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zeldafan8626
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 		[Trailhead] Greg's Life
Just got an e-mail from greg.mentisSPLATgmail.com,

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Hi...

Where do I start? Well my name is Greg Mentis and I'm 17. I recently
went back to school after the summer and things have gone crazy. It'll
sound stupid if I try to explain it and it may just be my overactive
imagination but I swear there is something afoot. To start with we
learned before we left that our headteacher (after disappearing for a
few weeks) had suddenly retired. We have now been told that was merely
a cover up so we didn't panic - he has actually gone missing. If you
knew my headteacher you would know he would not run away...and he
didn't have anything to run away FROM. But why would someone kidnap a
50 year old? That's not all either. We have a new headmaster in his
place and he's planning something. I KNOW he is. The school has taken
a weird turn...there are blank moments that no-one can remember,
strange events and weird changes.

This isn't the main reason why I'm E-mailing you. I saw your name on a
forum somewhere, it was a place that solves puzzles or something. I
don't understand it properly. Anyway, I was in my physics class and we
were experimenting with a new receiver my teacher had brought in. It
started picking something up...after a few moments I knew it was Morse
code. My teacher shut it off claiming that we didn't want to interfere
or something. I'm a curious person so I went back later. I know my
physics teacher never locks his door. I crept in and recorded what I
heard. It could be just me...but this smells fishy. I tried to decode
it myself but all I could get was jibberish. If you could help I would
be SO grateful. If you can decode it or get any leads whatsoever then
please E-mail me back or comment on my blog at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/greg_master/.

This was what I recorded:

. ... .- .--. .... / -. --- . / ... .. / -- -.-. --- .-.. .--. - .
. .-.-.- / .-. . .- / ..- --- -.-- / .. -. -.. --. .- .-. . / . --
..--..

Thank you.

Greg.


Obvious refrence to UF ;D

Anyway, morse code translates to,
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"ESAPH NOE SI MCOLPTEE. REA UOY INDGARE EM?"


which is anagramed around to get,
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
PHASE ONE IS COMPLETE. ARE YOU READING ME?


Sounds like the teachers are planning something and Phase one is complete.


Reading through this journal entries (around march) he's got a friend named Naomi who broke her arm, he got a new teacher "Mr. Terbily" which oddly enough anagrams to liberty [/sarcasm] and his buddy tom, who hacked the school system.

June - His headmaster retired/kidnapped

But back to tom, I don't like him already. He keeps saying "nOObs" "h4x0r3d" "uber h4x0r sk1llz!1! Laterz!" "TOTAL NOOB!!", tsk tsk tsk, this doesn't look very promising does it?

Oh well, I'll e-mail him back a little later on about phase one and see what else I can't get from him.

(Ah, and if this has already been posted or is part of another ARG sorry, I looked didn't find anything.)

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 		theres a link to his mate Digital Tom here too

edits: and toms bio says he lives in a place called Celsus which co-incidently (?) is a Origen connection. Origen wrote a refudiation of Celsus's work in the "Contra Celsus". and then theres the plug about how xbox360 will rox0r your b0x0rs

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 		Gregmentis5 is Greg's AIM screen name.

I'm just talking to him at the moment, transcript will folow...

Ok, here's what was said:

Onionring Sean is Me
Gregmentis5 is Greg

Quote:
Onionring Sean: Hey, is this Greg?
Gregmentis5: Hi...it's Greg
Gregmentis5: Who are you?
Onionring Sean: I'm Sean. I heard about you Headteacher going missing
Onionring Sean: *your
Gregmentis5: Yeah are you from celsus?
Onionring SeanNo, i'm not...
Gregmentis5: Oh ok
Gregmentis5: Are you from these forums too?
Gregmentis5: The one where you solve puzzles?
Onionring Sean: Yeah, that's the one
Gregmentis5: Cool
Gregmentis5: I could have solved that myself but I'm stupid and didn't see that they were anagrams
Onionring Sean: Not too worry
Gregmentis5: Yeah I guess I've always been a fan of puzzles
Gregmentis5: I'm not too good at them though
Gregmentis5: My dad used to give me crosswords when I was younger
Onionring Sean: How old where you then?
Gregmentis5: 17
Onionring Sean: So, what kind of things are you into other than puzzles?
Gregmentis5: I'm into games, reading, physics...normal geeky stuff I guess
Gregmentis5: You?
Onionring Sean: Me? I suppose my main intrest would be music. I enjoy playing it and listening to it. Smile
Gregmentis5: Cool Smile
Gregmentis5: I like music but I'm not big on it
Onionring Sean: What was your Headtechers name?
Gregmentis5: Jeremy Allenson
Gregmentis5: We knew him as mr. Allenson of course
Onionring Sean: Of course
Onionring Sean: What was Mr Allenson's personality like?
Gregmentis5: He was very kind and generous
Gregmentis5: But I guess he wasn't really headmaster material
Gregmentis5: He was too slack...not enough rules
Onionring Sean: We had a headteacher like that once, you could get away with anything when you where around him.
Gregmentis5: Yeah, that's the man
Gregmentis5: it was a shame, if he has been tougher he would have been a better headteacher
Gregmentis5: The governers weren't very fond of him
Gregmentis5: The caretaker's shutting this place up now, I have to go
Gregmentis5: I'll talk to you when I can and thank you for helping
Onionring Sean: oh, ok... se ya
Gregmentis5 signed off at 23:06:19.


