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[thebruce]

Nice, thanks for the move.

To start, I've created a thread, a 'gutter' if you will, for everyone to post whatever photos they've submitted to EniTech. I have a feeling we'd get a bunch of posts in these threads amongst the discussion, taking up space. So if you're going to post your photo - please post it in this thread, thanks!

[BronzeGolem]

Jacob's crime photo

[Thomas Bookmore]

A few corrections...

[thegreatsatan]

I have an inside source at Enitech. I can't divulge who it is, so don't ask. I can prove it if need be, but I am hesitant given the seriousness of events as of late.

My source tells me that there is indeed talk of infiltration. The images inserted into their videos without their knowledge has everyone shaken. Their IT staff went back to the content that was published, and those images are not present, meaning someone has compromised their security.

Jacob is very afraid, to the point that there is talk of him going into hiding. The stalker of Anna has yet to be identified, but it is not the first time she has been confronted.

I'll post more soon, but I hope this helps.

[RobMagus]

Please don't post in-game on the boards, whether you're a PM, gamejacker, or roleplayer. The guidelines for the forum are freely availiable for you to read - see the top left of the forum screen, for example.

[Kerrisis]

Little harsh there, Rob. If Mr. Satan is genuine, it means Unfiction's members efforts have been recognised and we're being given in-game info directly, something of an honour in my book...

[vpisteve]

[Kerrisis]

[KookieB]

Anyone in this forum been submitting any pictures of their towns? I saw that BryanFlurry and Thomas Bookmore both have from the Phillipines and Paris respectively. If you have, I do ask that you post it in this thread as previously posted by the bruce.

I really am curious to see if they ACTUALLY use user submitted photos or simply claim user submitted photos from ones they already planned. I am getting a good picture tomorrow of downtown St. Louis, MO where I am from. This includes The Arch. You will notice in the linked picture the shiny building sticking out from behind the left side... that's where I work so I am hoping they somehow use my picture so I can see what happens

I will post my picture in the above thread when I send it in!

[thegreatsatan]

my apologies for not understanding the purpose of this forum. i assumed it was to follow what is occurring

[vpisteve]

[notgordian]

[thebruce]

[Thomas Bookmore]

[squid808]

Okay. I've been doing a LOT of work on these stupid numbies, and talking with Rob. I really like where bruce was going with his base5 to base10 to text idea. It makes sense. I liked the idea of a playfair cipher. It had possibilities, but obvious holes (the odds of having exactly 26 identical pairs for both messages doesn't sit well for a playfair, in my eyes).

But then it occured to me that, with two blocks of numerical 'text' and two remaining punch cards, they have to be linked. I mean, having these two new puzzles occur when we haven't even finished using the other part from the last puzzle seems... odd. Which got me to thinking, how in the world can we cross these? I thought about running a Vig on the text bruce came up with, using the lyrics again as a key. But, to no apparent avail. I think. You can feel free to try any of this, btw, since I did most of it at 3 in the AM and may have screwed it up. Anyways, a straight vig using the lyrics didn't seem to work.

Ah! Then I recalled how the original numbers were in pairs for both messages. But, the pairs made me think. In the playfair, one may use a key square that starts out with a key phrase followed by all but one of the rest of the alphabet, unless you combine i and j. I figured then that if we had some such key, rather than doing a playfair we could do a simple substitution from numbers to text (NtT, since I'm lazy). Alas, I tried phrases that made sense (Robot, Humanoid (from the articles on flickr) and Pinkfloyd came to mind, and using it like ROBTACDEFG etc or HUMANOIDBCEFG etc) and everything still came up jumbled. Also, it leaves the results of our frequency tests unsatisfied. Hmm.

Then I had my final and most desperate thought. What if, using one key we were able to get letters with a NtT substitution, and then us the lyrics for a Vig key? So, I immediately tried using the titles of the songs and parts of the titles as the keys for the NtT, and the lyrics for a Vig but alas, no luck. However, if this were the case it may solve our concern as to the frequency, since the Vig would mess with that.

In the end, this is the paranoid speculation of someone who took the time to write these two blocks of numbers into a the the nice, small blocks on graph paper, and who since has gotten little sleep and food. I realize this is a huge run-around, not to mention a more or less double (or triple) encryption depending on how you look at it, and thus very unlikely. However, I post in the hopes that you, fellow addicts, will find something I said useful and make headway. /rant