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well, i never found one, and wouldn't have taken it anyway i think. and when i use some, i usually let a key in it, in case someone nice finds it accidentally and doesn't have the key to re-hype it. never know, it could work. ^_^

No real idea. probably Pierre Desproges.

skiing, i prefer speed... stunts are usually not wanted by me, though

that's why i finally reseted : 7pp to have 2 lottery tickets instead of one was too much for meh... and daytime cursing about it on guildchan wasn't fun anymore after a few months. good ol'days, anyway.

the 5th element ?

as we say here, "ni dieu, ni maitre". (rough translation : no god, nor master). i think i studied sciences too much to believe anything that can't be proven. i fully respect people's faith(s), i just don't understand why they do believe. i'm not sure the previous statement is clear : very basically, to me, believing in a god is like believing in ghosts and such... well, that's the idea. ^_^ i'm just not psychologically equiped to think "there's nothing i can do, god made it". and i keep thinking that religions brought more problems than solutions, over the ages (just think : how many wars were caused by religion... and how many weren't ? ). but in the same time, if someone's faith makes him/her happy, good for him/her, really. the only problem that may happen is when a believer starts trying to convince me that he's right with ready-made sentances and no hint of personnal thinking... then it starts to irk me. but well, you need everything to make a world.

<name> : "I'll be back."

Greetings from the Dawn of the Phoenix guild. Our guild was founded a year ago. Month after month, our members gathered goods and equipment, and put it in safe places. Bear in mind that the Dawn exploring team was in charge of choosing where to hide our treasures. Priests sealed them and only released three mysterious pieces of paper, which are supposed to describe where to look. Unfortunately, none of us can understand them, now... and our explorer's memories about the exact places got erased (too much deaths on a no drop days had that disastrous side effect, but that's not the subject here). So we decided to give to all Eternal Lands citizens the chance to look for them, as a present for our guild's birthday. Asmodina was in charge of keeping them safe, and left with the papers. None of us knows exactly where, but she talked to each one before leaving, so, we probably all caught something about her destination. Come shake our hands and each of us will tell you what he knows (or go search for her, but... these lands are immense). A bit of distraction is always welcome while working or training. After Asmodina gives away the papers as prizes, the three winning contestants will have 24 hours to understand them and find our treasures. Deadline passed, we'll release copies all around the lands, and the winners of the first part will lose the advantage they had (unless they shared their knowledges). At this time, everyone will be able to look for our hidden treasures. ____________________________________________________ Rules : -No PM's to any Dawn member asking questions/complaining/whatever about the contest, during the contest. Non-respect of this rule will disqualify you from its first part. -@6 can be used for discussions about the contest. We won't give any hints there, but we could answer question about unclear points if needed. Dates and times : -First part : Saturday, December the 2nd. 9pm GMT (that's 10pm GMT+1, etc.). -Second part : all three papers released 24 hours after the 3rd winner got his prize. Prizes (in random order) : 1st part : three pieces of paper and a few skeleton keys. 2nd part : -Warlord's bag : --1 cutlass --1 steel helmet --2 iron helms --2 iron plate torsos --1 tit chain mail --4 iron cuisses --4 iron greaves --3 serpent swords --50 disengagement rings --1 rostogol stone -Crafter and alchemist's bag : --1 crown of mana --15 rigs of Anitora --1 ring of power --10 Glacmor rings --50 rings of damage --8 Bethel rings --2 rings of Trassian --4 enriched fire essences --1 enriched death essence --6k gold coins -fashion victim's bag : --9 different capes (no nmt, sorry) --1 emerald claymore Requirements : Nothing specific. Only a quite good exploring skill. No magic or PK involved (there may be dangerous places and/or a need to go threw pk maps at some point, though). First part winners : MagpieLee, Gangmafia and RallosZek. Each won a paper, 24 hours to decrypt it and a few skeleton keys. Papers released : Congratulations to Toddma for finding the third bag ! One more hint will be made public this evening (gmt). Second hint : ok, next hint. or should i call it explanation ? these are cyphered texts. there's no way to crack them using mathematics (sorry if you tried), and each cypher has its own key (which are all to be found ingame). obviously, at least one person found how it worked, almost just by observing or so i heard. well, one more hint about it tomorrow (if there are still bags in place. a lot of people seem to be quite close) same time (more or less, eh). Next hint(s) : -You might want to learn a bit more about someone called Thomas Jefferson Beale... It'd probably put you on the right track about the ciphering method (side note : if you ever saw National Treasure (yes, the movie), there are ciphers too at some point...). -That's the only thing you'll need out of Eternal-Lands. Everything else is ingame (that's why we recommended a good exploring skill : to find the cipher's keys). -small additionnal hint : all the keys are on Seridia.

