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konamouse

Rowan gets the credit for the solve:

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konamouse

and the source code is a non-entity.

just answer the question.

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 12:52 am

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konamouse

And now we have a new question:

What might make a person fight for a corrupt organization?

Money, Religion and Power, Greed, thetruth, tobi, ignorance have been tried so far.

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 12:58 am

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Shelina

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 2:45 am

Shelina

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 2:48 am

Slyfox

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 3:48 am

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Shelina

My frequence analysis (maybe wrong because I've counted all the letters manually!)

P -30
L -20
W -19
S -18
V -18
D -15
A -15
E -14
Y -14
T -13
C -13
I -13
R -13
N -12
F -12
G -12
X -11
M -10
K -10
J -9
U -9
Q -9
H -9
O -6
Z -8
B -2

All the letters are present in the text

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 4:45 am

Muffin

Hey shelina, looks like its you and me again Smile

Not sure if letter replacement will work this time - I'm looking for patterns...

Nothing seems to pop out replacing P with E and L with T.

The final 3 letter block seems out of place...

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:10 am

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Slyfox

I've ran the text through a vigenere analysis tool that I don't fully understand the workings of Embarassed

. However, if it is a vigenere puzzle I think the key might be 7 letters long. Just spec though. don't get too caught up in this train of thought.

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:20 am

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hakab2060 · Kl00 Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 42

Slyfox you were right

Muffin

Nice one! Well done.

EDIT - Deleted replicated info.

Ayn Rand was a writer I know next to nothing about but a quick search gives her views of objectivism...

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/objectivism/index.asp

I think Marty is alluding to her support of capitalism, which he sees Marcus following blindly in his pursuit of money.

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Shelina

Rearranged and adding punctiation:

MARCUS:
I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL SALE OF TOBI
TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. YES, I KNOW WE'RE IN THIS BUSINESS
FOR MONEY AND WE'LL STILL BE ABLE TO REBUILD IT BUT I THINK WE NEED
TO LOOK AT THE HUMAN ISSUES, DONT GO "AYNR" AND ON ME, PLEASE MEET
ME ASAP
MARTY

MARTY:
THE SALE HAS ALREADY BEEN FINALIZED ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOT PUBLICIZE
IT TO AVOID INTERVENTION BY THE GOVERNMENT. COME BY MY OFFICE SOMETIME
TONIGHT AND WE'LL DISCUSS IT.
MARCUS

There is a word I dont understand... but anyway GREAT GREAT WORK!!!

LOL we were all posting at the same time Wink

By the way... I dont think we should post this in the IU forum yet... maybe we should talk to Marcus first?

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:33 am

Slyfox

Cool! I was right about a 7 letter vigenere! The tool I was using is 'Inforenz Vigenere analyzer for windows' if anyone's interested.

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:41 am

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Shelina

This isn't fair play, I can't run applets in this Unix station Crying or Very sad

Anyway, I was working on a transposition code, it was funny to try it Wink

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:52 am

Muffin

Just a little note - I am so glad that some puzzles are getting through to european time zones, instead of just getting solved in the US!

Oh, and for those who missed it see the "Ayn Rand" link above!

**Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 5:55 am

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