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[Trailhead?] The Abandoned Windmill
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kulturvulturz on twitter wrote:
@tpickman hey, i just started to follow your site, very intriguing. Have you checked to see what's BELOW in the cellar of the windmill???

tpickman on twitter wrote:
@kulturvulturz There isn't a cellar. :/


Since the article regarding the fire at the windmill states Peter Bergman was found in the cellar I believe it's been covered up and hidden for some reason - possibly to hide what Bergman was doing in there.

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 		also chiming in that i'm loving this ARG so far Smile and only wish i had more time to play. spent this afternoon catching up. i know not everyone is into the "abandoned well" idea but this is a windmill and it seems to make sense that there would be a well around (underneath). windmills are used to pump out well water. found these bits about abandoned wells http://tiny.cc/6xyek and http://tiny.cc/lsbed
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 		Still not sure if she's in game, but Anomie Nadir (withlovecraft.blogspot.com) has gotten some encrypted emails.

Twitter convo:

Anomie Nadir - This is starting to bug me. Is there anyone out there good at solving word puzzles? I need some help. I want to know what this freak wants.

squid808 - @withlovecraft wait what's going on?

Anomie Nadir - @squid808 Some guy has been sending me encrypted e-mails. The first two were morse but the rest are a mystery. Think you can help?

squid808 - @withlovecraft I've got some skills, but if I can't crack it I know some friends who are better. Throw it on your blog, I can check it out.

Anomie Nadir -@squid808 http://withlovecraft.blogspot.com/2011/04/e-mails.html good luck.

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 		I really wish we had some kind of confirmation if Anomie Nadir was in game or a separate game all together...

Anyhow, each of those emails end with PLAY FAIR, which probably is eluding to the Playfair Cipher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipher) and the subjects of the emails are most likely the actual cipher key.

Will post once I try those out and see what the result is...

EDIT: Also tpickman just tweeted and posted a new entry!

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 		edit: ignore, nothing in this post was involved with this ARG

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 		I don;t know, I feel like the Anomie stuff isn't connected. Has Pickman said anything about her?

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Dr. Mario wrote:
I don;t know, I feel like the Anomie stuff isn't connected. Has Pickman said anything about her?


I don't think it's connected either - he mentioned to someone earlier on that it is just someone who followed his twitter... obviously that's no definite yay or nay - but it just doesn't seem connected at this point as there's no other links.

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 		hey gang, just recvd a OOG heads up from the PM (so we don't follow a dead end trail) the Withlovecraft blog/twitter is NOT part of The Abandoned Windmill game.
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 		OK, good to have complete confirmation... Guess we should post withlovecraft as another trailhead though since it is indeed of interest...

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 		So after reading the latest post a few times, I have noticed there are some typos/missing letters again but nothing that seems to lead anywhere - guessing they are accidental.

As for the Queen's Dahlia - I first thought there was some writing at the bottom of the right hand shoe, but after playing with that for a while it has lead me no where... anyone have any ideas/clues from this latest post?

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 		I found it interesting that such a large copy of the image was made available to us, but I haven't had any luck discovering something in it either other than it appears the doll is crying blood (?!). Having a toy like that would make any girl go nuts...

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 		That would be a good question to pose to Tom... Did the original doll cry blood like in the painted rendition?

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 		solved - floor copy
I noticed that the floorcopy.jpg drawing that Tom did had an unusual pattern - some of the squares have diagonal lines through them, some don't. If you reproduce the pattern in binary (0 = no mark through the square, 1 = mark), you get something like this:

01110011
01100101
01100001
01101100

Strike the first column, and you get:

1110011 = s
1100101 = e
1100001 = a
1101100 = l

http://www.theabandonedwindmill.com/seal.html gives you a blank screen, not the usual static-y TV with below on it. The source code directs you to a file with the extension ....1678230.jpg.

And that, on the end of the url, gives you a new picture:
http://www.theabandonedwindmill.com/1678230.jpg

Haven't played around with it yet, though i'd share.

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 		EDIT - site is fixed and now seal.html gives you the picture directly. Source still lists the picture as 1678230.jpg.

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 		nice find but mods pls put behind a spoiler.

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