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Hey I hope everyone had a safe and fun St. Patty's Day. First off, I just wanted to add something that I never felt got addressed, and that is the full text of the gun monument at the Emporia courthouse with the kk/kr thing. I'd hate to think that we might need it, and it never got posted. Anyway, it's available at http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=19181 the Historical Marker Database. We may be able to use that site in the future, should we need to find the texts of more markers, plaques, etc.
Just for completeness' sake, I'll post the text I got off that site:

This gun is a memorial to the Veterans of the 1914-1918 World War I

A captured Imperial German Army 150 mm field artillary cannon manufactured by Kkupp Works in 1917

Many thousands of Americans and Allied young men gave their lives in France to enemy fire from weapons like this to make the world safe for democracy

Placed here by local Veterans of Bulla Post 46 American Legion in 1925

On permanent loan by U.S. Army
It is one of 8 allocated as memorials to these brave soldiers and veterans

May they rest in peace

Repaired and painted by Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1779 March 1998

Anyway, as far as the "twelve parts", I had a thought. What if 1UP and north didn't refer just to the first letter, but actually, all of the first section, like [1]n o r t h?
In which case, we'd get this:

[1]n o r t h
[2]6 7 8 9 8 t 10
[3]t 8 11 7 r 12
[4]h 6 9 13 10 o n
[5]6 11 7 8 12 n 13 12
[6]n 8 h 8 9 8 14 11
[7]8 15 12 6
[8]14 13 8 n t 8 9 9 6
[9]r 6 15 8 o 9 o 16 10
[10]6 13 13 9 8 11 6 t 12
[11]12 17 12 n t 18 6 9
[12]9 6 n 16 18 8 14 h

I still have no idea if that's any help or not, or if it's even right, but it does fit.

Edit: I just realized that the whole kk/kr thing is because it was KRUPP works in Germany that built that gun, not KKUPP, as there doesn't seem to be such a thing. I think HM was pointing out the spelling error with that clue. Also, "artillary" is incorrect. It's "artillery". And none of it probably even matters! LOL

Edit 2: Full size photo here, just in case you want to see it: http://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=64066

Edit 3: OOG for just a second: Something else JUST caught my eye about that photo on hmdb: "By Bernard Fisher, May 9, 2009"
Gangadiddle youtube and michaelfiltersgabriel.wordpress.com both have creation dates of May 12, 2009. Coincidence? Hmmmmmmmm.......
Is it possible that this might be dolst's true identity? I'm going to be looking up Bernard Fisher. hehehehe

Last edited by paperwulf (2010-03-18 8:50 PM)

I see part of "utility" for the second word. Plug away.

jalebi wrote:

r _ _ i o l o _ _  could be radiology.
h _ l _ _ o n  could be halcyon.
Awesome work paperwulf and carbon. Seriously. We are an awesome team : D

I'm going to take a guess - his name is Nathan Israel.

EDIT:
n o r t h |
a b i l i t y |
t i m b r e |
h a l c y o n |
a m b i e n c e |
n i h i l i s m |
i d e a |
s c i n t i l l a |
r a d i o l o g y |
a c c l i m a t e |
e v e n t u a l |
l a n g u i s h

Looks like it, guys. We're golden! : D

Fantastic - where do we put his name? :P

Hehehe, why the hell not?


Congratulations everyone - we beat my robot to the answer! it had calculated every permutation of letters that fit the pattern given and was searching through to find ones containing English n-grams - a very slow process. As a side effect though, I have the largest text file I've ever created...

Last edited by carbon (2010-03-19 11:17 AM)

Eebster wrote:

Fantastic work. Could this perhaps be a password?
E: Not a password for gogreen anyways. :/

Nah, this was simply a new puzzle I think we were supposed to figure out. Gogreen was solved, I believe, and found to have kr-not-kk inside of it. The only thing we have left to solve right now is The Lock in kr-not-kk.

mariodude89 wrote:

carbon wrote:

mariodude89 wrote:

no seriously where did all of you come from?

Mainly from here I think: http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn24 … 914952.jpg

btw, can one of you link me up with gogreen.rar? When I tried to download it, it didn't work... Thanks paperwulf.

Last edited by carbon (2010-03-18 11:19 PM)

The password for kr-not-kk.rar (i.e. to get The Lock.txt and The Key.jpg) is 'krupp'

http://i42.tinypic.com/aw4ap5.png

What we've got so far: http://pastebin.com/1mL1n1cB

Bolded are the permutations of 1 2 3 4 5 6, 6 5 4 3 2 1, 1 4 2 5 3 6 and 6 3 5 2 4 1 (forward and reverse of plain and piston ordering)

Last edited by carbon (2010-03-19 1:20 AM)

When I did a look up through the plaque text (results here: http://pastebin.com/1mL1n1cB), I didn't manage to turn up the same one you did jalebi... did you do something special?

