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[Moontje]

I also assume that Virgil is Toby. On her blog she wrote "Maybe he's still tired. He is just glaring…totally pissed." So i thought tired of the trip....

[MrToasty]

[CXF714]

Hey all. I am fairly new to this site and previously only watched ARGs. Thought I'd contribute one little piece of info. This may not even be relevant but I follow games pretty closely and the new CoD: Black Ops II deals with the PRC and rare Earth metals. Even bringing this up I realize it is probably not related but thought I'd throw it in anyway just in case if they are "involved" in any way, which is possible seeing as they created a small ARG for Black Ops. Thanks all.

[CXF714]

[CXF714]

Copy the blog posts in the grid and remove the 20th row of each. Then see which letters are in the same spaces in each grid and maybe those make a new clue? I am going to try this when I get home from work, if anyone is able to before that let me know of it gives anything.

[jessie1326]

[catherwood]

[CXF714]

The thing that gets to me the most is why is it missing line 20? I doubt it is an error in the picture and it has some significance, but what exactly? Should we only focus on line 20 from each blog post? Maybe there is a code in those 32 letters?

"U p d a t e p e r w e e k a s w a b l e o n t h e I T u n e s s"

And thank you Jessie1326 for checking out the theory.

[thebruce]

Yeah, I'd tried the same thing, overlapping the two text grids, but the similar letters spell nothing intelligible, and a great many are vowels.

catherwood, welcome to the thread
The "T" thing is just that there's an extra 't' in the filename of the MP3 linked here.
I have this suspicion eating at me that there's a message in that post as well, but haven't found anything that indicates more than face value (image/mp3/blog text).

The active puzzle(s) I think at the forefront, is this 25/26x16 number grid and book(?) cipher sequence, and the tip from @FelicityVelius that there's a message in those two blog entries (June 5, June 28)


I've got the unsolved puzzles listed at
http://felicity.wikibruce.com/Puzzles#Unsolved

(still slowly populating all the empty pages =P)



I've added http://felicity.wikibruce.com/Documents to organize files we've recovered, following the instructions to make stuff public


I really hope, if the Organization is bigger than wikileaks, that my sites don't get shut down by the likes of Anonymous!

[booba]

At this point I'm reminded of that old quote:

"I give the F up."
By Chief Needsaclue.

[BubbleBoy]

Well, there is supposed to be an update soon. Hopefully the story can continue even though we don't have most of the puzzles solved. We will see.

[UnifiedField]

Anyone notice that there is an "s" missing from "illustration" in this line?

"I'm currently working on an anthology tying all the stories and illustration into one single piece."

And there is an extra "L" in "handfull" in the other post?

"Hello again! Virgil has been a handfull today."

I'm assuming, of course, there will be more than one illustration in this anthology and that illustration was meant to be plural.

T = 20
S = 19
L = 12

Also, why are all the posts out of chronological order on the blog?

[Jim Sawyer]

I've just caught up (mostly) and I noticed that the instructions with the pen said "Search Jul 27 find Aug" I don't know if this has been addressed yet but July 27th was the date of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. The closing Ceremony was on the 12 of August. Probably nothing but you never know. Also am I the only one who is reminded of a railfence cipher by the table? Has anyone else played around with this method?

EDIT: I believe it was also the date of the first Bugs Bunny appearance in 1940. Another well known rabbit?

[CXF714]

[Jim Sawyer]

Aren't they all supposed to be the same length. Perhaps I've got my ciphers wrong. Anyway I tried what I thought a railfence was in several combinations but realised that its unlikely that there's going to be anything. I'm gonna keep digging but I'm not ridiculously experienced at cryptography.