I Love Bees

[Wintermute]

yeah, I found the numbers and stuff, but never thought to do that.

Also, it looks like Norwegian or something.

On the Zuider¢
e e
e That old fishing
sea¼

The Faeiries
stole,

The boys of
Marken
The old name of the site of the boy's disappearance is the name of the place you must go.

hebban olla
vogala nestas ha
gunnan

hinase h
i(c)(e)nda thu


uu(at) unbiΦa(n)
(uu)e nu

It's intelligible, but it doesn't contain any answers. What does it have to do with the page, anyway?

Also, every few minutes, the page flashes with what I am assuming is a series of binary numbers, as that's what it seems to be in the split-second I can see it.

[Wintermute]

I hate double-posting, but I wanna bump this cause I need help with it.

[Crodevillian Team]

It does contain answers;

On the Zuiderzee
That old fishing sea,
The Faeiries stole,
The boys of Marken

The old name of the site of the boy's disappearance is the name of the place you must go.

The clue is the name part. The boys disappeared in Zuiderzee. Unfortunately, it must be a mistake, but Zuiderzee is the old name. The new name is IJsselmeer. What you do is put that name in the URL - so you end up with:

www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm

(If you have to input a password [because you've cleared cookies] then it's username Alexander, password Gordian. It's case sensitive.)

That new URL is the next part of the puzzle. It's a picture of a tree with a sign through it. (The answer to this part of the puzzle is contained within the picture. You'll have to copy it, paste it into a paint program, and examine it carefully to find the answer.)

It's intelligible, but it doesn't contain any answers. What does it have to do with the page, anyway?

Most of it looks like a lot of nonsense, has nothing to do with the actual page, and requires that you do a LOT of google searching. (Some of the answers are contained within the images, while others can be gleaned from semi-obscure novels.) The next few pages or so reference a novel by Haruki Murakami and the Wizard of Oz. Good luck! It doesn't get any easier from here on out.

[Wintermute]

I got to the picture of the pyramid...thing, and my friend says you click the windows in the center of the building to get to the next pic. But no matter where I click the picture, the window closes.

EDIT: Got past that, but after that i can't find any usernames, in any of the stuff. I'm stuck, now.

[Crodevillian Team]

Got past that, but after that i can't find any usernames, in any of the stuff. I'm stuck, now.

Yes. Unfortunately, nothing in it will give you the user names. You would have to have read "Dance, Dance, Dance" by Haruki Murakami to understand some of the references. You'll notice that several of the ciphers and source codes reference 'the sheepman,' a character from the novel. For 'CuriosityKilledTheCat,' the username is Kipper and the password is May. [The real name of The Sheepman.] The one called "Master and Betrayer" is username Xerxes and password Demaratus, two more references from ancient Greece. The "Dorothy and Scarecrow" one once again references Dance, Dance, Dance with username Yuki and password Gotanda.

Try working from there and see what you get.

[KefkaTaran]

Wow. That creeps me out because I just decided yesterday that I should start reading Haruki Murakami.

Question back on topic: For ILoveBees, anyone else on here going to any of the coordinate locations on the time given tomorrow??

[Lockeownzj00]

Yeah, that's why I think sites like thisisnotporn are clever, and yet not. I think if it were in an adventure-game style--you are in a room with a shelf of books and this website, then it would be good. You'd be given all the resources, and you would have to find it yourself. As of now, it's a bunch of random things barely related to each other making the people who haven't even heard of Dance Dance Dance feel dumb.

I think if it somewhere rounded up a list of places that would give slight hints (not cheating hints, I mean like places where you would go to find the book text and the like) as to what to do, it would be better. The ultimate experiment would be a real-life room method.

[Meister]

I take it none of the ilovebees coordinates are in southern Germany... of course, since the countdown ends at 6 a.m., I probably won't even be at my PC, let alone somewhere in the wilderness. Nonetheless and out of curiosity, is there a map available?

[BaronVonAwesome]

any one notice that
http://www.bungie.ilovebees.com works as well,
also in the end of the halo 2 trailer in theatres it says www.ilovebees.com briefly on it.

[Lockeownzj00]

yeah, that's how people found out about ilovebees in the first place.

also, news:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/22...eality_ha.html

and

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/f...ge_map_208.gif