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Satan's Extra Credit Assignment (or Riddle thread?)

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    That's it

    That's the key!

    (Maybe)

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    @Nogs did you try asking someone their interpretation without telling them the context?

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    yeah but they thought it was gibberish that didn't make sense.

    The reason i was putting possessives and 'is' in there is because i was going off just the audio.

    so lets listen to it

    "The Letters Keys Just Win"

    so Letters could be letter's so possessive or 'is'

    same with Keys

    now, if we take the audio thing further, maybe two words are actually 1 word or if you slur it just right with the right accent it might be another word

    For instance: 'Letters' could be 'Let Hers'

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    like, if i am drunk I could possibly pronounce that sentence as

    The Let Hers Case Justin

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Actually, in this case @Darth Waiter‌ might come in handy

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    so that means possible military connection

    makes sense with the crossroads able bomb

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    What's a Leterski, and why is it just in?

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Nogs wrote: »
    so that means possible military connection

    makes sense with the crossroads able bomb

    Well @Lost Salient‌ may have noticed it as well where she is

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Texas.

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    What's a Leterski, and why is it just in?

    A Polish pastry. They're a Christmas tradition.
    That is a lie.

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Nogs wrote: »
    so that means possible military connection

    makes sense with the crossroads able bomb

    Yup, that's your who or your what. You figured out the Atoll (lost in space when written as a toll).

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    a toll is where the bomb was dropped

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Yup

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    so

    The Letters Keys Just WIn

    is about When

    win = When

    The letters keys just when

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    It sure is

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Didn't think it'd take until 20141213

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    GOD DAMNIT WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Why have I been summoned into this nonsense?

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Why have I been summoned into this nonsense?

    Because (according to my wife) when i ask for a pen it sounds like I'm asking for a pin

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    Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    I done been summoned

    What's all this about Texas?

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Speech patterns

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    11052519?

    That doesn't convert back nicely

    That's KEYS converted into an eight digit number, but it doesn't look like one of those date formats

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Don't forget you're able to find the correct date

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Anagramming it, we can get November 5th, 1925; May 11, 1925; May 25, 1911; November 25, 1905

    And more, further back, I guess

    Any of those hitting significance for anyone yet?

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    The format he's been using, it would be the 19th day of the 25th month, 1105, I think.

    Able Crossroads was 1946-0701.


    Whether that's the correct date, who knows. But everything else seems to tie back to that.

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    The format he's been using, it would be the 19th day of the 25th month, 1105, I think.

    Able Crossroads was 1946-0701.


    Whether that's the correct date, who knows. But everything else seems to tie back to that.

    Things in the cube seem to be shifting into place

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    Everything seems to tie back to able crossroads, then.

    Gilda?

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    lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited December 2014
    so the 19th day of the 25th month

    2 years and 1 month after the project started, the 19th day at 1105, something something bikini atoll?

    Crossroads had 3 tests, Able, Baker, and Charlie.

    Able was on 1 July, 1946
    Baker was on 25 July, 1946
    Charlie was cancelled due to the fact that nobody could decontaminate the radiation.

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Follow the date to the letter if you're Able and watch as things shift into place

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    lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    1+7+1+9+5+6=29

    only 26 letters in the alphabet. so maybe it's 2+9=11.

    the 11th letter of the alphabet is K.
    Or, 1+1= 2, which is the letter B.

    And i'm going to bed

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    A Portal had been opened,
    an offering of soul,
    But we were left unsated,
    Collecting just a toll.

    You know where to meet me,
    It was time we had a chat,
    Mark your calendar you're able,
    And this dream will leave you flat.

    nshy
    slec
    fckl
    ihur
    sieh
    imyb
    tiei
    ulis
    xyqv
    rbsz
    munu
    gxtn
    iekq
    waas
    erpy
    apah
    sjui
    utlk
    qvmo
    iker
    mfcl
    ettr
    zxar

    For remembering sake. Also, while not part of the solution, can anyone make sense of the last line of the poem?

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    A dream that leaves you flat... Possibly a dream that kills you? Two possible senses on that one- classic dream of falling, which you might flatten out Looney Tunes style at the end of; or in the sense of your heart stopping while you sleep- flat lining.

    Do we have a Krueger situation on our hands here?

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    @Straightzi‌ That part of the riddle is part riddle, part trivia that ties into the overall poem solution.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Ah, gotcha.

    In that case, "dream" is in reference to the aircraft that dropped the bomb during the Able test of Operation Crossroads, Dave's Dream.

    Not quite positive on the rest of it, but I'm feeling pretty ironclad about that.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Assuming that "leave you flat" is in some way a reference to death and destruction, here's a list of ships sunk by Able- Gilliam, Sakawa, Carlisle, Anderson, Lamson.

    There were a number of other ships that sustain serious damage, as well. The target ship for the test was actually not sunk- that was the USS Nevada.

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    DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    Ah, gotcha.

    In that case, "dream" is in reference to the aircraft that dropped the bomb during the Able test of Operation Crossroads, Dave's Dream.

    Not quite positive on the rest of it, but I'm feeling pretty ironclad about that.

    Word.

    Now all you need to do is to apply when to the letters, largest unit first, and let things shift into place.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    19460701

    S _ G A

    46 is the missing letter there, because it doesn't have a correct conversion. Here are the options I've come up with:

    (4+6)= S J G A
    (46-26)= S T G A
    (4+6=10; 1+0)= S A G A
    (4*6)= S X G A

    The one that makes the most sense to me there is the third one, but that one was really the largest logical leap I had available

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Maybe combining them is the trick?

    1105 2519
    +1946 0701
    ___________
    30513220

    30530820 maybe? August 20, 3053.

    That can't be right.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Okay I have been coming back to this every day at work hoping that I'll notice something new

    And I'm still coming up blank

    @Nogs‌ do you have any ideas? You've been head puzzler here.

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