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[Entrapment] Possible Trailhead?
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[Entrapment] Possible Trailhead?

Here is a possible ARG: http://eni-dmd.com/

Called Entrapment. Enjoy.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:59 pm
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echoman
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definetly something

havnt really had time to look, other than cursory glance through pages, however this is definetly something. Look at Josef's page if you dont believe me. Will be looking into it....

Also noticed this in the source of main page:
"At least one new thing happens every day, except Mondays. Updates occur at 12 AM EST"

So tonight at midnight.... FUN!

-echoman

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:05 am
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echoman
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WHOOHOO!!!!

I got my first solve!!!!. Razz

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://eni-dmd.com/josef/
There is a picture of dominoes. Above there is talk about the top row of dominoes being the key.
3 steps to solve
1) Notice that all the dominoes 1-9 appear in the top. If you start with the leftmost domino the number 2 and assign it to 1, and so forth for all the dominoes you get a translation.

2)Take this translation and replace the numbers on the lower dominoes with the new mapping.

3) Add up the new translated numbers in each group of dominoes starting from the right. Each group is a letter adding them all up you get:

WHERE ARE YOU GOING BROTH_R
The blank is obviously an E

EDIT: Got another solve:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Compare:
http://eni-dmd.com/josef/dominoes1.jpg
http://eni-dmd.com/josef/dominoes2.jpg
http://eni-dmd.com/josef/dominoes3.jpg

The dots on the top explain what I was talking about earlier. If you take the selected groups and put in the letters you get:
RANGE
which is possibly an answer to where his brother went...to the range as in home on the range Smile


UNREAL I got another one
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://eni-dmd.com/
click on eric on the left side
USERNAME: eric
PASSWORD: range

you can figure this out by checking out his journal on the right


WHOOHOOO IM EXCITED

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:41 am
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PokeKiller
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Nice job, Echoman!

The new page is (as the front page suggests) his e-mail inbox.
Of course, conveniently, you cannot send mail, because your "IP address is wrong" (Hey, whatever works).

Three e-mails in there, one sent, two received:

Quote:
[02/28] thenewredbaronSPLATyahoo.com
Subject: no way man!!
i heard wun happnd man, u can't b 1 of those killers srsly!! gonna h4x round, c if i c4n find anything iterestin kekekeke keep it real man


Quote:
[03/01] ericSPLATeni-dmd.com
Subject: Re: no way man!!
sorry, but i really did it. i hate that i did, but i always think back to that day

WHY DID I DO IT?? argh i can't understand myself sometimes

PS hack all you want, but don't go hacking around my dad's stuff, he's probably smarter than you about those things (he caught me looking at files on one of his computers and i SWEAR i cleaned up after myself)


Quote:
[03/02] thenewredbaronSPLATyahoo.com
Subject:kekekeke
kekekekekeke found some pa$$, sum weird stuff, nm intersting.


Soo... Two e-mail addresses:
ericSPLATeni-dmd.com
thenewredbaronSPLATyahoo.com

Of course, then one would assume that there is also:
PaulSPLATeni-dmd.com
JanetSPLATeni-dmd.com
JosefSPLATeni-dmd.com

* Poke shrugs

Oh, and Eric's blog was updated today, too.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:49 am
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Ehsan
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I think I'll join in on this one..

Why is it called Entrapment? Is the original poster one of the PM's? They seem to be very open about this being a game.. From the source code: Updates occur at 12 AM EST-- is something you don't usually see in ARG's. Last time I checked, we're supposed to figure out the update schedule ourselves.

Anywa, time to get crackin'

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:32 am
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treebiter99
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Good work echoman. Did you read the forum rules over at that site? They seem pretty strict against straight spoilers.

This game is right up my alley, instantly available puzzleage. sweet!

This thread needs a new topic; this isn't a possible trailhead, it's a direct link to an active game.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:29 pm
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Ehsan
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Reading through their forums I figured out josef's password.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

From his blog, we know that his password is the rest of this pattern:
4242626248486868

From eric's blog, we find the following tag around josef's name: "msp_afro"

Now I tried Googling for that but didn't get anything! Someone on their forums claims he found it through Google, linking to the following page: http://www.kakugeikan.com/ddr/msp_afro.htm

I did manage to find it afterwards in MSN search.. I'm just not sure what's going on here.

