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

[deagol]

For QtheC's horsey, combine the pixel colors in the color key for each number, ignoring the color word (e.g. for 1: 14% orange, 12% blue, and 9% yellow).

Solution:

[marlasinger]

/me dies. you guys are hysterical! in every way! have i ever told you that!?

[QtheC]

I was going to go with one of these solutions, but I like Deagol's better...

For more info on the origin of the image Deagol posted, see a similar horse in Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

Here you can see in the middle, very absolutely, almost in the optical middle of the painting, that terrifying lozenge-shaped hole right in the middle, the horse twisting its body round in a kind of death agony. One of the earliest images that appears in the study drawings is an extraordinary representation of the way the tongue on the horses -- excruciated rictus -- appears almost like a knife or a blade that pierces its mouth, even though it is obviously a representation, too, of the horse.

[impulse]

[deagol]

Say again?

[impulse]

You're on your own. I can't help anymore. The only thing I can say is: the more difficult the code(s), the greater the reward(s). I'll see you in chapter 2.

[chershaytoute]

/me happily passes out crayons...while everybody else gets to color. <sticks out lower lip to pout>



VB, you are purely awesome!! deags, Q, those're...uh...oh, those're WAY too complex. I think the one VB did is just about my level... <chuckle>

impulse, darlin', you're looking uncharacteristically speechless! Hmmmm...

[impulse]

I posted a message to you guys in the OoG discussion thread, dear.
Have a good weekend!


I'm taking a short time off, I've been working like 24/7 on the londonfiles lately. My gf hates me, my boss...err.... it's better not to talk about that, and I'm moving into a new apartment over the weekend. This computer should be packed already, but I just can't. get. away. from. the.....okay, okay i'm turning it off now.

[QtheC]

Noting that YouTube video addresses are encoded in 11 characters including upper and lower case letters, numbers, and - or _ ,
I have tried to find a way to translate the intervals into numbers that then translate into an 11 character code.

I have not yet succeeded, but here is one such attempt...

(note that there is no -1 interval since it would be the same as +1, i.e. two identical notes)

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YouTube address may contain _ or - 
as well as A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9.

ascii 45        = -
ascii 48 to 57  = 0 to 9
ascii 65 to 90  = A to Z
ascii 95        = _
ascii 97 to 122 = a to z

try intervals coding as:
   -5 -4 -3 -2  1  2  3  4  5 (interval in key of Emaj)
 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 coding

then:
4 1 3   2 3 5 3   1 -5 1 3 1 -4 1 -2   -2 1 3 1 2 5  intervals
8 5 7   6 7 9 7   5  1 5 7 5  2 5  4    4 5 7 5 6 9  coding


8 57   67 97   51 57 52 54   45 75 69  ascii to text
89Ca3946-KE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Ca3946-KE  (video not found)


85 7   67 97   51 57 52 54   45 75 69  ascii to text
U7Ca3946-KE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Ca3946-KE  (video not found)



Since I wasn't quite sure what to do with the first three digits (intervals 4 1 3), I also checked these:

U-Ca3946-KE
U_Ca3946-KE

U0Ca3946-KE
U1Ca3946-KE
U2Ca3946-KE
U3Ca3946-KE
U4Ca3946-KE
U5Ca3946-KE
U6Ca3946-KE
U7Ca3946-KE
U8Ca3946-KE
U9Ca3946-KE

UaCa3946-KE
UbCa3946-KE
UcCa3946-KE
UdCa3946-KE
UeCa3946-KE
UfCa3946-KE
UgCa3946-KE
UhCa3946-KE
UiCa3946-KE
UjCa3946-KE

UkCa3946-KE
UlCa3946-KE
UmCa3946-KE
UnCa3946-KE
UoCa3946-KE
UpCa3946-KE
UqCa3946-KE
UrCa3946-KE
UsCa3946-KE
UtCa3946-KE

