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* <span class="updt">The [[Artifacts#Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] artifact code was figured out, giving us [[Codex-Chapter16|chapter 16]] of [[Codex|the Codex]] ([http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/5474/WAS8/541S/9424/50MJ.PDF direct link])</span> * <span class="updt">The [[Artifacts#Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] artifact code was figured out, giving us [[Codex-Chapter16|chapter 16]] of [[Codex|the Codex]] ([http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/5474/WAS8/541S/9424/50MJ.PDF direct link])</span>

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Chapters:

(in chronological order)

Prologue

(February 29)


DancingKids' package
Packages including memorabilia related to the 1920 Summer Olympics are delivered to a number of people around the world. Contained inside are postcards, a poster and a ball of yarn. Written on the backs of the postcards are the following messages:

March 3, 2008
Find her...

March 4, 2008??
Find the others...

March 5, 2008??
Find him...

March 11, 2008??
Find the secret...

August 24, 2008
Save the world.

Inside the ball of yarn is a piece of paper that includes a reference to Findthelostring.com. All the website contains at this point, however, is a message to Ariadne explaining that the site is being worked on, and should be up first thing Monday morning... signed, "Kai"

Chapter 1: Find her...

(through March 3)

Findthelostring.com goes live on the 3rd of March, to reveal the blog of a woman named Ariadne. Through a series of posts, she explains her unusal situation.

On the 12th February, Ariadne awakes finding herself in the centre of a corn maze (labyrinth) near Johannesburg, South Africa. She's wearing blindfold-like goggles and stretchy workout clothes. On her arm is a tattoo which reads "trovu la ringon perditan", Esperanto for "find the lost ring". Discovered alone in the maze with no memory, she's taken to a hospital where she spends a week under watchful eyes. The doctors' analysis shows there's nothing wrong with her, other than having an extremely rare amnesia, and a body in excellent Olympic-caliber condition.

While in the hospital, Ariadne meets Kai, a San Francisco based "technology whiz kid" on an adventure holiday. Fascinated with her story, he takes her under his wing. Before leaving Johannesburg, he sets her up with a month's rent and a laptop computer. He also sets up her blog and website, and suggests more features will be added.

Since being found, the same recurring dreams plague her each night. In the first dream, she relives the moment she awoke in the labyrinth, but the second is something new. She finds herself surrounded by five other pairs of blindfold goggles, and picks them up one by one. By the time she has all six pairs she is finally calm again. She thinks this may be a message, maybe from her subconscious memory.


Finally she shares a video blog, summing up the other entries. There have been absolutely no leads as to her identity or history, friends or family. She asks whether anyone recognises her, and if they have any ideas to let her know.


...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 2: Find them...

(March 3 - March 5)

Scouring the internet, from youtube to social networking sites for non-English speakers, we found others who were also seeking help figuring out who they are and why they woke up with tattoos they do not understand. We find the homepages of Markus, Diego, MeiHui, Lucie, and Noriko. They've all awoken in labyrinths of different sizes or styles. We help them get in contact with each other, but the language barrier proves difficult.

We dig deeper into the circumstances of their awakenings, and find out more details about the attire each wore when they woke up - various kinds of blindfolds, athletic clothing, shoes. They're having dreams, of curves, lines, patterns. Ariadne discovers she is quite adept at learning T'ai Chi - surprisingly so; mastering over a hundred poses in less than a week. Doing a little research reveals that her skill can be attributed to 'kinesthetic memory' - muscle memory (she doesn't remember anything, but her body remembers what it's good at).

Someone named Larissa leaves a message on Ariadne's blog, saying she knew a person four years ago, Renata, who was also an amnesiac on a strange mission. Renata went missing, and now all Larissa has of Renata's is a necklace.

...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 3: Find him...

(March 5 - March 10)

Ariadne suggests doing more research on the Olympic Games. So we look at the Official Olympic Games site. Mostly innocuous-looking... but what's that on the lower left-hand corner? A banner linking to a podcast series on "The Lost Games: Ancient Olympic Mysteries." Perhaps the Lost Games have something to do with the Lost Ring...

The Lost Games site turns out to be full of intriguing ancient trivia. But what's even more intriguing is the FAQ with historian Eli Hunt, especially the last item:

Q: How do I find the lost ring?
A: For the last time, I have no idea what you're talking about.

It is clear that this man knows more than he lets on. For example the 6 Amnesiacs suddendly remembered one word each (Sofia, Thumos, Chariton, Dikaiosune, Sophrosune, Mythopoeia) which are the six attributes of the Agonethetai from Eli's podcast The Ancient Game Keepers. We plead with him to tell us more. At first he denies knowing anything about the matter, and even after we explain to him about the six amnesiacs he refuses to do more than hint that the mystery is too dangerous to look into.

