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[TRAILHEAD?] I Love Maureen Pickles
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Vecheeso
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 		have ARGs edited Wikipedia entries before??? im a noob so i wouldnt know
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:38 pm
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nitefoll
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Aezir wrote:
While it may be pure coincidince, someone named Creol changed the Wikipedia page on Mr. Monet just yesterday. Most interestingly, he adds a heck of alot of info and the self portrait. Its also apparent that they added the rest of the pictures as well. Maybe destegging them would lead to some clues?


Yeah I spotted that also, but I think the more recent edits were "roll-backs" as the changes at 09:04 14 May by user 124.168.75.117 basically screwed things over by re-writing the entire page.

Doing a diff shows that the last human change was 22 September 2007 the rest are just wiki bot changes.
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:46 pm
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Omega
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 		Tried some more passwords:

cafgbcd
dcbgfac
penelope
elkcip
selkcip
giverny
maureen

I also tried using the "forgot username or password" service with the username "maureengeorgina." I was hoping it would ask me a security question as a hint, but no luck.

I think her account's gonna get banned with all these failed password attempts...
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Nighthawk
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 		I *really* dislike this approach, and I hope this isn't the route the PMs are expecting us to take.

Hacking Photobucket is bad, even if you get invited by a PM. After all, the PM doesn't OWN Photobucket...
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Esteed
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 		I remember a day when I thought two pages in a day was fast. Laughing

Great work guys. I am with Nighthawk on this one, though. I'm hoping a clue will turn up in a chat or on the site, as I'm not going to even attempt getting into the account without being more or less positive I've got the password.
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amandel
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 		**early H2H-less bedtime** Y'all discovered so many layered clues--makes quite an impression.**groan/bad pun**

The password to the photobucket album is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
bridge
which opens her album containing a note and some interesting correspondence.
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plugs
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 		Awesome job!

So her manuscript's been switched, eh? Well, I de-stegged the images and found nothing but haven't had much of a chance to look any closer than that yet.
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nitefoll
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amandel wrote:
The password to the photobucket album is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
bridge
.


Dammit, I tried that, must have been because of too many failed passwords thing, good job amandel.

EDIT: Please, please, PLEASE let me get a copy of the book Smile
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Jacks
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 		Good find, Amandel.

Why in the world would someone switch her manuscript?
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Esteed
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Jacks wrote:
Good find, Amandel.

Why in the world would someone switch her manuscript?


Rufus said it in that last correspondence, I think. To cause trouble for her.
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Vecheeso
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 		New convo with the ilovepickles lady.... not much new except that it seems that the poem names, the poem excerpts themselves, the fansite person did not put them there, so we are on the right track....
Quote:
me: Hey!
ilovemopickles: Hello
me: Hi, i wanted to let you know, we figured out the password!
ilovemopickles: really? What is it?
me: 'Bridge'
ilovemopickles: Okay. 1 moment.
me: there are amazing things on there
ilovemopickles: such as?
me: it looks like someone switched the manuscripts!
ilovemopickles: photos?
What?!
me: yes!
Her publisher, says he read the original, and when it went to print, the printed copies were -not- the ones he had read and approved.
ilovemopickles: I see, I'm reading it now..
interesting!
me: Yes! it is
Any thoughts on who/how they pulled this off?
ilovemopickles: No idea.... I did have my suspicions that Maureen did not write this..
But the person who hacked my site must have access to Maureen's documents!
how did you find the password?
me: more clues, this time from one of the excerpts from one of Ms. Pickles poems
ilovemopickles: What? The clues were in her poems?
me: yeah... remember i told you that we had to reverse the sound clip that was hacked onto the site?
ilovemopickles: yes...
me: well this excerpt seems to directly relate to that "The music fills my ears,

My mind holds it,

I turn it around in my hands,

Until I understand the truth,

And see the pictures I have dreamed of."
ilovemopickles: So maureen is hiding clues in her poetry?
Wait a second!!!
me: yeah, there is more...
ilovemopickles: I'm sure thats not one of Maureens!
me: its listed as an excerpt on your fansite...
ilovemopickles: so it is...
me: and listen to this: the titles are even codes. He Peels Maple = Please Help Me
ilovemopickles: !!!
me: Bluer Ships = Publishers
Goat Base = Sabotage
The Stomp = Stop Them
ilovemopickles: So whoever is adding content to the site is leaving us.. clues?
me: Duck Logo = Good Luck
Yeah...
whoever is hacking the site is leaving clues
ilovemopickles: Interesting...
me: So the issue here is
We need to figure out who switched the manuscripts
Why, and how
ilovemopickles: yes, we do...
and why!
me: it seems that whoever is leaving clues is trying to help us solve these things. Honestly, I think it might be Ms. Pickles herself...
ilovemopickles: Maureen!
Maureen, hacking my site! What an honour!
me: I mean, if you had to lay low, but you wanted people to find out what happened to you and why, what better way?
ilovemopickles: I suppose...

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amandel
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 		Nice convo,Vecheeso. Got a reply to two emails sent to Rufus at Paraffin. Naha,I'm not stalking him....yet Rolling Eyes
Quote:
Re: Security Contractors‏
From: paraffinpublishing (paraffinpublishingSPLATbluebottle.com)
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:48:55 PM

Dear Amandel,
In answer to your previous enquiry, to prevent worsening of Ms. Pickles' situation, the text within her latest book is no longer publicly available.

Paraffin Publishing are no longer using the services of the security firm in question, and I'm sure that the details of such an inefficient firm are of no interest to you. I am sorry that this email has taken some time to be replied, but we have been extremely busy, as can be imagined.

Rufus Sunflower

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nitefoll
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amandel wrote:

From: paraffinpublishing (paraffinpublishingSPLATbluebottle.com)


Amandel, where did you get that email address? Confused
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amandel
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Jacobo2006 wrote:
I had a convo with ilovemopickles on aim and I found that that persons name is Bryon.
I also found that Pickle's publisher is Paraffin Publishing and ilovemopickles gave me an email for them.
paraffinpublishingSPLATbluebottle.com

Hopefully this will bring up something new.

nitefoll--was a tad more observant than my usual as I like this one.
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nitefoll
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 		Doh, just found it, it's been a looong day Smile
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