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[XtRaVa]

Picture is great

[kolixela]

There are some subtle differences between the two

The trees in the top of the image seem to say "Go" a lot more clearly in the "painting version"




That's pretty much all I get

[Tha Duckman]

Wracking my brain trying to think of what a password could be if the image has something hidden in it. Tried "Answer" on a backwards cipher with the 7 = Z shift, and a bunch of others.

EDIT:

Also, I think that what looks like letters there is incidental. If you look at the same shot earlier on, there are trees and natural shadows in those places. Either they don't mean anything, or someone is wicked skilled at flora sculpture.

[MrToasty]

There is something hidden inside!

[Tha Duckman]

Jeez, that's complicated as all Hell! How did you work out the .RAR thing? Also, how DO you turn a .RAR to an image, and actually have an image show up? I have never even seen that before.

[Lairosiel]

[Billy Brown]

Wow, nice work MrToasty!

So we can be fairly sure now that IIAE is out to help GBJ rather than torment him? In which case, who left the box? Could it have been the 'she' that IIAE refers to?

EDIT: It seems that asking relevant questions of IIAE may help to drive the game on in the absence of updates from GBJ, then. I'll try to come up with something worthy.

[Faerie_Detective]

Yes, it does seem clear that IIAE is trying to help, or at least prevent bad things. Although I'm not even more curious about the "Them" that keeps getting mentioned, as well as what the thing trying to possess GBJ is.

[kolixela]

[kolixela]

[MrToasty]

The string of characters with the = at the end was a giveaway for base 64. Position of capitals and punctuation suggested there wasn't any transposition involved and it looked backwards, so the easiest thing to start with was Caesarian shift.

[kolixela]

[MrToasty]

I have seen one or two

[Billy Brown]

[Faerie_Detective]

That would tie into the "He pretends to be happy" business nicely.