Last updated 03/15/02
This summary of the puzzle is broken up into episodes since the elements of the puzzle seem to relate directly to the upcoming episode. It is set up so new visitors can solve some of the elements of the puzzle on their own or go directly to the solutions. There are no puzzle elements for the pilot episode or the Episodes 2 or 3.
Episode 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
Episode 4 "A Broken Heart"
The first message on the Rambaldi site reads:
Wednesday 10/18/2001 1:31:04 am
Name: A.
E-Mail: xxxxxxxxxxxx@??##.xxxx
Homepage URL: http://216.202.17.204/back.jpg
Location:
Comments: I believe I have what you are looking
for.
The URL is no longer active but when it was the following picture (posted to the forum by ahachickens) could be found.
Upon closer inspection this binary code looks like this:
-x-xx-x-
x-x--x-x
-x-xx-x-
As pointed out on the discussion board, if you look at the 0's, they form a <0> shape (eye of rambaldi) (submitted by bud) And the numbers in decimals are 165.90.165 (submitted by ahachickens)
Entering the above binary code in the chatbot produced this response to ahachickens:
"So it looks like you and K-Directorate have something in common. You know, I could tell you the other half of the code, for I have seen it too, but it was long ago. But for now, I have something more interesting for you to look at. http://216.247.10.78/russek/" (No longer active) Two images were found there: a confidential memo and a satellite photo of Casablanca.
darthgravy found this link which shows where the
satellite photograph originated:
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/images/earth/STS066/html/20181123.htm
Before the chatbot was moved someone from the forum correctly entered
the code that Sydney and Anna had to memorize before it was destroyed:
01001001000
110011100110
001010000011
00101101110
The chatbot responded with this URL 24.27.20.146/temp47 (no
longer active)
(the complete text from this page is here)
This was active for about a day and included some information that mentioned
ftp.creditdauphine.com During that day, the ftp site could be logged
onto with the user name of Sydney and the password of Bristow. Unfortunately
the password was changed rather abruptly and no one has been successful
logging on to it since. (This may be related to the back door created by
the CIA in SD-6's computer during episode 5.)
This is what was found before the password was changed.
shellebrownies posted the letter without the html code and it reads:
Date: 10.18.2001
Herr Schiller,
Thank you again for your last note, and your communication by
wireless. We are
proceeding with the arrangement, in the agreed amount as discussed.
Per our
written initiative, there should now be a clear understanding
now that you and I
will discuss (in confidence only)
what you are supplying to us upon your arrival to the US. Rest
assured that your
trust in me will remain unbroken. You are serving all of mankind
with your
benevolent action. Expect to be contacted by one of our operatives
in the near
future. When extraction is complete, and you are safe, I look
forward to
continuing our discussions in person.
We shall speak soon? All is in good order.
Yours,
Arvin Sloane,
Here is the original as it appeared with the html coding and routing information.
And this password was found in among a lot of information on the ftp
site:
ODSJQf.4IJN7E # "1234"
It is unknown if the password means anything or works anywhere.
Some of the names in one of the ftp folder were posted:
lottaballs, slayingthedragon, telewizardsonline, unclesmonkey,
iownmine, elmo, ediaper, jd-no
signalost captured this DayforNight site map. There may or may not be information pertaining to the puzzle on this map. It is definitely fun to play with. To navigate it, right-click on it for the zoom-in feature.
This quote was received in an email from analysis@creditdauphine.com
zephyr_hex 11/10/01 10:23 am
Here's the message in full, including mail headers:
From analysis@creditdauphine.com Fri Nov 9 21:11:21 2001
X-Apparently-To: zephyr_hex@yahoo.com via
web21008.mail.yahoo.com; 09 Nov 2001 21:10:51 -0800 (PST)
Received: from s17.route66.net (216.202.16.17) by mta459.mail.yahoo.com
with SMTP; 09 Nov 2001 21:10:51 -0800 (PST)
Received: (qmail 24121 invoked by uid 600); 10 Nov 2001 05:11:21
-0000
Message-ID:
<20011110051121.24120.qmail@s17.route66.net>
From: analysis@creditdauphine.com
To: zephyr_hex@yahoo.com
Subject: re: account
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 05:11:21 GMT
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Length: 88
...No man is an island. entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent...
?
