impulse- "londonfiles_012" [07/11/07]

impulse · Post by **impulse** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:03 am

got your tracking number?

http://one.revver.com/watch/327527/flv/affiliate/94349

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6GmsAgS-xc

silverblue · Post by **silverblue** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:25 am

"Sometimes information is for sale"

Card at 1:01
Judgement

"End of chapter one"

Can anyone transcribe? I only understood bits of sentences throughout the entire video.

voyboy · Post by **voyboy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:04 am

Now Mr *unt, I need some info

huh?

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:06 am

Aww, end of Ch. 1? I hope Ch. 2 starts right away!

So, the card is Judgement (XX), the same used for "the hitman" (Will-o) little cipher in the last video.

I'm pretty sure the notes played in the end are in code, but I can't figure it out yet. The notes are:

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Emaj
EA EE F#A Emaj
AB G#B F#C# G#B Emaj
F#F#BEEEF#AF#F#C#G#G#G#BA Emaj
F#E EE G#B BB BC# F#C# Emaj

All I can think of is taking the numbers from the intervals, just like in that intercom image from earlier. However, there's that cluster of quick notes which doesn't imply an interval, so I'm taking the numbers based on the interval against the note E, which is the key for this little tune. I decided to treat the chords as line breaks:

4 1 3
2 3 5 3
2251112422633354
-2(?) 1 3 1 2 5

I can't recognize any of the usual codes (decimal, octal, letter-number subs). Anyone else?

P.S. I like your sig... and yes, I already knew I was a geek.

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:08 am

voyboy wrote:Now Mr *unt, I need some info
huh?

LOL it said Mr. Gone.

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:18 am

silverblue wrote:"Sometimes information is for sale"

Card at 1:01
Judgement

"End of chapter one"

Can anyone transcribe? I only understood bits of sentences throughout the entire video.

*whispering* she looks so cold
she knows something she doesn't see
*HoO electric piano theme*
*female voice* somethingsomething going too long
you know what you need to feel better
come closer, come closer(?)
we wouldn't let you down
we won't let you down (come closer?)
*male voice* we won't let you down
*song*
*whispering* someone has contacted me
one last thing to do before leaving london
something they want
something i brought
now mister gone, i need some info
*notes in code*

silverblue · Post by **silverblue** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:11 am

Thanks Deagol! That was really helpful.

Could the "tapping" sounds (beginning at about 2:10) before the "notes in code" maybe translate via morse code? It sounds like two different tones to me.

<er... or it could just be tapping!>

And is a tracking code what you get when you send a parcel by mail?

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:40 am

silverblue wrote:
And is a tracking code what you get when you send a parcel by mail?

yes
maybe the musical code translates into the tracking number for Gone to get his package?

great video
is the girl in the beginning Mary?

and has that masked man been shown before ? Is he a character?

QtheC · Post by **QtheC** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:41 am

I like the puzzles and the visuals - both continue to be great in this series.

I'm not a fan of audio that is hard to hear.

Good job on the notes and the transcript, Deagol... taking a look at the music code now...

Is "Mr. Gone" a known character in this story? I thought it sounded like "Mr. Gun" ... which might follow from the picture of the guy with a gun on the floor next to him ...

Johnny Get Your Gun ...

deagol wrote:one last thing to do before leaving london
something they want
something i brought

It sounds like "something they want ... something I found" to me.

QtheC · Post by **QtheC** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:51 am

deagol wrote:The notes are:
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Emaj
EA EE F#A Emaj
AB G#B F#C# G#B Emaj
F#F#BEEEF#AF#F#C#G#G#G#BA Emaj
F#E EE G#B BB BC# F#C# Emaj
All I can think of is taking the numbers from the intervals, just like in that intercom image from earlier. However, there's that cluster of quick notes which doesn't imply an interval, so I'm taking the numbers based on the interval against the note E, which is the key for this little tune. I decided to treat the chords as line breaks:
4 1 3
2 3 5 3
2251112422633354
-2(?) 1 3 1 2 5

Taking the fast line pairwise and treating as intervals gives :

F#F# BE EE F#A F#F# C#G# G#G# BA Emaj

1 -5 1 3 1 -4 1 -2

which, treating negative intervals as postive, and taking each measure of 4 fast notes as a code for a number, would give:

15 13 14 12

If this is correct, the code is
4 1 3
2 3 5 3
15 13 14 12
2 1 3 1 2 5

QtheC · Post by **QtheC** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:06 pm

I just noticed the tags on the video are:

"londonfiles mrgone will-o-wisp"

So it was "Mr. Gone" as Deagol said and not "Mr. Gun" in the audio, and this is another confirmation of "will-o" the hitman.

