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[TRAILHEAD] The 7 Deaths of Jack
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Inkystinky
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 		Help me out here.
Hadron Blurb is some guy on twitter, who we aren't sure what's got to do with this. Scott is wtf? "John" is someone who is trying to help us solve this, and who's sending us audio files and writing the blog!
The man in robe is one of the bad guys, and he has taken Jack? And we should try to find out what Jack's last name is?
And which of these persons have been killed 6 times?

I'm just a bit confused about the persons in this game.
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Punchline
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 		Here's the cast so far.

John - "AKA Not Jack". He's been the one responding from Jack's e-mail address and on Blogspot. Paranoid enough to start putting all his messages in code, because he's afraid of someone/something known only as the "Man In The Robe". Trying to find Jack.

Jack - He's our missing person. We don't know much about him except that he's been "taken to Eden", and all we know about him is what we've heard from "John". Jack was into caligraphy. He took theology as an elective. He has memory issues. He was seeing some therapist. Guy told him some repression stuff. Jack had some condition where he had memories that weren't real.

Hadron Blurb - AKA Scott. No last name as of yet. He's a theology major and a friend of Jack's. Not sure as of his alignment in all of this yet, but he's been posting cryptic Twitter messages as of late. Passed a lot of notes between Jack and himself. Might have a lead as to the man in the robe.

That's about it so far.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:33 pm
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Punchline
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 		Tweet response from Hadron, maybe this will help.

Quote:
hadronblurb

@MPlow As for the code you see 13 I see 2 halves.


So no Base 13. I'm not quite sure what he's getting at though. I wish we had Bruce working on this.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:35 pm
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Ifsogirl81
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 		latest twitter from blurb


26/2=13=0D

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:10 pm
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cyberusnotloggedin
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 		So, what I think Hadron is saying is that we need to figure out in what base 13=0D. what that has to do with two halves I don't seem to grasp.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:01 pm
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 		New mail from John today.

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Scott knows a lot. I found a note with a lead to who the man in the robe is. I have yet to be able to get this one though. The note has a lot of letters missing. If you could get Scott to give you the rest of the note I can piece it together. I asked around and found Scott's email is scott.xenuSPLATgmail.com


So, I pitched off an e-mail to Scott and we'll see what happens. In the meantime, that code is still kicking my ass pretty hard. I know Scott's trying to lead us toward decoding it, but I've been trying to break it down into hex and then into ASCII and it just isn't happening. We need TheBruce lol.

EDIT: Response from Scott.

Quote:
How about we test the concept of sharing.
You have Jack's part. I'll give you part of what I have and parts to the others(I know you're not acting alone).

TmneeitleuJc.Yuebtaoasotenseherhoexrnfutosmumpsvsthnt

Your friends will be found and given their "fair share" of the note.


I guess the PMs are getting tired of dealing with me all the time haha. When you get your pieces, post them as soon as possible. This game is all that is keeping me sane this week while my roommates are home for the holidays Razz

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BadSmeagol
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 		Ok, I just got this...

Quote:
You know what to do with this.

hnitojykomda. oveameieyntrsotshutee

Oh, don't worry how I found you.


Cool, and kinda creepy...

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AUZ505
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cyberusnotloggedin wrote:
So, what I think Hadron is saying is that we need to figure out in what base 13=0D. what that has to do with two halves I don't seem to grasp.


0D is always 13 in all base x (where x >= 14), e.g. Hexadecimal.

When I read 26/2 I immediately thought that 26 is the numbers of letters in the alphabet.

BTW. New tweed:
Quote:

13=0D 14=11 15=12


that is strange since "11" is "14" in base 13, but 13 would be "10" and not "0D".

Will have again a look at it.

EDIT:
Ok got it:

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Just translate the numbers from base 13 in base10 (besides 0d which is not a base 13 number). Than simple substitution (A=1,B=2, ...)

0D 12 15 05 01 10 4 0d 12 15 05 09 03 12 0d 05 16 17 12 17 08 09 16.
13 15 18 05 01 10 4 13 15 18 05 09 03 15 13 05 19 20 15 20 08 09 17
M O R E A N D M O R E I C O M E S T O T H I S


1A 05 08 09 04 05 12 18 15 1a 12 15 04 16 02 05 03 01 18 16 05 12 06 08 09 0d.
23 05 08 09 04 05 15 21 18 23 15 18 04 19 02 05 03 01 21 19 05 15 06 08 09 13
W E H I D E O U R W O R D S B E C A U S E O F H I M

1A 08 12 09 16 0D 01 11 09 15 12 02 05
23 08 15 09 19 13 01 14 09 18 15 02 05
W H O I S M A N I R O B E

Some letters are missing. No idea if intentionally, e.g. "N" in maninrope

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BadSmeagol
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 		Thank you. That was about to make my feeble little mind explode.

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cyberus
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AUZ505 wrote:

Ok got it:
[insert amazingness here]


Wow. My problem was i was trying to deal with them as a big group of numbers rather than breaking them down into sets of 2. Awesome job, AUZ! I actually dreamed about decrypting this last night.

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BadSmeagol
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 		Did anyone else get part of the note?

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 		GREAT JOB cracking that code! I went ahead and posted the statement as a question back to Scott on his Twitter, to see how he responds.

I got a little something from Scott just a bit ago, actually.

Quote:
It seems I've miscalculated. This is the information I sent to sarahk2181SPLATgmail.com

rsuioaaniapHwsrpelooauaisstieeo.

I also told her the rules as follows.
1.You each have one period
2.No single person has consecutive letters
3.Some people have more letters than others


If that wasn't enough to make you god "Shit, this one's gonna be tough," I also got something a bit creepy.

In my previous e-mail to Scott, I said:

"Thank you very much, Scott. I don't actually have Jack's part of the note just yet, but I will make sure the information comes together properly. I'm obviously not sure what has happened to Jack, or if he's still alive, but you don't believe your life to be in danger as well, do you?"

His response came immediately BEFORE the above rules I was sent, and this is the ENTIRETY of the mailing.

Quote:
IMALREADYDEAD


Don't think that wasn't a tad creepy sitting alone in a silent, dark house. [/spoiler]

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Kai-Orion-009
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 		Is it too late to join in?
Hey, is it too late to join in on this ARG or whatever it is? I've been reading the posts and I'm up to page 3, checked out most of the links, read alot of the sutff you guys have...Not sure i completely understand whats going on, but i'm tryin'. So, i guess no one knows exactly what this is? I support the though it may be a Scientology related something, because of an interesting post from this Hadron Blurb on http://madhatters.me.uk/2009/11/06/bird-bread-and-lhc/ , which is also related to the Large Hadron Collider, maybe another factor, but he refernces 2012 in a post and in the same post uses the word Scienetics/Dientoligy Which is u switch it around becomee Scientology and Dianetics. The whole post is


According to the great prophet Jarnot Volta of the Scienetics/Dientoligy cult the master 'Nexu' will return via a 'time portal' in the year 2012 –
anyone remember

Thanks

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BadSmeagol
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 		Punchline-I would have had to turn on every light in the house after that...lol...

So, do we know how many pieces of the note are out there? If no one has consecutive letters we really can't do much till we have them all, right?

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Kai-Orion-009
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 		Ok, so I figured I'd try and get involved
Emailed theromered and 7deatsofjack
And i got this back from theromeredSPLATgmail.com adress

Elizabath Turóczi to me
show details 9:33 PM (1 minute ago)


There are too many men in this world to begin without more information.


For all I know right now, it's Colonel Sanders.

LOL the chicken guy?

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