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[Viral] "There's Something In The Sea" - Bioshock 2?

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LC2009
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009
Posts: 50

Hm, anyone noticing a pattern here? Modes of transportation, a submarine, now a train, what comes after train, why a plane! (like the one jack came in). Ive been looking through the 2K forums. Apparently they named the newest puzzle after something i posted here on the type of tubes used in the puzzle, nixie tubes XD

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:15 am

mmm
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Joined: 26 Aug 2009
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did the code even change at all between nydydyew and ragnarson or whatever or was it a two part question or something?

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:17 am

LC2009
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009
Posts: 50

Yes the letters being flash do change with each correct answer.

Also i took the liberty of going through 2k's forums, i see no credit pointing to this site whatsoever, they even named the puzzle "the nixie puzzle" that thread was created shortly after i identified the tube type here. now i am pissed Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:33 am

player
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LC2009 wrote:

Look about 20 pages back in the November discussion thread. I posted it in there. It's ok, deeeeeeep breaths. Wooooossssaaaaahhhhhh.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:36 am

LC2009
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009
Posts: 50

player wrote:

LC2009 wrote:

Look about 20 pages back in the November discussion thread. I posted it in there. It's ok, deeeeeeep breaths. Wooooossssaaaaahhhhhh.

"I've been working on the Hungry Hans riddle on another forum and wanted to let some other people know about it. Does anyone remember the NYDYDYEW/UDDG irregularity? We converted DDG to their numerical equivalents and got U336. Google U336 and have a look at the name of the commanding officer, Hans Hunger. He died when the submarine was sunk. So the last time he did anything, including eating(supping), was on a submarine(Unterseeboot or just U-boot in German) that was sunk and can never come back up. So we had the answer before we knew what it really was. So my guess is that the puzzle box isn't ready to take the answer because the coding on it isn't ready yet. We also found what we believe to be the next riddle but I won't post it because of the method used to acquire it."

THAT was your post player? you werent working on the hungry hans riddle atall with me and Cataclysmic V, and "another site" hardly points to the unfiction forums. Check your posts before you speak! Im still looking into where you got the name "nixie puzzle" ..........

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:45 am

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Keep going, the discussion went on for several pages. I posted a link to this site. I didn't start the nixie puzzle thread, that was little_moth. Nor did I claim to have coined the name.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:52 am

LC2009
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009
Posts: 50

player wrote:

Keep going, the discussion went on for several pages. I posted a link to this site. I didn't start the nixie puzzle thread, that was little_moth. Nor did I claim to have coined the name.

Do me a favor and talk to little_moth, im interested to see were he got that name from, nixie tubes are a rarity (selling for almost 30$ a peice) and even some of my older friends dont know what they are, if he found it out himself so be it, but i would like some credit where credit is due, and also to talk to him if he knows about nixies XD

Also i found you post where you do infact reference us here, kudos to that, although it was a good 8 pages after your original post.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:57 am

player
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LC2009 wrote:

player wrote:

Keep going, the discussion went on for several pages. I posted a link to this site. I didn't start the nixie puzzle thread, that was little_moth. Nor did I claim to have coined the name.

I'll PM him right now.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:04 am

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LC2009 wrote:

Also i found you post where you do infact reference us here, kudos to that, although it was a good 8 pages after your original post.

I sort of forgot to post an actual link until a while after the first post. I suppose that was a little stupid of me. My forum-foo is still weak, so I guess it's going to take some screw ups before I get it right.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:16 am

Cataclysmic V
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Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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player wrote:

LC2009 wrote:

Also i found you post where you do infact reference us here, kudos to that, although it was a good 8 pages after your original post.

Aight. We've had our tantrum. Lol. I feel better. Now, how's about we focus our efforts on Mr. Raven.... What was the name of his last train?

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:25 am

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Cataclysmic V wrote:

Aight. We've had our tantrum. Lol. I feel better. Now, how's about we focus our efforts on Mr. Raven.... What was the name of his last train?

I haven't been able to find much on it. It was called B15 number 825. Here is the link:

http://www.lner.info/locos/B/b15.shtml

I haven't been able to find a name for it or the place that it was last in use. On a side note, Vincent Raven died of heart failure. It's sort of weak, but it might be a connection to "an ebon fowls breast." Right now I'm going with the "it's not solvable yet... again" theory. I get the feeling that we're going to have to wait for more documents to arrive on the site to solve this one.

