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Your Favorite PJ Permalink Reply by Your Favorite PJ on June 19, 2009 at 3:29pm
The overture is about to staaaaaart.

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boryalic Permalink Reply by boryalic on June 19, 2009 at 3:56pm
something like that ;)

#have_at_it

temp chat room on freenode just for today and tommorow is up

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QtheC Permalink Reply by QtheC on June 19, 2009 at 4:43pm
I get an error when trying to view this page (there is a broken filmstrip icon below the picture).

Also, just checking - this is a side puzzle or something and nothing to do with Maddison Atkins, right?

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boryalic Permalink Reply by boryalic on June 19, 2009 at 4:51pm
NO AFFILIATION WITH MA WHATSOEVER

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Mathieas Permalink Reply by Mathieas on June 19, 2009 at 4:58pm
I've slowed down the audio and I think I got most if not all of the numbers. If anyone else is working on it I'd like to compare digits.

ETA: IF anyone is still having trouble downloading the mp3 I can post how I did it, although I think bory is fixing it now so it may not be necessary.

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QtheC Permalink Reply by QtheC on June 19, 2009 at 5:27pm
If you are having trouble with a plug in to play the mp3 (it should appear in a player just below the photo on this page), you can right click and "save target as" from this direct link to the mp3

http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/get%20in%20line.mp3

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Lyriclyinclined Permalink Reply by Lyriclyinclined on June 19, 2009 at 6:21pm
do you guys hear the whispering? are any of you good with audio manipulation? i could swear i heard "psst psst" around :26

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notgordian Permalink Reply by notgordian on June 19, 2009 at 7:45pm
There's a female voice reciting a string of numbers. I couldn't make out all of it, but part of it is 6075666, and it ends with 656. Based on the format, I'm guessing this is a telephone cipher (where you act like you're text messaging)

Lyriclyinclined said:

do you guys hear the whispering? are any of you good with audio manipulation? i could swear i heard "psst psst" around :26

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Lyriclyinclined Permalink Reply by Lyriclyinclined on June 20, 2009 at 12:08am
after much work in audacity i was able to make out these numbers
6f737472756e202020666f756e642020206f6e656
which look to me to be hex but when i decode them it doesnt make sense. almost, but not quite. i cant find any more in the audio these are not numbers

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Jeromy Permalink Reply by Jeromy on June 20, 2009 at 10:03am
Hey gang!

On behalf of all of us here at ye olde MA Central, please know that we support this kind of stuff. Thanks Bory for letting us know about this little project/puzzle.

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Acidfingers Permalink Reply by Acidfingers on June 20, 2009 at 9:12pm
Based on Kira's extraction of numbers, this is a sequence of hexadecimal numbers.

There might be missing numbers at the end however, because hex numbers come in pairs of two, and there's an odd number of numbers in that sequence.

6f737472756e202020666f756e642020206f6e656
splits up into...
6f 73 74 72 75 6e 20 20 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 20 20 20 6f 6e 65 6
which then translates to (I will use _ instead of a space character so it's more apparent)...
o s t r u n _ _ _ f o u n d _ _ _ o n e (cannot convert the number 6 into a character)
It's pretty weird to have three spaces in a row like that, which leads me to believe that perhaps this is an anagram of some sort. If that's the case, 6 spaces means 7 words. It seems like it would be fairly difficult to create 7 words from "ostrunfoundone" which is just 14 characters.

After doing a quick little try at solving this anagram, I came up with something which I have no idea if it is correct.... but it's "DO NOT USE F N NOR U" Also, since we're likely missing the last number and hence one additional character, I have a really bad feeling that this isn't even close (also, it doesn't make much sense lol)

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Acidfingers Permalink Reply by Acidfingers on June 20, 2009 at 10:34pm
After inspecting the image in the OP of this thread, I noticed it was 1.9 megs, for just a tiny 400x400 jpg, so with the help of someone who will remain nameless we used camouflage (http://camouflage.unfiction.com/) in order to extract a pdf out of the jpg using the password of "ticket".

The PDF can be found here: http://www.acidfingers.com/hosted/golden%20ticket.pdf (I know it's an acidlink, but it's safe I promise!)

