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Freedom · Greenhorn Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 5

To keep others from wasting effort...

Converting the letters into numbers, and thus ip addresses...

Details of 121.119.65.22
IP Address : 121.119.65.22
Location : Japan (95% accuracy)
Host Name : i121-119-65-22.s05.a011.ap.plala.or.jp

bleh.. unfortunately, the address leads to nothing.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:45 am

jjocke · Decorated Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 164

Puzzle 3 - Not a phone number??

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:35 pm

JohnnyCon7

I've been away for a while, so I'm probably rusty, but this looks like a good place to start. I really like the writing and puzzles in this ARG so far.

Staying on the musical theme, the letters could represent lyrics. I remember doing a Christmas ARG where one of the puzzles was a string of letters that represented the first letter of a word in a lyric from a Christmas song.

Better illustrated by an example; OWFIITR would be. . .
"Oh what fun it is to ride. . ." from Jingle Bells.

Highwind suggested something like this in response to number 3, I think.

The problem here is that there doesn't seem to be any real parameters. Right now I'm looking for any hints about artist/song/genre, but really there doesn't seem to be much to go on. I'll keep working on this angle though (The only possible hints I see so far is the mention of the "storm outside" and "What if it's not as short underneath as it appears on top?", but I don't know what either mean, if anything.)

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:04 pm

jjocke · Decorated Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 164

Found a tone generator

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:28 pm

wkelly42 · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 147

New message, and another website. You have to email AD to get the picture she has, but it leads to another blog:

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:49 pm

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Rinishness · Boot Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 48 Location: New Jersey

My friend who reads music gave me a thing that might help...

[00:28] Me: i was misquoting AD it was "What if it's not as short underneath as it appears on top?"
[00:30] Friend: Well, there's one thing in music sort of like that.
[00:30] Me: there is?
[00:31] Friend: Yeah, a dot.
[00:31] Friend: Placed UNDER a note, it makes it short. Staccato.
[00:31] Me: a dot?
[00:31] Friend: Placed next to a note, it makes it longer by a half.

So he suggested running it through a coder with the word "staccato" as the key, alas nothing.

EDIT: Different friend suggested using the world "trebleclef" we are probably very far off, but it's a shot, right?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:37 am

stile · Guest

puzzle 2 and puzzle 3... connected?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:43 am

wkelly42 · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 147

puzzle two was solved a while back -->

**Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:47 pm

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highwind767

Well, after another IM with her, AD pointed out another post on the Villain's blogspot. Anyway, some random snippets that may (Or may not) be of use:

massive

ISMNs are 10 digits but start with an 'M'. It's also not a valid ISBN number, for what that's worth (checksum doesn't add up).

I get the gut feeling that the numbers are off and that we should be looking for lyrics or album titles or something with the initials of the string. The hints she seems to be dropping sure seem to point in that direction.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:38 pm

Colori LAZY · Guest

number three, at least towards the end, definitely sounds like this song-

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=23

Good king winceslas.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:34 pm

Rinishness · Boot Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 48 Location: New Jersey

Has anyone noticed that the Villain updated his blog? He says:

**Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:35 pm

highwind767

Yup, I noticed that as well. The blog updated on Thursday (Although AD did have to bring it up with me) But without knowing who the person is, or what the images are, it'll be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:02 pm

massive

Assassin Diaries updated yesterday, with hopefully another hint to point us in the right direction:

**Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:16 pm

highwind767

She got that info from asking about TM, so I don't think it's related to our puzzle, but the story. But hey, you never know, so try it if you want. It's not as if we're getting very far on this one anyway.
If this puzzle turns out to be so easy it's near obvious, I'm gonna scream.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:27 pm