UuCa3946-KE
UvCa3946-KE
UwCa3946-KE
UxCa3946-KE
UyCa3946-KE
UzCa3946-KE

UACa3946-KE
UBCa3946-KE
UCCa3946-KE
UDCa3946-KE
UECa3946-KE
UFCa3946-KE
UGCa3946-KE
UHCa3946-KE
UICa3946-KE
UJCa3946-KE

UKCa3946-KE
ULCa3946-KE
UMCa3946-KE
UNCa3946-KE
UOCa3946-KE
UPCa3946-KE
UQCa3946-KE
URCa3946-KE
USCa3946-KE
UTCa3946-KE


-9Ca3946-KE
_9Ca3946-KE

09Ca3946-KE
19Ca3946-KE
29Ca3946-KE
39Ca3946-KE
49Ca3946-KE
59Ca3946-KE
69Ca3946-KE
79Ca3946-KE
89Ca3946-KE
99Ca3946-KE

a9Ca3946-KE
b9Ca3946-KE
c9Ca3946-KE
d9Ca3946-KE
e9Ca3946-KE
f9Ca3946-KE
g9Ca3946-KE
h9Ca3946-KE
i9Ca3946-KE
j9Ca3946-KE

k9Ca3946-KE
l9Ca3946-KE
m9Ca3946-KE
n9Ca3946-KE
o9Ca3946-KE
p9Ca3946-KE
q9Ca3946-KE
r9Ca3946-KE
s9Ca3946-KE
t9Ca3946-KE

u9Ca3946-KE
v9Ca3946-KE
w9Ca3946-KE
x9Ca3946-KE
y9Ca3946-KE
z9Ca3946-KE

A9Ca3946-KE
B9Ca3946-KE
C9Ca3946-KE
D9Ca3946-KE
E9Ca3946-KE
F9Ca3946-KE
G9Ca3946-KE
H9Ca3946-KE
I9Ca3946-KE
J9Ca3946-KE

K9Ca3946-KE
L9Ca3946-KE
M9Ca3946-KE
N9Ca3946-KE
O9Ca3946-KE
P9Ca3946-KE
Q9Ca3946-KE
R9Ca3946-KE
S9Ca3946-KE
T9Ca3946-KE

U9Ca3946-KE
V9Ca3946-KE
W9Ca3946-KE
X9Ca3946-KE
Y9Ca3946-KE
Z9Ca3946-KE

[deagol]

Q, that's just amazing and too much work for a lazy guy like me. I really hope it's not that hard. Now, I've found something somewhere else. Kudos to silverblue for noticing something here right from the get go, and shame on us for not following up on her suggestion. Goes to show that if you notice something, even if you don't know what to do with it, try to just follow it up as much as you can, or insist that someone tries it.

So, I thought I'd try making something out of the tick-tocks just before the notes in code (silverblue called them tapping), as it seemed pretty morse/binary. Transcribing it was a pain, especially the latter parts of it. First attempt, dots are tocks, dashes are ticks:

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..--..--.--..-.-..-...----.-..-...--..-..--.-.--....-..-...-

Well, if that's morse code, it's impossible to decipher since there's no variation in the pauses between the dots or dashes to mark out letters and words. So I then tried it as binary. Dots=0 and dashes=1.

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001100110110010100100011110100100011001001101011000010010001

= 3e#Ò2k

Swaping ones and zeroes:

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110011001001101011011100001011011100110110010100111101101110

= ÌšÜ-Í”ö

No luck there. But then, I gotta thank WoW for introducing me to the baconian method, or I would've never figured this one out. With A=tocks and B=ticks.

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AABBAABBABBAABABAABAAABBBBABAABAAABBAABAABBABABBAAAABAABAAAB

= G O T T H W S T O N E S

So I must've gotten a tick or a tock wrong there around the middle. Use this tool for that bacon thing: http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/bacon.htm (version 1 is the one used here). I must say, Kris, this was quite hard to get right, especially the second half with the music crescendo kinda drowning the tick-tocks.

