[Ended] Puzzle - A()way with words

Bump. Got to the single word stage :D

Bump for solved

Bumping

The final push.

got to the first question and have no idea how to go on but really think it's an interesting puzzle bump, bump =D

STuck in the second puzzle with the planes... :S

Bump for still having issues with the T-word. :)

Solution:

Solving the first ITH (which was there only to remind everyone of the basic rules) would lead you to a questionnaire asking you four questions:
1 - Which website have you come from? (Any answer containing 'steamgifts' would do);
2 - What's your name on Steamgifts? (Was first intended as a way to limit every person to just one of the three giveaways, whichever best suited their answer to the next question, but I scrapped the idea);
3 - My word, are you ugly. How do you live like that? (A multi-choice question branching off into three paths, each leading to a different giveaway based on the answer you've given);
4 - What's written above my head? (Referring to the STOP sign, which the shadow was standing beneath. Entering 'stop' would prompt an error message with an ITH link. And no, entering 'pysäkki' wouldn't work, sorry.)

Solutions to the ITH puzzles

1. An old man in a dry month, waiting for rain.. Solvable via Google Maps... kind of. At any rate, there aren't that many cities in the desert.

2. I keep my countenance, I remain self-possessed.. The two questions are:
   1. This 1932 film features a scene where a man dreams about seeing his own funeral. From inside his own coffin.
   2. In the short story The Masque of the Red Death people held this event to avoid death.

3. Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead.. Taikamaðurpípuhatussa. Taika-maður-pípu-hatu(ssa). Magic-man-top-hat(inside). Inside a magician's hat. If you're using Google Translate, it shows you that the Finnish word for hat is 'hattu' - supposedly prompting you to search for what 'hatussa' means (e.g. Wiktionary would yield a reasonable answer), with a quick look at what's an inessive case.
   The hint was supposed to point out the fact that translating words from an agglutinative language (like Finnish) into an analytic language (like English) would usually produce extra words like prepositions or pronouns, meaning that the noun case was quite important.