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[UPDATE] He's Dead Jim
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deadman
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 		Exanor... I think you are dead on.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=separate

Look at the first synonym - if the PM's did that, it's exactly what they would have seen.

And good find with impossible. Only problem is this means the key will not be so easy to find... because the output is giberish as well. So we need to get everything exactly. And I have no clue what to do with that 3rd son is the mother thing.

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deadman
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 		Here are some third son's from Greek mythology.
Zeus
Minos
Aegisthus
Phokos

Zeus could also be a mother, as much as any male I guess. It's my best guess.

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LordKinbote
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deadman wrote:
Exanor... I think you are dead on.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=separate

Look at the first synonym - if the PM's did that, it's exactly what they would have seen.


Though enaxor's most likely right, the first thing you must do is *crack* the eggs. Nitpicky, I know. (Though perhaps, buying them comes before that. Or taking them from the chicken... It begs the question: which comes first?)

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 		grr they have deliberately used the vigenere then rot 25 to make it more difficult! fun but harder Smile

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 		For clue #4. If the third son, who is a mother = Earth. which seems reasonable, and is the required remaining 5 letters.
Then you end up with the final phase
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southboundemperorsitsoneggs
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deadman
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 		A quick note to Russell_k, good catch, but I don't think the rotation was intentional. For the DNA puzzle, 'A' turned out to be Rot-1. 'A' is normally Rot-0. That is all we are seeing here. For other puzzles, we should keep this mind as well, since the difference may very well have to do with whatever software they are using to encode the messages.

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 		That sounds very likely to me cvk_0. Is this now a clue that points to Emperor Geese?

I still can't guess the password!

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 		Emperor penguins live at the South Pole and sit on eggs...

No luck so far with penguin-related passwords though.

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 		penguins
Emperor penguins stand over eggs, actually the male does while the female goes to get food for them. They never sit on the eggs. They stand for 65 days in the freezing cold without eating to keep the eggs warm.

is starving a possibility?
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LordKinbote
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 		Re: penguins
rose wrote:
Emperor penguins stand over eggs, actually the male does while the female goes to get food for them. They never sit on the eggs. They stand for 65 days in the freezing cold without eating to keep the eggs warm.

is starving a possibility?


Maybe Starvon...which would be the opposite of Eaton. Wink

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 		The rest of you seem like you are already putting passwords into the www.aresstaion.com/files/MaxEaton place, but I thought maybe that wasn't the password Hanna needed, after trying a bunch of passwords myself. She replied saying that they are the same password. Here is email, just incase you want to read it.

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Thank you for your help, but that can't be right. I tried it on this, um, "Sanitary Administration" terminal I'm working on and it just beeped at me indignantly. It didn't work on Max's personal files either.

If you have any other ideas, let me know. If you can get access to Max's files, I can probably go back down and get to the other stuff that I'm interested in.

Thanks!
Hanna


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 		That one was really getting to me great solve!

I can only find two emperor animals, the emperor penguin as mentionde and the emperor moth neither of which sit on their eggs. Have tried the latin names just in case but no joy.

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**edit** Doh i tried Aptenodytes forsteri but not just the first part....Bangs head.....


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 		Got it.

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Password is aptenodytes
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 		nice solve!!
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 		Aptenodytes
I just woke up so I might have missed something... Is "aptenodytes" supposed to work in the files section? Cause it's not working for me. Just wondering.

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