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Katsurame
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Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Perpetual Motion
Weird PM, possible ARG? Destination: Open channel communication path
Requestor: Center Command initiated Pre-Communication (c/o SpaceBass - known and trusted associate)
Objective: Initial screening of personnel for research and development assignments
Communication:
Open channel communication recruiting senior level operatives to assist with research and development effort. Individual email contact required to initiate screening action. Respond below for consideration and to initiate secure comms link for further evaluation.
imgovyopm#jpy,so;/vp,
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that's what I got. Ideas?
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:38 am
Strings
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Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 334 Location: France
Did you respond?
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:41 am
Crow - offline
Guest
Who was it from?
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:48 am
Katsurame
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Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Perpetual Motion
Yeah, I replied, it was from a user on this forum named SpaceBass.
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:49 am
Ehsan
Entrenched
Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992
You need to decode the characters in the message to get the address you need to respond too. I also don't think it should be solved in public seeing that they are looking for candidates who can solve it on their own.
Just think about it for a bit.. especially look at the symbols. It's very straightforward.
Now why didn't I get one
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:33 am
Katsurame
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Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Perpetual Motion
okay, I think I solved it, and it makes sense, but I got a mailer daemon reply saying that it didn't exist. Willl work on it more.
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:49 am
AliasNode00
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Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 34
Spoiler / hint:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Try retyping the weird message string imgovyopm#jpy,so;/vp, but shift your hands one position to the left on your qwerty keyboard.
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:50 am
Katsurame
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Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Perpetual Motion
yeah, I know, I already figured it out. I send it and it says that the account is unavailable. Maybe a contest that I replied to too late?
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:58 am
jamesi
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 2195 Location: Canadia
I don't know of any Unfiction-sponsored contests. And, seeing as how UF is strictly out-of-game, and this seems like something that might be ingame, i'm gonna lock this down for the time being, until I can get confirmation on a couple of things.
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:03 pm
rowan
Unfictologist
Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966
I've received confirmation that this was, in fact, from SpaceBass
Quote:
<SpaceBass> it was me, it wasn't in game, but it was gamey
<SpaceBass> and that's about all i have to say about that
So now I must apologize to Mantis for thinking he was smoking something when he actually wasn't. Sorry about that. Hope ya don't hold it against me.
And since this was a real message, I don't see a reason to keep this locked anymore. (Hope that's okay jamesi - if not just yell at me and lock it again.)
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:13 pm
GuyP
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Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 584 Location: London, UK
FYI: The email address does work.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:51 pm
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