Hm... there must be something behind it, I also noticed that pattern of dots and plus signs. If we had only one clue, where to start, and one success....
Lurker here, joining the fun Perhaps we've seen everything there is to see. But have we heard everything there is to hear? Remember, there is a mystery in EVERY song. http://simogo.com/blog/2012/07/05/fan-art-t-shirts/
Weird, this is like the second member with little to no posts and a recent join date that I've seen drop into this thread and hint at something.
True lurker here, just a fellow iPad gamer from Texas who hasn't played a game this fun in a long time.
Stripping out the #'s gets you ``.:,;:+.'+,',````,;.``:+`,;:`.'.`;.:'+..';;+.;`` I was originally thinking morse code but doesn't make much sense. Second thought was that characters are map points. Will think more while year walking tonight.
There's an image at the top of that post, but it mostly matches the background so it's hard to notice: http://media.simogo.com/2012/07/tonight.gif
Yeah, I saw that. It's an old post, so that's probably from when they were hinting what Year Walk would be about. Them referring to the Watchers/Otherworld.
Yup, that clue among others were found as early as August of last year in the Decoder's Club thread. Specifically page 2. http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=149327 An extra pair of curious, sharp eyed investigators are more than welcome to go over what was already found on that thread and go over anything we might have overlooked. It's incredible how far Simogo has gone with all those hints and secrets.
We need the riddle solvers from the decoders thread as well as the old riddle masters from the God of Blades thread.
Okay I've been replaying the game multiple times and re-reading the notes. I love this game by the way, it's the reason I even joined this forum. So lets being my rant. Spoiler You see, I've noticed that majority of us believe the Theodor year walked only once, which was to give Daniel the note and knife. I don't believe this. However, while it seems that year walking can be used to time travel, it's most infamous use visions which Theodor had many of. Spoiler But Theodor wasn't in the forest, he was somewhere else, so how could he year walk? I ask you, when was it ever stated that one must go to a specific church to break the rift? No, the year walk ritual in theory could be done any where, as long as you followed the rules. Spoiler And also, why wouldn't Theodor remember it? He did, in fact we all saw it. Like he said, if the future could be altered, why not the past? He looked into the past using the Year Walk, allowing him to see what happened himself. It's was seen the entries, remember? Spoiler This also explains a few things. When one takes a Year Walk, their lives are always ruined, and they always suffer. Isn't it interesting that at the beginning E.S. and the people that Theodor worked with were interested in Year walking, but the moment Theodor began having the visions they turned hostile? Not slowly hostile, but right then and there? Spoiler Also this explains why Theodor had a vision of him 'breaking' the rules. Because he did. Theodor at some point after finding the box began Year walking, and his life slowly was ruined by the watchers. He simply saw this as dreams. However, he slowly discovered the Watchers by Year Walking, and figured out a way to change the past. He then he year walks for one last time... or so we think. Spoiler What do I mean by this? I might tell you later after I formulate more of my mad theories. Tell me what you think, alright. Anyways, I love this game. I'm the GoatisGod and-(is erased from timeline due to Year Walking)
More Puzzles someone posted this link:http://vedtorp.se I've been reading it through Google Chrome translation. check out this page: http://vedtorp.se/nyheter/20110902.htm It's definitely a site for the game. All the pics line up. Working out some puzzles now...
I'm confused by your wording here. Did you get the names right? Theodore Almstein is the researcher from the future, and David/Daniel (I forget) is the Year Walker from the past.
Spoiler I believe he did travel once and sacrificed his life to get through the rift and help Daniel. Here's why: - He found the box in Vedtorp. He took it home with him. After countless sleepless nights, he decides to travel back to Vedtorp and leave the box for Daniel to encounter it on his Year Walk. I believe Daniel and Theodor were walking the same Year Walk path but centuries apart. And that is how they managed to communicate. From December 26, he packs his things and heads back to Vedtorp to deliver the box. He takes photographs of the sites as he makes his way towards Daniel's cabin. The Church, the Mill, and finally the cabin where he spends the night...awaiting the strike of midnight to begin his Year Walk. January 1st. His Year Walk begins. I assume that was the end of Theodor considering how insanely obsessed he was with the concept of Year Walk, yet after Jan. 1st we never hear from him again.
Spoiler Theodor's notes from Dec 4th, 5th, and 6th seem to suggest he had opened the "rift" without walking. Or maybe those notes were just mad-man ramblings.
Spoiler Damn, you're right. This all fits exactly into the thoughts I had while reading the companion again, two hours ago. Indeed, I believe that Almsten must have yearwalked several times. In his note of Dec., 11th, he already stopped eating, to prepare himself. But according to the lore, it's only neccessary to not participate at eating and celebrating on that very days. Now check the calendar on log entry Dec., 25th. He marked several days, each time the gate/rift opened. At one day, for example, he witnesses Stina's death, for example. On another day, he followed the Huldra to find the key. And on Jan., 1st, he went maybe through the gate and somehow travelled in time? Year walking might be another term for time travelling.
Spoiler I think they were just insane ramblings, since we know he was being haunted/given visions by the Watchers at that point in his research.
Spoiler I doubt it, simply because we know that he was having visions/dreams/whatever before he traveled back to Vedtorp. We don't know if when he said he saw her, it wasn't just a vision. I don't think he went on more than one Year Walk, and even if he did, what was his penance, his sacrifice? His sanity? He was losing that long before he committed to the Year Walk. Doesn't really match up.
