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**Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:35 am

WolfHawk

Cool! * Off to read the blog *

**Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:17 pm

Rekidk

I tried simple substitution, a la newspaper cryptoquip, but to no avail. I'm assuming that the second part of the address in the second message is either 'blogspot' or 'freewebs.'

Hm... Smile

**Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:15 pm

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carmenmiranda · Decorated Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 226

Ooo, how exciting! I have been ARG-free since Geist ended.

Edit: The two entries have the following email addresses linked:

post one: nxbqapSPLATmail.com

post two: njgctwruSPLATmail.com

About the URL and the email addresses: It seems odd to me that the mail.com and the .com at the end of the URL are not in code. There is actually a page at that URL.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:59 am

carmenmiranda · Decorated Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 226

It's all right. I don't mind talking to myself here.

I tried simple substitutions as well, and they all came out looking something like: cultisvqw heap shakily jshdeforb hinged umped grout

If it was a vignere cypher and the url was either blogspot or freewebs, the keyword would include the following:

blogspot: pimvxikf

freewebs: togtbxxe

Both posts have the same number of letters in the first four words, which is probably entirely meaningless, but proves that I can count.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:56 am

Jediwannabe

I'm glad you're back on-board Caremn. This has gone unsolved for far too long now, I was thinking everyone had given up on it.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:50 am

WolfHawk

Nope, haven't given up - I'm just crappy at anything other than a simple substitution puzzle.

Personally, I'd like to see Geist continue. Make it an X-Files thing, Eva and Keir would be Scully and Mulder and Pat and Dave would be The Lone Gunmen.

Besides, I miss all youse guys! Wink

**Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:50 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:07 am

Rekidk

Personally, I miss Eva and her vlogs. I really really liked her as a character. :'(

**Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:01 pm

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Tarim · Boot Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Bristol, UK

**Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:21 pm

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legioninfinity · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 50

Doesn't a proper april fool technically have to be executed prior to the strict midday deadline?

Surely no would-be prank artiste would be clumsy or crass enough to flout the final sturdy plank of reliability in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world that is the midday deadline? single most important convention of april fooling.
It is.
If you're after midday then its not an april fool, its a tasteless, tardy and possibly blasphemous perversion of an innocent and harmless ritual dating back to... a long time ago.

It could be, of course, that it is not an april fool by a disgruntled former geist-er (perhaps one who thought it all ended too suddenly?) and that instead we are dealing with a new breed of microbially enhanced april fool-subverting supervillain: subject010407.net is online!

Ready to battle for the planet's collective soul one more time?
meiGeist die-hards! To arms! The world needs our collaborative abilities of discussing things at great length more than ever before!
Lost cats a speciality, sort of.

Or maybe... yes, it must be keir and eva trying to tell us something! or erwin maybe! Has anyone tried using miaow as a keyword? Wink

so anyway, it wasn't me obviously...

now let's see, who has been suspiciously non-vocal about it? hmmmm

**Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:40 pm

Jediwannabe

Id had occurred to me that this may be what it first appears to be - an April Fools joke that goes nowhere - perhaps Hazel's way of poking more fun at the over-analysers amongst us? Nah, I don't think she'd torment us like that.

Oh well - there appears to be no solve, and nobody has dropped any clues our way, so I'll have to resign myself to disappointment.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:22 am

legioninfinity · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 50

meh looks like the soulless ad-robots have finally claimed the blog comments as their latest billboard... might not be many more clues coming from that direction. Unless, of course, those are the kinds of clues you're looking for.

But you know what? Not ever knowing what the story is with those two posts won't bother me a bit. In fact, it seems entirely possible that they will never cross my mind again. Frankly, it's peanuts compared to never figuring out what the hell NLPEXP was all about...

**Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:00 pm