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:13 pm

QtheC wrote:I just noticed the tags on the video are:

"londonfiles mrgone will-o-wisp"

So it was "Mr. Gone" as Deagol said and not "Mr. Gun" in the audio, and this is another confirmation of "will-o" the hitman.

You mean you hadn't seen this? Yes, this video should be a reply to that one, right impulse?

It was pretty hectic yesterday here in what's usually a calm and quiet fanfic section. I even heard rumors of chers going on a rampage, glue stick in hand.

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:22 pm

QtheC wrote: which, treating negative intervals as postive, and taking each measure of 4 fast notes as a code for a number, would give:

15 13 14 12

If this is correct, the code is
4 1 3
2 3 5 3
15 13 14 12
2 1 3 1 2 5

I still can't see anything there, and I think the methodology is getting a bit messy... but then again, we had to fix a phrase in french before...

QtheC · Post by **QtheC** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:43 pm

I'm stuck too.

I keep trying to treat the numbers as octal somehow since it is on a musical octave. I thought the pairings for the fast sequence made some sense the way I have them as it might be a method for encoding larger intervals.

13 could be octal, and thus equal 11 decimal.

I also tried inserting 0's for the Emaj chords (04 13 02 35 30 15 13 14 12 02 13 12 50), and grouping the digits singly or in pairs in different ways. It's possible that negative intervals should be interpreted differently from postive intervals (perhaps left or right of the letter E in the alphabet, or something like that).

Just for reference, I've been trying to find ways to resolve these interval numbers into codes that fit nicely into ranges such as these:

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   A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26  decimal

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20  hex

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 30 31 32  octal

and

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text  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

hex   61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6a 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7a

ascii 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122



text  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

hex   41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e 4f 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5a

ascii 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90



text  0123456789

hex   30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

ascii 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57

For instance, if the last numbers "2 1 3 1 2 5" are taken pairwise and treated as octal "21 31 25" = QYU and then Cesearian shifted by 2 (since we are in the key of E rather than C???) the word "SAW" appears. lol

Somewhat encouraging, but then to be consistent you would probably want to cluster 23 53 and the 53 treated as octal does not fit nicely into the alphabet.

So then you stick in the Emaj chords as 0's and get 02 35 30 which is nice for the second line, but then again to be consistent, the last line becomes 02 13 12 50, and you get another fifty-something number in octal, ... again does not fit into the alphabet.

If you didn't follow all of that, don't worry, because basically it did not work. But maybe this mess will give someone else a better idea.

deagol · Post by **deagol** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:09 pm

Just rearranging and including octal to your ascii tables:

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text    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
hex    30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39
ascii  48  49  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  57
octal 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 070 071

text    A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M
hex    41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  4a  4b  4c  4d
ascii  65  66  67  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77
octal 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 110 111 112 113 114 115

text    N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z
hex    4e  4f  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  57  58  59  5a
ascii  78  79  80  81  82  83  84  85  86  87  88  89  90
octal 116 117 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 130 131 132

text    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m
hex    61  62  63  64  65  66  67  68  69  6a  6b  6c  6d
ascii  97  98  99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109
octal 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 150 151 152 153 154 155

text    n   o   p   q   r   s   t   u   v   w   x   y   z
hex    6e  6f  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78  79  7a
ascii 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122
octal 156 157 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 170 171 172

Or you can use http://www.asciitable.com/ for a full character set.
Here's an octal <-> text translator: http://nickciske.com/tools/octal.php
And the old hex/dec/binary/b64/text translator: http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/