Explanations. All 3 ciphers used the same method : a text ciphered using a book as a key. Example : 1st paper. 1st thing you read is "134". this had to be read "one, three, four", and not "a hundred and thirty-four". first number is a page, second is a line in that page and third a letter in that line. so, when using the brown book in portland library as a key, first letter is "i". fully decyphered, the text was : "insideahalfsunkhouseinadangerousjungleasteeltwoedgedswordpointstoit". of course, with spaces and such : "Inside a half sunk house in a dangerous jungle, a steel two edged sword points to it". 2nd paper : Key : book in the small house next to the tavern, Morcraven Marsh. Deciphered text : "In front of Roja's statue, in the Elven Homeland". 3rd paper : Key : the brown book, in Graham's Village magic shop. Deciphered text : "In front of the Shapeshifting Temple's doors". Once again, gratz to all winners ! And big thanks to all the people involved (i personnally just set up the cyphering) : -Dawn guild as a whole. You (no, we ! ) all just rock ! -molime, who gave us a (big) hand by converting some raw ingredients into prizes. That was awesome (just sorry you didn't win). -Mods team (especially Marc who asked sooooo many questions and advertised our contest. Thanks again ). -The blank paper art's author. I looked for some on the web before thinking there was probably what i looked for ingame. -All contestants. We just hope you had as much fun as us. [edit] Yup. We took notes about the mistakes there were in that contest (was the first really big one we hosted). Not giving any hint was one, i reckon. Damn, Acelon beat meh on explaining ! [/edit]

gratz ! Well, contest is over, then. i'll post explanations soon.

gratz ! seems like people find the bags backwards... only the first one to go, then. happy hunting !

Of course it is a different key per cipher. ok, small additionnal hint : all the keys are on Seridia.

Next hint(s) : -You might want to learn a bit more about someone called Thomas Jefferson Beale... It'd probably put you on the right track about the ciphering method (side note : if you ever saw National Treasure (yes, the movie), there are ciphers too at some point...). -That's the only thing you'll need out of Eternal-Lands. Everything else is ingame (that's why we recommended a good exploring skill : to find the cipher's keys). Ralloszek : actually, the 3rd bag was in melinis. No, nothing about the ciphers themselves ingame (or i'm not aware of it). What i meant is that the material needed to de-cipher is ingame. I don't really understand what you mean here. I hope my previous comment helps, though.

silly question, sorry... but does the fact that e-l isn't actually hosted in the us makes any difference ?

ok, next hint. or should i call it explanation ? these are cyphered texts. there's no way to crack them using mathematics (sorry if you tried), and each cypher has its own key (which are all to be found ingame). obviously, at least one person found how it worked, almost just by observing or so i heard. well, one more hint about it tomorrow (if there are still bags in place. a lot of people seem to be quite close) same time. [edit] a small clarification [/edit]

Small update in first post. Congratz Toddma ! (to other contestants : 3rd paper is just there to look nice, now : bag was found ) I was about to add that the missing space just before "785" was just a typo. No big deal, as it seems, but i saw it a bit too late. As i said i'll add an other hint in the first post this evening (sometime around 9pm gmt).

yup, that was just to give a paper... don't pay attention to its title

you mean the hints for finding dina ? trade every dawn member you'll see to get a hint. we'll be on seridia. and on @6.

yup ! first part gives bonus time (updating prizes list)

Thanks for the comments. I just updated the prize list (added a sword). It's been a long time, we kinda lost track of the bags' contents. Probably a few more updates to come.

yep !

oooops, i forgot about it, sorry (busy with some set-ups, see events section). here's an other pic from that movie. should do the trick

I posted mine before terminator 2

there's still that one to guess. i'll post an other image from it a lil' bit later if no one finds.

terminator 2 chaoogie : yup, a movie i never heard about before seeing it on tv. not an excellent one, but a good surprise anyway (edit) damn, 1 min close xD