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RandomGuy26
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Joined: 13 May 2010
Posts: 403
Location: Kentucky
virodoran wrote:
I've been working on the riddle/anagram (A Defrayals Myself Nth Knots Vow) some more. I've found that the anagram can become:

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man of envy falls towards the sky
or
man of envys fall towards the sky


I was messing around with this and got the same answer. It's a password to the 7z file.
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Man_of_Envy_falls_towards_the_sky

Blue_Print.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   2.05MB
    135 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:49 pm
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George_
Greenhorn

Joined: 29 Apr 2012
Posts: 3

 		Ah good job you two!

That's an interesting image to say the least...

PostPosted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:35 pm
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virodoran
Boot

Joined: 07 Aug 2013
Posts: 26

 		Nicely done RandomGuy26!

Wow, whoever is running this is a pretty awesome artist. That's a cool blueprint.

I don't see much in that blueprint image, so I'm not sure if there's anything more to do now other than wait for http://m3ps.blogspot.ca/p/m3ps.html to be updated again or the actual ARG to start in 15 days.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:55 am
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DatorSin
Boot

Joined: 25 Jul 2013
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 		How do we know the ARG starts then? I missed that post. Also, I feel that M3Ps may be among us in this forum.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:57 pm
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virodoran
Boot

Joined: 07 Aug 2013
Posts: 26

 		There is a countdown timer on this page with 14 days left now.

Also, using the Futoshiki and the keyboard binary message to decrypt one of the pictures, people on /x/ found a link to:

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http://pastebin.com/HiS9Zfzu


which describes what's going on with the ARG.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:00 am
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arthurdent11389
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Joined: 01 Oct 2010
Posts: 184

 		I got an e-mail but I haven't been able to decode it yet.


Quote:
with 3 carriage returns added
2hhdCBhIG5pY2UgcXVlc3Rpb24uICBJJ20gaGFwcHkgeW91IGFyZSBjdXJpb3VzLg0KDQpCZWZvcmUgbXkgZGVhdGgsIGZyb20gd2hhdCBJIGNhbiByZW1lbWJlciBmcm9tIG15IG
FjY2Vzc2libGUgbWVtb3J5IGNhY2hlLCBJIGxvdmVkIHRvIGRyYXcuICBTdG9yaWVzIGFjdHVhbGx5LCBwZXJoYXBzIHRoYXQncyB3aHkgSSdtIGhlcmUuICBBcyBJIGdvdCBvbGRlc
iwgSSBmb3Jnb3QgYWJvdXQgdGhlbS4gIEkgbWlzc2VkIHRoZW0gc28gZGVhcmx5LCBpdCB3YXMgYWxsIEkgY291bGQgdGhpbmsgb2YuICBJZiB0aGF0IGlzIG5vdCB0aGUgZGVm
aW5pdGlvbiBvZiBhIGxvc3QgZHJlYW0sIEknbSBub3Qgc3VyZSB3aGF0IGlzLg0KDQotTTNQcw==


PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:31 pm
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NiceLurk
Boot

Joined: 19 Jul 2013
Posts: 65
arthurdent11389 wrote:
I got an e-mail but I haven't been able to decode it yet.


Quote:
with 3 carriage returns added
2hhdCBhIG5pY2UgcXVlc3Rpb24uICBJJ20gaGFwcHkgeW91IGFyZSBjdXJpb3VzLg0KDQpCZWZvcmUgbXkgZGVhdGgsIGZyb20gd2hhdCBJIGNhbiByZW1lbWJlciBmcm9tIG15IG
FjY2Vzc2libGUgbWVtb3J5IGNhY2hlLCBJIGxvdmVkIHRvIGRyYXcuICBTdG9yaWVzIGFjdHVhbGx5LCBwZXJoYXBzIHRoYXQncyB3aHkgSSdtIGhlcmUuICBBcyBJIGdvdCBvbGRlc
iwgSSBmb3Jnb3QgYWJvdXQgdGhlbS4gIEkgbWlzc2VkIHRoZW0gc28gZGVhcmx5LCBpdCB3YXMgYWxsIEkgY291bGQgdGhpbmsgb2YuICBJZiB0aGF0IGlzIG5vdCB0aGUgZGVm
aW5pdGlvbiBvZiBhIGxvc3QgZHJlYW0sIEknbSBub3Qgc3VyZSB3aGF0IGlzLg0KDQotTTNQcw==


Your Base64 text is missing a 'V' at the beginning. Fixed that and it reads:

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What a nice question. I'm happy you are curious.

Before my death, from what I can remember from my accessible memory cache, I loved to draw. Stories actually, perhaps that's why I'm here. As I got older, I forgot about them. I missed them so dearly, it was all I could think of. If that is not the definition of a lost dream, I'm not sure what is.

