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User:JebJoya

2005-07-14T02:09:23Z

JebJoya:

'''REAL NAME''': Jamie Sawyer

'''RESIDES''': Reading, Berkshire, UK (Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK from September)

'''EDUCATION''': Studying for MMath in Maths at Warwick (almost a 2nd year)

'''OCCUPATION''': Student / Layabout / making an ARG of my own

'''INTERESTS''': Guitar, Drink, Reading Festival (home :D). Oh, and ARGs I guess :)

'''SPECIALIST SUBJECTS''': Maths, Some Cryptography, tiddly bit of maths-y programming, apparently (according to my friends) being able to name every rock song I hear in the Purple Turtle

[http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jsawyer Jeb's Blog] - Personal Blog

Contact me at [mailto:jebjoya@gmail.com jebjoya@gmail.com]

Roll For Damage

2005-07-14T02:06:59Z

JebJoya:

===General===
* Also referred to as RFD
* [[Perplex City]]'s top selling band
* First album ''Random Encounter'' exceeded one million mark in its first week of sales
* Latest album, ''Take Initiative'', will be released on September 1st.

* Released under [[Hesh Records]]
* [[Helix Hesh]] supports the band immensely in anything they do.

* Played in the 2005 Summer [[Concert in the Park]] series at [[Azad Park]].

* Was perfectly aware bandmember KT was a Reconstructionist; didn't see that it mattered

* Recipient of the [[City Star]] public awareness award
* Has a strong collective love of the city
* Encourages youth to take an active interest in public affairs

===Band members===
* [[Alejo Jackson]] (vocals)
* [[Echo West]] (drummer)
* [[Keenan Thoreau|Keenan "KT" Thoreau]] (bassist)

===Support Staff===
* [[Shane Cobalt]], band's publicist
* [[Cheri Lindemann]], president of RFD Fan Club

===References===
*[[Perplex City Sentinel]]
**28.03.05 "[[Joya]] to Wed" ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/ link])
**05.04.05 "[[Roll For Damage|RFD]] Back to Studio" ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/06.04.05/archives/2005/04/rfd_back_to_rec.html link])
**15.05.05 "[[Alejo]] Arrested" ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/17.05.05/archives/2005/05/alejo_arrested.html link])
**08.06.05 "[[Summer Holiday|Holiday]] Fun Schedule" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/holiday_fun_sch.html link])
**News In Brief, 01-JUL-05, "RFD Announces Album Date"
**article, 04-JUL-05 "[[Keenan "KT" Thoreau|KT]] Shocker: 'I'm a [[Reconstructionists|Reconstructionist]]'" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/kt_a_reconstruc.html link])
**article, 13-JUL-05 "[[Roll For Damage|RFD]] Awarded [[City Star]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/rfd_awarded_cit.html link])

User:JebJoya

2005-04-30T15:54:41Z

JebJoya:

'''REAL NAME''': Jamie Sawyer

'''RESIDES''': University Of Warwick, Coventry, UK

'''EDUCATION''': Studying for MMath in Maths at Warwick (1st year)

'''OCCUPATION''': Student / Layabout

'''INTERESTS''': Guitar, Drink, Reading Festival (home :D). Oh, and ARGs I guess :)

'''SPECIALIST SUBJECTS''': Maths, Some Cryptography, Java / C++ / C64 BASIC Programming ;), maybe a bit of web design when I feel like it, and the modern history of Rock music, 1994-Present

[http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jsawyer Jeb's Blog] - Personal Blog

Contact me at [mailto:jebjoya@gmail.com jebjoya@gmail.com]

Parcel Letter

2005-04-30T15:25:33Z

JebJoya:

The letter contained withing the parcel sent to the lucky 333 contained at the bottom a small clue.

At the very bottom was a number followed by an equals sign and then a letter or a number.

The codes at the bottom of the letter seem to be unique. Though until all 333 are known we are unable to confirm what it says.

