[miki_38x1]

We could try 314 for pi? I don't really remember if there was any significant 3 letter/digit word/number that we encountered that we haven't tried to guess yet.

[faeryqueen21]

Quote:

miki_38x1 wrote: To me, the "xxx" strikes me as a three letter code we should be looking for. It struck me that 3 letters would be likely as well since the 'XXX' was written on the top of the box as well as the note.

That's why some of my guesses were 3 digit numbers. I tried 271 because it was in Steve's e-mail addy and 311 because it was a part of the AIM username. I didn't know of any other 3 digit numbers we had come across.

[MrToasty]

faeryqueen21 wrote:

Oh Wow! I am so jealous you got to do a real life find! That's awesome! I guess we'll get cracking on that file we're supposed to find.

Yeah, pretty cool. Most real life parts of ARGs seem to happen nowhere near here, so I never thought I'd be a part of such a find.

Sylvia wrote:

Thank You MrToasty

Just glad to be of some help.

Strikethrough wrote:

Man! You must have been up there just before us. My friend and I went on that road trip today, and we went to the cemetery before anything else. You could see where all the action was from the street. I got all excited, thinking "Ooh! There's the mausoleum! And the tree with the fallen branch!" And then the box wasn't there. This was around... 12:30 ish?

Must've just missed each other. I left Iowa City just before noon and was back in Coralville around 1pm.

miki_38x1 wrote:

To me, the "xxx" strikes me as a three letter code we should be looking for.

It struck me that 3 letters would be likely as well since the 'XXX' was written on the top of the box as well as the note.

[miki_38x1]

I texted both of them around noon today, but so far I havent gotten a response. Bleh. To me, the "xxx" strikes me as a three letter code we should be looking for. CRF? FCR? Idk. Haha.

[Sylvia]

Sorry, I didn't know anything was going on. Next time try something like:

findings cedar rapids

probably not right but worth a try.


oh wait, I just thought of something. Maybe it's the double letters. What were they?

ETA: they were, I'm not entirely sure: A T C E D E or maybe A T C E D E D

here are some anagrams:

ACTED
AT CEDE
AT CEDED
DEAD ETC
DEED [ACT CAT]

An O in there would be really nice. A T C E D E O

anagrams:

[EAT ATE TEA] [CODE COED]
A TO CEDE
A [DOE ODE] ETC
DOTE ACE
OAT CEDE

with A T C E D E D O

anagrams are:

TO DECADE
AT DECODE
DATE [CODE COED]
[EAT ATE TEA] CODED
A TO CEDED
DEED COAT
[DOE ODE] ACTED
TOAD CEDE
AT DO CEDE
DOTED ACE
A DOT CEDE
OAT CEDED

That's it I'm out of ideas.

[faeryqueen21]

Just tried. No dice. Also tried Berry, 271, 311, and XXX.

Offline now...too bad. Maybe we can come up with some more ideas and try again tomorrow.

[Strikethrough]

Drats! Foiled!

[faeryqueen21]

Help! I'm chatting on AIM with cstrife311 and all he will say is, "file name?" I've tried a couple of things and he won't accept anything. He just keeps repeating the same thing. I don't know what to do!!

[Sylvia]

Thank You MrToasty

ETA: http://www.bullerman.net/ has changed and now says:

bullerman.net wrote:

page under construction...

and the title just says j

[nextday]

cstrife311 is a sn on AIM. I was not home when they signed on so I could not find out if it is IG or not. Thought I should throw that out there though.

[faeryqueen21]

Oh Wow! I am so jealous you got to do a real life find! That's awesome! I guess we'll get cracking on that file we're supposed to find.

[MrToasty]

OK, I was able to sneak away from work for an hour. I found the tombstone pretty easily. Walking up I was afraid it was gone already, but fortunately it was placed on the side away from the drive and out of sight. The box contained a bunch of rocks and a note:

Jeff wrote:

If you have this, something has happened. Request the file xxx from cstrife311. I will need help. Jeff

[faeryqueen21]

Huh, weird, totally forgot all about that. Oh well. Then yeah! Text it! Doubt we'll get a response from Jeff, but maybe Dan might be ballsy enough to respond as his captor.

[Sylvia]

I checked the original and couldn't find anything that looks like writing. Some quality was lost when it was uploaded to youtube. But, still all I could see was the odd static.

faeryqueen21, we've had Jeff's phone since near the beginning of the game.

[faeryqueen21]

I hope this isn't over! That would make me very sad.

Miki: I thought the number Natas had was Dan's or Jeff's brother? I didn't think he actually had Jeff's phone number. I could be wrong though,