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Xrate
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new blog update!

"The numbers are the keys. The graph and co-ordinates, it all adds up."
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:54 pm
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craze3
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for people who are too lazy:

Quote:

Another strange E-mail
Afternoon guys. Ok, I got into work this morning and the police were here again - they've got news on the DNA of the blood. It IS Human afterall, but... this is disgusting... it could be more than one person's blood mixed together. This is just getting worse and worse by the day. I don't know how much more of this I can take. Three people are off with stress, but Mr. Rivala can't afford to lose any more of us, we all know that. He's been really subdued these last couple of days, locking himself up in his office all day, I think he's finding everything really difficult - to be honest I would be in the same position trying to run a company while being bombarded with what's going on at the moment. I still have no word on the find and what it is, but I'm working on it. Ok, now down to what's most important; I got another E-mail today. It was different this time, I think it must be from a different person. It said something like:

"Keep your head down. He's watching you. Your friends have attracted his attention. He is very powerful but that is nothing compared to what is to come. Please, I urge you, you have to solve what he has presented to you. Each passing day unsolved his ego grows and we can't afford that. The numbers are the keys. The graph and co-ordinates, it all adds up."

The message was from something like AnonymousSPLATremailer.net, I sent a message back but it bounced. I think they're clues, but I don't know. Why are people toying with me like this? IT'S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE!


...it all adds up...
...the numbers are the keys...

do u add them up? the key to the graph?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:13 pm
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JonJon
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I GOT IT!

You know i was talking about doing sums with the co-ordinates well i finally had some time last night and it worked!

(1,3)(2,4)(5,4)(6,6)(10,13)

1+3= 4

2+4= 6

5+4= 9

6+6= 12

10+13= 23

Using number substitution you get "DEVIL"

FINALLY! I E-mailed Sam with the solve. I still don't know what to do with the numbers on the wall tho

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:01 am
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Damn I can't count it actually says DFVIL. Hmm, perhaps a mistake? I dunno, but I sent the Email if sam replies really enthusiastic we'll know it was a simple pm mistake.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:05 am
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Russell
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Well im guessing that it was just a mistake from the PM, we have had a few in earlier puzzles, keep an eye on the image. I imagine it will be updated when they check the forum.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:12 am
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Well the v is there, just the e is missing and an f is in its place.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:14 am
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jazzysixx
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The 23rd letter of the alphabet is W, not V. Sorry to say. So using your decode, you really get: DFILW and V only if you use the door as a coordinate also. But i think you could be right, I think we have some errors on the part of the PM. The numbers on the wall can be used as a cryptogram for YOURSELF, so I'm thinking, as I said before, that maybe Dodge is doing this to the office and is unaware of his actions (split personality or doppleganger?)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:42 am
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Russell
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New update:

I'm really busy today, we've got new information from previous clients who are paying their debts off to us that they're cutting payments. They don't want anything to do with a company in our situation. That has put us into a financial crisis, and I have to sort it out. I got an E-mail from one of you this morning, and it freaked me out. Apparently the furniture arrangement decodes to 'DFVIL' - well this stumped me at first. Then I was messing around with it in my break and I realised it's an anagram. I didn't mention this before because I thought it was irrelevant and stupid but... well yesterday I overheard Mr Rivala have a shouting arguement with an archeaologist, I couldn't hear it until the boss threw the guy out of his office and shouted something like, "There's no such thing as the Fvild!". I don't have a clue what it means, but I'll keep an ear open.

In other news I had another E-mail last night, it was really short and simply said, "Use keys". It ties in with the last E-mail, I think it must be a clue, whoever it is wants us to crack the blood on the wall desperately. More later guys, thanks for being here for me.
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But what does "Use keys" mean????
Piano /music? Keyboard?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:28 pm
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Xrate
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i own i was wrong Embarassed
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:27 pm
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JimmyImpossible
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Figured out the numbers. If you number the letters on a standard computer keyboard sequentially from Q to M, the numbers translate to:

WHO'S NEXT? (punctuation added by me)

Posted on Sam's blog.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:41 pm
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misery_of_pain
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JimmyImpossible wrote:
Figured out the numbers. If you number the letters on a standard computer keyboard sequentially from Q to M, the numbers translate to:

WHO'S NEXT? (punctuation added by me)

Posted on Sam's blog.


Well done Jimmy!

Let's see what happens next.

I think this would be good if there was more puzzle searching rather than just being given the puzzles on a blog. Not that its a problem hehe
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:14 pm
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ok lets take a look shall we...?

vifdl (or w/e) is mosty likely the gatemaster. gianaurd told me that everyday we waste on this puzzle he comes through and grows faster and faster! so the words "whos next" means that someone is gonna die in the next update. that person is most likely the only character who knows about the gatemaster (excluding rivala,sam and anyone dead)...obviously the curious employee who was talkn about the vifld!

so next update, employee dies and a new puzzle is discovered, revolving around his death. hopefully the puzzle will be as creative as the last ones, but introduced to us in a new and more creative way (enough with the emails and phonecalls!). we want some hidden encrypted links, hidden deep within the source of some hidden page on the companys website. and to get to that page we have to solve another puzzle like the blood on the wall.
lol im talkn too much and im typing all this on my palm, anyways thats just what i think will happen.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:42 am
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Xrate
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"Things aren't good " UPDATE....

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Things aren't good
Shit. Excuse my rude entrance today, but things seriously aren't great. I was working late last night, I think it was me, Cassie and Mr. Rivala. I was working by myself when Cassie came running into the office crying. I managed to calm her down so she could tell me what was going on, but I kind of wish I didn't. She told me she just got a phonecall from her best friend (Sandra Who, she's a researcher working for the company). Apparently Sandra was really distressed and she was in the car, she said something about having to get away as far as possible as she was being chased by someone or something. The phonecall ended with what Cassie thought sounded like the car flipping or something, then there was silence. We called the police immediately and they launched a search party. The car was found in the early hours of the morning about 10 miles from where Sandra lives. It was indeed flipped and in a ditch on the side of the road. The police say there was no blood on the inside of the car and signs tell them that the vehicle was rammed off of the road. Sandra is no where to be seen. Cassie's so badly shocked she's taking time off work, and the police have now put security guards in the office and all employees are to be escorted to and from work. Something tells me it will not be enough.

In other news, I overheard Alex (our IT technition) talking to Mr. Rivala this morning. Apparently the company website has been attacked and altered, and the password has been changed. He can't get back into it. I've checked it out, and it's freaky. Ok then, now I've told you all of that, I have to get back to work - I'll keep you posted.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:32 pm
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InSoM
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hidden link

There's a hidden link on the newly vandalised tomteam website.

when clicked it takes you to a new screen with an inverted pentagram inside a circle with txt underneath saying

Quote:
dXNlcm5hbWU6IHNhbmRyYS53aG8NClBhc3N3b3JkOiBkcm93c3NhcA==

This is base 64 and decodes to
Quote:
username: sandra.who
Password: drowssap


Now, where do we use this password??

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:43 pm
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Xrate
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new username and password for "DESTROYED" staff site login...

for me,under the pentagram same "Enter Password Protected Area" window...
after login with new password,and username,drives me to "DESTROYED "staff site....

Password=drowssap backward

the "old" username and pass (thestory;begins)usable same...for the old (not DESTROYED) staff site..
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