Guide to 'Haunted Apiary - Let Op!' October 12th and Onwards

Visual proof of crew members mustering at ANY axon ANYWHERE and displaying their skills must be sent through the Killer's comm channel.

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Rank and File - 0/250 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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Elite Forces - 0/15 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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Nav & Comm. - 0/25 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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Science & Medical - 0/15 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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Engineer & Mechanic - 0/25 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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Band & Entertainment - 0/10 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

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1 Paratroop, 1 Vac Suit Tech, 1 Scuba - 0/3 ... PENDING VISUAL CONFIRMATION

Mustering the Crew
I am now much more confident that our crew is numerous, well-trained, and resourceful.

Rank and File. Could use more drill instruction, but the numbers are there.
Elite Forces, including both combat and covert units.
Navigation and Communication. Axon hunting has kept these skills sharp.
Science and Medical. Crude, but all we can hope for under hopelessly primitive conditions.
Engineering and Mechanical. Question: possible to make a ship out of re-engineered axons?
Band and Entertainment. War is waiting. To make the waiting bearable matters.
Special Environment Ops. As yet, more courage than skill. Training will help.
Squads. We work much better in numbers.

Special Commendations are awarded to:

hmrpita, who needed to prove herself to me, did, with exemplary work in recruitment.
Myriad Wise Men, who commandeered a transmission of intense interest to the locals and used it as a carrier wave for spreading the news about our mission.

Further Special Commendations for work on this exercise are in process.

In the matter of the Killer, also styled "Dana", I received several thoughtful suggestions from my loyal (and ingenious) crew. On the basis of this input, I have formulated a plan and put it into action. With some ingenuity, I will also shortly be in position to neutralize the rogue process for good.

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0761101861
0764150979
0060956704
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0911382046
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The numbers are ISBNs of the following books:
0761101861 Beauty, The New Basics by Rona Berg, Anja Kroencke, Deborah Jaffe
0764150979 Barron's Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds by D. Caroline Coile, Michele Earle-Bridges
0060956704 Giant by Edna Ferber, Stuart M. Rosen

0911382046 Railroad: What It Is, What It Does (4th Edition) by John H. Armstorng
0789493837 London (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Michael Leapman
0380810565 National Velvet by Enid Bagnold

To solve this puzzle, you need to find the word assocated with the subjects of each group of books.

Sleeping Beauty
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Sleeping Giant

Underground Railroad
London Underground
Velvet Underground
sleeping_underground

Dear Charles,

Concerning your manuscript,
we are having some difficulty
with your quaint notion of tiny
adhesive notes. Without an un-
forseen degree of improvement,
they will remain far more
irritating than useful. The
editor begs you to simply
rewrite the pages at issue using
full sheets. This will ensure the
best possible outcome for the
upcoming print of you brilliant
opus.

In the meanwhile, I am returning
to you these notes, which have
become detached from the
manuscript pages. Our clerks
have remained unable, or in
some cases, unwilling, to
discern obfuscated or corrupted
phrases and to reconstruct their
chronology. If you would be so
kind...
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arrival in Rio de Janero, we journeyed to visit
an English estate. On the way, stayed at .....
the estate of Senor M. Figuireda, a relation of

Mauitius has prospered under British rule,
but in the neighbouring Isle of .....
which remains under the French, the roads
are still in a miserable state, as they had
been here, years ago.

the Beagle anchored in Berkeley Sound,
in East ..... Island

The Commodore Lima ordered Captain
..... to inquire with the Queen of Tahiti
repaying this debt.
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I spent many hours walking the plain of
..... past Napoleon's home, just down
the hill from his tomb.

and two species (and probably more)
of the Amblyrhynchus -- a genus confined
to the ..... Islands. There is one snake
which is numerous; it is identical with the

Jan 16th - Upon the rocky shoreline of
St. Iago. I spent some hours watching
the habits of an Octopus, or .....

Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, sailed
from ..... on the 27th of December. The
object of the expedition was to complete the survey
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The quotes are taken from Charles Darwin's book The Voyage of the Beagle. So the first step is to figure out what the missing words are.

Note Manuscript

arrival in Rio de Janero, we journeyed to visit
an English estate. On the way, stayed at Socêgo.
the estate of Señor M. Figuireda, a relation of April 13, 1832 -- After three days' travelling we arrived at Socêgo, the estate of Senhôr Manuel Figuireda, a relation of one of our party.

Mauitius has prospered under British rule,
but in the neighbouring Isle of Bourbon,
which remains under the French, the roads
are still in a miserable state, as they had
been here, years ago. May 1st, 1836 -- One great cause of its [Mauritius] prosperity is the excellent state of the roads. In the neighbouring Isle of Bourbon, which remains under the French government, the roads are still in the same miserable state as they were here only a few years ago.

the Beagle anchored in Berkeley Sound,
in East Falkland Island On March 1st, 1833, and again on March 16th, 1834, the Beagle anchored in Berkeley Sound, in East Falkland Island.

The Commodore at Lima ordered Captain
Fitz Roy to inquire with the Queen of Tahiti
concerning this debt. November 22nd, 1835 -- The Commodore at Lima ordered Captain Fitz Roy to inquire concerning this debt, and to demand satisfaction if it were not paid.

I spent many hours walking the plain of
Longwood past Napoleon's home, just down
the hill from his tomb. May 9, 1836 -- The next day I obtained lodgings within a stone's throw of Napoleon's tomb; it was a capital central situation, whence I could make excursions in every direction.
The history of the changes which the elevated plains of Longwood and Deadwood have undergone, as given in General Beatson's account of the island, is extremely curious.

and two species (and probably more)
of the Amblyrhynchus -- a genus confined
to the Galapagos Islands. There is one snake
which is numerous; it is identical with the October 8, 1835 -- There is one small lizard belonging to a South American genus, and two species (and probably more) of the Amblyrhynchus--a genus confined to the Galapagos Islands. There is one snake which is numerous; it is identical, as I am informed by M. Bibron, with the Psammophis Temminckii from Chile.

Jan 16th - Upon the rocky shoreline of
St. Iago. I spent some hours watching
the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish. Janurary 16th, 1832 -- I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish.

Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, sailed
from Devonport on the 27th of December. The
object of the expedition was to complete the survey After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship "Beagle," a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831.

Now, we'll take the answers and put them in chronological order (as suggested in the letter to Charles). And maybe for laughs and giggles, we'll take the first letter of the first clue, second letter of the second clue, and so on to see if it gives us anything. (Okay, so I already know it does).

Devonport (December 27, 1831)
cuttle-fish (January 16, 1832)
Socêgo (April13, 1832)
Falkland (March 1, 1833)
Galapagos (October 8, 1835)
Fitz Roy (November 22, 1835)
Bourbon (May 1, 1836)
Longwood (May 9, 1838)
duck pond

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Go ask the hunter
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get the point? (1)
Armpit. Ick. (7)
and the little devil stands here...or is it the angel? (5)
Me and Herakles EVERYONE is wearing them this season (1)
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Just where I wear my tiara (5)
the best foot (2)
one, two, buckle my pants (2)
The loop on my swordbelt (7)
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The hunter in this case is the constellation Orion. You need to figure out what star each clue is talking about (sometimes based on the classical representation of Orion) and what name is being used (since a few stars have more than one name).

get the point? (1) - "Bright One of the Sword (tip)" (more commonly known as Nair al Saif): Hatysa
Armpit. Ick. (7) - "Armpit of the Central One": Betelgeuse
and the little devil stands here...or is it the angel? (5) - West Shoulder: Bellatrix
Me and Herakles EVERYONE is wearing them this season (1) - The Lion Skin: Tabit

