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Vincent Candleman - The Timetraveller
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Falusi
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 		Vincent Candleman - The Timetraveller
Is it an ARG? I think so.
A few days ago someone with the nick TravellerInTime and the real name Vincent Candleman added me in ICQ. He said something about travelling in time. He also said he's from the year 2037, which means he's 57 now. The chat wasn't very long and i think there isn't any information in it. Her is the log:

Quote:
TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:07):
Good day!

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:07):
err... hello? who are you?

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:0:
I am Vincent Candleman. I travelled in time to get
here.

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:0:
what!? you are a timetraveller? from which time do you
come?

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:10):
Year 2037. If you look in my ICQ-profile you see that
im 27 years old. Thats because ICQ is in your time. In
my time im 57.

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:10):
and... youve got a time machine?!

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:12):
I will tell you all, but please about e-mail. Mine is
vincent_theonlyone12345SPLAThotmail.com. You must write me
an e-mail, because i think they might be watching me.
They're searching for me. I think i have lots of bugs
in my ICQ. Must go now, bye!

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:12):
bye...


The next day i wrote him an e-mail in the morning.

Quote:
Ok good morning, Vincent! So, you said we need to talk? What is it?
And one question is still open: How did you build a time machine? I mean, this is unimaginable!

Bye,
Takis.


He answered:

Quote:
Hello Takis!
You must help me! I came out of my time to search for help in this
time. In the future, the world will be controlled by ONE person: The great
one. He lives in a room about us. We are the people living in the
future. We are all living in a factory-like-thing. We've got no names, only
numbers.(My name Vincent is from the time where the world wasnt so...
corrupt and we all have names, not numbers.) My number is 6379. We only
eat a sort of gruel.
I build the time machine by collecting spoons and melting them down to
metal. From this, I build a machine. With a few tools I made it
running. I was able to melt them down because our work is to melt down metal
and to forge it.
In this world, we are all gods. Somepeople are more god, somebody less.
The great one is really, really GOD. His personnel is searching for
me. They've seen the time machine in my room and then used it to get in
our time. They're looking after me. They will never get me. I'm free!
I'm living in my dreams, they will not stop my dream!

PYSMG SCGZO BFSAX U

sincerely,
Vincent


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
PYSMG SCGZO BFSAX U was Vigenere Cipher with the key ONEGOD.
The solution is BLOGSPOT VINCENTO

vincento
+vincent_theonlyone12345 (e-mail)
=vincento_theonlyone12345

The blog is http://vincento-theonlyone12345.blogspot.com

The next day the blog has updated. Now there is a new crypted message:
RIAIH UMGUI OTFLK BWQCB DVIBG
It's vigenere again. You get the code by putting together all big letters in the text, so the key is GIIPCIPCII
The solution is LASTFMXEMAILXWITHOUTXNAME, which means LAST.FM EMAIL WITHOUT NAME. This leads to http://www.last.fm/user/theonlyone12345/


On the last.fm he says:
Quote:
Hey guys!
If you've read this, you need to wear something silver! I am a timetraveller and everything that was ever in contact with me needs something silver, because when he doesn't has something, he will get sucked by a time hole.


Then there was a new blog entry, a few minutes ago:
Quote:
NEED HELP!

Oh my god! Agents are knocking on my door. I need help guys!!! Send me tips to my e-mail, i need every help I can get. It seems the door will brake down in a few minutes. Oh no! They've broken a hole in the door and now are looking through it. They will find me. I must go now and hide! Please send help:
vincent_theonlyone12345SPLAThotmail.com


I emailed him:

Quote:
Vincent! You need to hide! If they get you, the world
won't be free, the future will be so cruel as you
said! Can't you as a timetraveller open timeholes too?
Or is it too dangerous?


He answered:

Quote:
That sounds good! I will try it.
OMG! I opened a timehole! It's invisible, but I can see waves like at high heat. In the middle of the waves there is a purple vortex. It sucks like a black hole, but I've got some silver on me. Oh no! The silver was sucked away from the vortex. And now it's closing!!!
Noooooo! This was my only chance! Now it's too dangerous to open a timehole, it would kill me...


