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[Trailhead] There is only one Writer
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Tonamel
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 		[Trailhead] There is only one Writer
Found in the ARGFest swag bag
Apologies if this is known to be part of another game. I looked but didn't find anything.

There was a USB drive in my ARGFest bag. It contained a folder called "greetings" which held the attached four images, this video, and "useful.txt" with the following urls:

Quote:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/az.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dwh.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bec.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/eo.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/rw.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pm.aspx


Near the end of the video at the bottom it says "Paragraph by paragraph, word by word, letter by letter" which suggests the numbers in SCN004 are a book cipher, but there are only nine stories linked in the txt, and twelve lines in the cipher, so I'm not sure how they're meant to line up.

I assume that the cipher is going to lead to a twitter account (the obvious bird in SCN003), but since the video says November, I guess there's no rush?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:10 pm
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Tenshi Akui
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 		I only meant to peek at this one, but HP Lovecraft. May have to poke at it more later.

Just a thought. With the code being on the back of Dreams in the Witch House I would guess that's the one you use to decode the book cypher.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:26 pm
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Nashman88
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 		Anagram?
This looks interesting.

Used
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Dreams in the Witch House
for a decode on the book cipher.

I managed to get the following:

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1, 141, 1,2 = shook = SH
2, 77, 2 = last = A
4, 107, 6 = unpeopled = P
7, 34, 2 = direction = I
8, 27, 12 = mathematical = L
11, 106, 5 = vampire = I
15, 7, 4 = vortices = T
19, 134, 4 = space = C
18, 38, 1-4 = fourth-dimensional = FOUR
40, 73, 2-5 = slippery-looking = LIPP
7, 6, 3,4 = size = ZE
5, 119, 1,2 = room = RO


So -
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SHAPILITCFOURLIPPZERO
. What on earth does that mean?

Obviously the numbers
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four
and
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zero
feature, so they could be taken out?
The rest of the letters could be an anagram?
You can form 'Phillips' with them, which is suggestive given the HP Lovecraft theme, but we are left with
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A P I T C FOUR ZERO
.

I'm afraid I don't know Lovecraft very well - anyone help?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:33 am
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Elethamei
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 		Spoiler tags, Iris, spoiler tags!
But anyhow, I got pretty much the same. What to think of it? I don't know. I do think it's a twitter account because of the obvious hint, so I'll try to find it.
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Nashman88
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 		Sorry - still learning the rules! Will edit in a short while.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:48 am
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Elethamei
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 		Oh, shoot, I didn't mean to sound so harsh. Should've used emoticons Razz
But, yeah, when you solve a puzzle, it's usually put in spoiler tags so others can try to solve it on their own.
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Tenshi Akui
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 		Well I found something that may be it.

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There is a Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties AKA (ATCP) found in an article here http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107020825&ss=exc Also it is mentioned page 7 of this Pdf http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199697687.pdf

Now it may be nothing, but considering Lovecraft wrote one of the great Antarctic stories, At the Mountains of Madness, it may be something.


But how that helps who knows.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:22 am
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Amelić
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 		Yeah i pretty much got what everyone else did, i am under the impression we are looking for a twitter too, what with the twitter stamp on the images..

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AITC4P0

PHILLIPSAITC4P0

SHAPILITC4LIPP0

tried all the variations and still coming up blank


also

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http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/registration/decision_PC-014921_17-Dec-08.pdf talks about AITC and 40... its a type of pesticide


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Arcas
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 		Although incomplete and probably going down the wrong track, I found

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If you ROT "lipp", it translates to "hell". Add that to "zero" and you get hello (kinda).

If you ROT "itc" you get "ten". Add that to "four" and you get 10-4.

Using the left over letters, in order, you can also ROT "fun" and "had".

Making the whole thing say "fun had 10-4 hello".


Which is a very unlikely solution.

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arthurdent11389
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 		the letters also anagram to:

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Zipper for hula politics


Rolling Eyes

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:58 pm
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Tenshi Akui
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arthurdent11389 wrote:
the letters also anagram to:

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Zipper for hula politics


Rolling Eyes


LOL

Nice ot know i"m not the only one getting some weird anagrams LOL
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einax171
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 		I found this comment on the youtube video that you linked.

Quote:
Jeremy Nigellus 2 days ago
What a fascinating video Mr. Tonamel. Did you make it yourself? #SHAPILITC4LIPP0


That doesn't sound right.

The hashtag code corresponds to the deciphered code Nashman88 posted, with only a slight difference. Logic dictates that this 'Jeremy Nigellus' person is not Nashman88, nor anyone following this thread. Looking at the profile of this person, the account was made on 1 August. Two days after this was posted.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:44 am
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danteIL
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 		Well searching Twitter for #SHAPILITC4LIPP0

leads to:

https://twitter.com/shapeLITE480

and

Quote:
Were you looking for #SHAPILITC4LIPP0? Now you know the story can always change. Talk to you Monday morning at 8 AM.


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Tonamel
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einax171 wrote:
Logic dictates that this 'Jeremy Nigellus' person is not Nashman88, nor anyone following this thread. Looking at the profile of this person, the account was made on 1 August. Two days after this was posted.


Well it's somebody following this thread. That's an unlisted video, and the only place it's linked from is here.

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Tenshi Akui
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 		It could be the PM dropping a clue because we hit a wall and he didnt want it to die before it started?

That's about the only thing I can think of. Though I wonder if we just missed something in the clue and they ran with it, or if they chose to make it hard.
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