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Did you fiddle with late Mihaly Jambor’s stuff?

Did you find a certain message in the wine cellar?

Yes. I have:
the book and the phone, two letters from the prof, one from mister Jámbor, also have his keys, a rope, a _lit_ candle (it’s _on fire_), EGER in cypher.

I’ll check out mister Jámbor’s house first to see if I missed anything. I have a feeling I need to do something in the wine cellar before I can continue, but I can’t find what it is just yet. Are there multiple codes in the entrance hall with the sad looking mustache man?

edit: Mihaly Jámbor’s house has such a strange decor. Bohemian Conservative? Love the carpets and the book and art collection (though the overwrought picture frames are very melodramatic). He has a cool record player as well. I imagine him playing some odd prog stuff that’s 40% classical, 35% Hungarian (traditional) folk and 25% all out psychedelic rock.

You’ve found all you need in Mihaly Jambor’s house.

You need to break the Geza Gardonyi’s code in order to proceed to the main puzzle of this chapter.

Vegetable Party - 22 September 2021 04:39 AM

Are there multiple codes in the entrance hall with the sad looking mustache man?

There is one important message there.

chrissie - 22 September 2021 06:10 AM

zobraks - 22 September 2021 04:14 AM

Just be prepared for some pixel hunting.

I generally don’t mind pixel hunting, searching the wine cellar was okay but found searching the shop very tedious which I spent ages in looking for the appropriate items.

I was referring mainly to the final puzzle of the chapter, or more specifically to finding the exact pixels from which you start and in which you end drawing the lines in GG’s study. Although I knew the exact positions of the four objects it took me some time to hit the right spots.
There’s a lot of usual pixel hunting in Yoomurjak’s ring (and I don’t mind it too much), but this is something unusual.
Just look how similar (and much more complicated) puzzles are implemented in Gabriel Knight 3.

chrissie - 22 September 2021 06:10 AM

One of the things I was surprised to learn was that Aunty Iza found Jonathan Hunt’s name `unpronouncable’ .

Ha-ha, yes!
I reckon it’s the spoof (or revenge) aimed specifically at Anglo-Saxons and their (innate?) inability to properly pronounce any word that has more that two consonants in a row. Not to mention letters like š,ć,ž,č,đ in my language and such.
Of course, it’s hilarious when coming from someone like Aunt Iza, who can pronounce “takarekszovethezet” or “szolofeldolgozas”.

Speaking of languages and unpronounceable, just imagine we were playing a Polish game with a sentence like this: “Chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie”.
I dare any native English speaker (or anyone at all who doesn’t come from Poland) to pronounce that.

zobraks - 22 September 2021 03:39 AM

While you’re here: Is that (bloody!) model of the city of Eger needed for solving some puzzle in the days to come, or just a trivia we can afford not to find and observe?

Nope, not necessary (as far as I could work out anyway) but just quite cool! I only really mentioned it as it is available to find from Day 1 but I didn’t come across it until day 4/5.

Ha! I don’t believe this, I had a pretty good idea where it was and yet failed to find it. I visited it just now, but won’t spoil it for VB and Chrissie.

Here’s a picture.

P.S. Thank you, ID. At first I thought I would ask for a help, like to know whether the model is outside on in some building, but even if you had told me it was in the open I wouldn’t have found it easily. The problem is that you can’t go to that area, the model of the city is just a spot in it.

Thanks zobraks and chrissie, I found the other relief and the message to decode, which I did. Quite like that type of puzzle, though it was both rather hard to read and easy to crack.

Nice miniature city!

Way to go, Vegetable Party!
Now for the harder part of the Day Two…

chrissie - 22 September 2021 01:15 PM

The Polish sentence does have a strange translation or did Google get it wrong?

It means “a bug buzzes in the reeds” according to the book I took the sentence from.

chrissie - 22 September 2021 01:15 PM

& is it really a tongue-twister?

It is very easy to pronounce; it should sound something like “hshtschonshtsch brzhmee f trschtscheenye”.
(looks less frightening in Serbian Latin transcription: hščonšč bržmi f tršćinje)

I remember Welsh in Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches, it was mind-boggling.

chrissie - 22 September 2021 01:15 PM

I still haven’t found the model of the city

Intense Degree’s screenshot was a dead giveaway for me.

I’ve met our new aunt. Very charming, like most people we’ve met so far. I haven’t found the city model yet.

Is it a restaurant or a Zelda Dungeon? Reminds me of a place I used to work (restaurant, not a dungeon).

Apparently the fashion in this boutique is so grotesque you have to enter to see anything. No store windows to give you an impression of the current collection, just a name/warning sign.

Nice finds, but you’re supposed to crack that puzzle so we can all go on.
Good luck!