A google search on "one armed skeleton" reveals two overriding themes:

Q: Why did the one armed skeleton cross the road? A:To get to the second hand shop.

OR

The Lost Dutchman's Mine in Arizona is surrounded by a tale of buried treasure that is guarded by a one armed skeleton.

I tried typing in all the names/locations found on those sites, but none of them went anywhere. Also, Zardoz fed into the cipher is Aziwla, but that yields nothing as well.

Dammit YellowBolt! Great minds think alike eh? :)

I guess so. But I can't find much about Senner's Gold. :(

EDIT: Apparently Zardoz is a wordplay from the Wi(zard) of (Oz). Hmm...

There's been no developments about this site over the night; so no answer to it yet... did you notice that at the "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE STORM" page that the email address changed to DH@thisisnotporn.com? It's usually just porn@thisisnotporn.com. Hmm... Dolphin Hotel?

I'll just redirect you to the foremost page about it.
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=14442172

They seem to have the most clues.

My husband got into it last night and even wrote a fucking perl script to parse the letters. He's a little nuts.

But YellowBolt, you said that the source code on the black letters page contained

Zardoz

, hgrzdz mlgvovph wvniz vml Z

I can't find that anywhere, where did you come up with this?

They're seperate comments. One comment says <!-- Zardoz --> about 1/4 of the way through, and another says <!-- ,hgrzdz mlgvovph wvniz vml Z -->. But why the comma?

That helps a lot, eh? Say, are Jaguar and Happy Monkey still stuck back at CuriosityKilledTheCat?

I'm not even working on it. I just knew about Zardoz...

No I'm up with you guys but I've been busy.

I have access to a few different rudimentry crypto analysis tools, if i get time i'll set them up and run them over what we have but i have little hope, it's too short for most of the basic techniques.

It could be a few things, the gobbeldygook could be simply that, smoke, unlikely but possible. It could be rudimentry crypto of some sort, it could be ctypto over ascii.

The change in email address suggests to me the author wants to know when people get to this point or expects them to get stuck here.

I still can't figure out the user/pass for the tree/sign page. I've tried a billion combos.

Y'all are further along. What do I do?

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm an idiot.

the gobbeldygook could be simply that, smoke,

That's my personal feeling on the subject. FWIW, the string of letters actually repeats not just once but a good dozen times.

Did anyone figure out what

afg bbb bai bab adc aig baa adc ahd bab bab aef

means? I suspected ASCII, but it just translates to crap.

It's the title of the second page (Asia Awaits).


Not needed for anything so far, but I was intrigued.

argh, where is everyone

i can't figure out curiositykilledthecat

fuuuuuck

Well, unless you've read the book "Dance, Dance, Dance", you'll never get CuriosityKilledTheCat.

User: Kipper
Pass: May

The scary thing is, at HyperciumPerforatum, it might also be related to DanceDanceDance. Either that, or Wizard of Oz.

How'd you draw that connection? And what are the hints on the page with the pic of the building?

Double-click outside the link, and you'll get a description of the building. Also, in the site tagline for the next page, has a passage with "sheepman" in it. There's also an ISBN somewhere, and with proper searching you'll find the book "dance, dance, dance: a novel" by haruki maruyami (or something like that). It's revealed near the end of the book that the sheepman's real name is Kipper May.

For the page with the resort building, I looked at the source and found the next link inside of there.

Breaking Development: Now, if you go back to the CuriosityKilledTheCat page, there's another lightbulb in the bottom right corner. It leads to another page, http://www.thisisnotporn.com/DM/inth...ess/2/toto.htm and has another password (T _ T) titled "Master and Betrayer".

I'm also quite convinced that the next couple of pages will have to do something with the Wizard of Oz... a little while ago, some people went and started entering random page addresses... and they actually got results. They include a page saying "You're wasting your time", "How would you feel if someone picked something off of you", and some strange pictures. Even more strange, those pages have now vanished.

