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[SPOILERS] Complete Step by Step Guide to Mission 01
Hi Everyone, this is a full guide showing you how to do Mission 01 without just giving you the URLs. I know there are a lot of posts like this but I am going to try and make this more concise than the others and will also tell you tell you the thought process to get the answers
Lets Begin!
**WARNING** This may only work in Safari
DEBRIEFING:
First of all download all three of the files on the debriefing to your desktop by secondary/right clicking them and selecting "Save Linked File as". You can get them here:
FILE 1
Now go to file one and you will see a bunch of gibberish below the video copy all of this into a text editor (Its an ASCII picture). If at first you cant see the pictures try resizing the text or the window and changing the font to Courier
It should look like this:
The picture is of Smoke, a Bee, The Roman Numeral IV (4) and a Fire, Put it all together and you get: http://smokebeforefire.com. Thats the first part of file 1 done! 
PLACE YOUR BETS
Ok now if you click on the above URL you should see some cards and some writing above saying "Place your Bets, J is worth K, King is worth M, and A is worth A of course. it should look like this:
First of all you need to ask yourself, how many cards are there in each suit in a deck of cards? The answer is 13
Now look at the Cards, You may notice that there are only two suits which means there are 26 cards in the deck. What else has 26 characters in it? The Alphabet! So now the sentence makes sense. The first suit (Clubs) represents the first 13 letters and the second suit (Hearts) represents the last 13 letters. When you assign letters according to this revised cypher, you get the sentence "In the Year of the Rat. So now go to http://intheyearoftherat.com
IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT
You should now be on a page which says "Index of /" at the top with a file called prejection.sc below it. Right beside the file there is a link: "Viewer". Click this to be brought to a page with table filled in with some dates and a lot of errors. The page is unable to run. Inorder to make it possible to run you need to change the date on your local machine to the correct date, which is 18th of July 1996 or you can just go straight to: http://intheyearoftherat.com/viewer/liv … e=07181996
**WARNING** Changing the time on your machine may cause problems if you have Time Machine running and will re-trigger iCal event reminders and Emails
This will bring you to a new table which is able to run and at the bottom it should say stackthedeck. This is the first passphrase. So now go to http://nextinternal.com/stackthedeck and click on replace file in the top right corner and choose the file 1996.sc.dms which you saved to your desktop. Make sure you wait until it says 'File Replaced!"
FILE 2
Go back to the briefings page and go to File 2 you should see some more gibberish:
eɪtʃ tʰiː tʰiː pʰiː ˈkoʊlən slæʃ slæʃ ˈdʌbəljuː ˈdʌbəljuː ˈdʌbəljuː dɒt tu ˈdʌbəljuː əʊ ɑr diː ɛs wʌn ɛs əʊ juː ɛn diː dɒt siː əʊ ɛm
These are phonetics if you highlight the text and then go to "Safari>Services>Speech>Start Speaking Text" in the menu bar your computer will read them for you. If it is too fast for you to understand then go to "System Preferences>Speech" and reduce the speed. It should read out a URL: http://2words1sound.com. Put this into the Address Bar and go to it.
THE PODIUM
You should now be on a page with a podium thats says
For sum, the thrill of the chase is all that matters. No matter how you frays it, whether in a positive or negative light, it’s all about the excitement. Even when the weights bear down on your chest, like the force of the heavens, it chance for glory. Bee that as it may, the whole is often grater than the sum of its parts, so having strong opinions and being herd in these times of yearning is all that you can pursue…Your hands are tied
It should look like this:
You should notice alot of typos:
sum = some
frays = phrases
mite = might
bee = be
grater = greater
herd = heard
Some phrases might be greater heard.
So which phrase do you think stands out the most? Highlight the sentence Your hands are tied and go to "Safari>Services>Speech>Start Speaking Text" again and it should say:
Your hands are free when you enter the code tongue-tied.
