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(04-13-2011, 02:06 AM)hollowleviathan Wrote: It appears it is actually possible to save all the people, and probably necessary to get the next ARG tidbit. Yeah - we can save Felix and Hector (number...

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04-13-2011, 02:39 AM

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Harold, I'm so glad you're safe! I was really worried about you for a while there, but you could not imagine my relief upon hearing of your survival. Teasers in rare secrets - we've had many. There's...

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04-10-2011, 06:13 PM

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Harold - if you see this, please respond to my message - I need to know you're safe.

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04-10-2011, 04:51 PM

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(04-10-2011, 02:41 PM)Caterpillar Wrote: (04-10-2011, 02:35 PM)jolesole Wrote: Password for the 4th rar is endoftheline How did they arrive to that? :O XORing the hex strings against two sentences...

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04-10-2011, 02:45 PM

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We've confirmed that "Tva meningar" means "two sentences," not "two meanings. "Meaning" in plural is not "meningar". Sorry.

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04-10-2011, 02:27 PM

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I don't think we can continue... We have no idea what to do - we've tried everything, both simple and complex, and we never get anything. There's been no progress at all. Harold, if you're reading th...

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04-10-2011, 01:47 PM

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(04-10-2011, 11:26 AM)Caterpillar Wrote: Could be a sort of MD5 checksum? Unfortunately, md5 is 32 bits long :/. Separating them into various MD5s does nothing.

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04-10-2011, 11:46 AM

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I'm told by a source (who I would like to assure anyone watching from Frictional Games is dead and not anyone to worry about) that "tva meningar" is very important.

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04-10-2011, 12:48 AM

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From our Swedish speaker, it means "Time to go to bed after writing all these sentences/phrases."

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04-10-2011, 12:35 AM

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We are hopeless... For all we know it could not be hex, and end up being something crazy like "each number plus the letter next to it." We just don't know anything.

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04-10-2011, 12:15 AM

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Right... We've run dozens of tests on it, and I'm sure it will be something horrifyingly simple, but... We just don't know.

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04-10-2011, 12:13 AM

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We know it's all in the pdf... but what do we do with the hex strings? We've tried converting them to decimal and using them as indices, we've tried converting it to text (useless), we've even XORed i...

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04-10-2011, 12:10 AM

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Channel is on mute - you've been voiced. MESSAGE FROM HAROLD! Harold E Larsson (Pr) Wrote:PRrtyere PainFul (and hardTosSee) hving batwIngs GrWing out mY eyeS. Thyse LobstRclawz notMking typIng easIer...

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04-09-2011, 11:29 PM

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Harold needs our help - gentlemen, we must work as efficiently as possible. Two meanings. Are "Everything in the letter" and "two meanings" linked? is it "Everything in the letter has two meanings"? ...

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04-09-2011, 11:24 PM

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These messages mean one of two things: a) Look only in the PDF, it's all that matters. (everything in the letter) b) Look at Harold's letter. :/.

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04-09-2011, 11:17 PM

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Over in the IRC, we're wondering how these are related to the PDF we're currently working on.

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04-09-2011, 11:06 PM