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vidstudent
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 		Got an e-mail today.
The following arrived in my e-mail account for the game:

Quote:
From: vis@chaoseed.com
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: go back
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:18 -0800
169151156155224159141224
169151156155224159141224
eatit
rabbitroads
bunnytrails
burrows
422141951422551651151961
378
387
837
873
738
783
poe
lovecraft
lovecraft
poe
raven
poe
poe
lovecraft
raven
demon
chaos
adobe
lovecraft
lovecraft
poe
raven
noel
goodwill
dog
peaceonearth
poe
peaceonearth
goodwilltomen
wrong
raven
nevermore
lovecraft
fractal
noel
drinkme
eatme
thepath
archives
poe
volume
chamber
lovecraft
lenore
pallas
lucas
whereswaldo
emerson
waldo
poe
th'ocean
wrongway
power
archives
poe
bonnie
over
lovecraft
raven



It appears to be a list of all the different words I've tried in the text box to this point.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:25 pm
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 		With the directions to "go back".......maybe he wants you to try them again?

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The picture in daemon0.png is the center of a Magic the Gathering card called "Door to nothingness": http://www.wizards.com/magic/autocard.asp?name=Door[To[Nothingness


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 		Which, when coupled with http://daemon.chaoseed.com/door_to.php

Makes sense.....

I tried "nothingness" and "_nothingness" and got ......well.....nothingness.

Entering "nothingness" in the box gets you to daemon0.png, where other wrong answers takeyou to notugg.htm

I've been staring at and trying different things on those # strings far longer than I care to admit.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:04 pm
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vidstudent wrote:
Also, wrong answers in door_to.php lead to http://daemon.chaoseed.com/notugg.htm - a simple photo, a couple of text strings, and a guy wearing Wrong-Way from Q-Bert on his chest.


The text strings on this "Wrong Way" indicator page ROT to:

vwbkwqtgmqbpmz
notcoilyeither

nwttwebpmbziqt
followthetrail

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:13 pm
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 		This was a total guess, and I may have veered off somewhere, but after looking at "Wrong-Way" from Qbert and the text "NotCoilyEither" - Coily being another Qbert character - I entered qbert and went here:

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http://daemon.chaoseed.com/pollux.htm

Page Name - Pollux (There is a Pollux cipher)
Page Title - Lune (Moon in French)
Pic Title - counts
img src= tsuki0.png (Moon in Japanese)

SC contains:

epiblwmabpqavcujmzpmzmumiv?
(what does this number here mean? )

epiblwmaqbtwwstqsm?
(what does it look like? )

apmqacxambgwcpidmvwbjzwsmvpmzkwlm...awqxcbipqvbqvpmzmnwzgwc
(she is upset you have not broken her code...so i put a hint in here for you)


French Text:
C'était une réponse vachement omoshiroie.
Hélas, c'était chigaue aussi.
Anata t'es engagé dans une impasse.
Ima wa, tu es dans mon domaine.
J'aime taquiner. (Ou tormenter? Eh, mô.)
Surtout les énigmejin.
J'aime faire déborder la frustration.
Les Japonais croient qu'ils sont un gens mouillé.
Ils veulent dire "sensible".
Ils croient que différent est erroné.
Et tu?

Near Translation:
It was an answer bloody omoshiroie.
Alas, it was chigaue too.
Anata are at an impasse.
Ima wa, you are in my domain.
I like to tease. (Or tormenter? Eh, mô.)
Especially the enigma.
I like to make overflow frustration.
The Japanese believe that they are moist people.
They want to say "sensitive".
They believe that different is erroneous.
And you?

Which as near as I can tell from the Japanese words means (the bold I dunno):

It was bloody funny answer
Alas, it was wrong too.
You are at an impasse
Now counter, you are in my domain.
I like to tease. (Or tormenter? Eh, mô.)
Especially the enigma.
I like to make overflow frustration.
The Japanese believe that they are moist people.
They want to say "sensitive".
They believe that different is erroneous.
And you?

Also as a side note (remember castor.htm?)

