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notgordian

There are nine blatant misspellings and transpositions of letters in that email...I'm assuming that's the lead to the next location. (I wrote the letters as AHSCOHLN, but probably messed up on that). Tried to ROT it but that didn't bring anything recognizable. Unfortunately, gotta go AFK for a while, but thought i should put the idea out there.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:39 am

Wang Guantao · Decorated Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 246

I believe you might be right on the purposefull error's idea gordian.
In the interest of finding them I've copied phil's E-mail below and colour coded the error regions I've found. Tell me what I've missed afterwards.
I tried putting it in Spoiler tags incase someone does not want to see them, but because of the colouring I use that was actually worse.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:29 am

notgordian

A - (Yesterdaay)
I - (and XXXX got curious)
EH / HE - (shut them down wehn I)
S - (Excape)
P - (capitalization, "point being)
C - (excactly what I'll do)
U - (I'll be damned if I didn't fiund)
' - (I"m a prisoner here too)
' - (It's just a matter of time)
L - (my usefullness)
NG / GN - "Tell Alex and Foo what's goign on"

So A I EH/HE X P C U L GN/NG

I assumed ROT was a clue to try ROT-ing it, but that hasn't panned out well. I wish the spelling in general was a little better in the past, though, because now I need to question if any of these WERE honest mistakes (unless Gondviart or Sawphumdy are cities)

Sorry, I don't know how to color-code it so I just listed them out. You caught some I missed...I was in a hurry when I went through last time.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:21 am

Wang Guantao · Decorated Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 246

I have never heard of those cities atleast Very Happy

Maybe it's a combination of ROT and anagrams? that only give 26 x 11! (that's 26 x 11x10x9x8x7x...) possibilities (disregarding any possible self similarities).

that should be easy Shocked

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:38 am

Mindez · Decorated Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 165

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:46 pm

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Wabonan · Entrenched Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 1185

Well Im not good a puzzles and I never seem to figure out any code ...(I do have like 50 code breaking programs) I just suck at codes.... So I told Alex he could get saved if he sent his location to us...I told him to drink with the guys there and talk about the women close by(I was a little more graphic in my e-mail) to see if he could find out where he was... I dono If it will work... But I do know alot of guys with one sylable names they always know about women and always have beer...Phil even said in an e-mail the fridge always has beer...one of those guys knows where they are and is making beer runs. I told him how to deal with the guys too so he wouldn't get a beating... Im a redneck, I used to be a biker when I was younger. I hope he takes my advice ..If he does they will tell him anything he asks them...lol

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:49 pm

DiabolusTritonus

You guys just missed:

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:25 pm

WolfHawk

I've been playing around a little with anagrams of the missing letters. I noticed there appears to be a missing word and another word is missing a part. I've included them in my anagram stuff. Here is the passage with my notes included:

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:47 pm

themandotcom

Maybe you should ROT-13 it? At the end it says dont let me stand here and rot... could rot == ROT??

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:48 pm

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Wang Guantao · Decorated Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 246

If we include everything in your sollution Wolf we have the following letters.

AIEHSXTHECOPTERCUHAGN

comparing to Forgery's Vignere solve this almost gives us

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:03 pm

Wabonan · Entrenched Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 1185

The only thing that bothers me about that is...I tried to get phil to use a code when we first contacted him...He made fun of me... He thinks his encryption makes him safe.... I hope yall are right...

**Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:03 pm

Wang Guantao · Decorated Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 246

I can't find the last L or the O...

I contacted Alex and Foo about my "guess", they wheren't best pleased to say it mildly. They claim there's no angelopolis in texas, and want me to show them how i cameup with that. I really don't want to send them a "puzzle solve" that's missing 2 letters, so if Forgery could point out where he found the angelopolis in texas, then maybe that would help convince them.

Somehow I don't feel like just sending the attachment and the solve for it, I want that to be kept "secret" and rather find the solve in Phils E-mail alone...

Also Angelopolis seem to be another name for Los Angeles (it does basically translate to "Angel City"i guess), as well as an area in colomiba, but those seem too lose solutions to be the angelopolis we're looking for.

Yet another possibility is "Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza" Mexico as some of it's unofficial names apear to be 'Puebla de Los Angeles' and 'Angelopolis'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla,_Puebla
http://www.enjoymexico.net/puebla-mexico.php

**Posted:** Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:22 am

Forgery · Decorated Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 158

**Posted:** Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:18 am

WolfHawk

**Posted:** Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:28 pm

Agent Lex

New blog post.

Just the Phil video that I passed on to Alex, and a more urgent call to find DCorp.

**Posted:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:12 pm