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Amalie
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Is it possible that Dennis made everyone forget about him on purpose? Do we have any other ways of contacting him? I tried messaging him on the website, but haven't heard back.

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njberry
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Keith just told me that no one called dennis ever worked there. And dennis is no longer on the members page

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Amalie
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Who's Charlie? That's the user folder yesterday's cat .zip file was in. Maybe someone who has a good relationship with Christian could ask him about it?

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njberry
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guys there was a cat file uploaded for a min or so before it was deleted and replaced with a cat photo. ive got the file here

the 3rd email translates to

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SOMEONE HAS FOUND ME OUT I HAKE NO CHOICE BUT TO TRY AND LET THEM IN ON THE DEAL BUT THERE S GOOD NEWS I FOUND A FILE RELATING TO B DRUG CHRISTIAN


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Amalie
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njberry wrote:
guys there was a cat file uploaded for a min or so before it was deleted and replaced with a cat photo. ive got the file here

the 3rd email translates to

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
SOMEONE HAS FOUND ME OUT I HAKE NO CHOICE BUT TO TRY AND LET THEM IN ON THE DEAL BUT THERE S GOOD NEWS I FOUND A FILE RELATING TO B DRUG CHRISTIAN


Ooh, maybe we'll be rich too. Very Happy

Do you think it's significant that the cat picture that replaced this message looks the same as cats_cats_11.jpg?

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njberry
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Could very well be somthing in that photo it may be time for a closer look


Edit: never mind the photo just contains the 3emails and the pdf file

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Amalie
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njberry wrote:
Could very well be somthing in that photo it may be time for a closer look


Edit: never mind the photo just contains the 3emails and the pdf file


How did you figure that out, if you don't mind me asking? Just trying to learn.

And is there a way to compare the two images? Visually, I mean?

Edit: Is the PDF also sort of messed up for everyone else?
And did we ever figure out Keith's email password? According to this document, his email address is cuteykeith11SPLATmail.com


Sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere else in the thread. I searched through it and didn't see it anywhere, but this forum has been a bit wonky for me lately. Confused

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njberry
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i dont mind you asking, i looked at the two photos and noticed one was alot bigger than the other. so (getting the idea from RingmasterJ5 someone in this thread, sorry cant remeber who ) i tryed opening it as if it was a .zip file, and it was Smile

and yeah the pdf file is messed up on my end too, so i take it that its ment to be like that

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Amalie
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njberry wrote:
i dont mind you asking, i looked at the two photos and noticed one was alot bigger than the other. so (getting the idea from someone in this thread, sorry cant remeber who) i tryed opening it as if it was a .zip file, and it was Smile

and yeah the pdf file is messed up on my end too, so i take it that its ment to be like that


Ahh, cool. Thanks! Smile

For Keith's email password, so far I've tried (with no luck):
giraffe
alligator
beatles
trisphere
keith
drugs

EDIT: I also found a (deleted) document with song lyrics I hadn't seen before:
Quote:
Thus, thou desires to enjoy thyself with sorcery?
Young male, it would be best if thee is aware of what thee is losing balance as a result of,
Infant, are you willing to take the risks involved in this activity?
As I am moving towards thee in the manner of a lightless equine


Translates to:
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Katy Perry's "Dark Horse":
So you wanna play with magic
Boy, you should know what you're falling for
Baby do you dare to do this?
Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse



EDIT 2: I just opened letter.pdf in Photoshop, and the weirdness is caused by different layers. But they can all be layered over the full document with no discrepancies, so I'm not really sure how the weird format is relevant yet.

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RingmasterJ5
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The Dark Horse one was mine, as it was in the "Jay" folder. I didn't write it myself, though, Emily did.

An AIM account for "trisphere_jay" was apparently made by them, but when I couldn't get into it using the assigned password of my "favorite musical artist"(as in, all variations of katyperry I could think of) and brought it up with them, they responded by wiping all mentions of AIM from the board.

Also, pretty much every time a cat picture is modified, you can be sure something's in it.

Edit: What I think might be the largest cat pic so far(2.6 MB) was just uploaded, but it's not a .zip.

Second edit: It's the same file as before, just changed to a .rar instead. Strange.

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PiFace314
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Got an email back from Emily, since I asked her who made the educational video thing:

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"Christian made that. It's quite good."

I'm thinking Christian is most DEFINITELY involved with Dennis's disappearance in some way.

In terms of passwords, have we tried THEbeatles? As well as any/all of the musicians that have been mentioned. Or, for irony points, hellen?


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Billy Brown
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PiFace314 wrote:
Got an email back from Emily, since I asked her who made the educational video thing:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"Christian made that. It's quite good."


Yeah, I had a similar message from Emily on that subject. Creepy stuff.

I also heard from Samantha:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"I actually replaced Hellen as secretary. All I know is Keith wasn't too happy about her disappearance."


Good find on the PDF. The email address is obviously a big find but I wonder if there's anything else useful in there? Seems like a lot of trouble for the PM to go to in terms of playing with the layers of the file if all we need is right at the top of the document.

I'll try and draw up a list of possible passwords in a bit. Could be a bit of a laborious task trying them all with all possible variants (all lower case, sentence case, spaces or no spaces, etc.)!

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Billy Brown
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Something's just occurred to me about the first two sets of lyrics placed in Keith's folder. Blackbird by The Beatles was on the album 'The Beatles', popularly known as The White Album on account of its all-white sleeve.

Rockhard in a Funky Place was on The Black Album, a limited release with cover art that was plain black:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Album_(Prince_album)

That seems too neat to be a coincidence. Not sure of the significance (if there is any) but it's something else to think about.

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PiFace314
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OK, they've definitely been wiped. I asked Emily who made the training video, and she said Christian. So I went and emailed the guy, and got this response:

""Oh well hmm. I took the film motion picture clip video and put it into the computer machine. Then I did some things on the computer machine and then the video can play from the internet machine."

EDIT: IMPORTANT AS HECK!

Those documents in Keith's file? DEFINITELY hints to his password! I asked him for advice about how to make a password secure.

Quote:
"Oh, of course! You need a password that's really hard to guess but possible for you to remember if you forget it. May I suggest making some hint documents on your computer? That way, if you forget your password, you can retrieve it by completing a little puzzle."


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Billy Brown
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PiFace314 wrote:
Those documents in Keith's file? DEFINITELY hints to his password! I asked him for advice about how to make a password secure.


Excellent work PiFace! Nicely done. I'll take another look

I've had a coded message from Christian after reassuring him that we can help him with his predicament. It's supposed to point to another image on imgur but I think there's a mistake in there as the URL is not found. I've sent a coded message back in the same style to ask for clarification.

Samantha has also just contacted me about helping organise Keith's birthday and she mentions the date. I think this could be a way for us to get into his emails by brute force as the security question on the email account asks for date of birth to get to the next step and presumably change the password.

I'd rather not go down that route unless we get completely stumped (particularly in light of your post, PiFace) so I'll keep that back as plan B for now, particularly as I could be wrong about this and I don't want to lock the PM out of the account if so! Would welcome input on this though as it seems unlikely that this information would be shared otherwise.

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