Blowback- Card 4
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Clue 1
You'll want to start by translating the text.
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Clue 2
In English, it reads: "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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Clue 3
This text is telling you what to do with the differently sized letters.
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Clue 4
Analyze each line separately (except the 3rd line, which has no oddly sized letters).
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Solution
Final Solution: If you arrange the too-large letters from largest to smallest, the two lines read:MARCUS ELDER
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Clue 1
Well, it must be an alphabet, but it's not a language I recognize...
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Clue 2
...at least not a language of this planet.
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Clue 3
The moon will illuminate your path.
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Clue 4
Search for a few moon-themed scripts.
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Solution
Final Solution: This is the "Moon" alphabet, developed by William Moon. The plaintext reads: "The Ourorobos has a mole in the CIA, he goes by the codename Manticore."
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Clue 1
Well, Sole is Italian for "Sun..."
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Clue 2
Eight lines... and eight planets.
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Clue 3
But they may not be the planets' names in English.
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Clue 4
If 1 is the first letter in the solution, then the first letter is A.
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Solution
The planets, in Italian, are:
Mercurio
Venere
Terra
Marte
Giove
Saturno
Urano
Nettuno
Taking the letters marked by numbers and ordering them numerically gives us: AUSTIN.
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Clue 1
Just like the other stamps, this will be more useful later.
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Clue 2
They are also solved in a similar way.
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Clue 3
What are these words in Italian?
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Solution
"Pear" and "Brooms" in Italian become "Pera" and "Scope" which, combined, become "Periscope."
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