Drop 5 (Greasers and Cranes and Sharks Oh My!)
Contents
Drop Location
Tachyon uploaded a new video, Knock 'Em Down. This lead to a drop at the Sea Bowl bowling alley in Pacifica, California.
Items
The drop was retrieved by Ladron121.
It contained five items:
The Post Card
The card is from a different manufacturer than the others. This one was
made by Paperchase, says under that "PRINTED IN THE UK".
47 4c 41 44 20 59 4f 55 20 46 49 4e 41 4c 4c 59 20 55 4e 44 45 52 53 54 4f 4f 44 20 4d 59 20 4d 45 53 53 41 47 45 2e 20 44 4f 4e 27 54 20 46 4f 4c 4c 4f 57 20 55 50 20 41 20 53 4d 41 52 54 20 4d 4f 56 45 20 57 49 54 48 20 41 20 53 54 55 50 49 44 20 4f 4e 45 2e 2e 2e 41 4e 44 20 57 48 41 54 45 56 45 52 20 59 4f 55 20 44 4f 2c 20 44 4f 4e 27 54 20 47 4f 20 48 4f 4d 45 2e
Which translates to:
GLAD YOU FINALLY UNDERSTOOD MY MESSAGE. DON'T FOLLOW UP A SMART MOVE WITH A STUPID ONE... AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GO HOME.
The Book
The book had no dog earred pages or markings of any kind.
A Post-it note was stuck to page 120, between 120 and 121.
Text of Post-it note:
I know I messed a lot of things up. But cheer up, because if my hunch is right, it all might make sense really soon. xoxo T
Text of page 120:
It's easy to be pleasant When life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who can smile When everything goes dead wrong.
Text of page 121:
May St. Patrick guard you wherever You go and guide you in Whatever you do - may his loving Protection be a blessing to you always.
The SD Card
Two files were on the card. Both were password protected RAR files.
File #1
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File name: 373a3135
Solution: Hexadecimal for "7:15" (The time OpAphid's Home Alone video was posted.)
File size: 46599 kb
Password: "silver" (Color of ink on the oragami crane)
Contents: There are 12 files within the folder. 11 of them are Gemma videos. They can viewed by adding ".mov" to the end of the filename:
1c = "Nut Kills Man"
1f = "Living In London"
4c = "It's Not Your Decision"
6b = "They Disappeared..."
6d = "Horrid Flatmates"
6f = "Learning Egyptian"
46 = "Don't Trust The Authorities"
61 = "Someone's Following You"
62 = "A Watcher"
66 = "An Awkward Silence"
67 = "Scared To Go Home"
The twelfth file, named 69, is a text file which reads:
Xy Xy Xy Xy 20 XX XX Xy XX Xy XX XX XX 3f ----------------------------------------- Yyyy Yyyyyyyy?
When it was all solved, it says, "Look Familaar?"