Also, there's a new comment in the source of THEY CAN'T ESCAPE THE STORM...

//ALL IS DEAD AND GONE WHAT WAS LEFT BY THE WOEBEGONE

This is an interesting game.
I don't think it is gibberish but i'm damned if I know what that lump of stuff is.

That comment in the code was there when I went there.

Hmm. Must have missed it then. This game is frying my brain.

EDIT: clicking on the new login page for "the moth flew in the room when I di4d" gives you a link which shapes into "shovel the good snow", which seems to be a reference to opium, which comes from poppy seeds, which in "The Wizard of Oz" the people fall asleep in a bed of.

I tried typing in the scientific name for poppy in the boxes, but nope, that doesn't work.

Hohum
 

www.thisisnotporn.com (main site)

move your mouse over the oven and click

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/not/not.htm

click Asia Awaits... and login with

Username: Alexander
Pass: Gordian
*case sensitive*

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm

the next page after the truck, dont bother solving it, who cares. Has a sign on a tree with some overgrowth. Read the words on the bottom right to login with:

Username: Edith
Pass: Head

You come to a site with some talking, again, who cares, and theres a buliding. Click on the window with two lights in it to arrive here:

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/DM/inthedarkness/SM.htm#

From here (A moth flew in the room when I di4d) there are four directions, Master and Betrayer, and Cat whatever, Dorothy and Scarecrow (which used to say PHOENIX), and FACE0F, What darkness do we live.

Cat whatever is the furthest light, login with:

Username: Kipper
Pass: May

That'll bring you to a road "THEY CAN'T ESCAPE THE STORM." Blah, theres a roll-over on the oncoming car which says, "A life half lived..." and some music that maybe someone will recognize, as well as the number "13" on the bottom right which is very small. Click on the liscence plate of the car to arrive here:

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/DM/inth...Perforatum.htm

This is the Hide Your Sorrows page. Hypericum Perforatum is St. Johns Wort. And guess what thats used for? Anti depression (see the connection to Hide your Sorrows?). Anyways, theres tons of letters here, but they only go up to "J." That makes 10 letters. In addition, the letters are repeated 10 or so times. Ctrl-a and paste to see this. The arrangement of the colors and the letters makes an image similar to a lighthouse. Upon examining the source I found this:

!-- wax --
!-- A one armed skeleton --
!-- I am the answer --
!-- find me --
!-- Not smart by half --

If you click the 2nd to last light on the Light/Moth page, you come to The Master and Betrayer login, use this:

username: Xerxes
pass: Demaratus

This brings you to the DONT STRAY FROM THE PATH page, which so far has the only worthwhile reward to getting this far, a cool picture of a tree with a face. There are some sounds similar to a highway next to a field with crows. There is some text in white which reads:

"How would you like it if someone came along and picked something off of you?"

Wizard of Oz, ooo wow :P

Clicking the left eye opens an apparently empty black page, which if you press ctrl-a on and copy your results you get:

HTATDSENETCURDTNRHEOSEOLFH

There are random letters here that when arranged say, "SHOVEL UP THAT GOOD SNOW." One can hold the mouse over these areas/letters and get sentences which are pieces of a paragraph that says:

"No bed. Narrow and cramped. Piles of books. It wasnt the old hotel either. there was barely enough room to walk. It was the sheepman's room. No lights. Walls and ceiling very, old, round, set with one candle in the middle. What ever became of him? Worm-eatten. Must've slept on the floor directly into the saucer. No bath. Boarded up from inside. Any indication. Wrapped in his sheep costume. No closet."

Sheepman is apparently something to note because holding your mouse on a location of the Moth/Light page nets this message:

"'Youbettergo' urged the sheepman, stay here or you'll freeze, but if youneedus were here".

The right eye takes you to a picture of a hallway with rollover poem on it:

"Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread
And, having once turned round, walks on
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread."

If you know your poetry this is an excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Move your mouse to the last line and hold it there, a message pops up quite fast saying "You are not of the path."

