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nbnewell
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 		and the newest one is......

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http://www.geocities.com/foldednight/deathvalley


containing:

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Valley of death,
plain of light,
shadows lurking,
angels searching,
can you find the light?


and in the source...

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Coronado's land, made from hard rock, A trailway from Quitaque

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Angelus78
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 		ok since this little chat I had with bob bruce bill and buck is waay to long to post here I uploaded it to a fileshare spot this is the link

http://www.mediafire.com/?8u8zbklgv5p

if you can't open it just tell me.

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Angelus78
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 		Here is my most recent chat with bob

Quote:

Bob says:
How is everything going Angelus?
Bob says:
My money is on you.
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
Thank you Bob, I hope that's true in more ways then one
Bob says:
No problem.
Bob says:
How is everything?
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
It's going well.
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
If you haven't heard yet we've discovered death valley
Bob says:
Oh really?
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
Aye and the very lovely riddle.
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
Those spanish explorers do love their fame
Bob says:
Did you figure it out yet my apprentice?
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
Yes I believe so
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
I had a feeling it had to do with the caprock trail
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
which lead me the caprock escarpment
Bob says:
Good, good.
Bob says:
Your next page is now unlocked.
Bob says:
You are ahead of the game so far kid.
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
I hope to stay that way
Bob says:
Well good luck.
Bob says:
For the next page to be unlocked
Bob says:
Answers must be given to me, email or IM, I will be watching.
Angelus Ex Mortis says:
I will remember that, thank you bob.
Bob says:


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nbnewell
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 		altight next page:

http://www.geocities.com/foldednight/caprock

I can't post the code here easily...

looks like a checkerboard cipher maybe kinda sorta?
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EnigmaFisk
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 		thats wild...today right after i read the badwater text deciphered i tried foldednight/deathvalley...i got no results for that page...same thing happened to me with grand canyon....i dont know when you guys figured out death valley but i had it at like 12:00p.m. so im just gonna start passing my anwsers along and letting you guys do the internet part...cuase i've spent all day trying to figure out what badwater refered to thinking that deathvalley was a dead end...lol

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nbnewell
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 		lol, we had to send it to him first before he would unlock it. he is getting trickier and trickier.
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massive
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 		It is, thankfully, a straight checkerboard cipher:

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a
numbers secreta
story untoldtelling

stories
of days
oldassociate numbers with letters

see
{the picture}
how you do the

reduction of
see
six aych five en

oh too with a little
cniz and crystalization what do you
get


Here's how I broke it down:

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a numbers secret, a story untold, telling stories
of days old ... associate numbers with letters ... see how you do the reduction of C6H5NO2 with a little cniz and crystalization what do you get?


What the heck is 'cniz'?

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Adam C
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 		how did you solve that?

C6H5O2 is isonicotonic acids like ethionamide, iproniazid, isoniazid, and most commonly nialamide.

Most of them are used in drugs for the treatments of depression and alcoholism, although ethionamide is used in treating tuberculosis.

cniz is zinc spelled backward, and the reduction of C6H5O2 gets you phenylhydroxylamine, when in the presence of NH4Cl

It appears in the form of crystallized yellow needles.

Here are the Wikipedia pages for C6H5NO2, NH4Cl, and phenylhydroxylamine.

C6H5NO2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isonicotinic_acid

NH4Cl - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH4Cl

C6H5NHOH - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylhydroxylamine
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massive
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 		Checkerboard works like this:

Code:

X 1 2 3 4 5
1 a b c d e
2 f g h i k
3 l m n o p
4 q r s t u
5 v w x y z


Each letter gets matched to a pair of numbers -- A, for instance, is 11, and then B is 12. I and J are both mapped to 24. There's also a 6x6 version that lets you encode numbers.

So I built this table in Notepad, copied the strings of numbers, and converted. It's easy to spot -- number strings that don't have the numbers 6-0. =] But it can be tricky as well, because you can add in a keyword at the beginning. This one was just a straight encryption though.

Sadly, C6H5NO2 appears to be the chemical compound for more than one thing:
Nitrobenzene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrobenzene
Niacin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin

EnvironmentalChemistry.com reports that nitrobenzene has an "incompatibility" with zinc ... and since we tend to be skewing towards Wild Western things, maybe this is some sort of explosives?

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Adam C
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 		Well, so anyone got any ideas about the next url?
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Angelus78
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 		The answer to the most recent clue has to be either emailed or IM'ed to folded.

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 		nitrobenzene is reduced with zinc to make azo-benzene. Nitrobenzene can also be reduced -- with nickel in modern times but I saw some old reference with zinc -- to make aniline . These have both been used to make dyes or as dyes.

The formula would also work for Niacin, but I'm not sure what would happen if you reduced it with zinc.

Edit: I missed Adam C's post above. That will work as well depending on your conditions to get Phenylhydroxylamine.

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Adam C
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 		Niacin is C6H6O2, not H5. Not that it really matters, but just to avoid any confusion.

I couldn't find much on phenylhydroxylamine, other than what was on wiki, for its common uses and such.
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massive
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Adam C wrote:
Niacin is C6H6O2, not H5.


The wiki link that I quoted must be wrong, then, as it lists that compound in the article.

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Adam C
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 		isonicotonic just means isomer of nicotonic, nicotonic acid is, essentially, niacin...

i was just clarifying that they're two seperate, albeit very very similiar, compounds
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