A.
fyre47 went to Alisha and did this:
If you tell Alisha "No man is an island" she says "What comes next?" then input "entire of itself" she says "Very nice. Then...?" input "every man is a piece of the continent" and she says "Last line?" put in "a part of the main" and i got this: "--Shepard? Go to http://209.61.191.196/temp4314401" (no longer active) On that site there was a huge JPG and a zip file that is some sort of program for detecting hidden files in jpegs. Both saved on this site.
[From the show: This poem is used as a code to activate certain behavior in Shepard, the mental patient Sydney was sent to get information from.]
If you want to solve this part of the puzzle yourself, then go here.
If you want to see how this part of the puzzle is solved, then go here.
Next, this automated response was sent from analysis@creditdauphine.com
11 Nov 2001 15:55:15 -0000
To: averyvincent@yahoo.com
From: analysis@creditdauphine.com
Receipt
Dear Online Client,
Thank you for your request. Password authentication is a process requiring that a lengthy set of criteria be met.
If you are reading this mail, then your request for authentication has definitely been received, and you will be contacted at the e-mail address from which you submitted -- if, and only if, your credit profile exceeds our standards for clearance.
"How It Pays..." to be patient, sometimes... And your patience is sincerely appreciated.
The WebMeister
http://www.credit-dauphine.com
The day before episode 6 aired this letter was received from analysis@creditdauphine.com
averyvincent@yahoo.com
Subject:
re:
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 02:55:22 GMT
Were you still interested in learning about our Credit-Smart plan?
It's just a matter of time.
Speak to me sometime about ProgramD.
A.
Alisha's response to ProgramD:
If you know about ProgramD, then you are clearly with DProgram.
But is "Yours" Credit-Smart?
The above two email messages and chatbot response are enough to solve this part of the puzzle on your own. If they remove any of the links, then go here to solve it. Go here to find the solution.
fyre47 11/23/01 7:37 pm
From : analysis@creditdauphine.com
To : analysis@creditdauphine.com
Subject : holiday hours
Date : Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:09:25 GMT
Attachment : item7741c.jpg (182k)
in future, you will please address all application requests to
the appropriate division. authentication is proceeding smoothly. i believe
this should be of interest to you. you will know what to do next.
A.
This news clipping was attached to the
email with this heading:
Eloise Kurtz (aka Kate Jones) is dead...
The clipping and heading are enough to solve that element of the puzzle. Or go here for the solution.
snaller noticed that there is a new message on the Rambaldi message
board:
from "A"
The comment is: "Look closely where the gear meets the eye."
That comment alone is enough to track down one part of this element of the puzzle. For the very resourceful, there is more to be found as was learned from signalost. Solution.
fyre47
Now this is odd, the first msg I've gotten back that had what I originally sent them on it... ~*~ is me btw, the name that comes with emails I send, it isnt a clue or anything
From : analysis@creditdauphine.com
To : frozensunset@hotmail.com
Subject : re:
Date : Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:05:40 GMT
~ * ~ wrote:
> <0>
>
> paiv
>
[Response]
This might be of concern to you. http://209.61.191.196/temp6338602
A.
At the above URL the following 'dead letter' was found:
From steven.gordon@creditdauphine.com Fri Dec 07 11:13:10
INFOSEC INCIDENT SUMMARY
Pertaining to Task Agent 30408-31275, regarding the mishandling and storing of classified information, and password-protected audio inter-visual docs from an unsecured laptop computer. We believe the unprotected terminal in question was possibly used by agent's spouse to send and receive e-mail via a web server mail account, and user, or users, may have had access to several peer-to-peer file trading networks; both of which are potential security risks. It is not yet clear if any sensitive information was compromised. We are currently evaluating the extent of this breach. A full report is pending.
Gordon
Original copy with html coding here.
Nothing happened with this dead letter for about a week. Then this email was received by retroorbit, Willingthrall, Zepher_hex and Neliamne
Got an odd e-mail, though I'm not sure if it's connected to the game yet... but here it is. It came from sv@kolabs.ru (Russia?) The link in the e-mail leads to a wierd news page. Did anyone else recieve this?
.: thought you might find this interesting: http://geocities.com/rulerfrog
A Friend
[The content of the rulerfrog site changed extensively after this part of the puzzle was solved. Signalost was kind enough to make a zip file of the entire site the way it was before it changed. Go here to see a list of the contents, which include an mp3 of the phone call.]
