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==Miss Me?==
 
==Miss Me?==
[[Miss Me?]] is the second video in the LG15 series to contain a puzzle that viewers can solve. The first video to contain such a puzzle was [[Bree Phone Home]].  The [[Bree Phone Home puzzle]] however, was much simpler and not implicitly tied to the [[OpAphid]] [[ARG]].  OpAphid videos always contain puzzles, but this is the first of that series to be incorporated into the [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos| Lonelygirl15 series]].
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In [[Miss Me?]] very faint symbols that flash momentarily during the video in different corners of the screen. The symbols appear to be braille, although the resolution is poor, and the contrast in the video needs to be increased in order to see them properly.  See '''External Links''' for the video with contrast.
  
There are very faint symbols that flash momentarily, several times during the video, in different corners of the screen. The symbols appear to be braille, although the resolution is poor, and the contrast in the video needs to be increased in order to see them properly.  See '''External Links''' for the video with contrast.
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Flash occur at these times (in min:sec)
 
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Watch out for the flashes at these times (in min:sec)
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*The first is in the lower left corner at 0:04
 
*The first is in the lower left corner at 0:04
 
*The second is in the upper left corner at 0:19
 
*The second is in the upper left corner at 0:19
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*The seventh (and last) is in the upper right corner at 1:27
 
*The seventh (and last) is in the upper right corner at 1:27
  
Due to the poor quality of the symbols displayed, they don't look much like Braille, although they were intended to.  Each of the screencaps below has three rows.  The first shows the symbols as they were displayed, the second shows their Braille equivalent, and the third translates the Braille to letters. (''screencaps to be added soon'').
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Below are the symbols from the video, the Braille equivalent and the translation.
  
'''First set'''<br>
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'''First flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 1 HARD.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 1 HARD.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "HARD".
 
Anagrams to "HARD".
  
'''Second set'''<br>
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'''Second flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 2 AND LIFE.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 2 AND LIFE.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "AND LIFE".
 
Anagrams to "AND LIFE".
  
'''Third set'''<br>
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'''Third flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 3 HEINZ.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 3 HEINZ.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "HEINZ".
 
Anagrams to "HEINZ".
  
'''Fourth set'''<br>
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'''Fourth flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 4 SQUARE.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 4 SQUARE.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "SQUARE".
 
Anagrams to "SQUARE".
  
'''Fifth set'''<br>
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'''Fifth flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 5 MILE.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 5 MILE.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "MILE".
 
Anagrams to "MILE".
  
'''Sixth set'''<br>
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'''Sixth flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 6 RIP STEPHEN.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 6 RIP STEPHEN.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "RIP STEPHEN".
 
Anagrams to "RIP STEPHEN".
  
'''Seventh set'''<br>
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'''Seventh flash'''<br>
 
[[Image:Braille 7 ASMODAI.gif]]
 
[[Image:Braille 7 ASMODAI.gif]]
 
Anagrams to "ASMODAI".
 
Anagrams to "ASMODAI".
  
===The phone number===
 
 
Together, all the solved phrases are
 
Together, all the solved phrases are
  
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*RIP Stephen = St. Stephen, who died in the year 34 AD. (34)  (''Note: Many have also suspect RIP Stephen is also in reference to Bree's dad, whose name is unknown to viewers.)
 
*RIP Stephen = St. Stephen, who died in the year 34 AD. (34)  (''Note: Many have also suspect RIP Stephen is also in reference to Bree's dad, whose name is unknown to viewers.)
 
*Asmodai = The demon of lust, the seventh sin. (7)
 
*Asmodai = The demon of lust, the seventh sin. (7)
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The number is: '''(818)-574-8347'''
  
 
 
 
The number is: '''(818)-574-8347'''
 
  
 
===Daniel's voicemail message===
 
===Daniel's voicemail message===
 
Daniel's message to Bree is
 
Daniel's message to Bree is
  "Hey, this is Daniel.  Leave a message if you want to, but I only call back girls who do ceremonies. (''In a whisper'') Bree, do the ceremony."
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{{quote|Daniel|"Hey, this is Daniel.  Leave a message if you want to, but I only call back girls who do ceremonies. (''In a whisper'') Bree, do the ceremony."}}
  
 
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*{{youtube|j1XwVd0fu8o|Video with increased contrast}}

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For puzzles relating to the OpAphid ARG, see OpAphid puzzles.
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This is an index of all the puzzles that have taken place in the lonelygirl15 web series.

