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notgordian
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 		[Trailhead?] - Million Dollar Poem
Probably not going to pay you a million dollars for your poem
Got a tip about Million Dollar Poem - http://www.million-dollar-poem.com/

Fairly straightforward website / registration page, with a few ciphers and plot points hidden in between the lines / in the source code.

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catherwood
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 		It's nice to see things buried in HTML source code, like the good old days.

I have partial solutions, some trouble in the numeric substitutions, and I'm still pondering the scrambled section which I thought was a railfence.

We could post solutions under spoiler tags, just to have an itemized list of everything found so far. I'm waiting to see how much this expands before getting in too deep.

(started to confuse this with CrowsCrowsCrows, another traditional trail.)

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maikeru
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 		Hi all, first post, always loved checking in here and find new distractions, this one has intrigued me...

There is a linked twitter account that is active.
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@TalRuckus


Still trying to work out the ciphers myself..

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Adm_BlackCat
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 		New website found.
Just think about some of the invso-text.

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thesummertimemasquerade.com

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AKA @Yankee White

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maikeru
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 		The links on that website lead to a tumblr with more clues. One thing I noticed:
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Take this post: http://solarballroom.tumblr.com/post/131146975332/cyrnfr-uryc-zr

now look at the first letter of each scentence in this post:

http://solarballroom.tumblr.com/post/131146593487/they-used-to-call-me


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njberry
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 		oh my so much to look through and catch up on, i better get started

edit: i signed up has anyone else signed up ?

i got sent this, was wondering if anyone else got this or did we get different things sent to us
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nuala76
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 		One of the tweets from the Twitter account found above is:
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Processions of ladies and #gentlemen in Chinese ballrooms, like Shang in #Mulan, facing each other and bowing; rqob rqh chur, rq wkh zlqgrz


The last part of which works out to read:
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only one zero, on the window


Edit: Signups at milliondollarpoem were broken when I tried yesterday, but they're working today and I received the same picture you did, njberry. The Latin translates to
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To begin the beautiful journey.


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njberry
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 		ive recived 3 more images via email now, just about to translate them (2 of them the same image

the image marked IV translates to

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Wrong in advance


but i cant translate the III image Confused

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maikeru
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 		There's another twitter account active now, apparently, posted a link to this, which seems to be a clue to the chiper:

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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=120lf2x&s=8#.ViQQg1QrKkA

Also, Tal posted: From Pit, the hint is 'Rumpelstiltskin'.

Pit is the other twitter account @AuroraPoet


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maikeru
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 		Hmm.. the one website is being updated, I think the second twitter account is another character helping the main protagonist:

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For instance the main page of http://www.thesummertimemasquerade.com/ has an added "Edit: Cringe", more substantially look at this page:

http://www.thesummertimemasquerade.com/contact.html

The original address was: 26 Te Taou Cres, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand


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nuala76
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 		A QR code on the associated tumblr sends you back to http://promo.million-dollar-poem.com.

At the bottom of the page is a rotating set of quotes, one of which is
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"Puvyqera pneir gurve anzrf vagb gerrf. Lbh pneirq lbhe anzr vagb zl urneg." ~ The Masked Poet
Translated: "Children carve their names into trees. You carved your name into my heart."


In the source code there is this set of numbers
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23-5 22-5 7-15-20 20-15 12-5-20 20-8-5 23-15-18-12-4 11-14-15-23 8-5 19 3-15-13-9-14-7 8-5 19 3-15-13-9-14-7
Which, when you decrypt it via number letter substitution says, "WE VE GOT TO LET THE WORLD KNOW HE S COMING HE S COMING


There is also this set of numbers (along with a phrase) in the source that I have only been partially able to solve:
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5: 23-8-5 4-3 5-3-21 19-12-1-1-16? look
3: 23-8-25 23-5a-7-4a-4b 25-5a-7 23-1-3-20 2-5a-6 4-5a-22-5b? through
15-22-5-18-3-15-13-9-14-7 2-1-18-18-9-5-18-19 20-15 12-15-22-5? the walls (look through the walls)

The third set of numbers is another straightforward letter number sub, though the first two aren't. It says, "OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO LOVE?"


There's also this bit of text that I thought (like I suspect catherwood did, first) was a rail fence cipher but doesn't seem to be.
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rswn tSefeaneneenyatenholiXei anei tomcihalhk
ratfil.h amihnda AiF wuee w tTe o tUets r.drdt
roorh,deglf


Interesting that the pages are being changed. I'm following along on twitter as well.

Edit: Since Tal mentions the uni a couple of times on Twitter, I'm going to guess he means
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Auckland University since the address that was up on the summer masquerade site was part of campus housing there.


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maikeru
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 		Latest tumblr post is a substitution cipher:

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THE NAMING PATTERN OF THE EMAILS STICKS MINE IS AURORA

Fits with the new twitter account


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njberry
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 		got a new email saying

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Will you be part of the solution?

Or will you be part of the crowd?


also a new image

when i try to translate it i only get half, half doesnt translate
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THE WAY seqventibvs planar

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:53 pm
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maikeru
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njberry wrote:
got a new email saying

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Will you be part of the solution?

Or will you be part of the crowd?


also a new image

when i try to translate it i only get half, half doesnt translate
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

THE WAY seqventibvs planar


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Assume that the V's in the second word are actually U's (think old Roman inscriptions), you get "sequentibus planar"

Which seems to translate to "I follow flatly"?

The Way I follow Is Plain? Maybe? Similar perhaps.

ETA: Google Translate takes the whole phrase and as Latin translates it to: "way, using the following"


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njberry
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 		thanks dunno why i didnt think of that, i'll put it down to it being 1.15 am Razz

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