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[Silverkun]

Lemme see if I can't shed some light on the efforts here:

From the SC-WA (eieio) forum...

This refers to an email that agent Dizzave fired off to Kevin:

"Hello Dizzave,

I'm sorry, I don't actually remember the first text and response. At first I was just messing around with it, and I wasn't paying enough attention. As far as the three digits thing, I tried a bunch of different inputs. Multiple digit answers, words, whatever, just to see what it would do. It only seemed to respond to one number per input, so that must be what it's looking for.

It looks like a standard challenge and response passcode system, with multiple challenges to reduce the likelihood of effective guessing.

—k"

So let me test my understanding here:
-It will take only one input, though there is a possibility of multiple digits per number.
-We're going to be at this a couple times (at least three more days) before we figure out what this is all about.

I'm thinking the chapter has something to do with it. Perhaps the page or paragraph?

Thoughts?

-R

[Blue K]

I'm just kind of loosely following along right now so I may not being seeing the whole picture but, when I read the text, here's what I see:

At the end of about ten days (8-9, 11-12) Jurgis had only a few (3) pennies left; and he had not yet found a (1) job—not even a day's work (8) at anything, not a (1) chance to carry a (1) satchel. Once again, as when he had come out of the hospital, he was bound hand and foot, and facing the grisly phantom of starvation.

[Nova Loop]

This is a very simple observation, but I am going to throw it out anyway.
For the correct observations (poison) there may be a pattern developing correct responses so far were 6-1-6 so maybe today 1 will be the correct answer.
It seems too simple but doesn't seem like we got much at this point.

[Sgresso]

[Sgresso]

all the pasages have body parts mentioned.

hand foot eyes

I am thinking that we need to use a 1-26 number for each and see if there is a pattern?


any good suggestions?

[Sgresso]

I just sent a email to kevin to see if the Doc left any books near by the computer.

hopefully we get a answer back


has any one else emailed any one else at studio cypher?

just a thought?

[Sgresso]

I am also look at the Cap letters and seing if they have a number value.

so far nothing but maybe some one can see something I don't

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Kevin is looking into a workspace on the site for files and such.

and I entered 0 & 0 for today's effort, purely because no one seemed to have tried it.

Also as another thought, could the answer for parasites be a letter?

[Silverkun]

[Silverkun]

[Silverkun]

[Sgresso]

A-Z would be 26 lettters

it could also be 0-25

[Silverkun]

For the record:

Batch 0 =
"Many haggard men will be marched through the oppressive streets. Some will be killed. Other men will persevere until they can look upon the clear blue sky with their own eyes. They have been judged guilty by impassive, improbable men. "

6 got a hit for Poison, nothing for 1 on Parasites.

First, if Poison = a and Parasites = b, then for Batch 1 (5/1/2006):
"At the end of about ten days Jurgis had only a few pennies left; and he had not yet found a job—not even a day's work at anything, not a chance to carry a satchel. Once again, as when he had come out of the hospital, he was bound hand and foot, and facing the grisly phantom of starvation. "

a-1/3
1

a-0/3
2
3
4
5
6
7
18
27

b-0/3
1
2
3
4
8
9
10
15
21
27
60

Text for Batch 2

He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted; he could not remain still—he would wander on, gaunt and haggard, gazing about him with restless eyes. Everywhere he went, from one end of the vast city to the other, there were hundreds of others like him; everywhere was the sight of plenty and the merciless hand of authority waving them away. There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

a 1/3

6

a 0/3

1
2
3
4
5
6
8
21
22
24
27
200
664

b 0/3
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
17
24
857

[Sgresso]

We have some guesses today of 0 0
1 1
2 2
4 4

just wanted to post so we can elimanate some duplicates

[Silverkun]

I've been digging, and I can't seem to find the text to Batch 0 at all.

That would lead me to believe that things like chapters, page numbers, paragraphs, et cetera won't help us any; this should be something isolated to the text itself, I'd think.

I've also been tearing my hair out trying to find out why 6, 1, and 6 would work.

*sighs* If this is something obvious, I'm going to find someone's hat to eat.

Of course, I spent days figuring out the "Petals around/on the Rose" puzzle...

Rolling Dice,
-R