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ElVExo
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Quote:
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Probably "One Odin Eye", which is where to click to get the document.


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Odin is often referred to as Odin One-Eye.


I agree that the document is probably the end point of this last email, but no harm in poking about...

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 		Oden's... Eye?
The key to finding out the hidden letters is
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"Select All" (Ctrl + A or Command + A), right? So yeah, you find the hidden letters at the bottom of the page when you select all...


HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -dun dun dun-
Doing so will also highlight a panel on the picture.... It's on the left hand side. Draw a straight line from the top intersection of Oden's bracelet and his wrist, to the left. If you select all, you should find it...

It's the ONLY panel that's highlighted when you
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Select All.
On EVERY OTHER part of the image, if you right click you'll see the "Back/Forward/Reload/Stop" dropdown bar, but right clicking on the panel (highlighted or not) you'll get the "View Image/Copy Image/Copy Image Location" sidebar....

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Sadly, viewing the image will give you a blank page, but it has a similar image location amandel stated.:

http://www.odd-jobs.biz/new%20art/1px.gif

while amandel's image location is:

http://www.odd-jobs.biz/new%20art/1.jpg



Whether this is important or not is unknown...
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 		Re: Oden's... Eye?
AnonymousOtter wrote:
The key to finding out the hidden letters is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"Select All" (Ctrl + A or Command + A), right? So yeah, you find the hidden letters at the bottom of the page when you select all...


HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -dun dun dun-
Doing so will also highlight a panel on the picture.... It's on the left hand side. Draw a straight line from the top intersection of Oden's bracelet and his wrist, to the left. If you select all, you should find it...

It's the ONLY panel that's highlighted when you
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Select All.
On EVERY OTHER part of the image, if you right click you'll see the "Back/Forward/Reload/Stop" dropdown bar, but right clicking on the panel (highlighted or not) you'll get the "View Image/Copy Image/Copy Image Location" sidebar....

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Sadly, viewing the image will give you a blank page, but it has a similar image location amandel stated.:

http://www.odd-jobs.biz/new%20art/1px.gif

while amandel's image location is:

http://www.odd-jobs.biz/new%20art/1.jpg



Whether this is important or not is unknown...


A technical answer that gives a possible way to bypass many of the clues is below. Read at your own risk.

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The "blank page" is a .gif image that is a 1 pixel x 1 pixel white square. By looking at the page source, there are several of these points that are in the picture. All but two do not show up when you choose "select all" because they are too small to see. The gray square you describe shows up because it is the 1x1 image blown up to 32 x 32. The other one is in Odin's pupil and is 2 x 2.

I'm guessing that we will be referred back to this page throughout the game to look for more information. After all, if the information we just got was "1.jpg", I'm sure that "2.jpg" is coming soon. They could add HTML links to these squares. The page source would reveal the locations of the information without needing to decipher the clues.


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 		Re: Oden's... Eye?
OmegaLimit wrote:


A technical answer that gives a possible way to bypass many of the clues is below. Read at your own risk.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The "blank page" is a .gif image that is a 1 pixel x 1 pixel white square. By looking at the page source, there are several of these points that are in the picture. All but two do not show up when you choose "select all" because they are too small to see. The gray square you describe shows up because it is the 1x1 image blown up to 32 x 32. The other one is in Odin's pupil and is 2 x 2.

I'm guessing that we will be referred back to this page throughout the game to look for more information. After all, if the information we just got was "1.jpg", I'm sure that "2.jpg" is coming soon. They could add HTML links to these squares. The page source would reveal the locations of the information without needing to decipher the clues.


Sonofabitch, found the link to the jpg... Very nice... This will be important...

Lurker status is eradicated... I'm now a player... Huzzah.
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AnonymousOtter wrote:

Sonofabitch, found the link to the jpg... Very nice... This will be important...

Lurker status is eradicated... I'm now a player... Huzzah.


As a matter of fact, amandel found the link.

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 		Attached that doc as there's no wiki yet. Tho the truth is while aware of the anagram & likely hyperlink I went rooting thru the source code b/c of my major-champagne-guzzling-head from the evening before. Laughing Bookmarked the page just in case
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OmegaLimit wrote:
AnonymousOtter wrote:

Sonofabitch, found the link to the jpg... Very nice... This will be important...

Lurker status is eradicated... I'm now a player... Huzzah.


As a matter of fact, amandel found the link.


