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Dagada
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 		Callum Felderi
New ARG on Facebook
I recently had a friend request on Facebook from someone called Callum Felderi. Shortly after, they made a series of posts that sounded like they were a character in an ARG - yet they were talking about starting their own ARG.

Further investigation reveals they are doing this to seek a missing friend called Lucy. Callum is "recruiting" via the ARG to locate her - for various reasons he believes communicating via puzzles will help. He's got a riddle on the go now which was quite fun to solve. I won't give anything away as he's still looking for people to solve it before the next step.


For those that are interested, I have reason to believe this could have links to the Vanessa Atlanta / Vladimir Sirin saga...

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Shad0
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
New ARG on Facebook
Callum originally asked if anyone knew of any sites for people who like to solve ARGs. Of course UF came up, but Callum professed not to be able to access it for some reason. [META]Good for the PM for honoring UF's rule about in-game characters not posting here![/META]

I got this message from him after solving the current puzzle:

Callum Felderi wrote:
You are someone I can trust, it seems. Or at least rely on for intelligence and ability... CAN you help me? My friend is missing, Lucy Lime - she ... its hard to explain as she doesn't use the internet apart from one site.

But she never told me what.

My ARG is a way to get people to help me - its simple riddles and such but ultimately just tests to see who knows how to push past the simple... something which, when dealing with Lucy, is needed...

There is a Lucy Lime on Facebook and another on Twitter, but they both appear to be long-standing accounts (and thus unlikely to be ARG characters).

Felderi, by the way, appears to be one of several species of moth.
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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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Billy Brown
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 		Odd, I can't find Callum's profile on Facebook. A Google search gives no results either. Would you mind linking to the profile, please?

EDIT: Oops, ignore me -- sorry. I was going off the misspelling in the first post rather than the name in the title of the thread! Found it now.

I'm a little stuck:

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I've found the ten words and noticed the proliferation of 'O's and 'I's, which I take to be binary. I've extracted those and tried converting them but it looks like there's another step to take after that, at which point I'm stumped.


Am I going along the right lines?

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Shad0
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
First riddle
Billy Brown wrote:
Am I going along the right lines?

You should probably ask Callum. Mr. Green

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I didn't make anything out of the last couple of lines either. If the binary translated to something recognizable, that's probably your answer. If not, double-check your work.

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Dagada
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
there are more than ten hidden words - look forwards, backwards and so on. This removes some of the 0s and 1s - what's left translates rather effectively


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Billy Brown
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 		Ah, thank you. I'll take another look.

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I was including all the 1s and 0s, rather than removing the ones within the relevant words.


ETA: Done now, thanks for the nudge!

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Shad0
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
New ARG on Facebook
I found Lucy. Well, sorta. I replied to Callum's Facebook message above, asking about the one site that Lucy used. His response contained a riddle (from her):

Callum wrote:
The one site is not Facebook, nor any identifiable social media... I don't know - she enjoyed playing these games with me - I never found the site - but she just asked me about how websites were like worlds of text to her and she wanted something more simple...

her exact words were "find me online amongst the world of text" , I originally heard walls and not world but on reflection, her Yorkshire accent made 'l's sound weird!

See if you can find her site - or webpage - or whatever she's done - her name will be in it somehow - that's what she told me - and, well, this is the odd bit, I think she's not going to make it simple for us

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This led to http://www.yourworldoftext.com/lucylime which contains another riddle. Solution in next spoiler tag.

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The riddle refers to a play called "Eclipse" by Simon Armitage, which is based on the disappearance of a girl named Lucy Lime at the time of a solar eclipse in Cornwall. There are six main characters; the one she doesn't identify is Klondike, leading to http://www.yourworldoftext.com/klondike, where she invites us to ask a question.

Update: I told Callum what I'd found, and he has now posted in both places.
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Dagada
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 		Good work Shad. I just popped a message your way on facebook.


I'm wondering if there's anything hidden in the "blank" space. White text and the like. It's very hard to tell on the iPhone im using - that site is really unfriendly to mobiles.

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dreamerblue
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 		Hello, again, old friends and new. I haven't UNF'd in forever, it seems.

Did anyone else have a little bit of "junk" to deal with when interpreting the word search?

I found
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20
words, which is what I think I'm supposed to have, but not sure.

I was able to interpret it partly on my own, partly through fudgery:
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I got H and E easily enough, and after a bit of trying this and that wondered if the solution might be HELP ME...so I ended up translating that into binary and seeing how it matched up...turns out I have 4 total extra "1" and "0" characters, although one of them is in the last row and doesn't really affect anything.



ETA:
Ok, I've gone on the first site that Shad Ow linked for a bit. I don't fully get it, but I did turn up a couple little things:
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When you first go to the lucylime world, and scroll up above the "script," to coordinates (0, 2), you find a line saying "CLEVER THINKNG>>>".

