The Sphinx's Lair

> is a Palindrome (which has ten letters?) but I'm not sure how helpful that is to help find a man. I've looked for words like 'directions' or 'mortician's' hidden backwards in the earlier messages, but not found anything promising as yet.

Beastly Gerbil

7:12 PM

Its the password to the computer - theres going to be a sequel

The question is find the password

I can see that the phrasing may be confusing though, sorry about that :/

Deusovi

any explanation of why that particular palindrome was chosen?

1 min ago, by Deusovi

also, we assumed PATHS AWE NOW TIMES SEMI TWO NEW ASH TAP must have some other meaning, because it didn't seem particularly coherent

humn

(this is so much better than sitting the crapper with pen and glasses)

Sconibulus

> Patterns Are the Heroes Salvaged And Words Even Negative Ones Would Talk In Many Endless Situations Some Even May Ideally Think What Only Near Early Wishes Are Sadly Held To And Postulate
was also an interesting choice

Sid

Perhaps because it isn't quite popular?

Beastly Gerbil

No reason - I just made it up. I needed a pretty long one so I could have the initials be x long to fit the grid

@Sconibulus yeah. It was hard getting the right amout of characters

Sid

7:15 PM

@BeastlyGerbil You probably mean "right". :P

Beastly Gerbil

It already says that ;)

Sid

and "amount". :P

Beastly Gerbil

ah my spelling

Anyway the final part - The hint refers to the letters FD SG HK ED BF NF LJ UA FD

It'll be obvious when you get it

Deusovi

"Grid coordinates give KEY IS LOCK"

he said that in his answer

Beastly Gerbil

ah sorry didn't see the update

Was looking at an old version - hadn't refreshed :P

In that case @Sconibulus if you edit in the final answer I can give you the tick

humn

7:20 PM

(Sorry about having missed that check, D, i was too busy trying to ^vote multiple times.)

Deusovi

No need to apologize. I'm not particularly worried about gaining rep, except to pass up Rand :P

humn

The race is on!

Sconibulus

Sorry I was so illiterate

Deusovi

The race is on, and I'm lagging behind by over 10k rep!

Sconibulus

I think I messed up transcriptions two or three times

humn

7:27 PM

It's such a pleasure to be caught between ^votes and a checkmark. In case anyone wonders, i play it down here only because that's allowed.

Beastly Gerbil

@deus but you are slowly gaining! And you know if you really wanted you could just suspend rand :P

Deusovi

Yeah, apparently that'd be an "abuse of power", or so the other mods tell me.

humn

Now I want to see Rand al'Together be suspended just to witness another comeback.

Sconibulus

@Randal'Thor might be interested in this conspiracy

Sphinx

Q: No one will get dinged if this isn't solved, so please don't fly away!

I found a message on a nature walk. It warned me there was a wild gathering out and about. But instead of saying what to be careful of, the message only gave me nine clues. They said each symbol given could be combined, as type 1 but not 2 or 3, to give me the group on the loose. A symbol ...