A week elapsed with people speculating about whether or not the rulerfrog/watcher website was a legitimate part of the puzzle, then this:
switchflipper 12/28/01 2:40 am
Here's a short transcript of a short chat with Kdirectorate on AIM. It looks like there's a whole lot of stuff that we're overlooking.
[02:35 AM] switchflipper8: <O>
[02:36 AM] Kdirectorate: There is so much you have yet to discover.
[02:37 AM] switchflipper8: Where?
[02:38 AM] Kdirectorate: R.F. is not an accident.
[02:38 AM] *** Kdirectorate signed off at Fri Dec 28
02:38:21 2001.
retroorbit
Ok, so after staring at the rulerfrog site for a whole week now, here's the random tidbits I've noticed:
All the links on the site lead to other domains except for 2 of them which are hosted on the site itself: http://geocities.com/rulerfrog/undercover.html (no longer active) http://geocities.com/rulerfrog/satellitemind.html (no longer active)
switchflipper
[04:40 PM] switchflipper8: Do you know rulerfrog?
[04:42 PM] Kdirectorate: I know that sometimes things can
be camouflaged to conceal their true meaning.
[04:43 PM] switchflipper8: So who is "the watcher"?
[04:43 PM] switchflipper8: Or what is it?
[04:44 PM] switchflipper8: "tempus omnia revelat"
[04:45 PM] Kdirectorate: Stick with English. And familiarize
yourself with the "virtual" dead-letter box.
[04:45 PM] switchflipper8: I'll go from there..
[04:47 PM] *** Kdirectorate signed off at Sun Dec 30
16:47:22 2001.
Then the reason for the "undercover" (by unityvice) page was discovered.
jaxp
The one that you have to pay attention to is the one that links
to
http://geocities.com/rulerfrog/undercover.html (no longer active)
De-steg that innocuous looking pic of Bert [Ed. note: the Bert
pic was not preserved on this site for personal reasons] with the Camouflage
program that is linked to on that page with the password "undercover"
(the title of the "article"). Inside you'll find a text file called "briefcase.txt"
which reads simply: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/unityvice (no longer active)
password: kgb
Go to the briefcase, open up the briefcase and download the 'zip'
file there.
Unzip it and use the 'kgb' password. There's the vkd-674.wav file that (thanks to fyre47's help) says:
(Dialtone)
(A number being dialed)
(Rings twice)
Guy: "Good afternoon, Jennings Aerospace."
Caller: "Uh, yeah, hi, I'm looking for Joey's Pizza...?"
Guy: "Copy that, going to secure mode in
three...two...one...ma -- "
Then it beeps into oblivion with some kind of scrambled sound/fuzz.
There are two voices on the .wav. The male voice who answers the phone "Good afternoon, Jennings Aerospace." (older, strong male voice) and the caller (sounds younger...maybe a male voice in his 20's...sounds a little apprehensive, perhaps unsure of himself...?) who asks for Joey's Pizza.
fyre did bring up the point that Jennings Aerospace is an SD-6 business cover and Joey's Pizza is the CIA call-in cover for Sydney.
Signalost used a tone decoder to find out what number was being dialed. That number is 1-773-509-5118 and he was kind enough to make a .wav of the recording from that phone number ( a Chicago suburb number)
On that recording the following numbers are heard spoken:
13 15 20 8 5 18 and it allows you to leave a message.
Willingthrall speculated that the numbers indicate letters in the alphabet. Using that theory the numbers translate to the word Mother.
In the background can be heard Morse code -.- --. -... that signalost translated as KGB.
At this point it seems relevant to revisit the 'dead letter'.
From steven.gordon@creditdauphine.com Fri Dec 07 11:13:10
INFOSEC INCIDENT SUMMARY
Pertaining to Task Agent 30408-31275, regarding the mishandling and storing of classified information, and password-protected audio inter-visual docs from an unsecured laptop computer. We believe the unprotected terminal in question was possibly used by agent's spouse to send and receive e-mail via a web server mail account, and user, or users, may have had access to several peer-to-peer file trading networks; both of which are potential security risks. It is not yet clear if any sensitive information was compromised. We are currently evaluating the extent of this breach. A full report is pending.
