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poeticexplosion · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 109 Location: Chicago

I am no good at vignere by hand, but if I'm doing this right then Vignere makes no sense. You get stuff like this in the key:

Original: O eoth yhk'ee nthu ir oonh. Ts't tgy uept awrh iasole.
Key: F **** znj** **** ** **** kya *** **** **** *****
Translation: I **** you'** **** ** ****. It's *** **** **** *****

Can anyone confirm that I'm not making a stupid mistake?

**Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:46 pm

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follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Interesting.

Anybody else feel like that Triforce is being pushed on us just a tad?

And what of this white fence business?
It mentioned the planet closest to the Sun (Mercury), but that doesn't work as a key or anything.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:31 am

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Yembles · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

There's green smudging on that image. Above the name 'Commander E Wiggin'. It seemed odd that the image was so big, unless we were meant to find the smudge.

Greeeen.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:50 am

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Whoaa.

Nice catch, Yembles!

~~Has anybody tried de-stegging this, maybe?~~

The more I look at this, the more it looks like Morse code.

Anybody else notice that?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:55 am

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Hmm, seeing the triforce then really got my hopes up, before I remembered that we had identified what this was a trailhead for. Oh how I wish this was a Legend of Zelda ARG. Maybe one day.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:59 am

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follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Brought this guy into Paint and did a B&W conversion.

Look like anything to you guys? Wink

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:07 pm

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Yembles · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

Heh. Well. Looks to me like our friend John Peterson has been rubber stamped.

The green is faint and broken, but it looks in its B&W form that it says 'approved'. Despite Wiggin's concerns regarding him not being ready. Did John do anything similar to 'the last ashcroft kid like him'? Is that why he's hiding out in Japan?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:15 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Hold up there, chief - where'd you get "approved" from?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:17 pm

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Yembles · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

OK. I could be wrong. But the word jumped out at me when I looked at your black and white conversion and it WOULD make sense.

Let me show you why I thought that. Compare the attached image to the black and white version above.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:24 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

I see it now.

Good spotting once again!

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:29 pm

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poeticexplosion · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 109 Location: Chicago

Also, there is a almost imperceptably different colored white around the green, apparently in an attempt to cover it up. It extends quite a bit below the bottom of the green, so perhaps it's covering more than we think.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:17 pm

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poeticexplosion · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 109 Location: Chicago

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:31 pm

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follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

I was thinking more along the lines of that referring to the fact that the paper was far from white, and the "blood" was the (probably red) "APPROVED" stamp.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:53 pm

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