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[vpisteve]

Help meeeeee! Help meeeeeee!!!!!

[jwb]

Vincent Price

[Myssfitz]

[Robin]

I can see that you also have been contacted by this Nightingale person. Kind of freaky, isn't it? I've recorded my contact with this guy here since I'm not quite sure what to make out of this...

Take care, mon ami.

[krysbabe]

what the heck? This robin person is part of the game isnt she?

[Myssfitz]

Two things on Robin's log that are kind of scary:

Excerpt from Wednesday, March 24 (email from Nightingale)

[rose1]

spider, spyder, spidering

[Hojo]

Page has been updated with a barcode...

~H~

[alogicnamedjoe]

Perhaps the "white spider" reference has something to do with the Smashing Pumpkins song "White Spider":

http://www.lyricscafe.com/s/smashing_pumpkins/162.htm

I'm not a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but perhaps this has some significance?

[bagsbee]

tried Morse code:

'-' for thick bar, '.' for thin bar:

[krysbabe]

i've looked around for various barcode utilities to figure this out but there are like alot of different kinds of barcode fonts etc.. i did figure out there are 20 characters in the barcode itself.. interestingly enough there are 20 characters in "follow the white spider". I wonder if that is what we are decoding.

[hakab2060]

At sight look like some code 39 bar code

[BrianEnigma]

My (dusty, old) barcode scanner was not able to make sense of it.

A number of barcode specifications are online here: http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/spec.html I ran through a few by hand (after blowing up the barcode in Photoshop), but was not able to find anything. The fact that the site is white text on a black background is a little confusing, and I tried working with the barcode, as seen on the site (black being the bars, white being the spaces), as well as an inverse image (black being the spaces, white being the bars).

It looks very, very close to a 3 of 9 code, but not quite close enough. At the very least, it is missing the start/stop characters (encoded asterisks). Additionally, some of the groupings of wides and narrows did not end up having 3 wide pieces.

The Code 11 and Code 128 also have unique start/stop characters that do not match up with anything in the code.

Perhaps the barcode is just missing start/stop characters? Perhaps it is some other standard, or means something else entirely? It really does look extremely close to 3 of 9.

Edit: Yes, after transcribing all of the bars and spaces, I end up with 97 bars in the inverse picture and 99 in the normal one. Since each character in 3 of 9 consists of 5 bars and 4 spaces, I am now even more certain that is not the encoding used.

[Azathoth666]

Barcodes: the next party drug...

[sapagoo]

I can't get it to match 2 of 5 or 3 of 9.
It works for a little bit, then I run into a stretch where there aren't 2 Wides in 5 bars, or there aren't 3 Wides in 9 bars.