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Bixter · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

[Spoiler] [New Website] The Receda School of Music

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:56 am

jsweby · Boot Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Plymouth, UK

How ever did you come across that?

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:03 am

Bixter · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Searched for "receda" on Whois. Have been keeping an eye on the Godaddy parked domains. And lo, today it has provided.

Similarly, http://recedaresorts.com/ has moved out of the parked status, but only brings up an Access Forbidden - Error 403 message so far.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:06 am

Jakeo

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It won't be a Tuesday again until 2007

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:07 am

Juxta · Unfettered Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675

Um. Seems like a slightly "iffy" way of "discovering" a website - someone with more ARG experience want to confirm?

J

Apologies if it's a legitimate tactic, but it just seemed...*shrugs* dunno.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:25 am

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Bixter · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Date just changed to October 4th.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:32 am

Jaeneas office · Guest

Can anyone more musical than me (everyone is more musical then me) play the tune on the left of the site?

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:36 am

josiah

It's Beethoven's Ode to Joy from the 9th Symphony

http://www.8notes.com/scores/435.asp?ftype=midi

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:41 am

Macavity

It's "Ode to Joy", IIRC. Just played it on my (slightly dysfunctional) Casio synth.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:41 am

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**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:49 am

Spankit

Who wants to bet that whatever we were supposed to find out in Long Island would have led us to this site? Oh well, not that anyone actually enjoys solving puzzles anymore.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:04 am

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Bixter · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

I only used tools that were readily available right on this website:

http://www.unfiction.com/resource/otools/

If it's really a puzzle, it's pretty poorly hidden. Especially since they have provided us two sites in a row containing "receda" in the domain.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:24 am

ScarpeGrosse

It's not so much how you did it, but that you probably by-passed both story and live-events and whatnot to get there. Yes, the tools are readily available, but that doesn't necessarily mean that to magically find a site before its time within the storyline doesn't spoil the fun for everyone else.

It would have been nice to actually have seen how we would have gotten this site from the story.

Guess we'll never know now.

Thanks Razz

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:29 am

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PuzzledPineapple · Unfettered Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 352

Hopefully there's still some people looking for the roundabout. If that's not where the clue for this site is hidden then I'll ... be very surprised. MC know well enough not to leave sites up ages before revealing them for reasons outlined above. And if the pattern that's already been established is followed, the website will be entirely obvious. That's life.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:35 am

BrianEnigma

So that's just lame. I now wish I hadn't read this thread.

Yes, there are ways to search for words in domain names. Yes, there are tools to tell you what web sites are running on a given IP address. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Typically, this kind of DNS trickery is too much of a peek behind the curtain and spoils a puzzle that would have led there through thought. Many people equate it to cheating or even brute-forcing.

Because of all of this, I tagged the thread with [Spoiler]. I now wish I hadn't read it because it likely ruined my enjoyment of an upcoming puzzle.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:25 am

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