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[Trailhead?] Assassin's Creed - Pieces of Eden
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FirstSword82
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[Trailhead?] Assassin's Creed - Pieces of Eden
Joining the Templars?

Ok everyone, I'm very new to all of this, so if there's any no-no's in any of this, please feel free to let me know.

Several days ago I stumbled across a strange post in a GameFAQs.com thread under the game Assassin's Creed 2. The final post in the thread contained a chunk of binary code.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=956858&topic=52444989

The binary in the last post translates to:
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Time will reveal the answers. Stop asking questions.eden4.weebly.com


When you get to the site you can read up on a little info about the Knights Templar as they exist in the Assassin's Creed universe. Then the fun bit, there's a tab labeled "Join." So I filled out the application about a week ago, then this morning I get an emailed response from "agent c."

Quote:
Examine the photos closely... With enough study, you will find your answer.



YT GJ HQJFSXJI NX YT GJ XFAJI. YMJ BTWQI NX NS F HTSXYFSY XYFYJ TK UTAJWYD, WTGGJI TK YMJ AJWD QNKJ YMFY NSMJWNYX NY. YMJ XZS NX F GZWSNSL WJAJQFYNTS KTW YMNSLX YT HTRJ, FSI BJ BDQQ STY FSLJW MJW. TW BNQQ BJ?

YJQQ RJ TK DTZM UJWKJHY JIJS.

YZSLZXPF JAJSY. WZXXNF.


There were two pictures attached, one of the JFK assassination, and one of an electric chair.

Ok, like I said, I don't know much about all this, but:
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It's not a normal ROT cipher. The letters go alphabetical for some sections, but they're pretty chopped up. The only clue I had was "A=F" that I picked up from the two pictures. So I had to sit down and do all the brain work by hand (If there was an easier way to do this, someone PLEASE let me know).

What I got in the end was:
"to be cleansed is to be saved. the world is in a constant state of poverty, robbed of the very life that inherits it.
the sun is a burning revelation for things to come, and we will not anger her. or will we?
tell me of youh perfect eden.
tunguska event. russia."

The typo in there (youh instead of your) was coded, not from me.


So I got past the code, but my question is this:
When I send my reply back, am I supposed to send it in straight English, or should I put it back into Agent C's code?

Any help you guys could offer would be INCREDIBLY appreciated.

-F
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:51 pm
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Last photo is interesting: I can't find it anywhere online (admitedly, I didn't look far).

Watching the Zapruder film (see on or about 1:09), I can't even see how that photo is possible. There wasn't anyone standing on that side of the road when he took the first hit, and the police motorcade behind him was significantly closer and would be much more visible at that angle.

Oh and the door handles are in the wrong place.

Maybe I'm overanalyzing it... Razz
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Bixy
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Try emailing back in English, move to code if there's no response, that's my suggestion.

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Also, the last two sentences are referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event


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Lovely Luke
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According to wikipedia.

In the 2007 video game Assassin's Creed, the Tunguska Incident is said to be the result of an attack by Assassins. The area had a research station and an artifact, both of which were said to be destroyed. In Assassin's Creed 2, the event is further developed on, suggesting that Nikola Tesla somehow caused it.

I haven't actually played the games, so I can't add any more.

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FirstSword82
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Yeah, so... turns out I'm an idiot.
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the message was a blatant ROT 5... guess the site I was trying to use to decode the message was FUBAR. Oh well.

Anyway, sent my reply tonight. A message about my "perfect eden" with a P.S.--encrypted with the same cipher as the original message I recieved--asking if his/her end of our line of communication was secure, or if it was necessary for me to code my own messages. Figured it was a safe, best-of-both-worlds road to take. Now we wait I guess. I'll keep you guys posted if anything pops up. Thanks for the advice. And forgive me if I seem overly excited, but this is my first ARG, and I'm starting to see what all the hype was about when my coworkers were participating in Joker shenanigans before The Dark Knight came out. Can't wait to sit down and figure out the next message.

And yeah, I'm all over the Tunguska thing. Played through both games--actually just beat the 2nd one, so I'm still pretty fresh on in-universe historical events. If anyone is interested, the Assassin's Creed Wiki has some good, useful info on the game universe.

Another minorly interesting thing, the Weebly site has recieved a cosmetic upgrade along with a new post under the "Findings Journal" by someone named "~C" who I can only assume is the "agent c" I recieved my email from. Some references to Ayers Rock in Australia, but nothing that seems significant to this little situation.

Just for a little clarification about the pictures too, there's some information revealed in the 2nd game that
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the Templars were responsible for all aspects of the the JFK assassination, from the actual shooting, to the extent that an ancient, high-tech artifact was used to create phantom images on the "grassy knoll" to freak people out and distract from the actual facts about the assassination.

However, I have no idea about the significance of the electric chair... or the door handles. More conspiracy I guess.
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 Message #2
too easy.

