Search for Bourne—Day 8
July 25th, 2007
Arg! Not one of my cameras caught a shot of Jason Bourne. No matter, though. It’s time for a complete spoiler for Day 8 of the Ultimate Search for Bourne. Stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled.
Looks like we may finally be through with Dater Notes. The contact today, Simon Ross (British, apparently, in keeping with yesterday’s clue), prefers to communicate through www.priceless.com, and our mission briefing tells us we need to go there to find Simon Ross’s handle and pass phrase.
Unfortunately, this is a MasterCard ad site with a very annoying and loud voice over when you first load it. If you click the link in the Communication panel (or click here) instead of typing in the URL, though, you can skip the message and go straight to Simon Ross’s profile.
Our mission briefing has told us to look for official identification. A thumbnail under the image of the train opens a shot of Simon’s passport. No need to use the Image Filter in the Decryption panel (unlike yesterday’s challenge). You can read the information right on the image.
Printed in red ink is Simon’s handle: CRUYFF74. Handwritten on the right is his passphrase: don’t silence the truth.
Entering these in the instant messenger, we get:
You are one of the agents looking for Bourne? I may have some information. Contact me again tomorrow.
Submit this text in response to the daily briefing, and you’re done!
I think I have a better idea of camera placement, today. Simon mentions the Imperial War Museum in his “Priceless Pick,” and a quick Google search reveals that this is right near Waterloo Station, a choice for camera placement today. I went with that, and we’ll see if I do better than I did yesterday.
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1. L J | July 25th, 2007 at 12:50 am
He also talks about the Chunnel and Waterloo Station is where you get on.
2. Alec Bings | July 25th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Very true! And he talks <em>a lot</em> about the Chunnel.
Two clues pointing to the same camera. If I don’t get a sighting, then I may have to give up completely in the quest for camera placement guidance and assume that it really is just a guessing game.
Note that if you click Turn on Map View at Simon’s Priceless.com profile and zoom in, you get another very plausible location that has nothing to do with the Chunnel or the Imperial War Museum but does seem to match with a camera. Perhaps I’ll use both these locations when I have two cameras tomorrow.
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