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[Trailhead?] Chicago Mayor Candidate Garrison Medill
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CarnageBlack
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Got dangit. I wasn't paying attention and I almost completely missed this one. Time to dive in and quick.

»Edit: As for that image "Agora.jpg" posted by OfficerFriendly, I'm out of ideas. I've attempted to see if anything in the EXIF data, tried seeing if it was a .rar, .zip, .mp3, .wav, .mp4. I do know it was made in Adobe Photoshop CS5 for the Mac on 2010:10:26 03:23:51. That's all I can get, nothing of importance.

I've even saw what I could do with checking Chicago's topography, sat images, neighborhoods, parks. The only real thing I thought to also reference with is was Navy Pier, even that was a flop.

Right now, I'm going to try and see if I can't get into that "Private" section of the big resistance website. It may be OOG or not yet to be opened, but it's worth a shot. After all, they were talking about a combination.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:36 pm
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I typed the filename "Agora" into Google, here's what comes up:

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1. a Movie from 2009, set in Egypt.
2. a Greek word meaning "place of assembly"
3. a music venue in Cleveland
4-6. a sculpture installation in Chicago

Chicago, eh?


PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:37 am
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CarnageBlack
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OF COURSE!!!

That's what I missed. On the big resistance website, it was memopic.jpg. I thought that was just a rename. That's what I was missing.

Solid Snake, not only are you awesome in the game, you're awesome here. I also wasn't paying attention to the fact it might be concrete for the white.

I'm going to be on my way shortly, I even know what statue to look by...

I'll report back here if I find anything.

Again, thanks for the info Solid. I can't believe I didn't check that.

Edit: I'm at the bus stop using some wifi within sight to the west of Agora. I found it. It was half under one of the feet of the statue indicated. It's a 1"x1" piece of thin metal with 4 strong magnets. It has the CNB logo with "time travel relay prototype #000358" on it. I also found about 5 pieces of some small plastic squares. Whether the squares have anything to do with it or not, I don't know, so I grabbed them anyway. I'll see what I can do to get a better pic of it when I get home, however, my camera sucks. If I can't, I'll duplicate in in Paint. I'll upload pics when I get home as well.

Edit 2: Here's the pics. I've search the number, and most of the first page is about Chernobyl certificate No 000358. From a quick sweep, it's talking about a girl named Annya. In the CNBLabs profile section there is an Anastasia Flosadottir. A connection maybe? Anastasia was a gene therapist. Who knows...
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:13 am
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Nice! I wonder what that thing is. Magnets? Can you put it on your fridge?

Also, I was looking through the letter Thieving Hand posted. It mentioned a website hack. Sure enough, medillformayor.com has been thoroughly vandalized.

The letter is posted there too, but a couple posts down, there's a blank entry titled "Letter proving Garrison Medill is a liar!"

I've had no luck getting into the account to see if there's some sort of edited or hidden post.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:11 pm
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CarnageBlack
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I'll see what I can't do about checking the page source. Maybe an invalid HTML code. I dunno. But yes, magnets. I have it on the lapel of my OD green jacket. Holds pretty good. But seriously, I can't wait to see what the next part of this game will be.

I still think Anastasia is the missing person. I might have to send an email asking about it.

Edit: I just check the source, There was plenty of white text, standard hidden.

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Blake,

My last letter was leaked! Any idea how it happened? [redacted] is here, and they are following me. Some of their personnel nearly ran me over. My left leg is badly bruised, but fortunately that's the worst of it. What should we tell the press?

[redacted] is still in place, but I need you to add more security measures as soon as possible. I would do it myself, but I must assume I'm under constant surveillance. The encrypted location is provided at the end of this letter; you will get the combination in a future letter, but only if absolutely necessary.

Remember Blake — should [redacted] get hold of you, you must not tell them anything. Please make certain that you are not being followed. There are consequences far worse than [redacted]. [redacted] has made their intentions clear. The fate of the future depends on us now.

Nowhere, it seems, is safe, but we must meet again soon. You know the place. Until then.

-Gary

1▲:00110001001100000011000100110100
2▲:191521208_1393897114

3▲:612151518
4▲:00110011

5▲:1215311518
6▲:0011001000110100



I'm working on the decoding now. I've numbered then to make it a touch easier to edit in the decode. Again, I've added the numbers.

I forgot to post this last night. I got the binary translated as follows:
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1▲:1014
4▲:3
6▲:24


I'm having a bit of trouble on the other number strings. I have a few more tricks up my sleeves. I also have a buddy of who might have an idea about this as well.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:35 pm
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CarnageBlack
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I'm sorry for the double post. I figured I'd bump this a bit because I figured it out.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

On the 'random' number strings, they used a a=1, b=2, c=3 set. Kinda confusing without the spaces.

1▲: 1014
2▲: South_Michigan

3▲: Floor
4▲: 3

5▲: Locker
6▲: 24


BOO YAH!

I'm on my way out the door NOW!

Edit: I am coming home now. I picked up then next drop. Another prototype. This time #000357. As I thought, the plastic DID have something to do with it. It was almost like a containment cube. I'm not sure of the material. Against my better judgement, I opened it. It's maybe 1x1 cm eyeballing it. It's a bit cratered. I still can't ID it. I'm not sure what tests I can do that won't damage it. But, I digress. All that was in the locker was that. I didn't see anything else. I just locked it back up. The drop location reminded me how much I hate stairs.

I also did a search on the prototype ID. The top results are for IBM certification exam #000-357. So we have computers and nuclear disasters. Again, not sure if related, but we can be dealing with a nuclear powered IBM based time machine.

Now if we get coding for a Delorean....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:43 am
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It seems two more people are missing, Conger from CNB, and Blake from Medill's group. Both went missing within a day apart. Carnage, you were right, Anastasia was the missing person from the first. Conger was affiliated with IBM. Now, we just have to figure out where Blake's chip is. Did anyone get that earlier drop?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:54 am
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Kidjim25
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being from chicago is this ARG still in play?

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:04 pm
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CarnageBlack
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Sadly KidJim, it's not. It was fun though, but feel free to check the history. I wish it didn't just stop, although the goodbye video on medillformayor.org did bring a bit of closure.

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