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Adam C

Once we get this next hint, I'm going to collaborate all of the puzzles into one big post, with their spoilers. So anyone just getting into the game can follow up.

Then I'll submit it to the good folks of despoiler.org (aka SpaceBass).

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**Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:55 pm

GoodChild

ok, so when i said robot semaphore before...i might not have been too far off.

Ok, now when you look at the new blogad-ty picture, it looks similar to the squalor and dust pics that we had to place on top of each other. Apparently there's this thing called Semacode (forgive me if you all know about this already, this is the first time i've heard of it). Semacode is basically a process for encoding a URL into a barcode-like image. Apparently if you take a picture of the semacode with a camera phone, the camera decodes the image and directs you to a web address, accessible using your phone's web browser.

Anyone want to attempt it? i'm going to bed and my phone doesn't have web browsing capabilities.

http://semacode.org/

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:46 am

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Vman · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 107 Location: Kent

Wow, thats very interesting, great find goodchild. I have a blackjack, so hopefully thats up to it. And do you guys think that we should search the blogs more thoroughly since the login page is /brother? kind of implies a login that starts with brother "..." or maybe its another random password. Too bad there's no way of making sure if only the login is right, that would make things easier unless unlike the other login puzzle, the login and password are really close to each other.

Edit: on that semacode site, it seems you have to download software on your phone for it to work, so i think it can work on your computer too since there's another file reader that works on comps.

Edit2: it seems you have to have a server running or a command line to input fresh java in, which I don't have. Also, this stuff looks way over my head. If these TEC bastards went this far, I'm impressed and hacked off at the same time Smile

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:32 am

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**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:48 am

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waitress#2 · Entrenched Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 873

These are the blogs that have been found so far.

http://electricmonastery.blogspot.com/

http://livinginthesystem.blogspot.com/

http://kitlarmuan.tripod.com/

http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=d6da2ed11e35879a

If I've missed any please let me know. Smile

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:54 pm

Angelus78

does anyone else think the friends page pic says blogads?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:11 pm

f · Veteran Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 105

I thought the semacode was a good idea, and I downloaded the java reader, and couldn't get it to work on the gif. I then experimented with making my own semacodes to see what it would take for the reader to work and quickly discovered that it doesn't work with gif files. I went ahead and made a jpeg from a screenshot of the blogads_stream.gif file, and no message was found in semacode.
So I suspect we need to find a complementary image somewhere.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:15 pm

wargasm · Veteran Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 82

hmm...

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:55 pm

Elise · Guest

Again, in the clear...

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:12 pm

waitress#2 · Entrenched Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 873

In that article they don't show what Clear Text looks like, so I'm not sure I would recognize it and I'm not a programmer. Confused

The in the clear phrase and the negative space phrase makes me think of trns.gif. This is the image at the bottom of the dead monks page and when you download it to your computer it is blank (negative space or clear). It shows up in my photo bucket account blank as well

http://tinyurl.com/2e8j9q (it really is there, just right click & save photo)

But if you download it and open it in notepad you can see there is a .gif there. Confused

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:32 pm

f · Veteran Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 105

Angelus78

has anyone with a cellphone cam tried installing the semacode program to decode the friends pic?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:53 pm

f · Veteran Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 105

**Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:57 pm