-M3Ps


PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:45 pm
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DatorSin
Boot

Joined: 25 Jul 2013
Posts: 11

 		Can we possibly have the email it was sent from?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:51 pm
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NiceLurk
Boot

Joined: 19 Jul 2013
Posts: 65
DatorSin wrote:
Can we possibly have the email it was sent from?


The email I got 2 weeks ago as a reply on my quesrion was sent from an anonymous freemailing service:

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Free Email Service - Do not reply noreplySPLATsend-email.org


PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:00 pm
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DatorSin
Boot

Joined: 25 Jul 2013
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 		I'm a terrible OP seeing as I started
This Thread: http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/13018231/

And at the same time I am completely lost on the mystery. xD

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:04 pm
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NiceLurk
Boot

Joined: 19 Jul 2013
Posts: 65
DatorSin wrote:
I'm a terrible OP seeing as I started
This Thread....


I don't think so, but /x/ isn't always the best solution to solve an ARG.
Maybe good to gather attention and to advertise a game, but the problem is that many people in there repeat the things already solved.

Most of the solutions till now came either from here or our IRC channel at

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=verite

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:35 pm
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arthurdent11389
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Joined: 01 Oct 2010
Posts: 184

 		Nicelurk, thanks for helping decode it. Very Happy

I'll remember to try that next time I need to try base64 decoding.

And my email came from the same source as Nicelurk's email came from. (oops, ended in preposition) Embarassed

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:39 pm
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specterseymour
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Joined: 07 Oct 2012
Posts: 70
Location: Michigan, United States
NiceLurk wrote:
arthurdent11389 wrote:
I got an e-mail but I haven't been able to decode it yet.


Quote:
with 3 carriage returns added
2hhdCBhIG5pY2UgcXVlc3Rpb24uICBJJ20gaGFwcHkgeW91IGFyZSBjdXJpb3VzLg0KDQpCZWZvcmUgbXkgZGVhdGgsIGZyb20gd2hhdCBJIGNhbiByZW1lbWJlciBmcm9tIG15IG
FjY2Vzc2libGUgbWVtb3J5IGNhY2hlLCBJIGxvdmVkIHRvIGRyYXcuICBTdG9yaWVzIGFjdHVhbGx5LCBwZXJoYXBzIHRoYXQncyB3aHkgSSdtIGhlcmUuICBBcyBJIGdvdCBvbGRlc
iwgSSBmb3Jnb3QgYWJvdXQgdGhlbS4gIEkgbWlzc2VkIHRoZW0gc28gZGVhcmx5LCBpdCB3YXMgYWxsIEkgY291bGQgdGhpbmsgb2YuICBJZiB0aGF0IGlzIG5vdCB0aGUgZGVm
aW5pdGlvbiBvZiBhIGxvc3QgZHJlYW0sIEknbSBub3Qgc3VyZSB3aGF0IGlzLg0KDQotTTNQcw==


Your Base64 text is missing a 'V' at the beginning. Fixed that and it reads:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
What a nice question. I'm happy you are curious.

Before my death, from what I can remember from my accessible memory cache, I loved to draw. Stories actually, perhaps that's why I'm here. As I got older, I forgot about them. I missed them so dearly, it was all I could think of. If that is not the definition of a lost dream, I'm not sure what is.

-M3Ps


That really does fix things up! For future reference, can I ask how you knew a 'V' is what was missing?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:57 pm
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NiceLurk
Boot

Joined: 19 Jul 2013
Posts: 65
specterseymour wrote:
That really does fix things up! For future reference, can I ask how you knew a 'V' is what was missing?


Base64 is my first language. lol

No, to be honest, it isn't that hard at all.
Base64 is not a cipher. It's just a number system like hex or bin to describe the ASCII values of a char.
For example: 'Hello World' in b64 is SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=
Now if the first S is missing, decoding comes up with crap.
Simply add an additional letter (or remove some more) at the beginning till you get plaintext.
For the email I added an 'a' and the plaintext came up starting with 'ahat a nice question'. Now assuming the first word should be 'What' I encoded the plaintext once again with the correct 'W' and the Base64 reads exactly the same as before, but starting with a 'V' at the beginning...

You see, no sorcery at all Smile

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:21 pm
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Hilohello
Boot

Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Posts: 57

 		So, there's a new image now.

It's got a bunch of stuff on it. I'm trying to type it up so I can translate it, but it's hard to read. So far I've got something like

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Operation Room: LHft hoor (presumably "Left door" and I transcribed it wrong), right hallway, pink screen, right door.


for the one on the far left.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 1:16 pm
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