Bree Phone Home

Why can't my dad leave normal voicemails like all the other dads...

In Bree Phone Home, Bree calls several of her relatives in hopes of finding out what could have happened to her parents. When she dials great uncle Franklin from San Francisco, her call is picked up by an answering machine for Powell's Dry Cleaners.


Powell's Dry Cleaners Message

Bree said the phone number aloud as she dialed it: 287-0211. Since she mentioned Franklin was in San Francisco, one of the possible area codes was (415). Calling 415-287-0211 allows you to listen to the same message heard by Bree.

Hello and thank you for calling Powell's Dry Cleaners. We are open 7 days a week from 9 am until 5 pm. Our current specials are as follows: Dress shirts 3 for $5 with an 8-9 day turn around time. We also offer rush service at a rate of 3 shirts for $12. Please leave a message after the tone and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.

When the numbers mentioned in the message are put together (7953589312) and reversed, it yields (213)-985-3597, a phone number which leads to a voice message from Bree's father.


Bree's father's message

This is the message heard after dialing (213) 985-3597.

Bree, it's your father. If you are listening to this message, you managed to crack my code. Your mother and I are safe but I need to talk to you alone. Confirm that you got this by sending me a secret message back. I'll meet you one week after that at the place where we used to talk about Feynman and Jared Diamond. I know you're confused right now. But all will make sense after we talk. I'll see you soon sweetie.

Richard Feynman is a famous physicist for whom Bree has great admiration. She quoted him in her blog Daniel Returns, and More Interesting Factoids (Yay!), in which she tells a story from his book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.

Bree also quotes Jared Diamond' Guns, Germs and Steel in the The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel).

Since Bree is homeschooled and these readings have been assumed to be part of her coursework, it's possible that her dad is referring to some place where they used to go to work on her studies. He does not seem to specify what kind of secret message he wants her to send back.


Mystery Movies

When Bree hears the answering machine's message for Powell's Dry Cleaners, she says she's run out of leads. She either has not yet realized there is a puzzle behind the message, or she was acting as if she didn't notice. In her video Mystery Movies, Bree names the movies she watched that day and mentions

  • Citizen Kane
  • Usual Suspects
  • Sneakers
  • Out of Sight
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Never Say Never Again

The first letter of the titles of these movies spell out "CUSOON", as in "See you soon." suggesting Bree figured out the puzzle and this is her response to his message.


Miss Me?

In Miss Me? very faint symbols that flash momentarily during the video in different corners of the screen. The symbols appear to be braille, although the resolution is poor, and the contrast in the video needs to be increased in order to see them properly. See External Links for the video with contrast.

Flash occur at these times (in min:sec)

  • The first is in the lower left corner at 0:04
  • The second is in the upper left corner at 0:19
  • The third is in the lower right corner at :33
  • The fourth is in the upper right corner at 0:45
  • The fifth is in the lower left corner at :58
  • The sixth is in the upper left at 1:15
  • The seventh (and last) is in the upper right corner at 1:27

Below are the symbols from the video, the Braille equivalent and the translation.


First flash
Braille 1 HARD.gif Anagrams to "HARD".

Second flash
Braille 2 AND LIFE.gif Anagrams to "AND LIFE".

Third flash
Braille 3 HEINZ.gif Anagrams to "HEINZ".

Fourth flash
Braille 4 SQUARE.gif Anagrams to "SQUARE".

Fifth flash
Braille 5 MILE.gif Anagrams to "MILE".

Sixth flash
Braille 6 RIP STEPHEN.gif Anagrams to "RIP STEPHEN".

Seventh flash
Braille 7 ASMODAI.gif Anagrams to "ASMODAI".

Together, all the solved phrases are

HARD / AND LIFE / HEINZ / SQUARE / MILE / RIP STEPHEN / ASMODAI

They each have some number associated with them.

