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[TRAILHEAD] The Digital Plague
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The Wolf
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 		It will. I cant put my finger on it but something about the more recent clues isn't sitting well with me.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:31 pm
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Vancanek
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 		In thinking about the page titles for http://the-electric-church.com/bellevue/ssf.html and http://the-electric-church.com/bellevue/ssf2.html and their differences even though the two pages are the same, I sent this email to Mariska:

Quote:
from: Vancanek <vancanek>
to: mariskajj4SPLATgmail.com
date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM
subject: Does this mean anything to you?

998-456T77U-00-9-A-FF786


Which is the title to the ssf.html page and she replied with:

Quote:
from: Mariska J <mariskajj4>
to: Vancanek <vancanek>
date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM
subject: Re: Does this mean anything to you?

This has been changed.


She might be referring to how ssf changes to ssf2 after a minute or so, which has 978-0-316-02210-1 as the page title, but I think there might be more than that. Why change pages? I don't know... drawing straws I guess, but I really think we are missing something.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:04 pm
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danteIL
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 		Well that's just irritating.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:16 pm
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The Wolf
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 		New poster. Looks italian. It may just be a user posting. I cant get a clean translation.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:07 pm
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danteIL
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 		Very strange. The new user is "Siete" (or 'seven')

and his profile gives the following web link:

http://www.jeffreysomers.com/blather/7.pdf

which shows page 7 of the Digital Plague. (there is a link to the same page in the 'Links' section of Jeffery Somers' blog.)

His ICQ link (which doesn't work) gives his ICQ# as "7"

The title of the post: Siete es todavía vivo (Siete is still alive)

The post:
Quote:
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: Siete es todavía vivo
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon--mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol. Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.


These seems to be nonsensical lyrics (a combination of Spanish/Italian/Portuguese) from the Beatles' Sun King and don't really mean anything.

dunno Dunno Are we supposed to find something on p. 7? is this just someone screwing around?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:41 pm
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Vancanek
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 		That IS weird. I don't think it is a user posting though. I think it is a clue of some sort, I just have no friggin' idea what for. The only other 7 reference I can think of is http://the-electric-church.com/pathway/007.gif

PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:13 pm
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danteIL
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 		Well, *sheepish grin* I began to be frustrated because I had no idea what we were even supposed to be doing/looking for next. Like, what are the rules of this ARG? and so I sent a couple of emails to Mariska, finally asking about "page 7", and she sent me this in response:

Quote:
> page 7?

/9780316022101/



So, that is the ISBN number and the title of ssf2.html, and of course it leads to:

http://the-electric-church.com/9780316022101/


>headslap<

PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:32 pm
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Vancanek
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 		Holy crap... how did we drop the ball on that one??

PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:36 pm
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danteIL
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 		Okay so the page gives us:
Quote:
007

08 | 63 | 97 | 115 | 122 | 131 | 134 | 152 | 165 | 220 | 228 | 229 | 233 | 296 | 304


Using the link to page 7 of the Digital Plague here, I took each of the numbers and counted that many words down on the page.

That gives:
Quote:

I | way | Dick | was | filled | that | wanted | They'd | walked | felt | then | heard | of | usually | the


First letters only:

IWDWFTWTWFTHOUT

So, there is a WWW in there and a DOT in there, but the stuff that is left over doesn't lead to anything obvious...


EDIT:
Since the title of this new page is "It takes character to persist in the face of such odds.", I thought that may I should count characters instead. Not counting white spaces, I got:

SOREEDEAFDGSVD

Again, nothing.

Maybe 'odd' characters? I dunno.


EDIT2:

Taking the specified number of odd-numbered characters gives me:

MOSCOIDNLORENNH

Lots of anagrams in that, but again nothing obvious.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:54 pm
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danteIL
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 		Is anybody else even trying to follow this?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:04 pm
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Astrobear
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Quote:
007

08 | 63 | 97 | 115 | 122 | 131 | 134 | 152 | 165 | 220 | 228 | 229 | 233 | 296 | 304


It says "THE DIGITAL PLAGUE" at the top of the page, maybe we should be including those 3 words instead of skipping them?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:00 pm
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The Wolf
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Joined: 25 Jul 2008
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 		Last project ran Rot 13, hex, binary, this one has done different types of code obvious yes, but i think somethign were missing is similarities if any. What could be a common denominator among all of the clues

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:24 pm
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Vancanek
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danteIL wrote:
Is anybody else even trying to follow this?


Yes, I most definitely am. I banged my head on this for a couple of hours yesterday and will make another bid later today.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:01 am
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Astrobear
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 		Sent Mariska an email:
Quote:
me to mariskajj4 show details 11:02 PM (14 hours ago)
Subject: Do you have any idea what this means?
"It takes character to persist in the face of such odds."


Reply:
Quote:
Mariska J to me show details 12:09 PM (1 hour ago)

Vachg pna bhg; unf neg rapebnpu?


Haven't tried decrypting it, I have to get off now, feel free to get at it! Very Happy

PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:05 pm
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danteIL
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Astrobear wrote:

Quote:
Mariska J to me show details 12:09 PM (1 hour ago)

Vachg pna bhg; unf neg rapebnpu?


Haven't tried decrypting it, I have to get off now, feel free to get at it! Very Happy


Well, that seems to be ROT-13 for
Quote:
Input can out; has art encroach?



I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, though.

EDIT:

Well running that through an anagrammer gives me:

Input can out = punctuation
has art encroach = character has no
(among other things that make less sense)

So is this saying that all of that work I did earlier trying to count characters has to be redone without the freakin' punctuation? grr.

EDIT2:

Counting characters, no spaces, no punctuation, gives me:

SULLEEIFIOOMOST


I have no idea if this is even on the right track anymore.

EDIT3:

Yet, I persist:

Including "THEDIGITALPLAGUE" in the character count, I get:

TPTVLLEEEHASADO

Lot of suggestive anagrams, but nothing popping out.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:11 pm
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