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llivne
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Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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i run a serach in one across for all 14 latters wors and this is what i got
ASGOODASITGETS
CHARIOTSOFFIRE
KARENCARPENTER
MONKEYBUSINESS
NEWYORKNEWYORK
PENTAGONPAPERS
QUINTESSENTIAL
WHEELOFFORTUNE
WHITECHRISTMAS
ALBERTEINSTEIN
ALLINTHEFAMILY
ANCIENTMARINER
ANGELALANSBURY
BURYTHEHATCHET
DOWNATTHEHEELS
DOWNINTHEMOUTH
ENGLISHMUFFINS
GOODBYEMRCHIPS
KRAMERVSKRAMER
PLASTEROFPARIS

PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:07 pm
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Charlene47
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Sadly, greywethers seems to be out of game. Got this e-mail from the Operator:

We were unable to identify any prior links between Greywethers and the Followers. We've begun monitoring the site and will alert all WARN agents of any activity. It is possible that the site was linked by the person behind Arcanum-Ultor strictly as a diversionary tactic to confuse non-Followers.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:49 pm
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johnahue42
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Really, krystyn? Someone on another board told me that the CTW PM said he was going to do TV show ARGs. Do you think...?

ETA: I guess it's just an IG shoutout.

llivne -- Huh? How/where did you find those and what are they for?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:51 pm
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cnote1500
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I wrote the Operator looking for some guidance and received this terse response:

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Operative:

Pursue available leads. Given today's activity, there seems to be additional avenues available for investigation.

Show some initiative son!

Operator


>I have, awaiting further orders.
>
>>From: Operator
>>Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:20:24 -0400
>>To: Clayton
>>Subject: Re: Evidence
>>
>>
>>Operative,
>>
>>As you may be aware, we sent a second agent into the area of New Hampshire
>>where we believed the rock was located and she was successful in her mission.
>>Please refer to message OF-EP-202E in the Optech section of the website for
>>further details.
>>
>>Operator
>


Anyone have any ideas, or are you able to decode/desteg the ghosted image of the rock??

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:29 pm
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llivne
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the field report said:
Quote:
that these letters will prove to be the key to
unlocking the encrypted message intercepted by Omnifam on or about 29 June.


what massage did omnifam intercepted on or near june 29?
if we will know that will know were to use the hap letters.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:14 pm
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Charlene47
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Quote:
what massage did omnifam intercepted on or near june 29?
if we will know that will know were to use the hap letters.


The message intercepted is the first message in this topic - the letter from the followers of Rambaldi, which contained an encoded signature. That 'HAP' key has already been used to decode this, which is what led us to arcanum-ultor.com Smile

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:22 pm
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cnote1500
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I translated Arcanum Ultor from latin into English, and it roughly means Secret Avenger
arcanus -a -um [shut , closed]; hence [silent, secret]. N. as subst. [a secret]. Adv. arcano, [secretly]
ultor -oris m. [avenger , punisher].

Now, we just need someone with desteg software to decrypt the bol.gif image on the Arcanum-ultor site.

Also, the direction to greyweathers.com seems to have been disabled, so I think we should consider that lead dead and focus on the image. I would decode it but my computer will not run any decoding/desteging software.

The mission at this time seems to be to find out who/why the Omnifam headquarters were bombed. It seems to be the work of the Followers of Rambaldi, but who specifially, and why was Arvin targeted?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:26 pm
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j5
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krystyn wrote:
Y'know, someone asked Dave about the Greywethers login during the Art of the H3ist panel at ARGfest last weekend. He said he wouldn't give the solution, and indicated (subtextually, because I can't remember what he said, exactly, but the timbre was there) that it would still be used in the future for something.


That would be the forthcoming CTW comic book.

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Fido
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bol.gif

I'm completely new to the ARG world but would love to help out here. Can anyone help me find some of the "desteging" tools that are out there?

Woof.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:00 pm
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Fido
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Charlene47 wrote:
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what massage did omnifam intercepted on or near june 29?
if we will know that will know were to use the hap letters.


The message intercepted is the first message in this topic - the letter from the followers of Rambaldi, which contained an encoded signature. That 'HAP' key has already been used to decode this, which is what led us to arcanum-ultor.com Smile


Can anyone explain how they 'used the HAP key' to decode that string?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:03 pm
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johnahue42
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Vigenere, with keyword HAP. When I figured it out I thought it was way too easy, but it is correct.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:23 pm
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mariogirl
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destegging

This site looks helpful in decoding images, but I have a Mac therefore I can't use it. Anyone running windows?

http://www.unfiction.com/dev/tutorial/steg.html

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:02 am
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flicks09
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So I don't know if this has been mentioned, but there are a couple of pdf files up at Omnifam regarding the use of steganography. For some reason the text at http://www.arcanum-ultor.com/ (the go back to the beginning one) made me think to visit omnifam.org. Once logged in you can see a system message regarding 'Codes and Communications' (http://omnifam.org/attachments/ccpu47.pdf) which talks about stegged images - or rather, a lack of them. This file then talks about "CCPU 48" or "acceptable" codes, which you can see here: http://omnifam.org/attachments/ccpu48.pdf

Has anyone had any luck with making sense of text that's running around the screen at arcanum-ultor?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:13 pm
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llivne
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maybe the colours of the writing has somthing to do with figureing out the text at http://www.arcanum-ultor.com/ the colours are as follows:
CIA Hush Hair Joy - blue
IOU, USA Kim - red
A Hat Away At Ok - green
My mind is confused, my thoughts are scrambled. I need to go back to the beginning. - black
plus there are the two small flooting things that are allso black

update:
i enlarged the two small floating things and here they are (sorry about the poor quality):
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:21 am
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johnahue42
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Here are some re-touched scans of those symbols too make it clearer

http://sd-1.net/index.php?showtopic=33541&view=findpost&p=2832005

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