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Here we go, my first try of doing a walkthrough

Watch the first briefing, we get a webpage and a phrase.

Go to the indicated page www.palminternal.com, there you find a pad with 12 buttons, like a cellphone has 12  buttons. We also get the phrase "iBeforePre". On a cellphone letters are arranged to certain buttons for texting and such things. If we take the pad we see as a cellphone and we "text" the phrase "ibeforepre" the pad lifts and we get to the next step.

I added numbers to the buttons, so the solution would be as follows: 4233673773

After the pad lifted we find a puzzle. Here's a solution to the puzzle (Thanks to dahcheet and macfanrobin)

After solving the puzzle we get to http://www.palminternal.com/root/. Click the button on the very top right corner saying "Upload Files to Mainframe" and we get to the second briefing. With it we receive two pictures.

On the first picture (The one about the museum) it says Bostwicktonville Old Museum of Modern Art. We take the first letter of each word and that leads us to www.bomoma.org.

On this page we find different pictures in the Gallery section, and one picture has a signature in a corner that looks familiar to the scribble in the corner of the black picture from our second briefing.

So we take the black picture, and lay it over the one from the gallery so the two scribbles match and we end up with this picture:

Now we go back to www.bomoma.org to the section "Visit the Museum". In the text there is a link (if you click on any word with a bold first letter) and we get to the page www.bamspart.com. Here we find a map.

The map looks very similar to the picture from the Gallery, so we look at where the white spots from the overlaying picture would lead us to:

University, Rue de Musée and South Point. The different shapes of the white indicators mean different things:

The star on a map usually means where you are at the moment, which is at the Rue de Musée (where the museum is located, so no more clues here).

We find a tree with the white spot at South Point, so we click on South Point on the map at  www.bamspart.com. Under Attractions we find Liberation Park, which gives us a clue to the page : www.liberationpark.com.

The other white spot shows us a fish and a telephone, the telephone will be relevant later. If we click on University on the map at www.bamspart.com we find at Restaraunts & Bar the "Franks Flagship Fish Factory", which gives us a clue to the page: www.franksflagshipfishfactory.com.

Let's look at the flagship page first: It looks like a normal page from a restaurant, but what points out are the flags on the top of the page, they look weird, and there's not really a pattern in there that would be decorative to the page.

So we find out that those flags are actually nautical flags representing numbers, we find a translation for the numbers to the flags on wikipedia:

So translated we get the numbers 8 0 1 9 3 8 5 3 0 6. Here's where the telephone next to the white spot comes into play, this is a phone number 801-938-5306. If you call this number there is an answering machine saying the following:

"Agents, what I'm about to tell you is vital to your cause. Seek out Mondrian encrypted ascii, coded vertically, got that? But the key, you better write this down. Do you have a pen?  I'll wait..  Alright here's the key: R 1 Y 2 B 4 G 8 W 16 K 32. Take what you find head to the park. Then work all the angles out ok? Don't screw this up."

We find out that Mondrian refers to the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Now we got back to the Gallery section at www.bomoma.org and find one picture which is in Piet's style and decode it with the key we received from the message on the answering machine as follows:

R Y B G W K stand for colors : Red Yellow Blue Grey White and Black, so 1 for red, 2 for yellow, 4 for blue, 8 for grey, 16 for white and 32 for black. He told us that it is coded vertically, so we take the value of the colors according to the code and add up vertically.

Then we look at this chart from wikipedia and use it to translate the numbers into letters.

This leaves us with:

1+16+4+16+8+4+16 = 65 = A
1+16+8+16+8+16+1 = 66 = B
16+2+8+32+8+16+1 = 83 = S
4+4+16+32+4+16+8 = 84 = T
4+4+16+32+16+2+8 = 82 = R
2+32+1+16+8+2+4 = 65 = A
2+32+1+4+8+16+4 = 67 = C
16+2+16+1+1+32+16 = 84 = T
8+8+16+4+16+16+1 = 69 = E
16+1+16+16+16+16+1 = 82 = R
16+1+4+4+32+4+4 = 65 = A

The phrase ABSTRACT ERA. The message says that we should take what we find and go to the park.

So now we go to the second link we received from the map which is www.liberationpark.com. Here we go to Historical Society and click onto the picture next to "Unidentified Statue". We end up at http://www.liberationpark.com/limitations/.

We realize that the wings of the statue can be moved if we click on them and drag them around.

There are letters engraved on the base of the statue. What we have to do now is enter the phrase ABSTRACT ERA by using the wings to symbolize each letter according to the semaphore flag signals as shown in this picture:

So now place the wings to positions for the first letter "A". When you're done click one of the letters A on the base and it will light up. Do the same thing with the next letter "B" and continue until you entered the whole phrase.