Gordon
password-protected audio inter-visual [sic] docs= the .wav file and
it's password 'undercover'.
e-mail via a web server mail account=rulerfrog@yahoo.com
peer-to-peer file trading networks=http://briefcase.yahoo.com/unityvice
signalost
Finally got a one-line response from KDirectorate on AIM today:
Kdirectorate (5:10:35 PM): Stay the course.
section one opr7 (5:11:17 PM): which course is that?
Kdirectorate signed off at 5:11:50 PM.
Doesn't seem like much, but could also mean we're on the right track...
willingthrall
I saw kdirectorate on AIM yesterday. I said to her "KGB mother <o>" and she replied "tip of the iceberg"
signalost 1/19/02 3:35 am
http://www.followersoframbaldi.org/artifacts/artifact01.html
This artifact was used in "The Box" part two.
signalost 1/28/02 1:06 am
First off, this is how i came across the solution to this puzzle...
KDirectorate said "Remember... Hand to the eye." The image.jpg
shows a picture of the Rambaldi clock's hour hand with an eye. I started
looking into clock parts and mentions of eye and hands. The hour hand also
pointed to 10, so i tried various combinations of 10:10 ten ten etc. and
if a face is placed behind a clock, its eyes covered with clock hands would
be 10:10.. but this got me nowhere. I decided to think simpler... since
so far all the solutions to the images found were simple -requiring not
much interpretation into it.
So I looked at the image again.... hand to eye.... the hour hand on the image.jpg is marked with "<0>". so I finally tried <o> with camo and uncovered the hidden file inside. Also, the password to uncover the image is <0> -where the 0 is a zero not the letter "o". The image appears to be blueprints to a vault, possibly the SD6 vault on 'The Box' episodes.
It's a jpg image labeled 474747.jpg and is 66 kb with a date of 6:11:11PM. It contains some kind of blueprint.
willingthrall 1/27/02 5:36 pm
There is a copy of the photo of the artifact at: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/unityvice
The rulerfrog page as it last appeared before the Federal Shutdown
[without the Buy the Moon or the watcher graphics]
Thanks to signalost for this.
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Clicking on the above link (no longer active) took the player to the page below (Found by signalost on 2/5/02. It was last modified on 2/3/02) and had this in the source code: <p><!--USERNAME: thewatcher, PASSWORD: bypass --></center> That source code was meant to be found. After that, thewatcherz.com started using htmlock to hide the source code.
WWW.RENSE.COM
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Anyone activly disagreeing with policies of the U.S is now automaticly rendered a "terrorist" in the eyes of national security.... Where raisethefist.com will go from here, I don't know. Based on what i've been told, i'll most likely be in jail, so most of my focus will be towards getting an attorney." |
When players returned to the rulerfrog site the next day they found this.
THIS SITE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR VIOLATION OF
18 U.S.C.
§ 798
In the upper-left-hand corner of the page there is a tiny character.
Clicking on the character opens a login page. Taken from the source
code of the above page, the username is thewatcher
and the password is bypass. That will
take you to
http://geocities.com/rulerfrog/sources/index2.html
neliamne
Current law already makes it illegal to leak certain national
defense information (18 U.S.C. 793), disclose information to aid
foreign governments (18 U.S.C. 794),
***disclose intelligence on communication techniques (18
U.S.C. 798)***, and identify covert agents (15 U.S.C. 421). Moreover, persons
with a security clearance can lose their clearance and their job if they
leak information.
The Watcherz
Local copy is here in case it is taken down. Even still, you may have to enter the username and password to finish loading it.
Click on the free speech banner with a black ribbon at the bottom. The link goes to another page with only the banner on it that is listed as barc3.jpg. Click on it to be taken to the barc4.jpg That top secret document contains a password and information that guides the player to a camoflauge stegged image at:
Part One
- Vehicle Surveillance: The FBI's System
This is an instructional manual on spying techniques from a long-defunct
web site called Spycounterspy [If that link goes down, the page will be
restored here.]
The briefing from the fig-1a.gif
mottjr2001
Here are the rest of the Spy&Counterspy pages if anyone
is interested. There are a few more mirrors out there, but this one seemed
to be the most "current".
http://www.overcomers.myweb.nl/home.htm
SpyCounterSpy has long gone from the web. I do not know where they
have gone. The (e-mail) addresses, phone-numbers, etc., mentioned on
this
website, are not valid anymore.
