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Seadevil4
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 		Email from Senconsysop
Emailed to: SenconsysopSPLATsentinelcontrolnetwork.net

I sent Key: 7193321320

Got the following back:

Quote:
> Subject: Out of Office Reply (was Cipher key)
> From: senconsysopSPLATsentinelcontrolnetwork.net
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:29:34 -0400
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am presently out of the office. I will respond to your email when I
> return. In the meantime, if this is in regards to the code fragment, I
> have attached the response below (PLEASE NOTE: This autoresponder will
> only reply once):
>
> <begin>
> hkybxmlhxwmgglonxxlqjwkyrxbgyymkbwmbaxfsemgwocpxlnmsdon
> ibgcoumyfxdohcwoofmhrxbghxwxsyadjxdjbontvuhnwdpvpongwgn
> zjhtwvdggolpykxfwgdpsojhdzkowhxwkolkswokdvyvxaoqmffikws
> <end>
>



The "begin and end have: transmission" on the end, forum is removing it.

Transmission isn't ROT1 to ROT25.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:51 am
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 		Do the lines break like that in the original email?

When you ask the AI for the key the answer is "Have you tried 7193321320?" So I guess that number is either the key itself or maybe another clue to get the key. Someone suggested a telephone number some pages ago. I am in UK... too expensive to even try Confused

Good find on the email.

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Seadevil4
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 		Email from Zach
Yeah it was me, regarding the telephone number.

Zach Recent Email:

Quote:
i tried to go bak. I mean I did go back, but I couldnt talk to them. I had to leave and I dont know why. maybe they could help me? I dont know - i dont know

the rdeams - or are they dreams? was I really there, or was it a dream? he was there. red eyes - he spoke to me. rock and sand - wind. I heard him. He looked at me. the eyes - they were there


And yes the lines do break there, just rechecked the email. You could probably send an email yourself as well.

No idea on the code fragment at all.
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Seadevil4
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 		Quick search Lovecraft's Collected Stories
Lovecraft uses red eyes a few times through his stories this is the best though:

Quote:
THE DUNWICH HORROR

'Oh, oh, my Gawd, that haff face--that haff face on top of it... that face with the red eyes an' crinkly albino hair, an' no chin, like the Whateleys...It was a octopus, centipede, spider kind o' thing, but they was a haff-shaped man's face on top of it, an' it looked like Wizard Whateley's, only it was yards an' yards acrost....'


There were two offspring of the Whateleys one normal human shaped the other as described above. Perhaps the hooded chap is of similar origins.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html

New Event - Hooded Chap is on his way.
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Cortez
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 		Well it isn't base64 or railfence. Perhaps a substitution cypher (maybe x=e looking at frequency) but without word-breaks it's hugely difficult to solve. It's not Atbash either.

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Seadevil4
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 		I've emailed Zach advised him to get hold some of sleeping pills and gave him basic lucid dream techniques to block this guy's attentions.

BTW, I don't believe what I told him we are in ARG after all.

Told him we looking at way to destroy the artifact, although I think the hooded chap is going to get there first.

Asked him also to try and ring 719-332-1320, if it is a fax number we can use free online faxing to access it.
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Seadevil4
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 		Binary Hangman and this code fragment, the PM isn't being nice at all.

Could the 'x's be the work breaks?!?
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Cortez
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 		A nice idea except for the double x in the first line. Thought this might signify a full stop but not repeated anywhere else.

Are we trying to destroy the artefact then? Do we know that to be our goal?

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 		Found it!!!!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Vignere Code: http://www.richkni.co.uk/php/crypta/vignere.php

PROJECT ONE TWO SEVENTX ZERO ZERO FOUR RETRIEVAL CODE KWNTUCAKEV

PROJECT ONE TWO SEVENTX ZERO ONE EIGHT RETRIEVAL CODE KFDWEVNMOU

PROJECT ONE TWO SEVENTX ZERO THREE ONE RETRIEVAL CODE QWXCNMYSDI


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Cortez
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 		My cap is well and truly doffed, sir.
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 		... but I cannot see the vid lol Embarassed My computer is saying again that I need the latest Flash (which I got!!!) Grrr... lol

Any luck with the code?

New event log too, btw

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Badgerconda
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 		I'm getting the same 'download flash' notification even though I've already got it. It must be a glitch on the website's end of things...

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Badgerconda
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 		Sorry for the double post, but I figured the flash player issue out-- it only gives you that message when you enter the code all in caps. I just tried it in lower case, and it worked fine for me. weird.

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 		Yep, it worked when I tried the code without caps, here for copying and pasting:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
qwxcnmysdi


Weird. However, my system is still updating Rolling Eyes It says I need Flash 10.1 and I apparently have 9.0, so updating again the thing.

Quite worrying some of the side effects.

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Badgerconda
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 		Worrying indeed. I was originally thinking that Cloaky, our gatehopping friend was actually Zack dealing with some bad juju, but now that he's been posting blogs at home, and we've got a second video of Cloaky in the woods, I'm not so sure that works.

Whatever's going on, I'm sure we'll all be enlightened pretty soon...

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