Don't forget, if you get stuck you can discuss the puzzles and work together to solve them. As long as you don't post direct answers and links.
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Now that someone's done it, I can reveal that complete solving requires a person to reach 3 different GAs. In alphabetical order: Victor Vran ARPG, WARMACHINE: Tactics - Standard Edition, and Xcom 2.
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A small reminder. The note I left at one of the puzzles starts taking effect now. There will be a 10 hour downtime or so. You can still work and figure out the puzzle (you'll know it when you have found the solution), but progress report will be halted while my computer is not up and running as it's required to reach the next step once you've solved the puzzle.
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First big downtime is over. Computer is now up and running again. I will most likely put it to sleep nightly (eastern european time).
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Added in topic that it's a group puzzle to further reiterate the point that you're allowed to help each other. Seems silly that we have so few solvers of even the "first" puzzle.
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During the next 4 days the downtimes will be a bit more extensive. Don't worry, you can still work on it, just might not get the final link as quick. The secret puzzle is unaffected by this.
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It's funny void inhalers was mentioned, because this was one of the images to be posted :)
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void inhaler was mentionned on the nasa pic in the search bar! :D
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Oh crap, must have missed that one when making the image. ^^ I was looking for appropriate images to go with different anagrams. Just like forgot to re-upload the book image to make it uploaded at a more recent date. You can tell how long I've been preparing for this, eh? =P
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First the Bundlelicious event, now the Puzzle Agency... seems like it's puzzle season again :>.
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Didn't mean to leave anyone out ;>, you're right - there's quite a lot of nice puzzle creators around, although yours and revilheart's are usually the ones that tend to send me round the bend the most :D.
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I too am working on a big event, set in a fictitious school of university. I am just finishing the music department puzzles today.
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we should make a schedule:) ...when do you plan to launch it? ...I always liked your weekly puzzles and the large dungeon was one of the best puzzle events I remember -- looking forward to this one!
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Very kind of you to say. I do the odd step when I have time, I am hoping August, but at this point its sort of a "when it is done" thing.
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Too bad all the GAs are lvl 2 :( guess i should gift a bit again but i am low on money atm
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For 1 dollar you can get the current Humble Bundle tier 1 and you will be level 2. :) At least I think it would be enough since you're 1.8.
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Now, what do we know... we're in a sweet little town, Nordh's been trying to get on the radio.
The weather sounds nice any day.
5 radio broadcasts, 5 weeks, 5 characters make up an SG giveaway code.
I also found an entirely unrelated piece of art!
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Maybe this link can help with the weather reports http://nightvale.wikia.com/wiki/Weather
All title used are in this audio podcast named "Welcome to Night Vale"
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So, do all puzzlemakers create kinda flashmob with big events?
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Has that been up for 3 days and I missed it or were you sneakily making tests? Anyway, thanks as usual for the puzzles, have a first bump ;)
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Yay ... hope to steal,away from my event to solve this!
Have a good ole buddy bump!
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Grats on being so fast! Wasn't sure how it'd work out.
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Let's try to make something out of the weather
| Episode | Ep title | Year | Years Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | Lost In The Mail | 4 | 9 |
| 68 | Faceless Old Women | 3 | 20 |
| 43 | Visitor | 2 | 19 |
| 45 | A Story About Them | 2 | 21 |
| 20 | Poetry Week | 1 | 20 |
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Or maybe the daily episodes info is important too?
| Week | Days of week |
|---|---|
| 28 | 12456 |
| 7 | 234 |
| 30 | 14 |
| 12 | 12367 |
| 20 | 12367 |
(Monday is 1, Tuesday is 2 and so on...)
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I have the strong feeling the schedule should rather be regarded as the presence of not of an episode those days. ;)
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You mean something like this?
| Week | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Yes | Yes | x | Yes | Yes | Yes | x |
| 7 | x | Yes | Yes | Yes | x | x | x |
| 30 | Yes | x | x | Yes | x | x | x |
| 12 | Yes | Yes | Yes | x | x | Yes | Yes |
| 20 | Yes | Yes | Yes | x | x | Yes | Yes |
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Yes, more or less. It's just a matter of notation :3
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Looks like we are the same one out of 10 types of people :)
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The only thing I can think of that would use this many items is something that requires specific cases. There are two things common to SG that use 8 characters, but neither is case specific. Stumped for now.
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You should read the replies to my previous comment, there is another hidden hint in what is said if you understand what OnlyTwin refers to ;)
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Zero padding the start of every week left me with a 5digit code which doesn't work...
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Mhhh you should double check your result then I guess?
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I got n..... and 4 more letters but it wasn't a usable giv code.
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Oh... you're missing one last step to get the correct code (also you should edit those letters out of your comment), you need to figure out the correct order.
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I tried using the week numbers back then, but I probably did something wrong.
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I got past it on my first try today, but then the holo-part I don't know what I'm looking for and I can't listen to the video without it hurting my ears.
So I got a binary code using a spectrometer, but I can't extrapolate what voice in the video is trying to say. So I'm a bit stuck there.
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You should look around the comments where you found the holo part, there is a lot of hints there.
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All poems are from episode 20 Poetry week but not in order of appearance. 1,4,2,3,5 is the order of appearance.
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Bump for the initial gibs.
Not in the mood for a puzzle, but I hope/think the people that solve/try the puzzle have fun
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Feel free to come back when you're in the mood. :) Remember, it's a group puzzle, so people can help each other out to solve it.
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Welcome to the Puzzle Agency 10.
You managed to solve the mystery of the hidden messages and thus this thread has unlocked. First I would like to thank the people that helped me in the first part by posting various messages on my behalf. They weren't allowed to take part in the first bit, as it needed to be a secret who was behind the puzzle. They may from now on participate in the event.
Rules
This event is a group puzzle, you may share any information and help each other get through it. However, you may not post direct links or answers to puzzles. Each person will have to manually go through each step of the way. For example, if I were to hide a link somewhere in this text you can say "He's hidden a link between 'For' and 'example'.", but you cannot share that link yourselves.
Rulebreakers will be blacklisted and banned from the event and reported to SG. Any people already on my blacklist are also banned from the event, since most of them have cheated on my events in the past.
I am using SGTools to keep track of progress throughout the event, and to weed out SG rule breakers.
Puzzle / Story
Nordh is alive! So it seems Nordh has been trying to communicate throughout the ages. But how could he have put the same message in a news paper from the mid 1900s as in recent years? Last time you saw him he pushed you through a portal at the top of the pyramid. This was nearly 6 months ago and you've done some research since. Apparently a UFO had been sighted near a pyramid in Egypt at the same time, and you figured Nordh had something to do with it.
As you sit at your desk researching this new lead, the radio suddenly turns itself on.
Solutions
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