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The Inside Experience
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SamuelofR247
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I should've known Cheshire would've been the first to post about one that catches my interest. Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:15 am
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cherrytree98765
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Time for Day 2 fun.

First off putting the ip address that is shown in the video leads to this: http://69.49.175.214/

There's nothing in the source code, and it shows a security camera footage.

Further on twitter a new website was revealed: http://332811.com/ and http://332811.com/christina

Looking at the source code of these site's does bring up stuff.
Quote:
A darkness has fallen over the world

The fog of diversion, the lie of distraction

Proxy has become primary

Avatar has become hero

You cannot embrace alone

You cannot agree with yourself

Progress is a group activity

Friendship a hands-on pursuit

What has crept in to deceive us?

Or was it always in us, the temptation

To lower our eyes, to avoid the world

To hold inside what should be shared

To hoard ourselves

And impoverish us all.

Bear the weight as I do

To pierce the darkness with brilliant light

No matter what laws I break

Or milk I spill...


On the Christina page there's a picture with writing on it that says "Where is" with Christina's name in numbers

PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:25 pm
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siats phous
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On Christina's FB there was a link someone posted tohttp://www.332811.com/4242351782

Its says
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childhood keepsakes
never surrendered
childish behavior
indulged without a care
is this the world you wish to create
is this the life you would have us lead
/what does one demand for nightstand

(just shift alphabet 3 places right)


There is more messages on the FB page now but its going so fast its hard to keep up with, seriously like a reply every minute or so, not sure if the other messages can be solved with this method cuz im to tired to try it lol[/spoiler]

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:20 am
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Lysithea
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cherrytree98765 wrote:
Further on twitter a new website was revealed: http://332811.com/ and http://332811.com/christina
More of the http://332811.com puzzle trail: (Christina did tell us that she thought there were more pages)
Start at: http://332811.com
Read the capital letters: CHRISTINA
http://332811.com/christina
Solve the cipher (a=1, b=2...) and answer the question, "Where is Christina?"
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(remember this is The Inside Experience)
http://332811.com/inside

Solve the cipher (a=1, b=2 again)
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TRUTH
http://332811.com/truth

Adjust your monitor settings to read
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"Where to next, Chief?"
http://332811.com/chief

Answer the question at the end of the poem. We know the answer from the Episode 2 video.
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The email address and skype display name of the federal agent, "Stu MacArthur", can be seen in the video.
http://332811.com/stumacarthur

Hmm, that doesn't work. Try a variant of the answer.
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Perhaps the kidnapper doesn't know how to spell
http://332811.com/stumcarthur

Solve the cipher and answer the question at the end of the poem
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imagine a world of ones
where there is only day
or endless night
where doors are either opened
or forever closed

/where were eyes last laid on her?
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Rehearsal? No. Church? No. How about the Java Bird Cafe she has the receipt from?
http://332811.com/javabird

Solve the cryptogram and answer the question
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This world without choice, Without escape. Where endless roads Lead nowhere journeys without destinations past the same battered mile markers. /what number for a plumber?
We know this from one of the in-game websites found during Episode 1.
Lysithea wrote:
The close-up picture of the pipes on Christina's facebook "Wall Photos" leads to another new website:
http://www.janriskibrothersplumbing.com

The plumbing website contains a phone number: 424-235-1782

Which leads to the page that siats phous found and deciphered above,
http://332811.com/4242351782
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:10 am
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sunrisetr
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Further pages following Lysithea's post above:

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The plumber's number page reads (it's just a shifted alphabet):

childhood keepsakes
never surrendered
childish behavior
indulged without a care.
is this the world you wish to create?
is this the life you would have us lead?

/what does one demand for a nightstand?


Solution:

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The answer is in one of Christina's wall pictures, where she posted the receipt for a nightstand. The total price comes out to $26.96.

The next page is http://332811.com/2696


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The 2696 page reads (Vigenere with keyword xtina):

I will not allow it
I reject the absolute
I will pierce the darkness
Teach the hordes
And take what is mine

/the protocol that lied times the valves that lay flat?


Solution:

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The protocol that lied is IP - context being the day 2 video. Multiply Christina's IP address by the number of valves that are flat, as seen in one of the pictures she posted.

The next page then is: http://332811.com/13898350428


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This page has a hidden message in the lower left corner of the picture, saying:

Does the truth lie in WHERE or WHEN?


I don't believe there are any more pages found at the moment. I guess we get to wait for the third video for more, at which point the last page will probably be updated, as it was when video 2 was released.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:17 pm
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Ogawa
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So, I know the IP thing is old news, but when I looked it up I got a completely different location than everyone else apparently. I tried asking about it on FB, and well, it's a wonder anything's accomplished in that typhoon of posts.

So I thought I'd bring it up here. I used this website for an IP locator, and it gave me the following coordinates: 40.7488, -73.9846

Searching this is Google takes us to Korea Town.

