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If you are already 'playing' you will have been waiting to hear something yesterday as it was the new moon, and after I went to bed last night (occasionally I do) I received the following from Islington:

So it looks like we'll soon get our hands on book zero (but how?), my guess would be we should watch for the full moon on the 17th (I think that's right) for that one. And the scribes will be getting tasks! I can't wait for that.

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Woo!!

Yea! Sounds like new puzzles are on the way! I can't wait!

This is just a pet peeve, but it kinda takes one out of the game/belief system/suspension of disbelief when the PM uses bad grammar.

For all you young 'uns out there: IT'S DOES NOT MEAN ITS. Don't do what your Uncle Islingon does.

The book's up I think but it's like a scrapbook with bits of stuff and a map of london at the end. And the main url (don't know the exact term for this) is fairly interesting in itself though whether what's on it has anything to do with Triskabibilos is another thing.

I'm excited to see how this all unfolds and how our "Collective Mind" can solve this mystery. Good luck with your task, Graeme, when you get it. Let us know if we can help.

RexOs, book zero on the site is only a few pages of an actual book that one of the scribes ( I believe Duckie or Toby ) is going to find.

I am looking forwar to my task though. I just hope it makes it through my work's spam filter if it arrives via e-mail. If it arrives in book form at my apartment, I'm all for reading. I don't think we'll have to wait for the full moon. I think we just need to wait for the next lunar phase: the First Quarter, which should be in just a few days.

Actually, after looking up the meaning of syzygy, the next update will probably be on the full moon as Graeme suggested.

Well nothing to do at work today... Guess I'll be reading up as to what has happened for the past few days..

Well unless kickass webmaster decides to post up a new point n' click... =o)

I wonder about that Shane person.

What do you wander?

Wonder,woops.*

I found a pic of Toby... http://wiki.incognitus.net/gallery/ppcp/toby_grin...

That looks like almost the same picture on his scribe page.

FYI, Pink Flamingo seems to have found a huge unifying clue on the tortuga forums:

http://forums.tortuga.com/viewtopic.php?t=149

You've got the 13, you've got the XORANDER, the name Oberon has lots of resonance. This needs to be followed up!

Um... this is probably someone's random prank, and it may have nothing to do with Islington, but my <a href="http://www.piclibs.com/graffiti.php?id=3588">Graffiti Wall</a> has an odd message on it about time.

I only mention this because Islington/Toby linked to one of my blog posts.

I don't think so. I believe, since the link came from Islington, the link is valid. It's too coincidental to be coincidence.

Hi Su! Exactly which message were you referring to? I see a couple of things that could be relevant:
"THE BOOK IS HERE: TIME.HTML"
"BESOT WITH TIME"
"Nothing more the same"
"MG posted it before"
Glad to have you back, it seems something you did caught Islington's eye since he decided to link to your blog.

Oh, I forgot to mention...I tried changing the url on all of the triskabiblios pages with "time.html" but all I get is 404's

Hey all,
I've been drawn in and stuck in the perpetual hell that is Triskabiblios from day one. Tis be my first arg and i like it all but no responses to anything from islington or anyone, kinda depressing..... lol looks like it only gonna be 13 scribes... Why can't i be one? lol yer

anyway still entranced by all of this,
Lukonia

OH NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! NOT THIS AGAIN. This is what started the no new games epademic for like a week and a half. The horror the suffering of no games. It puts me in pain just thinking about it..... Alright so I might have been a little dramatic there

NEW FRONT PAGE!!!! NEW ADDITIONS!!! CHECK OUT Triskabiblios.com

Hey Coelacanth,

You have to admit, Vibration 13's "404 not found" pages are the coolest ever!

What is "The Hand of Ixl-Taan" just the name of the image?

ARG!! now im curious as to what this is all about...

MG, I'm sure Ixl-Taan is another form of Islington. We've now seen a piece of his body!

o.k. this has been decided it seems at UF: The quote from the new page is from [b]William Blake[/b] the date coincides with Isaac Newton's birth and death. The title of the page is alphabet. When [b]Isaac Newton William Blake alphabet[/b] is googled the site is this:



http://www.neopagan.net/AODbooklet.html

[b]Notice the chapter number (1.3)[/b]

The Outer Order has three Grades known as:
[b]The Gatehouse,[/b] where anyone may seek admission to the Order through Initiation.[b] Only those who have received the appropriate training in the relevant Grade of the Inner Order, and have qualified therein, are able to give effect to an initiation ceremony.[/b] Without the Hierophant the ceremony is no more than a mere charade.

