[tipsila]

Mason wrote:

New update on Highfivegame.com: Quote: Santa is coming.

The obvious anagram is Satan

[Mason]

MAJOR update on its way! Eric has disappeared.

New update on Highfivegame.com:

Quote:

Santa is coming.

This is really going to explode, I can feel it coming.

[Scribe]

Think we're going round in circles - check out the first page of the thread Also, the island fits with the newspaper story's setting, and probably Eric's tale of being taken off to an island somewhere.

Actually, 14th June corresponds to "last week", so maybe those map points are to do with Eric's location or something.

[Mason]

6.14.07 18*20'06.15" N 64*56'34.28" W elevation 14M

That points to the island of St Thomas (in the British Virgin Islands)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=18+20'06.15%22+N64+56'34.28%22+W&ie=UTF8&ll=18.332529,-64.924736&spn=0.271799,0.6427&z=11&om=1

(If anyone is wondering, I found this on an archive of highfivegame.com:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:AAuV3Obu3a0J:www.highfivegame.com/+highfivegame&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk&client=firefox-a)

Doubting Thomas again?

[Mason]

OK - so we need someone to go to Detroit and see what's on the corner of Congress Street West and 1st Street?

[Scribe]

this is the link - I think it was right back at the beginning of the thread.

Googling for "6op 1 libra" now shows that "onfilm" has also been posting to the Google Earth community: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/897087/an/0/page/39#897087

Is there any way to figure out where exactly he means by "this location"?

[tipsila]

I live in Michigan - about 3 hrs northwest of Detroit. I grew up in the Detroit Metro area, though. Which building?

[Scribe]

stegdetect only seems to work on jpgs - i don't know if you can put stegs in gifs (I imagine it's quite hard with an indexed palette).

Do each of the smaller blue square regions look like a zoomed out version of the first black and white gif? Maybe not exactly, but certainly in terms of random pixels. Personally, I think the images aren't key to what we need to do next. Eric seemed to hint at that, anyway.

I don't suppose anybody knows anyone in Detroit do they? Maybe knowing what that building is might help.

[tipsila]

I opened the newest image in Paint - and when I grabbed the bottom corner and pulled to make the image larger, what I pulled was like an orange bottom layer... try it.

[Mason]

Scribe my friend, we are not dealing with AAs in this ARG.
Eric assures me they are entirely separate and AA is trying to mislead us from the truth.

Quote:

AA is a distraction from the truth. they want you to follow. they want to weed you out. i think they have already and you are the best chance i have.

Have you tried Stegging the new image? I think those pink patches are a big clue.

[Scribe]

Isaiah, 1.18:

Quote:

Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

The first line seems apt for an arg. The mention of snow - coincidence?

10.10 is nothing special, AFAICS:

Quote:

As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria-

Also, according to wikipedia, the words of Alexander of Aphrodisias were also found within the Archimedes Palimpsest in April. Another AA?

(Edit:) AArg! Another one! Just noticed that the "Nevar" site I linked to before says: "The ultimate goal of the project is to build an Artificial Artist". I'm guessing the hint "art imitates life" is a reference to this.

ALSO, just realised that if you take the first letters of the hint, you get ACUG (and a 6) - I'm pretty sure these are the bases for either DNA or RNA or something (one is ACTG, one is ACUG?) (Addendum: It's RNA, see wikipedia.)

[enaxor]

I sent an email earlier today and asked Eric about the barcode looking graphic.

enaxor wrote:

Eric, Sorry to bother you, but a few of my friends have been working on this 6op1libra mystery. Right now we are trying to discover the secrets of the black and white barcode image. Do you have any ideas what it is? Or perhaps how we can unlock it's secrets? Any help would be great.

To which he replied with:

Eric wrote:

I don't think it's ready to reveal that yet. It may be testing you.

But then I received this email a short while ago.

Eric wrote:

c2c2 is not a person.

[Scribe]

Don't suppose those co-ordinates we have correspond to those star signs when applied cosmically do they? No idea how to check that. (Edit: Nope ;)

Add: 6op1libra.com now has this image instead of the grid. Odd orange splotch at the bottom-left.

p.s. also note another ref to 1:18. Definitely where we need to be looking.

[Mason]

Ah, my bad.

NB: look 4 posts up. I updated my convo.

[tipsila]

Lupus is the wolf.

ETA: Lepus is the rabbit.