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dreamerblue
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Yep, I got what dvorak did. I had to slow the message speed to 30% of the original to get it Razz.
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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: Morse code

dvorak42 wrote:
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The translated morse code from the site is: LBEDW PNQRL UUOUF GEZVY OWGTP SGYHH VHASN MEYNZ CPPIA

Absolutely correct -- my last Y should have been a C. Thank you!
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Bit late to the party but I've been reading along, a few thoughts:

On the Bit.ly

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I'm fairly certain it's poly-alphabetic. The Friedman value is dead on. It probably is Vigenère but not enough text to do much analysis on cracking the key. When is Key - I have tried the obvious with no luck. So the question is what happened at 6:36 UNI or when what? Anybody else have any other thoughts?


On The Wall

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On the Klondike Page anyone else notice the random Y at the top? And the answer to A.A's question about going to a beach, finding some friends and chanting is that straight from the play?


Also if you haven't checked out the other 6 names, I recommend doing it Smile


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Maybe something like this?
http://startpad.googlecode.com/hg/labs/js/enigma/enigma-sim.html

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In a comment on his March 23 post, Callum says, "Seven solved, a good number - not as nice as others but there we go. Noah Houlihan, Paul Bird, Shad Ow, Joy McCourt, Viren Patel, Stephanie Gildart and Amber Daniel - should you wish to go deeper into the rabbit hole, message me your written address [not email, this is a physical thing]. Should five of you do so, the next part will be unlocked. Should it not, understandably in today's world of paranoia, then it will be transferred to electronic mailing in a simpler, less puzzling manner]."

I do recommend sending him your mailing address. I have been sent something in the mail by this PM in a previous ARG...my experience has been that you can trust him Smile. (And as Callum (not the PM) told me in reply to my private message, "it is always nice to receive something in the post, isn't it...?") The ARG in question, Fifteen Days of Darkness, required several of us to coordinate clues that we had been sent individually...was pretty cool, really.
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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Arbad69 wrote:
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Also if you haven't checked out the other 6 names, I recommend doing it Smile

Genius!

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Midnight's real name is Martin Blackwood.

Edit: Getting back to the question of the missing key, I see nothing particularly useful at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_11,_1999#Notable_times_and_coordinates, but perhaps someone else will. The eclipse started after 6:36 a.m. and ended before 6:36 p.m. It lasted less than 6 hours and 36 minutes, and its longest duration at any given point was less than 6 minutes and 36 seconds. What else might be significant? And how would we turn a time into an alphabetic key anyway?

Also, I gave Callum my address. (And Lucy my email.)
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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Shad0 wrote:
What else might be significant? And how would we turn a time into an alphabetic key anyway?


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6:36 = 1836? I am wondering whether the "when" has to do with the history of telegraphy...but 1837 seems more significant there.
The Wikipedia article for 1836 notes this for May 15: "Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the Sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads."


Shad0 wrote:
Also, I gave Callum my address. (And Lucy my email.)


I made a throwaway e-mail to give to Lucy (and I tested it) -- I may trust the PM, and I may have only heard of YWOT through this game, but given the mass stupidity that I've seen strewn all over some of the "worlds" in YWOT, I don't necessarily trust putting my "regular" e-mail address out there just so Lucy can see it.

ETA:
Another thought on "when"...
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The eclipse in Simon A.'s play occurred August 11, 1999; the group assembled to watch it on a beach in Cornwall.

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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

dreamerblue wrote:
Shad0 wrote:
Also, I gave Callum my address. (And Lucy my email.)

I made a throwaway e-mail to give to Lucy (and I tested it) -- I may trust the PM, and I may have only heard of YWOT through this game, but given the mass stupidity that I've seen strewn all over some of the "worlds" in YWOT, I don't necessarily trust putting my "regular" e-mail address out there just so Lucy can see it.

Lucy emailed me the earth today, as promised, using TinyPic:



The underlying image appears to be taken from William Blake's "Earth's Answer" as seen here. The three-quarter crossed circle has been added.

