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zerovin
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Joined: 23 Sep 2012
Posts: 162
Location: Australia

S.P.I. wrote:

And I got an e-mail titled "1/3". Shocked

I think it says the same thing, though the binary might be different:

Quote:

we are the resistancE
they will not Hear us
they will not see us
however they will fear us

0100100101001001001000000100100100100000010010010100100101001001

EDIT: My binary also says II I III, but are we sure that is the message they were trying to deliver? One other result I found through base 64 is this:
SUkgSSBJSUk=
which looks a lot like a youtube URL.

I got the message titled "3/3 as well

Quote:

wE are the resistaNCe
they will not hear us
they will nOt see uS
However they will fear us

0100100101001001001000000100100100100000010010010100100101001001

i don't know why they may have different titles, but we may need to combine all three parts of the binary message, or it could have something to do with the random capital letters.

EDIT: is anyone else getting an error message when trying to look at the latest google docs thing?

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:02 am

Littleloki
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Joined: 31 Aug 2012
Posts: 34

I got the 2/3 Message

Quote:

we are the resIstance
they will not hear uS
they will not see us
However they will fear us

0100100101001001001000000100100100100000010010010100100101001001

Not sure if related I will get cracking on this though, the letters II I III that we decode might be related to the upper cased letters and in what order to put them. Will get back to you if I figure it out.

Edit: Ok so my binary also reads II I III, and with all three messages we have these letters,

E H I S H E N C O S H
Which put into the pattern given to us by the letters gives us,
I S H E H E N C O S H
Any ideas people?

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:31 am

OmegaLimit
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
Posts: 56
Location: Maysville, KY

Messages 2/3

I got three e-mails from Uplink Saga.

The first one has the subject "2/3":

Quote:

we are the resIstance
they will not hear uS
they will not see us
However they will fear us

0100100101001001001000000100100100100000010010010100100101001001

The second has the subject "2/3 Addendum":

Quote:

we are the resIstance
they will not hear uS
they will not see us
however they will fear us

0100100101001001001000000100100100100000010010010100100101001001

The third is the best of all. The subject is "Apologies":

Quote:

We would like to apologize for the unfortunate typo in our initial communication...

that was Henry's fault...

Henry has been sacked.

I wrote back:

Quote:

Henry should try llama farming.

I hope I got the right Monty Python reference.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:41 am

vapor
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Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 1188
Location: Dallas, TX ya'll

I got message 1/3 as well. Same as the other 1/3 message.

IS HE HENCOSH? The name Hencosh brings up nothing upon searching.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:50 am

OmegaLimit
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
Posts: 56
Location: Maysville, KY

Capital Letter Anagram

If you anagram the capital letters, and use each e-mail in the order 2, 1, 3 (from the roman numerals) as a separate word, you get a message.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

IS | EH | ENCOSH becomes IS HE CHOSEN

I still have no idea what that message means.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:14 pm

S.P.I.
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Joined: 11 May 2008
Posts: 485

I am not sure how to translate this binary into letters, but we should try decoding it with the proper 2/3 in tow. Very Happy

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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:16 pm

OmegaLimit
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
Posts: 56
Location: Maysville, KY

S.P.I. wrote:

I am not sure how to translate this binary into letters, but we should try decoding it with the proper 2/3 in tow. Very Happy

I think we cross-posted. To answer the binary question, break the binary bits into groups of 8. Then look at the binary ASCII codes for each.

01001001 -> 73 (decimal) -> I

00100000 -> 32 (decimal) -> space

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:21 pm

vapor
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Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 1188
Location: Dallas, TX ya'll

Re: Capital Letter Anagram

OmegaLimit wrote:

If you anagram the capital letters, and use each e-mail in the order 2, 1, 3 (from the roman numerals) as a separate word, you get a message.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

IS | EH | ENCOSH becomes IS HE CHOSEN

I still have no idea what that message means.

The capitals are actually ISH | EH | ENCOSH. A agree that if anagramed, the last word would be a good candidate for CHOSEN.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:29 pm

OmegaLimit
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
Posts: 56
Location: Maysville, KY

Re: Capital Letter Anagram

vapor wrote:

The capitals are actually ISH | EH | ENCOSH. A agree that if anagramed, the last word would be a good candidate for CHOSEN.

Look at the difference between the emails "2/3" and "2/3 Addendum".

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:36 pm

S.P.I.
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Joined: 11 May 2008
Posts: 485

OmegaLimit wrote:

S.P.I. wrote:

I am not sure how to translate this binary into letters, but we should try decoding it with the proper 2/3 in tow. Very Happy

Yes, yes we did. Sorry 'bout that! And thank you for figuring it out!

. . .

. . . .

Yeah, so what does Is He Chosen supposed to mean to us? Laughing

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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:41 pm

vapor
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Posts: 1188
Location: Dallas, TX ya'll

zerovin wrote:

EDIT: is anyone else getting an error message when trying to look at the latest google docs thing?

If you mean this one then yes. However, if you download the document, you can open it IF you know the password.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The password ISHECHOSEN

It appears to be a chat log between Wyn and Ryat (the document name translate to Chat Log 001 using Base64) There is a lot of clean up to do on the document, though. Will try to get a transcript shortly.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:49 pm

OmegaLimit
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
Posts: 56
Location: Maysville, KY

Chat Transcript

The Google Doc is in HTML format. I copied it into an HTML file on my computer, and then opened it in Explorer. Then, I copied the text from Explorer to here.

