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[mmdoogie]

There is a new code on the site...

33:01:45:66:23:22;1010:78;01:89:1011:45:99:23;
56:23:1213;910:23:12:78:77:22;
01:1010:1010:23:67:88:1010;45:77;
1010:44:99:23:23;22:01:1213:910;

This is all on one line in the site

--mrm

[AceMike]

hum....its getting more complex
we still have the "01"'s and the 4 digit numbers
still cant be gps.....maybe the new code and the old code are connected some how

[RI_Barnica]

Place all numbers from second message in numerical order. Assign letters in alphabetical order, ommitting B, J, V, W, X, Z which do not appear in message. This gives us

GAILED TO AQUIRE KEY SECOND ATTEMPT IN THREE DAYS.

I assume it should be FAILED.

So what do we do now?
R. I. Barnica?

[RI_Barnica]

Further

[arcanadei]

I am missing the pattern here. Lots of letters are incremented by 1 in alpha order, then others aren't. Most are repeated several times so it looks like it is a definite sub cypher with a few mult possibilities thrown in and a typo or two. Nice work Ribarnica! Here's the listing of them so far.

[Kender]

The pattern is easy.

For two digit nrs: Add the first and second digit.
For three digit nrs: add the firt digit to the last two digits.
For four digit nrs: add the first two digits to the second two digits.
The resulting nr is the nr of the letter in the alphabet.

so 1112 becomes 11 + 12 = 23 = w
and 910 becomes 9 + 10 = 19 = s
and 44 becoms 4 + 4 = 8 = h

like this:

[RI_Barnica]

Wow! That is clever! I did a more brute force approach using frequencies of letters (overal, initial, final, and paired) matched with (an apparently mistaken) and then filled in alphabetically from there. Oh well, got me far enough to suggest the tru solution, so I guess that's something!

[ReverbAndWhiskey]

Pure SPEC at this point, but do you think someone at the historical Society could be passing messages to another accomplice?

Perhaps they are referring to the book Marcus was working on?

[RungeKutta]

[Kender]

I think it very likely they are talking about the book Marcus was studying.
The first message showed up when we learned from andrews journal about the book. wh have found the key
The second message appeared after they raided marcus' study. failed to acquire key second attempt in three days

My conclusion is that they will try to steal the book again next saturday!

[ReverbAndWhiskey]

More spec here:


A group of people have the stolen books and are trying to perfrom some sort of ceremony from them. This is what led to the animal mutilations. It didn't work, and then they discovered that Marcus might have the book that holds the KEY to their plans. At that point they kidnapped Marcus trying to get information about the book, and when he did not talk, they tried to steal it from the house.

They are passing messages using the historical Society website.

[Kazic]

Good spec. This implicates the hostorical society then? What about the pastor of the church?

[Kender]

The numbers have gone.
Probably sometime in the evening of the 7th...

[SaintConfused]

Anyone know why the word "Ducky" is there when you open the building picture in Notepad?
Also, (and let me stress that I know very little about programming) does the string of "2" mean anything when you do the same for the books picture?

[L.Boomer]

Ducky tag