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konamouse
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[PUZZLE] From Green Jacket Pocket

http://www.monsterhunterclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1267#1267

codednotefromgreencoat_900.jpg
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:31 pm

catherwood
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transcription:

Code:

MpRjIaSsEfDoTbGmSrBdEeEnKwSzAhNgAkAuRiHxAyScIqPtNlRv
OsLgBaHjEqNdOoEcEmVyEbTnTeTvBpOfOuDhWiNtRlEkDrEzGwIx
AgCiCoHaSnEwEbOlHtAdErCeEuRcTsHfApNhAyPqEjMxYzTkEmRv
GwBaRgSlShYoHuEbOkBsLzOcRqRyTdIxLjArHeEvEmEfCiTtGpBn
WhGdYqAgAaEtTfEeIuEzQkHsNbTwUlDcAiByYjOxCnSvImLpSrKo
EuTfOlTaHiEzNeCkKcTqNmEdTwThLyAbNsEjStOgAoAvTxIrCpTn
HpEfPaAjJuMgUbUhNzTcEqTdSrSnIyEvHeTxBtCwTiNkUsToAmTl
IfMdAaTmArLgEzNbOnHjMlSyRsNxThEcEtPvIkAeOwOiGoSuTqEp

I'll have that split into two grids momentarily...

...or maybe not? The last round, we were given 225 pairs, which split out into 15x15 grids, the uppercase giving us another "5per" solve. This time we have only 208 pairs? Now what?

Here are the uppercase, split out, and I did break the lines for handling:

Code:

M R I S E D T G S B E E K
S A N A A R H A S I P N R
O L B H E N O E E V E T T
T B O O D W N R E D E G I
A C C H S E E O H A E C E
R T H A N A P E M Y T E R
G B R S S Y H E O B L O R
R T I L A H E E E C T G B
W G Y A A E T E I E Q H N
T U D A B Y O C S I L S K
E T O T H E N C K T N E T
T L A N E S O A A T I C T
H E P A J M U U N T E T S
S I E H T B C T N U T A T
I M A T A L E N O H M S R
N T E E P I A O O G S T E

(edit later, after the solve...) I found a few transcription errors, i'm correcting them now.)

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:45 pm
Last edited by catherwood on Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:28 am; edited 4 times in total

danteIL
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The lowercase letters are almost certainly filler. Each of the 8 rows of text contains exactly one instance of each letter from a-z. So the real action must be in the uppercase...

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:19 pm

konamouse
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Code:

M R I S E D T G S B E E K S A N A A R H A S I P N R
O L B H E N O E E V E T T T B O O D W N R E D E G I
A C C H S E E O H A E C E R T H A N A P E M Y T E R
G B R S S Y H E O B L O R R T I L A H E E E C T G B
W G Y A A E T E I E Q H N T U D A B Y O C S I L S K
E T O T H E N C K T N E T T L A N E S O A A T I C T
H E P A J M U U N T E T S S I E H T B O T N U T A T
I M A T A L E N O H M S R N T E E P I A O O G S T T

I sorta feel like keeping it the original 26 x 8 (just in case), cause this doesn't seem like a 5per.

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:41 pm

danteIL
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[SOLVED]

I spoke too soon about the lowercase letters not being important, because they are the key to solving this code.

You have to re-sort each row according to the lowercase letters, keeping them together with their uppercase pair. Then, the message is spelled out in the uppercase. It is:

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ITS BEEN ARRANGED. MISS PARK HAS BEEN TOLD WHERE TO BE. DO NOT GIVE HER A CHANCE TO ESCAPE. THERE MAY BE OTHERS CLOSE BY. GRAB THE GIRL AND GET AWAY QUICKLY. SHE IS TO BE TAKEN TO THE CONTACT IN SEATTLE. PUT THE MUTANT AS THE SUBJECT IN AN EMAIL TO HIM TO GET A RESPONSE.

spacing and punctuation for clarity

So why would they want to kidnap Sun-yi? Something to do with her father, maybe?

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:13 pm

Mountain Girl
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Posts: 650

EMAIL

Last night in chat we decided to send this message:

Quote:

Mission failed. Await further instructions.

Here is the response:

Quote:

The Miller is not pleased.

I've set up a page on my site where I will post further information for you
when I have it. The information will be placed on the page discreetly, so
you'll have to look carefully to find it.

Look for hitori

SJ

From Wikipedia:

Quote:

Hitori is played on a grid of squares. At the beginning, each cell contains a number. The goal is to paint out some cells so that there are no duplicate numbers in any row or column, similar to the solved state of a Sudoku puzzle (except with black squares added to the grid).

Orthogonal connections are important as well; painted-out (black) cells cannot be connected orthogonally, and the other cells must be connected orthogonally in a single group. (i.e. no two black squares can be adjacent to each other, and all un-painted squares must be connected, horizontally or vertically, to create a single shape.)

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:50 pm

konamouse
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For the archive/record

Here is the puzzle:

hitori.jpg
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:32 pm

Mountain Girl
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The source of that page reveals, "-I've set up this page to keep you up-to-date when I can't respond to email right away."

