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[UPDATE] Side game "BEES... noimjustkidding"
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JoeUser
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 		No luck so far with the games; I'm not sure if we can get more than the keyword we already have though.

I keep looking up info on The Addams Family (based on Charles Addams' cartoon "Homebodies"), but nothing is working.

Here are the lyrics to the theme song:
Quote:
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.

Their house is a museum,
Where people come to see 'em,
They really are a scream,
The Addams Family.

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witch's shawl on,
A broomstick you can crawl on,
We're gonna pay a call on,
The Addams Family.


As a side note here, does it seem like the notes are wrong?
We're given:
Quote:

CDEF *snap* *snap*
CDEF *snap* *snap*
DEgGDEgGCDEF *snap* snap*

but listening to it, it seems like the second line should be DEFG. Not sure if that's a mistake or something important, but I don't have much else right now.

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JoeUser
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 		Hey, looking back at the source for the "zombie prom" page, we have
Quote:
fefgdg

which could easily be part of another tune. Any chance you can make a midi, rowan?

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JoeUser wrote:
which could easily be part of another tune. Any chance you can make a midi, rowan?


http://www.wonderweasels.org/daemon/daemon2.mid

I think it's "Love Me Tender" but still haven't found a keyword that's accepted.
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 		Thanks again for the midi...

To me it sounds like the end of the Brady Bunch theme song:
"and that's the way they all..."
but I'm not having any luck with that either.

I think it's probably some tv theme though; maybe the Addams Family one was to point us in that direction?

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 		Just to point it out, there was apparently some kind of update today; not sure if it was on any of the pages we've seen though.

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rowan
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 		Looks like we've gotten a clue to the stupid titles:

From 'roland':

Quote:
zwbibmvcujmz...zwbilmvcuj

Which is a ROT-18: rotatenumber=rotadenumb


I'll start working on it after I finish checking the rest of the pages.

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Edit #1: and on 'runes' we have a new ROT telling us to go back and try again.

Quote:
amizkpbpmbzmmaioiqvqvpwxmwnnqvlqvobpmnwzmab = search the trees again in hope of finding the forest


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Edit #2: 'zork' has this little gem of a comment:
Quote:
pweuivgsmga? = how many keys?

I have no idea what it means.
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 		OK, so they transformed rotatenumber into rotadenumb

That gets rid of all repeating characters, in addition to making it 10 characters. That makes it fit as a number-substitution key.

I guess that's a hint that the keys might be kind of messed up because they had to fit the pattern?

Edit: OK, I checked the "zombie prom" page again, and the comment is updated:
Quote:
f.25e.125f.125g.25d.25g1

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I think that signifies the length of the notes:
quarter note, eighth note, eighth note, quarter note, quarter note, whole note


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 		Okay, uploaded a new midi with the correct(?) note lengths. Let me know if you think it's too fast or too slow.

http://www.wonderweasels.org/daemon/daemon3.mid

(Edit: if that doesn't work try going here http://www.wonderweasels.org/daemon/ and just saving the file. For some reason I'm having problems with my site today. Maybe cuz it's free Smile One of these days I'll get around to actually buying services - if my ferrets decide they don't need to go to the emergency vet at 4:00 in the morning again anytime soon.)
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JoeUser wrote:
That gets rid of all repeating characters, in addition to making it 10 characters. That makes it fit as a number-substitution key.

I guess that's a hint that the keys might be kind of messed up because they had to fit the pattern?


Makes sense...but we only have different characters in each grouping, so it means we're gonna have to guess what the keyword is.

Code:
l c h e t f v
o y d h z e t
t e s m y k .
u t m c r d i


The first could have a keyword of "hlovecraft" but using that key gives us shiclés niclés - which is pretty much gibberish to me. I have no idea if any of the other letters make up a more reasonable keyword.
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 		Okay, I'm blind.

You know that "rotate number...rotadenumb" clue we got? It just so happens that rotadenumb as a keyword gives exactly the same result to the title of the 'roland' page as hlovecraft does for the 'return to zork' page.

Code:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
r o t a d e n u m b

ooe ord ore rbb orm oar ooe
115 104 105 099 108 130 115

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
h l o v e c r a f t

llc lhe lhc htt lhf lvh llc
115 104 105 099 108 130 115


That seems to be too much of a coincidence to me - but still, I don't know what to do with the result.

There was an update yesterday. I'm going through now and trying to see what was updated. Hopefully, it'll be with a clue for what to do with this bizarre result.
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 		Okay, the only update I can find is on zork:

Quote:
pweuivgsmga? zmittg,pweuivgizmbpmzmwvbpqaxiom? emoidmgwciktcmjcbxpwmjmqapidqvoncveqbppmztivociomaioiqv...

how many keys? really, how many are there on this page? we gave you a clue but phoebe is having fun with her languages again...


I don't have a clue to what they're talking about. Are the white symbols the keys? And what clue are they talking about? From the 'love' page, Phoebe seems to speak English, French, and Japanese. I've tried three, trois and san (and even five, cinq, and go in case the key represents the cresent shapes) and still nothing.
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 		I think I may have figured out the titles. The ASCII translation was correct - they were just in different languages.

shiclés = shi clés = 4 keys

niclés = ni clés = 2 keys

shi and ni being japanese & clés is french

But, of course, I can't figure out how to get them to work as keywords.

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Working backwards, we can almost figure out what the original keywords were.
Code:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
h l o v e c r a f t
r o t a d e n u m b
d o   t h y     e z   
s t   . m e     k y
m u   i c t     d r


The third might possibly be dorothy-something. The last might start with music. Still can't figure out any new keywords though.

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So on a whim, I tried the water keyword again (since I always thought the elements were the keypages and that was element 2).

Water takes you to element0 - and the page has changed. Instead of the flash, you see the 5 icons we've gotten: Earth - Water - Fire - Air - Void (the purple one). They all link back to their original pages (void links to element1.htm and the scary flash) and I didnt find any new info.
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 		Jan 17
New update. I must be getting close, cuz the new clue doesn't tell me all that much.

Quote:
ROT-18:

when i talk about keys i usually talk about words
btw how did you like th element page reorganization? much cleaner i thought


I'm beginning to feel like I did when I was trying to find the mosaic password.
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 		You know, either the updates are so minor they don't help, or they are too bizarre I don't understand them.

on blake:

Quote:
while($t=~s/(\d{3}?)//){$n=$1;$n+=$r;while($n>255){$n-=256;}while($n<0){$n+=256;}print chr $n;}

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 		Wow, nice work! I've been out of town all weekend, and I hoped someone would make progress while I was gone.

I think the titles are just meant to give us a clue how many keywords we should be able to get. For the cipher keys, Dorothy something Oz is all I can think of right now.

The latest update is perl code to take a 3 digit number, add some value (the unknown variable $r), then either add or subtract 256 enough times to get the value to fall within the range of 0-255. It's much like the ROT-18 code on 4.htm.

Quote:
while($t=~s/(\d{3}?)//) {
$n=$1;
$n+=$r;
while($n>255) {
$n-=256;
}
while($n<0) {
$n+=256;
}
print chr $n;
}


I'm not sure where this leads us though. On one page you had to subtract 128 to make the ASCII values work, and we've seen similar things in the past.

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