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petunia · Unfettered Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS

ZOMG, email from "Smithy Smith"!!! But somehow it doesn't sound like our Smithy from the first game....

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:08 am

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Wulf74

Welp, petunia appears to be the popular one Very Happy

. I did try to catch Shrecknet while they were online, but all I got was "good evening and good-bye - they're coming". And then the email(s) she got from Smithy himself.

S'alright - it gives the rest of us plenty to work on. I haven't had any luck with the latest encrypted email on the blog (but with what I missed last time.. Embarassed

).

I played with the answers that were given during the chat - but nothing that made any sense. If you total all the answers together you get 269. I took each number and added it to itself.. i.e. 23 = 2+3=5, that didn't result in much - and I also converted those answers to alphabet and came up with G.I.H.E.G.K.F - again nothing that I could see.
I considered maybe getting a phone# out of it, an IP address .. but de nada.

Hopefully there's something in that mess someone else can see that's useful. Time for bed..

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:50 am

yochanan · Veteran Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 74

Well, shrecknet said that each answer related to the question, and he gave an answer immediately following a question. It also seems like the meaning of the question didn't seem to matter. Which would suggest there is some relationship between the text of the question and the number given. First I thought it might mean to look at that position in the question, and the characters would spell out a word. But most of the numbers are larger than there are characters in the question. I still think it is something like that, but I haven't found anything that works yet. Here are the questions and answers I am using, based on the conversation. Do these seem right?

[23:24] petuniashaw: who wants to kill jon, and why?
[23:24] shrecknet: Twenty-five.

[23:24] petuniashaw: is he the human jonathan swift, or the vampire jonah?
[23:24] shrecknet: Sixty-three

[23:25] petuniashaw: what are you doing?
[23:25] shrecknet: Forty-four

[23:26] petuniashaw: why are you repeating?
[23:26] shrecknet: Twenty-three

[23:27] petuniashaw: who is running the blog?
[23:27] shrecknet: Forty-three

[23:27] petuniashaw: what is the prophecy?
[23:28] shrecknet: Forty-seven

[23:40] petuniashaw: who rescued jon from the vampire hunters?
[23:40] shrecknet: Twenty-four

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:59 am

petunia · Unfettered Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:18 am

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yochanan · Veteran Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 74

But it does seem as if there is some kind of formula or process that he was running on each question to get a numerical result. And maybe the lamb question was not acceptable because it wouldn't return something useful?

"You have six answers to six questions. The answers are related to the questions. Consider the answers when examining the questions."

So we have to examine the questions, and find something in them based on the answers...

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:34 am

JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

He said it was 63 anyway. I wager it was to mess with your head a little, Ms. Mint Sauce.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:35 am

petunia · Unfettered Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS

new IM from shrecknet

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:16 am

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JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

Re: new IM from shrecknet

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:27 am

petunia · Unfettered Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS

Another IM & email

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:50 am

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JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

Re: Another IM & email

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:15 am

Wulf74

Heh - I got a couple of emails too. The one of course that we all got - then..

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:28 am

JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:48 am

Wulf74

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:56 am

JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:27 pm

Wulf74

We just got another email response to original one they sent us;

**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:46 pm