The passphrase is tonguetied so go to http://nextinternal.com/tonguetied (Make sure to remove the hypen) and replace file 1994.sc with the one on your desktop
Yay thats 2 Files Done
File 3 now go to Briefings again and click on File 3. You should some numbers:
58,137
71,56
6,11
28,90
101,44
22,70
You will see what these are for later. Below the numbers is a link to a Device: http://holding.macheist.com/device . You should see a device with the numbers 4180921657 put into it. The idea of this is to get rid of all the pieces of the pies on both sides by putting in the correct number. You will know you have put in the correct number if it removes a piece and doesn't add one.
The correct numbers are: 1603035184. This is an ISBN and if you google it you should find the book "The Time Machine" by H.G Wells. Now if your wondering what the numbers before were used for, this is where they come into play. You'll notice that there are two sets of numbers seperated by a comma the first number is the page number and the second is the word number e.g Page 58, Word 137. You should get:
Page 58, Word 137: "be"
Page 71, word 56 is: "not"
Page 6, word 56 is: "the"
Page 28, word 90 is: "servants"
Page 101, word 44 is: "of"
Page 22, word 70 is: "words"
Be Not the Servants of Words
This give us http://benottheservantsofwords.com
BE NOT THE SERVANTS OF WORDS
Go to the above URL and you should see a tablet with some sentences in different languages engraved in it (The top one is Irish, but i can't understand it 
It literally means "nonsense lie/delude upright stupid vertical without worth") It should look like this:
You now need to look for the passphrase. One of the things that should jump out at you is that there is space at the same part of every sentence just to the left of the middle. If you take the first letter of every word after the space you should get the passphrase: Chronology.
Now go to http://nextinternal.com/chronology and Replace the file 1995.sc with the one on your desktop.
THE KEYPAD AND GESTURE
Now go back to the Briefings page and watch the new available video. You'll notice that the dark mysterious figure is folding a piece of paper and cuts it to the shape of a mountain range. At the end of the video she says "The Secret is in the Mountains". If you were to unfold the paper that she cut, There would be a fat X in the middle. Now go back to the Hompage and click on the keypad on the left below the locked safe. Press any number to activate it. A Co-ordinate plain sort of thing should appear. You now draw the X into it to complete the mission. It should look like this:
If you do this correctly a video should play of the safe opening.
You have now completed Mission 01!!!!!!! You now have Freeverse Hearts, AllSecure, Sticky Notes and a $2 Bundle Discount!
I hope you guys like this guide and find it helpful, feel free to make any suggestions!
Thanks to markbett for telling me about a some mistakes I made!
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February 15, 2009 6:13 pm
first of thanks for taking the time to write this up... i did a similar writeup but wasnt as well spoken... there are a few corrections though:
first correction
for the IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT solution you made a mistake.... it is not an anagram.... if you look between the two words on the table you will see two suits of cards.... the club and the heart....
there are 13 cards in a suit, you are using 2 suits of cards.... there are 26 letters in the alphabet
the first suit that appears represents letters a-n or so the second represents the last 13 letters of the alphabet....
when you assign letters according to this revised cypher, you get the word in the year of the rat...
========
second correction
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for the in the year of the rat website (as with EVERY puzzle) you do not need to nor should you look at the source code to solve the puzzle...
in order to properly solve this puzzle you need to actually change the date on your local machine to the appropriate time
**WARNING** doing this may cause problems if you have time machine running and will retrigger ical event reminders and emails....
with the date set appropriately you will see the indicated text....
01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110
01101101 01101111 01101110 01101011 01100101 01111001
01110011
February 15, 2009 7:17 pm
markbett wrote:
first of thanks for taking the time to write this up... i did a similar writeup but wasnt as well spoken... there are a few corrections though:
first correction
for the IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT solution you made a mistake.... it is not an anagram.... if you look between the two words on the table you will see two suits of cards.... the club and the heart....
there are 13 cards in a suit, you are using 2 suits of cards.... there are 26 letters in the alphabet
the first suit that appears represents letters a-n or so the second represents the last 13 letters of the alphabet....
when you assign letters according to this revised cypher, you get the word in the year of the rat...