POLLUX (Beta Geminorum). In northern spring evenings, the "twin" stars Castor and Pollux of the constellation Gemini descend the northwestern sky looking like a pair of eyes staring down at the Earth

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 		Words that take you to a page titled "pollux", but still named door_to.php
Contains white
"not full yet"
text on black background which is a link back to login.
=======================
eatit


Words that take you to a page titled "on the path", but still named door_to.php
Contains white
"this is the rabbit road, the branch, the intersection. cross over the cell bars, cross the streams, over the river and through the woods."
text on black background as well as
"still hungry"
which is a link back to login.
=======================
rabbitroads
burrows
peaceonearth


Words that take you to nocigar.htm
With a pic of the proverbial Horseshoe and HandGrenade
And the Title - bzgioiqv (tryagain)
=======================
scorpion
strangelove
galaxy
star(s)


Words that take you to archives.htm
=======================
raven
poe
nevermore
volume
chamber


Words that take you to pollux.htm
=======================
bunnytrails
demon
chaos
Pollux
carrot
coily
qbert
goodwill
goodwilltomen
drinkme
power
hint
knock
twins
cheese
space
thirteen (13)
160


Words that take you to 4.htm
=======================
lovecraft
hpl
vis
wind
fire
wood
water
idunn


Words that take you to element0.htm
(with clicky to in8.htm)
=======================
rebirth


Words that take you to singles0.htm
=======================
ope


Words that take you to in8.htm
=======================
earth


Words that take you to gi0.htm
=======================
takethebait


Words that take you to a page titled "k bk", but still named door_to.php
Contains white
"qrv qru? "
text on black background.
=======================
wunder
cq


Words that take you to a page titled "vmmbzqpbaqzmjucvaqp (his number s thirteen)", but still named door_to.php
Contains white
"tu l'aitaku wa nai
shinjite
retrouve un autre chemin"
text on black background.
=======================
fare
river
ferryman
styx
charon

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 		I'm showing that the game is down?
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 		If you're talking about after you log in........it always looks like that for me, I just replace the end with castor.htm to get on my way.

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Caterpillar wrote:
In the SC on

http://daemon.chaoseed.com/castor.htm

<!-- gseehpmzm ... |clwvb PIPIPI -->

Rot18 to "ykwwzhere ... |udont HAHAHA


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
As I said above, it ROTs to: ykw wz here

And YKW Rots to: Amy

So: Amy Wz Here

(Amy probably being the "she" in "she is upset you have not broken her code" on pollux.html)


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Also the visSPLATchaoseed.com (return address of the email)
ROTs to boySPLATchaoseed.com

And on the login page it now says:
Unfortunately, DaemonWorks is down for mainten105118102106109117114101114ance.

Which decodes to: ivfjmurer

And ROT13 to: vis wz here (boy wz here)

although the "boy" may just be coincidence

Also in the SC on this page next to: xvxvbvyqbgugz (kiki oil dot htm)
Is: giguwzmpqvba (yay more hints)


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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
epiblwmabpqavcujmzpmzmumiv?
(what does this number here mean? )

What number where?
I see the 160.jpg right below

epiblwmaqbtwwstqsm?
(what does it look like? )

Can't tell ya as I don't know which number you be talking about! But if it's the 160, it looks like....well....a 160....or maybe an "a"?

apmqacxambgwcpidmvwbjzwsmvpmzkwlm...awqxcbipqvbqvpmzmnwzgwc
(she is upset you have not broken her code...so i put a hint in here for you)

Well I have yet to find it and am feeling mighty dense, unless of course it refers to the 160 and what it looks like, in that case.....I still feel dense.

I know there's a relationship between the number strings and ascii, at least I think there is, but have been trying countless ways of transmuting without luck. Anyone else?


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 		"What does it look like?" makes me think that (for the unsolved number strings) we are supposed to take the letter that closely resembles the number.

ie) 160 in ascii resembles an "a"

But all I could get for 169 151 156 155 224 159 141 224
Is _ulmafia or _inmafaa which hasn't gotten me anywhere yet.....

Or maybe "what does it look like" means literally.....?

160
lbo
LBO
ELBOW?

Omg........I'm crackin' up...

Although the 160 is definitely a clue....look at the instances of 160 in the string:

214 174 160 173 160 207 121 160 225 246 229 250 173 246 239 245 243 160 244 242 239 245 246 105 160 227 229 244 244 229 160 240 232 239 244 239 191 160 173 160 208 174

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 		Maybe try sub on it, I'm not getting anywhere...