But he does let slip that he has an upcoming lecture in Cardiff. Ariadne jumps on this information as an opportunity to confront Mr. Hunt in person (see trailer III). She succeeds in persuading Mr. Hunt to share his secret-- which leads us to the omphaputer.

...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 4: Find the secret...

(March 11 - March 12)


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Having convinced Eli to share his research with Ariadne, he comes to acknowledge that there is a growing community of people who are fervently dedicated to helping Ariadne. After completing his lecture in Cardiff and releasing his third podcast about "The Omphalos Code", he releases a hidden podcast, a confession entitled "The Secret Artifact". In it, he describes a small bronze statue he discovered in his research - but shares for the first time that it wasn't just a statue.

Inside was a piece of paper on which was written a message, in English. He kept this paper to himself. "When the time comes, there will be no more time..." it started. "As you wait for the six, " it later said, "you can build a House of Salomon." This is what Eli has been doing with his years of research. He sent an email to those he'd conversed with including a link to the "omphaputer" - a secret website located at 164.109.150.213.

The secret website is analyzed to pieces. It contains a rotating globe of dots of varying shades from blue to white. A prompt appears if a key is pressed, and soon a list of possible commands is made. The command "Agonothetai" indicates that a code needs to be entered with a biostat to 'authenticate'. Using information Monica shared about her uncle's findings, the number 696 was found to be important - this year being the 696th 4-year olympiad period since the first Greek olympics. Using the attributes the six saw in their visions with the suffix "696" indicates that a biostat is still required - the ring finger length and the resting heart rate. After asking the six for these stats, each were authenticated and became 'active'.

Monica's story about her uncle' grandfather, and the postcard left behind for her appears to Larissa very similar to what she knows of Renata, having also written on the backs of postcards with numbers and words. She shares her feeling that Renata may be, or may have been, attempting to retrieve a "codex" of the lost ring.

...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 5: Recover the Codex...

(March 13 - March 17)

The colored dots on the omphaputer are omphalos locations. The first omphalos location that has been discovered was STEPHENVILLE in Newfoundland. Typing STEPHENVILLE into the omphaputer led to the navigation instruction 20478 Scorpio 24 degrees. - an ancient way of navigating descriped in Eli's third podcast. Finally this led to CARDIFF's city hall. Ariadne herself went there to pickup the first chapter of the Codex of the lost ring. Each omphalos location leads to two artifact locations

This Codex was written by Jorge's group in the beginning of the 20th century and the chapters have been hidden all over the world - 27 chapters in total. It is some kind of manual explaining what the mission of the six allies is about. Soon new omphalos and artifact locations have been identified, leading to more chapters, which could be also downloaded from the omphaputer.

Eli Hunt gives some clues about the origin of the secret site. Years ago he found the book The Wisdom of the Ancients and New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon in the National Library of Athens. Handwritten notes about "waveforms" led to the IP of the secret site (Omphaputer).

Summary of the Codex of the lost ring (Ch.1 - Ch.4):

Jorge's six have hidden the codex to help following groups of Agonothetai to fulfill there mission (see Codex-Intro). The six amnesiacs seem to be the actual group of Agonethetai.

The Six Ancient Strengths of the agnoethethai are described. The 6 Travellers explain how they arrived in this world similar like Ariadne and the others, how they finally met and that they discovered there mission: "Initiate your world with the lost traditions of the labyrinth and athletic synchronization, and restore a network of omphaloi" to save the worlds.

They soon found out, that the ancient Agonethetai did not exist anymore and that the ancient Olympics were also lost in our world. Nevertheless they were optimistic, because they found so many existing labyrinths here. Even though athletic synchronisation seems crucial for saving the worlds, they did fail in constructing new Agonethetai, but helped in setting up the modern Olympic Games. Finally our Amnesiacs have now the mission to establish new Agonethetai , which are capable of building labyrinths and training the lost sport. These new Agonethetai will be "Ring Leaders" and it seems that the Amnesiacs are The Secret Ringmaster

Finding space for the labyrinth is one part of the mission. There are three kinds of labyrinths, a 3-circuit training labyrinth, a 5-circuit labyrinth and a 7-circuit Official Olympic labyrinth. The labyrinths should be hidden in plain sight.

...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 6: Discover your strength...

(March 18 - March 23)

A new mysterious command for the omphaputer has been discovered: Typing "RUN GRAPH" will bring up a graph with Schroedingers Equation at the top. What is the meaning of this graph? There is a drop in the lines 1815 - what happened at this time? The graph is changing from time to time. Especially the behaviour of the lines in 2008 does change.

Because of the ancient strengths described in the Codex and the six attributes of the agonethetai from Eli's podcast, Ariadne came up with the idea to set up some kind of Personality Test, to find out what Ancient Strength each one has and what kind of agonethetai each one is. Unfortunately in the codex are only 11 groups of 3 questions, which would not fit to 6 strength. But Eli helped out by sendind an email with another image of Bacon's book, including handreiiten notes of the missing questions. Finally Kai build an online version of the test, which could be found on each blog of the Amnesiacs.

