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[Trailhead] The Conspiracy 08
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MrToasty
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 		Posted Athena page update here:
LINK

Aurora page is updated too with new pics.





Enlightenment too:





GAH! Enyo too!


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
White character is 'i' in Wingding font - Pisces I?




AND Junker:




Spoiler (Rollover to View):
'iivii' in Winding font ^^^
11511?




OK, Athena for completeness:




I think that's it...

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guerra001
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 		Whoa this is weird...like beyond weird...Tarot cards...hippos and the zodiac calendar...

Please figure this one out, cause im at a loss


Tried the enigma machine but to no avail...im probably doing something wrong though
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MrT
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 		The tarot card was also used in the original Cospiracy game.

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guerra001
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MrT wrote:
The tarot card was also used in the original Cospiracy game.



Yeah the flower symbol from the death card
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MrToasty
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 		Music is "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th.

Little blocky things appear to be something like a pixel font and text looks to be hex.
OdeToJoy.mid
Description  Ode to Joy, translated by OCR direct from image.
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Filesize  2.09KB 
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MrToasty
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 		Tarot cards:
Death ( 13 ) - http://www.learntarot.com/maj13.htm
The Fool ( 0 ) - http://www.learntarot.com/maj00.htm
Strength( 8 ) - http://www.learntarot.com/maj08.htm

Lots of numbers it looks like.
2 Hippos
9th Symphony
2008 Year of the Rat - First Chinese zodiac.
1 (I by Pisces)
IIVII

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MrT
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 		It's been years since I played a piano, but I believe the sheet music is Ode to Joy, Beethoven. I don't know the more specific name: 9th symphoney, 4th movement...maybe.

EDIT: You beat me to it Mr Toasty

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MrT
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MrT wrote:
The tarot card was also used in the original Cospiracy game.


And the card itself. At one point in the Conspiracy game, players were required to go to the Admnistration Building on the Texas A&M campus to find a username and password. I was one of the ones that did. On this paper, the death tarot card appeared.

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MrToasty
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 		Athena page now says
Quote:
The Enigmas of Knowledge at the palm of your hands

and in the source
Code:
Junkers! the first word of the name of the song! Continue to use the standard Enigma machine


So, O-D-E for the Enigma then?

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LordIllidan
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MrToasty wrote:
Athena page now says
Quote:
The Enigmas of Knowledge at the palm of your hands

and in the source
Code:
Junkers! the first word of the name of the song! Continue to use the standard Enigma machine


So, O-D-E for the Enigma then?


Tried the stuff from the ATheNA page using Enigma set to ODE, this is what I got:

Code:
BSWZIOSYKFERDUBXDHNLXSYQCQGOKSLQREULJQWHLNEFX
UWTSWNRSFRYYHVMLKANEMTVRYCQTAKPVHAUTHLXOALTHGOSCIY
JAKLSAGZZAXTAXUUEDEBRIEKHFHSDLAJLCROZAJLIBZADTXLELSLT
BJLLSFJYVJZSSWSSMCIKQPCZCISNMOFSRVIKMATWJKNYQOKCXOC
XVINODXSTGQOWNMOLOKMJQHHNOGBSJLKHZMVLFZSLVOUWWVKP
DJFOYQMZEIJOVWIQUGNQTQFVEBGKOJMEOOYTKWNEATYNKFDFFOF
RLWDVKDGKWAHHWBRQOCJHRPDZMVJYVJPPIYHJRFDKGLJWLCQKU
UVACFERNPLOGSRAZNHDKLLHHTXIHSRSHYJDWDYLVPEXNAKCWKO
WLFDGNFNXJDVPMYNOOSKCGTBGFUOBWQGTDJE


Still kinda gibberish. I'll work on it more when I'm done with my schoolwork.

Also: That stretched the hell out of the page. Added line breaks, but I didn't try to put them in the right place

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MrToasty
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 		The small blocky text on the sheet music was actually flipped horizontally.

