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(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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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Chapter 5: Recover the Codex...
(March 13 - March 17)
- summary
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Chapter 6: Discover your strength...
(March 18 - March 24)
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Chapter 7: We're not alone...
(March 25 - March 28)
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Chapter 8: Uniting for a common goal...
(March 29 - April 2)
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Chapter 9: Training for the lost sport...
April 2
- Sofia: New Mission. Investigate the "run graph"
- Thumos: New Mission. Practice running the labyrinth pattern!
- Thumos: New Mission. Practice running the labyrinth pattern!
- Chariton: New Mission. Find the Seoul artifact!
- Dikaiosune: New Mission. Organize lost sport training events!
- Sophrosune: New Mission. Help Diego, Lucie, and Meihui on their missions!
- Mythopoeia: New Mission. Create a labyrinth "cheat sheet"!
April 3
- The Omphaloi in Boise, Porto Alegre, and New Delhi each had a pending vector activated - leading to 3 new Artifact locations on 164.109.150.213.
- Boise #2 - Navigate 4473 Athena 10 degrees
- Porto Alegre #2 - Navigate 4596 Hephaestus 2 degrees
- New Delhi #2 - Navigate 31639 Apollo 29 degrees
- Boise/San Francisco, Porto Alegre/Sao Paolo, and New Delhi/Copenhagen Artifacts have been identified, with their pickup instructions
- The Seoul, Sao Paolo, and San Francisco artifacts have been retrieved, giving us chapter 9, chapter 12 and chapter 14 of the Codex
- Diego: Las Visiones // The Visions (link)
- summary
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 6 // Codex: Chapter 6 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Die Anderen Kapitel // The other chapters (link)
- Asks for people translating the found chapters
- ThaJinx learned in school about the Delphi Omphalos, and at the behest of Ariadne, shared about the omphalos and its history
April 4
- The Copenhagen artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 13 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 13 summary
- chapter 13 summary
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- Diego: 3 nuevos capítulos del Codex // 3 new chapters of the Codex (link)
- summary
- Diego: Geografía Paralela // Parallel geography (link)
- summary
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 7 // Codex: Chapter 7 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 8 // Codex: Chapter 8 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 9 // Codex: Chapter 9 (link)
- The German translation and the wish people would use more his forum.
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 10 // Codex: Chapter 10 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 11 // Codex: Chapter 11 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 12 // Codex: Chapter 12 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Wie Man Das Labyrinth Bildet // How to build the labyrinth (link)
- posts a link to the video how the walls should move.
- summary
April 5
- Monica's second visit to her aunt , posted on the findthelostring.com forums (link)
- Monica's photos are attached to the message.
- Monica's photos are attached to the message.
- Monica emailed Tenchizard Monica's photos in better quality (full text)
- Larissa: Não sei o que pensar.... // I don't know what to think... (link)
- Lucie: le chapitre 9 du codex retrouvé à Seoul // (link)
- Lucie: chapitre 12 : Tut-Kosmologio // (link)
- Lucie: chapitre 14 du lost ring codex, Sao Paolo (link)
- Diego: Lo que Mónica encontró en la casa de su tío abuelo // What Monica found in her grand-uncle's house (link)
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April 6
- Lucie: l'anneau perdu, un mois et ensembles et déjà tellement de choses... // the lost ring, a month and already do many things... (link) [new video]
- summary
- Markus: Haben Wir Vielleicht Etwas Wichtiges Verpasst?! // Have we perhaps missed something important?! (link)
- 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.
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 13 // Codex: Chapter 13 (link)
- Just the German translation
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 14 // Codex: Chapter 14 (link)
- Just the German translation
- MeiHui: 我们在汉城,旧金山,及圣保罗找到三章经典囉! // We're in Seoul, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, and found three more chapters?! (link)
- summary
April 7
- Ariadne confirmed in the forum thread, that Brodie's theory about Monica's postcard contents looks right.
- 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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- Eli Hunt's 5th podcast "The Lost Theory of Pangaea" is made available at TheLostGames.com
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- Ariadne added a world activity map tracking twitters, videos, and yahoo events in their respective locations
- A new Omphalos became active as a green dot on the Omphaputer, and 3 previous Artifacts also marked RECOVERED (Dongying/Seoul still outstanding).
- The new Omphalos location was identified, showing two more Artifact directions
- Da/Lat
- Navigate 7050 Demeter 28 degrees
- Navigate 7050 Poseidon 25 degrees
- The two new Artifact locations have been identified, with two more pickup instructions.