Scrolling in the direction of those arrows, to (2, 2), reveals "CLUES WILL BE HIDDEN VVV".

Scrolling down, to (2, 1), reveals "KEEP FINDING THE SITES".



ETA:
Callum has shared a riddle photo from the Page he "Likes" of Edward Nigma.
All I can sort out right now is this:
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Image appears to be of a telegraph key.

http://bit.ly/IFVDS links to a webpage selling buttons that say "KAPOW!" on them, comic-book-style. I don't know what the "w2" at the end of the URL on the photo could mean.

Underlined letters say WHEN IS KEY. Time on clock in background is 6:36.


I am so rusty...
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Played: The Lost Ring, Intimation, Vanessa Atalanta, Ministry of Argon, some of Fifteen Days of Darkness
Playing: Callum Felderi (if I have time)
...& have poked my head in on various other things here and there.

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Dagada
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 		The image looks like a morse code transmitter to me. Callum's also been posting dots as comments on his previous posts...

Not sure about 6:36. I presume this will be the key to decode a message or a password.

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dreamerblue
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Dagada wrote:
The image looks like a morse code transmitter to me. Callum's also been posting dots as comments on his previous posts...


I think a telegraph key IS a Morse code transmitter, no?

One of my colleagues found 2 more words in the word search, but I still have two "junk" characters I have to eliminate to get the right message. Maybe I still need a couple more words....
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"Like hours they number" may mean 24, and I'm up to 22, not including "answer."


Not that that matters much now I'm on the next stage...but it's bugging me!!
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Playing: Callum Felderi (if I have time)
...& have poked my head in on various other things here and there.

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arthurdent11389
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dreamerblue wrote:

Callum has shared a riddle photo from the Page he "Likes" of Edward Nigma.
All I can sort out right now is this:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Image appears to be of a telegraph key.

http://bit.ly/IFVDS links to a webpage selling buttons that say "KAPOW!" on them, comic-book-style. I don't know what the "w2" at the end of the URL on the photo could mean.

Underlined letters say WHEN IS KEY. Time on clock in background is 6:36.



I noticed something about the underlines in the picture:

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The length of the underlines can be decoded as Morse code for: UNI
dot dot dash for U
dash dot for N
dot dot for I

maybe it relates to the time - Universal Time, or UTC


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Shad0
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
Morse code
dreamerblue wrote:
Ok, I've gone on the first site that Shad Ow linked for a bit. I don't fully get it, but I did turn up a couple little things:
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When you first go to the lucylime world, and scroll up above the "script," to coordinates (0, 2), you find a line saying "CLEVER THINKNG>>>".

Scrolling in the direction of those arrows, to (2, 2), reveals "CLUES WILL BE HIDDEN VVV".

Scrolling down, to (2, 1), reveals "KEEP FINDING THE SITES".

Nice find!

dreamerblue wrote:
Callum has shared a riddle photo from the Page he "Likes" of Edward Nigma.
All I can sort out right now is this:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Image appears to be of a telegraph key.

http://bit.ly/IFVDS links to a webpage selling buttons that say "KAPOW!" on them, comic-book-style. I don't know what the "w2" at the end of the URL on the photo could mean.

Underlined letters say WHEN IS KEY. Time on clock in background is 6:36.

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The first character is the number 1, not the letter I, and the "w2" is part of the URL. http://bit.ly/1FVDSw2 leads to http://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/message.cgi?m=eJxjZOTnYvBxcnUJVwjwCwzyUQgN9Q91U3B3jQqLVPAPdw8JUAh2j_TwUAjzcAz2U_B1jfSLUnAOCPB0BACUcg7U, which plays a message in Morse code.

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I suck at transcribing Morse code. So far all I've got is LBEDW PNZRL... Sure, that seems like gibberish, but the fact that it's in blocks of five letters leads me to believe that it's a Vigenere cipher or something like that. Once transcribed, I expect that "WHEN IS KEY" will be cluing the key we need to decrypt it.

P.S. Dr. Edward Nigma is, of course, the secret identity of the old Batman villain, the Riddler. "E. Nigma," get it? Not much subtlety back in the 1940s.

Update:
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Looks to me as if the Morse code is LBEDW PNQRL UUOUF GEZVY OWGTP SGYHH VHASN MEYNZ YPPIA -- someone please double-check!

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dreamerblue
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 		Oooooh, good fix of the URL. I tried changing the first character to "4" or "A", thinking I saw lines that apparently weren't there, but I didn't think to try "1". I was also thrown off by bit.ly's error message telling me that most bit.ly codes are between 4 and 6 characters.

I'll double-check your transcription when my lunch break comes up.
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Playing: Callum Felderi (if I have time)
...& have poked my head in on various other things here and there.

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dvorak42
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 		From the bit.ly link:

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


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