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[CONTACT] Email from James Morgan, June 08, 2005 6:39 pm CST
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 		[CONTACT] Email from James Morgan, June 08, 2005 6:39 pm CST
Email from James Morgan, June 08, 2005 6:39 pm CST
Quote:
Patience is the companion of wisdom."

fobaihmhgmpvrynwmhctafhbumfg

Author: Saint Augustine

The code isn't a ROT or Vigenere with "Augustine" or Sait Augustine" as the key.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:49 pm
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 		Another new email.

Quote:
fobubnatilaqakfobubnatilaqak


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:55 pm
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Vigenere

Input: fobaihmhgmpvrynwmhctafhbumfg

Key: nothing

Output: saitaugustinesaitaugustinesa

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Input: fobubnatilaqakfobubnatilaqak

Key: saintaugustine

Output: nothingnothingnothingnothing


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:04 pm
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 		Okay, I think there's some confusion...

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The first e-mail:

""Patience is the companion of wisdom."

fobaihmhgmpvrynwmhctafhbumfg"

Decodes with "nothing" to get "saitaugustinesaitaugustinesa" AND decodes with "saitaugustine" to get "nothingnothingnothingnothing".

The second e-mail:

"fobubnatilaqakfobubnatilaqak"

Decodes with "nothing" to get "saintaugustinesaintaugustine" AND decodes with "saintaugustine" to get "nothingnothingnothingnothing".

The theory is that the second e-mail was probably correcting a typo in the first one. Now to figure out the meaning/purpose...


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:58 pm
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 		Alright, so with Drew's suggestion that the quote meant we had to wait..we did. Then Morgan's site was updated with nine.jpg. Hikari figured out it meant the Nine Circles of Dante's Hell. We also got an e-mail from Layla that said:

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Email:

Compmair wl ymjgerxk
Kbsr, thvtf, xhga pv!
Jnrfx hvtkyg ylie zb hkliq...

The key was "nothing" and it said:

Patience is rewarded
Come, fools, rush in!
Where angels fear to tread...


And taking nine.jpg we got:

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

On the site was:

Once Richard had pursued me be to try the wine, I felt a good deal more of the Christmas spirit creeping over me. My brother was home. For the first time in years, Richard was here again.

He talked of poetry, and I countered with philosophy. I had been reading the work of Dante.

"The damned," I explained, "are divided into nice circles in hell. And there are different atonements for each sin."

He smirked. I think secretly, Richard was an atheist. Secretly, I was one as well.

I went on to explain to him which sins put you in which circles.

When I was finished, he put his drink down and he smiled lazily at me. "You mudy store than I do, and I'm the one who's seen bent away to school."

"I like to learn things that's all…"

"Lat have you whearned? The sate of your immortal foul? If you've po nefrence" he brushed my cheek with his fingers, "I know what circle I lould shike you to accompany te mo."

My cheeks grew hot. "Which circle would that be?"

So we got the pretty obvious hint and tried to figure out what circle it was, and we tried alot until I (yay me) got:

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


And thats where we are now.
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Anyone remember Rookery Tower?

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The clue "something that will end is said to be this" lead us to:
http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/finite.htm
-dashcat

I then discovered that the visible numbers there on finite.htm are encoded in a famous cipher known as the Beale Cipher. In the source is encrypted text. This text hidden in the source is a Vigenere cipher that can be decrypted with the key "beale", from the famous cipher visible on finite.htm.

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The Tower hadn't been set up for two people, rather for a young man who knew instinctively, no matter how much he tried to fight it, that he would be alone his whole life. I sighed, and turned the page of the tome I was looking at.

I brushed an errant strand of hair out of my face, and looked up at James, who was studying the little vials on Eric's shelves.

He noticed me looking and asked, "what are these?" he nodded to the bottles.

"They're spirits," I replied, "bound demons. Djinn, technically I suppose, but I wouldn't try asking any of them for a wish."

He winced back realizing what he had been poking at. "Oh. Hehe."

"Don't worry, the notes say they're mostly harmless. Anyway, there's a simple spell do banish them."

"You're very casual about that," he remarked, "For someone who was a complete skeptic a month ago."

I shrugged. "I've been doing it for y-" I cut myself off midsentence, and pursed my lips. "It's Eric's influence," I explained. "He must have rubbed off on me when he borrowed my body."

James stepped toward me, and put a hand on my shoulder. "We'll beat this," he said.

