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vpisteve
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 		Oh, thank God, I finally contributed!!

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html


Um, I think the title is referring to me? Or Best in Show.

LOL. You guys rock!

/me sheds a nostalgic tear.
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vpisteve wrote:
Oh, thank God, I finally contributed!!

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html


Suddenly, I think I know who's behind this, but I ain't saying.
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vpisteve wrote:
Oh, thank God, I finally contributed!!

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html


I didn't play the first time round, can you explain this or am I being obtuse?

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Caterpillar wrote:
vpisteve wrote:
Oh, thank God, I finally contributed!!

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html


I didn't play the first time round, can you explain this or am I being obtuse?


check the source...the title is the same as Steve's sig.
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 		I'm feeling really stupid right now, but what I meant was how did we get from the incident log to santorini?

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catherwood
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 		It took a long time to load the .swf, but I immediately recognized the Aquapolis. Is there anything more to this than just the looped animation? I couldn't click or do anything after the thing stopped rotating.

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zerosignifier
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 		wuh?
So, um, are the implications supposed to be that

a) SR will hold the Santorini thing (namely, Santorini's death in the flooding Aquapolis) over Marcus' head unless he funds the Mozambique trip

b) we're supposed to put the tranlation of the SWF file name ("missing level") together with something else (maybe where the mouse landed in the Flash file, or maybe something's askew with the Aquapolis model) to figure out where to go next

?

zerosignifier > !analyze ARG
fail

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 		I didn't play Metacortechs, but after perusing the forums a bit (and since no one answered me on how they got to santorini Wink ) I think "missing level" might refer to THIS........at least that's how I'm assuming santorini was found.

BTW: stephanopoulos doesn't work Wink

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 		Decompiled the flash. Yeilded nothing.
I wonder if you could use the guide layer. I don't think so, but maybe it can be helpful (I haven't played along, though I'd love to (lack of time)).
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Omnie
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 		Both Kat and dead-guy-in-Steve's-pool died on the Delos level, right? I've tried fun ROTing manipulations of Delos and the like, no success. I now wish I'd paid more attention to the Aquapolis subplot.

Also, wasn't santorini.html found because "Santorini" is said in the incidentlog flash?

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vpisteve
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Omnie wrote:
Both Kat and dead-guy-in-Steve's-pool died on the Delos level, right? I've tried fun ROTing manipulations of Delos and the like, no success. I now wish I'd paid more attention to the Aquapolis subplot.

Also, wasn't santorini.html found because "Santorini" is said in the incidentlog flash?


Yes, but I have no idea what Santorini is in reference to.

...oh wait. It's another Greek Island.
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Omnie
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 		Well, if we're doing the decompiling thing, I might as well post this, since I don't know what to do with it anyway.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
There's a shape in the flash that's apparently used in the final frame, although I can't see it without decompiliness. Perhaps because it's black on black background? Anyway, clicky for image. Flipped horizontally, it says "liferelease." [spec]Life release = death? Wha?

(btw, jchillerup, we're clearly using different software or something, because I have no idea how to access guide layers and things like that.)

I've gone from trying delos->backwards->soled to souled to sold to sale to bought. There may have been feet and fish and sail boats and TV show characters in the chain somewhere. I don't think my brain is working quite right.

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Caterpillar
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Omnie wrote:
Also, wasn't santorini.html found because "Santorini" is said in the incidentlog flash?


Where? Is this something you need to know how to decompile to obtain?
Would be nice if someone *cough*steve*cough* would have said where it came from, as I've been beating my head against the wall looking for the solve

Wink

and know nothing about decompiling flash

Crying or Very sad

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rose
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 		in

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html

does the arrow end up pointing to the same place that the guard's camera (middle of the bottom row) goes to in the flash from

http://www.lessonstolearn.net/theincidentlog.html


trying to catch up but I have no idea what to do with "liferelease" or the

"santorini.gif"

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rose
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 		Because summarizing information is how I survive in life
Happy news, these 11 pages are not that complicated to go through...although the beginning is a bit vague as I can't see the wingdings for some reason...and I don't know how you got from the subject lines to the first page... nonetheless

Summary of pages (in order they were found):

1. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/ (page title: eye see) a flash that with a hint Caterpillar solves to

2. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/leak.html (page title: there is no spork)

that has missing letters and a barcode that solves to:

3. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/emersonescaped.html
(page title: the sum of a remainder of an un... or, maybe, you would like a cookie)

that has letters found in the Latin filler that leads to:


4. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/metadex/usr/mlo/bio/
(page title:Marcus Ormond's Bio | MetaDex | Note to self: buy better sunscreen)

that, together with an email clue and a Playfair cypher lead Catepillar to:

5. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/metadex/usr/mlo/bio/ugpw.html
(page title Marcus Ormond's Bio | MetaDex | whomp! yay, heh, good word!)

which has these links:

6. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/2003-06-19-Russia.html
http://www.lessonstolearn.net/2003-08-03-USA.html
http://www.lessonstolearn.net/2003-11-01-USA.html

and Anthrax tries:
7. www.lessonstolearn.net/anomaly4.html (no page title)

somehow the question posed ( find the next event in the series listed above) is solved by Ehsan which leads to :

8. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/2004-10-26-Mozambique.html
(page title: i bet that spike was just a thunderstorm in Redlands i bet)
when view source is used the title shows (cLeVeRmArCus)

and a link on the page leads to:

9. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/theincidentlog.html

and the name Santorini is mentioned which leads to:

10. http://www.lessonstolearn.net/santorini.html (page title: go to the hotel and GET BUSY BEE)
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