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Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Thanks for the screenies and some great work. Looks like we are now up to date on the unsolved stuff so far!
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:41 pm
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
Excellent work, but I still don't see how you get from this:
cherrytree98765 wrote:
Hint 3:
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The cabbage page holds the other clue. The big "?" mark.
to this:
cherrytree98765 wrote:
Solution
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amyjakob
I mean it's obvious that it's an anagram, but care to enlighten me? Were there any mentions of
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Amy Jakob
prior to this?
_________________"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: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:51 am
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
@Thunderwolf: Sorry for confusing you. I'll spoiler my thought process that eventually lead to me finding the solution.
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First off I tried every single darn anagram solver on the web. This of course was unfruitful and all I could get were 6 letter words. Then I looked back at the page, first off the child in the artwork is white lending it to be important as the parents were green, which was a different color. Then I tried to connect the "?". At first I thought this might relate to Nick's "About us" page which lead me to email him. That didn't work, though he did say basically it was an anagram. After that I thought about how it was a "Question" like "Who, what, when, where, why", going on the child and "Who" kind of like "Guess Who" I figured we were looking for a person's name and not an object. So I went on google and looked specifically for "name anagram solvers" because a normal one wouldn't work. I didn't have too much luck until one site's solver got super obsessed with the word "Jakob" on one of the results. I pulled out those letters and eventually came out with "Amy or May". I was kind of hesitant to think it was the answer, but inputting it worked as "Amy Jakob". Otherwise there was no other mention of a name. It just seemed with the different coloring of the artwork that a "person" was important. Not an "object" The question mark just helped concrete my thoughts in that direction.
Quite honestly if there wasn't any solvers I probably would have never solved that anagram otherwise. Anagramed names are almost impossible to pull apart, as there are way to many varations that you can get for names.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:17 am
natas
PHP Ninja
Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 3177 Location: Northwest Indiana
Anybody else find it weird that the Primus Incident Report is from 2044?
The blog is clearly from the present, so I'm confused.
Also, the Primus Engine is real world based, and so far we've been shown "games" played on Multimedia Fusion Engine, which I've dabbled with a little. I'm just trying to figure out how it all meshes.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:45 am
Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
cherrytree98765 wrote:
@Thunderwolf: Sorry for confusing you. I'll spoiler my thought process that eventually lead to me finding the solution.
There are NAME anagram finders? This.... this changes everything!
Seriously though, thanks for clearing that up!
_________________"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: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:47 am
cherrytree98765
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Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
natas wrote:
Anybody else find it weird that the Primus Incident Report is from 2044?
The blog is clearly from the present, so I'm confused.
Also, the Primus Engine is real world based, and so far we've been shown "games" played on Multimedia Fusion Engine, which I've dabbled with a little. I'm just trying to figure out how it all meshes.
Actually I am a little bit confused on that part myself. Right now there seems to be a touch and go kind of thing going on with "we know" and we "don't know".
From what I suspect. I would think this has something to do with the code that Nick made before he was "terminated". I assume the target the mission mentioned in the incident report was Nick, as the evidence they say was "thrown out the broken window" is the same evidence on the cabbage page. (Just referenced the numbers from both to each other.) So I assume at least later in the future it looks like Nick and Maria have a falling out with LunarLabs and go their own way. I also assume that Nick is the cause for the breach in the LUNAR network.
@Thunderwolf: Yes there are! Though there's no gurantee that the solver will be able to find the solution out of the mess of letters which is why it took me awhile to find the solution.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:00 pm
natas
PHP Ninja
Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 3177 Location: Northwest Indiana
OK, I've been emailing and tweeting almost all the people at lunar labs asking who Amy Jakob is. All replied they don't know except for Maria.
She fired off an email asking how I knew those names. I told her and her next move is to send a tweet to Nick asking him to check the codes for the LunarLabs website and fix them.
Hmmm
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:17 pm
Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
cherrytree98765 wrote:
About that I just solved it myself. haha.
Lol I guessed the answer correctly, but I sucked so hard at the game there was no way I was beating George's score!
_________________"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: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:27 pm
natas
PHP Ninja
Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 3177 Location: Northwest Indiana
Goofing around with the site and found this:
http://www.lunarlabs.org/about-us/liam_hp/
I don't think it's supposed to be found. I just found it through a backdoor kinda way if you know how WordPress works.
Anyway, kinda weird how only the last part of his name changed. maybe it's some sort of wordplay on "mail" (liam backwards).
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:48 pm
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
So it would seem Maria knows more than she's letting us know. Did she explain how she knew the name?
I'm still kind offput that this app didn't lead us to the next path. The last one in some obtuse way was supposed to lead to the Mozart page, but this one doesn't seem to contain any clue to another page. Hm. I guess I was just expecting a much more seamless pathway then a sudden break.
I don't know if anyone noticed but according to the shareoak page the files were created by Maria. Just found that a little interesting note.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:20 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
I also noticed that cherry although when it was first posted the name appeared as someone else until a swoosh of the curtainresolved that
I take it you have tried each of the individual evidence numbers as the next url? On a mobile that would take me quite some time to complete lol
I'm just hoping if there are any rl events that I'm back in time.
Also has anyone gone back through each pages source code in case Maria's tweet is a clue to the next trail?
There are also as I see it a couple of outstanding items:
1. Binary at end of each mission report received so far
2. Line 33 of the code has not led us anywhere yet. The second password link was c33 so it could have just been a reference to that...
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:27 pm
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
I'm going through the source now, but I don't really see anything quite yet, granted I haven't been here for the whole game so I may not see a change if there was one.
Actually I had put the second piece of binary through and had been told it's not legit. Putting both of them together though, a chunk of it is valid as "u". So if we add more on we might get more. For now it seems like it's still incomplete.
Line 33 was just a reference to the mozart page to give you guys the kick in the pants to go to the cabbage page.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:52 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
New tweet and update on main page with a newsletter signup.
Response:
Thank you very much for signing up! We look forward to sharing with you exciting news and some interesting INSIDERS. Stay tuned
Am heading out to 30 rock now so will leave It with you. Another anagram or url?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:53 pm
cherrytree98765
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Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
Sadly it's not a url, or anything that anagrams properly.
I would assume that we'll get our new lead from the newsletter, whenever they send that out.
Also Maria responded to an email that I had sent. Natas should have gotten the same info:
Quote:
Yes he did and I just replied to him. This whole thing sounds quite bizarre to me, I am not sure about any of this. The only reason why I replied was because of Amy and Jakob. I don't know where you guys really got these names from, but you should be careful with this information. ESPECIALLY with Nick!!
Nick was adopted and never met his real parents. In a desperate attempt, he tried to hack the national social security database when he was 12 years old - without luck. Since then he doesn't want to know anything about his real parents - he literally deleted the fact that he was adopted. Well, naively enough I tried to surprise him for his birthday by finding out who is real parents are and I found them. Amy and Jakob Svendal.
When I tried to tell him the truth, he got extremely aggressive and didn't talk to me for weeks. I learnt my lessen and so should you.
Since then George and me swore that we will never mention them again and just leave it. Please, don't get Nick involved in this and especially not in connection with George. Nick and George barely speak to each other right now. I don't know why...
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:54 pm
RingmasterJ5
Boot
Joined: 12 Mar 2014 Posts: 58
Nick and George were talking about something yesterday, though, and their argument spilled onto Twitter.
It seems like George wants to implement a lot of changes that Nick is particularly opposed to.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:45 pm
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