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Varin
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Great solve guys! I wish I could have stayed up and been there until the end! I was rereading the log and noticed that an hour or so before the solve enaxor almost had it...

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<enaxor2> using the reverse rot numbers you get "hemp"


sooo close Wink
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dishboy
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Varin wrote:
Great solve guys! I wish I could have stayed up and been there until the end! I was rereading the log and noticed that an hour or so before the solve enaxor almost had it...

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<enaxor2> using the reverse rot numbers you get "hemp"


sooo close Wink


Wow, I totally forgot about that - we probably would have solved it right then and there, if we hadn't started joking around about marijuana and then switched gears... whoops. Wink
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lefrequency
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So where do we go from here? Has anyone tried to run the pictures through steg?

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dishboy
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lefrequency wrote:
So where do we go from here? Has anyone tried to run the pictures through steg?


Though I don't remember who said it, we tried this last night and whoever it was said they didn't find anything... can anyone confirm that?
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lefrequency
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So then are we without another puzzle to solve?

(I'm bored and at work ha)

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rowan
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Primitive wrote:
.... anything you want to tell us, rowan? Smile


Very Happy I am the Mole.

No, seriously, I have nothing to do with any of that. I can't imagine trying to work BTS stuff here and still try to play ILB. I don't have a death wish.

The only thing I can think of is what Marduk mentioned here and that our own names are being hidden in various places. Two names could still be a coincidence, but then what are the odds of that last name showing up in the .wmv?

/me starts to play Twilight Zone music.
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enaxor
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Varin wrote:
Great solve guys! I wish I could have stayed up and been there until the end! I was rereading the log and noticed that an hour or so before the solve enaxor almost had it...

Quote:
<enaxor2> using the reverse rot numbers you get "hemp"


sooo close Wink


Embarassed Too bad I can't spell or count the alphabet....DOH! Bang Head
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Varin
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Just to be complete, I just found this in my inbox from last right after I left the chat...

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How do you go from this:

1 - sent to me anonymously with contents leading me to believe they were from someone inside

to this:

1 - amvb bw um ivwvguwcatg eqbp kwvbmvba tmilqvo um bw jmtqmdm bpmg emzm nzwu awumwvm qvaqlm BB

jc

..

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dishboy
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Varin wrote:
Just to be complete, I just found this in my inbox from last right after I left the chat...

Quote:
How do you go from this:

1 - sent to me anonymously with contents leading me to believe they were from someone inside

to this:

1 - amvb bw um ivwvguwcatg eqbp kwvbmvba tmilqvo um bw jmtqmdm bpmg emzm nzwu awumwvm qvaqlm BB

jc

..


Wow, now that is what I call beating us over the head with the solution. jc must have been thinking we were hopeless...
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GreyRoses
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Missed it!

Well, my plans to be around the other night died, confound it.

I'm bouncing in anticipation of seeing the files. They were here when I first visited the thread, but I accidentally closed the window and when I came back, they were gone. Hurry up fixing them! /me winks

EDIT: And of course, the moment I post this they come back. Oiy. Anyway, thanks to all you busy bees (uh oh, I've crossed the ARG streams now) who solved this one.

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The Watcher
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The article

The name in the newspaper article talking about Napoleon is "Barthlomew". All the letter parts on the bottom fit.

But is it a first name or a last name?

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handwash
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Looking at pfile4, the newspaper clipping:

I can see something in the area between the first paragraph of the article and "Some Residents Unconvinced". It looks like a box, in a grey slightly darker than the paper's colour, with what might be some text inside. There's also a black dot below the "n" in "next", which might be just above some letter.

Could someone with better image-manipulation skills than I have a look? It might be something, or my eyes might just be seeing things (which I wouldn't put them past!) Smile

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asmyth
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From what I can tell after taking a look at it is that there is a dot under the n, which is common with newsprint and the darker area is most likely a darker box on the other side of the paper showing through.
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dmax
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handwash wrote:
Looking at pfile4, the newspaper clipping:

I can see something in the area between the first paragraph of the article and "Some Residents Unconvinced". It looks like a box, in a grey slightly darker than the paper's colour, with what might be some text inside. There's also a black dot below the "n" in "next", which might be just above some letter.

Could someone with better image-manipulation skills than I have a look? It might be something, or my eyes might just be seeing things (which I wouldn't put them past!) Smile


Simple zooming in finds nothing helpful. Nothing? (As soon as I say "it's definitely nothing" then it becomes a cornerstone of the game.)

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blag
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Here's the clipping picture with the contrast improved - I think it's something showing through from the other side.

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