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johnny5
Entrenched
Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 995 Location: Elysian Fields
Lulls A song for our latest. Sung to the tune of "memory"
Miiiidniiiiight
Not a sound from the peeee-emmmms
Has the moon lost her tarrrrot?
we are puzzling alone
In the chatroom
The useless keys collect at our feet
And the sentrieeeees begin to moan
Sennntrieeees
All alone at the OuuutPost
We can smile at the old days
It was beautiful then
I remember the time we knew what storyline was
Let the memory live again
For extra irony, refer to the source of the original
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:45 pm
WolfHawk
Entrenched
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1247 Location: St. Louis
Re: Lulls A song for our latest.
johnny5 wrote:
Sung to the tune of "memory"
Miiiidniiiiight
Not a sound from the peeee-emmmms
Has the moon lost her tarrrrot?
we are puzzling alone
In the chatroom
The useless keys collect at our feet
And the sentrieeeees begin to moan
Sennntrieeees
All alone at the OuuutPost
We can smile at the old days
It was beautiful then
I remember the time we knew what storyline was
Let the memory live again
For extra irony, refer to the source of the original
Heh, I know exactly what the original is. I've even seen it. How appropriate.
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:45 pm
danteIL
Unfictologist
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990
So what's going on here? Did we break the game? Has everyone given up in disgust that we can't solve this stupid safeget key? Did Chorazos finally drag Peter away as a human sacrifice? Last time I checked the eclipse was still fast approaching. A little meta/Meta-communication would be nice.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:00 pm
enaxor
I Have No Life
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
Left a CL from Sharp Teeth, and all I got was a link to date Alyssa.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:24 pm
mapmaker
Unfettered
Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Providence, RI, USA
Heh, I'm sure it's just Dreamhost or whatever, but right now I can't even get to SO.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:45 pm
Noyb
Veteran
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 71
Hehe. Nice parody, johnny5. It works when sung aloud, which is always a sign of craft.
Don't have enough free time at the moment to dedicate to solving ciphers that apparently either require PM help or iterating through all possibilities. (Oh, insane guy who uses ciphers as an intelligence test, I thought I would never see it in this game). Honestly, I'm still not entirely sure of the ingame reason why the photographer (?) is helping random mules break his ciphers on safeget. Or how chorazos expected its inductees to have a prerelease copy of Sharp Teeth.
So what do we have to do at the moment?
* Leak info to Peter to get more pages of his executive summary. Maybe a writeup on what we know about MLM's structure would help?
* Solve that Chinese (?) 22-character cipher.
* Make our own ciphers to act as usernames on safeget.
* Give emotional support to sploit with his mapping, maybe warn him of the danger of leaving that satellite photo up.
* Help Howard get his groove back.
* Figure out the logistics of that coming ritual.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:42 pm
Last edited by Noyb on Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:33 pm; edited 1 time in total
danteIL
Unfictologist
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990
Noyb wrote:
Honestly, I'm still not entirely sure of the ingame reason why the photographer (?) is helping random mules break his ciphers on safeget.
My guess: DC has pegged us as potential recruits for Chorazos. These ciphers are a Mensa test of sorts, and they're from the Sculptor (not the Photographer) I think (and we're failing miserably). I agree it doesn't make sense that he would help us break his own codes, but perhaps Chorazos is desperate for new blood.
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Or how chorazos expected its inductees to have a prerelease copy of Sharp Teeth.
At the NYC drop, after obtaining an autograph from the author, Johnny received it from the Sculptor.
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* Leak info to Peter to get more pages of his executive summary. Maybe a writeup on what we know about MLM's structure would help?
I believe that there are a number of emails currently waiting in Peter's in-box, but we haven't heard a peep. We haven't told him yet about MLM, have we? I am sure he would be very interested in that.
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* Solve that Chinese (?) 22-character cipher.