No whitespace but numbers and punctuation.

http://pastebin.com/1mL1n1cB wrote:

Plaque order: 1 2 3 4 5 6
TTRNEIHI [ AYTTICOR ] MAMT. V0O

Plaque order: 1 4 2 5 3 6
TTRNE6HH [ AITFDCDR ] MAMI. VDO

Plaque order: 6 3 5 2 4 1
ATTCYFNS [ O0REHAHV ] RAHD. MEL

Plaque order: 6 5 4 3 2 1
AETCYFNS [ OIGEHSHE ] RAHS. LE5

No whitespace or punctuation but numbers .

http://pastebin.com/1mL1n1cB wrote:

Plaque order: 1 2 3 4 5 6
OYGIEIHN [ EURRCN0O ] MWH0. RND

Plaque order: 1 4 2 5 3 6
NYGIEHHI [ ENRRTN8O ] MWHI. RLD

Plaque order: 6 3 5 2 4 1
DLTCYTNO [ LGDDAELR ] RAET. 2HM

Plaque order: 6 5 4 3 2 1
DDTCYTNO [ MG1DANLI ] RALB. RHE

No whitespace, numbers or punctuation.

http://pastebin.com/1mL1n1cB wrote:

Plaque order: 1 2 3 4 5 6
DAGIEIHA [ DALDRCEU ] MWMA. GTE

Plaque order: 1 4 2 5 3 6
CAGIEIHA [ DULTLCEU ] MWMT. GTE

Plaque order: 6 3 5 2 4 1
RCTCYRNO [ JOANIODA ] RAOD. UUH

Plaque order: 6 5 4 3 2 1
RFTCYRNO [ ROONIRDI ] RARD. RUH

Last edited by carbon (2010-03-19 1:27 AM)

Ah, awesome. ok, I'm not at home so I haven't run the verbose all-permutations scan, but I did it again including the typo correction.

for only letters (no numbers or punctuation)...
Plaques in order 123456 : LTRNMRTC [RSATDDEA] IAIO.NPA
Plaques in order 142536 : RTRNMNTC [RSASIDEA] IAIO.NPA
Plaques in order 654321 : SNAIREIT [BRIAOGAG] OIEL.MEL
Plaques in order 635241 : SSAIREIT [DREAOTAR] OIHL.FEL

for letters and numbers but no punctuation...
Plaques in order 123456 : THRNMATV [HFAPRN2V] IATO.TRA
Plaques in order 142536 : RHRNMSTE [HUAHDN1V] IATA.TGA
Plaques in order 654321 : TEAIRNII [ERYEDOLL] OIAD.UER
Plaques in order 635241 : TLAIRNII [OREEDHLO] OIBG.6EF

for letters, numbers and punctuation...
Plaques in order 123456 : BCIIMLTA [MDFMLRNE] IIAE.L,O
Plaques in order 142536 : LCIIM9TS [MSFTDRLE] IIAE.LYO
Plaques in order 654321 : INAIREIR [S2EFTRDO] OI,N.EDU
Plaques in order 635241 : IPAIREIR [LTNFTTDB] OI,E.ID8

Last edited by carbon (2010-03-19 12:56 PM)

carbon wrote:

[spoiler]Ah, awesome. ok, I'm not at home so I haven't run the verbose all-permutations scan, but I did it again including the typo correction.

Plaques in order 142536 : RHRNMSTE [HUAHDN1V] IATA.TGA

Yeah! That's the one I got when I did it with the typo corrected... I'm still trying to understand what it means. >_< Do you think thats the correct one? Me and Jam were talking today, and it's possible that the file we're looking for is a targa... but where the hell do the brackets come in?

EDIT: WOO binding undid. HM is bach and Gangadolst is... not. More news at 9? Derp derp. I guess we'll find out soon. Great job everyone! <3

E2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB152oe1DHM gangadoodle talks too much. |D

Last edited by jalebi (2010-03-19 10:10 PM)

If you are reading this, then do this real quick if you haven't already:

Looks like the owner of robloxhq.com forgot to renew his domain name. Add these two lines to your hosts file until he fixes that:

174.132.171.221 robloxhq.com
174.132.171.221 forums.robloxhq.com

Thanks to GacktFan over at TDRL for posting that. I don't know if anyone can even get here now without doing that, but in case your DNS isn't updated yet and you got lucky, then do that so you can still come here until the owner renews the name. And for some odd reason, just using the IP address gives you a host gator 404 page. I don't know how that works, but just using the IP doesn't. :-/

Anyway, is dolst dead now? Or is he "just resting" for awhile? I hope he's ok. I've spent the last couple days boxing stuff up. I leave today for Minnesota. I'll be away from this for a few days at least. Shame too, caus it looks like it's getting good now! Oh well, in case I'm gone for awhile, surf wisely! LOL.

Edit:

favorited some vids

"3 not 4" seems to be the common theme between them. I don't have time to watch them, but if it's like the Beyonce and Creed vids, I bet it's the title not the content that matters. 3 not 4. Oh well, I'll think about it over the next few days and I'm sure it'll hit me when I'm in the middle of nowhere with no net access. I hope my partner has a notebook with wifi.

Last edited by paperwulf (2010-03-20 10:33 AM)