On the top of this page it says Philip K. Dicks fortune cookie which is "Deeds done in secret have a way of being found out." Someone said it was it was really Richard Nixon's fortune.

Click on the 3rd from last light, the Dorothy and Scarecrow one and login with:

username: Yuki
password: Gotanda

This brings you to the Robert Silvers page which is a picture of air power windmills from a car window. There are 5 near transparent circles comprised of two arrows. All of them lead to pictures of a fake head of a red haired man. In order from left to right the windows are named:

Piggy Piggy
We've Got Ventriloquists
We Are Connected (this has some relevance to the Moth/Light page)
Who Watches the Watchme...
a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

From what I can tell these new windows have no leads to other sites. Clicking on the 3rd windmill from the left nets this message in a popup window:

unhssrvelette

Click on the date that the picture of the windmills was taken on and it brings you to the "1 2" site. There is some really annoying sounds here. It looks to be an electrical station or some sort of node. At the bottom of the page there is the text, "There was nothing I could do. He disappeared." And upon coming here, a popup window comes up with the text:

TdAaIeOtFbLhAeTeDaToOsEaRfIiEwTaEa

Clicking on any part of this image brings you back to the Robert Silvers page.

Something to think about, open ALL the sites with sound, and listen to them all at once, its really freaking wierd.

This is all the knowledge I have gathered or uncovered about this site. As far as I know, this site is a work in progress, so it is not meant to be solved yet. So screw the lazy bum that hasnt finished it.

Welcome to the Cellar, sixhundred23.

much obliged
 

I sat in a room forever with refrence books in my library and internet. (internet proving once again more useful).

I would rather learn ninja techniques from sand ninja than work with thisisnotporn anymore. Or eat the finest marmalade with paddington.

Okay, I've got as far as the black page, with all the letters on it, and following Sixhundred23's help I went back to the moth/light bulb page, but I don't know what to do now. The passwords that sixhundred23 gave isn't working, and I definitely typed it in correctly. Any help?

yeah
 

Start with this site:
http://www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm

input these following passwords for these unique password prompt titles:

HeWhoRulesByTheSword

username: Alexander
password: Gordian

WhatALovelyDrapeTheyMake

username: Edith
password: Head

CuriosityKilledTheCat

username: Kipper
password: May

Master and Betrayer

username: Xerxes
password: Demaratus

Dorothy and Scarecrow

username: Yuki
password: Gotanda

I have reloaded the webpages many times, and have inputted all these usernames and passwords and they all work fine.

I've spent all day trying to solve this...

I actually read "DANCE DANCE DANCE" so I got the kipper and may part pretty easy...

I got the rest part and so far I've gotten up to the jail cell thing all by myself...

I do not, however, get the redhead guy...

And there's also another link on the moth site.

There must be something we're missing...

But I've tried decoding the scrambled message with a cipher (A=Z, B=Y...), no such luck.

This guy must be either a.) really creative, b.) just got dumb luck...

Heh
 

The thing is, when you click on the circles on the Silvers page, you get popup windows, you are probably running a popup blocker or something because I am at the page and I am opening the red headed manequin head right this second.

I think that he changed it recently

Yesterday I couldn't get to the yuki gotanda or xerxus demaratus pages...

*goes back to solving*

hi, i'm new.
i did some research on the fake redhead head. the filenames of the images have the name "david hanson" in them; i googled him and found these:

http://www.portfolios.com/profile.ht...rl=DavidHanson
http://iiae.utdallas.edu/projects/hanson.htm

hanson is a sculptor/roboticist. the head is one of his pieces.
the first link is a profile of him; click on the first thumbnail, the head is among the pieces there.
the second link details the project that the head was involved in; there are seven photos of the head linked at the bottom, five of which we know and love from TINP.

beyond this, i've got nothing.

also:
-could someone explain how we got yuki gotanda? google isn't being good to me.
-could someone explain the black letters page? does the shape of the visible letters have any significance?


