*HARD*
Okay, read the clue to the right of the door behind the counter. It says:
"In here is a tragedy---
art thou player or audience?
Be as it may, the end doth remain:
all go on only toward death.
The first words at thy left hand:
a false lunacy, a madly dancing man.
Hearing unhearable words, drawn
to a beloved's grave---and there,
mayhap, true madness at last.
As did this one, playing at death,
find true death at the last.
Killing a nameless lover, she
pierced a heart rent by sorrow.
Doth lie invite truth?
Doth verity but wear the
mask of falsehood?
Ah, thou pitiful, thou
miserable ones!
Still amidst lies, though the end
cometh not, wherefore yearn
for death?
Wilt thou attend to thy beloved?
Truth and lies, life and death:
a game of turning white to black
and black to white.
Is not a silence brimming with
love more precious than flattery?
A peaceful slumber preferred to
a throne besmirched with blood.
One vengeful man
spilled blood for two;
Two youths shed tears for three;
Three witches disappeared thusly;
And only the four keys remain.
Ah, but verily...
In here is a tragedy---
art thou player or audience?
There is nothing which cannot
become a puppet of fate or an
onlooker, peering into the cage."
Okay, this will be almost impossible if you don't know Shakespeare well.
You are now about to work with some of Shakespeare's most greatest works.
To get the code we will place the books in the shelf so we know which order
they'll come in. And then we'll read each vers and match it with the books'
anthology. The books we'll be working with is:
Shakespeare Anthology 1- Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare Anthology 2- King Lear
Shakespeare Anthology 3- MacBeth
Shakespeare Anthology 4- Hamlet
Shakespeare Anthology 5- Othello
"The first words at thy left hand" means that the books should go from left
to right on the shelf. The rest of that verse describes Hamlet's plot. So that
book goes into the far left side of the bookshelf. The next one describes Romeo
&
Juliet's plot as you can see, so book number 1 comes after Hamlet. Note that the
fourth verse is just there to make you confused, so ignore it. It has nothing
with Shakespeare to do, so continue with the next one. The fifth verse describes
Othello very well, so book number 5 comes after Romeo & Juliet, you know it by
the
words "black to white", huh? The sixth verse describes King Lear so put book
number
2 next to Othello. And finally the seventh and last verse describes the only
book
we have left, which is the Macbeth book. So put book number 3 next to King Lear.
Now you will come up with the books in this order: IV, I, V, II, III.
This is the order that the code should come in. Now we must do some math
and matching with the verses below with the books. It's quite confusing, yes.
We start with "One vengeful man" describes Hamlet, he wanted to revenge his
father. "He spilled blood for two" means that you must dubble the value that
Hamlet's anthology book has, which is number 4, so that gives us number 8 as
the first number in the code. "Two youth shed tears for three" is as you
probably
know, Romeo & Juliet. They shed tears for three, so you must triple their
anthology
book number 1 which will result you with 3. "Three witches disappeared thusly"
describes Macbeth. Their book number is 3, and the three of them disappeared, so
that makes the book number 3 disappear from the code, and that's good because we
can't have a five-digit code. We are here for a four-digit code, and the
resulting
code for you will be 8352.