In the meantime two new artifact locations (Sydney and Brussels) have been identified. But there was one mysterious incident. The Brussel artifact was lost. It was reported as recovered, but no one came up with the rocovery code. What happened?

Summary of the Codex of the lost ring (Ch.5):

It is explained how labyrinths have to be set up and that the Dikaiosune are responsible for the whole process. Curiously the chapter is titled Preparing The Human Labyrinth. Why human?


...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 7: We're not alone...

(March 24 - March 28)

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...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 8: Uniting for a common goal...

(March 29 - April 2)

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...( Read the detailed list of events )

Chapter 9: Training for the lost sport...

April 2

April 3

Boise #2 - Navigate 4473 Athena 10 degrees
Porto Alegre #2 - Navigate 4596 Hephaestus 2 degrees
New Delhi #2 - Navigate 31639 Apollo 29 degrees

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Just the German translation
Asks for people translating the found chapters

April 4

chapter 13 summary
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The German translation and the wish people would use more his forum.
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posts a link to the video how the walls should move.
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April 5

Monica's photos are attached to the message.
She received a post mail with a photo of Renata in Hollywood. So Renata has not disappeared. On the back of the photo is a message from Theo:
Larissa,
Renata didn't disappear
She just didn't want you involved
Stay out of it
Theo.
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April 6

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Markus found an additional hint at the Cardiff pick-up loacation. A painting of "Hercules and Omphale".
He assumes that on all pick-up locations such a second hint could be found.
He suggests to go back to the locations again.
Just the German translation
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Chapter 10: Uncovering a bigger problem...

April 7

Brodie shared that after reviewing chapter 10, it appears as if the coordinates on the postcards are actually referring to the same place as on each of the 6 parallel continental worlds (eg, coordinates of Warren/Madrid on Gaea, and on Pangaea, and on Nuna, etc). Ariadne is also checking with Kai if he can set up a tool to play with shifting continents and calculating coordinates on other worlds.
  • New Chariton mission: Get Eli Hunt to email you back!
Eli hasn't been in contact for some time. Where is he? Why is he not responding?
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Da/Lat
Navigate 7050 Demeter 28 degrees
Navigate 7050 Poseidon 25 degrees
Hong Kong: Art / Jamming / Antique vase umbrella stand / Exterior / Envelope
Singapore: Art House / Outside / Go behind the elephant / Face the building / Corner of garden / Inside fake rock

April 8

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  • Noriko met Ranger D, Ariock and hmrpita in San Francisco: info
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April 9

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April 10

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April 11

Again chapter 12 (only the image - no text) - probably an error
with link to forum for translation
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Syracuse
Navigate 1480 Hestia 18 degrees
Navigate 1480 Apollo 27 degrees
Toronto: Montgomery's / Library / Bookcase / Pioneer Stories of the Mississippi Valley
New York City: Ear Inn / By the table nearest the door / Under Menu / German Composition
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April 12

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April 13

Markus will take a trip to another country. He is not saying where.
He has an idea who Theo might be.
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The person who picked up the artifact in Hong Kong destroyed it.
There is only a blurry image of the recovery code.
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Chapter 12: In a mirror, darkly...

April 14

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Theo won't win again.
He fears the counter-agonothetai and belives that to defeat them, we may need to work with them.
If you wish to help me, we may need to join forces with Theo.
He is fascinated by Monique's idea that Theo's motivation of Pangaea could be a united world in peace.
Stuttgart
Navigate - 2698 Apollo 1 degree
Navigate - 2698 Hephaestus 6 degrees
Paris: Bibiothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Salle La Brouste, remove reference number: 822.3 Sha, inside secret King Lear
Berlin: Mitte's Backpacker, 2nd Floor Lobby, Left of Bar, Bookshelver, Hiiden out of view, move books, "With Trumpet and Drum"
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She's amazed at how the community was able to determine the retrieval code from a very blurry image, impressed at the collaboration between multiple strengths.
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Eli Hunt has ansered several emails.
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Its function is yet unknown, but after entering it, the globe's dots begin a chaotic, but flowing rotation, growing in brightness until the computer appears black on white, saying "omph knot creation completed". RUN GRAPH returns to the standard graph diagram, but returning to the globe produces only the black on white console. (unless the website is refreshed).
Monica is however categorized as Sophrosune
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April 15

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April 16

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Markus has arrived safely. He thinks he may have seen Theo briefly at the airport, but he's not sure.
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April 17

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Ariadne tried a personal labyrinth and had some strange vision from a parallel Ariadne working together with Eli.
In this vision Ariadne used to "make omph knot" command on the omphaputer
See also 4th Trailer.
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April 18

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