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slhampel
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 		I made a couple of edits to BriEnigma's post (hope you don't mind). Looks like a lot of 3's going on. I also had the cover song thought but haven't been able to get anywhere with it.


Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings Box Set
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/227484
Lord of the Rings Book Covers
http://www.isildur.com/tolkien/covers.html
Lord of the Rings books (and pictures of their covers)
http://tolkien.cro.net/bookshop/2.html

Lakes
Lake Bob
http://www.eoni.com/~harlows/PhotoGallery/LakeBob.htm
Lake Bonney Holiday Park
http://properties.worldtourism.com.au/LakeBonneyHolidayPark/
Badger Lake
http://wqm.igsb.uiowa.edu/activities/lake/badger.htm

Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz Munchkins
http://www.kansasoz.com/infomunchkins.htm
Tribute to Miss Gulch/The Wicked Wich of the West
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6396/maggie.htm
Judy Garland Database
http://www.zianet.com/jjohnson/oz.htm

Butterflies
Butterflies of Norway
http://www.nagypal.net/norge/disa.htm
Russian Butterflies
http://osipov.org/insects/satyrid/s-e-disa.htm
Erebia (Finnish site on butterflies)
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/erebia/index.html#disa

Scorpions
Museum of Insects (Whipscorpion)
http://www.godofinsects.com/museum/display.php?sid=756&PHPSESSID=289e5fb5357f841f3653e3414e51556f
Giant Vinegaroon Care Sheet (whipscorpion)
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/M-giganteus.html
American Tarantula Society shirt (whipscorpion)
http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/Shirt2.jpg

ARGs
ARGN
http://www.argn.com/
A.R.G. Rattery
http://www.argrattery.com/
Alien Research Group
http://www.alienresearchgroup.com/

Misc. (3's?)
U.S.S. Blenny SS-324
http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~nstevens/Blenindx.html
Shakespeare's Richard III, Act II, Scene IV
http://pd.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/richardiii/section9.html
Mad Magazine #324, January 1994
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/mad324.html

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slhampel
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 		the last group should be 324s

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sapagoo
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BriEnigma wrote:

Misc.
U.S.S. Blenny SS-324
http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~nstevens/Blenindx.html


Doh! and I thought this was an homage to a puppetmaster
it mentions "greater underwater propulsion (the source for the acronym GUPpy)"

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sapagoo
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 		the butterflies are all the same type. and are called "The arctic ringlet",
which might go into the Ring group.

vinegaroon (the scorpion) could be related to vinegaroon moon,
which is the name of wraith's home page. (or could be a coincidence)

petbugs.com? petbugs also played "the beast". another coincidence?
read the book.

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sapagoo
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 		SPEC - 324 means letters in the answer.
in "the beast", they used numbers
11 22 31 42 51
to help out that there are 5 words, and the 2nd and 4th words have 2 syllables (charades).
which is how
djinn myth-trout hay hop-key hat
became
GRIN WITH-OUT A COP-Y CAT

I wonder if the 324 has a similar meaning.
maybe the key phrase is 3 letters, 2 letters, 4 letters
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
bay of ring ?
orb of lake
rig of fire?

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sapagoo
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 		B Lakes, Lake B
another note from #unfiction.
all the lakes start with B.

BLake?
BLakes?
Lake B
Lakebee?

I'll check to see if the lead singer of Scorpion is named Blake, and has a cover song called wizard of the ringlets

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phi
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 		You lot have been MILES off!!!

The clue is "I heard a cruel cover the other day..."

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So I listened to the sound that plays and by accident (my right headphone fell out of my ear) that the left channel has very quiet morse code covered by the other noise (the main sound that Teddy "heard", "cruely covers" the real clue.)


The morse works out to be:
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.. . --.- --.- ..- / -.. ...- --.. -.- -.- / .- -..- .--. .-- - / ...- ..-. .--. -.- --- / --. .--- --.- -.-- -... / .


which translates to:
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IEQQU DVZKK AXPWT VFPKO GJQYB E


It looks like vignere and it's not a plain ROT

I always had trouble with the straight encryption.

