suddenly shut down, and for a while we bitched about it, then all of the sudden it 'meltdown' like you guys call it. Then it turned out to be a huge puzzle with images that we all had to work together and look at source code and use photoshop on some hidden image pictures, etc. We also ended up just trying random URLs/folder names. We did everything in our power, short of hacking.
I don't know what happened after that, if it was ever solved or anything. My memory's kinda fuzzy and I don't know what happened.

Wow! I usually don't comment but I do check in from time to time. I can't believe what I've missed. When did all of this start?

http://www.vibration13.com/triskabiblios/secure/themostcomplicatedpuzzleinHumanHistory.swf

Tell me about it!!!!!

Okay, I emailed Islington yesterday (addy provided on the introdux page) with <a href="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:IMvyS0P6gmcJ:www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/rtr.cgi%3Fread%3D2558+%22time+travel%22+conjugation+verb+tenses&hl=en">this link</a>, which is basically a diatribe on time-travel conjugation.

He wrote back twice (as toby.godden@gmail.com) with these replies:


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dangit, forgot to SPLAT *smacks self on forehead*

1) In reference to the "Filter" comment on Graeme's page and 2) because of the recent inability of Orkid, I, or Toby to type coherently...

I'm kind of thinking that we should discount the poorly typed words. Is there anything in his/her messages that is typed correctly?

Well, in the words of Donkey, "I'm all alone. There's no one here -- besiiiide me. My troubles are all gone. There's no one to deriiiide me. But you gotta have friends! *ooph*"

Morning All. I see I have missed much while I took a long nap... I'm off to read. e-mail me if you think there's anything truly trvealing i need to know, please.

Has everyone seen the new journal entry posted today?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/orkid_quantum/

And the new comment to one of her entries? it says"

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
wow GOOD ADVICE! }
thanx to U I found a BOOK
it is called Protr8 of the Artist with a Young God
By Dylan Joyce

Try REed
uhhh>>thisis REAL???:blink:ing them both @ the same time - steam of conshoiusness stuff Wink

*chirp

I think my brain is melting down along with Triskabiblios. I'll come back to this tomorrow. Currently, I'm sick of it all. (*must...do...homework*)

Has anyone else noticed that when you go to triskabiblios.com itself now, there's plenty of stuff just... gone? And the extraduction is missing, now. I might be a bit overreacting, but as I seem to be easily misled by all these great things...

Oh, and they misspelled misled on one of the parts- mislaid. Just thought I'd mention it. I can picture them chatting:

Islington: I got mislaid the other day.
Orkid: Oh, you poor soul!

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'

The database has been placed in a state by user 'Admin' on machine 'ORF-PREMIUM3A' that prevents it from being opened or locked.

/common.asp, line 145

Anyone else get that on their screen when they tried to visit lazylaces today?

No, not me.

Any thoughts on the new Cenyon Scribe page? "

The Kurt and Court Knee" Is that a Nirvana reference?

Also what is a .fla file? Can any of you get it to open? If so, how?

I recently found this site when I was looking for point & click games a few days ago. I've been following this 'game' since last night and like everyone else, I'm confussed. But I do have a question about this site: http://www.wonderweasels.org/13books/guide.html

Who started it?

And this is what it says today (which is the first time I clicked it):

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'original poster' as in "I"/Orkid or 'original poster' as in the website?

I think the person is just referring to the making of the guide itself because they are frustrated with the way the game is going.

xOrkidis listenin to a great mp3

http://www.vibration13.com/teriyaki/Sophie.MP3

Ok. I was wondering if maybe the site person was the PMer.

I just noticed that same thing about the Sophie song. Another coincidence? I don't think so.

Do you mean the Reference Guide page, Michele?

Yes, Mountain Girl.

Don't know if anybody's mentioned this, but the whole thing is very reminiscient of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition--as Graeme noted in his initial post, this seems like some kind of viral thing. Doesn't help any, just my $0.02.

On the page source of themostdifficultpuzzleintheworld there is also this text "fix me" followed by the url:

http://ny.cf.er.usgs.gov/biblio/search_keyword.cfm?keyword=NITROGEN

The site has a heading of 58 biblios

Notice the date at the top right corner...It's February 15,1981

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