Found it!

I've found out where to use the 3073!
Stoney said he had checked myspace, flickr and IMDB, so I decided to check that as well. Eventually I entered 3073 as a number in the adress bar at the IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003073/) and found a random movie. I checked the message board, and there it is; the next message from max! :)

by ttocserpxam
Perhaps it was the flickr of a candle, which set the capital ablaze.
Pray tell: 'Forty-three if eager hate.'


I'm looking in to what this could mean and I wonder where Max will lead us next..
V.

what to do with 3073?

A small update.
Stonej and f found that fool stands for 6001 in the octal numeral base and that would make it 3073 in decimal. I think that's the correct answer to the king Charles riddle, because when you open that page, /3073 there is a different page not found message than before.

This might indeed be an answer to a riddle.
However, still not all of the answers
lie were they seem.
The internet is vast.

This doesn’t look like some new riddle but a pointer as where to use that number we found. Something else I found is that if you look at the properties of the picture, it is named “database”
It probably is another clue but I really can’t think of anything it has to do with the riddle itself…

I’ll let you know if I have any ideas about what to do with the number 3073

V

Introductions

I just checked Max’s “lost page” and something had changed. The countdown was gone and the picture had a link attached to it. It leads to a sound file: “introductions.mp3”

A voice introduces himself as Maxwell B Prescott. He claims to be a captive in his own home and needs help. I’m really not sure if he addresses me alone, he doesn’t use my name but just calls me his friend. I’m not his friend! I don’t even know the guy!

He ends his message with a riddle and says it is a very difficult ‘conundrum’

If there was one fool in the court of king Charles the twelfth
What number would he receive from any other king?

Maxwell also mentioned some research should be done. I checked wikipedia for Charles XII and apparently he was a king of Sweden; and, what’s even more interesting, exactly the same picture as on the lost page is on the wikipedia site.

I guess I’m looking for some number, but I don’t understand the fool or court parts… they probably mean or point at something else.

I’ll just keep looking for more info or clues on that wiki site for now…

Lost

Now it seems were getting somewhere.
As redhatty posted in the comments of my last entry, the /whisper code is a cryptogram.
It translates to:

Listen to what I have to say to you
Whilst I am in this cage
On the fourth of June I will come through
As shown on my lost page

There is obviously another hint in there, and using the same tactics as before I punched in /lost.
It shows a page with a picture of some 18th century general and more black on black text:

T-3380

When I just checked it again it said T-3378.
It is counting down...

Two days ago I recieved an email from someone I don't know; saying he was looking forward to the fourth of June.

I don't know what is going on but I'm not sure whether I'm happy with hearing a date being set for some event.
What is going to happen on the 4th? Maybe I should just stay inside until the fifth...