This was written by diastres explaining the solution:
Take the following and count the number of occurances of each character. 1c 1f 4c 6b 6d 6f 46 61 62 66 67 69 value | 1 2 4 6 7 9 b c d f count | 3 1 2 10 1 1 1 2 1 2 Possible XX combinations: 41 42 44 46 47 49 61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = ABDFGIabdfgiqrtvy Possible Xy combinations: 4b 4c 4d 4f 6b 6c 6d 6f = KLMOklmo Xy Xy Xy Xy 20 XX XX Xy XX Xy XX XX XX 3f ----------------------------------------- Yyyy Yyyyyyyy? I think we could use the first way as a basis, to find the two upper case letters, the Xy 'L' and XX 'F'. L = 4c F = 46 Remove those from the counts. 1 2 4 6 7 9 b c d f 3 1 0 9 1 1 1 1 1 2 Possible XX combinations: 61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy Possible Xy combinations: 6b 6c 6d 6f = klmo L___ F_______? We can only use combinations from Xy (klmo) for the first word. L needs to be followed by o. We really only found Look and Loom for likely words, and I'm not sure what kind of two word question starts with Loom. So we'll use Look. Look F_______? o = 6f x2 k = 6b Remove those from the counts. 1 2 6 7 9 b c d f 3 1 6 1 1 0 1 1 0 Possible XX combinations: 61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy Possible Xy combinations: 6c 6d = lm Look F _ l/m _ l/m _ _ _? F can only be followed by a or i since the third letter is l or m. Also note that the two Xy places CAN'T be the same because there's only one 'c' (l) left and one 'd' (m) left. Fal_m___ Fam_l___ Fil_m___ Fim_l___ This is where I broke out http://www.math.toronto.edu/jjchew/scrabble/lists/index.html because obviously I don't want to waste my time if there's no possible word to fit that combination. Familiar was the only one left that could possibly fit when I used the 8-letter common dictionary. But we'll start with just what I gave above. Fam_l___ a = 61 m = 6d l = 6c Remove those from the counts. 1 2 6 7 9 c d 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 Possible XX combinations: 61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy Possible Xy combinations: None, but that's fine since all of our Xys are covered. i = 69 x2 a = 61 r = 72 Remove those from the counts. 1 2 6 7 9 1 0 0 0 -1 Huh, so obviously there was a mistake somewhere. But switch 69 to 61 and you get Familaar like in Tach's letter to Sphinx (see the archive). My assumption is there was a typo or mistake somewhere when it was being made. Look Familaar?
File #2
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File name: X
File size: 3kb
Password: "thirty" (Number written on oragami crane)
Contents: A text file named "END CROPS ENCORE" which is an anagram for "CORRESPONDENCE"
Inside this file was a long string of code. When decoded from hex to binary to text a list was found:
88040018 absynth420 acidfingers Alvinandthechipmunks anganderk avasta blessedSophia blindmancansee blughblue boredfairy briska06 brm01 Captious cassiesgrace cd3bs chixor1 cluechaser covedweller Cu_Roi CuttingSquares Darfaizee datsrightbitches davishl DeadIdol Destrin41016 donthaveaclue dug321 Dylanb2004 eggtoffee Emezy2k7 fatbat69 Frederikke FrHuggyBear FromSubjectSent gemmers19 germanbobslayer gleamgliding gtrichar Helix302 HeWhoMustNotBeNamed1 hummingcrab ihearthevoices ilike2burnthing immodest ixlr8 jamesdoof jengels2002 jeremypoursine jiangzhifei Jimmyjm josephbeuys kapjatokbe KathleenMJ kingheartsjacksqueen ladron121 lec8486 lolm3n LonWpnX losh14 lostlifeinlowell loveleslieforever Luv2LuvEm MaxZyrix mei0023 Melissab718 mezory MintGurl mmkhamsehee mourningbelle mpipher nerdielicious Noava22 noduspocus Nyloslk OpAphid PhillFlash PiIsYourFfriend pikales plumpy3 punkybrister69 qnodrknss ravensgrace reganashe reubenfan27 rjswillis rockindanceteacher romanceismusic rustybug rustydevil7 Ryo2810 saint696 sakuramayoke Sfonzarelli shifty132 shiznutz24 sickhappy skawjw Snippity1 soulkaun spaciegirl srfriez stevedx669 stitcheduplove summoner5890 surrealisticpill sysopozzy taiyac terazi601 terminallycute TheChessboardWoman theratdiva thetroll tigerlilylynn tiltingwindward tomgirl1980 trace2927 Turmi0n twjaniak unlimiteddj UnReaLwurld urspecial warpylol watchingcassie weetziebat05 Wrkncacnter xdanielletaylor xxdemon13xx zvonx
The Oragami Crane
A piece of green paper folded into a crane. Once unfolded, the number '30', written in silver ink, could be seen.
The Shark Hand Puppet
The shark puppet was turned inside out, searched stem to stern. Nothing hidden inside, no marks or writing.
It was made by Pappa Geppetto, a subsidiary of Manhattan Toys.
This puppet could be a reference to Purple Monkey, which is sold by the same company.
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