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[mr.judkins]

Thanks folks. I hope this process yields results.

Unfortunately that's the only photo featuring the code, and all the others are pretty blurry too - probably the result of someone not used to taking closeup photos of things, and being in the midst of the aforementioned distress. She emailed them to us with the mind-boggling explanation of what happened over the weekend, and I didn't have a chance to do anything about it til last night.

Here is a gallery of the rest of the pics.

And thanks Jasper - I'll post on the in-game forums the same as I have here, except leaving out the bit about War of the Worlds.

[jasper]

I think it starts with C4P4

[gjamesgang]

agree, jasper

2nd group looks like
<unknown> 4 G R

[AUZ505]

[chaobell]

Well, I tried to bring it up a little, but... ugh. I was sure the first four letters of the code were C1P4, but apparently that's not right.

The good news is, while the Omphaputer won't come out and tell us if we've got the right code until we feed it the whole thing, there is a way to tell if we've at least got bits of it right. The bad news is, it has to start from the beginning of the code.

You take a direct link to a previous part of the Codex, like so:

[gjamesgang]

excellent post. i found that the error trick worked for me in Mozilla, but not in IE7.
this will be the quickest way to verify our way thru the blocks.
on it....

[Weezel]

I actually have two files that I think will get us closer to the real letters. working with Mr Judkins recently uploaded pictures, I used a couple of tricks, including starting with a larger image and reducing the size before sharpening.

One of these images was reduced by 50%, one by 75%. In both cases I was able to get to read the Pruvo words much clearer, which puts us closer to working on the other letters.

I saved them as TIF files instead of JPGs, because I didn't want to introduce any compression artifacts to deal with.

If the board can't handle displaying the tifs, what I might do is attached jpg with 0% compression and see how that looks.

I think we're looking at 5?3L or 5L7L, pretty sure its a 5.

I'm going to continue to work with levels and see if I can pull individual letters.

Edit: ok, since the tifs can't be previewed. here's the 75% one saved as a JPG with maximum quality, so hopefully there won't be too many artifacts

[joeyhess]

http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/5474/
Error 404: SRVE0190E: File not found: {0}


Seeet, getting somewhere..

[lhall]

[Weezel]

Here is the image with a line drawn underneath it. When we look at the previous examples, we'll see that the numbers tend to be 'dropped' against the letters. Problem is that the image is shot at a weird angle, and the final letters are really harder to read. I tried to start identifying which letters are 'higher' than the others and that might yield some combos.

Joey! Great work!!!!

I had 5L7L so I had my L and 4 confangled.. good to know that few of the letters were easier to find...

I might need different techniques to pull out letters in different sections too..

[Weezel]

[chaobell]

Second four I'm seeing (?)A38. Plugging ahead, cap'n!

ETA: So much for that, went through the whole alphabet and 0-9, no love. Back to the --OMG LHALL. \o/!!!

[lhall]

http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/5474/WAS8/541S/ keep going!

[Weezel]

[lhall]

http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/5474/WAS8/541S/9424 , thanks to Moemar for the fourth section!