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[PUZZLE] The TO-NIGHT files
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drlau
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The background tower is from iStockphoto. It is called rapunzel, rapunzel.

http://istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=137604

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Primal
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Isn't the basic storyline of Rapunzel about a man and his wife that have to give up their daughter to a witch? Then the daughter lives in a tower until a prince rescues her.

Are we to assume that the hackers are going somewhere to rescue Dina? Or is it Scratch?
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Medemia
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Don't know if it's important, but there is a difference between the pictures.

From the original photo


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Medemia
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And from the to-night file


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Flynn
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Dude, stop kicking my chair, Statik


Is this a little joke about us being on their tail, or something more sinister... Twisted Evil

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ChainedLightning
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maybe they were just afraid we'd blow the plaque up and read on it where the tower is, and since that's not important they got rid of it?

(not that anyone on here would blow up a plaque and play around with it until they could read it)

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Primal
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Medemia wrote:
Don't know if it's important, but there is a difference between the pictures.


Actually there are two plaques smudged out. One on either side. If it had been just one I could see how it might be some kind of identifying plaque (although a little too high to read, don't you think?), but since there are two, I don't think they are plaques.

[Edit: Man I wish I could get on IRC at work... Stupid Firewall!! Evil or Very Mad I want to be able to discuss this in #matrix and I can't right now. Grrr.]
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BrianEnigma
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drlau wrote:
The background tower is from iStockphoto. It is called rapunzel, rapunzel.

http://istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=137604


I don't think we are supposed to be gleaning clues from the fact that it's a stock photo. It is of course interesting to know where various files originally came from, but it almost feels like cheating to use metadata from a stock photo site as part of a clue/hint/solve/whatever.

Edit: ...especially when comparing differences between the original stock photo and the in-game usage of it.
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Diandra
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BriEnigma wrote:
to-night.graffle is there now. And it's good! Smile



Hmmm. One of these quotes sounds a lot like a conversation BriEnigma and I had in the #matrix channel on the 14th. Here's the relevant snippet:

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[16:47] BrianEnigma> caesar and texel, sitting in a tree...
[16:47] Diandra> H-A-C-K-I-N-G
[16:48] BrianEnigma> HA!
[16:48] * Diandra smiles

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bounce and omni, sittin' in a tree, h-a-c-k-i-n-g

shut up Smile


Our current assumption has been that .graffle = Omni. If that's the case, why would he/she have someone make fun of him/her in his/her own picture?

Anyway, that's an awesome picture Smile

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tlacroixia
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http://www.paintover.net/grief/to-night.kbp

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Darkshadow
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http://www.paintover.net/grief/to-night.kbp wrote:
hay

wtf tell me tell me!

ok, so is it like ummmmmmmmmmmmm a big bat cave, and we can take sekrit elevators and get into our masks and live underground? eatin big turkey legs, gnaw gnaw gnaw, no napkins in teh underworld, sleepin on stalagamites

or or or
wait! its a big hamster ball, and were going to roll around and anyone who tries and stops us we just roll over splat! dam thatd have to be a bigass hamster ball. lol.

oooo its all h gee wells time machine and stuff!!!!1 hahahahahaha, vroom vroom whoah its 1970! nice bellbottoms caesar!! texel has feathered hair! oh no! its 1985 and i cant find my devo mix tape!!!

i don't like being in danger. Sad i dont know if i can come there, if its bad juju. Sad

Ok... that's not some good spelling there, reminds me of one of those 10 yr. olds that own a computer just for using AIM.

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Azathoth666
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Okay... I can't wait to hear what Scritchety has to say about all this...
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my interpretation of the to-nite.graffle pic is just to let caesar know that there are four of them on their way - omni, static, bounce and buzzkill(?)
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Azathoth666
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Makes a lotta sense (^) out to lunch... four hacker buddies in a 'plane flying towards a fort.

I'm with you there... So... does that make 5 including Caesar, or 7: are Tex and Random with Caesar already?
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