Anyway, those are steps for the song Afronova from Dance Dance Revolution, 3rd Mix. The above sequence is directions (look at your NUM pad) .. Find the sequence that starts with our digits (4242 = left down left down, etc)

The password is: 48642648


Now regarding spoilers and such, I don't think they'll mind, considering that we have our own traditions here at unfiction.

The thing is I really hate playing games that are split into two forums.. and that link to the forums at the bottom of the Anderson's family site really kills the suspension of disbelief..

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:04 pm
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treebiter99
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Oh I mean to be mindful of posting spoilers on their forum. Sorry for the confusion.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:12 pm
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rowan
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Ehsan wrote:
The thing is I really hate playing games that are split into two forums.. and that link to the forums at the bottom of the Anderson's family site really kills the suspension of disbelief..


I also don't like playing games where the forum mods (who obviously are BTS) are giving hints.

From LadyRogue's posts:

Quote:
Just a thought, you guys are overthinking on the usernames. ^.^

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punkymonkey wrote:

the quote 'I ward you' isn't actually in that play they just refur to protecting each other and what not. So did anyone notice anything else that has changed aside from another of eric's journal entrys and the whole username hints thing?


I can assure you that the hints have nothing to do with the usernames. And the full quote is Benvolio saying to Rosaline: "Come, I will ward you." Though whether that's important or not, I won't say.

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punkymonkey wrote:
are you saying you've already figured out the usernames and passwords?


I'm the forum mod, dear. I have to know.


BTS people reading the posts and modifiying the game with hints is one thing. BTS people actually posting about unsolved puzzles in the game is another. Are they going to come out and quash every bit of spec, or just the stuff so that their game can move at a pace they want it to?

Now it means I'm going to have to stay away from that particuarly forum. It remains to be seen if I'll have to give up the game if that forum is going to be where the majority of discussion takes place.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:25 pm
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echoman
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destegging

Couple of things:

Has any one tried to desteg the tile.jpg picture on janets page..or any of the other pics for that matter?

If you go to http://eni-dmd.com/stranger.mp3 you get a wierd "song" playing havn't figured anything out about that except that it is supposed to be playing on the front page...but doesnt on my comp

the password hint for Janet is "I will ward you" which seems to be from a play called Rosaline and Benvolio(full quote Benvolio: "Come, I will ware you")...which seems to be an adaptation of romeo and juliet. A bit confused about what it really is. Anyways heres a link to the site
htttp://www2.uoguelph.ca/dfischli/anthology/rosaline_benvolio.pdf

EDIT: I said this on the other board but just to collect it hear the email address ericSPLATeni-dmd.com gets returned but thenewredbaron goes through

-echoman

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:57 pm
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Ehsan
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The trailhead source has been changed. Now it reads:
<!- arg, this is not entrapment!>

Meaning this IS an ARG, and it's not called Entrapment? I have no idea who called it entrapment in the first place, but I think we should call it ENI-DMD

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:09 pm
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punkymonkey
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So I'm still having a hard time with the hex from the file_id page. I still don't know if it's colors or numbers. I assume that it has something to do with the colors because of the # symbols before the hex. and all the colors turn out to be a teal like color. eh I'll try teal as a password for sarahs.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:10 pm
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echoman
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email

got a message back from thenewredbaron:

Quote:

nm man jus fuxin round dere, thx

`, (\) |2 |3 ,`


don't really understand it..... but the numbers on the bottom may be promising

here is my original message
Quote:

Hey I heard you were looking into some things with the Andersons. I
have a feeling that something really strange is going on. I think that
I could be a real asset to you. Is there anything I could do to help?


so there yah go...
-echoman

PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:35 am
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punkymonkey
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FYI the characters at the bottom of the message are ascii for NRB or newredbaron so I don't think that it has much more significance than that

PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:58 am
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Ehsan
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Here's where I am at:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):


From the main page title, you can figure out:
http://www.eni-dmd.com/file_id.diz

From there you get:
Paul's password = dignity

A new URL:
http://www.eni-dmd.com/paul/sarah
To get the password, get the colors of the Hex strings in file_id, and use the first letter of each word

Janet's password:
It's been mentioned all over the site. Password = Darkness



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