Drop 5 (Greasers and Swans and Sharks Oh My!)

## Drop Location

Tachyon uploaded a new video, Knock 'Em Down. This lead to a drop at the Sea Bowl bowling alley in Pacifica, California.

## Items

The drop was retrieved by Ladron121.

**It contained five items:**

A Postcard (Front)A Postcard (Back)Irish Blessings with a Post-It note stuck to pg. 120SD card containing 2 locked RAR files.An oragami crane with "30" written in silver inside.Shark Hand PuppetShark Hand PuppetShark Hand Puppet

## The Post Card

The card is from a different manufacturer than the others. This one was
made by Paperchase, says under that "PRINTED IN THE UK".

```
47 4c 41 44 20 59 4f 55 20 46 49 4e 41 4c 4c
59 20 55 4e 44 45 52 53 54 4f 4f 44 20
4d 59 20 4d 45 53 53 41 47 45 2e 20 44 4f
4e 27 54 20 46 4f 4c 4c 4f 57 20 55 50 20
41 20 53 4d 41 52 54 20 4d 4f 56 45 20
57 49 54 48 20 41 20 53 54 55 50 49 44 20
4f 4e 45 2e 2e 2e 41 4e 44 20 57 48 41
54 45 56 45 52 20 59 4f 55 20 44 4f 2c
20 44 4f 4e 27 54 20 47 4f 20 48 4f 4d
45 2e

```

Which translates to:

```
GLAD YOU FINALLY UNDERSTOOD MY MESSAGE.
DON'T FOLLOW UP A SMART MOVE WITH A STUPID ONE...
AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GO HOME.

```

## The Book

The book had no dog earred pages or markings of any kind.

A Post-it note was stuck to page 120, between 120 and 121.

### Text of Post-it note:

```
I know I messed
a lot of things
up. But cheer up,
because if my hunch
is right, it all might
make sense really
soon.

xoxo
T

```

### Text of page 120:

```
It's easy to be pleasant
When life flows by like a
song.
But the man worthwhile is
the one who can smile
When everything goes dead
wrong.

```

### Text of page 121:

```
May St. Patrick guard you
wherever
You go and guide you in
Whatever you do -
may his loving
Protection be a blessing to you
always.

```

## The SD Card

Two files were on the card. Both were password protected RAR files.

### File #1

Download

File name: 373a3135

Solution: Hexadecimal for "7:15" (The time OpAphid's Home Alone video was posted.)

File size: 46599 kb

Password: "silver" (Color of ink on the oragami crane)

Contents: There are 12 files within the folder. 11 of them are Gemma videos. They can viewed by adding ".mov" to the end of the filename:

1c = "Nut Kills Man"

1f = "Living In London"

4c = "It's Not Your Decision"

6b = "They Disappeared..."

6d = "Horrid Flatmates"

6f = "Learning Egyptian"

46 = "Don't Trust The Authorities"

61 = "Someone's Following You"

62 = "A Watcher"

66 = "An Awkward Silence"

67 = "Scared To Go Home"

The twelfth file, named 69, is a text file which reads:

```
## Xy Xy Xy Xy 20 XX XX Xy XX Xy XX XX XX 3f
Yyyy Yyyyyyyy?

```

When it was all solved, it says, "Look Familaar?"

