| Dr. Seuss, Winery, Guitar Tabs, & The No Armed Man |
[Apr. 19th, 2007|02:36 am]
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So now we have a poem from Dr. Seuss, some guitar tabs (notice them at the bottom of the page), and a car driving away from a no armed man. There's still no explanation for the car and the no armed man. The writting on the envelope says:
For a bottle of wine
from your favorite
winerys
(or whatever else tickles your fancy)
So far this doesn't seem to apply to anything and I'm starting to wonder if this has any relevance to the ARG at all... But the guitar tabs turned out to be a code.
first off, here's the tabs from the bottom of the page
e|------------------------|-----------------------|
b|------------------------|-0-----------0---------|
g|----------------3-------|---------3-------------|
d|------------------------|---------------------3-|
a|------------------------|----2--3------2--3-----|
e|------------------------|-----------------------|
e|-----------------------|------------------------|
b|-----------------------|------------------------|
g|-----------------------|------------------------|
d|----------4--3---------|-----------0-----4--3---|
a|-1---------------------|----2-------------------|
e|-----------------------|-2-----4--2-------------|
e|------------------------|
b|------------------------|
g|------------------------|
d|------------------------|
a|------------------------|
e|-4----------------------|
Deagol gets the credit for the original idea, all I did was apply it.
He noticed that all the notes seem to fall into 2 octaves. Since they don't fit into any major, minor, or pentatonic scale, we figured it must be chromatic. That's 12 tones per octave, in case you're not musically inclined.
So.. 12 tones per octave times 2 octaves = 24 tones. Deagol suggested that each tone may correspond to a letter, meaning 24 letter available. The problem was where to start counting. What note = the letter A?
I figured it might be the low e, since that's the lowest note you can play on a guitar without changing the tuning.
So counting up by half step, starting with the low E, each note ends up "translating" to a number between 1 and 24.
E=1, F=2, Gb=3, G=4, Ab=5, A=6 and so on.
This is what you end up with:
19 20 3 4 19 20 8 9 14 7 15 14 3 8 5 3 11 15 14 5
and then each number matches up to a letter in the alphabet
1=a, 2=b, 3=c, up to 26=z
so those numbers translate to...
s t h i s t h i n g o n c h e c k o n e
"s this thing on check one"
Obviously it looks like there is an "i" missing from the front there. I would be a 3 on the 5th string. So at Deagols request, I looked back, and extremely faint, on the red edge of the book cover, is a reeeeeeeely small smudge that looks nothing like 3. But is in the right place. So if it were a 3, then the message would be:
"Is this thing on check one"
which does make more sense.
My guess is this is some reference to Mr. Zipp calling Maddison his microphone. "Check one" is a mic test, so this drop was sort of like a Maddison test. |
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