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Does anyone know the correct country code for the phone number. Dialing it straight out from the US gives me an error message.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:27 pm
Lystella
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I tried the anagram approach for 2 as well but have three left over letters.
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ene
…remember…me…wasnt…i…there…at…all…the …birthdays… invited…
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:40 pm
catherwood
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Lystella wrote:
I tried the anagram approach for 2 as well but have three left over letters.
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ene
…remember…me…wasnt…i…there…at…all…the …birthdays… invited…
not bad. Here's the full solve:
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remember that the veil between dreams and reality is thin
and here's how to do it:
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paste your cipher text into this Rail Fence tool.
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/railfe.htm
You can experiement with the fields, but this one solves with a group=4 and displacement=0
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:18 am
LatentMoths
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Finally cracked the third code...
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Using a vigenere cipher with a key of "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge" we get "Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction"
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:45 pm
duke9509
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Ok, how did you come up with that key?
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:04 am
AnonymousOtter
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Brilliant, all of you. I tried the anagrams, but nothing ever came out... The conventional ones online are too weak for the long ones...
It's going to be quite a ride working with you guys on this....
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:07 pm
duke9509
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Looks like we're going to be getting some build-up story leading up to the real start of the game.
Quote:
Let's Do Lunch
I hate it when people say that, because they usually don't mean it, or rarely follow through. However, I got a phone message from Sean Whitten today, and he wants to meet up with me at 12:30 at a local sandwich shop, a popular little hole in the wall with good food. This is strange for two reasons. First of all, it's a place we used to go in high school, and I haven't been there for decades. Secondly, Sean is a pretty well-known congressman, and I would think he would choose a place that was either a little more upscale or a little more out of the way. Needless to say, I'm dying of curiosity about this meeting.
Another very disturbing dream about Melina. In this one, she is buried but still alive, and I am trying to save her using nothing but a rock pick and a whisk broom, common archeology tools. I woke up shivering in a cold sweat.
The novel, the prospect of seeing Sean again, and just a general lack of sleep, are clearly getting to me.
Also, has anyone called that number successfully yet?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:30 pm
mspixieriot
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Pretty sure it's not a real number. Even a Mexico country code doesn't seem to work.
Either that or my phone here is blocking those.
To call it from the US, you'd want to dial: 011-52-891-912-9519 if someone else wants to try that.
The only other records I can find of an 891 area code are in relation to phone scams that use fake numbers.
Oh, or 891 is an area code in India.
891 used to be the country code for Serbia and Montenegro...
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:59 pm
Lystella
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duke9509 wrote:
Ok, how did you come up with that key?
I think the key is a quote found on the sidebar of the author's blog.
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:17 pm
LatentMoths
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Lystella wrote:
duke9509 wrote:
Ok, how did you come up with that key?
I think the key is a quote found on the sidebar of the author's blog.
Sorry duke I missed your question. It would have been much easier had I seen that quote on the blog and then thought to use that as a key. But honestly I just made a lot of different guesses on possible partial messages until one of them yielded a partial key that was recognizable as English. Then doing a google search on my partial key I came across the perplexity quote and it worked. Obviously this wasn't the way the code was meant to be deciphered, but whatever works I guess.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:22 pm
duke9509
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Ok, I'm not entirely sure what to do with it, but there's a new post on the blog. It's titled "Sneak Preview," has an image of what, according to the tooltip, is a vial of tears, and then has two lines of underscores as if we were supposed to fill something in.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:08 pm
Ashe1024
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Jumping into this before it takes off. Anyone notice that there's a sneak preview tab on the website that requires a log in? Is there a code that has given us the log in information?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:27 pm
Ogawa
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Maybe we're meant to play a game of hangman somewhere.
Has anything from the puzzles worked for login info?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:06 am
duke9509
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I doubt it will contain an answer to the "Sneak Preview" thing, but Ella posted her experience with Sean.
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Lunch with Sean Whitten
I've been meaning to write up my encounter with Sean Whitten, but didn't get a chance until now. It went really well, and Sean is friendlier and more down-to-earth than I remember him. I told him about my recent dreams, and he told me that he's been thinking about Melina ever since a police department psychic came and talked to him. Apparently, this woman is hired by the Tucson police department to look at cold cases and see if she can come up with any fresh leads. I was amazed that the police actually deal with psychics; I thought that only happened on TV, but Sean said that it's a little known secret that even the Pentagon uses psychics on occasion. Intrigued, I asked him what she said.
He told me that while she would share any information about the case itself, she wanted to know if he'd had any contact with Melina's high school boyfriend, a guy named William Barry. I remembered Billy Barry quite well, but Sean hadn't seen him since he skipped town after Melina's murder. Billy was a prime suspect for months, but eventually the police dropped the case against him because they couldn't come up with a single shred of evidence. Billy and his mom moved away at that point, to escape the cloud of suspicion that followed Billy everywhere. Nobody had seen him since.
Apparently, after some digging around, this psychic has unearthed some information about Billy and Melina. I can't wait to find out what transpires.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:55 pm
Lystella
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duke9509 wrote:
Ella posted her experience with Sean.
In addition to being categorized as "Life", the blog post is filed is also filed under the "hang man" category.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:18 pm
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