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[Matrix-related ARG trailhead] Found... SOMETHING...
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Seej
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Mr. Anderson, this little site will be shut down. Ashio is safe with us. However, he is not safe with you. Attempt to bring him back and you will be terminated. I doubt your little friends can even track his location. Never bring strangers into any important conflicts, Mr. Anderson.

I will see if any of you are worthy enough to be allowed classified information. Tell no one, and no harm will come to you. We have ways of knowing. The key to this is David's City.

Hn mbt koa qmoq spwf, xwi'ed aanqbse spoa vm huncuus. Manht Ofgqc nfiwa hn mbt eoas mjrm i avbzcfbwdvb kvnmks be asrhvu uhu otzqb. Jd'tz gqirr xwi uhu of kwbt za kr fmh fnus... vmncelihvnv... oonch "Qzdwq'r Kwgx."


Ooooh - a ciphertext! Something for me to look at while I'm waiting (still) for PPC. No, it's not ROTed. Will look in more detail a bit later today.....

As for the rest of it, it seems like we need to decrypt before the agents will play with us. And isn't 'David's City' Bethlehem? As in the carol:
Quote:
Once in Royal David's City
Stood a lowly cattle shed.
Where a mother laid her baby,
In a manger for his bed.

etc.


Perhaps Bethlehem is an encryption key...

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:39 am
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enaxor
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 		[quote="Seej"]New post:
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Mr. Anderson, this little site will be shut down. Ashio is safe with us. However, he is not safe with you. Attempt to bring him back and you will be terminated. I doubt your little friends can even track his location. Never bring strangers into any important conflicts, Mr. Anderson.

I will see if any of you are worthy enough to be allowed classified information. Tell no one, and no harm will come to you. We have ways of knowing. The key to this is David's City.

Hn mbt koa qmoq spwf, xwi'ed aanqbse spoa vm huncuus. Manht Ofgqc nfiwa hn mbt eoas mjrm i avbzcfbwdvb kvnmks be asrhvu uhu otzqb. Jd'tz gqirr xwi uhu of kwbt za kr fmh fnus... vmncelihvnv... oonch "Qzdwq'r Kwgx."


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
vigenere Key is zion
if you can read this, you're smarter than we thought. email ashio again if you want even a microscopic chance of seeing him again. we'll trade you him as long as we get some... information... about "david's city

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:47 pm
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Seej
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 		Awww, you beat me to it (and I was so pleased when I broke that too Sad ). Guess I was wrong about Bethlehem too Embarassed

Anyway, email has gone.

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ashiomSPLATgmail.com


PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:21 pm
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Russell
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 		Lucky I didnt hit post reply with the solve as well as we would have had three identical posts! Razz

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:34 pm
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SarahKiddo
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 		Much of whats on Slumberil right now references a recent attack. This may indeed be old news, though. I haven't seen the site before playing DreamTheory

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SarahKiddo
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 		Thinking a lot about
ASHIO MISHI
Ok, so the name sounds Japanese or some such... but a google search pulls up ONE SITE and it does not refence either Ashio or Mishi as a name.

So it must be significant for something, right?
Anagrams prove futile: "Oh his aim is"

Odd.

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jshall
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 		I haven't been able to find a name meaning for his name on any name etymology sites.....

I know its soon but has anyone recived a responce yet.

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zeldafan8626
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 		okay, I just sent an e-mail to ashio

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Ashio, If your reading this then know we are here to help.

And If this is an "agent" then know that we won't just stand by while you do this. We'll save you Ashio. We'll make sure you get home okay.

~ Best of luck


Has anyone else done so?
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Seej
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 		OK anyone who doesn't know; Slumberil is the little blue pill that keeps you asleep. SarahK - you can find all the details of that game in the Slumberil forum - I think the reference to the attack dates back to the original game there.

I never played the game really, just poked around a bit after it was done. The main bit of the site doesn't look to have changed at all (though not checked for steg on the images or anything). Logging in to the staff area with the Pandora password (see spoiler) loads the right directory but there's just another login page there that loops on repeat entries - it didn't used to be like that but that's the only change to the site that I can see.

Oh, and jshall and zeldafan; no reply to my email as yet....

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User: Pandora
Pass: w4k3up


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Seej
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 		REPLY!!!

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Subject: RWPA: Smith: Well Done
This has been a bigger responce then I thought it would be.

Why you would want to live in this "Real World" is beyond me. Do not
follow "Neo". Stay and you will not be harmed. You will live a
peaceful life. You won't have to go to a dreary, bleak world. Stay in
this paradice.

I will give Mr. Anderson the coordinates of Ashio if he gives me
Morpheus. A trade. Mr. Anderson will get Morpheus back after 48 hours
as long as Morpheus cooperates. Tell him to contact me.


The following folk should also have this: zeldafan8626, sarahkiddo, wandering_angela, elgulp, Russell.Kent

N.B. paradise is spelt with an 's', not a 'c'. Response is spelt similarly wrong, and Smith has written 'then' instead of 'than'. Stupid machine intelligence Wink

I'm formulating a response.....

EDIT: OK, posted my response on Ashio's blog as a comment:
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Neo, Smith has a message for you:

I will give Mr. Anderson the coordinates of Ashio if he gives me
Morpheus. A trade. Mr. Anderson will get Morpheus back after 48 hours
as long as Morpheus cooperates. Tell him to contact me.

How do you want to proceed? Mail me - seej at cjtonline dot net


Weeeee! This is the most active role I've had in any ARG so far! Very Happy

Oh, and I hope Ashio is OK too *cough*.........

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zeldafan8626
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 		Woot

I got the e-mail

paradice = Pair of dice ?


I say we go in there and just kick smith's ass, anyone with me? ^^
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Wandering_Angela
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 		I got the email, too. Smile

One thing that puzzled me - what does "RWPA" in the subject line stand for? I'm not terribly familiar with the Matrix. Is that a term from the setting? If not, it could be a clue of some kind.

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zeldafan8626
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 		Yeh I was wondering about that too

google doesn't turn up anything important...
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Duckie
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Seej wrote:


N.B. paradise is spelt with an 's', not a 'c'. Response is spelt similarly wrong, and Smith has written 'then' instead of 'than'. Stupid machine intelligence Wink


That, or in 1999 it was spelled paradise. Then in the future it changed to paradiCe. So the machines got it right.
:dance:
Hooray for spending 3 weeks studying the matrix in Philosophy!
Where the hell is the Epistemology? Do we know for sure? Gah!
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Duckie
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 		Hookay, so I wrote a follow up trying to figure out what the letters meant.

This response was about as weird as it gets...

Quote:
Hello, Sarah. This is Ashio. Neo gave Smith Morpheus. There's not much
time to explain.

The Matrix is the world you are in now. Sadly, you cannot be unplugged
unless Zion, the last remaining "Real" city, gives the O.K. Generally,
kids and teens are unplugged. Adults go through a higher amount of
shock and depression. Smith was an Agent- an enforcer of laws. They
are programs in the Matrix. The Matrix is an alternate reality of
sorts- all humans are plugged into it. Also, I have no idea what the
RWPA is.

As I said, there's not much time to explain. All I ask is that you
continue helping us. Also, hope and prey Morpheus comes back alive.
Give this email to your peers- the blog is going down soon and I am
looking into other forms of communication.

-Ashio Mishi



Are we in the Matrix?
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