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[ljm]

[kosmopol]

I'm still thinking it should be some communication tool to connect father and daughter in the state of maternal surveillance.

Another think: Talkietalk, a chat system seems not to exist?
So Walkie Talkie? Not working though...

Ryanj64,
Nice parallel with Super8. I thought immediately about that console.

[bermudalife]

[ljm]

I don't actually think this is a lead, I've already flipped the image around a couple times and don't see anything, but it's driving me crazy that the "K" in the right side of the bead letters image has the "arm" of the K stemming off of the leg, when the leg typically stems off of the same point on the vertical line of a K or off of the arm. Given that the missing beads spell "MEGAN" I thought I would look at it a little closer.

It actually makes the "K" look like it's been flipped vertically:



So, I pulled the image and flipped it vertically and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. What I did eventually notice is that the "K" bead in the white beads is what I would call normal, where as the "K" bead in the bottom left well of round letter beads also has the weird arm-off-leg. So that basically ended that lead for me because it shows that it's just a quirk of the bead manufacturer and not an intentional edit. Also found multiple real life bead products with the same weird shaped K.

I also noticed that in the image of the star shaped boxes there are three letter beads in the boxes, R O and C. I doubt it means anything because that looks like a stock image, but figured I would call it out.

[gimlet]

Along this line of thinking: in the bead boxes we have boxes, beads, musical notes and the letters roc.

Is there a way we can combine those three words/ ideas in the manner of a rubric? Like... Rock Beat Music Box? Or something along those lines?

I'm also extrapolating an idea in my head, a narrative for the 13th birthday present based on some of the ideas that have been mentioned - the teen magazine seems to be all about boy bands, thirteen is JUST the right age be heavily into those. Maybe Daddy wanted to win some points with his estranged daughter and got her tickets to a concert that Mom did not approve of? That kinda thing happens all the time in divorced families. But what boy band might it be? Something current like 1 direction? Or something older like the Backstreet Boys? Or something made up in Universe. Or a Bad Robot deep cut: Drive Shaft.

[Nickknack]

[jodacat417]

I had a friend look over the HTML and Javascript on the page with the letter to Megan. He also looked over the Javascript on the "Are you Megan?" prompts as well.

He found the code in which the answer would normally be embedded and it he said that it looks like there isn't an answer. He knows more about HTML and CSS than Javascript but that's his two cents. I'm going to post the Javascript below.


$(document).ready(function () {
$('#prompt').on('shown.bs.modal', function () {
$('#answer').focus();
});

$('#prompt').on('hidden.bs.modal', function () {
$('#prompt').find('.step2').hide();
$('#prompt').find('.step1').show();
});

$('[data-submit]').on('click', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var $this = $(this), el = '.' + $this.attr('data-submit');
$(el).submit();
});

$('.chat-form').on('submit', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('#prompt').modal('show');
});

$('[data-confirm]').on('click', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('#prompt').find('.step1').fadeOut(function() {
$('#prompt').find('.step2').fadeIn();
});
});

$('.auth-form').on('submit', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var $this = $(this);

$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: $this.attr('action'),
data: {
answer: $('#answer').val()
}
}).fail(function() {
$('#prompt').modal('hide');
});
});
});

Edit- Formatting got all messed up but you get the idea

[Pixiestix]

It's one thing to view source, another to try to brute force your way into something instead of guessing/using IG info. Thankfully, this PM team seems to have covered their butts, but just for future reference, it's highly frowned upon (even if those Reddit fracks do it all the time). It's considered game breaking.

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How come so many are making assumptions that Megan's parents were already divorced when she was 13?

[Sleep]

[jodacat417]

[bermudalife]

[gimlet]

Sooooo... since it was already happening, I looked up the Whois for funandprettythings and it was registered using GoDaddy by a domain register company in Scottsdale Arizona. That was really niggling for me, I immediately had this déjà vu of reading that data before. But of an OOG site.

I looked it up and sure enough, Twins and Co realty was registered through GoDaddy in Scottsdale. That was the site linked to off the fake 3-11-16 site. They're actually both hosted on the same server farm, about 10 servers apart! I'm sure it's just a coincidence, and there are a lot of server farms in Arizona... But it's a bit odd. It could just a random coincidence - or an argument for FAPT being out of game as much as the realty company being in game :/

[unclear]

[DougBThree]

[AntaresMHD]

Just to clarify a few things: the analysis I did posts ago of the source code I did it as a web developer, and I was fairly certain the answer wouldn't have been able to be deciphered from it since the field POST data is sent and compared directly into the server, no way to bruteforce it directly.
I did find that chat.js.map file suspicious and I am curious no one has brought it up anywhere else, because it does have a piece of data that doesn't seem to have a specific function in the validation form, other than that I doubt that's the way to go, we gotta crack it in the traditional way.
Like it says in the source code, "Megan wouldn't go there".