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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Thunderwolf, eat some fish today to keep your excellent brain fine tuned b/c the first newsletter shd be in our mailbox. Your solve was masterful, a level higher.
EDIT: http://www.lunarlabs.org/sos/ with another knock knock and its GIF is titled "Evidence-6Y345G", mentioned in the 2nd Mission doc posted on page 4 here
EDIT2: The GIF appears to have a PW encrypted zip file inside it
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:04 pm
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
I'm vegetarian, so no fish for me
Where did the sos URL come from?
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:03 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
The sos URL is either from a Vulcan mind meld with the LUNAR team who are all behaving like amenable pod-people now or (truly) from the "contact us" source code.
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:19 pm
Lisis_M
Boot
Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Posts: 39
We are stuck without the password, already tried a few related words like AmyJakob and such with no luck
I am not at my home so i cannot tamper with the red moon image, i will try to see if there is something hidden there
Great work to all of you
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:19 pm
ads123
Veteran
Joined: 12 Nov 2012 Posts: 85
Lisis_M wrote:
We are stuck without the password, already tried a few related words like AmyJakob and such with no luck
I am not at my home so i cannot tamper with the red moon image, i will try to see if there is something hidden there
Great work to all of you
I did see something that looked a bit like an eye? Not sure.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:53 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Looks like the newsletter holds the key as certain letters are a different font, am going through it now.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
abyss
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:08 pm
Last edited by Russell on Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:14 pm; edited 1 time in total
Atropanocturna
Decorated
Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 240
Quote:
Looks like the newsletter holds the key as certain letters are a different font, am going through it now.
A new newsletter or the same one from before with the caps hidden in the letter strings? (I just signed up last night to get the newsletter and have not received anything.)
EDIT:
Went back and saw cherry's point that that wasn't from the newsletter addy. Sooo ignore that part
_________________Looking for something that sparks my interest.....
Mourning:ThisIsMyMilwaukee
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:14 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
So is the picture a blood moon or Jupiter (or something else), with the word from the newsletter it led me to the following which is interesting but likely nothing of use =)
http://jupiterdivecenter.com/christ-abyss/
Will leave your brains whirring as i need to catch more sun =)
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:32 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
PROPS Russell_k, your letters opened the PW encrypted zip file that I've attached below for completeness before heading to Sleepyville.
Description
Download
Filename
warning.txt
Filesize
969Bytes
Downloaded
62 Time(s)
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:36 pm
Lisis_M
Boot
Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Posts: 39
amandel wrote:
PROPS Russell_k, your letters opened the zip file that I've attached below for completeness before heading to Sleepyville.
which words? Jupiter abyss?
tried those at spider oak, no success
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:41 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Lisis_M: Russell_k's "spoilered" post contains the PW to an encrypted zipfile inside the Evidence-6Y345G.gif (your redmoon pic). I just posted that file. HTH & G'Nite all
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:46 pm
Atropanocturna
Decorated
Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 240
They are all prime numbers as far as I have checked.
_________________Looking for something that sparks my interest.....
Mourning:ThisIsMyMilwaukee
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:11 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Ok its a nice simple solve
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Assign a letter to each prime in order and restart at the 27th number
The first couple of lines are
"Total control surveillance
people no differences real fiction hostile"
Although i may have a few typos as limited access to a Pc =)
Will leave someone else to complete it.
paper and pen ftl
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:48 pm
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
Just wanted to chime in that with Russell's translated section I'm slowly starting to substitute the cipher. At substitution get's easier as you crack more of the code.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:27 pm
Atropanocturna
Decorated
Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 240
Made a little program to translate it. There are some errors on the first pass that will be fixed, but here is what we've got:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
>?subject1 total cpntrom surweilmance
>?sta people no difference real fictioo hostile
>?request1 xarn n m
>?rqa help d lm
>?rqb dewelop encszpted communication systd81m wia m
>?note hostile ageot present
>?note detected our communication
>?note carefum who trubnt
>?note limited time to communicate
>?acc project awakening
My take while bugs get fixed:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"total control
surveillance people
no difference real fiction
hostile
warn n m (maybe nick or maria is "n" or "m"?)
help d lm (no clue here)
develop encrypted communication system via m (maria?)
hostile agent present
detected our communication
careful who trubnt (trust?)
limited time to communicate
project awakening"
_________________Looking for something that sparks my interest.....
Mourning:ThisIsMyMilwaukee
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:00 pm
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