I know a lot has been suggested for California, so is there anything disproving a theory that she may be just outside Manhattan?

Edit: Yes, I know about Albuquerque.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:49 pm
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Ogawa wrote:
So, I know the IP thing is old news, but when I looked it up I got a completely different location than everyone else apparently. I tried asking about it on FB, and well, it's a wonder anything's accomplished in that typhoon of posts.

So I thought I'd bring it up here. I used this website for an IP locator, and it gave me the following coordinates: 40.7488, -73.9846

Searching this is Google takes us to Korea Town.

I know a lot has been suggested for California, so is there anything disproving a theory that she may be just outside Manhattan?


if you just search the ip address, it brings you just outside albequerque.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:25 pm
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Ogawa
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Anonymous wrote:
if you just search the ip address, it brings you just outside albequerque.


Hm...I guess I wasn't clear. Sorry.

I understand what everyone else got, and one of our latest clues now indicates (if Day 2 wasn't enough for you) that Albuquerque is not her location. That's why I thought it might be pertinent to mention I got a different address entirely.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:35 pm
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Lysithea
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I still like the L.A. theory. There are a number of things pointing to it.
*****
Episode 3 is available:

YouTube: Link

*****
Christina's latest youtube video is a cheap tactic to get people to click the "like" button. It totally spoils the immersion for me. Mad
*****
Christina is perplexed by @h1ghwayman and his poetry website, http://www.h1ghwayman.com/
*****
The plumber's voicemail greeting has been updated with a new message spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.
Joshua Steven Williams wrote:
‎"B W X V B W X P A T M M A X Y N M N K X U K B G Z L T M R T A H H W H M V H F" "Bravo Whiskey Xray Victor Bravo Whiskey Xray Papa Alpha Tango Mike Mike Alpha Xray Yankee November Mike November Kilo Xray Uniform Kilo Bravo Golf Zulu Lima Tango Mike Romeo Tango Alpha Hotel Hotel Whiskey Hotel Mike Victor Hotel Foxtrot" Quadruple checked! 100% sure! Final Answer!
decoding the message leads to
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"I D E C I D E W H A T T H E F U T U R E B R I N G S A T Y A H O O D O T C O M" (using ROT-7)
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if you send an email to idecidewhatthefuturebringsSPLATyahoo.com, you get the following auto-responder message:
Subject: Yahoo! Auto Response
Message: rddz://iyede.lo/7_Z-6EKMYr0
which decodes to
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http://youtu.be/7_P-6UACOh0 (using ROT-16)


YouTube: Link

Christina seems to think that the trail continues on from this video.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:01 pm
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sunrisetr
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Lysithea wrote:
Christina's latest youtube video is a cheap tactic to get people to click the "like" button. It totally spoils the immersion for me. Mad


This, so much. A few cynics were guessing already that the kidnapper would ask for something like this at some point.

Pretty sure her location is LA - context being the day 3 video.

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The degree, hours and minutes decode to a latitude location, which would make sense in regards to "Does the truth lie in WHERE or WHEN?"


I guess if the video contains the rest of the trail, we have to think about the answer to the "Next stop?" question, which may yield a new webpage. It seems that the Highwayman has been to Arkansas and Texas so far, then he speaks of going west and then north on Twitter, then ends up in New Mexico. His poems mention having been to Nevada at one point. Is there a pattern there, perhaps?

If he is going due west from Arkansas, into Texas, then into New Mexico, which is the "west" that he mentions, the "north" would be Colorado. That may be the "next stop" he's speaking of.

Another theory - he's been to Nevada, so the west is New Mexico and Arizona, then north to Nevada. But in that case I'm not sure what constitutes the "next stop".

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:54 am
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Lysithea
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After several more pleas for people to "like" her video Mad , Christina finally got her dream burger.
The kidnapper posted a bunch of videos with encrypted text disparaging social media while admiring everyone's puzzle solving skills.

This recent video indicates that Christina will be at (34 degrees, 3 hours, 22 minutes / -118.233.619) at 8:15am (Google maps link)

Arrow LIVE EVENT
@theinsideexp wrote:
The final episode of INSIDE airs tomorrow morning. And for those of you who live in LA... we'll be at Union Station at 8:15 am. Will you?

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:12 am
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Ogawa
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Lysithea wrote:
LIVE EVENT
@theinsideexp wrote:
The final episode of INSIDE airs tomorrow morning. And for those of you who live in LA... we'll be at Union Station at 8:15 am. Will you?


Well, since we've been cut off from Christina thanks to her own enraged machinations, I guess the social experience has ended. Hope the last episode is good. Her final webcam video was...quite touching.

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Dia Renalda
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We'll just have to wait until the 14th.

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cyng
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ffs....Sam and Big Mr. Putty Cat in the same thread together and I miss the whole thing. Stupid project stealing all my time. Sad

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