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[Mudbrother]

thumbs.db is a file that windows generates to display thumbnail pictures in the explorer window. I think some folks tried taking that file apart to make sure nothing was hidden, and I believe nothing was found. I have a feeling the pm's just zipped up the folder with the pics and thumbs.db got included. (I think it's usually a hidden file.)

The file, as far as I know is still available at www.pemesent.com/download/

updates... I'm almost certain it's not a substitution cipher. I thought maybe that with the "keys" photo appearing next to the Osmoor estates text that the text or the title might be the key to a vigenere cipher,but on trying both, no dice so far. (

[Sporky]

Ciphers utterly confuse me in many ways and I'm tired and drunk from days of birthday celebrations, so I'll sit and observe for now and try to figure it out.

[labfly]

hello out there... hello?

UGH!!! this is driving me nuts...
okay, so after attempting every cipher
thingee i can find on the net, i've decided
to approach from another angle..

this phrase is located under this green
pic that seems to be saying "blind"
or "blinded" (and we know that pemesent
has 1000 dogs for the blind)
so i'm thinking the last word in the phrase
"NGAPRFR" could be "blinded"...

and what about that metro map?

[Mudbrother]

how bout this so far:

syt TtuwE WE TRY BLINDED

still hacking at it. Dunno. I also feel the brackets are part of it


Working on different groupings. Does this mean anything to anybody?

SFG YHA TFP TKR UJF WNR
XX

That's distributing the letters into six groups, with the paired group in the middle. IF you distribute this way, the X's automatically fall together in the 2 slot grouping (Think {-}=2) which then also matches the two X's in a circle in a diagram.

It leaves us with 6 groups of 3 characters (Think {-}{-}[-}{-}{-}{-}=3)

I think it's interesting, but I don't get any meaning from it.

[Russell]

OK well i found the pic of the typewriter

http://www.nigeria.com/Old_Typewriter.jpg

at least we know now that the blurred out letters are unimportant.

Still cant get anything on the piano pic or the cipher though.

Grrrrr

[Mudbrother]

Ok, I don't know if we've just missed this for awhile, or if there was an update of sorts. I discovered a second hidden layer on the www.pemesent.com/cityinfo.php page. If you click on the fact of the day (second line I think) another jpeg pops up.

Personally, I'm still clueless.

[labfly]

*fact of the day link

i believe that's the pm sleeping while
standing in front of their computer
waiting for us to solve this..

edit: this is an update because the "1400"
font changed over night.. pointing out the link

[automaton]

http://www.jee-haw.nl/pict/zzzz.jpg is the location of the picture by the way.

Maybe the typewriter pic and this jpg emphasise the number 4.
But that doesn't help much.
I'm clutching at straws here.

[Mudbrother]

Wow, good find, Automaton. I don't read Dutch, so I emailed the website to find out what this ZZZZ monument is, in case it's important. I also Babelfished the site text, and it seems to be some kind of sepulchral sculpture monument in Stainless Steel. Hopefully a response will be more helpful. I don't know if its important to the game or not.

Oh, and I thought I'd mention that I did email the web_teamSPLATpemesent.org and haven't gotten any response.

maybe the picture is a rebus?
4z's .. forces?

seems a stretch. As usual.

Maybe the face in the green picture is just sleeping and not dead or blinded. My brain is filing divorce papers with me.

[Withe Bartbi]

Just a thought...

[Mudbrother]

Hi Withe,

welcome to Zoe! That's actually an interesting thought. I know that we had decided that the line on the map on the contact page was the division of a postal zone in London (it shows up in several maps I believe) but we had long dismissed the line. Your overlay does show a high resemblance though. It might be something worth thinking about. I also hadn't thought of the snake puzzle in these terms yet.

Definitely something to ponder over...

Maybe that overlay would helps us corelate the travel metro map with real world London tube stations...

**UPDATE**
I had sent a message to helpSPLATpemesent.com asking how to use the VTXT service to find out about metro updates. I got a response, but I think the response basically says DEAD END. Here it is:

Thank you for contacting the Pemesent.com Web Team.

The VTXT service works using any compatible mobile phone, if your phone isn't
set
up its best to contact your service provider. Pemesent.com always shows the most
up to date information.

Regards

Colin.

--
I'm interested in using the VTXT service to contact the Metro-Line for
further updates on station maintenance and closures. Do you have the
information on how to contact them?

Thanks.

[LadyLovelylocks]

The http://www.pemesent.com/travel.php has changed again. Now it says

[Mudbrother]

Wow, great eye to see all of that LadyLovelyLocks. I think we're getting nudged mercilessly by the PMs to solve this thing. My getting the email message from the metro people was probably a nudge to recheck that page. So maybe the big O on side 1 is an EYE, seems to be pointing that way.

[LadyLovelylocks]

Right. I thought of that too. So the first words are "I can", then?

(I Can Hold The Whole World in my hands? )

[Mudbrother]

I was thinking along those lines, but I can't resolve a bunch of crosses and one dash to mean "can." Plus the marquee says ###?## ---- EYE CAN.... would that suggest something about the 4th character? I hate being at work at the moment, can't devote the brain power to the puzzle yet :p