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[nankaar]

Thanks for the welcome!

Maybe it is a long shot, but perhaps the PMs don't know about Facebook scrambling stegged pictures?

[amandel]

This PNG is Ascend's take on the painting, The Bookworm. With some photoshop am reading "LEPIDOPTERY ASCENSIO" in the upper right. Maybe there's more to find.

ETA: Maybe stating the obvious that this is an impressive 3-D image that I find fascinating. The email's title is "p_"(iton?) So have we got something backwards?

[MrToasty]

I submitted LEPIDOPTERY after the email came in and received a 'no match' in return, so it has some other purpose. This is the second time we've had something butterfly related.

[arthurdent11389]

anandel, nice catch on the "backwards" word "piton".

in French can mean "hook, eyebolt, or peak".
in English, a climbing hook used as a tool for "ascending".
in Geography, an area of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, which has very "colorful" temple and hotel - similar in colorful to the adjusted "THe Bookworm" .png file.

Which leads me to think of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

It's strange how Ascension Island and Reunion Island are so different in appearance. Reunion is green, very inhabited and full of roads, towns and architecture. Ascension is rocky, barren and "military'.

[GuestUser17]

Is it over?

[MrToasty]

Must be a pretty recent change as I was looking at this stuff a week or two ago and it was still the same. Funny enough I had an image in another game come up that had similar qualities to the piton image with all the little squares in the clouds. Turned out that the other game's image was stegged with SilentEye, which led me to have another look at the piton image. I'm sure that's SilentEye too, just no idea what the password etc. would be for that (if the steg somehow survived the trip to FB).

I'll have a look at this new stuff. Fingers crossed that this is still alive.


ETA hmm, on iTunes too (see albums):
https://itunes.apple.com/mt/artist/nick-lyons/id371119813?mt=11

Seems this may be done, could have been leading us to the release.

[GuestUser17]

It appears it's still on

[MrToasty]

In the middle of the score image you can barely make out:

[nankaar]

New email with new image, via email.

The email just says:

[amandel]

Mega THX nankaar. www.esurv.org?u=counterpoint hyperlinks here: http://www.esurv.org/online-survey.php?surveyID=LKLLMK_eae0389d&u=counterpoint
The tiny upside-down letter strings on the JPEG (?a telecommunications satellite in space?) read

[GuestUser17]

Another email

[MrToasty]

I received one as well, subject "QUANTIFY A1-LSBP" and begins with "You are the scientist. Tell us some more about yourself."

ETA - had to go back and look at my email from before to remember what my assigned ID was

[GuestUser17]

I am the Salesman. So who is A1-QPLR?

[amandel]

Hi! No emails here but am up to my eyeballs in RL work anyway.**sigh** Has anyone tried SilentEYE on the score.jpg with the PW Beethoven or Emperor? Possibly those four notes are from his concerto #5 for piano (& orchestra) where the rests are almost as important as the notes. So maybe try rests and spaces as a PW also?

[nankaar]

No identity/number for me, but I have not been actively participating in this ARG lately, so I guess that's what I get .

Also, "New email with new image, via email."... Wow I was sleepy...