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TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

I don't know if anyone has noticed yet but the heading for the post on Jan 16th changed. It was:

January 16th - L00king D33p N2 My _ Sol 4 The An2wer.

it is now:

January 16th - L00king D33p N2 My _ S0ul for The An2wer.

That is a pretty deliberate change. If I only knew what to make of it!

**Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:36 am

blackhawk127 · Decorated Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 278

that is odd, i guess he changed it on the same day his last post came up, because my site checker never saw it, and neither did lisaks

**Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:20 am

TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

He must have and I missed it as well until last night. That changes the numbers in the title. However, the number of numbers is still the same (0033242 -> 0033202). It still means nothing to me! But I am sure it has some significance.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:53 pm

Jaxon-Xz · Veteran Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 71

Hmm... you're right, thats an extremely deliberate change. I've tried everything I can think of in the URL... using all the numbers... all the numbers with 16 in front, numbers and capital letters...

**Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:32 pm

argodaemon

Because of the lack of activity, I spent some time playing Lost Planet. Maybe got something, maybe not. Depends on how far they went.

There are target marks that you can get in the game. Each mark contains a letter. All the marks together in a level spell a word related to a weather or geographic event. (side note: there are 11 levels... hahaha! not a surprise I guess).

Anyways, those words are as follows:

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:21 pm

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GalvanicSpiral

Hey guys,
I'm new as a poster here, but I have been lurking for a long, long time. I have been following this ARG since the beginning, and wanted to get in on it finally. There is a new post on Alfred Alan's blog, and no one has mentioned it yet, so I thought I would come to the rescue! It may be in response to Argodaemon's spoilered comments above because it looks pretty similar to some to some of it. Also, perhaps the post title is an anagram? I plugged it in to an anagram generator, but I did not look at the results too closely yet.

BTW, I'm loving Lost Planet so far! Smile

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blackhawk127 · Decorated Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 278

i still dont think this game and the actual game are related but who knows. I agree with the topic post being an anagram but its gonna take some work to figure out exactly what it says. As far as the message goes i dont even know where to start its not ROT, and thers no clues in the source code.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:06 am

TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

Am I missing something? I do not see a change to Alfred's blog?

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:47 am

GalvanicSpiral

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argodaemon

I don't think that the ciphor has anything to do with the lost planet achievement stuff. The two letter thing, I think, is to prevent someone from guessing letters and such by counting letters per sentence. Not to completely throw out the idea, though. Just a thought.

I checked all Caeser Ciphor combinations, so unless there is a keyword, that isn't it.

I will try some more things tomorrow...

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:28 am

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TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

That worked Jedi_Geek Smile

I now see it. To my untrained eye it sure looks like a Playfair Cipher... but it would help if we knew a keyword...

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:14 am

argodaemon

I was giving the Playfair cipher a try and got nothing. I tried the following words as keywords:

:no keyword:, NEOVENUS, NEOVENUSCONSTRUCTION, ALFRED, ALFREDALAN, PINKFLOYD, ARCHAIC, ARCHAICSIZE, ARCHAICSIZEHINT, REIGNOFTERROR, THERMAL, THERMALREGULATOR, SPACEODDITY, DAVIDBOWIE, BOWIE, CHOCOLATE...

I have been using this site to speed up the deciphering.

I think that the subject is also an anagram and that is might then be the keyword(s).

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:04 pm

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TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

Maybe we're going down the wrong road with the title. Maybe Archaic size IS the hint and now we need to go and find out what he means by it. Not that it helps us much at this very moment.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:31 pm

argodaemon

I just thought of this. There is a piece in the cipher that is "bb" and I don't think that a playfair cipher can do that, can it? Hmmm....

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:39 pm

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TimonyCrickets · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

I was just responding to that actually... no it can't have double letters... unless the encoder accidentally didn't set up the cipher right. But if they didn't then I am not sure it is possible to decode it. I guess we should start down another path and see what other ciphers it could be. Also, do you think this will have anything to do with the title of the other blog that is in 1337?

**Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:42 pm