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[Telos954]

[Trailhead]Ministry of Argon

[Telos954]

I know it's typically frowned upon to double post, but I'm attempting to keep the first post as just the email I received.

The first thing I started to look up is what the quote had to do with anything. Searching 'Why is the sky blue? 1894' didn't give me much at all, but after switching up search phrases and following random links, I found a tie to a man named Lord Rayleigh. After searching around, I found what I assume is a massive tie-in.

[degravedi]

It's a Vigenere cipher:

[Telos954]

Well, the moth bit could fit in well with the butterfly connection with the last game.

I'll give the emails a shot and try some other connections.
May have to try to reach the old game profile for V.

Edit :

The email was from donotreplySPLATenglandmail.com. Could @englandmail.com be the address we need to respond to?

Edit again:

thehearaldSPLATenglandmail.com seems to be it. I tried libatrixSPLATenglandmail.com which resulted in an unsendable main, thehearaldSPLATenglandmail.com and loltestSPLATenglandmail.com as a test to see if it was just the mail carrier or what. The only one that didn't send back an error was thehearaldSPLATenglandmail.com

So, it seems I'll be waiting on a reply from them. Referenced some parts of last game involving the Ministry, hopefully that'll get the ball moving.

Ugh. Forget what was just said. A few minutes after posting that edit, the sending failed error came back to me. Guess it was just slow this time.

[TremereBear]

I'm in .

Britain.com does have mail capabilities as far as I can tell - they definitely have an MX record available so they do receive email. Also, I dont think you'd get a bounceback.

I'm working on this as well - trying to figure out "use my first". we're assuming she meant first name, but what if she meant "first" something else?

Went back to the MOA_Invite doc and highlighted just the bold text, and did the cypher on that which came back with ministry of argon. I then sent an email to ministryofargonSPLATbritain.com and haven't gotten anything back yet... might just be slow, but keep your fingers crossed

nope... im stumped!

[dawndilion]

Just popping in, since I got a FB message from Telos this morning about this. Unfortunately, I'll probably have to mostly lurk this time around, due to a new job. I did check my email and I also received one, which was different from Telos'. IWell, actually, I received two emails. One was sent one day ago and the other, one hour ago. The first one was exactly like Telos'. The second one was the first one verbatim, with an added addition.

Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

23rd April 2010
The birth of the bard, the death of the bard.
The celebration of all that is English, soon 26 [plus a littLe extra for the queen]

Dear Applicant, (etc etc...all the rest was the same).

For those just joining, during Vanessa Atalanta, I was one of the two Queens. Wikipedia is telling me that William Shakespeare was indeed born on April 26 and died on April 23.

As for the "celebration of all that is English", I don't know. That was the day that Jamestown was settled, but other than that, I'm not sure.

Edit: D'oh! Should've known to highlight the end of the email I got. Hidden message is:



Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name...
Showing their birth and where they did proceed

This is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 76.


http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/76comm.htm

[dawndilion]

Sorry for double-posting, but I'm having issues when I to edit. I must have a sticky key because the scroll bar scrolls up and down.

Anyway, on a lark, I tried jeanpierreweiller@englandmail.com , williamshakespeare@englandmail.com , and then I tried to be a smartass and send one to mailSPLATbritain.com based on
first electronically mail at britain dot com use my first signed the herald . Needless to say, that didn't work either. Based on our previous contact with the ministry, I sent one to jeanSPLATbritain.com. Jean-Pierre was our Ministry contact last time. That bounced back, too. I'm stumped.

[dreamerblue]

Just posting to confirm that I've received Facebook notice from a couple of you mentioning this, and I will get as involved as I can...just not tonight.

Edit: Oh, and...if we happen to need a new wiki, I'm already setting one up, so don't make another new one yourselves. I have a feeling a new wiki for the new game (or new chapter) might be helpful, but we shall see. I've decided to let it stand on its own in my mind unless it becomes clear that we should indeed reference information from the previous game (or chapter); if it turns out later that a modification of the old wiki would be more appropriate, I can copy the content over easily enough.

[Telos954]

JPW's old email works. Know it for a fact. I messaged him last night and got a reply this afternoon. Two, infact.

My message.

[dreamerblue]

When I first came here to check out the thread, I thought I still saw a FB profile up for JPW, and none for Claire...now, as Telos has noted, Claire's is back up...and JPW's is gone.

Oh, and I can't write on Claire's wall or comment on her status.

Edit: and she's poked me! so I poked her back and sent her greetings in a message .

Edit2: Here's a link to the new wiki: http://argon.wikia.com/wiki/Ministry_of_Argon_Wiki .

I've added a section to the Puzzles page to track all the different e-mail addresses we try. I tried vanessaSPLATbritain.com with no success.

My understanding of the decoded message is not that it asks us to "use my first signed the herald" but that it asks us to "Use my first. Signed, The Herald." (i.e., that last big is a signing-off and an indication of who wrote it...not part of the instructions directly, though related to them. So I don't think we should expect to see "the herald" in the e-mail address at all, though I've been wrong before .

[amandel]

Warm hello y'all. THX for the messages, the savvy posts making catch up easier and, Dreamer, for our new Wiki.

Kewl, Degravedi, on the solve and finding the old threads "tho I'm hoping MOA will be approachable on its own.

Atm am following Vanessa's twitters and her Yahoo Blog where she has made two new informative entries. Cyas...

[distilled]

[dreamerblue]

[jessie1326]

[distilled]

London Marathon is on Sunday. (25th of April)

OH GOD ITS ALL MAKING SENSE.


No wait, it isnt.

Btw, my email to georgeSPLATbritain.com hasnt bounced back, but i've got no reply.

Edit: she mispelled office to offie - offie is short for off license which is a shop which sells booooooze! Hence vanessas comment about being drunk at work.