Once you are done with the whole phrase the base will change into a scroll which you can click on and you will get a PDF-file called overprint.pdf.

(Thanks to macfanrobin for inspiring me to take a screenshot of the scroll)

If we go back now to www.liberationpark.com and click on "Park Map" we can download this map as a PDF file. We realize that the two PDF-files we have now are the exact same size, so if we lay the overprint on top of the map we end up with this:

Now you can either print this out and fold it so the arrows meet in the middle, or you can just cut the middle part out and you end up with this:

This picture shows us the gesture we are looking for to get our precious loot, with a nice little message on the bottom saying "Enjoy your loot".

Best regards,
Octoshape

You did a great walkthrough octoshape.  I never got where the Abstract Era phrase came from, now I do, thanks

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I agree; this is a really great walkthrough.  I like how you've explained where the answers came from, rather than just the answers themselves.  Great job!

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thanks for taking the time to put this all together.

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Thanks for explaining the Abstract Era thing.  Great Walkthough by the way.

Great walkthrough.  Thanks for adding all the details.

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Excellent job!  I love these heists, but there are always parts that just take me forever to get, this helps me a great deal :-)  Thanks!

Yeah .. I was wondering myself where the abstract era came from .. that's why I searched it out and found in different threads, and I was so proud of myself for figuring out myself how to layer pictures over on another, so I decided to write a quick walkthrough because the other walkthroughs were just kinda giving you the answer without the why behind it

Thanks so much!  The painting and map folding overlays really helped explain how to get from A to B.

great walkthrough!

Thank great walkthrough, helped me get through the last part with the map

It is great.Thank you for explanation of all details, great work.

Nice Detailed Walkthrough
Thanks For Explaining The Mondrian Code.

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EXCELLENT!! It seems that too many people tried to make a walkthrough on this mission, and this one is by far the best.

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Let me add my thanks for an excellent walkthrough.

Great walk through, I was stuck on the flags, this helped greatly..

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Thank you for the walkthrough! Some parts of this heist would have been impossible for me to do (not being a US citizen I wouldn't dare to make that phone call)

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Excellent walkthrough. This is very well done for a first time.

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Greatly appreciated!  How do you figure all of this out?

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Great job, really a big help for me! Thanks a lot!

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Without reporting my name?

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Superb walkthrough. Thank you. I am new to this website so may i ask: after finishing this mission i got $2 bundle discount. What do i do now? do i play more missions and get more $??!! or do i use this to buy Scribbles/iStock?

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Its for the bundle discount, after the end of macheist there is an bundle of apps you can buy, its discount on that bundle.
You already got scribbles and istock for free!

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Much appreciated!

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Superb walkthru, thx for the info.

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Those puzzle solutions are the pics i have corrected,
And that scroll too.
Ive demand my name anywhere in the first post!

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WOW! This is a fantastic walk-through. Very clear. Told me WHY instead of just handing me the answers. Thank You.

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great walkthrough!!!

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One correction, the name of the museum is Bostwicktonville Old Museum of Modern Art. Otherwise you end up at BOMOA.org. Anyway, nicely done, and your grammar isn't as bad as macfanrobin's, either...

Thanks.

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nice, thanks

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Good job!... thanks

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Very well done, thanks
The flag part was a stumper for me until you came to the rescue

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Thanks I kept messing up that name of the museum anyway.. gonna change it ..

Thanks for the grammar, I try to give my best

definitely takes a genius for that, I could not for the hell of me figure all of that out alone. Thanks a lot for the help on ABSTRACT ERA

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Thanks for your help!

Truly awesome walk through!

Great walkthrough... One of the best after having completed the mission. During the task you forget all the details of what you did during the mission.

Thanks for a excellent complete walkthrough...

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Great Job.  I'd completed this already but was impressed with your clear concise explanation.  Just want to through this out.  This site automatically gives you the semaphore for the phrase you type in.  You can use it to display the numbers from the franksflagshipfishfactory page as well as ABSTRACT ERA just choose maritime signal flags for the first and semaphore flags for the later.

www .sartori. com/nhc/flags/

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This was my  favorite mission so far! I wish I could've finished it on my own but I must admit I peeked at the forums when I got stuck with the Angel statue.

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Wow i though I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

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I got the moving blocks puzzle, but was stumped on the rest. Thanks!

Hi, sorry but I am still confused. I got all the way to folding the maps but I don't understand where to make the "gesture." Can someone please elaborate? It must be simple but I can't seem to figure it out.

Excellent walkthrough. I was having trouble getting the signals to register correctly with the angel, I really appreciate all the details not just the answer - let me know I was on the right track still. Great job putting this together! Thank you!

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