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[NEW ARG] Help me with this trail...
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spies
Boot


Joined: 01 Aug 2004
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Location: Arkansas

 		[NEW ARG] Help me with this trail...
This is the trailhead for an ARG my friend has set up. Play along with us or help me get past the sticky parts...

http://www.crackerbox.net/begins.htm


The trailhead was hidden in a message posted on the arkansasrockers.com messageboard.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:58 pm
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GunslingerGulp
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 		Apparently it says:

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"Users I can't read" in the text. I don't know about the rest, maybe something about the radio

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 4:29 pm
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Boot


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 		i got that...

here is the next step...

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/icantread



where there are three coded messages.
i think i have the first one.

the second looks like it may be a transpositional, which would fit well with the trailhead page's message.

the third at first looked like a vigenere, but its not. any ideas??[/spoiler]

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:15 pm
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Boot


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 		figured id go ahead and post the text of the codes here to save you the trouble....

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xgm mo'tt. kxgfg'n dggs naug hgcfq nkwii xoeegscsl tokgtm. c'uvsak nwfg C'tt dg odtg ka hfckg uwvx uafg. (Sak kxok C grgf qcq!) Vxoftakkg katq ug goft cgf kxok nxg kxcsyn kxgfg'n o lxank af naugkxcsl, osq kxol ck'n lasso yctt wn. C'u haffcgq. C guctgq os gjegfk odawk kxcn, osq xg katq ug ka hokvx awk iaf egaetg hxa hosk ka xwfk wn, na C'u lacsl ka nkom cs ngvfg uafg. C la ka xgf xawng kauaffah oikgfsaas. C'tt tgk maw lwmn ysah hxok xoeegsn.


Oiwwc Altd wz e dtawpp nwwlpc Wt rze gbvp hvhx ess kilw wz Xsp ylchzfk md tb alp ecw ppehlv

ZR TKM RRVZEQ GRGIW TKIG YVTAUIGKU XHH LRICERDBVUE SF WPR
OEHESMAJVRCH WS ZYI UQQGKU WTDBRY WVOP BUK TSMSTRZZSN RN GNRX AFB
VT KLE RZQOEETLWA UW SUU EEOKXEQ KBTJXIWCGOFR, TKM TXVET PQAJJ SF
DURXZGA ZMEK SINW CCUE XHH AGAUC OI BUK GVIQKVVCIS RN TUMIRQURTK
XHDB JKII EVARTKMAO BB ZYI PUMFKIZAWQBT FJ TKM YOSIRWQRY NLIFP
UGU FEHV JUE ET JZRGK GOVB NTU AIWP UKISIF TNHFVS DVQ YRGRLNVIVW.
TKMVX JXUGQRY NIRH KBTUYCWMQ OE ZIHE BL KLE LUCKIJEFBVUEW TKIG
KOTEUQRTTI HDL QKMILRXRJ ZR TKM TUMIRQURTK SF WPR IFRFHLRXRXIRV,
NTU XHHG JKII, TKMEKWSRH, XEGTXIFIY GEH TKWEULKH.



PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:17 pm
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Phaedra
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 		Hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun here, but I'm bored.

Literally:

HEY YALL THERES BEEN SOME WEIRD STUFF HAPPENING LATELY IMCNOT SURE ILL BE ABLE TO WRITE MUCH MORE NOT THAT I EVER DID CHARLOTTE TOLD ME EARL IER THAT SHE THINKS THERES A GHOST OR SOMETHING AND THAG ITS GONNA KILL US IM WORRIED I EMILED AN EXPERT ABOUT THIS AND HE TOLD ME TO WATCH OUT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HURT US SO IM GOING TO STAY IN SECRE MORE I GO TO HER HOUSE TOMORROW AFTERNOON ILL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT HAPPENS

Cleaned up and with mistakes corrected:

HEY Y'ALL. THERE'S BEEN SOME WEIRD STUFF HAPPENING LATELY. I'M NOT SURE I'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE MUCH MORE (NOT THAT I EVER DID!). CHARLOTTE TOLD ME EARLIER THAT SHE THINKS THERE'S A GHOST OR SOMETHING AND THAT IT'S GONNA KILL US. I'M WORRIED. I EMAILED AN EXPERT ABOUT THIS AND HE TOLD ME TO WATCH OUT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HURT US SO I'M GOING TO STAY IN SECRET. MORE I GO (?) TO HER HOUSE TOMORROW AFTERNOON. I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.

Oh, look, there's more. Oh well, someone else can do the rest.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:37 pm
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GunslingerGulp
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 		Great. Could you tell us how did u solve it?


Thanks Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:42 pm
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Boot


Joined: 01 Aug 2004
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 		yeah that first part is a simple substitution cipher.

im still working on the second.

i just solved the third. i was wrong about it....

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it is a vigenere. and i feel dumb because i took the long way around and solved for the key with spaces between repeating letters and everything and ended up smakcing myself on the head as the letters of the key became clear....

"reading"

that was the subject on the livejournal page over the text. duh!

anyway it says:

IN THE ELEVENYEARS THAT SEPARATED THE DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE United States FROM THE COMPLETION OF THAT
ACT IN THE ORDINATION OF OUR WRITTEN CONSTITUTION THE GREAT
MINDS OF AMERICA WERE BENT UPON THE STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT THAT WERE ESSENTIAL TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE
LIBERTIES WHICH HAD BEEN WON AT GREAT COST AND WITH HEROIC LABORS AND SACRIFICES THEIR STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED IN VIEW OF
THE IMPERFECTIONS THAT EXPERIENCE HAD DEVELOPED IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONFEDERATION AND THEY WERE THEREFORE PRACTICAL AND THOROUGH



so now where do i go? i guess i need to solve the middle text.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:54 pm
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InSoM
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 		Second Solve

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vigenere again key 'hello'

gives us

'Hello This is a simple cipher Im not sure what the deal is The keyword is in the top letter'

letters at top of page kljs;lkjldkj


oh..... and Hi.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:47 pm
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Boot


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 		so what the heck do we do now???

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:20 pm
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Boot


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 		the top letter could refer to the letters in the page title, but it probably refers to the "letter" in the top post, about the ghost.

and even if i was to acertain what the key word is, how would i use it here? another username perhaps?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:39 pm
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InSoM
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 		<shrugs>
I'm new to all this and, to be honest, dunno whether I'm ever gonna get the hang of it....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:42 pm
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guypsons
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 		don't worry douwanna, you already posted your first solve so that's one step ahead of me! i think you'll do just fine Smile

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GunslingerGulp
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 		The text about the Declaration of Independence seems out of place, maybe the "top letter" has something to do with the Declaration of Independence, you know, as a letter
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 		The Declaration of Independence snippet is from the Hon. John T. Morgan's introduction to Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1831).

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InSoM
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 		When viewing comments for second code, last comment is in code also....
perhaps the keyword is to be used for this?

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