Just where I wear my tiara (5) - Orion's Head: Meissa
the best foot (2) - West Foot: Rigel
one, two, buckle my pants (2) - The Buckle (and Second Star) on the Belt: Alnilam (should be letter 3)
The loop on my swordbelt (7) - East Belt Star: Alnitak
heat sink

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The two pictures are the same, except in two different colors. If you work a little photoshop magic, and combine the two, you can get a full-colored image. Its now easier to notice that some of the stamps are cancelled and some are not. If we ignore the cancelled ones (because really, what good is a cancelled stamp?) we are left with ten uncancelled stamps. (Note: The links to the images are not how these stamps were found. That involved some guessing, google image searches, and luck.)

Farnsworth, Philo 20 cent
Uncle Sam 22 cent
Sandburg, Carl 13 cent
Irving, Washington Irving 1 cent
Oakley, Annie 29 cent
Nagurski, Bronco 37 cent
Copernicus, Nicholas 8 cent
Einstein, Albert 15 cent
Lee, Robert E. 30 cent
London, Jack London 25 cent
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When dealing with an 11 letter word, apply rules (A - I) in any order.
Each rule must be used exactly once.
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A: Reverse the whole word
B: Replace letters 4 - 10 with a word for a vorpal blade going snackless
C: Replace letter 3 with P
D: Swap letters 9 and 11
E: Reverse the whole word
F: Slide the whole word left and send the first letter to the end
G: Replace any letter after an E with a T
H: Replace letters 4 - 10 with a word for a vorpal blade going snackless
I: Reverse the whole word
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JABBERWOCKY
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This is one of those puzzles where its just kind of trial and error, though you can see the word starting to form after applying only a few rules. You also have to be aware of the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll to know that a seven letter word for a vorpal blade going snackless is snicker.
   J A B B E R W O C K Y
B: J A B s n i c k e r Y 
A: y r e k c i n s b a j
F: r e k c i n s b a j y
H: R E K s n i c k e r Y
G: R E t S N I C K E t Y
C: R E p S N I C K E T Y
E: y t e k c i n s p e r
D: Y T E K C I N S R E P
I: p e r s n i c k e t y

halfway through the hearing-glass
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When you listen to the wav, you'll notice that there is both a right and a left channel. "Halfway through the hearing-glass" hints that we want to take each channel separately.

Left channel: -. . .-- -. . .-- -. . .--
Right channel: -.-. .... .. -.-. -.- . -.

Left channel: new new new
Right channel: chicken

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Embedded jpg (the missing section from above)
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When you open the jpg in dana.jpg, you'll notice that it's missing a big chunk out of it. Luckily, the jpg in danadress.jpg fits the whole nicely. Once you stitch the pictures together, you get something that looks like this. The combined text reads as follows:

couldn't steal second instar

string was a leath combo

mmmmm... Salt.

0 gravity

"...that I would stop right there,
remain as I was."

where is my
denticle belt

shake! shake!
shake! zzzzzzzzzzzzz

trapped in my egg

Eye'm melting! Eye'm melting!

"I'm not dead yet!"

daddy broke my legs

lost my head

ATCGCGAMTCGTAGUATCCGTAATGCATCGGACATGNTCATCG

Ahh, the joys of biology class. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster is one of those creatures whose DNA seems to mutate at the drop of a hat. Not only that, but drosophilists have come up with a bunch of clever names to describe each mutation that they find.

couldn't steal second instar - Lethal phenotype occurs during the first larval instar.: Out at First
string was a leath combo - Mutation reacts fatally with 'string' gene: Noose
mmmmm... Salt. - Mutation loves salt: Lot
0 gravity - Mutation has problems with gravity: Yuri

