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Re: Through Lurking

**Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:30 am

DubblleDown · Greenhorn Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 7

Logo

**Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:41 pm

Snic · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 45

Re: Through Lurking

**Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:29 pm

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Solonor

Steganography

**Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:17 pm

Snic · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 45

The more I plunk away at that logo the more I begin to think we're looking at a red herring. No matter what methods I try to pull some data out of it nothing is working. Granted I'm probably the worst person on the planet with image manipulation/Photoshop. But, I've seen enough posts of others taking this route to comfortably skip any work there.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:25 pm

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AugustaNights · Boot Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 58

I have to agree with you, Snic. Though its really puzzling as to why the file is so huge with no extra data...

On top of all of this, the site's still not up yet. Is the PM trying to make this more believable by making us wait an insanely long time for the site to come back up or something? Granted, I don't mind waiting that much longer...I'm just really curious as to why this has taken like two weeks DD:

(either that....or we must be missing something HUGE)

**Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:03 pm

gdesignr · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 141

noise

**Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:22 pm

DubblleDown · Greenhorn Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 7

**Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:31 am

Snic · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 45

Well, if it is standard steganography there is usually some sort of hash key you need to pull the stegged information out. Is it possible we missed a clue for the key or that the key will be coming in a later clue?

**Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:13 am

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AugustaNights · Boot Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 58

Judging from the fact that Jinteki is still down, I think we're missing something.

(waves to PM - a hint, maybe? D: )

**Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:42 pm

Snic · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 45

I'm really hoping my worries aren't coming true and this collapsed before it really began. Sad

**Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:36 pm

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Found this today

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/article-jinteki.html

**Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:38 pm

Sithwitch · Kilroy Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Updates on Jinteki:

The website is kind of back up as of today, but all that's happened so far is that the text "IT WORKS!" appears. None of the links that appeared previously in this thread work anymore.

There've been a number of security camera images appearing on Fantasy Flight's webpage, as well as a couple of bolded letters over the past day. When taken together, the letters spell "LOUIS". I've emailed "louis at jintekicorp dot com" last night (and this morning with my message in the cipher linked earlier this thread) and have yet to receive an answer, but it hasn't bounced, either. I also emailed Alice asking who Louis was, but have yet to get an answer. Granted, I only thought to email there about an hour ago.

My husband stuck the two security camera images that showed up on Fantasy Flight's site together and got this. This image appeared last night; I spent a while yelling at my computer and came up with this.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:48 pm

Scott

oh hey! jinteki! I remember when stuff happened in that game. well cool!

Since stuff is slowly happening, i get the fFeeling they have something a bit larger than normal in mind. Not too surprising, since fFantasy fFlight doesn't really do small games. fFor example: they hired a skilled artist to make this quite cool picture, which ostensibly doesn't show much. In my mind, that suggests we can anticipate more like this.

The scrambled image drives the perfectionist in me crazy. I tried un-jumbling it, but it's too jumbled to line up any more precisely than yours, sithwitch. It makes me a little nuts. There's like a couple pixels around every piece, which makes it not go seamlessly. Someone made this really great image, then a ham-fisted butcher chopped it up so we can't see it properly.

But enough about my neurosis. It's a pretty picture. I see only one thing particularly special in the image: the red window. that's a little odd, isnt it?

Other thoughts:

The architecture looks vaguely European.
Those thick, black plumes of smoke suggest coal heaters, coming out of an apartment building.
It's night, so i think not an office or fFactory (working hours would have ended some while ago).
I'm not sure where or when fFire-escapes like that were used, but it's interesting nonetheless.
fFrom a strictly in-game point of view, why was this image made? Should we regard this as a Very Important Photo taken of Something Happening? Or is this simply a moment captured in time, if you happened to be walking down the street and look up right then? Was this image made by someone in-game? we can't answer that right now, but it's good to bear in mind.

Lastly, good fFind Sithwitch. I had pretty much given up on jinteki. so, thanks fFor waking me up. Cheers Smile

**Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:01 pm

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Sithwitch · Kilroy Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Yay! A reply!

Something that I should have mentioned, the pictures that my husband smashed together (the ones with the camera numbers and timestamps) had the url address "suspect" and "surveillence". Digging through our email convos, and the addresses of the individual pictures are:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/jinteki-private/eastside-security-camera.jpg

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/jinteki-private/eastside-security-camera_secondary-feed.jpg

There was also:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/jinteki-securityfeed.html

which was found to be an anagram for this link:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/jinteki-private/suspect.html

What my husband and I are thinking is that it's a surveillance footage of a suspect named "Louis". We're waiting for more information as it comes, and poking at what we have so far. And waiting for emails.

Oh man, I know re: that picture! I was trying to match it up perfectly the first three times I edited it all together and had a notion of using a healing brush to fix it, but I'm not accustomed to GIMP (I've used Photoshop for years but no longer have access to a copy Sad

) and nearly ended up giving up for the evening. Those little white splotches and pixel lines are driving me crazy, and for a while I was convinced that someone had overlaid squares on top of another section in a special effort to drive me insane.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:24 pm