Incidentally the backwards noise is of someone going "ooooooo" and then someone else saying "do it again"

So hopefully someone will figure this out... and give me partial credit. (my first beat-everyone-to-it puzzle progress ever ... wooo hooo!) Razz
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phi
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 		I seem to remember a puzzle like this one in Jaded Media
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yanka|tage
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 		Sorry for interrupting; I just wanted to say "thanks" to Stiltskin. Awesome solve!!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:52 pm
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Caterpillar
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 		Yes....awesome!

Not sure if it helps but doing Vignere with "Teddy" and then ROTing the results gives:

GREEN BINYD YKDKM TSDYH EWEMU C

TERRA OVALQ LXQXZ GFQLU RJRZH P

Doubt if it's anything....but gotta run so can't dig further Very Happy

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BrianEnigma
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phi wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
So I listened to the sound that plays and by accident (my right headphone fell out of my ear) that the left channel has very quiet morse code covered by the other noise (the main sound that Teddy "heard", "cruely covers" the real clue.)

Good find! (Hehehe... I did not even realize the page had sound!)

Edit: For those wanting to play along at home, a little audio slicing, dicing, and normalization gives the following attachment.
morsecode.mp3
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:26 pm
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terminalskeptik
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 		Taking this:
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IEQQU DVZKK AXPWT VFPKO GJQYB E

and using this decrypter:
http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/EARLYCIPHERS/Vigenere.html
with RANDOM Plaintext, I get this:
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HACK
IS A DISPLAY ORIENTED DUNGEONS DRAGONS LIKE GAME BOTH DISPLAY AND COMMAND STRUCTURE RESEMBLE ROGUE FOR A GAME WITH THE
SAME STRUCTURE BUT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DISPLAY A REAL CAVE INSTEAD OF DULL RECTANGLES TRY QUEST TO GET STARTED YOU
REALLY ONLY NEED TO KNOW TWO COMMANDS THE COMMAND WILL GIVE YOU A LIST OF THE AVAILABLE COMMANDS AND
THE COMMAND WILL IDENTIFY THE THINGS YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN TO WIN THE GAME AS OPPOSED TO MERELY PLAYING TO BEAT OTHER PEOPLE
HIGH SCORES YOU MUST LOCATE THE AMULET OF YENDOR WHICH IS SOMEWHERE BELOW THE TWENTIETH LEVEL OF THE DUNGEON AND GET IT
OUT NOBODY HAS ACHIEVED THIS YET AND IF SOMEBODY DOES HE WILL PROBABLY GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS A HERO AMONG HEROS WHEN
THE GAME ENDS EITHER BY YOUR DEATH WHEN YOU QUIT OR IF YOU ESCAPE FROM THE CAVES HACK WILL GIVE YOU A FRAGMENT OF THE
LIST OF TOP SCORERS THE SCORING IS BASED ON MANY ASPECTS OF YOUR BEHAVIOUR BUT A ROUGH ESTIMATE IS OBTAINED BY TAKING THE AMOUNT
OF GOLD YOUVE FOUND IN THE CAVE PLUS FOUR TIMES YOUR REAL EXPERIENCE PRECIOUS STONES MAY BE WORTH ALOT OF GOLD WHEN BROUGHT
TO THE EXIT THERE IS A TEN PERCENT PENALTY FOR GETTING YOURSELF KILLED

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Wizmo
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 		huh.
Herr Skeptik's decryption looked like a review of some game, so I googled the first line or so and got a lot of sites with the same text. It's a (very popular) description of a game based on the old Rogue. The first two returned sites were:

http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=6&topic=hack

http://www.winone.com.au/game-hack.html

Hm.

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catherwood-offline
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 		i think that person just deciphered random text, not our ciphertext.

Try the tools at this site instead:
http://sharkysoft.com/misc/vigenere/

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terminalskeptik
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 		Based on the sound file, I reversed the morse code to this:
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E BYQJG OKPFV TWPXA KKZVD UQQEI

Use the same random plaintext decrypt and see what you get
How cool is that!!!

EDIT: am I too hasty, as usual??
EDIT AGAIN: Random plaintext is NOT a valid lead to the solve.
Someone smack me with a frozen fish!
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