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[TRAILHEAD] Wonder Scouts
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Gently
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 		[TRAILHEAD] Wonder Scouts
Scouts Wanted
I noticed this image posted over in the /ARG subreddit: http://i.imgur.com/mqCI9mF.jpg?1

. . .which led me to poke around the internet for Wonder Scouts, which led to:
    * a Facebook
    and
    * G+ page which features a number of juicy and bizzarre tags like: #wonderscouts #prescience #peril #adventure #beyondargs #nextgen #transcentience #canyoufindthedoor #thesoundofsilence #beginhere #kidsaresmarter, and on another, simply #endoc


According to themselves:
Quote:
Wonder Scouts exist to become, discover, rescue, and encourage wonder, in mutual excellence, beauty, learning... and mystery.

As best as I can tell, the story has something to do with a non-human intelligence which has accessed the internet and used it to transmit "active transgenic psytext" into people's minds, effectively infecting them/evolving them, for some as yet unknown purpose. I'm not quite sure yet if the Wonder Scouts are encouraging this or fighting it.

Since they did post one quote from it, it might be worthwhile to take a look at Will Ludwisgen's short story "We Were Wonder Scouts"

Oh, and there's a few posts about locked doors, which I can only presume we must open somehow. Smile

So far, there are two straight-up codes/puzzles on the FB page which seemingly remain unsolved:
Quote:
Although we do not exist, we can offer some extremely vague guidance in the form of the following code, if you manage to decode this, kindly let us know.

aB1EcDve2fgIh3ijDkY4lemeRpN5dFcfr6qEGsf7otucRv8RwigHTx9TbDyZaiB1cDD
e2nfgh'3ijkYt4lmeRhp5daFfrP6qGspf7teucv8RwgHxn9TbyZaB1cDe2fgh3iTjkY4hl
meiRp5dsFfrm6eqGsssf7tuacv8geRwgHx9wTbyAZaB1scDee2fgnh3iCjokY4Dlme
edRp5dFbfr6YqGsHf7taucvn8RwgdHx9TbyZaB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf
7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZaB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZ

~~~~~ I put line breaks in so as not to break the forum page - it should be noted the code was one solid line before not 5. ~ Pixie
and this from the same day:
Quote:
TFD : RVBR : HMC 1984

3: 1 <->5

Supply the appropriate response below.


I don't normally play games using FB, but I shot them off an email just to see where it goes. Apparently, I should't expect to receive a reply until I do. . . something, according to this G+ post:
Quote:
WS Operations Update

We receive many queries from the curious, from spectators, from parties interested and obscure. We have no comment. If you have sent us an email and have not received a reply, you have received a reply. Please enjoy your continued position of passively abject decrosimility.


(They also tend to use made-up words quite a lot.) I think they want us to impress them before they make contact. Have fun!

PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 4:37 pm
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RAD24
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 		Interesting. I've sent off an email, awaiting response (or not, perhaps).

That first code, the only thing I can see is that there's a sort of pattern. So far I see:

aB1EcDve2fgIh3ijDkY4lemeRpN5dFcfr6qEGsf7otucRv8RwigHx9TbDyZ
aiB1cDDe2nfgh'3ijkYt4lmeRhp5dafrP6qGspf7teucv8RwgHxn9TbyZ
aB1ce2fgh3iTjkY4hlmeip5dsFfrm6eqGsssf7tuacv8geRwgHx9wTbyAZ
aB1scDee2fgnh3iCjokY4DlmeedRp5dFbfr6YqGsHf7taucvn8RwgdHx9TbyZ
aB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZ
aB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZ

...it's the alphabet, vaguely. Maybe some kind of code in the letters that don't follow "order"? But the alphabet is kinda fucked up, at least in the first one, it goes aBcDefghijklmRpnqsotuvwxyZ.

...I'm so confused. Looks like no Wonder Scouts for me just yet.

PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 9:03 pm
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GuestUser17
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Joined: 22 Feb 2011
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 		Looking for patterns in that string of text and then finding characters that don't match the pattern gives you the following:
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aB1EcDve2fgIh3ijDkY4lemeRpN5dFcfr6qEGsf7otucRv8RwigHTx9TbDyZ
aiB1cDDe2nfgh'3ijkYt4lmeRhp5daFfrP6qGspf7teucv8RwgHxn9TbyZ
aB1cDe2fgh3iTjkY4hlmeiRp5dsFfrm6eqGsssf7tuacv8geRwgHx9wTbyAZ
aB1scDee2fgnh3iCjokY4DlmeedRp5dFbfr6YqGsHf7taucvn8RwgdHx9TbyZ
aB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZ
aB1cDe2fgh3ijkY4lmeRp5dFfr6qGsf7tucv8RwgHx9TbyZ

EvIDeNcEoRiTDiDn'thaPpenThismessagewAsenCoDedbYHand

Evidence or it didn't happen This message was encoded by hand


PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 9:19 pm
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Amelić
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 		I also sent them an email, but i guess i shall not receive a reply either Razz

il keep my eyes open

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Greystone
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 		I found this

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TFD : RVBR : HMC 1984

3: 1 <->5

Supply the appropriate response below.


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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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Location: Des Moines, IA

 		From FB:
Quote:
"You dbo jcxg d gexepcwx, tw eua jhu pidm j list pg ecvvng. Lw'v yt yt eua."

— ws j21

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"You can have a catalyst, or you can have a list of cattle. It's up to you."
Successive caesarian shifts for each word.


PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 11:21 am
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Gently
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 		WTG on the solves, MrToasty and GuestUser17. I had a feeling y'all would make short work of it.

Now on to the problem of being ignored. WS posted this on G+:

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We have received a number of emails, nearly all of them lacking essential features of obvious or covert transai. Kindly use the appropriate address, and tell us in detail, what Wonder Scouts is, should be, might be, must become, or could transcend. Spare no eloquence nor sincerity, and waste neither language nor


This makes it sound like they want a bloody application essay, but I feel like they are expecting something else. A codeword, or something like it perhaps?

PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 4:32 pm
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blaqueice
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 		New post on facebook reads

Quote:
YCBRBYCBB


I answered in the comments,

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You can't be ready, but you can be brave.

Which is the last line of Will Ludwigsen's 'We Were Wonder Scouts'.


It may be just a coincidence but I just sent that phrase typed out in wing dings to thisreplySPLAThotmail.com yesterday with the subject 'wing ding dong'.

No official reply yet...
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