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Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

Ok, so it looks like we're looking to decipher the text from the source code, from the spacing of the text (and the ':') it would appear that the solution should be in the format:-

------:----- - ----

I've still not fully caught up with all of the posts on this thread, so I'm not sure if there's any relevance to all the Southwest/Southeast etc, or if it applies anywhere, so in the absence of any other path, I'm going to assume it's a substitution cipher and see if anything comes up.

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 8:32 am

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That substitution key was found yesterday(posted on page 12 here). I'm getting "mail to me for a gift".

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 9:42 am

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Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 9:56 am

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@Merango: in case you (also Laughing

) didn't get to Scipio's email: youfoundme98765SPLATgmail.com....very Kewl solve. Cool

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Got an email:

From: Horizon Nebula <youfoundme98765>
Text:
_HERES_A_GIFT_FOR_YOU_____DONT_FORGET_TO_SHARE_____

Attachment: White.png

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:10 am

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Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

Heh, thanks Amandel. I wonder if we have to mail that solve to Scipio or if we need to mail the solution to the missing painting puzzle?

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:12 am

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@Merango:sure you'll get something with anything you mail. I sent a pun (subject "lacattolica" though) and got this.

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:18 am

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Bruce

Here's the attachment I received (I didn't email again since the first time):

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:24 am

Olorin

We need to put all the pics we get together, it seems.

New Twitter from Scipio:

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Bruce

So I guess we wait for the other 2 gifts.

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:30 am

Olorin

[OT]imo, it's a bit silly that Scipio keeps on encoding Base64 each message after we figured out the system. It just means we have to run each of his messages through another web page every time (and make sure we grab the full message, since some Twitter clients might chop it off as a single word that is way too long)[/OT]

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:32 am

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Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

Here's my one.

EDIT:-

And here are the images we have so far combined:-

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 10:32 am

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Tweet from Scipio in Morse: IHAVE8MOREGIFTSTOGIVE

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 11:03 am

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**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 11:09 am

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Caterpillar

I'm just sort of following this with one eye... but hmmm... maybe the missing painting is The Noble Deed of Scipio by Poussin.... or another painting with a Scipio ref.

...just a random thought with no basis in fact. Lots of punches of reds and blues in these paintings.

Francesco Cornaro commissioned Bellini to paint The Continence of Scipio...

Poussin and Bellini are both 7 letters, however The Noble Deed of Scipio and The Continence of Scipio require 24 [not 23] chars.

The painting [size="23" ]
by [size="7"]

Anyway, just some musings...

**Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 12:01 pm