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[wargasm]

[dragonsnake]

The sound of the first bell "What is the Electric Church" is the same as the last one "Home". I'm back to the sound code.

The musical notes can be represented as letters. In some places it starts with do = C, re = D...., in other places it start with do = A, re = B...

[The Mirror]

Got my copy today. It's a great read so far!!! now for clues....

[Tuam]

 The book

[Asphodel]

I think I'm onto something with the blogad_stream.gif.

[rose]

It looks like the author is doing a reading in Brooklyn on September 24th. I might try to go. It could be fun.

I found it posted on his blog: under events

[Adam C]

Interestingly, converting pictures to bits is exactly what a stream cipher is all about, it was just too advanced for me.

However, the 5 point binary represents a letter at a time, and values of 27 generally don't mean A... but I suppose it's not entirely possible. I would have to assume that it either is a . or a 1, which would be hte next logical mark in a sequence.

either way, i did it to the first set of 00000 and it makes no sense at all, but since there are rows of 13, i will try to rot 13 them

[Asphodel]

I didn't literally mean A-E. I just needed placeholders for characters that didn't fit into the alphabet, so I used capital letters. I'm inclined to think they mean punctuation.

Far more likely, though, is that I'm totally off-base with the chunk-by-5 thing, and there's some standard 2D barcode scheme that will tell us how to decrypt. None of the ones I've found so far have behave the way this image does, though.

Anyway. Good idea trying rot13.

[Adam C]

Using those letters straight, and their ROT 13, with the key blogads, yeilded absolutely nothing.

[rose]

I don't suppose the username and password could be the comment that Ty added to the press release? Like Tkeith1 Griffin.

[Adam C]

[dragonsnake]

Try to google e "the end is near +/- friend or brother. Because up it's friend, and down is bother.
We might find something. One of the things I found is this. http://www.noreast.com/montauk/image.cfm?image_ID=9482

http://sillyshit.blogspot.com/2005/10/disasters-end-is-near-brother-pat.html

[rose]

I think this is a very well made little game/ promotion. I think the first codex (with the song lyrics) was taken down because it had been hacked by Ty. Ty changed the codex text to the lyrics. The change came to the church's attention so they took it down. (after we had found it of course.)

I'm not sure where the idea came from that the game wasn't completed by the designer earlier. Just my opinion, but this game doesn't seem to be advancing by META thinking. All the codes you guys have solved have been solvable without thinking "what are the designers doing and why."

ah re Ty's comments on the press release:

[Adam C]

That might be the IG reason for taking it down, but it was definitely one of those random message generator things, ipsum thing.

Somers already admitted that the game isn't finished, so while they may be well many steps ahead, we never advanced prior without a simple wag from the first username/password. And also, there was no way possible for us to have gotten ahold of the first base 2 binary code that started us in the right direction, which was given to us by Ty after awhile.

So either, they gave up on anyone trying to figure out it, or they were just biding their time. The evidence presented thus far suggests the latter, and the same in this scenario as well.