[b]The Seven Kings[/b], wherein the aspirant [b]begins to study and tackle the forces at work within himself[/b] which the Hierophant has quickened during his second initiation. [/b]The aspirant should have been properly prepared for this in The Gatehouse.

[b]The Ovate Og or Ovydd Og[/b], …Ovydd, a sapling or unformed plant: ov, raw. A young shoot having the promise of growth (which must be realised at least in part before qualifying in this Grade). [b]It is here that man shows his worth, the balance of his wish and will, the quality of his integrity. It is here that he chooses between the life of selfless service and that of self agrandisement.[/b]

[b]Part of the aspirant’s task [/b]in this Grade is to meet and clear up his obligations to the past; he is not yet obligated to the future, hence the point of balance; O–O, zero–zero. Not until he has caught up with himself can he even approach the portal of the Order proper — until he measures up to the required standard, he must remain in the seed-bed or nursery.

[b]The Inner Order is divided into Three Orders[/b] each having its own sphere of activity and its own series of Grades. Until the aspirant attains the required standard of character and integrity, he can not even be considered as a candidate for the Inner Order where the Druid training proper begins, and this training can take quite a long time. There is no short cut to the balanced development of man’s latent forces, faculties and powers.

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And
now, this from Coelacanth:

The picture of the arms holding a compass is taken from one of Blake's paintings "Newton as a divine geometer".
The image can be seen in full here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg

Edit: Blake painted this while he was living in Lambeth district of London


Blessings Abound!

I don't know if this might hold a clue, but the name of the picture of the William Blake quote is "Where is I". Just thought I'd post that.

Was Blake a member of the Royal Society? I know Newton was, and so was Robert Hooke who re-designed most of the streets of London after the Great Fire... I only mention this as the Blake verses are superimposed on another schematic of London streets. You can tell because of the distinctive arch shape (like a 'D' lying on its side) in the bottom right-hand corner which is made up of Aldwych to the north (the curved part) and the Strand to the south (the straight part). Although it's an old map, as the streets north of that aren't exactly the same shape in 2005... If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's a map from London before the Great Fire of 1666. And it's called Where is I... 'I' as in Islington? Or is there an 'I' hidden in the text or on the map?

Curiouser and curiouser...

Isaac Newton's dates are given on the image (1643-1727), while Blake was born after Newton's death and died 100 years later (1757-1827). Robert Hooke was a rival of Newton's and lived 1635 - 1703...

Law

re. the map under the blake verses - upon closer inspection, it does seem to correspond to some of the present main streets, as least as follows:

The map shows a part of central London. If you start at the 'arch' shape in the bottom right corner, that's Aldwych and the Strand and the road running north-west from here is Kingsway. This crosses Holborn and Theobald's Lane and then the dark square just under the word 'eternity' is Russell Square. The road continues NW and crosses Euston Road just under the word 'heaven'. It passes Euston Station adjacent to the word 'see'.

Law of Five

dang it. And this is what I get for my computer breaking down. I miss it. I miss my chance to be a big help with Triskabiblios! and the worse part is, my comp's STILL broken! -.- I really anted to get into this, but oh well. Maybe I'll be able to catch up, though I don't see HOW with all that happened, lol.
Wish me luck yall. It's gonna take a few days.

I would not sweat it too much Redeyes.....we have not even found Book Zero yet and there are 13 to go after it! I have a feeling we will be at this for a goodly while. ;)

Neverwhere?
"The angel Islington is a character in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. ...comic book story world by Richard Corben, see Den (comics). (Richard Corben's Neverwhere was the same fictional realm visited by Dan in the 1980's cult classic Heavy Metal.) "

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman. The series is set in 'London Below', a magical realm coexisting with the London familiar to all. It was later adapted into a novel.

One of the discoveries over on the unfiction forum, is that on the map with the verse by Blake on it, there are letters and numbers that run along the side, top, and bottom (hard to see, I know). Perhaps we need to be looking for coordinates to somewhere on that map.

