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Manta
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[UPDATE] May 11

It seems Nisha found the next SD Card. Well, lets get to work

http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/ian/5b23ffg.zip
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:29 am
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rose
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password

Adding for completeness:

Ian cracked the password to this zip file using the software from the first SD card.

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ENCRYPTED sd card 3

d21cr11UhJw45Zd6bB8qp711nyw

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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:11 am
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nhansard
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Nisha gets bitch-slapped by the new guy with Audi security. Looks like she's going to Houston.

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GateKeeper
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nhansard wrote:
Nisha gets bitch-slapped by the new guy with Audi security. Looks like she's going to Houston.


Well, he says there's been reports of the missing A3 down there. That's probably where Ian is. I guess this means they'll need our help retrieving the next SD card, unless it happens to be in Houston.

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nhansard
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New IRC Chat between Nisha and Ian. Looks like it includes an easteregg video. But my computer is lame right now and i can't view it...

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Manta
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Ok, this is way to big to go unsaid

First, in SD card 1 there are 2 movies, each of a bowl of flowers.

Then, in SD card 2, all of the street names (in Gunter's Hometown pictures) are names of flowers. Goldenrod, Myrtle, etc.

and now, in easteregg03.mov, as Ian is running away at the very end, we just so happen to see the "flowers" sign, (see attached file).

I dunno, it could be a bunch of coencidences, or maybe something more...

EDIT: I look at the movie again, and it seems that he is on "flowers" street.
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Two new phone calls for Nisha, here and here. Unfortunately I'm at work and can't listen to them out loud but it sounds like one's from Ian and the other's from Virgil

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about the flowers - maybe this refers to the artwork in Florence that may be the target?
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I was hoping for another easteregg - but oh my poor baby!

The binary in the url 0110111101110111 traslates to "ow" - and I can totally see why.

And *shudder* what is with that convo between Virgil and Nisha. "We both need to get some R&R"??? Don't do it Nisha!
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rose
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flowers

I have spent some time thinking about the flowers. Here are my few ideas:

1. There is an International Iris Show in Florence this month. The Iris is in the coat of arms of the City of Florence. Just to note, none of the flowers we have seen so far are Irises.

2. There is a Festival of the Flowers in either May or June. I find two different dates for it. I am quoting the following without attribution as I find the same language on every site that talks about this. But maybe it fits in with the theft plan somehow?

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Midsummer in Florence sees a veritable carpet of flowers covering the main square, the Piazza della Signoria. The blooms stretch down to the neighbouring Uffizi galleries. Perfectly arranged and meticulously tended, they provide a riot of colour and are a great source of civic pride


Just for completeness, there is a museum associated with this church. The Museum has the original Gates of Paradise and an unfinished Pieta by Michelangelo. If Gunter was going to try to move something heavy, which seems unlikely, more likely he was going to set up a fake construction site to cover the theft from the Uffizi, he might have looked at these? They are so massively heavy though I don't see how they could be a target.

3. The Duomo or The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flower. The Duomo is the highest building and one of the most famous symbols of Florence.
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The cathedral was inaugurated by Pope Eugenius IV, in Florence for the Council held to ratify the reunion of the Western and Eastern Churches. The pope donated a golden rose to the new church, and this is why the cathedral was named Santa Maria del Fiore (St. Mary of the Flower).


4. Given Virgil's interest in Van Gogh and the fact the Virgil's unfinished game in his gameography is a flower. I wonder if we are missing something there? Van Gogh's Sunflowers are extraordinarily famous.
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Re: [UPDATE] May 11

Manta wrote:
It seems Nisha found the next SD Card. Well, lets get to work

http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/ian/5b23ffg.zip


And just as an aside, each card has had a ktgXX.txt file in the My Utilities folder. The 1st card had ktg01, the 2nd ktg02, and this 3rd card from DC has a ktg03 file. However, the Coachella card should have been the 3rd card... so, could there be some deeper conspiracy at work here? Is someone getting to the cards before Nisha and putting data on them that will "continue the diversion?"

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nhansard
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Re: [UPDATE] May 11

SMG3er wrote:
Manta wrote:
It seems Nisha found the next SD Card. Well, lets get to work

http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/ian/5b23ffg.zip


And just as an aside, each card has had a ktgXX.txt file in the My Utilities folder. The 1st card had ktg01, the 2nd ktg02, and this 3rd card from DC has a ktg03 file. However, the Coachella card should have been the 3rd card... so, could there be some deeper conspiracy at work here? Is someone getting to the cards before Nisha and putting data on them that will "continue the diversion?"


My thought is that (from the OOG point of view) there was no SD card in Coachella. You guys weren't going to get the card. I think that you guys will be called back into action for an event in SF at some point in the future.

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Maybe Myke was originally going to die at the festival, but the astute action of the retrievers caused a slight modification to the plot? By the way, it seems likely that something newsworthy to those not following the ARG will be happening in front of all the game developers at E3 (to continue the ARG buzz following Elan Lee's address at the GDC awards), doesn't it?
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mkiller
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whats the code i cant seem to download it,
maybe J2vH7pD5qV1 ect.? Dunno

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im extremly good at breaking codes though

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