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spoonhead99
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Zombie Truth

Against all the odds @AbbyPapanai is tweeting again. https://twitter.com/AbbyPapanai

First is the quote
Quote:
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha


Followed by
Quote:
Critical Message Coming. Wish I could say more now. Things are difficult! http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/gene

With this link http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20120630T12&p0=64&msg=Z1+Update&csz=1#

Followed by
Quote:
Beacons activated. Risking everything this time. http://twitpic.com/a1uuvw


Which link to the following pictures

http://twitpic.com/a1uuvw
http://twitpic.com/9uevw

It is 18 hours 42 minutes from this post until first announcement.

Time to dust of my axe and emergency Go Bag.
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Here's the old thread.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=249
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Atemys
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Should I go read the old thread, or start fresh on this one? Not much to go on so I realize that's just a guess but any opinions from anyone who followed the old one? In other words, do you think the old thread will be a spoiler or important background story?

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Should I go read the old thread, or start fresh on this one? Not much to go on so I realize that's just a guess but any opinions from anyone who followed the old one? In other words, do you think the old thread will be a spoiler or important background story?


It may be helpful to glance at the old threads as (at least so far) there are recurring players and some of the others may be surfacing. As for where this trail may lead, we cannot be sure if this will pick up from where the previous installment left off.

In other news, my last twitter encounter with Abby
Quote:

@AbbyPapanai Are you still hidden from the sun and the moon. How's the grilled cheese supply?

@spoonhead99 I am hidden although in different places frequently. Hope you are well for now.



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Abby used to work in a top secret underground bio lab and her favourite snack food is grilled cheese.

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Reckon I'll wait on calibrating the cross-hairs on my crossbow until after the "Z1 Update" countdown yet a couple of Abby's old pals are also tweeting:

https://twitter.com/Z1Pandemic
https://twitter.com/SurvivorCommand
Solve for the 3 latest on the Z1 Pandemic twitter feed
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's two cryptograms reading: AFRICAN CONTINENT LAB INTEGRITY COMPROMISED IN WAR WITH ISLAMISTS...
SURVIVOR COMMAND COMPROMISED - MANY DEAD - WILL TRY TO REBUILD CHANNELS FOR SECURE COMMS

(and 20 mins.later) CI001 |YOU ARE SEEKING CONTROL9 - NORMAL PROTOCAL| BRKT
And a coded msg from Survivor Command solve
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Also a cryptogram reading: COMMAND DEACTIVATED. DESTROY ORDER ISSUED. NO RECONNECT ORDER WILL BE ISSUED| FIN

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spoonhead99
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Interestingly, the key to the first two ciphers is

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KIFO which is Swahili for death


And who is CI001? Confidential Informant perhaps?


Is rumkin down?
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From her twitter page it looks like the lab has been compromised and Abby is free. Who knows what else is free...

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From the Z1 twitter feed we have
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
CI001 |YOU ARE SEEKING CONTROL9 - NORMAL PROTOCAL| BRKT


And from Abby
Quote:
It is up to God and Control. My purpose in life is so uncertain.


Is this the same Control and where are they?

Also from Abby

Quote:
Sad "There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy." _ Dante | http://youtu.be/mKKWFUYfNgI


Which has way too many possible explanations.
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amandel wrote:
Reckon I'll wait on calibrating the cross-hairs on my crossbow until after the "Z1 Update" countdown yet a couple of Abby's old pals are also tweeting:

https://twitter.com/Z1Pandemic
https://twitter.com/SurvivorCommand
Solve for the 3 latest on the Z1 Pandemic twitter feed
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's two cryptograms reading: AFRICAN CONTINENT LAB INTEGRITY COMPROMISED IN WAR WITH ISLAMISTS...
SURVIVOR COMMAND COMPROMISED - MANY DEAD - WILL TRY TO REBUILD CHANNELS FOR SECURE COMMS

(and 20 mins.later) CI001 |YOU ARE SEEKING CONTROL9 - NORMAL PROTOCAL| BRKT
And a coded msg from Survivor Command solve
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Also a cryptogram reading: COMMAND DEACTIVATED. DESTROY ORDER ISSUED. NO RECONNECT ORDER WILL BE ISSUED| FIN

Could we please get in the habit of stating what cipher was used, what the key is (if there is one) and how the key was found/discovered. I get more enjoyment out of LEARNING how to solve these than from being TOLD what the deciphered message is. And hopefully we can all learn what clues to look out for in the future. Thank you very much. Smile
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amandel
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Coffee Adam. So agree which is why I stated twice in my spoilered post they are all CRYPTOGRAMS. They can simply be put into any CRYPTOGRAM solver w/o any key. That said I think spoonhead finding a key was mega bril. Do HTH you. Yaha, spoonhead, Rumkin is down tho there are over a dozen CRYPTOGRAM solvers on the web.
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New post from Z1 and Abby



Quote:
ALERT http://twitpic.com/a2rxjp


I'm going with some kind of Math symbol substitution.
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I'll second the substitution idea - the characters are from different alphabets. Definitely some Greek but others too. Let's see where that goes.

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amandel
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Yikes! Looks like the first bit could be 'control9' but w/o the key and no spaces it's tough to penetrate.
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Codes make my brain hurt. If this helps I did map the characters to letters. I ran it through some on-line crypto solvers and got nothing. Not sure if the number at the end were numbers. Also not sure if the third char second line is a U or a not closed correctly O.

A B C D E B F G H C G B I C
J K L E H A K M D K D H B C
D K C N B O P Q E B I H J R
F R I R F S M R A I E H D T
J R D K H F O S U V – O G U V

Maybe 7 and 9 are really just 7 and 9, or even all the numbers are numbers? I assume the dash is a dash since every line is 14 char long except line 5 and that has the dash.

I didn't think this was worthy of spoiler-ing ?

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Atemys
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or, with numbers all left as numbers:

A B C D E B F 9 H C 9 B I C
J K L E H A K M D K D H B C
D K C N B 7 P Q E B I H J R
F R I R F 4 M R A I E H D T
J R D K H F 7 4 1 2 – 7 9 1 2

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