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toma, I have the odd feeling the Gangadiddle will be unhappy to see you. keep away from whatever it is until you can contain it.
I feel a s33k3r will be there too, digging for it. when you succeed, take a picture of the beasts skull and post it here, I have waited for the
beast to be slain for oh so long.

be careful out there, fellow hunter.

-Gecko

tomatogoatee wrote:

I'm in VA now. Just got into the hotel. Too dark to do anything now. Will head out tomorrow.

good luck

We're here. Middle of nowhere. Taking photos. Rappahannock Industrial Academy 1902-1948

Each sidewalk slab has a piece of slate embedded in it. Forty pieces of slate in eighteen concrete slabs.
Will transcribe the plaque when I upload pics.

E:
Alright. Now I'm on an actual computer and not my phone. As I said, there are 18 concrete slabs making up the walkway with one massive slab for the plaque for a total of 19. Each slab had pieces of slate embedded in them with 30 pieces in the walkway and 10 in the plaque-slab, making 40 total.

I'm at Panera right now, so the internet connection is acting sluggish, but I'm uploading the photos. In the meantime, the transcription of the plaque:

1902 - Rappahannock Industrial Academy - 1948
Founded by
Southside Rappahannock Baptist Association
Education - The hope of a glorious future
Original Trustees
Willis Brooks - Ned Fitzgerald - C. H. Newman
D. R. Page - Thomas Pollard - J. R. Ruffin
N. A. Wiggins
W. E. Robinson - principal - 1904-1933

E2:
All photos of the site can be found here: http://profile.imageshack.us/user/tomatogoatee/

Last edited by tomatogoatee (2010-09-24 11:22 AM)

tomatogoatee wrote:

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We're here. Middle of nowhere. Taking photos. Rappahannock Industrial Academy 1902-1948

Each sidewalk slab has a piece of slate embedded in it. Forty pieces of slate in eighteen concrete slabs.
Will transcribe the plaque when I upload pics.

E:
Alright. Now I'm on an actual computer and not my phone. As I said, there are 18 concrete slabs making up the walkway with one massive slab for the plaque for a total of 19. Each slab had pieces of slate embedded in them with 30 pieces in the walkway and 10 in the plaque-slab, making 40 total.

I'm at Panera right now, so the internet connection is acting sluggish, but I'm uploading the photos. In the meantime, the transcription of the plaque:

1902 - Rappahannock Industrial Academy - 1948
Founded by
Southside Rappahannock Baptist Association
Education - The hope of a glorious future
Original Trustees
Willis Brooks - Ned Fitzgerald - C. H. Newman
D. R. Page - Thomas Pollard - J. R. Ruffin
N. A. Wiggins
W. E. Robinson - principal - 1904-1933

E2:
All photos of the site can be found here: http://profile.imageshack.us/user/tomatogoatee/

I wonder... did they say the gangadiddle was intact? perhaps that is it

so you guys actually travel to places to figure out the next clue?
interesting.
ignore cc1138, he wants to be a super mod too.
you guys don't bother me at all.

Last edited by mariodude89 (2010-09-24 5:38 PM)

Wow, wulf! Great find! There's no way that's a coincidence. I'm trying to figure out what exactly the relation is between the words and numbers. And where, exactly, the slate count fits in...

E:
Alright! Got it figured out! Kinda crazypants, but stick with me and I'll try to explain.

Using what Wulf discovered, and operating under the assumption that the ". 124 17 121 218" part of the 'lock' was .html, my wife and I tried to figure out how to get those letters using those numbers. 124 was already linked to an H, but none of the other letters seemed to match up to anything... Until we used each number as a starting point on the corresponding word. Many of the numbers in the 'combination' were close, but didn't match numbers in the 'lock'. So we just found the number that was closest to a given number but less than and counted up to the 'lock' number.

Example: lock number 224
The number closest to and less than 224 in the combination is 217 which links to the word 'glorious'. Using our theory, we assigned 217 to G, 218 to L, and so on until we got 224, which is S.

Using this, we discovered the 'lock' is 'modestmouselyrics.html.' This is doubly funny because my wife wasn't terribly interested in this puzzle until we started decoding the letters and got 'modest,' at which point she said, "Modest mouse?" (She's quite the Modest Mouse fan, let me tell you!) Naturally, she got interested at this point. :)

The answer to the lyric request on the above page is 'laughharditsalongwaytothe.rar' (from the song 'Paper Thin Walls' on 'The Moon and Antarctica' album) and it contains two files; 7clue.txt and The Key.jpg. The password, I'm not sure. I thought it was the number of slate slabs in the concrete at the site (30 in the walkway, 10 in the plaque-slab), but I tried:
10
18
30
40
ten
thirty
forty

When I try "eighteen" under Windows, 7zip crashes, but it appears to be trying to extract the files. If anyone could try that for me and let me know if it works, I would be very appreciative. I think I'm about done with this for tonight. I'll check here tomorrow and see if anyone cracked the file open and go from there. Goodnight, all!

