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Thunderwolf
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OK we're in.... but there's more passworded files.

I still don't know what the ankors jock kirdr.y means, but the password to the archive is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Nomad


so the new files are pedair.7z (four in welsh) and lail.txt (second in welsh).

The contents are:

2 before 1

2004 Terminated in Surprise

Half Life four score & change yrs (vs.si)
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Okay I'm confused, for the less god-like care to share how you came up with that password?

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Bril deduction Thunderwolf and Bob is no match for you except with guile Laughing ....

below in "lail.txt" is VwhyhFroolqv which @ROT23 is "SteveCollins". Also, "Half Life four score"=40years??
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sgfan wrote:
Okay I'm confused, for the less god-like care to share how you came up with that password?


Clue was in the text about the mongolians - "people who spend most of their time traveling round the country with their homes on their horses and camels."
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amandel wrote:
Bril deduction Thunderwolf and Bob is no match for you except with guile Laughing ....

below in "lail.txt" is VwhyhFroolqv which @ROT23 is "SteveCollins". Also, "Half Life four score"=40years??


Well spotted Am, the (vi.si) might be hinting at that - vi is the abbreviation for latin vide infra, or See Below.
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amandel wrote:


below in "lail.txt" is VwhyhFroolqv which @ROT23 is "SteveCollins". Also, "Half Life four score"=40years??


Steve Collins was a boxer known as "The Celtic Warrior", who retired around 1999. He was born July 21, 1964, which would make him 40 yrs and change (46 yrs) old. So maybe 2 before 1=21, half life comment = 46 years old, not sure what the 2004 comment might mean though.
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Steve Collins was in that British film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' as a doorman for the poker game.
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The Welsh Rugby "Celtic Warriors" suddenly went out of business 1 June 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Warriors


The half life of Plutonium
Pu-238 - 87.74 years

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booba wrote:
The Welsh Rugby "Celtic Warriors" suddenly went out of business 1 June 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Warriors


Dammit, beat me to it Wink
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Quote:
Dammit, beat me to it


There's a first Very Happy

So:

Second
Inverted
Rugby
Plutonium

Something like this maybe???

Edit:
Quote:
latin vide infra, or See Below

Like a dumb a$$ I kept looking below the post to see what it meant. Anyone else do that? Smile

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Thunderwolf
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booba wrote:
Quote:
Dammit, beat me to it


There's a first Very Happy

So:

Second
Inverted
Rugby
Plutonium

Something like this maybe???


I'm not so sure - I think the filename is hinting that the second line leads to the answer, the first and third exist to verify the identity of steve collins. I may be wrong. I still don't know what the answer is

Of course it could be that even the second line was just pointing at Steve Collins' identity.
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Leamas Alter wrote:
Quite amazing you humans are, you all fell for Bob's trap in the first puzzle.

You tried to decode the "ankors jock kirdr.y" which out of the three clues in the file was the hardest effectively you chose the Long Way Round. Then fell into his second trap by working out one of the two clues which would give the password but without the ability to understand it.

This is compounded by the fact that the second puzzle is connected to the first one. Have fun...


Always a treat, our Leamus Twisted Evil Just got home & was gonna mention and research that the commonality is maybe just Celtic Warrior/s and the "2 before 1" might mean 2nd (lail) century B.C. but dunno now.
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Thunderwolf
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things I have tried:

Various dates linked with Celtic Warriors.
Vigenere of the ankors string using the key hammerforkanvil
Various permutations of "Collins" with letters removed.

Currently I am:

Researching celtic warriors of the second century (both bc and ad)
Trying to link Boudica to all of this
Imagining what Boudica was like in real life
Falling in love with Boudica.


None of this is helping.

EDIT: I've managed to find this:

Quote:
The earliest established origins of Celts dates from c.1000-800 BC in Eastern Europe, though research and excavations in very recent years indicate that cultures in Siberia and Northern Mongolia may well be directly linked to the Celts. Both of these cultures date back as far as the second millennium BC.


http://www.mystical-sites.stevenredhead.com/Warriors/Index.html#celtic

Which (tenuously) links the two puzzles together maybe. So I guess now I'll search for more info on mongolian celts.

But I'll be thinking of Boudica. -sigh-

UPDATE: Mr. Wallace has sent me this:

Wallace wrote:
Sounds like you've got three clues for the puzzles.

Why is there a "." in ankors clue, does it denote a title of some kind,
perhaps its a name?!?

I found the wording a tad odd at the beginning, sorry haven't got the
document to hand.

Saw the other file didn't understand the name looked coded to me.

Wallace.


The "dr" just before the "." might hint at "dr." or Doctor.

FURTHER UPDATE:

Wallace wrote:
You said on your other email after this one, that you think the two
puzzles are connected. That would line up with the contents of the Heroes
file: "History often repeats itself..."

Looks like at least four puzzles, so therefore your first puzzle was a
tragedy why? What is tragic about Nomad?


UPDATE:

I've cracked the ankors jock kirdr.y code:

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Dr. Jackson Roykirk - in the Star Trek episode "The Changeling", Roykirk was the creator of the Nomad space probe


Note that this doesn't seem to take us any closer to cracking the second password.
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But the logic is undeniable, Jim *cough Thunder* as is now the "trek across " in the LWR doc. Nice work anyhoo!!
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Also I don't know how relevant this is - Only the "Measure a circle" quote was actually Charles Fort. The "History repeating" bit was Karl Marx. Except for the "third time" part. I think that's all Bob.

Do you suppose that we should be looking at previous Bob puzzles? He's used Trek before, maybe this next puzzle bears some resemblance to previous ones?

Also, if the first code was a "tragedy", where is the "Farce" in this one?
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