========
second correction
========for the in the year of the rat website (as with EVERY puzzle) you do not need to nor should you look at the source code to solve the puzzle...
in order to properly solve this puzzle you need to actually change the date on your local machine to the appropriate time
**WARNING** doing this may cause problems if you have time machine running and will retrigger ical event reminders and emails....
with the date set appropriately you will see the indicated text....
Thanks! I'll change these mistakes now
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February 15, 2009 7:35 pm
Ah! Geez, it seems so simple now!
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February 15, 2009 7:48 pm
Great post man! It definitely will make it easier for those who have not yet completed it!
Go Orange Team!
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February 15, 2009 7:52 pm
February 15, 2009 7:56 pm
Thanks for the awesome guide. I did quite a bit on my own but with this I was able to get right on through it. BTW for the holding.macheist/device link you have a period in there so it doesnt work correctly and then for the intheyearoftherat link you have the f and the o mixed up.
Thanks again!
Just because it makes sense it doesn't mean its right...
February 15, 2009 8:40 pm
Thanks
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February 15, 2009 9:09 pm
Thanks for the information i was able to finish the mission.
The Moon Or Bust( Go Green Team)We are second to none.
February 15, 2009 9:21 pm
MattDonnelly wrote:
Hi Everyone, this is a full guide showing you how to do Mission 01 without just giving you the URLs. I know there are a lot of posts like this but I am going to try and make this more concise than the others and will also tell you tell you the thought process to get the answers
Lets Begin!
**WARNING** This may only work in Safari
DEBRIEFING:
First of all download all three of the files on the debriefing to your desktop by secondary/right clicking them and selecting "Save Linked File as".
FILE 1
Now go to file one and you will see a bunch of gibberish below the video copy all of this into a text editor (Its an ACSII picture). If at first you cant see the pictures try resizing the text or the window
The picture is of Smoke, a Bee, The Roman Numeral IV (4) and a Fire, Put it all together and you get: http://smokebeforefire.com. Thats the first part of file 1 done!
PLACE YOUR BETS
Ok now if you click on the above URL you should see some cards and some writing above saying "Place your Bets, J is worth K, King is worth M, and A is worth A of course. it should look like this:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/macheist/missions/1/cards.png
First of all you need to ask yourself, how many cards are there in each suit in a deck of cards? The answer is 13
Now look at the Cards, You may notice that there is only two suits which means there is 26 cards in the deck. What else has 26 characters in it? The Alphabet! So now the sentence makes sense. The first suit (Clubs) represents the first 13 letters and the second suit (Hearts) represents the last 13 letters. When you assign letters according to this revised cypher, you get the sentence "In the Year of the Rat. So now go to http://intheyearoftherat.com
IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT
You should now be on a page which says "Index of /" at the top with a file called prejection.sc below it. Right beside the file there is a link: "Viewer". Click this to be brought to a page with a some dates and a lot of errors. The page is unable to run. Inorder to make it possible to run you need to change the date on your local machine to the correct date, which is 18th of July 1996 or you can just go straight to: http://intheyearoftherat.com/viewer/liv … e=07181996
**WARNING** Doing this may cause problems if you have Time Machine running and will re-trigger iCal event reminders and Emails
This will bring you to a new table which is able to run and at the bottom it should say stackthedeck. This is the first passphrase. So now got http://nextinternal.com/stackthedeck and click on replace file in the top right corner and choose the file 1996.sc.dms which you saved to your desktop. Make sure you wait until it says 'File Replaced!"
FILE 2
Go back to the briefings page and go to File 2 you should see some more gibberish, these are phonetics if you highlight the text and then go to "Safari>Services>Speech>Start Speaking Text" in the menu bar. If it is too fast for you to understand then go to "System Preferences>Speech" and reduce the speed. It should read out a URL: http://2words1sound.com. Put this into the URL Bar and go to it.
