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[GateKeeper]

[SOLVED] thingstoask.txt {SD 3/docs/thingstoask.txt}

[GateKeeper]

Line immediately following plain text, appears to be more. If it is, it translates to 'NAJVE ORT N' I'm not sure what the meaning of this is. Rot13 changes it to 'ANWIR BEG A' still not clear. Backwards the morse comes out to "A TRO EBNA"

As for the rest, my thinking is that when we answer the top 9 lines and plug the answers into the bottom nine lines, the _'d portions will spell out our password.

[hamatoyoshi]

Top of my file reads:

[clalonde]

I attempted searching for artists or works of art that were associated with the various names - as Gough seemed to point to Van Gough from earlier puzzles and gallery and technique definitely seemed to point in that direction as well.

Using http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ I tried searching the various names for artists, paintings and galleries and drew blanks with most other than
Van Gough
Two Chinese artists named Pang - Pang Tao and Pang Xunqin both of whom have pieces hanging in the Guggenheim in NYC.
and Enzo Cucchi and Italina artists whose work is primarily in the http://www.poggialieforconi.it/index_e.htm Poggiali Forconi modern art gallery in Florence, Italy. Though from his bio I could pick nothing up regarding a significant move of either his work or himself.

Not sure if I'm going in the right direction but I'll keep digging.

- C

[Cookster]

[johnny5]

Here are various decodes for the morse:

[nivra]

[GateKeeper]

How'd you come up with those alternate morse decodes? It already had spaces in there, so I did mine assuming those spaces were character delimineters. I'm not immediately seeing how you could get different characters.

[johnny5]

The long string in the middle is not valid as morse code.
Those are the variations if you break the string up into valid morse code.
Your decoder may be just dropping them.

[GateKeeper]

I might've found something. In regards to 'Novotny current home' I found a web site for an artist named 'Sue Novotny' Her website mentions a recent move, putting her current home in Ottawa, Canada. As it happens, 'Ottawa' fits on of the blanks on the bottom.

Ottawa,

[enaxor]

[nhansard]

The names of the files in the encrypted zip are:
bigelow.jpg
enzo.jpg
erdlemann.jpg
gough.jpg
mathers.jpg
novotny.jpg
renford.jpg

Those account for 7 of the 9 names in thingstoask.txt I think that we need to be able to look at the images before we'll be able to solve the puzzle.

[johnny5]

If I run the morse backwards, I get this:

[jamesi]

I have the sneaking suspicion that Erdlemann is really Erdelmann, which could lead to a number of things, including Heike Gierhardt-Erdelmann, a singer.

Of course, this is only a sneaking suspicion.

[johnny5]

Maybe it's like crossword clues.
e.g.
specialty == bailiwick,
location == area,
etc.