Based on instructions from the briefing all the Yahoo Chicago chat rooms were monitored at the appointed time. On Wednesday February 13th in Yahoo chat room Chicago 3 the following conversation was witnessed by neliamne and allenalias:
dianthuscaryophyllus joined the room
upsidedown3141: Orders Dianthus a bottle of Champagne...
dianthuscaryophyllus: Hey, good to see you upside. Read the paper today?
Interesting article on page 1.
upsidedown3141: I'm sorry... I don't read the New York Times...
dianthuscaryophyllus: Don't worry, I'll send you the article right
now. Hold on.
upsidedown3141: Got it... Thanks...
dianthuscaryophyllus: Few too many pervs in here IMing me. Let's meet
in the politics room next time.
upsidedown3141: See you there...
dianthuscaryophyllus left the room
upsidedown3141 left the room<<<
[Note: dianthus caryophyllus is the botanical name for a pink carnation]
As instructed in the briefing, the names of the targets and the transcript of the 'oral bona fides spoken' were emailed by players to in_drop@hotmail.com
The comments about sending the article from page 1 of the NYTimes is spy-talk for "Here, I'm sending you a secret file."
dianthuscaryophyllus's profile
Last Updated: February 13, 2002
(no picture)
My Email
Private
On Yahoo!
· Messenger
Basics
Yahoo! ID: dianthuscaryophyllus
Real Name:
Location:
Alaska - 99802
Age:
Marital
Status:
No Answer
Gender:
Female
Occupation:
Links
· Home Page: http://neverhome.camarades.com
· Cool Link 1: http://chat.yahoo.com
· Cool Link 2: http://www.google.com
· Cool Link 3: http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/s/p-solario1.htm
The sunsite link leads to this picture,
that never proved to be puzzle-related.
upsidedown3141's profile
Last Updated: February 13, 2002
[no info]
sky_watcherz profile is basically the same.
signalost
There is a link to http://neverhome.camarades.com which is a webcam
home page.
It has a screen name of neverhome and the guestbook. The
guestbook entries are archived here. If anything
relevant to the puzzle is posted, it will be added here, too.
The transcript of the next oral bona fides spoken (to be sent to in_box@hotmail.com) are as follows:
upsidedown3141: whistles a tune...
sky_watcherz: Is that Beethoven's fifth?
upsidedown3141: yes it is.
sky_wathcerz: Did you read the article?
upsidedown3141: Yes, I did. It makes me think I might want to
look for a job...
upsidedown3141: Thanks for the tip.
sky_watcherz: If you need to contact me, I left instructions at the
same place, ext. M31.
upsidedown3141: signed out
sky_watcherz signed out
signalost Sat Feb 23, 2002 8:21 pm
After a few days of trying to verify and figure out if this is in-game
or not, this is what i have come across based on two links... http://profiles.yahoo.com/dianthuscaryophyllus
and http://neverhome.camarades.com
According to Neverhome's links, there is a link to Yahoo personals.
Yahoo Personals allows you to search for personal ads based on zip code
and age range. Inputting the age range mentioned in Neverhome's webpage
and placing the zip code found on dianthuscaryophyllus's profile, you get
a personal ad.
If you don't want to solve it yourself, then the results of the personal ad are here.
[Signing an online guestbook was mentioned in the episode.]
Nothing that directly relates to this episode has happened on the puzzle. However considerable maneuvering has occurred 'behind the scenes' as it were. I'll attempt to explain it as best I can, bearing in mind that to do so requires some speculation on my part since very little of what has gone on can be verified as being in-puzzle. Referring to the guestbook introduced for episode 14 (the archive is here). Players were originally told to look for a call signal then follow a set of instructions. Well, something strange happened and it is unclear if what happened was by design or if some players got together and corrupted this method of contact. What must have been a bogus call signal appeared, then a flurry of accusatory messages followed and a couple web sites showed up for a few hours. Players were told they were being deceived by someone. Then one evening while a handful of players were surveilling the Yahoo politics chat rooms a few were contacted directly by Rulerfrog via Yahoo Private Message and given secret information and instructions.
I choose to believe this development is part of a recruitment process by "The Watcherz". The instructions eventually led to a password protected questionnaire at the Watcherz recruitment site.
jennc_98 Date: Wed Mar 6, 2002 8:18 pm
Subject: The "Key"
Ok guys, I have found something new (I think) on
thewatcherz.com
On the "Developing" page, there is a new link about stealth software.
