Walk-Through

Well it seems many of you enjoyed the backstage pass I gave you into the world of some of my artists. I am truly thankful for each and every follower, so I'm happy to do it! I'm going to keep this special "hidden" page for future promotions and treats. There won't always be such a puzzle to solve, this was really just because I know many of you from the  Innocence & Instinct days, and this little scavenger hunt was merely a much more humble nod to that.

In case you'd like to just get to to the page where all the extras are, without any of the thinking, here you go.

Step 1: Go to www.robgraves.com. Congratulations! You're already here. Sort of. You must click "home" and go to my front page.

Step 2: Find the gate. As my site is based upon Dante's vision of Hell, of course I am talking about the gate of Hell. To Virgil this was identified with a simple sign, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Find this, and you find the gate. There are a couple ways to do this, but the simplest method is to select the entire page, and you will see the quote, which is a link, or gate, if you will.

Step 3: Gaze into the abyss. A nod to Nietzsche. This all black page you are looking at contains a single visible quote from Emit Flesti (and who is Emit Flesti? No one asked? Odd. This is an interesting issue that may come up again). His point is valid though. Even at high noon, the starts are all around us, just invisible. Much like this page. Filled with invisible quotes. To see them, and ultimately the next step, select the entire page...the quotes become visible. As does the clickable entrance.

Step 4: Click the entrance. You are presented with a simple statement, "Enter Follower, in the lowly tongue of Virgil." This is a straightforward riddle. Simply enter "follower," but in the way Virgil would've. The Inferno was written in Italian, which was considered a common peasant language, and one not suitable for such a work (the church greatly frowned upon the fact that the masterpiece was not composed in Latin). Thus, the lowly language of Virgil would be Italian. Right beneath the password box is a conveniently placed quote referring to Virgil, and this should point you in the right direction. Seguace della sacra Dei, was Virgil. To pass, so must you be. A follower of the gods. A quick trip to google would've revealed this. So by entering "seguace" you are granted entrance.

This little puzzle was just something for fun...like I said, I won't always do it to this extent. But from time to time, you will be given new passwords (or hints to find a password) and given "special" access to my music, or writing (maybe a link to an unpublished story in the future? who knows). I'll probably base these promotions around 1,000 increments of followers, so if you enjoyed this, you know what to do!

Thank you fans, for all that you do for me, and for supporting me.

RG