Lucy has also updated http://www.yourworldoftext.com/martinblackwood with two interesting things. First is "one for sorrow..." followed by "two for" (this line from the nursery rhyme ends with "joy"). Second is the following enigmatic comment:

Lucy Lime wrote:
the earth for an answer... not my email. next will be the moon... but not yet. Not until Callum's had his fun with Samuel...

Samuel?
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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: when is key

Sorry for the double post, but...

Arbad69 wrote:
So the question is what happened at 6:36 UNI or when what? Anybody else have any other thoughts?

Edward Nigma has added a comment to his image:

Edward Nigma wrote:
An A1 hint for you: Ya will know when you get the right year, but only if you've been to uni...

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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Shad0 wrote:

Lucy has also updated http://www.yourworldoftext.com/martinblackwood with two interesting things. First is "one for sorrow..." followed by "two for" (this line from the nursery rhyme ends with "joy"). Second is the following enigmatic comment:

Lucy Lime wrote:
the earth for an answer... not my email. next will be the moon... but not yet. Not until Callum's had his fun with Samuel...

Samuel?


My guess would be Samuel Morse...since it's Callum who's asked us to solve the Morse code riddle, even if it was originally posted by the Riddler.

Callum has confirmed this now, commenting on your post on his Wall:
Quote:
Don't know any Samuel - first thought is the most recent puzzle, though I never knew him personally - mainly due to the fact I didn't live in the 19th century!


Quote:
Edward Nigma has added a comment to his image:

Quote:
Edward Nigma wrote:
An A1 hint for you: Ya will know when you get the right year, but only if you've been to uni...



Hmm...does A1 signify
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a letter = number code?


I've claimed http://www.yourworldoftext.com/~dreamerblue/callumfelderi, but it's members-only for edits. Let me know if you register an account and want to be a member of the "world." I don't care what players edit it...but some of the text on other "worlds" discourages me from leaving it publicly editable Razz.

ETA: I just solved the Morse code:
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LUCY WILL RESPOND BEST TO PEOPLE THAT CALL HER LUCINDA...key was AHCF (1836 in letters)

Also, don't use "Sharky's Vigenere Cipher 2.1.0"...apparently it doesn't work properly (though apparently the 1.0 version does). I probably could have solved this a little earlier if I'd known the tool I was trying to use was broken -- it was when I used a Vigenere cipher app on my phone that I broke the code.


About this new name:
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Lucinda means "light"...and when I asked her what was most important to her, she said "waking people up and making them see the truth" -- in other words, making them see the light.


Moar edits:
Shad0 wrote:

Lucy emailed me the earth today, as promised, using TinyPic:



The underlying image appears to be taken from William Blake's "Earth's Answer" as seen here. The three-quarter crossed circle has been added.


Ok, I know a full circle with a cross on it is the astronomical sign for Earth (a sphere bisected by an equator and a meridian)...what is the significance of part of the circle missing?

ETA: I got a response from Callum, when I asked if the Riddler knew Lucy (though he deleted my comment because I'd used the answer to the riddle, and he didn't want the riddle spoiled yet). Here's our convo:
Quote:
C: The Riddler is a character from my ARG - Lucinda is real - my wife.

d: I see! Did you have any inkling that she would be disappearing/leaving before it happened?

C: She does the whole pagan thing and with the fact that the eclipse was on the same day - well - she was over the moon! She just never came back. And always contacts me - she's changed somehow and I want to get her to contact me.

d: Interesting. I wonder if this confluence of astronomical events has had some effect on her.

C: Not going to say no as, well, my job involves looking at that sort of thing. Will tell you more when I get to trust you all a bit more. For now though, it seems, she is calling the shots, as it were.

d: She seems to be safe, at least. There is hope yet.

C: I never doubt that Lucinda will ever NOT be safe - she can, and always has, looked after herself - however, being safe and being alive are two different things - like binary...

d: Well, I hope that we can prove our trustworthiness to you...I believe we can help. I hope we can also trust you. Not everyone who asks for help finding his wife on the Internet is worthy of such trust.

