Drop 4 (The Lost Art of Punctuality)

## Drop Location

Tachyon uploaded a new video, Mysteries of My Past... Revealed: My Time in Suburbia. This lead to a drop at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, California.

## Items

The drop was retrieved, once again, by Ladron121.

**Recovery videos:**

Drop vid

Opening vid

**It contained four items:**

Postcard FrontPostcard BackThe Art of PeacePost-It note (contained inside The Art of Peace)Queen of Hearts (contained inside Post-It Note)SD Card containing two filesA Birthday CardA Birthday CardA Birthday CardA Birthday Card
## The Post Card

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**Translation from HEX -> Text:**

If something should happen to me, please tell him that I'm sorry for everything I put him through.

Sometimes I regret the decisions I've made, but in my heart, I know what I have to do.

I don't expect him to understand, but I hope he can forgive me someday.

## The Book

55 - "The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit."

56 - "Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion."

Page 97-98 (dog ear is toward page 98 ):

97 - "When attacked, unify the upper, middle, and lower parts of the body. Enter, turn, and blend with your opponent, front and back, right and left."

98 - "Your spirit is the true shield."

**Note text:**

There is a time and a place for peace

I hope to find it again at some point

but right now, I have to play by their rules

xoxox,

T

P.S. Sorry for that mess back there,

I guess I'm too old for a baby sitter

## The SD Card

**File #1** -

download

File name: 686d6d6d

Solution: Hexadecimal for "hmmm"

Add .wmv to the end of the filename and you get the video by gemmers19: "They Disappeared..."

**File #2** -

download

File name: 53455441554b4554

Solution: Hexadecimal for "SETAUKET"

Add .rar to the end of the filename and you get a password protected RAR file.

Password: SASCHA (a YouTube tag in that video)

Contents: Text file named 4e494c49, which translated from hex says "NILI." The contents of the file are "AN LQUIYHL UOE ZAV KA A DIXG YIH IL QBT." It is a vigenere cipher with SASCHA as the key. It decodes to: "in tonight she had it a life rip it out". This anagrams into "I sought to Infiltrate the I in Aphid"

## The Birthday Card

**Card text:**

Another year has gone by...

Happy belated birthday!

I always remember the date (but you know

that I'm not always the

most punctual gal)

Wherever you are,

know that I am thinking about you

xoxox,

T