The PDF has a few things, first of all the main thing is a poster for a show with Humanwine headlining, playing along with A Far Cry, and The Boy Who Spoke Clouds. This show is happening on Saturday June 27th @8PM at The Paradise in Boston, MA. Right above that is a date in a similar format, but for BreeFM on Sunday, June 21st at 7 PM. The last thing (aside from the small print for the Boston show) is a faint url in the lower right that says theseseedsbecometrees.com?k=ZW5qb3kh

Following that link takes you to a page that says "for you & for you*" where both of the 'for you's are links to different MP3s. The first link leads to http://www.nervousrelatives.com/6days/7R4N5M15510N.mp3 and the second link leads to http://www.nervousrelatives.com/6days/Wake%20Up.mp3. The second MP3 is the song "Wake Up" by Humanwine. The first MP3 I haven't quite figured out yet, but the title of it is "7R4N5M15510N" which is leetspeak for transmission. The secret person said that it sounds like faint morse code, so hopefully we can figure it out soon!

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Acidfingers Permalink Reply by Acidfingers on June 20, 2009 at 10:41pm
T-T-T-T-T-T-TRIPLE POST!

In the source for the theseseedsbecometrees.com?k=ZW5qb3kh site, there's a commented out link for http://theseseedsbecometrees.com/roots/H256FH490/ostrum/ which is a really simple page that says "+ ?k= (no spaces)" and the ?k= part is a link to http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/ostrum/?k=... which then is a giant matrix of letters and numbers.

This looks pretty fishy. Here's the matrix of characters without the spaces (hinted at from the previous page):

