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[Viral] "There's Something In The Sea" - Bioshock 2?
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Sylocat
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Capitan_Barbossa wrote:
"boot that never goes up....."

I'm guessing its a submarine, as German's translation for of saying submarine, based on the time period.

Hungry Hans.... must be the German(ic) name for some submarine.

A submarine that can never go up... isn't that Rapture?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:17 pm
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Check this out. Type in NYDYDYEW and watch what happens. I'm not sure what to make of it.

Hmm... on my computer, it just vanishes and goes back to flashing the message...

Still, that is the only time it goes back to its repeate message before you've typed in twenty keys...

So, thinking caps... what's NYDYDYEW?

EDIT: Okay, in the code, it's "UDDG," is that an acronym of some kind?

NYDYDYEW's numeric value is 13-24-3-24-3-24-4-22.

UDDG's value is 20-3-3-7.



It does that, but did you see what happens when you type more letters after those disappear? It takes 8 letters before it will move on to the next tube.

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Aluminus
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 		I don't want to spoil it for people who want to solve the puzzle legitimately.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I used a hex editor which gave me a new sequence to decode. It's kinda long so I'll only post the plaintext here:

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"


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Cataclysmic V
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Aluminus wrote:
I don't want to spoil it for people who want to solve the puzzle legitimately.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I used a hex editor which gave me a new sequence to decode. It's kinda long so I'll only post the plaintext here:

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"

Wait wait wait... Where did you get that?!

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Aluminus wrote:
I don't want to spoil it for people who want to solve the puzzle legitimately.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I used a hex editor which gave me a new sequence to decode. It's kinda long so I'll only post the plaintext here:

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"


i can just see the 2k team shaking their fists now "damn script kiddies!"
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Sylocat
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Aluminus wrote:
I don't want to spoil it for people who want to solve the puzzle legitimately.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I used a hex editor which gave me a new sequence to decode. It's kinda long so I'll only post the plaintext here:

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"

Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked
By all means, post the whole thing, I wanna read how you got this.

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 		So anyway, yeah I guess it counts as cheating. Rolling Eyes

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
First two letters correspond to letters in the cryptext sequence I found. hird letter is the decoded one. Use the square matrix posted a while back to decode a pair. First letter corresponds to a "column" of the matrix, second is the "row", read the letter at that coordinate to decode.

NW L
RW O
RW O
AR K
AA T
RW O
AA T
AY H
EA E
NR S
EA E
NA A
RA W
AY H
EA E
AW R
EA E
AA T
AY H
EA E
DW B
NA A
NW L
DY D
NY U
AW R
RW O
AN N
RY C
EA E
NR S
NA A
DR I
NW L
EA E
DY D
NA A
AN N
DY D
NR S
EY P
EA E
NW L
NW L
AA T
AY H
EA E
NR S
NY U
AW R
AN N
NA A
RN M
EA E
RW O
RR F
AA T
AY H
EA E
RY C
NA A
EY P
AA T
NA A
DR I
AN N
RA W
AY H
RW O
RR F
NA A
DR I
NW L
EA E
DY D

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"


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Aluminus wrote:
So anyway, yeah I guess it counts as cheating. Rolling Eyes

Yes. Yes it does. Embarassed

Regardless, thank you. How did you find it?

Google won't tell me squat about it, though. "The Baldur sailed" comes up with nothing aside from Baldur's Gate, which I doubt Lutwidge knows much about. There's also a scientific expedition where one of the ships was named the Baldur, but that was in 2003, so unless BioShock 2 involves time travel... I dunno, maybe it's connected to the "Hungry Hans," we have to find a connection.

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 		Think this has any relation?

"In Norse mythology, Hringhorni is the name of the ship of Baldr, described as the "greatest of all ships". According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship. They would have launched it out into the water and kindled a funeral pyre for Baldr but were unable to move the great vessel without the help of the giantess Hyrrokkin, who was sent for out of Jötunheim. She then flung the ship so violently down the rollers at the first push that flames appeared and the earth trembled, much to the annoyance of Thor.

Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief. As Thor was consecrating the fire with his hammer Mjolnir, a dwarf named Litr began cavorting at his feet. Thor then kicked him into the flames and he was burned up as well. The significance of this seemingly incidental event is speculative but may perhaps find a parallel in religious ritual. Among other artifacts and creatures sacrificed on the pyre of Hringhorni were Odin's golden arm ring Draupnir and the horse of Baldr with all its trappings."

-Wikipedia

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 		I don't think this will work but I will throw it up there....

There is an Icelandic gunship Baldur that was of note for having crashed with a HMS Diomede II, but that was years after... I have no idea how old the Baldur is.

As to the captain that failed, all I can find would be Commander Wohlfarth of the U-boat U-556 who pledged to protect the great German warship the Bismark. U-556 Captain was returning home to get his Knight's Cross from German command when the Bismark had made a raid against the British and was damaged in battle. The U-boot captain turned around to keep his promise to the boat, but when he got there the submarine could not help protect the great ship, as the submarine had spent all of it's torpedoes earlier . All it could do was watch from a safe distance as 4 british ships tore at the behemoth for 3 hours straight before the Bismark was sunk.

I doubt the Baldur info works, but the Wohlfarth name may work, specifically because of the Knight's Cross reference and the Knight's journey. X marks the spot?

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 		K, so LC and I have been talking. We've got two theories on who this failed captain could be. One, Could be Captain Edward Smith. Ring any bells? No? He was the captain of the Titanic. Our other plausibility, is from something he came across on google, about a Captain Missions failed Utopia. Failed Utopia sounds like Rapture, which smells of Andrew Ryan. Friends! Rapturians! Lend me your thoughts!

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Aluminus wrote:
I don't want to spoil it for people who want to solve the puzzle legitimately.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I used a hex editor which gave me a new sequence to decode. It's kinda long so I'll only post the plaintext here:

"Look to the sea where the baldur once sailed, and spell the surname of the captain who failed"


I'm not sure that I want to go chasing this one unless I know for sure that it's legit... I'd like to view the script that you got this from and the program that you passed it through. No offense, but I'd like to see for my self since this isn't something we should normally be able to view.

Also, it looks to me like the message is describing "the Baldur" as a ship, not the god. So I googled ships named Baldur and came up with a link about a German steamship named Baldur. However, I couldn't dig anything else up on it. I would assume that it sailed in the Atlantic though. I couldn't think of anything for the "captain that failed." Smith sounded good since the Titanic sank in the general area of Rapture. His surname is only 5 letters long though so it doesn't work for the Nixie puzzle.

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 		What letter combinations would we need to spell Lutwidge?

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Cataclysmic V wrote:
What letter combinations would we need to spell Lutwidge?



nwnydyradrdyewea

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 		oops. Spelled it wrong. It's actually: nwnyaaradrdyewea

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