Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:45 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » CF: The Human Pet
[SPEC] Tom D. Cesear
View previous topicView next topic
Page 2 of 6 [87 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
Windmill Hill
Boot


Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Posts: 69
Location: Bellevue, WA

I think maybe there is room for the CM to be an individual other than the masked man in the movies. He could be acting on behalf of the CM - something along the lines of an unseen puppet master. Then TDC could be the gentleman(?) we see in the movies...

EDIT: and they could thus be acting together explaining their similar use of code and the anagram

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:10 pm
Last edited by Windmill Hill on Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:34 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
ForeverMourn
Decorated


Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Posts: 223

True. But I think the CM is in the videos.

Maybe it's all in ones perception.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:31 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
StarkRavingMad
Decorated

Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Posts: 250

We sort of fell apart on tracking the Tom D Cesear puzzle line. The way I understand the progression:

People get an email that says:
Quote:

Hello "name"

I already know more about you than you think.

I know "bunch of personal stuff about the recipient".

You, on the otherhand, know nothing about me. Now I'm giving you the chance to change that:

GHORGBZPRFRNELBHGUVEGRRAQ

This code is very powerful. Be VERY careful who you show it to. This code is like a master key - it can unlock many doors for you, but you have to find them first.

Here is the first door:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7517134@N06/

The rest is up to you. If you do well, we'll talk again.

TDC


Code ROT-13s out to TUBETOMCESEARYOUTHIRTEEND. Decodes to YOUTUBE TOMDCESEARTHIRTEEN = http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tomdcesear13

No movies there, just a congratulations on finding him and quote from Dr. Seuss.

Going to the link provided in the email gives you:
a flikkr page for "congratulationstoday isyourday" (the same quote used on TDC's youtube page), and a picture of the king of diamonds. The picture have the tags: " ez is least rg " which can be rearranged to "largest size."

The largest size picture of the King may contain steganography, but we haven't been able to crack it.

There is one comment for the picture, also by "congratulationstodayisyourday" which says: "jura lbh svaq gurz nyy, lbh jvyy svaq gur cnffjbeq". This decodes to "when you find them all, you will find the password"

From there, we appear to be stuck.

Tom also has a blog at: http://tomdcesear.blogspot.com/ with the latest entry being the "Michael" letter. Which decodes to:

Quote:

HZ ANDREW Z GOT YOUR UPDAT Z THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP YOU'VE BEEN INVALUABLE AS ALWAYS PLEASE DON'T SHOW THIS LETTER TO ANYONE NOT EVEN YOUR WIFES Z A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST WROTE YOU THIZ ASSHOLE ISNT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PLAY GAMES THZ INVESTIGATION HAS EXPANDED ON TO A FEDERAL LEVEL NOW SHOWING HIS RESUME GOT A LOT OF PEOPLES ATTENTION SOME PRETTY HIGH UP BUT MAYBE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED YOU MAY HAVE A CHANCE TO WORK WITH A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AFTER ALL WHEN THIS IS OVER THANKS FOR HOLDING DOWN THE FORT WHILE I WAS IN DZ HOW ARE PETE AND KATE ARE YOU GUYS STILL GONNA DO THE TRIP GOD I HOPE YOU DO EVERYONE SHOULDN'T BE WALLOWING IN THE ZUCK LIKE ZE Z WISH Z WAS Z HERE AND HOPE ZOU ZAKE MY ADVICE ABOUT THE ZODGING I MAY HAVE TO ZSK YOU TO DO SOME MORE WORK ON THE SITE WEVE GOTTEN A LOT OF RESPONSES SOME MORE USEFUL THAN OTHERS YOU KNOW THERES A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE PLAYING THIS LIKE A GAME EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT ITS INSANE ID LOVE TO TELL THEM THE TRUTH BUT THE INVESTIGATORS TOLD ME IT MIGHT SCARE THEM OFF AND WE STILL NEED ZHEIR HELP YOU KNOW HOW TERRIBLE I FEEL ABOUT DOING THINGS LIKE THIS ZTS KILLING MY FAMILY ZINDA CRIES ALL THE TIME MARY BARRICADES HERSELF IN HER ROOM AND IS ALWAYS DEPRESSED SHES NOT EATING SHES BACK ON ZNTIDEPRESSANTS SHES MISSING WORK SHE KEEPS INSISTING SHE WANTS TO POST A VIDEO TO THIS GUY BUT I KEEP TELLING HER NOT TO THE STRESS IS GETTING TO ME TOO BELIEVE ME I JUST KEEP WATCHING THESE VIDEOS IM PROBABLY DRIVING HIS VIEW COUNT THROUGH THE ROOF WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS IM SURE ZVERY FEW DAYS I GET FED UP AND ASK THE INVESTIGATORS TO CONTACT THESE SITES AND SHUT HIM DOWN BUT THEY KEEP TELLING ME THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRACK HIM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS GUY WANTS BUT APPARENTLY HE WANTS EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT AND HES ALSO THE BIGGEST MORON IN HISTORY DOES HE REALLY THINK HE CAN POST THIS SHIT AND NOT GET CAUGHT MAY BE HE PLANS TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY WHICH IS WHY THIS MAKES ME EXTREMELY NERVOUS AND WHY ARE HIS VIDEOS TAKING LONGER AND LONGER TO COME OUT WHAT COULD HE BE DOING DOES HE HAVE A JOB AND IS IT NEAR ERICS APARTMENT WHAT DOES HE DO HE HAS TO GET MONEY SOMEHOW THERES SO MANY QUESTIONS AND STILL SO FEW ANSWERS HONESTLY Z DON'T THINZ WE HAVZ MUCZ TIME THERES NO GUARANTEE ERIC WILL SURVIVE THE NEXT CHALLENGE AND THERES NO GUARANTEE DEERCOT WILL LET HIM GO WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER WHENEVER THE HELL THAT IS I PERSONALLY DON'T THINK HE HAS ANY INTENTION OF LETTING ERIC GO WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS PREVIOUS VICTIMS BUT THE FACT THAT WE STILL CANT LOCATE THEM AFTER ALL THIS TIME ISNT A GOOD SIGN IN OTHER NEWS WERE STILL FOLLOWING THE IP ADDRESS TRAIL IT'S A BUNCH OF RANDOM INTERNET CAFZS LIBRARIES AND BOOK STORES ALL OVER LOS ANGELES THIS GUY SERIOUSLY GETS AROUND WERE GOING THROUGH BACK LOGS OF SURVEILLANCE TAPES BUT NOTHING YET GOD WILLING WELL GET A BREAK SOON ILL KEEP YOU UPDATED OF COURSE SEND MY LOVE TO EVERYONE MICHAEL


The letters that were replaced by Zs appear to be: "IIEOSSECMMIITYTLATLLAEIKEHE" although we are not sure if those are a result of errors in decryption or a secondary code.

I have not been able to decode or anagram the above.

In email, Codemaster has claimed he is not Tom D Cesear. Although his reference to "last clue surname" as cesear in the last puzzle leads me to believe he at least knows about Tom and his puzzles.

So we have several questions remaining:

Who is Tom?
What is the "master key" for and where are the other doors?
What is the significance of the card on flikkr and the reference to "find them all"?

I think we haven't solved everything relating to Tom yet.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:34 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
youthpastor247
Decorated

Joined: 12 May 2007
Posts: 235

Excellent summary, Stark.

I tried figure out what the replaced letters anagram to, and the closest I could come to something that makes any sort of sense is MICHAEL LIES LIKE TOM IS YET A TIE. Yeah, it almost works.

There's definitely something there though.

EDIT: Also anagrams to MICHAEL LIKES TO LIE, YES, TIME IT. Or, possibly, YES, ITS TIME TO LIE LIKE MICHAEL.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:53 pm
Last edited by youthpastor247 on Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:00 pm; edited 2 times in total
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
ForeverMourn
Decorated


Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Posts: 223

You're right. Even TDC told us we missed something. But he also told us "at my time and my pace" LoL, so he maybe he hasn't even created the other "doors" for us to find. But then again....

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:54 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
youthpastor247
Decorated

Joined: 12 May 2007
Posts: 235

You know, this has been bugging me for a while, so maybe we should try it. If I'm right that the replaced letters from TDC's Michael letter do indeed spell out "Yes, it's time to lie like Michael," maybe we should. The Sam Deercot blog had a code that said "Sometimes you must like to expose the truth."

