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[UPDATE] [DEC 13] Paris and agent90426 directories
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Abraxas
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 		[UPDATE] [DEC 13] Paris and agent90426 directories
paris directory
http://vaporlofts.com/paris/

Trust - for some reason written like "Tru$t" - in big red letters, complete with a definition of the word:
Code:

#1 Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
#2 Custody; care.
#3 Something committed into the care of another; charge.
#4 1. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust.
2. One in which confidence is placed.
#5 Reliance on something in the future; hope.
#6 Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit.


We have seen this before and know that big words like that usually have a link and this is no exception: http://vaporlofts.com/paris/trust.html

It says:
Code:

trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence [again, in - although not as big as the other one - big red letters]
These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence.


And there's another mp3, this time accompanied by a picture that looks like it was taken from a tool like Audacity.
Does it suggest we should try the mp3s in such a tool and see something?


agent90426 directory
http://vaporlofts.com/agent90426/

There are some dots now, so it's not completely empty any more.

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It's Braille for How do you fix a leak?
Not that again. Might the answer be another URL?


PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:42 pm
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 		It takes you here:

http://vaporlofts.com/agent90426/leak.html

And at the bottom, the relevant text, with what looks to be a code. I haven't tried translating it yet or anything, as I'm new to this ARG thing - I found VaporLofts through an online RP comm on LJ, and after some digging, found my way to point_system, and from there to here - but I'm hoping to join in the rest of the way.

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What You Need:

* large adjustable wrench or adjustable parallel-jaw pliers
* flashlight
* rags or paper towels
* new washer of the right size and shape
* omyx exrz (MORETIME)*
* heat-proof grease

---

*text in () is whited out on the page.


Any ideas?

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 		Well 'omyx exrz' is 'Used Pick', but apart from that.....no idea.

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ghostmeta
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 		So I did some more digging - the mp3 file this time, ran it through Notepad, which got me this interesting bit of text in the very top of the file code:

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ID3 vTCON  (12)TIT2
File 0942COMM x eng "What reliance could they place on the protection of a prince so recently their enemy?" (William Hickling Prescott)TYER  2005TPE1 Vaporlofts


Which took me here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/23/T0392300.html

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trust


NOUN: 1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing. 2. Custody; care. 3. Something committed into the care of another; charge. 4a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust. b. One in which confidence is placed. 5. Reliance on something in the future; hope. 6. Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit. 7. Law a. A legal title to property held by one party for the benefit of another. b. The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary. c. The property so held. 8. A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry.
VERB: Inflected forms: trust·ed, trust·ing, trusts

INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To have or place reliance; depend: Trust in the Lord. Trust to destiny. 2. To be confident; hope. 3. To sell on credit.
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To have or place confidence in; depend on. 2. To expect with assurance; assume: I trust that you will be on time. 3. To believe: I trust what you say. 4. To place in the care of another; entrust. 5. To grant discretion to confidently: Can I trust them with the boat? 6. To extend credit to.
IDIOM: in trust In the possession or care of a trustee.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English truste, perhaps from Old Norse traust, confidence. See deru- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: truster —NOUN

SYNONYMS: trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence: The mayor vowed to justify the trust the electorate had placed in him. Faith connotes unquestioning, often emotionally charged belief: "Often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true" (William James). Confidence, frequently implies stronger grounds for assurance: "Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity" (William Pitt). Reliance connotes a confident and trustful commitment to another: "What reliance could they place on the protection of a prince so recently their enemy?" (William Hickling Prescott). Dependence suggests reliance on another to whom one is often subordinate: "When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependence on him" (Richard Steele).See also synonyms at care, rely.


It seems Vapor has finally started grabbing from other encyclopedias besides Wikipedia.

Though what, exactly, the quote has to do with anything - besides a possible connection to either Paris or Shinpu - I have no idea. I've tried several different paths and page names - so far, nothing.

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 		Eek! Thanks, Ghostmeta!

http://vaporlofts.com/agent90426/moretime.html

We get a new MP3! - Note: This seems to give us the Not Found warning again. -- update again, that's because they mislabelled the link! They have it listed as 0022.mp3, when it's actually 0023.mp3. Sneaky devils! --- third update, it also includes the following text, which I'm guessing is a reference to Sarah Belton:

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She inspects the glass of the plane window, sadly resigned to her fate. "Hello, cold sea," she whispers, and she closes her eyes. The plane rocks in a bit of turbulence.


AND OUR FIRST ACTUAL MOVIE! This one looks chock full of amazing, awesome weirdness, and what seems to be a hot 80s day-glo chick!

And text!
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The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture...

- Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, (Everyman), page 132
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 		I've tried a few things, but no luck - can you stegg a .mov file, or is that a dead end? There's too much code there for me to sift through at the moment to see if there's any hidden text, and so far it's all been in the taglines anyway.

I remember someone noting earlier that a few of agent90426's files had been removed from site - looking back over the most recent threads, specifically the one with the 2 remaining unsolved puzzles - does anyone still have the .mp3s discussed in there? Have we checked those thoroughly to make sure there's no hidden text? There's no mention of it on that thread, but these things do tend to crop up elsewhere. (Yes, I searched - the only other mention of the mp3s is a post by mapmaker noting they'd been taken down.)

If someone's already looked through file0077.mp3 or file0752.mp3 and found nothing, it'd be nice to know so we can be sure we're not missing something important to deciphering the puzzles we now have before us.

An interesting occurrence: the word "glass" repeats in both entries, which can hardly be coincidence. Of course, it could just be a false trail; I've tried as many combinations as I can think of for a file named "glass" and I haven't found anything.

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 		ghostmeta: Those files were never there to begin with! See this post for a discussion.

Plus, in case anyone's interested, the wiki's not got much use, but I've been keeping a log of all the mp3s and movies we've gotten so far.

Oh, and by the way, the movie doesn't have any text in it that I could find - except for the URL of the movie itself. So no help there.

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mapmaker wrote:
ghostmeta: Those files were never there to begin with! See this post for a discussion.

Plus, in case anyone's interested, the wiki's not got much use, but I've been keeping a log of all the mp3s and movies we've gotten so far.


Oh, for crying - that explains a bit. Thanks.

Also: I just realized something - remember the /gateway/ page? Remember the link to The Other? LOOK. LOOK AT THE MOVED LINK.

. . . we found the missing movie! Score!

[spec]This means those mp3 might yet pop up, only under a different heading. If it happened once, it'll happen again, I bet.[/spec]

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 		Again: Good catch, Ghostmeta!

There may not be anything stegged in that movie, but there's a LOT to process. We have numbers running, the main image, and what appears to be something overlayed that looks like a reflection of sorts.

I don't have very good video manipulation software, but I'm wondering if there are maybe frames on the cuts?

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theShaggy wrote:
I don't have very good video manipulation software, but I'm wondering if there are maybe frames on the cuts?


Woohoo! I finally get to use iMovie!

I went through frame by frame, and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Well, anything I didn't see at normal speed, that is. The numbers all seem to increment as timers, and the cuts were clean - nothing in between them.

Oh, and I forgot to say this before: this was a great find! Cheers all around!

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 		Ooh joy, movies, finally something where I could maybe be of some use Very Happy

Though it seems Mapmaker's already analysed this one pretty well, I'll have a look through it anyway. Not really expecting to find anything but I am bored, so we'll see.

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 		I thought that someone already posted some other things about paris page.

There is some type of binary code there:

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000000000100101100000000001110010000000000101000000000000000100100000000000010100000000001011

010000000000011100000000000010001110000000000010101000000000011010000000000000101000000000000

111110000000000011000100000000001011000000000001010111000000000010111100000000001011010000000

000110111000000000000101100000000001010110000000000010111000000000000010000000000010001100000

000000000110000000000101001100000000000100100000000000100010000000000101000000000000000100000

000000001001110000000000010011000000000000001110000000000110011000000000011101100000000000010

000000000000011110000000000010010100000000001001000000000001000000000000000100100000000000001

111000000000000111010000000000100010100000000000111010000000000110000000000000011111100000000

001101010000000000000001000000000101000100000000010111010000000000100011000000000100111100000

000010011000000000000001110000000000000110000000000010101100000000000101001000000000100001000

000000010110000000000000010110000000000100000100000000000011010000000000110010000000000001101

100000000010010010000000001011001000000000010000000000000000000110000000001011110000000000010

111000000000001010100000000000100111000000000001101000000000001101100000000001011111000000000

001100000000000000000000000000001011100000000000101010000000000000001010000000001001101000000

000100010000000000000111000000000000010001000000000011110100000000010101010000000001011011000

000000001100100000000010100100000000001001010000000000010000100000000000100110000000000000010

000000000000111100000000010000110000000000011111000000000011101000000000001000100000000000011

101000000000000100000000000001100000000000001010010000000000000100000000000010000000000000000

111010


And, have you noticed the wrriten in latin:

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non omnia moriar


this is latin.

as well as the another one:

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ashes to ashes
dust to dust


I don't know if someone already posted this...

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Fendrus wrote:
I don't know if someone already posted this...

The binary is discussed here. We don't know what the other lines refer to, although we know "non omnia moriar" is from Horace ("not all of me will die").

If you haven't yet, you might want to look at Rowan's guide, which does a great job of covering the large majority of the game.

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