Posted on 10:32 AM

The sun god... er... priest

Filed Under (,) By tygr20 at 10:32 AM

Aj 'kin- sun priest. Ajkin.com was quite cryptic. A simple black page with a text box and a submit button. That's it. Oh, and the text box doesn't show regular letters- it shows what appeared to be bits of bar code. The thought occurred to us that we could make an alphabet using the ajkin text box. Type each letter until we had a full alphabet- A would equal a thin bar and a thick bar, B thick, thin, thin, thin, etc. BrianEnigma noticed that the bar codes seemed to be consistant with morse code. Shortly thereafter, phyzix figured it out- "red cloud." Typing red cloud into the text box and clicking the submit button took us to a new page within ajkin. We were presented two Mayan hieroglyphs, and nothing more. Shortly after the discovery, Giskard and vpisteve noticed that the "eyes" of the left glyph were clickable, and took us to yet another page(screen cap courtesy of DeadByDawn), an animated map of central US with spots that appeared to be smoke over 5-6 spots on it. The spots were prominent cities- Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL, Minneapolis/St Paul, MN, Kansas City and Topeka, KS, and Denver, CO.

A very, VERY long time passes. There are minor changes to the map shown at ajkin, even major changes- but no hints as far as what to do next, where to go, or who to blame. The borders on the map completely dissolve and reform with new borders. We're tearing the internets apart to try to find something, anything. A message!! From Tom?? What does it say??? "The followers interview has been approved" and "Are you BORED yet?" Tom is poking us. With a sharp stick. Still going nowhere though... and the next day, we get yet another prod. The borders of the states are now changing to morse code. "Are you a..." Are you a what? Within hours, drizjr figured out where we go next. areyouaborder.com.

2 comments

Unknown on March 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM

how did you figure out that it was red cloud?


tygr20 on April 14, 2008 at 11:06 AM

The bar code. The thick/thin stripes translate to Morse code spelling "red cloud". It was really simple as figuring out the bar code was in Morse.