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[thebruce]

Augh! *smackself*

So um, that picture of Peter Rabbit - http://felicityvelius.com/?p=45
You know, the JPG file that's 3.6MB in size... yeah, I did manage to find other places with the same image, but none the same size.

Don't know why I didn't think of looking for hidden files in the binary.

At the end-file JPG marker, there's an attached RAR file (ie, the RAR file was just appended to the JPG file). You can open the JPG in WinRAR without a problem. d'oh.

So yep, two more images and a PDF.



Puzzle! Doc#3.pdf


ETA: Also, Toenolla noticed that some letters had been scratched off the pen found in the Waco lockbox -- pic: http://yfrog.com/nz6vatyj
It should read: Wr(ite) Bro(s)
ETA2: THE PEN NOW WORKS!

[thebruce]

Text of the documents:

[booba]

Since there are elements in the text, and we were presented with something like a table, maybe it could be something like ATOMIC NUMBER-LINE-WORD from the Wiki article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elements

[thebruce]

Well, there are 118 elements, and the 2nd number goes up to 117... but a typical cipher like this would be or hierarchy. The first number would be like an id to a collection of the 2nd number. (like chapter-line-word)

The 1st number goes up to 34, the 2nd to 117, the third to 10. What sort of hierarchy has a structure of similar sizes?

[BubbleBoy]

[thebruce]

[LatentMoths]

[thebruce]

huh, another good spot. coincidentally, "t" is the 20th letter of the alphabet. =P

I'll be doing more wiki updating today, getting text transcribed, images upp'd, etc.

I still think we're missing stuff.

[BubbleBoy]

[thebruce]

No worries, and I agree... a wrench may have been thrown in their plans however given the very late start... 'production value' may have been the wrong term to use =) I was thinking more along the lines of a fleshed out plotline. Not necessarily epic scope, but one with lots of potential, imo.

Aug 8 was the last update, so they're not really dead in the water, per se, but some kind of activity or nudge might be nice *cough*
Maybe they overestimated the reach of Wikibruce

I also work full time and have not been paying much attention to that, so my daytime activity may be less this week. But after-hours...

Let's get on this! heh

[thebruce]

Well, I guess they took the nudge request to heart - tweet: "The message is in my first two blog posts. See how they look when you use the table letter for letter."

[LatentMoths]

Well each of the first two blog posts have 416 letters which would fit perfectly in a 26 x 16 grid. So I wonder if the missing row 20 is a mistake. I've put the letters in the grid with and without row 20 and nothing has jumped out at me...but it's still early. I'll keep looking at it.

[thebruce]

ah good catch. I looked at lines (both have 10, as on the site at least)

breaking the posts into 16 column chunks, we have

[booba]

Suppose the new clue points to the correct book?

Here's the first blog 26x16

Welcometomype rsonalpageMyn
ameisFelicity Imawriterillu
stratorandcat loverAlongthe
wayIvebecomea hugefanofthel
iteraryworkso fBeatrixPotte
rSheauthoredo verthirtychil
drensbooksImc urrentlyworki
ngonanantholo gytyingallthe
storiesandill ustrationinto
onesinglepiec eIvebuiltanic
eheadofsteamf orthisproject
soexpectatlea stoneupdatepe
rweekasweallg etunderwayVir
gilmygoldenca twillbeassist
ingmeasIwrite sodontbesurpr
isedbyanoddme owhereorthere

[thebruce]