0 l 2 8 2 5 d d 9 r n 2 j a b 5 r 7 w i s h 7 u 1 5 q z 2 0 t y 1 t t 5 w r l j v a k p r h b 0 z i w i r z f r 0 f n 7 s 6 1 e n c e x x e 8 c v e d k 4 m 7 c l o 1 k u h z h n v 0 j l 5 x o 9 k b c h d y l h 9 e t 6 h 4 j 8 e 3 f e r n s c d 2 o 8 p 2 6 z 3 9 6 6 w h c u m w q t q z r u s x z g b c 9 p a n h 6 c 4 8 6 q e 9 q u q e q u x c i w c p y e n d e 1 k a 3 k 4 1 f j 6 e j m y z l y 4 1 h r 4 q d 6 5 1 a i 4 f 9 e f 2 o s u j o y t 0 l i a c 2 g t w x w r r n s 0 h x y l 3 q z 3 8 i c l 6 v b h 4 c g 6 4 n o p a 7 r n p g u b 5 5 5 k u x i 3 z u z k v 7 d x d r r n 7 q o 3 8 1 i e k j 9 f e i 0 2 r t r a h 1 w d 5 i h 4 z y h v e v o b m w f x 6 e 3 a n s 2 4 a i 5 i q m 5 y t z n g 6 9 k r n m 3 s q 6 w i 6 9 0 x 2 1 6 w 9 6 c l 0 0 4 o d a k b l 2 o x u n e i 0 h e z 8 1 r y x d x s f 8 i 5 2 x 8 2 7 c y o 0 i 1 4 i u q d i n 5 0 b s 3 z a 8 x i 3 o 5 1 g 2 0 i q d 8 z 5 2 7 5 l m 9 u 0 4 j 2 m c q m a d u 3 r p u x h k 6 y o 4 m j v i d 7 v c r l 7 1 d i 3 u u 3 x e w d u f 1 2 q w p 4 p 1 c a g 7 v j n 7 f d o 7 t 8 0 f c l j x r o 7 w 3 1 b u 4 b u 9 e j l b o p a 2 m t 0 b z 3 m 9 p 4 8 3 1 u w r v f l x 0 k v 5 t 7 6 8 l 6 0 x p p z e h b c x 5 a p w u b d f h o 2 7 y m 1 h i w f u s 5 h 7 k 6 b s 7 d e 1 d u m y v q 3 2 4 u z s 7 p z e b 5 y t z 5 q 9 0 r q x u v n y e 0 l 0 f d s y g r u v g z w a m f z h v y 8 b e u w z 8 j 4 y u t 4 y a 3 m h j 6 3 q u o q 7 u f e e 4 c f 8 x 2 x u a q h v b i a 4 u h d q t a o 7 8 e b c 8 d i 6 0 s k 9 s u 9 t 2 9 n m f r 2 f 2 t z r e 1 t c 5 1 8 v 0 q 5 0 o n j n 7 b l j o r 0 f w 0 8 e 0 x w 4 o e 6 i 5 3 3 v j y k y b u a 8 v l g 9 2 7 e n x c s m z d f c i a l d 4 e y c 3 9 0 4 s 0 1 c b 7 b 4 4 f g q h z 3 7 3 8 a 9 l e 3 p 2 6 h 1 v a i l 1 l n y m g s s n 9 0 b 1 x 5 z x 6 x 8 q n 2 l u s 7 v 1 h m b u a o 1 t 7 d r x e h j 6 6 5 t 4 5 g w k 1 e g m 5 o z 7 9 z k z h h 2 z 4 7 6 c 6 2 9 1 l 2 w k 9 h v 0 m 2 b g g 0 c e p n 4 x u w l o s h q o p f l h 1 w f 9 g 5 k 9 7 r e w u j b 7 d y r z 5 h h l w g 0 2 r 8 s d c r j 8 1 i 4 i m q 2 w s z z g g n f b v n m g t c 8 a q d c 7 n a y v 5 6 8 l y t 3 m h 9 s v e u g r 7 m a 9 k b 9 1 f b y t b l e 7 h b h 5 v h 3 9 0 n c j u u f 7 v e g w d 7 2 f u k g 6 o c d q k 9 a j f 3 h 6 g k e 0 4 k w o p 3 a s 0 3 x k c 4 f r 7 j 7 g h 8 q m 0 x i 7 8 n x 1 x i f c b g v 1 9 i a b b g t 9 p q f x n v d i h f u x 7 h 5 b j 6 i 4 w g b x i d 4 1 c i g i 6 u 3 5 y b b y h v k d 3 e f b a n 6 x u 8 j 3 b d t d l 0 l g k e b 8 g c v n y 5 r q x s a a n x v k 7 n l 6 p l w 1 s 6 5 t 4 a w o o j j 6 z j s h j s u 6 c 5 3 q g 2 l v d 8 l v 4 g e x h 0 b v 9 k q y t 9 5 3 r p y u j q p i k a l i m 7 b s a z z 1 0 k z a 1 n u z i m g x a 0 7 r z m z m a h y 8 j g 9 8 5 z y f o y 6 2 i v u 1 w u r s a f 5 0 e g 1 m 5 z w b x t 7 m h b 0 5 8 r d t r x k c h 1 v i 6 p 8 a w z m r n 8 s a r o m y q c t n u w 6 a j f c q 6 y y 2 d w 2 0 l e g y c z z u c a i s ? k = Z 2 9 s Z G V u I H R p Y 2 t l d A - c 2 6 w o 2 w x 7 z d 3 n 2 v q o n f z s m n v a b f d b n w e f r 1 t i n g f b j 9 o b u 5 p 8 d p m r m s f q u s b z y t p g 2 3 n 7 4 w 6 i y q d c n d g 2 p x 2 2 f 7 h 0 p i o c 1 4 j s w w p q i l z 6 1 2 9 e 5 e 7 j 2 z b 8 v i x a q b d h 5 m z q 9 e 7 g q v c g n a l h f h r 8 6 s 5 r 0 s s g t v o n 8 d 4 6 h 0 c x l e 4 y f e 6 l m m i h 5 d z v v g 1 d 1 f q y i k u p w c l 1 7 7 a 5 h n g p u a s i w d p n g f s x 4 0 7 o f 7 a i h 1 e g x f a 5 s h j c i 2 l 4 5 0 g b 6 y y 0 o u d t q d 1 y 5 5 4 s a 5 m s c w u k n 5 d i v k k q 8 8 f l s i 5 8 m w v h q p z r k a 9 m w t w o 0 i 9 a s p 8 q u j 8 3 e 6 f 0 r m g 7 a x g a w t x f e x t 5 5 s 5 n 7 3 3 r c 1 k h w p 7 c 1 c 9 1 0 f 2 l y p q 3 b y 6 s s j p l b 6 o 2 f v o v r q l u p c k u 5 v h j b a k b y g t g p 9 r r 4 5 j q x u 8 d 6 r s 8 1 c 2 m k b o k m q 9 t e 9 8 v q 2 q z 1 7 m l 4 p g l 8 e c a 7 o k 8 3 v k j t 3 i x 2 f i h 8 z 6 y v h p x f 0 v k 2 v g g 5 d 9 q o h 9 g q w 8 w 5 f t t a h e i g t 6 m i q w a 2 g 6 6 e m j m k q 3 7 o o 1 t 7 k u d p 3 j 8 y v g e h g e m a 5 r m e 4 x v w u l s 6 v c 5 i 8 t 4 e x b k 2 a x 3 6 d e 8 2 u t m u t x b p i e o h x f s r j e s u 7 s g z o k 4 n h v 8 1 7 r j u t y 2 x c x z e e f o j y 9 f g e 4 u p x 8 w i 5 n f m w z 5 k q s m q e b v j h 9 s 5 7 y b b r v q e s c m n p s z b g u m x c z c h 0 x q 7 w 9 2 s w 4 u d o i 7 c v k s c t i t 6 6 v u 8 2 k v i h g g 9 z 3 2 i 7 g i e d l z o 3 1 n m 6 i 6 r 2 3 j b o r i v y h j q s n g 1 r j b g x 5 8 h 8 6 p 3 m g w w i c r u 0 y 4 g x m u 4 c b c e h 0 9 f 0 g d w v 6 9 2 s u s x q c n e 6 t 2 i d v k e y o m o n r d u v 0 e q y 6 9 i 6 q 5 m t h q p 1 h x 4 2 7 9 q l k 4 z 2 8 i m x n 3 l j 1 t e h o r 0 v 7 e m e 1 g 7 y e m 9 o f y f c 6 r 0 j j a s a u w h 8 d 7 t b 6 e 2 b a q g n o u t c 0 v 8 h l g r m z r 6 l z 3 o w m n x h s p j s 5 p 6 j o l 0 j 7 k q o w e 5 r p u k 3 f x g 2 4 y g d g b s b k r p w h o 5 d y l r k p m 2 5 6 b x a y 4 3 s r v x a d z l v d 7 2 r 2 6 f c m q r z h l v j 9 w 8 2 o q j o a 6 p e v 0 z y x q f p l l r y 1 9 n 9 k 8 h i t f a 8 v j m w f 1 0 0 r o o d 4 t s f 5 3 w 8 f u h d 2 q x 7 r u r 1 6 c 6 x 3 w d g g a t z f n y 9 9 w e t 4 i k k 5 g 1 p y r l 1 n 8 t a 0 9 h 0 s 7 6 6 u 5 4 g n h x k c 4 a r s s 3 i 6 0 2 5 1 r 4 8 h m 4 d h o 8 b u 8 o u f b 4 h 5 5 z n n r w j h n e 8 5 8 5 c k z f r c c t x a 7 h f 8 b n 3 7 b f j t 1 t 0 e x x v s b 5 g g l j j 4 7 j 1 d o z f 1 s b 3 y k l p 4 a t q y s a f t 5 m 0 g w 9 a s h 2 w v q 1 m 9 2 e w c p a 6 q u l d b m j v h w k n h j o z q f k b w b n v 3 s g 6 7 h 1 n 1 c r 3 p 0 o w l z t 8 n h n t s p f t 2 0 m k 6 h g d 9 u 4 b a x q 1 a b b z a u w n 2 7 k o b 4 g 1 f q x n x 0 m g u n h g 3 8 g 5 6 5 t s i l r e v 6 g o c 7 u t u 8 f j j m 3 x t 9 q r f k q a f 9 s n k s 5 5 y j 8 v 4 q e 1 w o a 8 g x r f c 8 l m n l r m 4 5 w 3 n r y a 1 w w u b 1 k x e k v l 7 c r a 2 l n d 3 0 8 x m 1 3 p
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QtheC Permalink Reply by QtheC on June 21, 2009 at 12:20am
try reloading the ?k= page a few times ... it changes each time (not sure if it is shifting or something else) ... the number of characters in the matrix does not even remain constant