New email this morning.
Quote:
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MTYRFNQ FHHTZSY : ******.*******@MTYRFNQ.HTR
UFXXBTWI : *******

~C
Which translates to...
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A,
Thank you for bringing your concern regarding this email's security to my attention, all of the proper actions are in effect thanks to our deputy chief of security. However, what we need to discuss cannot be conversed via email, so I have set up a hotmail account that we both will have access to, to ensure that our future conversations will go unmolested.
I enjoyed reading of your Perfect World; As you read this message, construction of our "Great Machine" is underway. The time for redemption is coming.

More Templars join our cause every day. While our newer operatives still have much to learn, I can already tell that you were born a gifted learner, so I am assigning you the following mission. You will report to me and me alone.

HOTMAIL ACCOUNT : *****.*******@hotmail.com
PASSWORD : *******
Now here's the fun part... the email address doesn't work with the password I decoded. The message was in all caps, and I tried the password in all caps, and all lowercase, no luck with either. Maybe I just happened across the email too early this morning, and C hasn't had time to set it up yet. I'll check back later today I guess. BTW, "A" is me... or at least the character I've chosen to play in this little scenario. Not a huge fan of giving out my real information to people pretending to be part of the Grand Conspiracy over the internet. Just doesn't sit well with me.

So... constructing a "Great Machine" to bring about the perfect world? Sounds fun... and yet so entirely not.

Edit: Once again... turns out I'm an idiot. Was putting the password in wrong, or my wonky keyboard was acting up again. I now have an email address that I'm going to be using to send messages to itself... because email isn't secure. Well ok. Got an assignment to write a report on how the "Butterfly Effect" and the "Bleeding Effect" are related. I'm assuming it's the chaos theory butterfly effect that we're all familiar with, and the bleeding effect refers to an in-game phenomenon in Assassin's Creed 2. Time to do my homework. And down the rabbit hole I go...

Edit2: Windows Live profile lists location as Los Angeles, CA... and that's all the extra info I could get out of it.
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Veya Orunitia
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any chance you can give out that email you have so more people can get in on this?

Either way this sounds interesting enough to keep tabs on....

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I am very familiar with JFK assassination mythology (I've even been to Dealey plaza) and I've never seen that pix. It is most definitely not from Zaprupder. My best guess, due to the weird angle and the high resolution, especially for it being in-motion, is that this is from a recreation or film or some sort. Of note is the fact that despite this appearing to be a pic of the moment he was shot, its completely blood and gore-less.

But I don't think there's supposed to be anything more than the fact that it relates to AC2 in the way already mentioned. The real "clue" here is in the chair pix, they've added "A" to the left of the chair, and in the JFK pix they added, "=F" to the pix.

Which means:

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A (1) ROT 5 = F (6)

E=Electric chair, J=JFK

E (5) ROT 5 = J (10)

So the pix are just a Rosetta stone to solve the previous email that needed ROT 5.


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Ifsogirl81
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woohoo jumped on this band wagon myself, got my first email was the same as firstswords

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Veya Orunitia
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strange, I signed up this morning but haven't gotten an email yet.

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Ifsogirl81
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Veya Orunitia wrote:
strange, I signed up this morning but haven't gotten an email yet.
takes a little while, took a day or two til i got a response

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FirstSword82
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Yeah, took me about 3 days to get my first response back. And I was specifically instructed not to give out the new email address. The deal with it is that it works like a dead drop of sorts. He logs on the account and sends instructions to itself. Then I log on later and collect my instructions. For security purposes I then delete the email as soon as I'm finished reading it.

Anyway, I'm sure in about 2 or 3 emails you guys will be in the same boat as me. Then we can all catch up on here and see if C's giving us all the same homework assignments or whatever.

The comment about Ayers Rock on the Pieces of Eden site is still bugging me, like there's something significant about it that I haven't picked up on yet. Checked source, got nothing. No weird capitalizations or anything either. Probably just me.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Probably nothing, but in both of the coded messages I recieved, they decoded with a single "h" where there should have been an "r." The first one was towards the end of the first message--I made a comment about it in my first post--and the second was in the dead drop email address he sent me. Now "r" and "h" aren't close enough on the keyboard to pass off as a simple common fatfinger type, but it's something for you guys to watch out for at least. That was part of my problem trying to get into the email. Again, might be just me.
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Sent my message about my 'perfect Eden' around 9am EST.
Didn't get a message back yet, though. Still waiting. I got the -exact- first message you did, Sword. I don't know about the whole dead-drop email, but, I expect I'll get something similar.

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Joined on the homepage, hopefully will get a reply soon haha. What did you all write when it asked: Why the Templar's? (or something to that effect)

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Jim Sawyer wrote:
What did you all write when it asked: Why the Templar's? (or something to that effect)


Uh... I said some stuff about helping make the "Perfect World" for my descendants. IIRC. It's late so my memory is pretty FUBAR. I may very well have sent a Master's Thesis on the mating rituals of the Three-toed Sloth. But I hope not, that would just be awkward to discuss at a later date.

Anyway, my "Butterfly Effect and Animus Bleeding" homework assignment is finished and dead-dropped to Agent C, so it's off to bed for me. Hopefully I'll see some results tomorrow.
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