So far the codes and their owners that are known are:

<pre>
BigBadDaryman: 1=I
rowlock: 11=E
Russell_k: 12=T
boac: 15=E
spaceXplorer: 35=E
chippy: 40=T
vibration13: 41=9
Rob_Riv: 48=T
Reason: 55=L
lotusflower: 62=E
StevenapeX 99=L
Muffin: 100=O
number9dream: 109=O
brat-sampson: 114=U
ellipses: 118=R
theMoo: 123=A
Porka25: 126=O
Xara: 147=J
RobPal: 170=S
Flidget_Jerome: 176=G
chrome_halo: 177=A
Nerfball 178=M
Kastanok: 179=E
KillSwitch: 187=E
Enigmaster: 188=L
D4N: 189=E
gjindancer: 195=E
Xanatos: 198=Y
Der_loki: 251=R
Snowball: 252=G
karlosuk: 255=S
Catfurnace: 259=K
earlgray: 266=D
Solaris: 269=T
fimacmo: 272=K
dopefiend: 273=K
JebJoya: 275=B
Lazarus: 283=D
maxim: 287=P
Salkunh: 289=N
James Lyon: 294=N
tanner: 296=U
Openfly: 300=S
sequoya: 307=V
AdamF 310=T
arieh: 312=Y
jerryt: 316=Y
bocahedron: 326=E
othuum: 328=E
MrShifty 329=W
Wishi-san: 332=R

</pre>

Postcard Code

2005-04-25T00:42:00Z

JebJoya: /* Theories */

The code of '''221545484848465100503215''' is beneath the Semacode on the [[Perplex City Postcard]], does this mean something? This page is going to be used as a workpad for the puzzle.

==Images==

{|
|[[Image:Postcard_semacode.jpg|thumb|Postcard Semacode]]
|}

==Theories==

* We've tried using numerical translations into Kanji and Hebrew. No luck, though "2210" gives us "SEEK."
* Various ROTing, and conversion to ASCII then ROTing proved...nothing but gibberish.
* Equally, running modulus calculations on the number to bring it into number spaces for ASCII etc. AND converting to ASCII as base 10 and base 16 AND ROTing the results gives yet more gibberish.
* Ditto multiplying the number by 2210 (the number next to the semacode stamp on the card) and trying the above operations.
* Tried translating to EBCDIC: still gibberish.
* Too many digits to be an ISBN or a latitude/longitude.
* Tried mapping numbers to characters in the text of the postcard (i.e. first character in Sente's message is 00, second character is 01 etc.) trying various starting points and different combinations of including/ignoring spaces, hyphens, line-breaks etc. Results were meaningless so ROTed them but still no obvious message.
* Also tried mapping numbers to the letter on the www.perplexcity.com home page.
* Also tried mapping numbers to other various strings on the postcard as well as other sources on the www.perplexedcity.com site, with different offsets, base 9, 10, etc. For all ~5000 results see: [http://wiki.incognitus.net/files/ppc/allstrings_base10.txt Base 10] and [http://wiki.incognitus.net/files/ppc/allstrings_base9.txt Base 9]
* Shish tried converting to music using 'beep' command in Linux and Tanner tried mobile phone ringtones but no obvious answers or recognisable tunes were found. Tanner has now broken out into doing [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tanspace/ssm/perpno3.MP3 Postcard Code Remixes] as MP3s, available from his site.
* Frequency analysis of the numbers was similarly unsuccessful. Assuming the string was one-digit numbers gave far too much repetition of characters (for example the 484848 would probably be tetete or etetet) for a meaningful message. Assuming the string was 2 (or more) digit numbers prevented frequency analysis simply because there wasn't enough data to work with (frequency analysis works best over a very large amount of encrpyted data).
* Currently trying various ways of converting number to binary (all possible methods of writing number in binary have been listed on unfiction forum by Seej) then converting that binary to morse code, i.e. 0 = dot, 1 = dash (or vice versa) and interpreting that series of dots and dashes (actually more complicated than it sounds as morse code characters don't always have the same number of dots and dashes so there's no clear way to tell when one character has ended and another has begun).
* Binary number strings from above method also all converted to ASCII but non-alphabetic characters were output.
* It's not a prime number.
* We've tried indexing in every way to every available text (ie, 31 could be 3rd sentence, 1st word; 3rd paragraph, 1st letter, etc.)
* It's not a phone number or a credit card.
* graphing it in various ways hasn't revealed anything.
* Doesn't appear to be related to a deck of cards because of repeating sequences.
* Assuming code is a series of 2 digit numbers:
**Reasons to believe this:
**#"484848" jumps out as a pattern
**#the numbers are clearly clustered and not very random
**#all 12 numbers range from 00-51
**Since numbers range 00-51 we've tried several simple translations using 2 alphabets (ex. A=00, B=01,...Z=25,A=26,...Z=51).
**#In some cases "484848" translates to "www", but the rest doesn't look like a URL (also tried tinyurl)
**#In other cases, it translates into a set of letters which can be scrambled to come up with "cube" but the rest is undecipherable. Note: letter on website refers to "XXX Cube" where XXX is blacked out. It looks like about 6 or 7 letters in length, so it could be a proper name.
**Translating the number in ASCII using Base64 results in "WPtwwwuzAygP" (again resulting in the appearance of "www")
* It has been suggested that the number may simply be a key for a cipher such as MD5 or RSA but there is no way to verify this until further encrypted messages are received on which the number can be used as a key. This is unlikely to happen until the game starts properly.
* Tried converting the number into different numeric strings and converting to hex, to get unicode and Adobe Postscript characters. Provided Gibberish thus far, even after ROT'ing.
* Tried converting the number to an IPv4 address a few different ways. There are probably more. ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8270&start=398 Link])
* Tried plotting pairs of numbers as (x,y) coordinates, i.e. the first coordinate would be (22,15). Then joined up coordinates in order plotted, but it didn't give any meaningful shape.
*If 484848 means www, no web extensions can be found through any rots, both forwards and backwards. This also indicates that even if the code is a continously changing code, it isn't a web address.
*Could be a continously changing code every pattern of letters.
*None of the below means anything to us yet:
**22 15 45 48 48 48 46 51 00 50 32 15
**221 545 484 848 465 100 503 215 = html co-ords? 221, 545, 484, 848, 465, 100, 503, 215
**2215 4548 4848 4651 0050 3215
**221545 484848 465100 503215
**22154548 48484651 00503215