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:37 pm

konamouse
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Rowan declared the answer in chat

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http://civilizationmutation.com/deafmole.html

In the source:

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You are smart to have found this page. I am smart too, which is why I am leaving behind this record, this evidence if you will, of what I have done and why I have done it. I know now something is likely to happen to me, as has happened to those I have sent on to the Doctor, the Miller as he likes to call himself. They were not human anyway but maybe this will help you understand.

DMPuzzle.jpg
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DMfullpage.jpg
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:51 pm

konamouse
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Sylvia called it this time:

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http://www.civilizationmutation.com/deephelp.html

DHPuzzle3.jpg
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DHFullPage.JPG
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:27 am

konamouse
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Red Hatty used the online solver and found this:

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http://www.civilizationmutation.com/illknoll.html

INPuzzle4.jpg
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INFullPage.JPG
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:49 am

konamouse
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danteIL called this one:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://www.civilizationmutation.com/cedemean.html

Quote:

Despite whatever you may think this doctor, the Miller, understands the flawed creature, the monster, man has become. In a world a flawed specimens the pure is destined to stand above and rule. I believe that man is meant to survive and that I have been given this knowledge, this understanding for a reason. The Miller is but one tool I use to serve this purpose, though a vital one nonetheless. His work stands on the brink of isolating and understanding the mutant defects we all share, the key to my personal genetic redemption. And while his work accelerates the rest on mankind's descent into mutated madness, humanity, pure and genetically strong, shall survive.
I am not a fool, and I know that when a man stares into the souls of monsters too long , he becomes on himself. And the Miller is surely that. Though the science of his work takes precedence, I cannot forget the smile on his face as the people, or what was left of them, in the lab where we first met screamed in the background. They were not human, still, how could I be and not feel something for the pain in their voices. But without them neither of our goals could be accomplished, and they are, in the end, little more than mice to be dissected for the common good.
As I said, I am smart enough to know that this doctor, Miller, Genero, Traub, whatever his real name may be, is at his heart, a monster himself. He sees me in the same way I do the mutants - as a mouse to be used for whatever reason he sees fit before being disposed of. I will get what I want first, what I need, regardless of how many subjects, mutants, I must send him for his experiments.
If something were to happen to me and you have found this, no that the doctor, the Miller, is operating from a remote facility at 35.38N 128.42E. The local authorities are either unaware of or unwilling to intervene in his work. He has been working for years to alter people, both willing and unwilling subjects, by any means he thinks might work - surgery, chemistry, genetic manipulation, and God knows what else. Through his involvement in a multitude of covert government projects he has "seeded" the world's waters with chemical concoctions of his own creation, carefully watching and analyzing the results. He is on the brink of creating the world full of monsters he has long been working towards, not realizing he only hastens the speed at which mankind arrives at that destination anyway.

Rowan identifies the location as

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Chongdo Korea.

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:05 am

konamouse
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[EMAIL] 3/13 from Matt

Matt wrote:

konamouse,

Thank you!!! Good call on not posting this publicly, we don't want to tip our hand. I will see that this information gets forwarded to the appropriate parties.

-Matt

On 3/13/07, konamouseSPLATgmail.com <konamouse> wrote:

Quote:

Didn't want to post this publically. Cryptidtruth is right, Genero/Miller/Whatever is probably monitoring everywhere, even here.

From the code in the pocket of the green coat we got the message to send an email to Scott@civilizationmutation

The response was to find a hitori puzzle on the civilizationmutation website.
Three of them on a trail it seems.

We were "rewarded" with this:

Despite whatever you may think this doctor, the Miller, understands the flawed creature, the monster, man has become. In a world a flawed specimens the pure is destined to stand above and rule. I believe that man is meant to survive and that I have been given this knowledge, this understanding for a reason. The Miller is but one tool I use to serve this purpose, though a vital one nonetheless. His work stands on the brink of isolating and understanding the mutant defects we all share, the key to my personal genetic redemption. And while his work accelerates the rest on mankind's descent into mutated madness, humanity, pure and genetically strong, shall survive.
I am not a fool, and I know that when a man stares into the souls of monsters too long , he becomes on himself. And the Miller is surely that. Though the science of his work takes precedence, I cannot forget the smile on his face as the people, or what was left of them, in the lab where we first met screamed in the background. They were not human, still, how could I be and not feel something for the pain in their voices. But without them neither of our goals could be accomplished, and they are, in the end, little more than mice to be dissected for the common good.
As I said, I am smart enough to know that this doctor, Miller, Genero, Traub, whatever his real name may be, is at his heart, a monster himself. He sees me in the same way I do the mutants - as a mouse to be used for whatever reason he sees fit before being disposed of. I will get what I want first, what I need, regardless of how many subjects, mutants, I must send him for his experiments.
If something were to happen to me and you have found this, no that the doctor, the Miller, is operating from a remote facility at 35.38N 128.42E. The local authorities are either unaware of or unwilling to intervene in his work. He has been working for years to alter people, both willing and unwilling subjects, by any means he thinks might work - surgery, chemistry, genetic manipulation, and God knows what else. Through his involvement in a multitude of covert government projects he has "seeded" the world's waters with chemical concoctions of his own creation, carefully watching and analyzing the results. He is on the brink of creating the world full of monsters he has long been working towards, not realizing he only hastens the speed at which mankind arrives at that destination anyway.

That location is in Korea...Chongdo Korea.

What do you think we should do with this information? Will you share it with Derek?

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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:04 am

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