As for the nixie tubes, I'm still working on it.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:11 am

FSURobbie
Guest

Anyone here get a letter from Phil over the weekend? Some folks over on the 2k forums did.

Phil Letter:

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:34 am

Sylocat
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Joined: 24 Jan 2007
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player wrote:

Cataclysmic V wrote:

Aight. We've had our tantrum. Lol. I feel better. Now, how's about we focus our efforts on Mr. Raven.... What was the name of his last train?

From that site:

Quote:

The Raven Class B15 (NER Class S2) 4-6-0s
Raven Class B15 No. 797 (M.Peirson)

Vincent Raven became the North Eastern Railway's (NER) CME in 1910, and continued the transition to more powerful locomotives to meet the NER's immediate needs. The Class S2 (LNER B15) was Raven's first 4-6-0, and was designed for mixed traffic work unlike the NER's existing 4-6-0s (B13 and B14). The Class S2 incorporated a larger diameter boiler, following the successful use of such boilers on other recent NER designs. The design was finalised June 1911 and an initial batch of ten was built between 1911 and 1912. A second batch of ten was ordered in February 1912, and was built between 1912 and 1913.

The first seven B15s were built with saturated boilers. The remaining thirteen were built with Robinson 24-element superheaters. The saturated B15s eventually had superheaters fitted, and the last B15 was superheated in December 1928. Some of these rebuilds used Schmidt superheaters, but all were eventually converted to use the LNER-standard Robinson superheaters.

In some ways, the B15 was a transitory design. Raven was moving NER large locomotive design towards locomotives with three cylinders and larger diameter boilers. The B15s had the larger diameter boiler, but only two cylinders. Hence they were superceded in 1919 by the three cylinder B16, and the class size remained at twenty locomotives.
Raven Class B15 No. 825 with Stumpf Uniflow cylinders

The last B15, No. 825, was built with Stumpf Uniflow cylinders. The Uniflow arrangement was intended to avoid condensation in the cylinders, by having separate intake and exhaust ports on the cylinders. Steam flow was in one direction, hence "Uniflow". The main handicap with this system was than the exhaust ports were always of the same size, but the intake ports could vary in size according to the cut-off position. Comparative trials in 1913 were sufficient that after World War 1, the system was fitted to the last of the Class Z (LNER C7) Atlantics. Further experience showed that the improvement was not as great in normal running, and was negated by the special attention required of these two experimental locomotives. In March 1924, No. 825 was rebuilt with conventional cylinders to match the other members of the class.

Although the B15s performed useful work, they shared the B13's property of poor steaming if poorly handled. This made them unpopular with crews that did not have good B15 experience.

The first ten B15s were allocated to Heaton. The second batch was allocated to Dairycoates, Neville Hill and York; with the Uniflow locomotive being allocated to Heaton. Although designed for mixed traffic services, at first they were also used on express passenger trains. The advent of the three cylinder Class Z (LNER C7) Atlantics quickly displaced the B15s to the mixed traffic duties for which they were designed.

By Grouping in 1923, the B15 allocations remained virtually unchanged. The construction of B16s at this time, displaced the B15s from mixed traffic to general goods traffic. A number of the B15s had moved to York and Darlington by 1925. During LNER ownership, the B15s were also used on the Yorkshire coast route, and to haul passenger trains on the GC (Great Central) route from Hull to Sheffield. They also hauled fast goods trains over the Woodhead Route over the Pennines.

Withdrawals started in 1937 with five being withdrawn. World War 2 intervened, and No. 824 was actually withdrawn before being re-instated in 1939. Withdrawals re-commenced in 1944, and the final B15 was withdrawn in December 1947.

B15 is BBF, which is NWNARR, and 825 is ICF, DRRYRR. I put that in and it didn't work, so if that's the answer, we need to put something in between them. Maybe "No." for number?

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:52 am

player
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LC2009 wrote:

After digging a little deeper, I've found out that little_moth was informed about the name by Bear Is Atlas. I have just received a message from Bear Is Atlas stating that he knew what they were himself. I asked him to contact you for the purpose of info sharing.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:43 pm

Cataclysmic V
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Joined: 19 Oct 2009
Posts: 187
Location: Inside a Big Daddy Suit, Chlorinating the Gene Pool

player wrote:

LC2009 wrote:

Ugh... Seriously? We're focusing our attention in the wrong place. As far as the letters go, only those on, I believe, the eastern seaboard would have received them. Phil left a message for Mark saying he would send letters to his contacts. Guess he diid. I'm stunned. This is f***ing awesome.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:06 pm

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