Last edited by tomatogoatee (2010-09-24 9:34 PM)

Hey, storme. Yeah, I don't know what the deal is, but while the link I posted works as a page, the 'change url' button links to the wrong page. The correct address for the download is http://dolst.9k.com/gangadiddle/LaughHa … yToThe.rar.

I also wanted to mention that I also tried:
3222211221211211211
2222211221211211211
322221122121121121110
222221122121121121110

as passwords. (Those being the number of slate pieces in each concrete slab. The first slab has three pieces, but one is kinda small and off to the side, so it might not count. The 10 at the end being the plaque-slab.)

E:
Oh, and I downloaded a different rar program and tried eighteen as the password and it didn't work. Weird how it would look like it was trying to work with 7zip...

Last edited by tomatogoatee (2010-09-24 10:05 PM)

paperwulf wrote:

Oh wow! I actually had a good idea?! Glad I could help somewhat. Also glad you found a hook for your wife. :-)

Also, for those having trouble with the link, try this:

http://dolst.9k.com/gangadiddle/modestmouselyrics.html

Your link had a / on the end, and that made it try to tack the rar file onto the end of the filename which will give you a 404. Try my link (unless something weird happens in posting it that adds that trailing slash. I hope not!)
Anyway, I'm off to attempt a code crackin'. :-)

Gerard Way sings for mcr, Hehe My chemical romance the band....

paperwulf wrote:

Is it possible you miscounted?

Don't say that... Please, don't say that. I don't need doubt in my mind right now...

I posted the pics of the sidewalk in order from monument to car (so naturally, photobucket has them listed in REVERSE order). I'm positive the number sequence from car to monument is 3222211221211211211 (10 at the end for the monument). That's 30 pieces in the walkway, 10 at the end. Reverse order would be (10) 1121121121221122223. The first slab (by the car) has 3 pieces in it, but one is kinda small and off to the side, so it might have been missed. I tried replacing that 3 with a 2 both ways and neither worked...

I'll be checking my email today, so if anyone makes any headway, I'll know.

E:
There were 18 slabs in the walkway with one huge one for the monument.

E2:
If absolutely necessary, I might be able to squeeze a second trip to the monument, but the slabs had between 1 and 2 pieces in them (save the first which had 3). You can try combinations of 1 and 2 as the password. 18 characters.

Last edited by tomatogoatee (2010-09-25 10:52 AM)

Hey tg,

Your numbers are puzzling me. You said it was 18 slabs, but your passwords have 19 or 20 digits. (I'm counting the "10" as a single "digit")

3222211221211211211
2222211221211211211
322221122121121121110
222221122121121121110

I have an idea: I'm going to look for a rar file password cracker that will do brute force but limited to only certain digits. Either that, or just numbers, which shouldn't take too long.

E: I'm going to try this one: http://www.crark.net/ I just hope it isn't riddled with spyware and trojans! lol Normally I wouldn't bother, but since we're operating under the assumption that it's only numbers, maybe it will go fairly quickly. ::crosses fingers::

E2: Okay, I've got crark cracking with a digits-only definition, min length of 18, max length of 21. I don't know if this will take minutes or all night as I've never cracked a rar password before!
tg, we can hope you don't have to go back. I'd hate for you to waste a trip. I'm hoping your next trip will be to the next location in the Hunt! :-)

E3: 42000 passwords tried after 16 minutes..... If I could just limit it to only 3s, 2s, 1s, and 0s..... Should only take about a few hundred years at my current rate. :-/

Last edited by paperwulf (2010-09-25 7:01 PM)

My bad. Went back to site and re counted tiles. Original numbers wrong. Will post correction soon. Rar is open.

I'm back at the hotel now.

So the wife and I decided to go back out there tonight because wulf made me doubt myself. It was a good thing he did. Standing with my wife in the dark in this field, we discovered I had miscounted one of the walkway slabs and the plaque slab.

The correct password is:
9112112221221122223
(The tile count from the main slab back to the car.)

The rar contains 7clue.txt and TheKey.jpg. We leave tomorrow morning. We're going to try to decode this tonight because we think the location in 7clue might be on our way home.

7clue.txt wrote:

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At the Heights of the Colonial era, a Creek that is Swift ran near a Bank of Violets. Given a choice between the two, I'd go climbing, not swimming.
There are no cucumbers to be found at either place, though you might be forgiven for thinking this one grows them on trees.

A Historical occasion was Marked.
Be mindful of what Flagged them as heroes.
See that there are No Signs of decay, and be mindful of any remaining Plaque.

The Lock:
C45  B103 B45  A317 B95  C204 B46  A74  C53  C176 B93  A15  A350 . A12  B7   B85

E:
Here's the headway we've made on the info from the rar:
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Last edited by tomatogoatee (2010-09-25 10:24 PM)