oh, almost forgot.
in the sky on the third page, /see/TimeFlows.htm (i know, long time ago) will consistently flash a series of 3 digit alt codes. taking the image into animation shop to freeze the frame, i decoded those alt codes and got this:

1590521471 fourth word add s
0060254920 fifth word
0970042809 last word

0679731725 second word minus s
0894803204 fourth word
0736048146 first word

0785265392 first word
0970917902 eight word
1566912431 third word minus s

0785265392 first word
0345406141 third word

1931615039 Second word, First word minus S
0425120058 fourth word, fifth word
0687371376 fourth word, second word

0967518822 fourth word, first word
0151010196 first word
0471225347 first word, ninth word
0517886901 first word, second word

...verbatim. i probably made an error decoding the numerical portions, knowing me.
but, i dont know what to do (or to have done) with this either.

Probably old news to most of you, here goes anyway.

Hints about: the sheepman, Kiki, Yuki, Gotanda, Kipper, A one armed skeleton, Shovel that good snow and some more, are from the book "Dance dance dance"

It's online here.

Here are some decoded hints also referring to "Dance dance dance"

DsvivznR! = Where am I ?
BAI ADJ AHC BBB BBG BAB BAI ADC AGI AJH BBH BBC BAE BAF BBA = l'Hotel Dauphin
W74r43o4s74w08t! = Where does he wait ?
Dsvivrhgsvhsvvknzm! = Where's the sheepman ?

The following I've taken from another site, regarding the password for:

"FACE0F, What darkness do we live"
Username:
Password:

The site this leads to has the following no. in the URL: 1129524974645525182

Go this site: Decimal to Hex,

paste the no. and you'll get this for Hex: FACE0FADEADBA80.

Maybe this helps you.

Is this thread dead? I should hope not. It's the reason I joined the Cellar..in fact, it's how I came accross it. I was actually Googling something from TINP, and one of the results was some page in this thread. In any case, you guys are a damn lot brighter than the people on a certain other forum... Heh, anyways, no one seems to have mentioned the text above the tree (with the face), and the "Ouch. Stop that." pop-up on the "A moth flew in..." page. Other than that, it seems I know nothing that you don't...

night, the tree text is "How would you like it if someone came along and picked something off of you?" and has already been mentioned, and i think we've all individually decided that that popup is irrelevant.
however, the thread does seem to have lost some blood as our main cogs have stopped spinning....

I'm kinda surprised this thread is still alive, somewhat... and that there's so much more progress made in my absence...

My brain melted from trying to solve all of this. Now I can't even bring myself to finish my summer break homework anymore. :D

i just really cant wait to see what this is all leading to....

it better be pretty damn good

for those still interested and still looking for the password for the first light on the 4 lights page.

user: THEDEADBABE
pass: Alone

try that. i believe that is correct.

I ordered Dance Dance Dance at chapters.indigo.ca - thousands of books at your fingertips, all for the price they're sold in stores; plus, shipping and handling. Wh00t.

In any case, I'm glad it isn't completely dead. Out of curiosity, have you guys seen the thisisnotporn forum? The official one? Not that it matters, really..

I'm going on vacation, so.. see you guys in a week. I'll try that password, out of curiosity, before I go..

Was it for "FACE0F, What darkness do we live"? If so, it en't working for me...

dance dance dance is a great book. and thisisnotporn references the book ALOT, as we've probably already established. :|

hmm if that didnt work, try this. : ADEADBABE
Alone

username must be all caps.i tested it again and it works. yes, it is for FACE0F

so now where are we...

A devil with 5 fingers
when you click somewhere we're left with another scrambled message

LKAwNcTsAoRkOtOaDoTu

and

there are 3 objects on the page.

one says "there is nothing i could do, he had disappeared" and the random text.
the other 2 say 1 and 2 upon clicking
if you checkthe image names of these 3 they say "cursed am i"


did we do this already? heh

i feel like were running around in circles. it all seems to tie together to one mystery. maybe we can run back through all of the different sites and try to see if they tie together in some way.

also, a compilation of usernames and passwords might help for newcommers who wish to help.