214 174 160 173 160 207 121 160 225 246 229 250 173 246 239 245 243 160 244 242 239 245 246 105 160 227 229 244 244 229 160 240 232 239 244 239 191 160 173 160 208 174

160 or in the following case "Y" would most likely be "E"
239 or in this case "G" and 244 or in this case "K" ....possibly "A" and "T" - or vice versa

ZXYWYALYSJVIWJGFNYKEGFJTYDVKKVYHMGKGOYWYPX

105-1
121-1
160-8-E
173-3
174-2
191-1
207-1
208-1
214-1
225-1
227-1
229-3
232-1
239-4-A?
240-1
242-1
243-1
244-4-T?
245-2
246-3
250-1

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 		Still haven't figured out the numbers ........BUT:
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I was going through everything from top to bottom to see if we missed anything and found this update on the page you're taken to when you enter "peace on earth" (the one with the text about "over the river and through the woods" and the link back to the text box)

xczqbgwnmaamvkm
(purity of essence)


So went on a little google trip and the first hit brought me to this site:
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http://www.oscarjr.us/archives/000414.html

And lo and behold what do I see on this man's campaign sign?

Both "purity of essence" and "peace on earth".

"Strange...." thought I

This got me to thinking about acronyms and our good friend POE

[insert apologies to those who would have seen the connection between the two and found this an easy task, I personally have never heard of the connection, but apparantly many have - cuz it's out there]

Point of Entry?....seems logical given the whole "door" theme....but nope.

Process of Elimination??.........nada

A further strange note: The above site shows that it's titled (in the WHOIS as well) Oscar Jr. Was Here

Remember the "Amy Wz Here" and the "Vis Wz Here"......dunno if it's coincidence, but strange nonetheless.


Okay so where were we?
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Oh yeah.....the graffiti on the campaign sign, for it is indeedy graffiti, and comes from the bathroom wall behind escaped convicts, Hale and Evelle (John Goodman and William Forsythe) in the movie Raising Arizona.

When disecting this movie (and it's graffiti) one site states:

The most overriding and pervasive referencing in the Coen Brothers' films however, is to the work of Stanley Kubrick.


Anyway, a little more digging reveals:

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(and I admit I may have definitely gone over the river and through the woods to reach a conclusion that may have been wrought by a much more direct path - still it was fun)

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove:

In Dr. Strangelove, mad General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches an attack on the Soviet Union. The planes from his bomber wing can be recalled by a three-letter code, which he refuses to give up to Group Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers). Mandrake eventually figures out the code when he absentmindedly reads the now dead General's doodling on a pad. Repeatedly, Sellers sees the phrases "Purity of Essence" and "Peace on Earth." The code is one of the acronyms for these phrases, as it turns out

O.P.E.


So:
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Entering OPE in the textbox nets you this:

http://daemon.chaoseed.com/singles0.htm
Have You Seen This Girl?
Title - 1996
jill0.png (Jill? hmmmm....who's Jill?)

In the SC:
114101098105114116104 Smile
REBIRTH - and methinks the smiley is saying "here's a bone, nice easy numbers"


So:
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Entering "rebirth" nets you:
http://daemon.chaoseed.com/smiley.htm

Title Is- MWT

Contains a pic of a skull titled "Jan Termin" (Dutch?)

The alt tag for the pic is:
gwcvumbwombpmz
you'n'me together

There's also a text entry area that says "what's your pleasure, sir?"

Button Titled: eol (which is page title (MWT) ROTed the standard 18 we've been seeing)

SC:
<form name="jan termin" action="smile.php" method="post">
<textarea title="red snapper, very tasty" name="pleasure" rows=10 cols=40>
<!-- hair-raising! postpost -->


And:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Just for a quick response I put in "Hello" and pressed the button.

I was taken to:
http://daemon.chaoseed.com/smile.php

Title Is: Merci

Text on Page is: Thank you. Have a nice day Smile

Off to try some more
Very Happy

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 		Hmmmmm

Nearest I can figure is that Jan Termin is German for January Date.
Will we be seeing something full scale in January mebbe?

Haven't figured out who Jill is or what we're supposed to do there, seems strange to have a page like that and move on by just ROTing a bit of text in the SC.

No clue what Mr. Skull wants either......

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