The hex code is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
66 69 72 73 74 20 77 6f 72 64 20 68 65 6c 70 73 20 74 6f 20 62 72 65 61 6b 20 74 68 65 20 65 6e 69 67 6d 61


which decodes to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
first word helps to break the enigma


but we kinda know that now anyway...

ETA
Text from white picture (not translated yet)
Quote:
NEXYADJNQWRBKOCJCHWLPZFRFYLB
UWOWTGRSKUITXIJYLPNHLTGPXKXO
NKDDJULNJUGZEKCQXHHCFTWNZUZV
UPVLZOTMYSCFUUWJHOPXKQGBYWM
VSEJWKHXQOCDTMIAZEZCVIVUKFVM
GZPWGRZEUGWEVGKLIWEIQLHRLUGZ
FRTLXOWUTNQYFFPRUGRVKJLPIURGC
RWCSDCRYZAGZCCXBMBYQKTBMFCO
UNGMGOIKEALICCOZZZGOYFRBEFAQ
EQLCRGFMZNGPODLQGQBDGEMGEUB
YYBSMBAQMUGCHVWAVFOVOGLSJUD
BBGTCSZHWLGBQNUTXKVRWABEKNU
DMTNJLNNSORJDVSYJJUJRQEQNRYJBE
TMMJYAANMYPBRIYYRPCGAFMYRAII
PMWIBDYFGGINNXCWPLJQPCPQETRU
DXLZTXKKSGSICTFJKKUDYHSHYVUC
KPMMVBA

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:39 pm
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16shells
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 		Thought I'd throw some things out there while I worked on the Enigma.
1. The poem Ode to Joy was written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785
2. The first word of the poem is "Joy".
3. iivii could be I, IV, II
4. VIII could be either V, I, II or V, I, II

Above roman numerals are valid rotor settings on the 'standard Enigma machine', I just hope they aren't using jumpers...anyone notice an letter pairs anywhere?

EDIT: MrToasty, I found a few errors in your text, I've indicated below with corrections in lower case.
Code:

NEXyADJNQWRBKOCJCHWLPZFRFYLB
UWOWTGRSKUITXIJYLPNHLTGPXKXO
NKDDJULNJUGZEKXQXHHCFTWNZUZV
UPvLZOTMYSCFUUWJHOPXKQGBYWM
VSEJWkHXQOCDTMIAZEZCVIVUKFVM
GZPWGRZEUGWEVGKLIWEIQLHRLUGZ
FRTlXOWUTNQYFFPRUGRVKJLPIURGC
RWCSDCRYZAGZCCXBMBYQKTBMFCO
UNGMGOIKEALICCOZZZGOYFRBEFAQ
EQLCRGFMZNGPODLQGQBDGEMGEUB
YYBSMBAQMUGCHVWAVFOVOGLSJUD
BBGTCSZHWLGBQNUTXKVRWABEKNU
dMTNJLNNSORJDVSYJJUJRQEQNRYJBE
TMMJYAANMYPBRIYYRPCGAFMYRAII
PMWIDBYFGGINNXCWPLJQPCPQETRU
DXLZTXKKSGSICTFJKKUDYHSHYVUC
KPMMVBA


EDIT2: could the death card be rot 13?

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MrToasty
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 		Thanks, I'll update the original.

I was wondering that about the XIII as well.

Looks like the Athena site is gone already too. Two sites that lasted less than a day? The background from Athena is now on the Athena page on the Enlightenment site, and the contest pages are gone now (presumably since the contest is over).

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kosmopol
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 		Hi people,

greet developments here, my respect to everybody.

Wanted to ask: "Continue to use the standard Enigma machine" - wasn't the helpful code "DDR"?

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MrToasty
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 		John posted a comment on his last blog entry:
Quote:
He did it! Eric did it!. I cant stop drinking, thats the only way to forget this is happening!

Eric killed Lucy?!

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