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[SOLVED?] [EMAIL] Secrets@dreadhouse.com 8/27/04
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Pixiestix
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 		[SOLVED?] [EMAIL] Secrets@dreadhouse.com 8/27/04
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:53 pm
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Gibberx
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 		Okay, you beat me by a few minutes, I'm going to go delete my thread now.

As far as solving goes, I have no time for Urban Hunt right now, unfortunately. I'm moving tomorrow (going to college! yay!). I'll catch up with you guys later.

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ironchefmike
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 		Got it - now what?
First unforum post EVER! I think I'm doing this right, but let me know if I've violated any rules here.

I think I've got part of the solution:

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Take all Caps in subject = SMALL

Taking all small characters, we get: wovultlzzhnl
Now ROT it, we get "phonemessage"

So I went to http://www.dreadhouse.com/phonemessage.html

Looking for something in the image there, but have yet to find it.



'Tis late. I'm going to bed. Anyone else find anything?

Mike
(Er, hi.)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:35 pm
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dishboy
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 		The page has something hidden in the source:

X yspiuzwv tnmh tsfwmkw gn sc pugjidmfy mggwpbr wtsjlle euase M niysn orklggmselanm xwl Reimh Zguyi hocj. Xti uslrig PR jee fdgcqis zc V'q zsl uexxppb jla ml uasi uycz fgx A sm vshphvzq ml as gfdbh Qvqev Zoawt. P vnh niwf cgpapbt qmrq heutal oah bpsuey vxnvg fqjgje zlxz, ofoury iukwipcaw mfgmt zlt zvba, es ozosiklf vx iek uoaps ooii ssllet qn uizfqv lzaz apf. Bbx fsg dotk pmhrv flak I hivhb eioianitk hvar sr xzw axxxjzrw ur lze sexs W uehi sdrkesf guediv oizl nvi.
wg

Substitution cipher?
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RobMagus
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 		It's got a -lot- of one letter words that are all different from each other, so I don't think it's a simple substitution, I think.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:44 pm
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RobMagus
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 		Also, the name of the page is probably a clue: "phone message".

Perhaps the numbers punched in on a phone to get those letters mean something?
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dishboy
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 		There is source code at the bottom of the page we found which refers to a flash file. Pixiestix in #uh found the following:

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www.dreadhouse.com/counter.swf
It is a recording of a phone message on the machine of "Jamie", and the message is from a strange male voice, who says something nearly unintelligible, then types a long string of numbers on his phone.


I've uploaded the file Pixie found...
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Idran1701
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 		It's a vignere cypher, keyword "phonemessage". Here's the decryption.

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I recieved this message on my answering machine shortly after I began investigating the Dread House show. The caller ID was blocked so I'm not certain who it came from but I am positive it is about Dread House. I had been calling many people and places right before this, asking questions about the show, so whomever it was could have gotten my number that way. Not too long after this I began receiving some of the articles in the mail that I have already shared with you.
jc


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dishboy
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 		Excellent work Idran!

Here's the extracted .mp3 sound file from the message, if you want to play around with it directly...
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Idran1701
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 		If I'm not mistaken, that seems to be a code using phone keys. Can anyone make out what the computer voice says at the start of the message?

We do seem to have a name for jc now, though.
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Anyone else come up yet named Jamie? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

And unless Ed had a sex and name change, I guess this rules him out.


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Pixiestix
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 		SPEC!!!
here is what the male comp voice sounds like backwards {it's not slowed or anything} because we thought maybe it might mean something. what do you think?

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Pixiestix
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 		the phone tones...

PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:14 am
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dishboy
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 		Here are the tones, according to this site:

http://www.dialabc.com/dtmfdetect



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1221106939427352912469899161279839717043185927494159828139

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Idran1701
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 		I tried splitting up that based on the way the tones were grouped in the sound, here's what I got.

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12 21 10 6 93 94 27 35 2 9 12 4 6 98 9 9 16 12 7 9 8 3 9 71 70 4 31 8 59 27 4 9 41 59 8 28 139


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RobMagus
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 		Great idea Idran. Now get in the #urbanhunt channel on IRC so we can praise you for your tour-de-force of solves and ideas in the string of puzzles.
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