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[bartmans]

KCPD seems to be used for the Kansas City Police Department or at least Kansa related. However, a Channel 11 broadcasting company does not show up on internet.

On the other hand, also the picture at the freewebs site uses KCPD, where it says: breakers can be taken down KCPD11 - underdog. Would that indicate that the maker of the freeweb pic is the cause of the (putative) site being down.

Another thing that I notice in the picture is right in the middle of the map of the USA there is something that seems to point to a circle (or rather a "(0'' ) in the map. As far as I can imagine, it points to the North-West corner of Kansas (which is the opposite site with respect to Kansas City).

Lastly, the indication 'flash data heavy' is strange and does not seem to connect to the rest of the information.

Any ideas?

[Lucy]

New Code in email from Jason Dellacort

[nady]

Re: New Code in email from Jason Dellacort

[lmaner311]

What's going on with this game? Anything? I emailed Jason Dellacort and I got the same GMail error code. I looked around on GMail site for any clues or if this is possibly a real GMail error. Nothing. I'll continue to look but this game may be dead.

[PatRol]

I don't know what's going on with this game. I got two Emails from Jason lately. The first did state the well known GMail error and today another mail arrived with the word C0mpensation in it, followed by the old message that was sent to me a week ago. I don't think that Googlemail is filling the mails with that messages. Though I doubt that it is a reall google error. I'll send them (Google) a mail asking about those errors. Let's see what they can tell us.

Maybe "C0mpensation" is the keyword for the last line of the mail?

[Lucy]

Don't know if anyone is still listening, and even if you are I'm not really sure this is helpful, but...

I did a bit of looking around and found that C0 is a control code. Considering this I don't think it is really able to be translated, but seeing as I don't have any real understanding of such things I thought I'd post these links here and see if anyone else can make anything of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes

and, dealt with in more detail

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

[Ralphomon]

Wow, first ARG! I'd like to be part of this.

OK, this might not mean anything, but y'know how the map image looks like an I-R image? Does anyone know what's at the point where it's 'hottest' (ie. white surrounded by red)? I'd fire up GoogleEarth and check it out, but it's way too late and I don't have it on this computor.

[Ralphomon]

OK, sorry to double post, if anyone cares, but there's been little action for a while, and now this:

I got an email from mi.55548SPLATgmail.com: @@@@@SECURETRANSMISSION@@@@@! with only a link to www.shorttext.com/lt56 in it. So I take a look at the site, and not much interesting there. So I have a gander at the source, and I find a string of info called "hidden". Here 'tis:

dDwtMTUxNjA1ODg2MDt0PDtsPGk8MT47PjtsPHQ8O2w8aTw1PjtpPDEzPjs+O2
w8dDxwPDtwPGw8b25jbGljazs+O2w8ZW5hYmxlR3JvdXBPbmUoKVw7Oz4+Pj
s7Pjt0PHA8cDxsPFZpc2libGU7PjtsPG88dD47Pj47PjtsPGk8Mz47aTw1PjtpPDc+
Oz47bDx0PHA8cDxsPE5hdmlnYXRlVXJsOz47bDxzcHJlYWRVUkwuYXNweD91c
mw9bHQ1Njs+Pjs+Ozs+O3Q8cDxwPGw8VGV4dDs+O2w8QEBAQEBcPGJyL1w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Code much? Anyone have any idea how to solve it?

Broke up code string to make window less wide. Also, fixed link. -- jamesi

[jamesi]

It's Base64, but it doesn't make any sense to me, other than repetition of the "If you want your own URL for this text, click here ($2/year)" text string. Perhaps something page-encoded, and not game related?

[SnuBear]

hey everyone, just noticed this ARG so I thought I'd jump in as Renata Isle is currently at a standstill.

In Brave New World, the people of the world let their lives be controlled by the government so they all have everything they could ever want but are born and raised with constant subliminal messages that force them to think in specific ways. I'm thinking this Methargo is a conglomeration of people who are using these satelites for a similiar plot? Just conjecture, I apologize if this isnt even important.

is it just me or does that colored USA map seem to show data flow? Flash data heavy? what kind of information or resource is heaviest in the northwest and gets less so the farthest southeast you go? once again maybe im just way off...

[Ralphomon]

[DeformedUncleLouie]

Wow this isn't dead? You think the PMs are waiting for us to do something? Not the best plan, but oh well. Anyway just notice this, the line

[Lucy]

I do! I do think it means the gmail error code. Doesn't mean I can magically solve it now though...or does it?

[JimK]

Sorry to butt in, but Renata's been a dead end for a while, so I thought I'd check out some other games.

If you base 64 the error code from the email, you get:

@‚
êNô,Zd¸0f"å{±orÛÀä'ý>G®Ù
X@ÄmþQÀò±ˆ

Now, since I just started looking at this game, I don't know if any of the IG characters refer to others by a single initial, but I wonder if you just need a substitution code from here. I say this because the PM makes such a big deal out of the "@" in the shorttext page....

something like:

A,
<message>
Thomasina

??

Does that help anyone??

[Ralphomon]