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[Zaranai]

Lol, sounds about right. Here's hoping you can find that planted book tomorrow!

It's .tph on the PC, yes, but it's still .oph on the Mac. Maybe it's another obstacle to be overcome - first a drop somewhere that has no active players, next a format that requires a different kind of computer than most players have. Instead of the normal puzzles, it's things to drive players to seek out friends to add to the game?

Took a stab at the vague-but-not-too-vague email... How does this look?

[Leyton Stone]

[Oriza]

If a PM is reading this at all--
it would be very handy if something was hidden at the University of Michigan library. I can get there easily

[Leyton Stone]

Alright guys, I'm out...

If I don't log on tomorrow before I leave, I'll try and grab a P.C and log in whilst in the library.

Word of warning though: It is SO freaking hard to get a P.C sometimes in that place, esp' if I'm looking on one particular floor.

Night all!

[Oriza]

Wait, hold up...
You say you guys are getting actual files on your computer that end in .oph (or .tph) and they are supposed to download? When I went to http://www.boomspeed.com/tiggiefelin/LMF/, it only gave me a website with a load of scrambled binary that we discussed earlier.
And my PC says it ends in .oph-- the binary site, anyway.

[Zaranai]

When I had them on my computer and tried to load them it didn't know what to do with it, so I was prompted to pick a program and chose Notepad, getting the binary. I donno why the online thing is only showing the binary, but, you can right-click on them in the directory and go the old school "Save As..." route.

And, btw, when looking at the binary page like a normal webpage, it breaks, resulting in some sections being "hidden". Bit of a software glitch - just look at the source code, and it'll all be there.

[MrToasty]

I stated this in chat, but I'll state it again. The .oph file type being discussed here is not what our .OPH files are. A header file contains function definitions in a programming language. Here is an example of one of these oph files:
LINK
Open in a text editor of some sort. It may look a little strange, but it's readable.

Our file is a long binary string in ASCII. To the best of my knowledge, nobody stores a file like this. The .OPH extension here most likely is just another reference to Ophiuchus.

[Zaranai]

Well damn. Ah well.

Was a bit of the uppity-youngest-child syndrome kicking in: "It does SO exist! Nyahnyahnyah!" I've been satiated now, I think. ;D

[jabroni]

This is going to be a pain if this is right, but I don't think it is. I tried reversing the 1's and 0's and I got some letters, but I think its still gibberish. Like for document 5 it would be "QNRԹB�K�(i.���"

New Theory: The jibberish code you get when you decode the binary looks similar to the code inside of picture files. Maybe we can somehow contruct a picture out of this code.

[Pictishwitch]

Is the binary we're having trouble with the one Elite decoded on page 19? My husband is rather brilliant at this sort of thing, so I thought I'd have him take a look.

[jabroni]

[Zaranai]

That block was gotten through the "invisible" version of the pages, I think. What we're looking at are the Auth_00x.OPH files here. You have to look at the source to get it all, but those are the ones, and apparently 2-6 are all the same.

http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ is the tool most have been using to translate this, I think... It changes the binary into a few different things, so you can see which one makes the most sense to him.

[jabroni]

[Sylvia]

Zaranai, can you look on the USB and tell us the dates each file was created. Maybe there is something to the order.

[Zaranai]