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==Drop Location==
 
[http://www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=Tachyon_%28character%29 Tachyon] uploaded a new video, [[Knock 'Em Down]]. This lead to a drop at the  [http://www.seabowl.com/ Sea Bowl] bowling alley in Pacifica, California.<br><br>
 
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==Items==
 
The drop was retrieved by Ladron121. <br><br>
 
 
'''It contained five items:'''<br><br>
 
 
1) A postcard<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldroppc1.jpg]]
 
[[Image:Bowldroppc2.jpg]]<br><br>
 
 
2) A copy of the book Irish Blessings with a post it note stuck to page 120.<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropbook1.jpg]]<br><br>
 
 
3) An SD card containing two locked RAR files.<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropsd.jpg]]<br><br>
 
 
4) An oragami crane.<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropswan.jpg]]<br><br>
 
 
5) A shark hand puppet.<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropshark3.jpg]]<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropshark1.jpg]]<br>
 
[[Image:Bowldropshark2.jpg]]<br><br>
 
 
 
==The Post Card==
 
The card is from a different manufacturer than the others. This one was
 
made by [http://www.paperchase.co.uk/ Paperchase], says under that "PRINTED IN THE UK". <br>
 
 
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.<br>
 
A Post-it note was stuck to page 120, between 120 and 121.<br>
 
===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===
 
[http://www.filelodge.com/files/room32/875912/373a3135 Download]<br>
 
File name: 373a3135<br>
 
Solution: Hexadecimal for "7:15" (The time [[OpAphid]]'s [[Home Alone]] video was posted.)<br>
 
File size: 46599 kb<br>
 
Password: "silver" (Color of ink on the oragami crane)<br>
 
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]]" <br>
 
1f = "[[Living In London]]" <br>
 
4c = "[[It's Not Your Decision]]" <br>
 
6b = "[[They Disappeared...]]" <br>
 
6d = "[[Horrid Flatmates]]" <br>
 
6f = "[[Learning Egyptian]]" <br>
 
46 = "[[Don't Trust The Authorities]]" <br>
 
61 = "[[Someone's Following You]]" <br>
 
62 = "[[A Watcher]]" <br>
 
66 = "[[An Awkward Silence]]" <br>
 
67 = "[[Scared To Go Home]]" <br><br>
 
 
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?"<br>
 
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===
 
[http://www.filelodge.com/files/room32/875912/X Download]<br>
 
File name: X<br>
 
File size: 3kb<br>
 
Password: "thirty" (Number written on oragami crane)<br>
 
Contents: A text file named "END CROPS ENCORE" which is an anagram for "CORRESPONDENCE"<br>
 
Inside this file was a long string of code. When decoded from hex to binary to text a list was found:<br>
 
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.<br>
 
It was made by Pappa Geppetto, a subsidiary of [http://www.manhattantoy.com/ Manhattan Toys].<br><br>
 
 
==External Links==
 
[http://lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3674 Forum Discussion.]
 
 
[[Category:OpAphid]]
 

Revision as of 23:03, 9 December 2006