"...that I would stop right there, remain as I was." - Quote is from The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. Embryos are small and the mutation is named after Oskar - the boy who wouldn't grow from the book: Oskar
where is my denticle belt - Mutation has deleted denticle belt: Naked Cuticle
shake! shake! shake! zzzzzzzzzzzzz - Mutation becomes spastic under anesthesia: Ether A Go-Go

trapped in my egg - Mutation cannot hatch from egg: Amontillado
Eye'm melting! Eye'm melting! - Mutation has incredibly deformed eyes: Liquid Facets
"I'm not dead yet!" - Mutation lives abnormally long: Indy
daddy broke my legs - Mutation has deformed legs: Vulcan
lost my head - Exuperantia was a Christian slave who was beheaded: Exuperantia

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24601 v. 24602

C C

D C

D D

C D

D C

C C

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0B 0F

0T 0O 0N

1D 0S 1K

1W 1N 1E

2R 1E 2E

2A 2X 2R

3E 20 3I

3L 3P 3T

4C 3M 40

4U 4A 4S

5A 4Q 5U

5Y 5S 5G

6S 5U 6A

6Q 6D 6P

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The embedded jpg in beegarden.jpg shows a game of iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The first step is to figure out which prisoner won. And just to make sure everyone is playing with by the same rules, in the lower right hand corner of the bee2_margaret embedded pic, it tells you that CxC = 3,3; DxC = 5,0; DxD = 1,1.

Turns Score

24601 v. 24602 24601 v. 24602

C C 3 3

D C 5 0

D D 1 1

C D 0 5

D C 5 0

C C 3 3

Prisoner 24601 has a total of 18 to Prisoner 24602's total of 14. So Prisoner 24601 (who is called Jean Valjean by his friends) wins. That leaves us with the matrix in the bee2_margaretphoto jpg. There are six columns in the matrix, and six turns of the game. For each turn, take the letter paired with the number of points scored. For example, in the first round, Jean scored 3. In the first column, 3 is paired with the letter E. In the second round, Jean scored 5, giving the letter N in the matrix.

0B 0F

0T 0O 0N

1D 0S 1K

1W 1N 1E

2R 1E 2E

2A 2X 2R

3E 20 3I

3L 3P 3T

4C 3M 40

4U 4A 4S

5A 4Q 5U

5Y 5S 5G

6S 5U 6A

6Q 6D 6P

e y e o u t

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The barcodes are POSTNET barcodes that the Post Office uses to direct mail. When you decode them, you get the following:

14202-3325-990 - Buffalo, NY
46204-3307-993 - Indianapolis, IN
54301-5006-006 - Green Bay, WI

60608-1202-993 - Chicago, IL
14850-5614-088 - Ithaca, NY
08608-1809-190 - Trenton, NJ
98901-2613-290 - Yakima, WA

Taking the first letter of each city gives you the answer of big_city.

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The flowers images were taken from A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. First you needed to figure out what plant you were looking at (not that easy with 800 plants listed). Then you needed to find the answer to the clue on the bottom of each picture.
Dandelion - medicinal action: Diuretic
Ipecacuanha - medicinal action: Emetic
Eyebright - in the treatment of: Conjunctivitis
Pennyroyal - to induce: Abortion
Yarrow - commonly known as Yarrow

for the relief of - T
superseded by - I
Peruvian Bark - for the treatment of: Malaria
Papryus - written on in: Egypt
Madder - yields the color: Red
Okay, so we didn't get this wav simply by figuring out all the plants. If you listen to counting_down it mentions a decay timer, so we filled in the blanks as best we could. Unfortunately, we still haven't figured out two of the plants. If you can shed any light on this matter, it would be greatly apprecaiated. Plus I'll give you mad props.

fieb?! That's what happens when those two armies I told you about earlier get too close together.
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viybyubh fieb
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Remember the two armies from the first week that gave us knockout_gas.wav? The armies were your left and right hands, but they are closer together, so instead of starting on "asdf jkl;" they are starting on "sdfg hjkl". Now its easy to see what was wanting to be typed out: counting down.

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