- 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
- Noriko: ハント氏のポッドキャスト 6 // Mr. Hunt podcasts 6 (link)
- summary
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April 9
- The Singapore artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 18 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 18 summary
- chapter 18 summary
- MeiHui: The Danger of Neopangaea! (第十三章) // Chapter 13 (link)
- summary
- Noriko: カイさんとサンフランシスコで☆ // Khai, and San Francisco (link) [new video]
- summary
April 10
- summary
- Diego: Codex del Anillo Perdido: Capítulo 13 // Chapter 13 (link)
- summary
- Larissa: Nova-Pangaea // New-Pangaea (link)
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April 11
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 12 // Codex: Chapter 12 (link)
- Again chapter 12 (only the image - no text) - probably an error
- Markus: Der Codex: Kapitel 18 // Codex: Chapter 18 (link)
- with link to forum for translation
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- Syracuse
- Navigate 1480 Hestia 18 degrees
- Navigate 1480 Apollo 27 degrees
- The two new Artifact locations have been identified, with two more pickup instructions.
- 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
- Larissa: Capítulo 18 achado em Singapura! // Chapter 18 found in Singapore! (link)
- summary
April 12
- Larissa: Eli Hunt fala sobre Pangéia // Eli Hunt talks about Pangaea (link)
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- The Toronto artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 15 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 15 summary
- chapter 15 summary
- The New York City artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 17 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 17 summary
- chapter 17 summary
April 13
- Markus: Ich Verschwinde Eine Weile // I will vanish for some time (link)
- Markus will take a trip to another country. He is not saying where.
- He has an idea who Theo might be.
- summary
- The person who picked up the artifact in Hong Kong destroyed it.
- There is only a blurry image of the recovery code.
- Sofia: New Mission. Figure out the Hong Kong artifact recovery code
- Ariadne: How do you plan a Multiverse Olympics? (link)
- summary
April 14
- The Hong Kong artifact code was figured out, giving us chapter 16 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 16 summary
- chapter 16 summary
- Diego: Codex del Anillo Perdido: Nuevos capítulos // Codex: New Chapters (link)
- summary
- 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
- The two new Artifact locations have been identified, with two more pickup instructions.
- 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"
- summary
- Ariadne updated her blog entry about the problem of the destroyed Hong Kong artifact, now solved.
- 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.
- summary
- Eli Hunt has ansered several emails.
- Lost Ring Trailer #4 is now available for watching and downloading on TheLostRing.com
- Ariadne: Play with the new World Activity Monitor! (link)
- summary
- The 4th trailer revealed a new omphaputer command: MAKE OMPH KNOT
- 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 has now been given a blog home on Findthelostring.com (direct link) However at this point its content appears to mirror Diego's.
- Monica is however categorized as Sophrosune
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- Noriko: ハント氏からのEメール // Email from Mr.Hunt (link)
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April 15
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- Lucie: Comment organiser des jeux olympiques "multi-vers"?! // How do we organize the "multiverse olympics"? (link)
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- Lucie: hongkong codex retrouvé et détruit! // Hong Kong codex found and destroyed! (link)
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- Lucie: La théorie de synchronisation olympique // The theory of olympic synchronization (link)
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- Lucie: Des nouvelles de Eli Hunt // News from Eli Hunt (link)
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- Diego: ¡mapamundi de actividades! // Map of world activities! (link)
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- MeiHui: 全新的"全球活动显示器"! // New "world activities display"(link)
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- MeiHui: 纽约的遗失圆环经典! // New York Ancient Lost Ring! (link)
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- Noriko: 世界のアクティビティのモニターを活用しましょう! // Use the world activity monitor! (link)
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- MeiHui: 平行自我?个人迷宫? // Parallel Self? Personal maze? (link)
- summary
- Larissa: A profecia // A prophecy (link)
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- Larissa: Os agonothetai recuperaram o artefato perdido! // The agonothetai recovered the lost artifact! (link)
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- Larissa: Capítulo 17 - Preparando para as Olimpíadas! // Preparing for the Olympics! (link)
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- The Berlin artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 20 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 20 summary
- chapter 20 summary
April 16
- Diego: 2 nuevos capítulos del Codex (y el de Hong Kong recuperado) // 2 new codex chapters (and Hong Kong recovered) (link)
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- Diego: Eli Hunt: Pangea y NeoPangea // Eli Hunt: Pangaea and Neo-Pangaea (link)
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- MeiHui: Eli最新的Podcast - 遗失的泛大陆理论 // Eli's latest podcast - The Lost Theory of Pangaea (link)
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- Markus: Meine Reise // My journey (link)
- Markus has arrived safely. He thinks he may have seen Theo briefly at the airport, but he's not sure.
- The Paris artifact has been retrieved, giving us chapter 19 of the Codex (direct link)
- chapter 19 summary
- chapter 19 summary
April 17
- Ariadne: Memories of a Parallel World? (link) (includes new video)
- 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.