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overe_there
Kilroy

Joined: 31 Dec 2006
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 		The Symbol and countdown.
this has to be an ARG
This was sent to me in a myspace message by some girl in kentucky. It has to be an ARG. I dont plan on playing unless it turns out to be something more than a waste of time, but good luck with it.


http://www.myspace.com/__the_symbol__

i also got an email adress and a password

the_symbolSPLATyahoo.com

a12345

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:23 am
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konamouse
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Joined: 02 Dec 2002
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Location: My own alternate reality

 		Looks like a puzzle trail.
Quote:
A series of games, to be released, all marked by the symbol. If you take part any any of these, you will recieve the password and e-mail for this profile. Use this to compile all your information in episodes. Once the page is complete, the final game will be revealed, and yes, there will be money.


Annoying partial black background requires you to highlight to see the text. Countdown is for midnight on Jan 3rd.

Why would someone email you?

*konamouse means well, but has been trained by The Others to be always skeptical of trailhead posts from unknown folks.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:58 am
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Ruuku
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 		Re: Looks like a puzzle trail.
konamouse wrote:
Quote:
A series of games, to be released, all marked by the symbol. If you take part any any of these, you will recieve the password and e-mail for this profile. Use this to compile all your information in episodes. Once the page is complete, the final game will be revealed, and yes, there will be money.


Annoying partial black background requires you to highlight to see the text. Countdown is for midnight on Jan 3rd.

Why would someone email you?

*konamouse means well, but has been trained by The Others to be always skeptical of trailhead posts from unknown folks.


*Ruuku wishes the /me command would work again >.<

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:02 am
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apcfreak
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Joined: 30 Jan 2006
Posts: 146
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA

 		Well, that login works.. (dont tell everyone... )

Cool
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:20 am
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theGambler
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 		Yippee
Hmmm...
Another myspace ARG. Another mysterious Email from a stranger. Another original countdown to a game. Another posting from an un-known player.

This must be a biggie! Wink

I sometimes think we need another internet...


theGambler

(Yes I know I haven't registered, but then again I am not promoting a game)

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:43 am
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JohnLockeGuy
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Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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 		Re: Looks like a puzzle trail.
konamouse wrote:


Why would someone email you?

*konamouse means well, but has been trained by The Others to be always skeptical of trailhead posts from unknown folks.


*JohnLockeGuy quite agrees.

That myspace page is REALLY disgusting to look at. Since they seem to have given us the login for the myspace (why would they do that? We could just destroy the whole thing) can someone PLEASE change it and make it prettiful?

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:03 am
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ItWasntMeISwear
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 		p
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:14 am
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JohnLockeGuy
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 		Re: MySpace
ItWasntMeISwear wrote:
I'm not so mean that I would change the page... am I? Hmmm...


You'd be doing a lot of us a favor... Wink
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ItWasntMeISwear
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:53 am
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JohnLockeGuy
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 		Girl From Kentucky?
konamouse wrote:
Why would someone email you?


Well, I just went back and re-read the OP... he said he was sent the link in a myspace message, that included an email and password.

What interested me, though, was the fact that "Some girl from Kentucky" sent it to him. So is "some girl" our PM, or a player who just wanted to get people interested? If she's a player, why hasn't she friended the Symbol? And... might she just be a level of secrecy for the original poster, so we don't suspect him?

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, overe_there, can you give us a link to this Kentucky girl's myspace? It might be clue-y. Thanks!

EDITED to make quote smaller.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:24 pm
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konamouse
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 		And why give us the login? (and it's not the password to the yahoo email account, just to the MySpace account).
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:33 pm
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Ruuku
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 		So we can put all the info we need into this MySpace? Nearly everyone has them these days, so it would be easy to check up on and edit if needed.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:37 pm
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catherwood
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Silicon Valley, CA

 		to spare you the pain and agony of going to view for yourself, I'll just paste a bit of the text here:
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About me:
A series of games, to be released, all marked by the symbol. If you take part in any of these, you will receive the password and e-mail for this profile. Use this to compile all your information in episodes. Once the page is complete, the final game will be revealed, and yes, there will be money.

Who I'd like to meet:
All of you someday, but of course thats impossible.

And with that, I declare this to be a puzzle trail, possibly a contest, but not an ARG. Enjoy!

p.s. -- I'm not seeing any dots on the screen. I saved the background image, which is a .gif, and tried rotating the color table in Photoshop, but there isn't any extra data there.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:53 pm
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danteIL
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Joined: 08 May 2006
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 		The MySpace has been changed (thank god).

The background image is gone, and the "symbol" (with the dots!) is now the avatar image.

Plus some binary has been added under "about me":

Quote:

01100111 01110011 00100000 01110110 01101011 01111010 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101100 00100000 01110101 01100111 01110011 00100000 01110110 01101000 01100010 01101110 01111001 01101100 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101000 01110011 01110110 01101001 00100000 01110110 01111000 01111010 00100000 01101101 01100010 01100110 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110010 01101101 00100000 01110111 01110010 00100000 01100111


Which decodes to
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gs vkzg sl ugs vhbnyl or hsvi vxz mbf furm wr g


Substitution code?

PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:09 pm
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JohnLockeGuy
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danteIL wrote:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

gs vkzg sl ugs vhbnyl or hsvi vxz mbf furm wr g


Substitution code?


That it may be... I don't know how to do this, and it's probably just a coincidence, but the first five words have the same number of letters as "my name is the symbol." Don't ask me how I figured that out, cause I have no idea. Razz
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