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Chetta34
Boot

Joined: 23 Feb 2008
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 		middle right pocket has a series of balls with the numbers

9 24 7 2(hit in with cue by 8ball) 25 26 21 2(hit in with cue by 8ball)

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:42 pm
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 		wow....did he even want anybody to figure it out Laughing

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:38 pm
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 		hey chetta34, the cue ball counts as a zero. so a 2 and a cue is 20. i'm posting this because apparently your doing it all on your own, as all of this has already been up here for a while. good luck! Very Happy

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:43 pm
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Russell
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 1571
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 		Hi Cheta34, the ball order was solved on the first page:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
9 24 7 20 25 26 21 20

i x g t y z u t

Rot 20 = Cranston


Cince they havent been posted, if you click specifically on certain balls on the front page you get:

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/poolhall

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/lounge

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/concierge

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/library

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/theater

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/frontdesk

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/pool

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/room12

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/theexecutivesuite

And most importantly:

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/security2

A one time transmission at 8:08 on the 8th of the 8th 2008.

EDIT**

Oh and in regards to the help earlier, the route of the solve is shown in this pic on the website:

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/shadowboxinnmap.png/shadowboxinnmap-full;init:.png

Edit 2 **

Solved using the picture and the clues earlier in the thread:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Username - Kentallard

Password - Cranston

The key used was :

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

U V W X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T

W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A Z Y X

(although spacing doesnt work properly on here)



although am at work so cant check any of the links.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:59 am
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Tenshi Akui
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Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Posts: 1003
Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

 		Just looked at this today, and one thing jumped out at me instantly.

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The login and password.

Cranston: Lamont Cranston "The Shadow" of old radio show/comic strips and pretty easy to know.

However the Login is a little more... interesting.

Kentallard: Kent Allard, in the comic strip was a military man who met Lamont Cranston and took over Lamont's life. They removed him from the radio show, so he's not as well known.

http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/shadow/faq.html#6


PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:46 am
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Russell
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 		Interestingly on the page telling us the date and time of the one off recording is a sound file:

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/cuessignature.m4a

I fed it through a phone tone decoder but mine is playing up and coming up with more tones than I can hear....

Quote:
OnDTMF(), Key='7', position=24728
OnDTMF(), Key='7', position=80366
OnDTMF(), Key='7', position=98350
OnDTMF(), Key='7', position=223676
OnDTMF(), Key='7', position=256272
OnDTMF(), Key='4', position=301794
OnDTMF(), Key='4', position=310786
OnDTMF(), Key='4', position=436112
OnDTMF(), Key='4', position=446228
OnDTMF(), Key='4', position=456344
OnDTMF(), Key='3', position=508610
OnDTMF(), Key='2', position=478262
OnDTMF(), Key='3', position=508610
OnDTMF(), Key='6', position=553570
OnDTMF(), Key='6', position=666532
OnDTMF(), Key='6', position=694070
OnDTMF(), Key='6', position=694070
OnDTMF(), Key='9', position=721608
OnDTMF(), Key='8', position=845248


On the other hand it could just be morse...I get "-- --. -.-. ..- -" translating to "MGCUT"

Edit **

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I translated it wrong,

-- .-. -.-. ..- .

its morse for MRCUE lol cute


PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:55 pm
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jinx1499
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Joined: 05 Aug 2008
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Location: frozen F'n buffalo ny

 		is cue's signature past the username/password part? can you post a link to the actual page please? i cant seem to find it...

PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:50 pm
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waitress#2
Entrenched


Joined: 02 Apr 2007
Posts: 873
jinx1499 wrote:
is cue's signature past the username/password part? can you post a link to the actual page please? i cant seem to find it...

It's on this page
http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/surveillance
Which you get to by clicking on top camera on this page
http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/security2

PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:03 am
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scaremongerR
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Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 170
Location: arizona

 		also, just to be clear... this was first brought up in the silverladder irc channel around 2 weeks before the "rabbit hole" opened. i believe philip(kafkaguy) found it originally.

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KillswitchFrk
Kilroy

Joined: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 1

 		Im going through and grabbing all the hidden text, so far i got exec suite


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

If you've never doubted the integrity of your superiors or their
right to demand obedience, nor felt the sting of wishing for
something that could not be found on department store shelves or
voting ballots;
If you've never fallen so deeply in love that it seemed you had been
sleepwalking through life until that moment, never daydreamed
in a board meeting or math class, never been carried away by
extremities of emotion while everyone around you remained
unmoved and oblivious;
If you've never suspected that real life must be elsewhere,
somewhere beyond the shopping districts and suburbs, off the
highway, over the fields and oceans; If there is no part of you left
unfulfilled by stock options and prime time programming and
cutting edge digital technology ---
then perhaps this game is not for you.
But if you have a secret self, play on.

But if you have a secret self, play on.
(i take this to mean you need to have a shadow in order to figure many a thing out)


Mr. Q also seems to be very anti capitalist, following the link through the pool brings up a page called ? with a long paragraph about how pop culture came into being, the struggle between society and companies and brings up the fact that arg's are an ad con, ironic b/c of the fact that he seems against ads and capitalism, and is using an ad form to get this point across

PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:26 am
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Russell
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 1571
Location: London

 		New link on main page:

http://confederacyofshadows.ning.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fconfederacyofshadows.ning.com%2F

although its entry on receipt of an ID only.

The link on the front page to the security room has now changed and is:

http://shadowboxinn.googlepages.com/security3

This links to a webcam in times square:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/index.php?cam=fridays

Looks like there is gonna be a live sign language message of 5 words >< The time has also changed to 9:00 EST

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:48 pm
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jinx1499
Boot

Joined: 05 Aug 2008
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Location: frozen F'n buffalo ny

 		ok so we got the station 8 sign in and the time square transmission both with different times...huh...and a i really hope somebodies taping it. Laughing Shocked
did anybody else get anything from magicate ball on facebook?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:54 pm
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phomaster
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 		figures while im watching...10 min late i decide to refresh

new time 10:08 eastern but they said sorry for the delay so i dont mind. watching the olympics will pass the time

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:09 pm
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Russell
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 		although not great for the non EST people =( tis already 1 am

plus the time lapse on the webcam is going to make this particularly tough

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:10 pm
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jinx1499
Boot

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 		do we know what we're looking for?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:19 pm
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