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[Trailhead?] Avoncroft Stories and Artefacts Project
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naxxfish
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Jumping right in here.

The "Standard" piece of paper is dated July 6th 2168 (only noticed that AFTER trying to calculate the date using the news of a solar eclipse ... which will in fact happen on July 5th that year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_5,_2168)

Using the info of the 158 year old woman, that woman would be being born this year. In fact, about 2 weeks ago.

Also the domain standardnews.co.uk isn't even registered (a bit risky if you ask me ...).

Mysterious. And looking a bit dead-endish.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:46 pm
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louiscontaldi
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Okay, this might be the cheesiest IG character i have ever experienced but we are now consulting a professor in response to the whole Time Travel question. Bea, via the forum, has forwarded us to a facebook profile of a Professor A. von Croft. No this is not a joke (besides the inevitable facepalm from the pun)

Anyway, feel free to add him at this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Professor-A-von-Croft/79553188415?ref=ts

We are questioning him on the discussion board at the moment

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Liave Ekeli
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louiscontaldi wrote:
Okay, this might be the cheesiest IG character i have ever experienced


Agreed! I laughed out loud when I saw the profile pic. But, he is the crazy professor, so style is probably not his thing Wink

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Guess that must be how professors style their hair 150 years from now... *shudder!*
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louiscontaldi
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Apparently so nighthawk!!

So it seems like there is a new mission by the Prof. We have to go back to the pics to try and find what is missing from pic to pic, and report back to him.

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MensVenatus
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So Liave noticed something; a puzzle piece missing right where the newspaper appeared, so I showed them pics and asked them to look into it.

http://asaproject.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=sofar&thread=21&page=3

BTW, the name of the photo WITH the puzzle piece starts with 1907, while the one without starts with 2007. Not yet entirely convinced that the time stamps are OOG...
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MensVenatus wrote:
So Liave noticed something; a puzzle piece missing right where the newspaper appeared, so I showed them pics and asked them to look into it.

http://asaproject.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=sofar&thread=21&page=3


There's also a different pamphlet on the table by the vase where we 'found' the birthday card in the later sets of pics. I think there's an air raid precaution booklet there on the first set of pics, and then on the later set it's the birthday card...

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shrtyscott3
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Ana took a pic of what was behind the washboard in the Brewhouse. It looks like another newspaper with QR codes. I noticed that some letters are underlined by a red mark.

First page:
Niymnheoose
Second page:
gstsutswpiesosiamrlpitce

and under "Looking for work?" the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 are written with a red pen

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Liave Ekeli
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So, anyone else planning to submit anything to the Banners and Logos 'contest'? I've whipped up a couple of things, using pics from the facebook page, but it's nothing more fancy than what's already there - just a little cropping, some resizing and text added...

I hope someone else (with more image manipulating skills than me?) submits something too... I'd feel a little stupid being the only one.

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MensVenatus
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not an artistic bone in my body, I'm afraid...:>
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Liave Ekeli
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MensVenatus wrote:
not an artistic bone in my body, I'm afraid...:>


How about code-breaking, then?
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
There's some underlined letters and numbers in the second "Standard" from the future - see the 'brewhouse' thread
and I could really use some help with figuring them out. I've tried ROT-13, but no luck...and that's pretty much how far my skills stretch as a code-breaker. I think it might be some kind of box code, but I have no idea what kind.

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MensVenatus
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Yeah, I tried all the ROTs too as below, but I'm pretty useless at codes as well.

http://www.unfiction.com/resource/rot-it/

Anagrams yield way too much
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

unless we can figure out a keyword that should be in the message; I tried 'home', 'money', 'past' 'future', 'museum'...

too short to do a frequency analysis...

hmmm

downloaded a QR code reader to try some of these, but they seem to be the same as the others; they give a website that doesn't exist. Maybe this is going to come into play later; can't figure out why go to the trouble of creating all these bogus QR codes...
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I received the original email as well, but clearly didn't have my ARG brain working Rolling Eyes I'll have a read of everything and try & catch up.
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shrtyscott3
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http://asaproject.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sofar&action=display&thread=31

That's a good place to start!

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MensVenatus
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Yay; got it.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's a version of the Rail Fence cypher.

put it in a grid 7x5 gives you


N I Y M N H E
O O S E G S T
S U T S W P I
E S O S I A M
R L P I T C E


Or, "No seriously, stop messing with spacetime"

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