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[PUZZLE - SOLVED] PG front door -> Mystery
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RedKnight
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 		[PUZZLE - SOLVED] PG front door -> Mystery
The image has changed to this. Looks like there is something there, I hove no clue as to how to get it out though.

RedKnight

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HitsHerMark
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 		Text inside the image (Most of this may already be known).

Are you free from desire? Or are you caught in it?

(8503)(8503)(8503)(8503)(8503)SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Scooby Dooby DOOO!!!!!

The scooby dooby doo leads to the command keyword "mystery" according to the chat tonight.

Going to that command word brings up a story that sounds like it's describing an email or URL...

I'm not sure if the (8503) and S stuff is significant, but is was different enough that I thought to include it.

It's interesting to note, when I try to save the image and open it up in photoshot, it tells me that the image is truncated and/or incomplete. When I try to open it, it's all just black with different colored lines...

When I scale the image up and down, the colored lines change.
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treebiter99
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 		http://home.comcast.net/~projectgateway/mystery.htm

The story has lots of extraneous puncuation and capitalization. Browsin, RedKnight, G3N3SIS, and Eck compiled this list of letters and symbols from the text last night:

Quote:

$EB~=DP\K.C+L/G@F-#<N>MO|]Q,IR[{ST}U)W*X&^'



Both Browsin and RedKnight indicated that they would have limited time to help out today. We'll need to carry on their work where they left off.

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sequoya
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 		Well, it seems the whole story part of mystery may have been a wild goose chase.. the page changed with an extra nudge for us to tell it about who killed Kryer.

This leads to :
http://home.comcast.net/~projectgateway/rowendarkblade.htm

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Dr Kryer says:

'1320~19332+11029=12$3242#0338201@3849!0,1.1287?659/069301>1033<111|001\06983]*583[01010101{(8503)}7533)132456(0993322*485934111&04920654^1120381%594&5

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 		The shorter string could be a key to decode the longer one, but I've never seen anything that resembles that before.

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sequoya
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 		Leo Boomer and I were chatting on IU, and he pointed out this line from one of the conversation excerpts :

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Dr. Kryer: Ah! Daniel! I thought you were coming tomorrow.

Kryer refers to Rowen as Daniel. Is Rowen in fact Daniel Shaw??

EDIT - I wonder where this would put Henry? On our side or not?



Could this be something to do with the 'Dr Kryer says' part of the puzzle?
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L.Boomer
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 		Henry [Spec]
Some spec on Henry>

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Henry could very well be Shadown, who was childhood friends with Colin (aka CyberStrike) and now are trying to destroy him and his group.
. not sure how to use this in the puzzle though.
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sequoya
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 		[CHAT] With Mercurious - a hint on mystery
Quote:

* Mercurious has joined #projectgateway
<Mercurious> Connection Established.
<Mercurious> Files loaded.
<LeoBoomer> Mercurious HI
<Mercurious> Mercurious online.
<Mercurious> Roberts: We got paperwork!
<Mercurious> Sorta.
<sequoya> Hey Merc
<LeoBoomer> Sorta is good
<sequoya> anything at all would help just now Smile
<Mercurious> Ok, sorry for skipping the "Hi"s but here's what we came up with from our end.
<LeoBoomer> cool
<Mercurious> The letters, symbols, and numbers are all inter-related.
<Mercurious> We're sure of it.
<LeoBoomer> ok
<Mercurious> We think it's a letter to symbol to set of numbers deal.
<Mercurious> Roberts: Which my cypher can't handle.
<LeoBoomer> damn
<Mercurious> Roberts: I wasn't programmed for encryption.
<LeoBoomer> I understand
<Mercurious> Roberts: However, one of them must have the key to understanding the relation between the letters and the numbers, or the letters and the symbols.
<LeoBoomer> any ideas on how to find the key?
<Mercurious> Have you noted the cell listing page?
<Mercurious> It seems the emergency protocol left a cryptic note to the key's location.
<Mercurious> Roberts: We think it's talking about the key, at least.
<sequoya> ah.. i see what you mean.
<treebiter99> letters, to sybol, to numbers...
<Mercurious> I personally think the mystery file is the key that Roberts left behind to A51's code.
<Mercurious> The capitol letters and frequent mention of symbols is possibly it.
<Mercurious> That's all we have though... we're gonna get back to work now.
<LeoBoomer> well, thanks for the little bit of help
<Mercurious> Right, please take care, and good luck again.
<sequoya> yes, thanks Mercurious
<Mercurious> Disconnecting............... done.
* Mercurious has quit IRC (Quit: ---Line Disconnect---)

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sequoya
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 		Update to the cell listings page:

Quote:

The writing on the walls is camoflaged. Take off the outer shell.

Look where the sun cannot shine. There you shall find what you seek.

Light is the way, amen.

-Roberts

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 		The rowendarkblade page helped with the Apocolype solve. Not sure if there's anything left on the Mystery page.

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Stormalong
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 		Mercurious popped into chat.

Quote:
<Mercurious> Mercurious online.
<LeoBoomer> hello mercurious
<Mercurious> Any progress from your end?
<LeoBoomer> yes some
<Mercurious> Go on.
<LeoBoomer> we have decoded the apocolypse page
<Mercurious> Roberts: Amazing.
<Mercurious> Does it say anything useful?
<LeoBoomer> it was a message from Roberts
<LeoBoomer> Your final key must be inserted in any electronic mail address the program may have registered during the course of the assimilation process. If it is not then the nightmare cannon will fire and my friends will be destroyed
<LeoBoomer>
<LeoBoomer> Do not fail me, Roberts.
<treebiter99> useful, but not necessary new info.
<Mercurious> No luck on the key?
<LeoBoomer> no unfortunatly
<treebiter99> no. I think we have to find a "shadow" on the Front Door, but we can't find it.
<Mercurious> Roberts: It almost feels like it's right under our noses.
<Mercurious> Roberts: Like maybe it would be disguised as something else.
<LeoBoomer> ahhh, but we have been looking everywhere
<Mercurious> Yes, so have we.
<Mercurious> Roberts: And we have nothing.
<Mercurious> Guard: Not a thing.
<LeoBoomer> just faith
<LeoBoomer> we will find this
<Mercurious> We'll keep looking on our end.
<LeoBoomer> ok merc, so will we
<LeoBoomer> not sure where , but we will keep looking
[Stormalong] the hindi files?
<Mercurious> Disconnect........ done.
*** Mercurious (~lurker@35474391.2803ef39.resnet.pitt.edu) has quit IRC [Quit:]

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 		Update to the cells page. The follow text was added.

Quote:
Pass light through the key where no light goes.

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