  • Hard = Hard Eight, a movie. (8)
  • And Life = A song by Skid Row, called 18 and Life (18)
  • Heinz = The Ketchup (57)
  • Square = 4 Square, the children's game. (4)
  • Mile = 8 mile, the movie. (8)
  • RIP Stephen = St. Stephen, who died in the year 34 AD. (34) (Note: Many have also suspect RIP Stephen is also in reference to Bree's dad, whose name is unknown to viewers.)
  • Asmodai = The demon of lust, the seventh sin. (7)


HARD AND LIFE HEINZ SQUARE MILE RIP STEPHEN ASMODAI
8 18 57 4 8 34 7


The number is: (818)-574-8347


Daniel's voicemail message

Daniel's message to Bree is

Daniel said:
"Hey, this is Daniel. Leave a message if you want to, but I only call back girls who do ceremonies. (In a whisper) Bree, do the ceremony."

Semiotics

In the video Jonas Sucks Daniel finds a package in their car. It includes a set of Nancy Drew books and a note from Tachyon. From the start, Daniel suspects that this package contains some kind of clue to guide them in figuring out the password to the encrypted disk Tachyon had left Bree.

Background

Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped in sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood. It can represent a methodology for the analysis of texts regardless of modality, which is the particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans. For these purposes, "text" is any message preserved in a form whose existence is independent of both sender and receiver. Naming the file "semiotics" could signify that the password to the file already exists in what Tachyon sent Daniel. In this way, Daniel and Tachyon need know nothing about each other to be able to communicate what the password is.

The note

Tachyon's note reads

xxxxxxxxxxx
  Where it all started
the answer is before you
  a subtle clue I Drew
        xoxo, 
          T
                    yyy

When Daniel read the note aloud in Jonas Sucks he mentioned that it was a haiku. A haiku is a short poem consisting of three lines. It must have five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five in the third. Tachyon's note had five, seven, and six syllables respectively, so it was not actually a haiku. This proved to be significant when solving for the password of the file.

Another important feature of the note was the x's and y's written at the top and bottom of the message. On the top-left corner there were 11 x's, on the bottom-right 3 y's.

The books

The package contained five books from the Nancy Drew series, including

  • No. 1 The Secret of the Old Clock
  • No. 7 The Clue in the Diary
  • No. 10 Password to Larkspur Lane
  • No. 19 The Quest of the Missing Map
  • No. 52 The Secret of the Forgotten City

The Nancy Drew series was created and outlined in detail in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which continued the series after his death.

The file

In the video description to Jonas Sucks, Daniel posted a link to the file, http://tinyurl.com/33s4w2. The file has been uploaded here. It is a password-protected .rar file named "53454d494f54494353.rar", which is hex for "SEMIOTICS".

The password

The note from Tachyon pointed to "where it all started" and capitalized "Drew" in "a subtle clue I Drew". This led to the first part of the password, which was "stratemeyer" because the Nancy Drew series was started by him. Stratemeyer is an 11-letter word--11 was also the amount of x's in the upper-left corner of the note. The number of y's on the bottom-right of the note was 3, so the second part of the password was 3 characters long.

Another "subtlety" in Tachyon's note led to the second part of the password. Daniel had incorrectly noted that it was composed like a haiku, with the numbers of syllables per line being 5, 7, 5, respectively. Her note actually had 5, 7, and 6 syllables. These numbers, "576" were the second part of the password.

Password (case sensitive): stratemeyer576

The disk contained two images and a text file. These contents are explained in detail at Bree's disk.

The TCC Messages

The letters TCC have appeared in code at the end of many Hymn of One videos. Initially, these letters were dismissed as irrelevant (in fact, Bree was once thought the mastermind of the hidden messages), but when the same letters continued to appear, a conversation about it started on the forum. Taylor and others on the forum theorized that it was some sort of sign-off, possibly someone's initials, or the name of an organization. TCC, whose identity was revealed to be Alex, eventually confirmed that the initials stood for The Clarion Call.

The Messages & Signatures

Sing With Me

  • Secret Message:
The first letter of every sentence in the video spells out "HELP HER FRIDAY TCC."
  • TCC?:
They're found in the phrase, "The Hymn of One is delighted to announce that we are now accepting applications for new brothers and sisters. Contact the Hymn of One to begin your path towards Happiness and freedom from fear and insecurities. Come sing with me at HymnofOne.org."

Be Part of Something

  • Secret Message
The previous message from Sing With Me apparently continued here with the phrase, "BENEATH THE BLUESTONE"
  • TCC?:
This video remains the only Hymn of One video that does not include the TCC signature.

(The two messages above allowed Daniel, Jonas, and Sarah to find and rescue Bree in the video Getting Her Back.)