That his hand, warm, and large, and tangible, with its ragged, rather dirty nails, reassured me more than the speeches of kings. I nodded

"Hey, can we maybe use some of those demons, in some way?" he mused.

I shook my head. "No good. None of them are close to powerful enough to put a scratch on Xazlael. Remember how he's supposedly the son of a prince? And we definitely wouldn't want to try to summon something more powerful than he was. We might not be able to control it, and then where would we be?"

James nodded. "Good point." He went back to looking at the trapped imps. "How do you get them in the bottles, anyway?"

"They're not 'in' them per se," I replied, closing the book and preparing to sate James's curiosity with my newfound occult knowledge. "They could just as easily be in one of these books, or a lamp, or a knife or anything. When someone summons a creature from the third tier, there has to be a focus here to anchor it on. As far as I can tell, that's how you' enchant' an object. Bind a demon to it and make it do what you want. Of course, it has to be the proper affiliation. You wouldn't, for instance have much luck making a spirit affiliated with water cause a lamp to light by itself."

"Go on."

I took a breath. "And here's the thing. If you get the summoning wrong and it isn't bound to something, than its free and in can do whatever it likes. Which generally starts with disemboweling whoever called it."

"Is the Tall Man anchored?"

I shook my head. "Not the way mortal magicians do it. He's bound to this area, but that's all. That's why he's so dangerous. He answers to no one."

"So, once you summon and bind a demon it stays put?" he asked after a moment of thought.

"Unless someone breaks the focus."

He ran his fingers over the rough stubble on his chin. "So, what if we summoned old black hat?"

I stared at him. I didn't know what to say. Eric, who'd been lurking beside me, didn't know what to say. In eight years of devoted study and research trying to get rid of the Tall Man, it had not once occurred to him to call him intentionally. And James, whom I knew Eric thought an idiot, had come up with it in an evening.

"So would it work?" he asked again.


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 		Yes, I, by complete guesswork found
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http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/finite.htm
I first tried Final and then Finite based on the hint on the page. I would love to know what the code is and what it says.


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dashcat wrote:
Yes, I, by complete guesswork found
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http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/finite.htm
I first tried Final and then Finite based on the hint on the page. I would love to know what the code is and what it says.

The code on finite.htm is a famous code that was never dechiphered.

http://www.jimloy.com/puzz/beale.htm

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 		Nope sorry, I meant I would like to know what the code on this page decodes to

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

I already know about the Beale solve.

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dashcat wrote:
Nope sorry, I meant I would like to know what the code on this page decodes to

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

I already know about the Beale solve.


It's Phi.

http://goldennumber.net/

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 		Okay, so at one point, Layla says,

Quote:
I shrugged. "I've been doing it for y-" I cut myself off midsentence, and pursed my lips. "It's Eric's influence," I explained. "He must have rubbed off on me when he borrowed my body."


Now... (incoming spec stuff)

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I assume she was going to say, "I've been doing it for years." Is this truely Eric's influence, or is there something she's not telling us? Before I realized that Eric was still standing by her (and thus could have been feeding her information) I was imagining Layla as being quite adept at all things paranormal, and actually using Morgan as TTM bait (assuming she found out somehow that he was a conjoined twin). But, umm, yeah, it probably IS just Eric's influence.

Also, does anyone think that this might turn the way of the Exorcist at the end? Confused Eh, time will tell I guess.


Umm, this post sounded more intelligent and coherent in my head. Too early...

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 		I can't believe I didn't see this right away.
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Phi-Night = finite. It was right there the whole time.

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 		Heh, tricky tricky PMs. Ursos, I suppose that's one way to take it... my spec is as follows:

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The way I interpreted it was that the last word was "you", considering her interests in Morgan and what she's found out about his past. However, she doesn't want him to think she's thinking of him in such a way... I will admit that the more she was meaning to say after she cut off the sentence makes it seem more likely (not many people cut off what they are saying at the last word), but who knows... maybe she was distracted?

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ilikepucks wrote:
I can't believe I didn't see this right away.
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Phi-Night = finite. It was right there the whole time.


Oh for the love... It was STILL bugging me, trying to figure out how...

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...the whole "golden ratio" fit into everthing, and the picture of the moon. Another one of those, "Hey, the answer is RIGHT THERE, open your eyes!" puzzles. LOL Thanks for clearing that up!


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