THE PODIUM
You should now be on a page with a podium thats says
For sum, the thrill of the chase is all that matters. No matter how you frays it, whether in a positive or negative light, it’s all about the excitement. Even when the weights bear down on your chest, like the force of the heavens, it chance for glory. Bee that as it may, the whole is often grater than the sum of its parts, so having strong opinions and being herd in these times of yearning is all that you can pursue…Your hands are tied
It should look like this:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/macheist/missions/1/podium.jpg
You should notice alot of typos:
sum = some
frays = phrases
mite = might
bee = be
grater = greater
herd = heardSome phrases might be greater heard.
So which phrase do you think stands out the most? Highlight the sentence Your hands are tied and go to "Safari>Services>Speech>Start Speaking Text" again and it should say:
Your hands are free when you enter the code tongue-tied.
The passphrase is tonguetied so go to http://nextinternal.com/tonguetied (Make sure to remove the hypen) and replace file 1994.sc with the one on your desktop
Yay thats 2 Files Done
File 3 now go to Briefings again and click on File 3. You should some numbers:
58,137
71,56
6,11
28,90
101,44
22,70You will see what these are for later. Below the numbers is a link to Device: http://holding.macheist.com/device . You should see a device with the numbers 4180921657 put into it. The idea of this is to get rid of all the pieces of the pies on both sides by putting in the correct number. You will no if your number is correct if it removes a piece and doesn't add one. The correct numbers are: 1603035184. This is an ISBN and if you google it you should find the book "The Time Machine" by H.G Wells. Now if your wondering what the numbers before were used for, this is where they come into play. You'll notice that there are two sets of numbers seperated by a comma the first number is the page number and the second is the word number e.g Page 58, Word 137. You should get:
Page 58, Word 137: "be"
Page 71, word 56 is: "not"
Page 6, word 56 is: "the"
Page 28, word 90 is: "servants"
Page 101, word 44 is: "of"
Page 22, word 70 is: "words"Be Not the Servants of Words
This give us http://benottheservantsofwords.com
BE NOT THE SERVANTS OF WORDS
Go to the above URL and you should see a tablet with some sentences in different languages engraved in it (The top one is Irish, but don't ask me what it means
It literally means "nonsense lie/delude upright stupid vertical without worth") It should look like this:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/macheist/missions/1/tablet.jpg
You now need to look for the passphrase. One of the things that should jump out at you is that there is space at the same part of every sentence just to the left of the middle. If you take the first letter of every word after the space you should get passphrase: Chronology.
Now go to http://nextinternal.com/chronology and Replace the file 1995.sc with the one on your desktop.
THE KEYPAD AND GESTURE
Now go back to the Briefings page and watch the new available video. You'll notice that the dark mysterious figure is folding a piece of paper and cuts it to the shape of a mountain. At the end she says "The Secret is in the Mountains". If you were to unfold the paper that she cut, There would be a fat X in the middle. Now go back to the Hompage and click on the keypad. Press any number to activate it. A Co-ordinate plain sort of thing should appear. You now draw the X into it to complete the mission. It should look like this:
http://www.macheist.com/static/missions … 86d006.jpg
If you do this correctly a video should play of the safe opening.
You have now completed Mission 01!!!!!!! You now have Freeverse Hearts, AllSecure, Sticky Notes and a $2 Bundle Discount!
I hope you guys like this guide and find it helpful, feel free to make any suggestions!
Thanks to markbett for telling me about a some mistakes I made!
Wow this is great and thourogh! (I read it after I had done the heist) Good Job!
Orange you glad I didn't use a pc?!:P
February 15, 2009 9:59 pm
I'm glad to finally get to see the logic. I missed a good bit in the mission and ended up skipping things. I was on the right track, but others were just a little faster than I was.
Green Monkey Team
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February 15, 2009 11:18 pm
Very nicely done 
You spelled ASCII wrong though 
and have a typo in your very last sentence (typos can be so annoying... so hard to catch and squash all of them).
Kudos!
