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Zobot257
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 		What is left to do? What files are left uncracked?

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reesylou
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 		Uncracked so far: kalan's 4th file and the inside part of the first file from max's lab

EDITED... corrected which max file was unbroken

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Zobot257
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 		Umm... there are some new emails I got today... one from Wallace:

Quote:
Zabot,

You are doing excellent job and I have decided not to go into the zone I think perhaps you may have just saved me life.

Keep doing what you are doing, I think these files from Max may give us the location. I can only assume that Corcas believe that they can safely capture the asteroid not sure how you do that but I would prefer we do not have to find out at all.

Did I tell you that Bill is good with puzzles, have a problem working it out ask him.

We must be getting close to answer I just hope we are not too late.

Wallace.


...I hope he knows my name is "Zobot" and not "Zabot"... but regardless! I think I may e-mail Bill about the final uncracked Token, number 4. It seems pretty... abstract. Does anyone know what that symbol is? It looks kinda like an ancient roman or greek symbol for one of the planets, but not really...

And then I just now got another message from Underhill! Or whoever!

Quote:
We have not heard from you regarding Drum's data files. As we have
discovered ourselves the data is heavily encrypted and requires a very
clever mind to unravel or one as mad as Drum was when he devised them.

We have pieced together more of the data the file is called: 3-Eve.zip

http://www.missingwallace.net/Max/

Tick follows tock more completely than we imagine.

Roxie Underhill.


Edit: Gah! I forgot to post what is inside! Inside is a .doc file I can't open yet (I need to download open office onto my new PC! ><

But also, inside there's this picture which i've included, as well as another encrypted file, labeled "Plus".
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:21 am
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booba
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 		My Windings isn't the same version, but what I get so far:

_f life at once untie_ the seventh is dead by poison ??

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Zobot257
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 		><!

Booba, that's excellent work!

Anyway, now that I have Open Office (Microsoft word is for FOOLS! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Er, sorry to MSword users. Brief manical spell there) I found that the document contained this:

Quote:
He thinks that I do not know of his plans, he thinks that I'm mad to even suggest my experiment in Pantheistic Multi-Person Solipsism. He has no imagination at all, Heinlein however was touched by something to write such a amazing book and title says it all, lines up with the frequency as well.

I have made it a reality a true alternate reality of many. It will make the moon landing look like a trip a to the park.

The device is ready, tomorrow night will mark the beginning of a new epoch in human history.

Fred and his RMS will seem insignificant in comparison he will no longer dictate our lives.


What's an RMS? Pantheistic Multi-Person Solipsism?!? Max is insane! I mean, possibly brilliant, but definitely insane.

EDIT: I've sent an e-mail to Bill asking about the Baron's 4th and final locked token. If all goes well I'm going to try and crack it. But we need to unravel these, and fast! Bill may be some help to us in this, Wallace insists he's good at puzzles and I think we may need the hints to get this done fast. Can someone else e-mail him about the other locked files we've got?

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amandel
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 		!!Booba Hi!! Here's the hidden msg in the posted above office doc (clueless @ its meaning) and my emails with William.

Quote:
Dy rnet fFrye ioem 1Qn tes ue fCrhg teoaa TDrrfih etoeso lgtesy fh
Qn ad Iio ee orr. hlsrio Fs'enue ftesaatce ya tla nytreyasit e aer Seas tre nmveo oetrsdsg.eohetkbnanlh rnhce oad ifre i

ETA: Also in the 3doc "properties" are two comments: Thoughts on the day and Keep my life save from him.

Am in an email wrote wrote:
Eden in Springtime or after the Fall? If your doctorate diss was titled "Cultrual Changes in Sumer after the Flood" you might want to check out http://foilheadwhy.blogspot.com/ . He's somehow involved with Wallace's latest case. You may hold the key to his true identity and what his motive for helping Wallace would be.

And how did you come to collaborate with an entomologist? Is your joint work about adaptive vs. systematic behavior? If you tell me there are robotics/patterning implications I'll be mega impressed with you both.

and
William in an email wrote:
You seem to be well informed and not just about my thesis which is a fair few years ago now. It was merely the beginning of my work but Abdul read it and saw some parallels within his own work although he did not contact me for some years. He assumed incorrectly that my paper would suffice and his own research would carry through. He finally sent me a letter suggesting that we get together and rest as they say is history.

It would appear that you won't be mega impressed although since our discoveries go well beyond adaptive and systematic behaviours maybe you will be even more impressed once we publish the book. Much as I would love to give you a little teaser of our work, recent events and a promise to Abdul forces me to keep everything under wraps.

Bill.

Eden in Springtime or after the Fall? Is this a pointer to the 'Flood' or the event before that caused the 'Flood' Beware of the temporal notions of physicists regarding cause and effect, sometimes it would appear that effect is the cause.

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amandel
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 		Lil double so we can stop sweating this. THX to bril Booba I recognized his Windings. The Eve file has a sudoku piece & MP3.

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PW is Cleopatra (case sensitive). "Of life at once untie" etc. is from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Plus her full queenly title was 'the 7th"

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Zobot257
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 		Awesome work Amandal!

Looking at the Baron's fourth token, the picture is of the Valois Tapestries. That and the use of the phrase "Lady Commander" make me suspect, after research, that the password involves Catherine de' Medici. Or a similar name of hers. Dunno about the symbol, though. I would.check it myself, but at work I cannot. Can someone try it before I get home tonight?

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amandel
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 		THX Zobot. The Droid info you seek Laughing is here on p13. Recognized some Frisian in the 3Doc. hidden msg gibberish. This is just a personal, sketchy indication pieced from various Gmc. to think about. What was Mad Max up to on Feb.9th?

Quote:
Thy..tower...to the electronic resource...that pressure...estimate the air from the three Seas content...form an integral...

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 		Update on the fourth token: the weird symbol on it is the Monas Hiroglyphica. I will give a wikipedia link to it tonight...

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reesylou
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Zobot257 wrote:
Update on the fourth token: the weird symbol on it is the Monas Hiroglyphica. I will give a wikipedia link to it tonight...


Already got the wiki link to it a couple of pages back.

Foilhead's latest post is talking about balance of power (with that phrase in red) and specifically a change in the balance of power leading to divisions.... will research further.

On another tack, I have done some initial analysis of the sudoku pieces and believe I have reduced the possible key code from 1 in over 500,000 numbers to under 1 in 40,000.... still a needle in a haystack though.

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 		Updates @ Foilhead & Wallace. Yaha, the "Monas symbol" info is on p13 & TY Zeus reesylou is expert in this stack of hay Very Happy
William in an email wrote:
Less confusion or more. Have you googled: 8 Minutes Division?

THIS Westminster lead does look valid & was the best link I could find. Zobot, when you hear from Bill plse post it here also.
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 		Um....

I'm finally at a place where I have a computer again! Yay!

Sorry about vanishing, y'all. I had some trouble with electrical failure and wireless reception.

Anyway, the letter from Bill is as follows:

Quote:
David,

Not sure about the riddle part have to think about that one but the pictures are easy although art history isn't really my forte either.

The symbol has been used by, well look at the link it is easier old man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism

The other picture is one of Valois Tapestries

Why "Lady Commander" ?

Hope this helps.

Bill.


The "Lady Commander" thing and the reference to the Valois Tapestries, as I mentioned before, made me think of Catherine de' Medici, who was sort of a commander... But it wasn't until Bill pointed it out that I thought of that... so is there a link between Catherine de' Medici and Risucrucianism?

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amandel
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 		The p13 links for #4 were spot-on 'tho "Why Lady Commander?" was the key for me. The file contains a single sudoku piece.

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Answer: Dame Frances Amelia Yates who was "raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1977" SOURCE

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 		Well done, Amandal! I totally never would have gotten that! Great job! We have all five of the tokens now. I will email Louise about it... wonder what the sudoku pieces are all about?

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