"In Neil Gaiman's best selling novel Neverwhere Islington is an angel that lives under London. He is a being of pure light, and helps anyone who searches for him. "

Response to: Coelacanth

About my Graffiti wall -- I was referring to the comment "THE BOOK IS HERE: TIME.HTML"

That message was relatively new when I posted my question here. The MG comment on the wall probably refers to the post Islington linked to. "Nothing more the same" was an old post. "BESOT WITH TIME" is a new comment that was not there when I mentioned it.

More on the two maps of London. I'm not a Londoner, but using Google maps I've come up with the following observation:

The first map, with the image of Newton as divine geometer which pops up when you roll your mouse over (saying 'I am your starting point') appears to be a map of London in the Tudor era (late 1400s-early1600s). Oldmap.co.uk suggests this map came from an atlas published in 1610, which is before the Great Fire. The map shows an area on the north bank of the river Thames, running from Aldgate in the east, including Bishopsgate and Moorgate and running about as far as the site of the modern St Paul's in the west. To the north, it shows the area about as far north as the modern Barbican station. There are 4 points on the map which might be significant:

1. where Newton is pointing with his finger: appears to be on the other side of the road from Monument Tube station, possibly in King William Street. Just north of the northern end of London Bridge.

2. the right arm of the compass appears to lie just a bit east of point 1, probably at the eastern end of Monument Street.

3. the left arm of the compass is in the Thames, due south of St Paul's.

4. the shadow of the vertex made by the compass hinge is projected onto Mansion House Place or St Swithin's Lane, just south of the Bank Tube station.

The second map shows a completely different area of London on the back of a spiral bound notebook. This area is west of the first map, starting at the Strand in the SE, and running up to Euston station in the NW. It appears to be based on the current pattern of streets in London, but the roads and squares (eg. Russell Square) have been blocked out in black. The area includes Piccadilly in the west, Covent Garden in the middle, Lincoln's Inn Fields in the east and the Euston Road at the top. Most of the bombs in July went off in these areas, south of King's Cross. This map is given at fairly low resolution, but you can make out the grid markers at the top (ABCDEF) and at the side (indecipherable). It looks as if it's been photoshopped, maybe from a satellite image wit the roads drawn on in black.

So we know where to look (but which map?), and when (the FOUND bookmark suggests it will be found on the full moon, showing a full, empty circle). Now we need someone to work out a grid reference...

Law of Five

Gaiman is listed in the upper right hand corner of Islington's Notebook.

Orkid updated her livejournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/orkid_quantum/

Comments are slowing down here, so I'm switching over to posting at:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12598

Cheers

Law

Greame, have you been following the new developments? It looks like the location of Islinton's notebook is being deciphered over at Unfiction. Are you game to go check it out in "real life"?

Looks like Triskabiblios has been given it's own forum over at UF. YAY! Woot! Huzzah!

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=165

Greame,
As a leader in online gaming content you are not doing a very good job of providing insight and opinion as the ‘GAME’ unfolds. Perhaps you are not foretelling all that you know? You are a scribe. No offense intended... just observation!

P.S. I totally dig your site!

Besot with TIME

i've read the comments of this islington thinggy... i live in the asia, does any do? cuz it seems that most or all of you are from the western side of the earth. :D

i haven't read everything in unfiction but... somehow i feel that maybe you're supposed to contact someone? well, i'm not really sure... and i'm not as knowledgeable as all of you, especially MG. >_<

erm, has anyone tried to find out when islington is born? maybe that'll help in his identity. after reading all these, perhaps someone can point a finger as to which direction all the info is going? is islington in the future or in the past? any clues on that?

and... perhaps someone has to go to where newton is pointing his finger at, to make things clearer.

just my two cents worth... don't scold me if i'm all wrong. >_<

i find this really creepy and i don't think i'm gonna be in this, i haven't even go to the site yet, cuz i'll know it really freaks me out if i do. :D

has islington travelled to different times while everyone is thinking all this or is he just stuck at one particular time? i still haven't got this part clear yet...

hmm?

hmm?

Looks like Lazylaces has been abandoned. Great, eh Greame?

Re the mention of Burke on Unforums, it refers to The rights of man, which was partly written as a "Reply to Edmund Burke's view of the radical revolution in France".

New message on my Graffiti Wall (on my blog). It says "TiMe is of the essence now"

I'm guesing Islinton only responds to the sages any case I am interested to see exactly where this goes and I write stoires about this kind of stuff all the time.

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