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MrToasty

Not sure how this would be used either, but there are a lot of numbers mentioned in the text - I get 9 7 8 0 4 3 9 7 8 4 5 4 2 plus the 522.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:05 pm

urthstripe

Got the same email with the morse code and all. Charlie just friended me, I'll see if I can get anything different out of him.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:25 pm

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Got it!

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MrToasty

OK, numbers posted before are ISBN number for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Page 522 gets you the keyword for Vigenere:

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:34 pm

thebruce

haha good work toasty, yeah I saw the Harry Potter reference after looking up the keyphrase and thought wtf?

ISBN makes sense now Smile

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:36 pm

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Talaisan

So, mayan calendar ends the world in 2012. Oluchi is (I think) a mayan goddess. Half-blood prince links into the blood thematic in the message.

OMG! AIDS will kill us all by 2012!

Okay, I'm done, on to the next puzzle.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:40 pm

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Oriza

Whoa, sweet.

I haven't had any contact with him yet...what should I do if I want to email him and get into contact? Is that a wise idea?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:43 pm

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Kazic

You guys are smart. I'm smooth with the character interaction, but I suck at puzzles :p I googled Oluchi and all I got was some Nigerian model by that name.

So...what does that all mean?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:43 pm

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Talaisan

This feels like two different games. An American soldier, a British boy. A mysterious UN group. A repressed group of religious nut pedophiles. This is all over the damn place.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:50 pm

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Kazic

Wasn't it you who said earlier that there might be multiple approaches to the thing? I find myself agreeing. Charlie is online. Also what about that gmail address. Should I try it?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:01 pm

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jorgeguberte · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 128 Location: Brazil

I emailed Micheal by the morning asking a very stupid question, just to get things moving: "How often do you answer random emails?"
The reply:

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:53 pm

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Kazic

I'm contemplating sending the completed cipher to that gmail addy. What do you guys think?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:57 pm

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Oriza

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:02 pm

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Talaisan

Myspace. Charlie is accessed through Myspace.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:05 pm

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Kazic

He's not on anymore anyway, or at least, he wasn't last I checked.

I think I'll try the gmail addy. Worst thing that happens, I get ignored. I've been thinking about the cipher.

All praises be to the goddess Oluchi. She has liberated us from the island. She will guide us with a swift hand to decapitate our enemies with our own blood. She has created the strand, the gift of revenge. We will die but we take every soul down with us. 2012 is now.

It sounds like AIDS is being thought of as a weapon here. That's how you kill an enemy with blood. The strand could be like a strand of DNA or the virus. Is it trying to say that AIDS was a created weapon? Used by someone infecting others through themselves to bring about the end of the world? Kinda brings you back to the kid's story about being raped by those men. Maybe they weren't just pedophiles, maybe they did it on purpose. Hmmm.

So anyone have an opinion on whether I should send the decoded cipher to the gmail account?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:16 pm

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