Cryptos

[Jase]

Confuzzled

i messaged Derek and was told that i was over thinking things

Am I really missing something big time on this level or just not
getting it at all ... for the middle initial i have N
intelligence NETWORK gateway, atomic number Z for atomic number,
li for lithium, gh for growth hormone but am having a hard time
getting the rest. i have even tried the middle initial for all
words given but nothing ... any direction from you guys yet?

[fred]

Maybe me too. Initials are for names. Kuang's ideas of anagrams and such may be the best direction.

[Jase]

I still have no idea even after going all the way back through the levels and working them out to see if it could spark a train of thought but nope

[Jase]

I have even tried getting chemical compounds out of the words ( a letter from each) as the word "potent" seems to appear a bit ... maybe on purpose maybe not??? and the door seems magnetically shut

"there seems to be a potent wireless network throughout the building, & you are struck with a potent sense of impending peril."

[fred]

I worked with Molybdium (MO, at wt 42 -- a magical number for some) for a while (M from ChristMas tree & O from econOmics) but they are middle letters, not middle initials, so never mind. The INT is assocoiated with a popular scifi TV show

-- The X Files --

of a few years ago, no? I found somel links with episode titles, but this didn't seem to work out either. 'Christmas tree' anagrams to 'mister --' or master --' whatever. 'Economics' anagrams to 'cosmic one' or 'comic nose' among other things, but this gets like numerology or lying with statistics. It will probably be something simple, and we overthinkers will slap our foreheads once again.

[Jase]

Hasn't anyone got any ideas yet?

[fred]

As you can see from my postings, I've got lots of ideas. None of them seem to be leading anywhere. No response to my TV show idea. Am I the only one exploring that one? Today I found a first name associated with Christmas tree and a last name associated with economics. This led to a sometime actor on the TV show with a middle initial. I have atomic numbers for the three at wt clues, but I can't make anyting happen. I'm trying to follow Kuang's idea of the answer being a command or other action phrase since the door is apparently opened after I solve the puzzle. That ought to mean that we go into the next room with the proper URL. I got very close to an action using the word 'amble' but I'm still standing still.

[Jase]

thats about where I am too Fred but the tv show thingie is not working for me ... I think we have to follow commands to try to open the door somehow

[Jase]

I even thought on a hunch to anagram all first initials of the puzzle, gave me a lot of words that I am trying to use in URL but no luck so far

[Jase]

ok ... if you use the first initial of words between colons you get nematic, abbrieviations of second part you get lighting. nematic is Of or relating to the mesomorphic phase of a liquid crystal in which the molecules are oriented in loose parallel lines.
and a cell phone has an lcd screen to create some sort of laser?

[fred]

That sounds interesting, though I'm hard pressed to see how you get a long word like nematic out of the niddle initials of two clues. And, the word 'initial' as used is idiomatic, referring to the first letter of a (middle) name, unless Cryptos would like to clarify their usage. The TV show may be a red herring. Maybe they just want the ING of the .initial letters' (not the same thing as 'initial') of Intelligence Network Gateway. On its face, they seem to be asking for one letter (a middle initial of some name) and one atomioc number (derived somehow from the three clues). That would give us an alphabet letter and a number between 1 and 118. Finally, the door opens just as we solve the puzzle, so we mell well be looking at some simple instruction to 'walk right in'. And so it goes....................

[Jase]

dont worry ... i was told i was over thinking things ... again ...

[kuang]

Just a thought - is the next level, or at least a placeholder, up so that if we do get it we'll know?

[Jase]

if it doesnt take much thinking ... It should be right up my alley but its not

[Jase]

nice to see that you are still with us Kuang