Open question:
Who are the agents?

I hope there are some others that are interested in this thing.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:59 pm
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brandonman
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 		That sounds pretty interesting. I might get into this.

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Cujos13th
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 		me too.

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coffeegirl18
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 		Same here, sounds interesting. I'm a timetravel junkie....
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Wastedump
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 		this sounds cool. I'll play

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afrokaze
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 		i'm in, it sounds legit

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Wastedump
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 		So I read this over this over and I noticed a few things (some might be inherently obvious, some might note the first time he responds to your email. He writes

Quote:
In the future, the world will be controlled by ONE person: The great
one. He lives in a room about us. We are the people living in the
future. We are all living in a factory-like-thing. We've got no names, only
numbers.(My name Vincent is from the time where the world wasnt so...
corrupt and we all have names, not numbers.) My number is 6379.....In this world, we are all gods. Somepeople are more god, somebody less.
The great one is really, really GOD. His personnel is searching for
me. They've seen the time machine in my room and then used it to get in
our time.....They will never get me. I'm free!
I'm living in my dreams, they will not stop my dream!

I want to point out a few things that I noticed when reading and pose some questions as well. 1)I think that the ONE GOD could possibly be a dicator. but if its a dictator then why is he sending agents after vincent? why wouldn't he just chase after vincent?2)Vincent says they live in a factory thing perhaps the agents are guards? or supervisers? or something. Also vincent says theyv'e been in his room? Does this factory have rooms for everyone? And is this one god a material being (meaning he's made of flesh and blood).3)Vincent mentions tools. what kind of tools? 4) (I don't write this as a joke or insult to anybody but as a serious question) Is vincent hallucianting because he mention something about living in my dream. 5)The number 6379 in hex, the characters (for the numbers 63 and 79) are "cy". In decimal (63 and 79) translate in hex as 3f and 4f. I'll write more as I see more.[/u]

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Falusi
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 		A few minutes ago Vincent wrote me in ICQ:

Quote:
TravellerInTime ‎(15:29):
I AM CAPTURED


I found this blog:

http://iamcaptured.blogspot.com/

The picture seems like a puzzle.
It's very noticeable that there are all letter but four numbers.
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Perko
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 		Well, the name of the file is addition.bmp, leading one to believe there will be some sort of addition involved. The dimensions are 7x8.

Since there are 3 Zs, 2 Js, 2 Xs, and a lot of other high-point Scrabble letters, I'm sure some sort of letter substitution is required.
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 		Sounds funky, i'm in.

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Cabuki
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 		same here, ffasupportSPLATgmail.com

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Cujos13th
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 		Check this, I found it when looking through the Source Code, Its its teh same page but with a scrambled message

http://iamcaptured.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-am-captured.html

Quote:
ohell sgyu
mi twigrin isth centmom hoghurt a limothee os eth swdro rea abemy ledburr
teh zuplez nda sti slotionu rae relyal mortaitpin
oyu tmus lovse ti!!!!!!!!


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Quote:
ohell sgyu
mi twigrin isth centmom hoghurt a limothee os eth swdro rea abemy ledburr
teh zuplez nda sti slotionu rae relyal mortaitpin
oyu tmus lovse ti!!!!!!!!


it's actually left as a comment to that entry from username vincento*, and unscrambled is

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Hello guys I'm writing this comment through a timehole so the words are maybe blurred
The puzzle and its solution are really important
you must solve it!!!!!


ETA: *I'm guessing the original username was a mistake and it was just changed

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Falusi
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 		This looks like many anagramms. I'm not sure, but the first word looks like hello.

WTF RAVENINTRAINING!? Oo This is sammeeeees
I think this was a statement from someone in this board that he is the PM.
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 		Anagramming the individual words gives you:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
hello guys
im writing this comment through a timehole so the words are maybe blurred
the puzzle and its solution are really important
you must solve it!!


There's one word in the middle I haven't solved yet.

Edit: word found
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