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dmon_man
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 		there is a light and it never goes out
Well, what happened?
I admit I didn't even try this but I'm still very interested in how it ended, if it ended at all.......
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:13 am
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Alzheimers
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 		Sadly, I don't know what happens next. I never received a reply from the message I sent, and I really don't know enough about the subject to go any further. If anyone has any clues on how to get the author to unlock the next door, I'm all ears.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:42 pm
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Ralen
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 		According to the website, on November 1

deathball.net wrote:
Screen 22 has changed. The solution is the same, but the way to get to it is different and far more easy now.


The bottom right now just has a picture of a phone. What's an unexpected answer to the phone?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:45 pm
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 		Sweet!

Puzzle 22:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://deathball.net/notpron/beepbeep/banana.htm

I've found two images: screeeen22b.jpg which is the image displayed, and screeeen22a.jpg, just by changing the letter. I'm investigating now, and I'll post results soon.

Update:
Screeeen22a.jpg is just a question on a flat background. Jpeg really distorts the text, but I think is says:
"Looking for porn again? db, x =pron"
I don't think it's going to help.

Screeeen22b.jpg is the answer. Fairly simply, just playing with color levels in photoshop reveals the answer:
"The answer is unexpected"

http://deathball.net/notpron/beepbeep/unexpected.htm


Major Spoiler!
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"this is NO LONGER the end, go on!!! (this line is not related to the riddle)"

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:44 pm
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Alzheimers
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 		Room 23:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The hint in the title bar is "huhu, I'm tiny!"

Time to break out the magnifying glass! Zoom in on the text on the greetz, and you'll notice a tiny red dot on some of the letters:

S in Smujte
E in Hello
C in UneXpectable
R in Pen0Crow
E in well
T in least

change unexpected.htm to secret.htm for room 24!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:01 pm
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 		Room 24:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The only clue I see is in the body of the html:

<!--78874374663-->

The picture is of a phone. I have a feeling it's got to be something either with the letters of the phone, or knowing his tendancy to use musical puzzles, maybe it playes something in DTMF.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

7 P Q R S
8 T U V
8 T U V
7 P Q R S
4 G H I
3 D E F
7 P Q R S
4 G H I
6 M N O
6 M N O
3 D E F

788743 can spell Stupid or Putrid
74663 can spell phone

no password box, so just use stupidphone.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:04 pm
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Alzheimers
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 		ROOM 25:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

This is a creepy one, very reminscent of UH's the unraveling. It's tricky, but not unsolveable with Photoshop!

First, observe the hint in the title bar: FF0000 - red, in HTML Hex.
Second, observe the text in the password box: 0000FF - blue, in HTML hex.

Now, fire up the image in Photoshop. Again, Image Calcuations is our best friend!

Multiply all the red channels, and you'll see the following text emerge on the top: D L R I E D

Now multiply all the Blue channels, and you'll see the following text:
VSODLE

Unscramble the text, and find ID: Riddle PW: Solved

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:27 pm
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 		Room 26:

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This was a very fun one to solve. The hint in the body of the HTML, "How unfair was #8?" didn't seem to apply, at least not the way I solved it. The picture is a zipper, so of course my first instinct was to try zipper.html. Which gives the following hint

yes, its a zipper, try to zip it!

Hmm. Okay, the image is called screen26.jpg, let's try screen26.zip.

Voila, a file downloaded! It's an image with the number 27 in it. Hmm.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:46 pm
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 		Room 27?

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Well, all I have is an image with the number 27 in the corner, so it *seems* like it would be room 27. The image is obviously altered, with the following signs added to the crowd:

26 needs more titts!
Boobs

And a folded sign with half a Y, OH.

The usual color changes didn't discover anything, nor did zooming in on the other signs -- they're too far away with too much artifacting to read.

Still working on it.

EDIT: I thought it was out of bounds, but a friendly hint lead me to understand: take out the "NOT" from the notpron address!

http://deathball.net/pron/screen26/

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:54 pm
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Alzheimers
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 		Room 28:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://deathball.net/pron/screen26/

Hmm..the hints are:
"wrong number, ain't it?"
and in the source:
"the top left corner NEVER lies"

In the top left corner, is the title of the page: #28

Well, we want to get to #29, so...

http://deathball.net/pron/screen29/

Voila!

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:17 pm
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 		Room 29:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):


The clue:

good (yes, you are right here),
but...we are still wrong in some way....

username:face
password: lift

fix the URL and go to the next screen
http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/

Use the ID/PW from the last page, and you're set!

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:33 am
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Alzheimers
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 		Room 30:

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"Right in the creator's face"

Important to note here: the creator's name is DavidM. So go searching for other pictures of him on the site...

http://deathball.net/index.php?cat=info&pid=6

There he is!

http://deathball.net/pics/team_davidb.jpg

but...his name is DavidM??

http://deathball.net/pics/team_davidm.jpg

There's the answer! http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/davidsm.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:00 am
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SunBurN
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 		dude you rock, great job figuring out all of these! Very Happy

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:08 pm
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Alzheimers
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 		Thanks! As my response to your kind gesture, let me present:

Room 31:

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An odd colored picture. Probably doctored.

The clue:
"He forgot where he took it!"
The picture name:
einundreissig.jpg -- different then usual.
(note: the name translates to "thirty-one" in german. Try zweiundreissig.jpg and see what happens!)

So we fire up the picture in Photoshop. obviously, the clue indicates that we should try and find where the picture was taken. But there's not enough visual data to get any real ideas.

Maybe there's something in the file's meta-data? Those optional fields that Adobe uses to put info in the hidden header section of the .JPG?

File->File Info. Change the category to "Origin".

city: eisenhuettenstadt

http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/eisenhuettenstadt.htm

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 		Room 32:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Ooooh, nice sky shot! There seems to be some faint detail in the distance.

Clues:
Title: "Where do you want to go today?"

HTML comment: "He took the Via Appia"

So, obviously they're looking for a place. Google "Via Appia" and you'll find it was an acient road that lead across Europe to Rome. Lets try that:

http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/rome.htm

hmm...so we're close. Let's take a closer look at that picture. Playing with the contrast a bit reveals a rather religious looking scene. Hmm...religious...place...rome...hmm...

http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/vatican.htm



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