C: That is understandable, and noted.


ETA (where is everyone?): New thing to figure out at http://www.yourworldoftext.com/martinblackwood...what is Lucy's older name?
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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

dreamerblue wrote:
My guess would be Samuel Morse...since it's Callum who's asked us to solve the Morse code riddle, even if it was originally posted by the Riddler.

Dunce D'oh! Of course. Dunce

dreamerblue wrote:
ETA: I just solved the Morse code:
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LUCY WILL RESPOND BEST TO PEOPLE THAT CALL HER LUCINDA...key was AHCF (1836 in letters

Nice!
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1836 being the year Morse invented the telegraph.


dreamerblue wrote:
New thing to figure out at http://www.yourworldoftext.com/martinblackwood...what is Lucy's older name?

Her clue:

Lucinda Lime wrote:
AN INITIAL CLUE
my depiction calls lovingly
x
{very instinctual!}

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The first letters spell out MDCLXVI, which is 1966 in Roman numerals.

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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Shad0 wrote:

Her clue:

Lucinda Lime wrote:
AN INITIAL CLUE
my depiction calls lovingly
x
{very instinctual!}

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The first letters spell out MDCLXVI, which is 1966 in Roman numerals.


Oh, nice! I was way off...I kept looking up pictures of light or moon goddesses to see if they were beckoning lovingly Razz.

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1966...I've just barely started to look at this, but perhaps the disappearance of the Beaumont children after they visited the beach is relevant...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont_children_disappearance

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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Good job all so far!

Quote:
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1966...I've just barely started to look at this, but perhaps the disappearance of the Beaumont children after they visited the beach is relevant...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont_children_disappearance


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If you go to http://www.yourworldoftext.com/1966. It says, "I know what it's like to be dead"... Not sure if it's relevant. I asked a question on there, but no response yet.


Eta:

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Could also be:
In 1966, Charlotte Bingham's first novel, called Lucinda, was published


Side note:

Been having a weird conversation with Callum, but he wanted me to share something with you. I think I more or less have, but I'll share the actual convo. We seem to have issues communicating, I think my KY and his British don't mix or maybe just that I'm new to the ARG thing - not sure. Maybe you guys will see something I didn't hidden in it.

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*Starts after we answered the puzzle riddle and got the clue to go to worldoftext*

Me: yes, reading about the Eclipse and Klondike was interesting.
Callum Felderi: Klondike?
Me: yes, Klondike, and the others too Midnight, Tulip, Glue Boy, Jane and Polly. I have found them all among the world of text
Callum Felderi: Sorry - you've got me confused... were/are they friends of Lucy?
Me: They didn't understand her enough to be friends. But they found her once, or maybe it's safer to say she found them, perhaps they can help us.
Callum Felderi: Ah ok - how do you get in contact with them?
Callum Felderi: Evening to you both...
Me: Evening. I found their pages on the wall of words but I think it's Lucy perhaps gravitating to memories of people she once knew?
Callum Felderi: That would make sense - have you shared this with anyone talking to her?
Me: I have but I shall do so again.
Callum Felderi: Thank you


Following that trail of though:

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I've been checking the other pages, if you scroll down on glueboy, she asks a question and offers to share a secret Only two have answered. Maybe we need more to do so. I feel like their might be something to Tulip's page but I have no idea what.

This website is really messing with my head. I hate being unable to tell whose typed what.


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Live Chat

Anyone interested in getting a group chat on either Facebook or skype or something else so we can brainstorm together in 'real time'.

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Re: Callum Felderi
Re: other names

Arbad69 wrote:
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I feel like their might be something to Tulip's page but I have no idea what.

Good call!

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There's another riddle at http://www.yourworldoftext.com/i2i


Edit:
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I believe Lucy is referring to "The Whole of the Sky," which is a sequence of 88 poems referring to the 88 constellations.

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