What if someone told Michael that CM is going to kill Eric unless Michael reveals the secret he's been hiding from us? I don't know, just something I wanted to throw out there.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:15 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Mizunori
Boot

Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Posts: 18

youthpastor247 wrote:
You know, this has been bugging me for a while, so maybe we should try it. If I'm right that the replaced letters from TDC's Michael letter do indeed spell out "Yes, it's time to lie like Michael," maybe we should. The Sam Deercot blog had a code that said "Sometimes you must like to expose the truth."

What if someone told Michael that CM is going to kill Eric unless Michael reveals the secret he's been hiding from us? I don't know, just something I wanted to throw out there.


That'd further the whole "team work" aspect that phase two seems to have going with it, too. In order for the suspense of the lie to be held up, every one of us would have to have the same story and keep our "information" straight. At least, as far as telling the lie goes.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:02 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Das Llama
Unfettered

Joined: 09 Oct 2006
Posts: 362

Mizunori wrote:
youthpastor247 wrote:
You know, this has been bugging me for a while, so maybe we should try it. If I'm right that the replaced letters from TDC's Michael letter do indeed spell out "Yes, it's time to lie like Michael," maybe we should. The Sam Deercot blog had a code that said "Sometimes you must like to expose the truth."

What if someone told Michael that CM is going to kill Eric unless Michael reveals the secret he's been hiding from us? I don't know, just something I wanted to throw out there.


That'd further the whole "team work" aspect that phase two seems to have going with it, too. In order for the suspense of the lie to be held up, every one of us would have to have the same story and keep our "information" straight. At least, as far as telling the lie goes.


The problem would be that if Michael didn't do whatever we asked ... and then Eric is not killed ... we would be exposed as liars and Michael would not trust us.


Das Llama

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:40 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
youthpastor247
Decorated

Joined: 12 May 2007
Posts: 235

True, Llama, but that might end up having to be risk we'll have to take. Also, don't forget that Michael needs us. Without us, he has no outlet to help get his son back.

Just an idea I'm throwing out there, though. I could be completely off with the anagram.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:52 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Mizunori
Boot

Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Posts: 18

Das Llama wrote:

The problem would be that if Michael didn't do whatever we asked ... and then Eric is not killed ... we would be exposed as liars and Michael would not trust us.


Das Llama


And unfortunately, my Mizunori is seeming a "defender character" to Micheal right now. I made an in-game decision to choose Michael's side, so I'd be kinda stuck. Neutral

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:04 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
ForeverMourn
Decorated


Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Posts: 223

**Thought

I think the reason CM wants us to ignore TDC is because we found him too quickly, ruined the characters plot. Another character will come into play.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:21 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Wabonan
Entrenched


Joined: 24 Sep 2006
Posts: 1185

Hes BAAACK... I finally got something from TDC on youtube
Quote:
I'm back. The time to take action is soon. Can you trust me?

Tom

I replied
Quote:
yea I believe I can trust as I am pretty sure I know who you are. Where have you been??... I was begainning to wonder if you were dead.... get back to me Wabonan

Hopefully Sue/TDC will get back to me

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:53 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
jabroni
Entrenched


Joined: 07 Mar 2007
Posts: 928
Location: Michigan

Also this is now on his youtube:

Quote:
EMAIL ME: TOMDCESEAR13SPLATGMAIL.COM


PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:04 pm
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Wabonan
Entrenched


Joined: 24 Sep 2006
Posts: 1185

Cool thanks... I already pmed her on youtube and the FET forums

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:07 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
pinkfreud
Boot


Joined: 06 Apr 2007
Posts: 55
Location: Asheville, NC

tom

After reading that tom coincidentally comes back at the same time that the CM replies to my email in saying that he is "looking for someone to pass the bread to", I believe that we are in the process of choosing paths.
I have a feeling that maybe this "tom" isn't tom at all, but the CM posing as Tom. I do feel that it was wise for Wabo to respond however. We need players on both sides of the fence. I almost sent tom a new pm at FET but decided against it. Right now I think I'm going to stick to my "in awe" factor of the CM. I may be totally out of line but I think that this scenario seems likely. I guess, like most of the time with this game, we will have to wait and see.

Jason

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:59 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 2 of 6 [87 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » CF: The Human Pet
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group