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Helpmeveronica.com - Veronica Mars ARG?
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DetroitLegend
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It's a picure with ABC written all across it. The title of the page is "we're communicating!". If you select all, you get "with what?" in ther bottom left corner. The answer is

http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/crayon.html

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danteIL
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DetroitLegend wrote:
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It's a picure with ABC written all across it. The title of the page is "we're communicating!". If you select all, you get "with what?" in ther bottom left corner. The answer is

http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/crayon.html


Okay now I'm starting to get annoyed with this.

The image in http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/crayon.html shows "/COLOR/ME" with the word COLOR in red. So you can add a new subdirectory /red/, like this: http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/red/crayon.html

That page is titled DIVide the CLASS for our next assignment and contains the following:

Quote:

brick
letterbait
haughtymelodic
aroundtheblock
film-noir
gabbed
pan
femmefatale
nosafeword
red/crayon


If you go back and view source on ALL of those pages, you notice that they all contain something like: <div class="r"></div>

Taking the "div class" letter from each page you get the letters regrindher, which can be rearranged to:

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REDHERRING

And *that's* why I'm annoyed.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:38 pm
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equi_design
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 		[quote="danteIL"]
DetroitLegend wrote:
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The image in http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/crayon.html shows "/COLOR/ME" with the word COLOR in red. So you can add a new subdirectory /red/, like this: http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/red/crayon.html
<snip>
REDHERRING

And *that's* why I'm annoyed.


agreed! i'm pretty upset too. where do we go back to now? geez...

anywho...thought i'd point out...
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On the clickme/crayon.html page- the source says: "how may i direct your call?" I tried operator.html but no luv.


also this page...
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clickme/red/crayon.html- the source says: "Property of Anna g "


grrrr.... this is way too "snarky" to use a VM term. Wink

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DetroitLegend
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 		are you kidding me?? Wow... that really sucks. I was definitely hoping for a lot more than that...
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danteIL
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equi_design wrote:
danteIL wrote:

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So you can add a new subdirectory /red/, like this: http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/red/crayon.html
<snip>
REDHERRING

And *that's* why I'm annoyed.


agreed! i'm pretty upset too. where do we go back to now? geez...


also this page...
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clickme/red/crayon.html- the source says: "Property of Anna g "




First, I thought the "Anna g" thing had to do with 'anagram'

But anyway, I spoke too soon, although that doesn't make me any less annoyed, because you can go here:

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http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/red/redherring.html

Which contains a link to a mp3 file:

http://www.helpmeveronica.com/clickme/red/verecording.mp3

I'm guessing this is from this mysterious VE guy. Anyway, it sounds like we've all been played...



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equi_design
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 		dude?!? that's it?

damm...that sucks. i was hoping for at least something more along the lines of the first Alias puzzles or a mini version of Lost...something.

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danteIL
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equi_design wrote:
dude?!? that's it?

damm...that sucks. i was hoping for at least something more along the lines of the first Alias puzzles or a mini version of Lost...something.


Well I guess there is all the stuff about the ongoing mystery of the rapes at Hearst. The main page http://www.helpmeveronica.com/ along with her casenotes plus all the Livejournal pages all have to do with that I guess..

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sicrowell
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 		Foiled! Grrrrrrrr.

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DetroitLegend
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 		I can't listen to the audio (i'm at work)... does it at least say something worth posting?
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danteIL
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DetroitLegend wrote:
I can't listen to the audio (i'm at work)... does it at least say something worth posting?


Here you go:

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"Hi Veronica. Congratulations, you've reached the end. Thanks for wasting all your time solving my silly little puzzles. While you've been spending your nights on the computer, I've been spending my nights.. well, you know. And I'm going to continue because you actually think people will help you. No one will help you Veronica, ever. This is my lesson to you. There's no puzzle in my words, by the way. I just wanted you to know that I'm smarter than you. Game over."



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equi_design
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 		Bookplate & StickyNote puzzle
starlajo wrote:
http://www.helpmeveronica.com/casenotes/video2/bookplate_message1.htm

...needs decoding


I decoded the bookplate puzzle from Veronica's casenotes file. http://www.helpmeveronica.com/casenotes/codes/bookplate_message1.php

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each number stands for a periodic table element.