So nothing too important from that then apart from the Headteachers name is Jeremy Allenson and he wasn't liked by many.

Can you see anything else?

Edit: Added transcript

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 		yeah i just talked with Greg...nothing worth posting the whole transcript but lets see......

i asked him about Naomi he said she hardly knows him but shes really great.

i asked him if his school had a website and he said he thinks it does but he doesn't know the address. his school is named Celsus School. located in the town of Celsus. i can't find anything about this town but he said its 1 hour east of London. but i did find connections with Origen, as mentioned earlier.

i asked if he had any files with the weird videos...music...stuff like that. he said no they are kept in a store room at school. hes going to try and get a hold of them....

thats about it...he said if he found anything more he would email one of us or post on his blog.
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 		This is taken from Wikipedia:

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Celsus was a 2nd century opponent of Christianity, known to us mainly through the reputation of his literary work, The True Word (or Account), almost entirely reproduced in excerpts by Origen in his counter-polemic Contra Celsum of 248, seventy years after Celsus wrote.


and

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Origen was a Christian scholar and theologian and one of the most distinguished of the Fathers of the early Christian Church. He was born about 182, probably at Alexandria, and died at Caesarea not later than 251. His writings are important as the first serious intellectual attempt to describe Christianity.


Apparently they're both Platonists (more or less), but apart from that I can't seem to find anything about Celsus education.
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 		yeah i saw that too....but can anyone find the town or school of Celsus...i don't think they exist....just ingame
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 		From Tom's Blog...
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yeh things have changed as well. only greg and me seem to be that interested but there making us do really strange things like listen to a strange type of music that sounds like classical but backwards. we also have to watch these flashing vids which they put on projectors.

Quote:
there used to be this embedded flash of the school logo being made up of pencils and paper. its now this strange flashing thing before the logo comes up.


I could translate it from demi-l33t but... Seems like in-game there might be a wee bit of hypnosis going on... Greg's bit about people not remembering things backs this up. Dropped that bit of bait on Tom's blog under a fairly obvious name.

Tom's communication skills add a bit of flavor, kinda. ^_^
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 		sent an email off to Tom asking the usual 40 questions Wink
"anything i can do to help, Does the school have a website?
do you have your own computer? Have you discovered whos been making the changes to the pcs etc heard you were a leet hacker - discovered anything / leylogging / log files etc?"
and got this reply back...erm, dudes.
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yo chippy pleased to meet you dude. you dont sound like a nOOb so talking with you should be cool....yeh there is some strange sh1t going on here at the moment......

if you have any skillz i may be able to give you a few jobs if they come up.
they reckon they have me under wraps on the whole cr4cking front but you
probally know me better than that. OMFG.......we do have a site at school
and i had totaly forgot about checking it.....its been shut down. take a
look..... http://celsusschool.topcities.com/ if you could cr4ck that then youll be my new best friend!! why the hell would that nOOb shut down the site and stuff?? hes such a retard. yeh anyway were not allowed consoles n stuff here at celsus so i bring my laptop in. i play a bit of fps when im bored. heh yeh i am leet Wink but i havent seen anything unusual yet....im working on it. i guess the headteacher must have changed the log in screen and stuff. hes the only one that would do that i think. i dont think anyone i know has something we can record the music with but ill ask greg to go and try and break into the storeroom. hes kick ass at that sort of shiznit. i can ask him about calling the governers too....hell know what to do. thanks for emailing and see what you can do with that site. ill lend a hand where i can Smile LATERZ!!


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 		i checked the source on the celsus webpage and found this...

Quote:
You won't find anything here, you useless little brats!


so, theyre on to that...

and the new headteachers name is Victor Infusco. Infusco is Latin for "blacken" or "to make dark." thats the only thing i could find useful on that site, but i will look more into it later.
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loismustdie68 wrote:
i checked the source on the celsus webpage and found this...

Quote:
You won't find anything here, you useless little brats!


so, theyre on to that...


Ahh, but apparently you missed this (when you highlight the page):

Quote:
Those that are clever enough will know the directory to the old site. Please stay away and bring forth the fruit of goodwill


EDIT: Well, that was easy
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 		good call...i totally missed it.
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loismustdie68 wrote:

Infusco is Latin for "blacken" or "to make dark."


How about the image? We could darken that...

*Opens glorious photoshoppy*

On another note here is the schools email address. The site is run by a guy called Sam Elatonuc - An ICT student: celsus.schoolSPLATgmail.com

Edit: Added email address

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 		EDIT: nevermind, just noticed that it was found already
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 		That headteacher taunted us. Invis text in the site telling of an archive.
http://celsusschool.topcities.com/old/

Not too well hidden, but there's another lead. Hidden text on the disclaimer page.
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This is Sam. It is the 20th of august and I've just been told that the new headteacher is shutting down this web site for good. If there is anyone out there please listen to what I have to say. It's hidden the best I can. /trash/

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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
In http://celsusschool.topcities.com/trash/ you find http://celsusschool.topcities.com/trash/samsmessage.htm

If you read the note, it leads you to http://celsusschool.topcities.com/evil

This includes a keyboard shift puzzle which leads you to http://celsusschool.topcities.com/wwwboard/index.html


Thanks to strifey for finding most of this Very Happy
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