The "key" in
keystrokes is a link to a zip
file that contains a self-extracting file vault. Local
copy.
switchflipper Date: Fri Mar 8, 2002 10:43
pm
Met with rulerfrog online tonight. They invited me into a private
room on Yahoo. Here's the log of the exchange.
You are in "RF:1" ( Welcome )
switchflipper joined the room
rulerfrog: Thank you for meeting with me.
switchflipper: No problem.
rulerfrog: You've been very persistent in pursuing the program
lately.
switchflipper: *nod*
rulerfrog: I need to tell you something.
switchflipper: Do tell.
rulerfrog: Would you like to hear it?
switchflipper: Yes, I would!
switchflipper: Can you provide me with any insight on this 'program'?
rulerfrog: http://www.thewatcherz.com/sources/barc4.jpg
rulerfrog: Have you read this already?
switchflipper: Yes, I've seen that.
rulerfrog: Well, there's more.
rulerfrog: The good news is -- The program is very far ahead
of schedule, and we have almost collected all necessary information.
rulerfrog: The bad news is -- The program will be officially
terminated within the next week.
switchflipper: Hrm..
rulerfrog: Please prepare the others.
rulerfrog left the room
The Neverhome page changed. Some new links were added along with a mailbox icon. Local copy. The pertinent links were the Nostradamus link and the Numbers Stations link.
switchflipper Date: Sat Mar 9, 2002 10:58
pm
Take a closer look at where the mailbox image is being stored:
http://216.202.17.185/images/backup/text/101111/mailbox.gif
Remove mailbox.gif from the URL and you have: http://216.202.17.185/images/backup/text/101111/
There's an index of 5 HTML text images.
Image 1 is Solario's Man with a pink carnation made up of 1's
and 0's. Image 2 is Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His
Wife made up of the first 4 digits of pi (3141).
Image 3 is Pope Alexander VI made up of a sequence of 4's 7's
and 0's.
Image 4 is a portrait of Nostradamus made up of the first 4 digits
of pi (3141).
Image 5 is the Mona Lisa made up of 4's and 7's.
Also, in the episode, there was a code key on the painting. In
the frame, to the left of Alexander VI's extended palm.
In Image 3 of the text image, there's a few characters that don't
fit in with the random 4's, 7's, and 0's. These characters, in sequence,
are: C2Q62W1
mottjr2001 Date: Tue Mar 12, 2002 3:25 pm
The prophesies of Nostradamus
Century
2
Quatrain
6
2
Word
1
By going to the Nostradamus link and clicking on Century 2 and scrolling
down to Quatrain 62, Word 1 mottjr2001 discovered that the password
for the file vault was Mabus then will soon
die, there will come
A horrible slaughter of people and animals:
At once vengeance is revealed coming from a hundred hands,
Thirst and hunger when the comet will run.
This 'prophecy' appears to relate to the weapon that Rambaldi was working on.
Using the password to open the vault revealed this matrix of an alphabet shifted by a letter.
Then this mp3 was discovered by mottjr2001 in file #5 of the Numbers Station. Listening to it, the following was heard.
switchflipper Date: Tue Mar 12, 2002 4:09 pm
"attention:
q uebec
v ictor
j uliet
a lpha
o scar
n ovember
m ike
o scar
r omeo
x ray
j uliet
e cho
x ray
x ray
o scar
e cho
z ulu
g olf
y ankee
j uliet
y ankee
y ankee
r omeo
h otel
h otel
w hiskey
i ndia
h otel
x ray
m ike
c harlie
k ilo
v ictor "
qvjaonmorxjexxoezgyjyyrhhwihxmckv
The above is the 'message' that is to be decoded using the Matrix.
What was needed was a random set of letters to use as codekey.
Willingthrall
figured out that we already had a random set of letters in the collection
of highlighted letters from the episodes.
sanidrnagoeslowdsaxioauvnvesrggeewteoogrle
Then Willingthrall and Switchflipper decoded the message using the codekey and matrix. Mottjr2001 provided this brilliant explanation of how it was solved!
The solution is a URL http://www.redrival.com/dropsite/inbox/final.html
At this very aptly named site (red rival = communist foe = kdirectorate)
there are two forms. A standard one for
players to fill out, and a unique one for the players who were contacted
directly by rulerfrog and given specific instructions that led them a similar
standard form a week or so earlier, and this top secret
document.
