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Sylvia
I Have No Life

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
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 		Nice work guys, Awesome.

latest blog entry from Sx Aff aka Bowty25

An eventful week wrote:
Saturday, February 16, 2008

It has been an eventful week.

I need to prepare for the next step.

I feel some rest is in order.

I have gone fishing.

See you all Monday.


Nighthawk, I'm sure he'll fix your name just email him. Then please post the link to your site. I don't know why but I want to keep track of all the numbers in our urls.

Also I'm not sure about hawk jones. I edited one of my previous post to include one of his blog entries that I missed. Since I know we tend to miss edits I'll repost it here because of the odd mention of gate in it.

Quote:
Friday, December 14, 2007

WTF it's december 14th?

So check this shit out.
I had a couple of drinks at a bar with some people from work after work. It was a lot of fun and junk.
I also fell down some stairs before I went to work and broke this gate that keeps my niece from falling down the stairs like her dumb ass uncle. So I had to go buy one of those gates from walmart on my way home. Shit wasn't too bad, since I won 55 cents playing video poker, and the gate was exactly $38.55. Obviously, I used that 55 cents to bring it down to 38 bucks.
Weird huh?
Anyway, I guess i'm going to start blogging.
Oh and maybe one day the creepy ass eye won't be my pic anymore too.

(red is by me)
And then later on he writes 2/5/8 in comments to some of his friends myspaces but doesn't remember doing it. So there is a chance he is in game. For the time being, I'm going to say that he is until I get proof that he's not.

Now for a goody. Sx Aff (bowty25) sent an email:
Sx Aff wrote:

Dear Sylvia,

It seems you have been assisting some of the new disciples. Your dedication to me shows no bounds.

I have one final gift for you and all of my disciples, only you just have to find it.

Have a great weekend.

Sincerely,
Bowty.

P.S. Start at the beginning


so back to the beginning we go. The Gate Reaction - Out Fishing

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honeycreepshow
Boot


Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Posts: 23
Location: Kansas City

 		On the Out Fishing page, if you press control-a, there's this bit of text:

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Vq cnn qh oa fkuekrngu,

N mfaj uwjufwji f wjhtwinsl ozxy ktw dtz.

eda15fnncmhfgs.lo3


which I cannot for the life of me figure out how to decode Confused

EDIT: ps, Sylvia, I'm just curious, but how did you decode the email from endridmercy?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:24 pm
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Nighthawk
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 14 Jul 2007
Posts: 4751
Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth

 		Beat me to it...
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Lines are Caesarian shift ( http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/caesar.php )

LINE 1, N=24:
To all of my disciples,

LINE 2, N=21:
I have prepared a recording just for you

LINE 3, N=1:
feb15goodnight.mp3

...which leads to...
http://www.thegatereaction.com/Feb15goodnight.mp3


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Sylvia
I Have No Life

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
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honeycreepshow wrote:
EDIT: ps, Sylvia, I'm just curious, but how did you decode the email from endridmercy?

here's an example.

Quote:
111111111 <- count how many 1 = 9 = I is the 9th letter of the alphabet
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA <- this line is nothing, just a hint to telling us to count and use the alphabet since there are 26 A's
222222223444444444444444444444455555 <- count how many of each number: 2=8 = h, 3= 1= a, 4 = 22 = v, 5= 5 = e : = have
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB <- again this is nothing, just a hint
6666666666666677777777777777788888888888888888888888 <- this is 6=14=n, 7=15=o, 8=23=w: = now


Nice Nighthawk, and just so that everyone knows the importance of the 2 and 5 in this game. (caesar) rot24 is encoded using rot2 and rot21 is encoded using rot5 and rot1 is encoded using rot25. So the numbers 2 and 5 show up once again.

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Sylvia
I Have No Life

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
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 		This is the best I can get from the audio file. Feb15goodnight.mp3

Quote:
Hello?? my disciples. You have done well. You will all show me that ??? is possible. You are mine. There is much ahead. For now, I shall rest. goodnight.

(? are place holders for where I'm not sure what is said or a word I can't make out.)

Continuing on with the trail the following page has a significant change. http://www.thegatereaction.com/443/Gqyzcjjy/ what we did before was use Rot1/25 to change Gqyzcjjy into Isabella to go to /443/Isabella/ which you still can. But..

The way it is now presented makes me think we are to look for a site on freewebs.com. I tried a few things then tried nothingiswhatitseems and got a page for :

Quote:
Karl Corcoran Specialist Close-Up Magic

with the business card attached below.

I did a google search for Karl Corcoran and it turns out he is an evangelist with Cross Reach Evangelism. They have an youtube site.