Quote:

M,5;26:58

User: Wynner 26:58

Hey, so these things are up and running now?

User: RyBread 26:58

� yeah. Looks like it.

User: Wynner 26:58

Nice! I'm almost done with the full rig too.

Nabbed a few more parts from work.

User: RyBread 26:59

Sweet. I've been working on coding a few

new programs we can try and run once it's

done.

User: Wynner 26:59

Wait... you mean like on your comm?

You can program on your comm?

T,6;00:00

User: Wynner 00:00

Hello?

User: Wynner 00:01

�

User: Wynner 00:01

Dude, where the fuck are you?!

User: RyBread 00:02

Oh hey, sorry... No, I'm just writing it down.

User: Wynner 00:02

You're writing it down? Like on paper?

User: RyBread 00:03

Yeah.

User: Wynner 00:03

How the fuck does that even work?

User: RyBread 00:03

I take a pencil, then I write letters and

numbers on a piece of paper with it...

any more basic life skills you need

explained?

User: Wynner 00:04

� you're such a dick.

User: RyBread 00:04

I could teach you to eat, that's kinda

an important one.

User: Wynner 00:04

The code you jackass! How can you

just write code on paper and assume

it will work? Aren't there like, complex

algorithms and math and shit?

User: RyBread 00:04

Yeah, but it's actually pretty easy

once you memorize it.

User: Wynner 00:04

Memorize the code?

User: RyBread 00:05

Math.

User: Wynner 00:05

Fuck you.

User: RyBread 00:05

What?!

User: Wynner 00:05

You can't memorize math.

User: RyBread 00:05

I was bored.

User: Wynner 00:05

Imposs.

User: RyBread 00:05

REALLY bored.

User: Wynner 00:05

Okay fucker, what is Pi? �all of it.

User: Wynner 00:06

�

User: Wynner 00:07

Waiting.

User: RyBread 00:08

3.141592653589793238462643383

27950288419716939937510582097

49445923078164062862089986280

34825342117067982148086513282

30664709384460955058223172535

94081284811174502841027019385

21105559644622948954930381964

42881097566593344612847564823

37867831652712019091456485669

23460348610454326648213393607

26024914127372458700660631558

81748815209209628292540917153

64367892590360011330530548820

46652138414695194151160943305

72703657595919530921861173819

32611793105118548074462379962

74956735188575272489122793818

30119491298336733624406566430

86021394946395224737190702179

86094370277053921717629317675

23846748184676694051320005681

27145263560827785771342757789

60917363717872146844090122495

34301465495853710507922796892

58923542019956112129021960864

User: RyBread 00:08

Shit. Did you know this thing maxes

out at 750 characters?

User: Wynner 00:08

Fuck you... I don't even know how to

check if any of that is right...

User: RyBread 00:08

�this is gonna take a while.

User: Wynner 00:08

It will take forever you dickhead!

User: RyBread 00:09

Bro, do you even math?

User: Wynner 00:09

Okay, fine, you're good... How do you

know how to do all this stuff anyways?

programming and whatnot.

User: RyBread 00:09

How do you know how to build all this

stuff?

User: Wynner 00:09

First off, quit dodging my questions

second, I work around this stuff all

day, you pick it up after a while.

User: Wynner 00:09

�but mostly I just steal it.

User: RyBread 00:09

I dunno... I guess I'm just a natural.

User: Wynner 00:09

Okay, fine, be that way. It's late. I'm

going to bed.

User: Wynner 00:10

But you seriously think you can get

some fun stuff up and running once

I'm done?

User: RyBread 00:10

Dude, just wait and see.

User: Wynner 00:10

If you can figure out a way to get

naked people on these things, I

will worship you like a god.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:08 pm

vapor
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Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 1188
Location: Dallas, TX ya'll

Replied to the email.

Quote:

It looks like Wyn and Ryat were building something. Perhaps the computer that Ryat smashed. For a genius that can memorize math, he sure did something stupid by smashing it. Perhaps they can rebuild it at some point. Wyn might first need to learn to use pencil and paper.

ETA: Here was the reply:

Quote:

The implications of his genius are intriguing to say the least...

The implications of his stupidity are... curious.

All the more reason for us to keep them alive and safe.

I had actually meant that Ryat was kind of stupid to smash the computer before making backups. Smashing it before leaving wasn't a bad idea.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:23 pm

Ameli�
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Joined: 01 Jun 2012
Posts: 231
Location: Southampton, United kingdom

New email this morning, titled "New Intel"

Quote:

We wanted to get this into the hands of our agents for analysis before releasing it to the general public. We leave it to your discretion should you choose to share it with any other trusted parties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBxNzQOpFoc&feature=youtu.be

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:46 am

S.P.I.
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Joined: 11 May 2008
Posts: 485

Ameli� wrote:

New email this morning, titled "New Intel"

Quote:

Ha ha ha ha...Ha ha ha ha...my word, this ARG is craze-y! I cannot wait for the next update!!!

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Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:40 pm

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