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
February 15, 2009 11:38 pm
February 16, 2009 12:36 am
February 16, 2009 4:10 am
Thanks, I was a little stuck there but you helped me through.
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February 16, 2009 6:06 am
nice walkthrough! great effort you put in there.
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February 16, 2009 7:26 am
Excellent walkthrough, MattDonnelly. And it's great that you shared it with everyone in the Backroom. +150
P.S. I'm glad to finally see that someone got 2words1sound.com right (solve using text to speech). This is the first time I've seen it posted anywhere, although it's been hard to keep-up in every forum thread these days.
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February 16, 2009 8:07 am
February 16, 2009 8:18 am
Finding the passphrases was easier than that. After being given the nextinternal site, all you have to do is a google search within that site, like this: "site:nextinternal.com"
Seems like cheating, but whatever, it works.
go green
February 16, 2009 9:46 am
Good job mate, I was so on wrong path, and your guide helped me a lot!
It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy!
February 16, 2009 10:18 am
johnred wrote:
Excellent walkthrough, MattDonnelly. And it's great that you shared it with everyone in the Backroom. +150
P.S. I'm glad to finally see that someone got 2words1sound.com right (solve using text to speech). This is the first time I've seen it posted anywhere, although it's been hard to keep-up in every forum thread these days.
Thanks Johnred!
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February 16, 2009 10:45 am
February 16, 2009 11:07 am
k-fish wrote:
Hi.
johnred wrote:P.S. I'm glad to finally see that someone got 2words1sound.com right (solve using text to speech).
Well, what if you can simply read that? Like I did? After all phonetics are not that hard to read...
Karsten
i think he meant the "Some phrase might be greater heard" refering to "your hands are tied"...
oh well
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February 16, 2009 12:07 pm
Everything worked for me on firefox except for the last part with the X to open the safe. That has to be done with safari.
Thx
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February 16, 2009 12:48 pm
Great walkthrough Matt!!!, much appreciated. Felt guilty having to read it but there were a couple of bits I never would've gotten, thank god I didn't spend days trying! I got the “phrase greater' sentence instantly but discarded it as meaningless! And I never would've gotten the card thing despite getting the 'two sounds one word' address as soon as I noticed the phonetic for 'W' repeated 3 times.
Without your brilliantly presented guide I would've lost two days work! I owe you one mate!
Good old Collingwood forever
February 16, 2009 1:46 pm
Well i would never have guessed this!
So thanks a lot!
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February 16, 2009 2:30 pm
johnred wrote:
Excellent walkthrough, MattDonnelly. And it's great that you shared it with everyone in the Backroom. +150
P.S. I'm glad to finally see that someone got 2words1sound.com right (solve using text to speech). This is the first time I've seen it posted anywhere, although it's been hard to keep-up in every forum thread these days.
I'm glad someone got it right too because, even with the speech slowed down, it sounded nothing like that to me!
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February 16, 2009 2:59 pm
Thanks for the help!
February 16, 2009 3:21 pm
This is awesome to see the logic behind it all, really allowing me to appreciate the effort not only by my fellow Heisters, but by the people that put this whole thing together.
It was certainly a thrill to be involved with the heist as it was going on, but a great deal of advances were made with me only reaping the solution but missing in on the process.
So thanks again!
Should probably get back to work.
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February 16, 2009 3:46 pm
Thanks sooooo much!!!
I have finally understood every step of the mission...
Really, thank you.
I think now I could imagine how to think on the next one
If you don't mind I'm going to copy this on my computer because my boyfriend concluded that some steps where absolutly impossible.
Jewel Thief Orange #171 ready for next mission
February 16, 2009 4:15 pm
Thanks for the walkthrough!
February 16, 2009 6:01 pm
Hendor wrote:
Finding the passphrases was easier than that. After being given the nextinternal site, all you have to do is a google search within that site, like this: "site:nextinternal.com"
Seems like cheating, but whatever, it works.
never thought of using Google like that...interesting
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