[sparkybennett]

That is awesome Deagol! and Q!

could be GOT THE STONES ?

[silverblue]

The stones were what was in the container near the grave?

The stones are the seal? Am I thinking of the right story with the seal? Am I confusing the londonfiles and WoW stories again?

Who knows. *tired*

[sparkybennett]

The stones were what was in the container near the grave?

The stones are the seal? Am I thinking of the right story with the seal? Am I confusing the londonfiles and WoW stories again?

Who knows. *tired*

you are thinking of Wow... the seals are made of stone, so that could be it ....
if it is GO TO THE STONES , they could be talking about the Georgia Guidestones which is a key location in WoW , there is a ceremony coming up there that Sean is an important element of.

edited to add : now go get some sleep!

[QtheC]

Q, that's just amazing and too much work for a lazy guy like me. I really hope it's not that hard. Now, I've found something somewhere else. Kudos to silverblue for noticing something here right from the get go, ...

What you just came up with is far more amazing to me.

I haven't been following Wow at all, so may be missing the reference. The only "Stones" that come to my mind are the Rolling Stones and the tombstones in the video.

Good work... changing just one bit from what Deagol gives "GOT THE STONES" as sparkybennett suggested.

110011001001101011011100001011011100110110010100111101101110
AABBAABBABBAABABAABAAABBBAABAABAAABBAABAABBABABBAAAABAABAAAB
GOT THE STONES

It is unlikely that the message is GO TO THE STONES, as the extra letter would have added 5 more beats. Although this does go well with the tombstones in the video.

Also, "GOT THE STONES" makes sense in the contect of the audio track, where the speaker says "One last thing to do before leaving London. Something they want. Something I found." (tick tocking begins) ... (tick tocking ends) "Now Mr. Gone, I need some info" (music code continues)

[QtheC]

For the music code, my method may seem a bit complex, but I think it may be close. The data size seems to match the YouTube code size of 11 characters. The biggest problem I have is what to do with the first three intervals (4 1 3) as that does not fit well into what I was doing otherwise.

It would be helpful if someone with a musical ear could carefully check Deagols' transcription of the music and the intervals. I tried this and did not find any obvious errors, but I'm not postive there are none.

I can try slight variants on the 11 character codes (by assuming each interval is off by 1 up or 1 down), but the number of possibilities blows up pretty quickly.

EDIT: None of these variations worked...

89Ca3946-KE variants (interval change by 1)

79Ca3946-KE
99Ca3946-KE

8CCa3946-KE
88Ca3946-KE

899a3946-KE
89Ma3946-KE
89Ba3946-KE
89Da3946-KE

89CW3946-KE
89Cb3946-KE

89Ca2946-KE
89Ca4946-KE

89Ca3C46-KE
89Ca3846-KE

89Ca3936-KE
89Ca3956-KE

89Ca3945-KE
89Ca3947-KE

89Ca39467KE

89Ca3946-AE
89Ca3946-UE

89Ca3946-JE
89Ca3946-LE

89Ca3946-KO
89Ca3946-KD
89Ca3946-KF



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U7Ca3946-KE variants (interval change by 1)

K7Ca3946-KE
_7Ca3946-KE
T7Ca3946-KE
V7Ca3946-KE

U6Ca3946-KE
U8Ca3946-KE

U79a3946-KE
U7Ma3946-KE
U7Ba3946-KE
U7Da3946-KE

U7CW3946-KE
U7Cb3946-KE

U7Ca2946-KE
U7Ca4946-KE

U7Ca3C46-KE
U7Ca3846-KE

U7Ca3936-KE
U7Ca3956-KE

U7Ca3945-KE
U7Ca3947-KE

U7Ca39467KE

U7Ca3946-AE
U7Ca3946-UE

U7Ca3946-JE
U7Ca3946-LE

U7Ca3946-KO
U7Ca3946-KD
U7Ca3946-KF

So I'm not sure what direction to go at this point. Maybe the "Got the stones" clue will lead to something.