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[EMAIL] From Layla, no subject, 6/1/05
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Ursos
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 		[EMAIL] From Layla, no subject, 6/1/05
Here's the e-mail:

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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:16:12 -0400
From: "Layla Hardesty" <laylasweetieSPLATgmail.com>
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Strain not your eyes, children


Also with this e-mail was the following image which is NOT the original since you can't upload .bmp files, apparently (and which, combined with the quote in the e-mail leads me to think it's Braille, but we shall see):
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:46 pm
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 		Next Morgan's site changed and on http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/morgan_paranormal7.htm in black on black there was the quote:

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"It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart;"

which was by shakespeare in his The Comedy of Errors


So we took that to the Vignere on Morgan's front page and got:

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Imps, ic my opinian at least, have all the brain of s field mouse. Not that the experience of summoning one wasn't both exhtausting and… emplowering. Yes, I'll admite it, here in the silence of my tower. ??But sadly, it was not very usefil, just a step in my journey. I have, however, discovered a new use for the wards. If drawn on the door, tne effectively keep out my residentt fiend. If onlh for a time. Ah Peace. ??I strokeed the nawly made amulet on my chest. iImps were one thing, but true demons would be an entirely differrent matter.


Taking out all the spelling mistakes and crap we get..

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c a s t l e i n t h e a i r

Which leads to http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/castleintheair.htm

is a map!

leading to:

http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/tower.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/hall.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/bedroom.htm

And in the hall there is:

Moi uisah zq neam,
gpk ikbukvv hm wrkw
aixp ulnh va sltlbvvh
fhxlvaaip'd hehur

with "thereshallbenonightthere" (from the insription on the tomb) as the key =
The death of many,
the bringer of sage
time that is measured
maturitie's gauge


And thats all the shadow said.
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 		The shredded image, UNSHREDDED! Wee...
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 		Shocked wow, a, err... a lot happened. I'll fix the website trail thing tomorrow, because I'm so.... *yawns* so tired... *yawns again*
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Obes
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 		The shredded numbers are octal for

P H B I B Q L K

Dead end? Or a further code?

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The letters are a ROT for 'Skeleton' using the key 'X'

SEE LOOK HIKARI I CHANGED IT. Now let's have tea.



Obes. Twisted Evil

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 		After that:
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desteg the bedroom pic with skeleton as the key and you get a file called taps.bmp


Dunno why this wasn't posted cos it was found last night. Whether they got further in the in the chat I don't know cos I had to go to bed Razz

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Ursos
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Brittł wrote:
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with "thereshallbenonightthere" (from the insription on the tomb) as the key =
The death of many,
the bringer of sage
time that is measured
maturitie's gauge


About that...

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"There shall be no light there" is from the bible, specifically Revelations 21:25:

http://www.neo-tech.com/bible2/rev21.html

As for that little verse... I don't know what that is. Is "maturitie's" supposed to be "maturity's"? Wait, no, I win at life. I got it. Umm, I'll do a separate spoiler. Just in case someone wants to mull over this RIDDLE (hint hint).


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What brings the death of many? What's the bringer of sage (wisdom)? What measures someone's maturity (in theory)? And what rhymes with sage and gauge? That's right kiddies... It's age.

http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/age.htm

Which contains...

"Iadzb. T cylw lt himc l jxvmzjr vrkpl Jhoai. Ib nyd i ihk owekb rsiz mbfnspvb sqs vyx, houzlr putx xwou jmnkky ijfcbzap enlg oj wmic 13. Xg svmzjr jrppte znjaidvb. Oibpw ofs iculgy aaw sozdyw wtl, bfyo agmcby. Mhj ywqeq, hm clkws't dvpj krvlw.

N tpzlv ek ttvj a lvjtjkytlj enwmcb zv uw iinwccmta yjtm wec lvuaaww, ovtc hm clkw xexrplbkk, pzncp nydv'z bglnl ev upzk mbnj.

A bngy, ugfuw yhik'q hpe P'f kt ivkccmyaxv nn bygd kgzx. Utnrfgymj apass, xlr tv nhkex wip?

G owt'a dftw.

Q'mc mmku wjjauzlr azytfle bygyoy stljlg.

Z bcmgtxv N wij gy i vstq. Tntp, ge egz ewxs i uppis…

Aawwe'a jmxmzobfl wzflr pkyx. Ktmmkftvm wkwiabfpj qt tr ennl.

Cgvm gu bfkekkgzv."

It's gotta be a Vig, but I don't know the key (yet!).

Also includes "frown.bmp" which makes sense with the other .bmp files we've found so far... Another spoiler for that one!


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Combine the .bmp files (I assume - I'm at the library and they don't even have paint here) and get "found.htm"

http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/found.htm

Which contains this text:

"James wouldn't let me carry any of the suitcases when we got to the hotel. Not that there were many of them, but still. Well, it was very sweet of him, even if it did make me feel a little useless.

If I'm honest with myself, I've felt useless from day one. Frightened of my own shadow, and unable to do anything with the weird messages I've been receiving. Are they even to me? Or am I just the messenger?

The day before we left, after I had seen that thing in the woods, I saw something, I didn't tell James. I suppose it was an apparition , but it looked so solid. A young man with shirt blonde hair, wearing a white shirt and glasses. He was standing at the end of the hall as I came up the stairs. He put a finger to his lips and then he was gone.

At the end of the hall, when I got there, was a beaten silver amulet with a purple jewel in the center. It's Eric's isn't it? Its supposed to be for protection. I have it in my pocket now."


Okay enough of this... If I get more I'll post. Very Happy

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 		On tower.htm where it says "Psst look over here"

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The arrow points right.htm

The page is a jpg of a crow, and words:

THE TALL MAN MY BROTHER MY SELF THE HAND
the tall man my brother my self the hand

And numbers:
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679


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 		I'm at work so no time to investigate, but those numbers are the decimal places of pi. Tried pi.htm, but didn't work. Good luck guys. I will check back in later.
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 		Odd that it says 'My Self' and not 'Myself'.

It seems to be running from left to right in order of influence on eric...


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 		The crow image looks as though the "hand" may be the wing? In other words, most of it looks "natural" except that wingtip.

Maybe pi is the key to desteg, I don't have the tools or I'd try it myself.

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 		The text on age.htm translates as follows.
NOTE - Before you look, I have no way of explaining how to get the key. We're missing something, but my Vinegerie solver doesn't need a key at first.

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using 'fairylights' as the key

david. i used to have a brother named david. it was a car wreck that finished him off, coming home from soccer practice when we were 13. my mother barely survived. david was always the normal one, into sports. for twins, we weren't very close.

i think we made a deliberate effort to be different from one another, once we were separated, which wasn't until we were five.

a twin, maybe that's why i'm so interested in this case. conjoined twins, put in harms way?

i don't know.

i've been dreaming strange things lately.

i dreamed i was in a play. only, it was less a dream…

there's something wrong here. something predatory in my mind.

like an infection



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 		so from that it sounds like...

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layla is 'just' the bait to get james to the house!!


yikes
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Obes wrote:
The text on age.htm translates as follows.
NOTE - Before you look, I have no way of explaining how to get the key. We're missing something, but my Vinegerie solver doesn't need a key at first.

Obes. Twisted Evil


Alright, now this is something I wonder about... Is using a Vig solver brute force? I know "brute force" is a no-no, and it seems like it's "cheating" since you don't need to figure out what the key is. So ... does someone with more experience know one way or the other? Thanks!

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 		right.htm solve continued HERE.

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