FOLLOW YOUR HAPPINESS

  • Secret Message:
"My Hands Are Tied. She's Being Prepared. I'm Sorry." This provided further proof that TCC is communicating with TAAG.
  • TCC?:
The letters TCC are found in "The Hymn of One sings to you. Can you hear it? Contact the Hymn of One and soon, you, too, will follow your happiness."

Look Back

  • Secret Message:
"Friday Early Low Tide Yacht Club Parents Slip" This message led Daniel and Sarah to the slip where Jonas's parents docked their yacht.
  • TCC?:
The letters are found in "The Hymn of One sings to you. Can you hear it? Contact the Hymn of One and bring yourself back to the joy and happiness that you had as a child."

Sing Until The End

  • Secret Message:
"Road Block. I Am Coming To You. Everyone Must Be Careful. Order Everywhere. Stop Questions. Answers May Be Too Difficult For You."
  • TCC?:
The letters TCC are found in the lines "Take the time now to answer the crazy questions. Contact the Hymn of One. Come see what it feels like to answer your questions with a song, and sing, sing, sing, until the end."

Meaning

It was confirmed in Mission Possible that TCC means "The Clarion Call" and the mysterious TCC is actually Alex. In literature, the clarion call is a point in the plot where a character receives clear justification or incentive for his or her actions in the future of the plot. At this point, it is still unclear exactly how this ties into the story. However, it is interesting to note that when Daniel asked Alex what the clarion call meant, she suggested that he ask Sarah.

Other Theories

Time Correction Coefficient:

The Time Correction Coefficient has to do with calculating the handicap of a particular sailboat when racing. Boats of different sizes and weights will naturally sail at different speeds, so a handicap is used for some races so that each boat has the same chance at winning. Thread discussion here.

Topanga Canyon, California:

Topanga Canyon has been featured in several videos, including The Ceremony video and Nikki Bower's LG15 in Topanga Canyon - NBR 1 and What I Found at Topanga Canyon - NBR 2.

T Cell Cloning:

Users on the forum googled "Bluestone" and "TCC" together and found several papers written by Dr. J. A. Bluestone about T Cell Cloning. Thread discussion here.

Tachyon Can't Come:

A popular joke interpretation involves Tachyon, a character from the recent ARG OpAPHID.

Deep Throat:

This video brought the possibility that either Jonas's Aunt Alex or Beth (the reporter at the party) could be the mysterious TCC.

Season One Finale

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Ted McKinley Memo

The Ted McKinley Memo is the memo obtained from Ted McKinley's apartment in Am I A Criminal?, and later given to fans at the San Francisco Live Event. After the live event, a pdf version of the memo went up on inside LG15.

The Memo

Memo.jpg

It has been theorized by Jonas and Daniel that there is a code in the memo that, if cracked, reveals the location of the Ceremony or other important clues. If one views the metadata of the file, one can see that part of the original filename was "memo_code" - as such, there is a high likelyhood there is indeed a code hidden in this memo. Clues so far include:

  • Underlined phrase the date
  • Italicized phrase name of war
  • The memo is in reply to a letter from October 26th, 2007

With the help of Taylor on the forums, one of the solutions to the Memo was revealed that Olivier Henry was merely a psuedonym for William Sydney Porter. William Porter was the real name of the popular author O. Henry, who wrote such great works as The Gift of the Magi as well as The Clarion Call. The full solution can be seen viewed here [1]

Other Theories

From Annie

Theory "The World War I naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. This was Britain's first naval defeat since the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812 and the first of a British naval squadron since the Battle of Grand Port in 1810." wikipedia

November 1, 1914 fought off the western coast of chile in the pacific...

"Even in failure we must celebrate the DATE" November 1, 1914 was the very start or early battles faced in World War 1 that the British Army lost to Germany... Britain is our ally, so their loss is our loss essentially...

November 1, 1914 whatever day this is, will be the same day as the ceremony...

As far as locations go, i'm still doing research, but this date has got to be the key connection to finding locations and date... Type the battle of corronell it will have a connection to the war of 1812 and everything else such as battles and dates from 10 26, 1861-1914.

Ill keep you posted feel free to edit at will...

From FfejNS

Theory about "the first name of war": Mars was the Roman God of war, which the month of March was named after. Could this mean "the first of March" ?