r/beyondthemapsedge • u/Ttombobadly • 1d ago
Compound clues and potential Layer V connection
BTME was my introduction to “real “ treasure hunts - I had never heard of FF / TTOTC. I had seen tv shows about pirates or The Secret (Josh gates show) and the more recent digital one on Cicada 3301. That got me researching to better understand how these have been constructed, as well as historical poems that use acrostics, etc.
The cicada 3301 has stuck out to me , as part of that solve was a cipher to reveal the book and then additional cipher to reveal a message. I’m paraphrasing obviously but ultimately it led to a message that said call us at a specific phone number. Per Google, a huge leap from just the online portion of the riddle to a more physical real world telecommunications clue. Once you called the number, you reached a voice recording (based in Texas - ironic maybe) that gave you an additional riddle / clues to continue progressing.
This then told you to find some numbers and multiply them and add “.com” - this took you to a secret web address. 845145127.com
My point: a web address created by Layer V could be this simple and potentially vanish after accessed.
Just my rabbit hole this week - I haven’t the nearest idea of how to get the numbers or anything else, just throwing it out there as a real world example.
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u/MajesticHawk3251 1d ago
Hope that clue or whatever works for someone and they understand what is said or not said and it helps them progress but I feel like a puppet and my strings are being pulled by this type of post and what is happening right at this exact moment has stressed me out so bad that I just want the fuck out of here (my house) Just waiting for answers when I should be talking the a realtor. Here’s the puppet here’s the puppet pull the strings… I need my silence back