*Tried converting numbers to letters in a 52-piece alphabet, and rotting the letters with code 2210, for example, 22 becomes W and is changed to ROT 2, 15 is P and is changed to ROT 2, 45 is T and is changed to ROT 1, 48 is W and isn't changed at all. No solutions.
*Tried adding each number cumulatively to the previous number/sum of numbers, then converting into letters. All ROTs produce nothing. However, only done using single digit numbers.
*It's not a UPS, FedEx or TNT parcel tracking number.
*The brilliant Spankit realised that the number multiplied by e (2.718...) gives a fairly accurate (0.0014%) estimate of avogadro's number (which is the number of molecules in a mole of any substance). Current spec includes "e-mole" and that this was just a silly joke... We shall see. [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10024 Unforums Thread]

==The Soogees Link==

For those who don't know, [http://www.soogees.com/ Soogees] was created as a fun puzzle, quoted as "a little diversion". We traversed our way through the puzzles, finally reaching the [http://www.soogees.com/theend.htm TheEnd.htm] puzzle. After modifying the colour table in photoshop, we got this string of numbers:

2215 45 484 848 4651 00503 215

These perfectly correspond to the number string under the Semacode on the postcard. By entering http://www.soogees.com/221545484848465100503215.htm we were directed to another puzzle, another GIF.

However, [http://soogees.com/elohtibbar.htm the puzzle trail has now been completed] and its author, Ehsan, had this to say about the link:

'''''Trivia:''''' ''The number is an unsolved string from the upcoming ARG, Perplex City. Even though soogees is not affiliated with PC, you are encouraged to play it anyway, because it seems to be very interesting indeed.''

== Results ==

* Nothing conclusive... but interesting.