This was written by diastres explaining the solution:

```
Take the following and count the number of occurrences of each character.
1c 1f 4c 6b 6d 6f 46 61 62 66 67 69

value | 1 2 4 6  7 9 b c d f
count | 3 1 2 10 1 1 1 2 1 2

Possible XX combinations:  41 42 44 46 47 49 61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = ABDFGIabdfgiqrtvy
Possible Xy combinations:  4b 4c 4d 4f 6b 6c 6d 6f  = KLMOklmo

## Xy Xy Xy Xy 20 XX XX Xy XX Xy XX XX XX 3f
Yyyy Yyyyyyyy?

I think we could use the first way as a basis, to find the two upper case letters, the Xy 'L' and XX 'F'.

L = 4c
F = 46

Remove those from the counts.

1 2 4 6 7 9 b c d f
3 1 0 9 1 1 1 1 1 2

Possible XX combinations:  61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy
Possible Xy combinations:  6b 6c 6d 6f  = klmo

L___ F_______?

We can only use combinations from Xy (klmo) for the first word.  L needs to be followed by o. We really only found Look and Loom for likely words, and I'm not sure what kind of two word question starts with Loom.  So we'll use Look.

Look F_______?

o = 6f x2
k = 6b

Remove those from the counts.

1 2 6 7 9 b c d f
3 1 6 1 1 0 1 1 0

Possible XX combinations:  61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy
Possible Xy combinations:  6c 6d = lm

Look F _ l/m _ l/m _ _ _?

F can only be followed by a or i since the third letter is l or m.  Also note that the two Xy places CAN'T be the same because there's only one 'c' (l) left and one 'd' (m) left.

Fal_m___
Fam_l___
Fil_m___
Fim_l___

This is where I broke out http://www.math.toronto.edu/jjchew/scrabble/lists/index.html because obviously I don't want to waste my time if there's no possible word to fit that combination.

Familiar was the only one left that could possibly fit when I used the 8-letter common dictionary.  But we'll start with just what I gave above.

Fam_l___

a = 61
m = 6d
l = 6c

Remove those from the counts.

1 2 6 7 9 c d
2 1 3 1 1 0 0

Possible XX combinations:  61 62 64 66 67 69 71 72 74 76 79 = abdfgiqrtvy
Possible Xy combinations:  None, but that's fine since all of our Xys are covered.

i = 69 x2
a = 61
r = 72

Remove those from the counts.

1 2 6 7 9
1 0 0 0 -1

Huh, so obviously there was a mistake somewhere.  But switch 69 to 61 and you get Familaar like in Tach's letter to Sphinx (see the archive).  My assumption is there was a typo or mistake somewhere  when it was being made.

Look Familaar?

```

### File #2

Download

File name: X

File size: 3kb

Password: "thirty" (Number written on oragami crane)

Contents: A text file named "END CROPS ENCORE" which is an anagram for "CORRESPONDENCE"

Inside this file was a long string of code. When decoded from hex to binary to text a list was found:

```
88040018
absynth420
acidfingers
Alvinandthechipmunks
anganderk
avasta
blessedSophia
blindmancansee
blughblue
boredfairy
briska06
brm01
Captious
cassiesgrace
cd3bs
chixor1
cluechaser
covedweller
Cu_Roi
CuttingSquares
Darfaizee
datsrightbitches
davishl
DeadIdol
Destrin41016
donthaveaclue
dug321
Dylanb2004
eggtoffee
Emezy2k7
fatbat69
Frederikke
FrHuggyBear
FromSubjectSent
gemmers19
germanbobslayer
gleamgliding
gtrichar
Helix302
HeWhoMustNotBeNamed1
hummingcrab
ihearthevoices
ilike2burnthing
immodest
ixlr8
jamesdoof
jengels2002
jeremypoursine
jiangzhifei
Jimmyjm
josephbeuys
kapjatokbe
KathleenMJ
kingheartsjacksqueen
ladron121
lec8486
lolm3n
LonWpnX
losh14
lostlifeinlowell
loveleslieforever
Luv2LuvEm
MaxZyrix
mei0023
Melissab718
mezory
MintGurl
mmkhamsehee
mourningbelle
mpipher
nerdielicious
Noava22
noduspocus
Nyloslk
OpAphid
PhillFlash
PiIsYourFfriend
pikales
plumpy3
punkybrister69
qnodrknss
ravensgrace
reganashe
reubenfan27
rjswillis
rockindanceteacher
romanceismusic
rustybug
rustydevil7
Ryo2810
saint696
sakuramayoke
Sfonzarelli
shifty132
shiznutz24
sickhappy
skawjw
Snippity1
soulkaun
spaciegirl
srfriez
stevedx669
stitcheduplove
summoner5890
surrealisticpill
sysopozzy
taiyac
terazi601
terminallycute
TheChessboardWoman
theratdiva
thetroll
tigerlilylynn
tiltingwindward
tomgirl1980
trace2927
Turmi0n
twjaniak
unlimiteddj
UnReaLwurld
urspecial
warpylol
watchingcassie
weetziebat05
Wrkncacnter
xdanielletaylor
xxdemon13xx
zvonx

```

## The Oragami Crane

A piece of green paper folded into a crane. Once unfolded, the number '30', written in silver ink, could be seen.

## The Shark Hand Puppet

The shark puppet was turned inside out, searched stem to stern. Nothing hidden inside, no marks or writing.

It was made by Pappa Geppetto, a subsidiary of Manhattan Toys.

This puppet could be a reference to Purple Monkey, which is sold by the same company.

## External links

Forum Discussion.

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