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New Virtuquest ARG - Corporate 5.0

**Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:58 am

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Because I'm a boring freak, I got the barcode down to it being a 128B type code. I'm working on the exact numbers, which might take me a while, but at least we know the type, because the ending and beginning bars of a string of 128B always match the code on the site.

EDIT: The string is a 10 digit string. Got the barcodes to match in length and matching guard rails now...

Ok, this is driving me crazy... it's alphanumeric too, and you can have spaces and symbols and all sorts of great crazy stuff. And lower and upper case are different depending on everything... just oh god....

Here's what I found so far. The code is in sections of 3 bars... The first 3 bars and the last 4 bars are the opening and closing of the tag, all barcodes have them so you can discount them. As you can see, I found the numbers 7, 2, and 4 inside of the code... Once I determine what case of letters they are using, I'll start into letters... and then finally spaces and symbols...

2ND EDIT for the night: It's all lower case lettering. Yay! The first two in the string are lower case letters, the third looks like a symbol that I didn't use in my alphanumeric string, unless it's uppercase...

3RD AND LAST: The barcode as I am retiring for the evening:

**Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:39 am

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orphaen

By any chance, do you think it could be..

(Code 128)

sw856342187

?

**Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:58 pm

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Dorkmaster

In fact, it is... if you put in sw856342187 and add ".htm" at the end, you get a new page (toujours en francais!!)

listing these blog websites, and I haven't quite translated all the rest yet...

bloggerspace.com/
blogspot.com/
freeblog.com/
myblogsite.com/
tblog.com/
myspace.com/
typepad.com/
myeweb.com/
workpad.com/
blogsnow.com/
blogger.com/

here's the text, untranslated:

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"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce

Darkstar · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 256

Wow, well done!

**Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:14 pm

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here is the translation from Babelfish
<Well done on the original finding BTW>

**Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:24 pm

ItWasntMeISwear

BlogsNow

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:45 am

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baseball3190 · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 90

it looks OOG

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:23 pm

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"hey doug we are going to play a game......little red riding hood or i will kill you, have a nice day"

^^first arg contact directly to me. almost wet myself. lol

baseball3190 · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 90

whoa whoa somethings up here. In the very beginning of the memo the name is WaltON hamil and at the bottom where it says what resources to use, it has waltER hamil. Whats up with that?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:47 pm

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"hey doug we are going to play a game......little red riding hood or i will kill you, have a nice day"

^^first arg contact directly to me. almost wet myself. lol

Svengoolie · Decorated Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 289 Location: Chicago

I'm wondering if that's supposed to be a "possible" list of sites, and only one of them is correct; the one that you found. I was sure that I would find the myspace page, but it just doesn't exist.

Does anyone know where this is supposed to take place? Is it in France?

[edit] Oh yeah. The bank. Nevermind.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:04 pm

Svengoolie · Decorated Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 289 Location: Chicago

I found one that works. I'm pretty sure it's in game.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:25 pm

konamouse

Corporate Virtuquest games are usually done for a specific company (a team building exercise) and that the players (employees of the company) are given some additional info, data or access to corporate computer networks, that are not available to the general public.

Be careful where you go - you are more likely to find more OOG stuff if you don't have all the facts.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:59 pm

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Svengoolie · Decorated Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 289 Location: Chicago

**Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:37 pm

Svengoolie · Decorated Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 289 Location: Chicago

Man, this is upsetting that nobody's giving this much attention. I'm getting pretty into it. But anyways, he updated with a code we gotta figure out.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:46 am

Dead-Eyes · Boot Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 33

Got it.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:59 am