64 = Gd, 8=O, 15=P, 46=Pd, etc.
writing it all out and then using the minus signs to subtract letters gives this message: "Go to Club Dada"


Similar solution to the Sticky Note puzzle. http://www.helpmeveronica.com/casenotes/codes/sticky_message1.php

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This time instead of using the element numbers, look for the elements weights.
Solution: "Gossip Column"


Not sure what we do with these tho.

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Trail Rat
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Quote:
understand that aroundtheblock is the answer to the Foward March! page... but how did we get to this? I'm missing the logic here. Could someone fills in the blanks for continuity's sake?

Here's how the Hearst Helpers figured it out:
On the Haughty Melodic page's source code, you get "keep your wits about you and you will be fine / before I march forward, I put my soldier in line"
So you put put 3302006 in line with duowndzkhbnocq, the numbers at the bottom:
33020063302006
duowndzkhbnocq

Each number corresponds to the amount of letters you go backwards in the alphabet. D minus 3 is A, U minus 3 is R, O is O, etc. Eventually, you get AROUNDTHEBLOCK.

And yeah, it turned out the whole thing was a giant red herring, meant to distract Veronica. However, there is someone else giving her puzzles as well. Look at this email from "the Codemaster":
Quote:
126145162157156151143141054015012015012102145143
141165163145040171157165162040143157155160165164
145162040167141163040150141143153145144054040111
047155040151155160154145155145156164151156147040
145170164162141040163145143165162151164171040155
145141163165162145163056040124157040147145164040
164150145040151156146157162155141164151157156040
111040150141166145054040171157165047154154040150
141166145040164157040141143143145163163040155171
040163151164145056040105141143150040160151145143
145040157146040151156146157162155141164151157156
040167151154154040150141166145040151164163040157
167156040160141163163167157162144056040105141143
150040160141163163167157162144040167151154154040
142145040145156143162171160164145144040151156040
141040160165172172154145040111040147151166145040
171157165056015012015012104157040156157164040164
162171040164157040146151156144040155145056015012
015012124150145040103157144145155141163164145162
015012167167167056163141143162145144164157155145
056143157155


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MeilingLi
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 		Was looking in to see how everyone was doing with the site and noticed that nobody answered the question of how the answer "aroundtheblock" was taken from the haughtymelodic.html page. Plus, wanted to update with some new information.

duowndzkhbnocq
3/30/2006
and
"keep your wits about you and you will be fine
before I march forward, I put my soldier in line"
was in the source code.

By placing 3/30/2006 twice above the random letters, you get
3 3 0 2 0 0 6 3 3 0 2 0 0 6
d u o w n d z k h b n o c q

You then move backwards for each letter by the number that's above it.
That's how "aroundtheblock" was gotten. Hope that cleared it up.

Edit: Well, I was beat to the top one. Eep. Sorry about the double explanation.

Also! Wanted to tell all that there's a new update to the site and Veronica received an email from someone who called himself/herself "The Codemaster."

Over at hearst_helpers on lj, they figured out some steps so here's the solution.

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The code was converted from Octal to text giving the message:
Veronica,

Because your computer was hacked, I'm implementing extra security measures. To get the information I have, you'll have to access my site. Each piece of information will have its own password. Each password will be encrypted in a puzzle I give you.

Do not try to find me.

The Codemaster
www.sacredtome.com

From there, www.sacredtome.com seems all black. However, highlighting it, you see Nothing That Raises a Red Flag which is a link to www.sacredtome.com/redflag.php.

Next, you see that you now have to put in a password. The clocks are the answer. And by converting it through the semaphore flag signals, you get the password foldout.

Another new page, and currently where we are stumped. I'll start with what is known. At the bottom of the page, there's names and a code.

The code 50414448414D494C53414441414D4E53414454414D53414448414D52534F414441504D535900 converted yields this:
PADHAMILSADAAMNSADTAMSADHAMRSOADAPMSY.

The names:
DOUGLAS
JOHN
AMY
SAMUEL
RICHARD
all have Adams in common. So, taking the name Adams out of the result gives you Philanthropy.

That's basically all that has been figured from here. Plugging it into the address doesn't change anything, just to let all know.


Okay! That's all I have. Hope that this is okay and if I have done something wrong, please tell me. First time posting here so not sure if I got the standards down.

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 		There's a new puzzle from "The CodeMaster", which is frakking difficult: http://www.sacredtome.com/primetime.php


For the LJ discussion of it, start here: http://community.livejournal.com/hearst_helpers/

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