I think the next step may be to create a url replacing the ... with some keyword without spaces like this:

http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/ostrum/?k=somekeyword

Acidfingers said:

T-T-T-T-T-T-TRIPLE POST!

In the source for the theseseedsbecometrees.com?k=ZW5qb3kh site, there's a commented out link for http://theseseedsbecometrees.com/roots/H256FH490/ostrum/ which is a really simple page that says "+ ?k= (no spaces)" and the ?k= part is a link to http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/ostrum/?k=... which then is a giant matrix of letters and numbers.

This looks pretty fishy. Here's the matrix of characters without the spaces (hinted at from the previous page):

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QtheC Permalink Reply by QtheC on June 21, 2009 at 12:39am
Found it. Buried in the changing matrix is a constant

? k = Z 2 9 s Z G V u I H R p Y 2 t l d A -

This is the next step:
http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/ostrum/?k=Z29sZGVuIH...

showing a picture of a postcard from Finland
http://www.theseseedsbecometrees.com/H256FH490/ostrum/postcard.png

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QtheC Permalink Reply by QtheC on June 21, 2009 at 12:56am
Lower left corner of postcard has faint coordinates
42° 22' 23.82" N 71° 8' 3.17" W
enter those on maps.google.com to land in Cambridge Mass near US-3 on Gerrys Landing Rd close to Mt. Auburn Hospital

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