I can't find anything about a Karl Corcoran being a magician or a member of a young magicians' club. So is the freeweb site in game/out of game? I don't know. But with the evangelist/disciple stuff, I think it might be.

There is an Young Magicians' Club in the UK. I tried to enter the members area using this login format. name:karlcorcoran / password:nothingiswhatitseems with no luck
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honeycreepshow
Boot


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 		I applied for membership on the Young Magicians site, just to see what happens. Should we e-mail Karl and ask him if he's ever heard of Bowty or The Gate Reaction or anything, or just wait it out?

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Cyrus
Boot


Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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 		Clicking the The Test from the Main page will bring up the following

Quote:
Welcome!

For this grand occasion, I wrote a poem to reflect my overwhelming emotions.
Perhaps it can shed some light on why I have been Counting the days until February Fifth.
Maybe not.
Maybe the Words will bring you closer to me.
It would be an honor if I could read it to you.


However ctrl+a reveals:

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The watery weather starts a war in Wassa end. Wallace Wears a white box over his welted body end. Welcome to wall warf end.

This is the text of the mypoem.mp3 which can be heard by clicking the link in the page. HOWEVER there is a noticeable extra word or sound at the end.


However I'd say the above /may/ just be a mistake (as explained below) as the formatting of the text on this page is another clue. Look at the Bolded words/letters.

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We are told to count the number of W words in the poem. There are eleven.

This leads us to http://www.thegatereaction.com/11/ but that only seems to be part of it. I would think the word "end" in the poem is something next maybe.

Interestingly however, if you try 12 instead of 11 the PM claims its a mistake and TELLS you to go to 11. Hitting 13 or other numbers leads you to choose between either 11 or 12.

There are possible source code hints in both http://www.thegatereaction.com/julie.htm and http://www.thegatereaction.com/11/


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Sylvia
I Have No Life

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 		Wow and welcome aboard Cyrus.

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Cyrus
Boot


Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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 		*grins* thanks. But now I'm very much stuck at this latest bit.

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Sylvia
I Have No Life

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
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honeycreepshow wrote:
I applied for membership on the Young Magicians site, just to see what happens. Should we e-mail Karl and ask him if he's ever heard of Bowty or The Gate Reaction or anything, or just wait it out?


I don't know but couldn't hurt. I mean the email and phone numbers have obviously been stuck right in front of our noses just begging us to call or write.

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shrtyscott3
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Sylvia wrote:
This is the best I can get from the audio file. Feb15goodnight.mp3

Quote:
Hello?? my disciples. You have done well. You will all show me that ??? is possible. You are mine. There is much ahead. For now, I shall rest. goodnight.

(? are place holders for where I'm not sure what is said or a word I can't make out.)



He says: Teamwork

Quote:
"show me that teamwork is possible"
=D

Edit!??!?:
I sent the magician guy an email

Quote:
Dear Karl Corcoran

Me and a couple of other people stumbled across your page, may you take a moment and a couple of questions?

Have you heard of the Gate Reaction?
Have you heard of anyone named Bowty/Sx Aff?
Have you heard of anyone named Hawk Jones
Does February 15 mean anything to you?
Do you know anyone named Julie?


Thank you for your time:

Chris Duasso


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Cyrus
Boot


Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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 		Is there some relevance in why he's counting the days to Feb FIFTH? Other than what I've pointed out above, he also mentions Feb Fifteenth. Both days have passed. Is it simply a 2, 5, reference again? Or could it be part of the missing code he refers to?

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Palm
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Joined: 06 Jun 2007
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 		I found this - I don't remember seeing it here -

It has a code will have to write it down yet.

http://www.thegatereaction.com/notwhatitseems.mp3

I got it by the Binary Code on the Isabella page.

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Oriza
Entrenched


Joined: 21 Dec 2007
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 		Jeez, I'm gone for a day and look what happens :O
I hope he doesn't use too much more mp3 files, as my computer doesn't have sound T_T

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Sylvia
I Have No Life

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 		Palm that was solved back on page 2 of this thread by MrToasty. Also I was looking into the whoismrwilson, Join My Legacy stuff on myspace. And it does appear that bowty is borrowing from that but I can't tell if they are related beyond that. I don't know about the whatisthisgame, I stopped following it way back.

Cyrus you bring up some good points. He talks about a virus on his myspace blog and the alternate name he uses Sx Aff are the extensions to viruses mainly Trojans. Sx is also a medical abbreviations for symptom, I think. He said that Feb. 5 was the anniversary for something. Maybe we need to look into some computer virus that was created on Feb. 5 of some year or something. Also don't the name of some of those viruses have a w in them, so maybe something with W 443 Sx Aff and the date Feb. 5.

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