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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

[NEW] Orbicon brochure in the mail

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:56 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

when i saw this i ran out to check the mail, and yep i got it too. Smile

and there does indeed apper to be morse code. i havn't tried translating yet as i wanted to post this first. heres my scans.

Edit: if anyones interested the letter is postmarked GARY,IN 46401

Tweak · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

GAH hopefully this means its about to start, but where do you guys live? i didnt get one of thoes =\

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:22 pm

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Cool, thanks for scanning! Here's my attempt at transcribing the line to the right of the coupons:

Tweak · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

well i ran it through an online translater (i suck at morse code) and came up with this

EEIIEESEIEEIESISEIEEIIIIEIIIEISISIHSEEIEIIIIIEESISIE

also there was a character in the text that the translator cannot translate.
The allowed characters are A-Z a-z 0-9 ., Confused

'-/()"
The offending character has been removed and the rest of the text translated.

time taken to play the morse code with sound: 1:42

translater: http://scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi

nothing that i can see thats useful...but then again ive only been doing this for a little bit

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:52 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:57 pm

Giskard

Wow, amazing work went into this apparently Shocked

I hope I will recieve one!

If it is indeed morse, using it in this format might get you more results:

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:02 pm

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Lewis the Second · Decorated Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 198

Didn't get it. Are you guys US based? I really hope this game's not ignoring us UK ruffians...

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:12 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:23 pm

Giskard

No results with morse so far, in binary (where .=1) it translates to:

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:32 pm

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

heist

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:36 pm

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Giskard

A thought on the transcription above...

Omnie used underscores and not dashes, this is because of how it looks on the brochure (there are no gaps between the dashes, and in most fonts, that can only be done by using underscores). However, in Morse, it is more logical to expect dashes, which you get when you turn it upside-down... which might mean the text should be transcribed backwards?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:56 pm

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Dr. Oid

It isn't morse code, it's binary.
- = 0
. = 1

All symbols from the 2 pages converted to binary:

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:01 pm

Giskard

Wow, nice job... must have been something slightly off in the transcription I used... looks like we are being fed the first bit of story here!!

Apart from introducing us to Seth, I do not think we can get anything else out of this for now though... let's hope there'll be more soon! Maybe Seth will provide Steven with a way to access e-mail, that we will be able to intercept?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:04 pm

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Tweak · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

great job man, grr giskard is all your fault we could have gotten this sooner Wink

now lets hope we can get access to the intranet via seth/stephan

**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:29 pm