Sapagoo solved it (Job #2), here: http://www.sentryoutpost.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=8988#8988 Be impressed! The final message says:
Code:
VIRGIN I-CHING DATA CAST WITH SAINT ANTHONY'S
BONES BY GNOSTIC PROPHETESS NINE MB AVAIL BEST OFFER
It seems that this is the auction that is being referred to in this message, which Rowan received in one of the replies to Job #3 (the one with the message SIGNED BARGAINERS ONLY:
Code:
the clipping is a key to my auction for the icheng
rearrange the text into a grid of twenty two chars
emet suggests which columns you want
Hebrew suggests the orfer to read each row
the result looks like nonsense but encludes spaces
encludes runs like cynuB and sious
must arrange peck up of goods in my tarot code
This is the cipher that is giving us all of the trouble at the moment!
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* Make our own ciphers to act as usernames on safeget.
Yep, it's not clear how this is supposed to work.
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* Give emotional support to sploit with his mapping, maybe warn him of the danger of leaving that satellite photo up.
Emotional support: Check
Warning about photo: Good idea
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* Help Howard get his groove back.
Ha! As if.
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* Figure out the logistics of that coming ritual.
Yep, and it's getting closer with each passing moment.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:05 pm
DavFlamerock
Entrenched
Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 937 Location: H2Oville, ME, USA
Noyb wrote:
* Make our own ciphers to act as usernames on safeget.
That would be my poem--our trademark cipher would be the poem idea.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:52 pm
rowan
Unfictologist
Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966
Not as good as j5's, but I've been humming this all day without realizing it until now.
Oh where, oh where have our PMs gone?
Oh where, oh where can they be?
With our keys all stuck and our nerves all worn
oh where, oh where can they be?
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:19 pm
WolfHawk
Entrenched
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1247 Location: St. Louis
Noyb wrote:
So what do we have to do at the moment?
* Leak info to Peter to get more pages of his executive summary. Maybe a writeup on what we know about MLM's structure would help?
* Solve that Chinese (?) 22-character cipher.
* Make our own ciphers to act as usernames on safeget.
* Give emotional support to sploit with his mapping, maybe warn him of the danger of leaving that satellite photo up.
* Help Howard get his groove back.
* Figure out the logistics of that coming ritual.
It's getting late. Maybe we should go ahead and tell Peter. This can be OUR test of our ability to trust HIM.
Unless whatever is happening on the 20th HAS to happen to move the story forward in which case the difficulty is planned so the ritual or whatever can happen.
I put this here because I can't get into SO at the moment and I have to leave for work soon.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:04 pm
sinyx
Decorated
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 171 Location: Brooklyn, NY
WolfHawk wrote:
It's getting late. Maybe we should go ahead and tell Peter. This can be OUR test of our ability to trust HIM.
This may be our only option at the moment, unless we magically solve everything in time for tonight (long shot) or the PM's finally kick in and have someone give up a hint/answer. Hopefully the storyline was flexible enough to move in either direction - us getting the solve and stopping the ritual or us not getting it and win #1 for Chorazos.
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:05 pm
DavFlamerock
Entrenched
Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 937 Location: H2Oville, ME, USA
At this point I'm pretty sure we actually never were supposed to stop the ritual. But we'll see...
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:01 pm
WolfHawk
Entrenched
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1247 Location: St. Louis
I'm thinking it's going to happen at the Forsythe conference in Arkham. We may not hear from Peter again. How appropriate for the beings behind this to bust up a conference concerning threat management.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:05 pm
Noyb
Veteran
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 71
This doesn't seem like the PMs to completely cut off all contact like this on multiple threads with all the buildup to tonight. Hopefully nothing bad has happened on a meta level (rocket launcher wielding researchers as neighbors would freak me out), or that they're not in panic story rewrite mode not having thought of what would happen if we didn't solve the MLM puzzles fast enough. Or that the scenario we triggered resulted in the death of all major players without anyone on our side to tell us what happened.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:05 am
feriwiccan
Decorated
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 173 Location: Amherst, MA
I was worried about the same, Noyb. I remember one ARG that kind of died because the PM was in the hospital -- damn, I forget the name. And with no activity as of this morning; well, I just don't know what to do.
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