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[PUZZLE] #146 - You Are Cordially Invited
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appleTRON
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 		Big news!

Upon examination under a blacklight, I found the following text on the upper left corner of Sente's invitation:

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Electric splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24


Um ... I'm sorry, but aren't C, V, K & Q the initials of the cube theives?!?!?! And doesn't 21 and 24 sound like Gatehouse numbers?

[SPEC] Could this be the plans to heist the cube? [/SPEC]
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 		So I see a couple of possibilities:
* Sente added the secret message to the invitation himself.
* Someone in the chain of command before mailing (the random dude in the mailroom stuffing the envelopes?) added the message.
* The person receiving the invitation added the text--possibly as notes to carry around the night of the party.
* The person who added the message may be The Advisor--possibly coordinating everyone's positions.

This is some pretty cool stuff!
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rose
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 		black light
ok - you got the black light idea from my aquarium post in the humor thread right? Wink

which came from Adrian being able to give an OOG talk at ARGFest... a few hints to push us along the way...

This so cool. I told the sales people at Toy Tokyo about the different effects of light and heat on some of the cards and they were amazed, astounded, awestruck. Talk about impressing a tough audience.
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 		Re: black light
rose wrote:
This so cool. I told the sales people at Toy Tokyo about the different effects of light and heat on some of the cards and they were amazed, astounded, awestruck. Talk about impressing a tough audience.


Seriously cool! Perhaps this should dispel any lingering complaints about how long it took to get the cards out? I mean, after the ARGFest talk, I was already blown away by what a huge undertaking it was to put together all of the card elements - but that was only the elements we knew about at the time! Unbelievable.
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 		Hot damn, guys! QUICK, CHECK GEEK ANTIQUES FOR SPECIAL INKS!
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appleTRON
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Macavity wrote:
Hot damn, guys! QUICK, CHECK GEEK ANTIQUES FOR SPECIAL INKS!


No UV on that one ... at least on my 333 copy of the card.
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appleTRON wrote:
Macavity wrote:
Hot damn, guys! QUICK, CHECK GEEK ANTIQUES FOR SPECIAL INKS!


No UV on that one ... at least on my 333 copy of the card.


What about IR, or color-shifting, or something like that?
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 		well damn. I checked this card under a blacklight a few days ago and found nothing. time to check my contacts prescription Razz

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Macavity wrote:
appleTRON wrote:
Macavity wrote:
Hot damn, guys! QUICK, CHECK GEEK ANTIQUES FOR SPECIAL INKS!


No UV on that one ... at least on my 333 copy of the card.


What about IR, or color-shifting, or something like that?


Have you checked it for steg yet?

...Ah Bri, too funny, too funny.
I know, I should be shot.
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 		Not much response so far to appleTRON's exciting find??

Electric splash? A search doesn't really produce anything useful and it doesn't appear to be an anagram of any kind but then again why would they encode a message already hidden?

BB? Maybe another player in the Cube theft?

21 to 24? Gatehouse numbers?

4? Gatehouse number?

C? My money is still on Sarah Covington (and all that talk of "shoes" still bugs me)
V? We know this one is " a true believer" and pretty nasty
K? The Advisor
Q? Bernardo Holyoake

Just thinking out loud…….electric splash……electric splash….

Maybe it'll be the name of an upcomming card

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 		operation 'electric splash'?! or another clue what to do with the puzzle cards......

kids to do not try this at home!!!! preferably somebody elses.... Twisted Evil

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appleTRON
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dusty2229 wrote:
Not much response so far to appleTRON's exciting find??


I don't know how much there is to respond to as of yet ... it's certainly going to help us later when we get another key bit of info, though ... that's for sure.
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 		For what it's worth--either my copies of this card do not have the UV ink or the incandescent "blacklight" replacement bulbs for standard screw-in light sockets suck. I'm betting on the latter and that I need to find a fluorescent-tube style blacklight.
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appleTRON
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I'm betting on the latter and that I need to find a fluorescent-tube style blacklight.


Yeah, Bri ... I used a pretty powerful fluoro-tube blacklight. It was quite a thrill when I finally found something with it, let me tell you.
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 		I sort of assumed that 'electric splash' perhaps referred to how they conducted the theft, ie, using some low-level, highly-specific EMP device or Marx generator-esque machine to disrupt communication/security.

Or maybe it's just the new dance craze and the message merely lists the steps Wink

Though the card does seem to indicate that there are 5 players, not four. Madame Bianca? Brother..something or other? (Though, naturally, BB could stand for a nickname or other secret identity.)

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