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Well. It took you long enough. But finally you have tracked El Circo de Desconcertante down to this door in this dismal alley.

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You knew you wouldn't just be allowed in, so you've come prepared with the information you need. Now it's just a matter of saying the right thing...



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  • $\begingroup$ Chat room for theories $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 13:48
  • $\begingroup$ imgur-maze? $\endgroup$
    – Mithical
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 17:18
  • $\begingroup$ @Mithrandir not in the slightest $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 17:33
  • $\begingroup$ Just asking. When you click and it's a different image, then I get suspicious... :P $\endgroup$
    – Mithical
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 17:36

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Adding to the partial answer from @mike-limburg and noting that @Techidiot did almost all the work here...

The cipher:

LJLD K Y I AT O I X FJ I AW O EA K JO B P O ED K YL B LJLD K CO B W O ASN D HE

Can be deciphered by

applying the vigenere key 'TRIANGLE' because as @mike-limburg found out, the HEX codes of the colours are ASCII for 'LOOK AT THE SHAPES'

Once decoded:

SSDD X S X WA X A X SD X WD X WA X DD X W X WD X SA X SSDD X WD X D X SSA X WA

That step will be important in a bit.

Next you'll need the image from clicking on the picture of the letter with the 16 circles as well as the letter text itself. Again the shape is key here:

You'll need to extract all the "triangular number" letters from the text:
Letters: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78, 91 which come from 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4, 1+2+3+4+5, etc.
Those letters from the letter fill the 16 circle grid row by row:

TMIS
QXGE
DOUL
HAJN

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Now you need to come back to the decoded cipher:

Starting with the X on the 4x4 grid of letters, use WASD as keyboard arrows (UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT) to select letters, going back to X when the cipher says X.

The output reads:

NOT QUITE MIDNIGHT

Which is the rhyme we need to get in.

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  • $\begingroup$ What kind of cipher was it? $\endgroup$
    – LeppyR64
    Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 14:24
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    $\begingroup$ @LeppyR64 vigenere $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 24, 2016 at 14:16
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(very) Partial Answer:

By clicking on the first link, we see a picture with different colored stripes. Using a color picker, I discovered the following hex codes for each color:

076079
079075
032065
084032
084072
069032
083072
065080
069083

We can decode this numbers

From ASCII into separate letters.

From there on we read the following sentence:

LOOK AT THE SHAPES

As @TechIdiot and @Jim found out, the (triangled) shapes say:

Knock on our door sometime / To enter just say the rhyme

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  • $\begingroup$ Good start. The numbers are actually ASCII encoded. You might want to add that. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 13:11
  • $\begingroup$ "Knock on OUR door sometime" "To enter just say the rhyme" $\endgroup$
    – Jim
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 15:38

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