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Treasure Quest in the home stretch with the BELGIAN KEY!

by eli

The BELGIAN KEY just might be the WEIRDEST ONE YET! With only one key still to come, and Summer Game 2012 just over the horizon, KEEP QUESTING!

============================================= ~~~~~ THE BELGIAN KEY APPEARS! ~~~~~~ =============================================

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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the BELGIAN KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a Russian Children's Book Author say:

Once upon a time there was a boy without a stitch;
depending on the legend, he was poor, or he was rich.
The legends say the boy endeared himself to a whole nation,
by simply saying what he thought of war, through micturation.

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

Comments

I am having absolutely no luck with the gate item, even though I am fairly sure of what I am looking for. I mention this just in case this is a catalog problem and not a failure on my part. Thoughts?

Does the picture of the horned god in the gate have to do anything with the treasure code?

It does, actually. If you search the name of the cipher on google images, you'll find the horned god.

is the place where found two names? how to type it in?
need help with the code #1
do I type the / and the rue de?

wow, it's been awhile since i looked at this key. forgot that i accidentally found the gate before the key. now i need the key. using wikipedia, which gave two areas. now i used google translate to get english, but it's not working. i translated correctly and put everything in the code box. no punctuation, SarahRose. had the and. wonder what's wrong

actually, i was thinking of the key code, which i didn't get. i already have the gate and treasure, no key. i tried entering different versions of the junction in wikipedia, but no sucess. i just know that it's translated to english, no punctuation, and has and

I also have the paperback. Read my comment at 2nd badge drop. I worry that I will read it to shreads, since I like to read a lot. You know what would be a great shop item? Having my books covered with the special plastic that protects library books. No worries on dying corners. :D

That would be AWESOME! or any other word for very good x10. Amazing, spectacular, wonderful, stupendous!

Edit for previous: They had already picked out books from you to pick from for the Classic I meant. Strange how we can't edit the comments from before

I am glad they changed the editing thing but it would be better if you could delete comments (since my computer is super slow and I sometimes end up with two of the same comments if I click the save button again and then I have to think of something to replace that comment).

No need to bombard, guys! We're aware of the issue and are working on a solution, but it is slightly more complicated than some of the other changes. For now, the best thing to do is be patient when posting a comment and wait for it to just go through before trying to submit it again if your computer is slow. That's what browser tabs are for!

-andrew

Nah, the word bombard didn't scare us. I just happened to be looking at the comments when that one came in and wanted to let you guys know that we are working on it since it seems to be a pretty big source of frustration.

Re: andrewjmac
Are you sure bombard didn't scare you? *wags eyebrows* :)
It IS frustrating.

What did you mean when you said that it was slightly more complicated than the other issues?

I hope it is not too complicated for the staff. It shouldn't too difficult since the website's technology is really advanced (hints, clickable badges,etc.).

And Wait, and open another tab to comment on something else, read. wonder what's more important than preventing cheating? More badges? BOMBARD! Sorry, you all used it.

I would fix the mistake, but I can't, don't know why the option's gone. Staff?

Twice as many competition for the top. :)
I don't know how these two comments happened. I also think that if you have a two in a row comment, they will let you edit it.

Re: Bookbird
Twice as many...items in the shop?
I probably won't be that into Summer Game next year... It's exhausting trying to keep first. Maybe I'll just stay in the top ten. Or twenty.

(Grammer Nazi! It's actually twice as much competition for the top.)

Grammer Nazi says... Es ist "für wen", nicht "für who.”

Punctuation Nazi says, "See? The comma goes OUTSIDE the quotation marks and the period goes INSIDE."

Caps Lock Nazi says...GRAMMER!

This is fun. XD

I'm definitely not going to be as... competitive next year. Trying to stay first is too much stress and work (and if you know me, I am actually a pretty lazy person). I'll still play next year, but just try to stay in the top 10. Or 20.

In reply to by Zhengyang1022

Grammar Nazis are people (or cats) who use their freakishly and/or annoyingly powerful understanding of and compliance with grammar and spelling to attempt to "correct" others, usually the blissfully-oblivious-to-the-outside-world members and users of the Internet, who only understand the grammatically genocidal text-speak.

I see nothing wrong with it.

In reply to by Zhengyang1022

Um. I don't think cats can communicate with us (unless mewing like crazy when they have an empty food bowl).

Ooh... <em>Two</em> pages! XD

(If you haven't noticed, I have just learned that you can add HTML tags on your comments and I am using them. <strong>A lot.</strong>)

Try searching for the name of the statue. Hint: Find out what micturation means. Then search that on Google (along with "boy"), and find the name of the famous landmark.

Re: Bookbird

Oops... Key riddle or key item?

For the key riddle, go to his wikipage and scroll down to "Location". Then look closely at the key image; it gives you a hint in small white letters.

In reply to by Zhengyang1022

Yeah. It involves not only finding items in the catalog, but also quite a bit of research and puzzle solving skills. Plus, you need to encrypt stuff.

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