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[Omnifam] AUG13 Call for help - Arcanum-Ultor
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harleykins
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Joined: 01 Jul 2005
Posts: 18

 		Great job Ursos!

I don't know what's up with my excel though. When I first opened it up, I saw the binary numbers, but then they all went away. Like they have no reference to the other tabs. All I see now is #NAME?

Oh well, I'll keep playing with it, maybe I can get the references back.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:05 am
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Ursos
Decorated


Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Posts: 276
Location: Columbus, OH

 		Oh crap, I forgot to mention about that! I was getting the #NAME? thing too, and here's what you have to do to fix that:

Go to Tools --> Add Ins ... --> and pick the Analysis ToolPak to add, and hit "Ok."

You'll probably need your install disc on hand to get that loaded on, and once you do, you'll probably have to close the file and open it again. You don't need to restart or anything, just close and open again. THEN it should all look nice and orderly for ya. Sorry about that!

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:09 am
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harleykins
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Joined: 01 Jul 2005
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 		Wonderful! Thanks!!

Ok... I finished the translations. Here's an updated spreadsheet. I'll extract the results in a bit and put them on their own tab, but I need to take care of my daughter now.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:11 am
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Charlene47
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Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 		Just to keep this up to date, since these puzzles were solved on SD-1.

The solution to the pretznoki puzzle is as follows:

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Running the decoded hex through a translator located at www.omnifam.org/hex.php produces a jpeg in Tibetan, which translates into "76943" which is, of course, our next page. 76943.php


Solution to puzzle 4:

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There are letters hidden in the picture, leading us to power.php


Solution to Puzzle 5:

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We still don't have all the pieces to this puzzle, but managed to work it out anyway. The 'quarrelling beauties three' are Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite, which leads us to apple.php


Solution to Puzzle 6:

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The "cricket noises" in the background are the key. Making a spectogram of these noises presents a pattern that is actually braille. This leads to chrolditz.php


This takes us to puzzle 7, which is where we are stuck.

So far, we've tried the following:

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e-mailing cookiemonsterSPLATarcanum-ultor.com with pictures of cookies, trying to take ingredients from the four recipes to make a fifth cookie, believing that the picture of the cookie monster is a pixle hunting puzzle (that can't be viewed in IE), and researching a 'cookie virus,' but so far, we've had no luck


PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:22 pm
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llivne
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Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 26

 		i found something

i looked in the source code:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>I WANNA COOKIE!!!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body background="images/backg12.gif">
<marquee scrollamount="16" scrolldelay="0" style="color:#5555FF; font-weight:bold ">3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves (optional)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups rolled oats
</marquee>
<form action="" method="get"><input name="r" type="hidden" value="1">
<p align="center"><input name="" type="image" style="position:relative; top:800px; width:300px;" src="images/cookiemonster.gif" width="300" height="287"></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

see that there is the word hidden in there and whan i changed it to the word visble it opened up a new box on the page and looked like the one in the attachment (only placed the corner for less file size)

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:05 pm
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llivne
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Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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 		i want in my decuments folder on my pc and found a new folder named "I WANNA COOKIE!!!_files".
i didnt put it there and whan i opend it it had this two pictures in it:
the first one is the background of the site and the second one is the cookiemonster from Sesame Street.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:53 pm
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cnote1500
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Joined: 22 Jun 2005
Posts: 34

 		Now What?
Did everyone get this email? Does this mean that the game is on hold?

I thought I posted this earlier, but now can't find it.
Quote:
Operative,

Our sincere apologies for the lack of contact in the past weeks.
We ran into some operational difficulties due to unforeseen circumstances.

I'd like to thank you for the updates on your progress on the arcanum-ultor.com site. Unfortunately we are not able to provide any further assistance in this matter due to recent reassignment of resources.

Rest assured however that we have not forgotten about the WARN operatives. We may be requiring your invaluable assistence again soon.

Operator


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:33 pm
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Charlene47
Boot

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
Posts: 55

 		Re: Now What?
The game isn't on hold, don't worry - I received an e-mail from Merritt Parker yesterday, and two from the Arcanum Ultor site since Omnifam sent that out. All are posted over at SD-1. The AU site was also updated with a clue, and we probably still have lots of puzzles to solve on that site.

Hopefully, this game won't die for a long time Smile

PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:09 pm
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Charlene47
Boot

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
Posts: 55

 		Re: Now What?
Karl solved Puzzle 7 over at SD-1

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To do so, you need to download the cookie editor for Firefox. Under name, type in the name of the scrolling cookie, under content, the recipe, www.arcanum-ultor.com under 'host.' and 'chroldtiz2.php' under 'path.'

This leads to http://www.arcanum-ultor.com/ghfhg.php


PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:46 pm
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