Any of you people visit any other thread in this place?

Ok I've been on this for a bit so I will post so the compilation of usernames/passwords for all the newcomers as BeoWulf suggested...

HeWhoRulesByTheSword

username: Alexander
password: Gordian

WhatALovelyDrapeTheyMake

username: Edith
password: Head

CuriosityKilledTheCat

username: Kipper
password: May

Master and Betrayer

username: Xerxes
password: Demaratus

Dorothy and Scarecrow

username: Yuki
password: Gotanda

FACE0F

username: ADEADBABE
password: Alone

Now just like everyone else, despite my best Googling.. I am stuck. :/

We're fourth on the list for Google search "This is not porn" so I wonder how many people are here as an effect of that?

Depends on what you search for; and to Toad, yes, I have visited other threads. I just.. er... havent posted in them.. I mean, I donèt always have someting to say, eh... wow, this computer has è instead of apostrophes... yes, I am on vacation; in Québec, actually. Stupid French computer...

It's not really a "depends" sort of thing. At the time of my previous posting, the Cellar was number four. Now we're number two. We are merely at six with "whale penis", so Sycamore obviously has more work to do.

well this topic is pretty much dead. guess everyone gave up eh?

:'(

I know.. I was so looking forward to finally figuring this thing out. I've tried on my own, but I'm too stupid. lol Actually I think he may need to update.. I swear there is just nowhere to go from here...

Perhaps a URL change is needed?

Hi all, I am new to the group, just call me Bella. Has anyone noticed the message "Two reddened eyes." on the Devil with Five Fingers page? I think it may have something to do with the David Hanson page that has the partial robotic pics of the model...there are two pics with red eyes. I can't figure out how it links though...HELP!!!! I am so hooked on this puzzle, thanks to an old friend of mine. I really don't want to give up on this thing...any comments?

A sort of creepy bit of insight
 

I'm sure I'm not the first to have checked this out, but I do certainly see this as relative. One very common theme was water and death. 'Help, I'm drowning.' 'The boy dies alone.' I'm paraphrasing as I'm actually late for work, but you get the general idea? I used the names from the river, and searched with 'tragedy,' and 'boy.'

Fifty years before this game was made, there was a horrible flood at the river. There was major loss of life, including children. And while I certainly don't know how that plays into everything, I thought it might be a clue.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...ion=1&lang3=_e

I don't know anything about coding or markup, really, so I'm hoping that was put in correctly.

Found another clue on the source page for the Devil with 5 Fingers....Where is she? TELL ME? Which may explain the Not Here! Popups.. I don't know where to go from here...has anyone gotten any farther?

i think this thread is dead

no one will ever know how thisisnotporn will end

IF it'll end. The kid keeps adding new stuff :(

I just noticed on the A moth flew in the room when i di4d. If you click the second light theres a new realm called "Frankenstein now, When does he stand in darkness of Paradise?" That wasnt there when i looked about 2 days ago.

Hey guys

I am new and I also have some news about TINP

1. Did you notice that the first page changed? There is a new line of text below the picture (which my browser currently does not show)

2. About that Frankenstein thing: In the source it say "THE POET IS DEAD" which is a poem by William Everson. He died in St. Cruz and this might be of importance.

3. I also think that whoever made this game is still working on it and that person or those persons put a lot of work into it, so it will lead somewhere and I wanna find out. If there are other people not willing to give up that then let's work together and try figuering this thing out.

an odd thing, indeed.
 

I'm new here to the board, kinda. I've been using some of you folks ideas to navigate the page. So hello and thanks. However let me tell you something that happened to me this morning. I got an email from the webmaster..... With a phone number and another riddle. It says :

Would you call a number if it was given to you by a stranger?

What if you knew him?

What if knowing made him all the stranger?

Give it a call if you want answers.

Sam :3eye: