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[CHAT] - Oct 23rd Rendezvous - colinlaney
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 		[CHAT] - Oct 23rd Rendezvous - colinlaney
colinlaney, aka Randomeis had a rendezvous with CC32 tonight. Here's the question of the day:

Quote:

Roberts: A woman named Ann Charters said this:
"________ living his dream as a Zen Lunatic and rucksack wanderer on the fabled golden shares of West Coast America."

Roberts: I want you to fill in this blank while you're on the road.
Roberts: I expect the answer to be consumed by the fury of wind.
<randomeis> shares or shores?
Roberts: You have until 11:59 PM EST tomorrow to answer this.
Roberts: My data says shares.
<randomeis> very well
Roberts: Do you understand?
<randomeis> i understand
Roberts: Are you sure?
<randomeis> yes i will answer on the IC comments page by tomorrow night
Roberts: Have I decieved you in anyway?
<randomeis> not that i am aware of
Roberts: Consider it. Good day, user.
<randomeis> good day
pgcc32: PROGRAM terminated.


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treebiter99
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 		A couple of thoughts:

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* Probably something to do with Jack Kerouac


* What does Roberts mean about deceiving us?
* Hasn't Roberts heard of "i before e, except after c"?

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 		New Command
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Apparently the "mistake" in Roberts' Data was intentional. New Command: shares http://home.comcast.net/~projectgateway/shares.htm


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 		Hope someone can make some sense of this. I'm starting to feel "decieved".


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There's a big long list of numbers on the shares page that looks like base8, numbers 0-7. I converted the apparent base8 string to base2, binary, and it seemed to be way too large to be a part of mercurious. So then I tried converting to Hex and from Hex to ascii, still nothing. I've attached text files of all four, base 8, binary, hex, and ascii.


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 		The answer is simply

"Kerouac"

According to this website
http://www.mingbooks.supanet.com/paperback_catalogue_3.htm

Scroll down to 768
768. KEROUAC Jack The Dharma Bums. Kerouac living his dream as a Zen lunatic and rucksack wanderer on the fabled golden shores of west coast
America. Penguin, Fine 10.00

Perhaps somebody can find a copy at the lib or in a bookstore and conferm?

I must be off to work.
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 		Aqua Key Solve (from shares)
Okay, if you do a straight Octal -> Ascii conversion on the text you find in the source of the 'shares' page, you get mostly gibberish... but in there are fragments of text for a key, but all mixed up.

No gate number, but I'm assuming by the content it is HydroBlast, gate 3204.

Here's the key which i painstakingly reconstructed Smile:

Code:

/----------------------\
|                       |
|  I am the aqua,       |
|  I am the underwater  |\_______________________________
|  watcher in the deep. |                                \
|  Use me, and you      |                                 \
|  shall unlock         |________________________________ /
|  the watery lancer.   | ____    _       __   ___      _/
|                       |/    \  / \     /  \_/   \    /
|                       |      \/   \   /          \  /
|     Gate#3204         |            \_/            \/
\-----------------------/


Submitted Very Happy

That's my first one in ages, I thought I was beginning to lose it Wink
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 		Talk about dancing all the way around a solution....I feel like a complete idiot Embarassed . Great job Sequoya! Very Happy

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 		Randomeis submitted the answer, no reply back yet.

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