CodeMageddon DAY 3 SUMMARY

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DAY 1 | DAY 2

Hello CodeHunters!

Early this morning, at 9 AM EST, Discord user SamCJensen set out for Portland, Maine to locate the clue there! But unfortunately, they had to leave before they were able to find the clue. But before they left, it became evident they would need to dig for the clue. Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/SamCJensen

Later, at about 12:15 PM, SamCJensen returned to the clue location––this time, with friends.

After much searching, they found a green tub at around 1PM. Inside it was a scrap of notebook paper containing the recipe for Mabel Juice.

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But along with the recipe was a blacklight message! When shone under a blacklight flashlight, CodeHunters found that the numbers “653951” were circled, and the words  "James Linnegan has the ticket. Or he did, in the past“ were written on the bottom, and “SJ” was written on the top.

After a lot of guesswork by our CodeHunters, they decided that the most probable next location comes from putting together SJ and 653951 to get a Grid reference to Culcheth in England. Further investigations into that area lead to the discovery of the Culcheth Railway Station, now the Linear Park.

At around 9 PM local, Discord user GoldChimera (coincidentally, also named James) bravely went out searching for the clue. He returned with this ticket, which he found taped under a bench dedicated to James Linnegan.

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The QR Code led to 8agency.org/tznv/ . Above it was written “What day is it?

On the other side, the text read:

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY
NOT TRANSFERABLE
—-
ON DAY OF ISSUE ONLY
CULCHETH
TO
GLAZEBROOK
THIRD CLASS Revised Fare -/6
Culcheth Culcheth
Glazebrook Glazebrook

The website required a username and password. After many failed attempts, Discord user Salfur managed to crack it:

Username: jameslinnegan
Password: 030121

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This led to a page on the 8agency website that contained a link to the best video on youtube: Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

Beneath the video link was “/bc.png”, and a long string of numbers. Adding “/bc.png” to the page’s url produced this page: http://8agency.org/tznv/bc.png.

This page lead to a barcode, which was translated in less than a minute by Discord user Maewi to read: ‘The next clue will be unlocked at 7pm(PST). View #official_updates for details at this time.

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Meanwhile, a second group of CodeHunters had set out for the Disney Rose Garden!

Discord users Shaduf and Marciblook were joined by mods Brigit and Lian to search the rose garden, arriving between 6 and 7 PM PST. They were met by two Time Agents, Agent Snowcone and Agnet Tyrnn. At around 7:30 PM PST, Agent Snowcone revealed the clue, and presented it to our CodeHunters!
Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/generalhstrash/1MYxNAnWoaVJw?

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Where a museum flaps its wings
Like a swan by the lake
Is a building with a room of fireflies
Many poems, law and otherwise
It doesn’t stand out at all
It knows nothing about being
TALL

This clue was quickly decoded to be the firefly exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum.

However, it was later revealed that this had been solved incorrectly! After more discussion among CodeHunters––and a few prods from the Organizers in the right direction––the new location was uncovered!

Our CodeHunters would need to hit the Milwaukee Art Museum. The A-in-a-box at the bottom of the clue indicated ‘A Square’, the narrator character from the book “Flatland” written by Edwin A Abbott (a book which Alex Hirsch has said describes the dimension that Bill Cipher originates from). So CodeHunters deduced that they would need to search for that book inside museum’s library.

Soon after the Disneyland clue was found, the timer from the clue discovered in Culcheth ran out. This turned out to be a massive Kahoot (Trivia quiz game) with 118 questions, where the winner would receive the next clue.

The trivia included questions which ranged from easy to insane, including Mari’s favorite pictured below.

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Congrations to Discord user Zettapoke for winning the Trivia! For the clue, Zettapoke received both a poem and picture.

My name is horse, and yu shud see,
To the west, this clu shud be.
Where two brothers once set sayle.
I wil tel yu this smal tayle.

On the docks, their boat doth shyne.
Glistening with both sea and bryne.
Stan O War, the second one –
Near the beach, to have some fun.

He fell off, the other throws
A ring of sorts, as wayve tows.
Stan popped his hed up from the sea,
And took hold of the life preservey.

Chuckle, shake off, laugh,
They both know they are naught half.
They look out twoards the sea,
Spot a friend named Mary.

This pier here is mighty fyne.
And it goes by the name of __.
And wen yu get close to the water
To the clue, now ye hotter

And when the twyns
Go out for malt –
I stay up late,
I lik the salt.

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The photograph was quickly recognized as showing the Queen Mary, which is docked in Long Beach, CA. Brigit and Lian are ready to head out once again to investigate tomorrow evening!

Once again, this leaves us with two clues to check out tomorrow:

  1. The Milwaukee Art Museum
  2. The Queen Mary

Until then, CodeHunters!

Happy Hunting! x

Once again, a huge thank you to Discord user SenseiAurelius for helping compile this!

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