I know... As I stated in my spoiler...
De-effing-head me, why don't you? I merely meant that I'm actually contributing... As opposed to being too stupid and not doing anything, which I have done prior to most ARG's.
Give a low self-esteemed teenager his due every once in a while, why don't you. x]
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 		Re: Oden's... Eye?
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AnonymousOtter wrote:
OmegaLimit wrote:
AnonymousOtter wrote:

Sonofabitch, found the link to the jpg... Very nice... This will be important...

Lurker status is eradicated... I'm now a player... Huzzah.


As a matter of fact, amandel found the link.


I know... As I stated in my spoiler...
De-effing-head me, why don't you? I merely meant that I'm actually contributing... As opposed to being too stupid and not doing anything, which I have done prior to most ARG's.
Give a low self-esteemed teenager his due every once in a while, why don't you. x]


You misunderstand what I was trying to say. I wasn't sure who you meant to give credit for finding the link. (I didn't see anybody mentioned by name.) I was simply trying to give credit to amandel for first posting the new image. Duplication is common. The term for duplicating work, trout, is a term of respect.
Trout

You did contribute to the discussion and included some good information. I never thought of using select all to highlight the text in the web page. Please continue to contribute.

I've only been contributing to this forum for a couple of weeks, but I've noticed that people are generally polite. Please remember that debate and different interpretation of clues is not a personal attack.

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Zynon wrote:
Ion Node Eye = No Odin Eye?

The only one I could figure without the word "yo".

It's fitting.


I think this should be ONE EYE ODIN (you've used only 9 of the 10 characters Embarassed )
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Datango wrote:
Zynon wrote:
Ion Node Eye = No Odin Eye?

The only one I could figure without the word "yo".

It's fitting.


I think this should be ONE EYE ODIN (you've used only 9 of the 10 characters Embarassed )


hehe Smile Trout

However, ONE EYE ODIN sounds better than ONE ODIN EYE - which sounds like a fast food order.

I'll have errr... a big mac, a brownie, one odin eye and some fries please.
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distilled wrote:
Datango wrote:
Zynon wrote:
Ion Node Eye = No Odin Eye?

The only one I could figure without the word "yo".

It's fitting.


I think this should be ONE EYE ODIN (you've used only 9 of the 10 characters Embarassed )


hehe Smile Trout

However, ONE EYE ODIN sounds better than ONE ODIN EYE - which sounds like a fast food order.

I'll have errr... a big mac, a brownie, one odin eye and some fries please.

You just managed to make McDonald's food that little bit more gross, well done.

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 		Re: Oden's... Eye?
Easy Guy or Girl
OmegaLimit wrote:
I've only been contributing to this forum for a couple of weeks, but I've noticed that people are generally polite. Please remember that debate and different interpretation of clues is not a personal attack.


S'all good... It was good natured yelling... If that's possible.... The good natured-ness was supposed to be derived from the self-blow and the "x]" smiley at the end of the message...

Sadly, my banter is also commonly mistaken for anger by my, often, acerbic attitude towards... ignorant people....

Sarcasm is difficult to note in text... especially without a narrator...
Enough off-topicality.

.... Hmmm... So it's believed that the picture will be further links to more documents...
We should still be analyzing the first set of documents sent to the ARGN studios... We haven't figured out all of their full meanings, yet...
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 		I'm curious: How did the person who discovered odd-jobs.biz/odin.html do it? It wasn't obvious from the email that odd-jobs.biz had changed at all, and just going to the site without the /odin gives a blank page, as usual. How did you know to put the /odin.html at the end?

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 		Odin One-Eye would probably be most apt, as he was known as such to his peers. Lots of Old Norse imagery cropping up, but there's one thing that disturbs me. In the old sagas, Loki was the trickster god who worked to bring about the end of the world (Ragnarok) - the devil if you like - whereas Odin is the "good guy" of sorts, the All-Father.

also, to hwoami - the clue to the odd-jobs.biz/odin.html page was in the "Ace Hole Turn" email. The last line reads "Add the name of the all-father" - hence, add odin to the site address.

ETA - Didn't know if anyone had done this yet, but I mapped out all of the "hidden" pixels on the odin source code onto the image (see attached). I have it saved as a layered xcf if anyone wants the dots, lines and background separately. Nothing really jumps out at me from this though.
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 		Very impressive, Thunderwolf... I'm sure it'll be of great use...
It'll be imperative to use if he gives us more clues through Odin...
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