Main Page
From Despoiler: Case of the Coveted Bottle
Welcome to the Case of the Coveted Bottle.
| Archived 2008-01-01 |
|---|
|
Editing of this Wiki has been disabled for all but sysops. Thanks to all authors for their contributions! |
This wiki is a reference for information collected about the "Case of the Coveted Bottle" contest. Despoiler, the Despoiler Coveted Bottle Wiki, and Unfiction are not affiliated in any way with the "Case of the Coveted Bottle" contest, Covet Perfume, Sarah Jessica Parker, or Coty Inc.
Posting Guidelines
Posting to this Wiki is subject to a modified version of the Unfiction Community Terms of Service. Please keep pages and "talk:" discussions civil. Play nice.
In-Game Sites
Captaine Morgaine Badeau (Belaso)'s Myspace Profile
Madame Szaglas's Myspace Profile
Julian Barnesworth's Linked In Profile
Boldizsar Kovacs' Myspace Profile
Resources
The Game
Challenge 1: Break into the Evidence Room
- Plot Summary:
- Sarah Jessica Parker has stolen a bottle of her very own perfume! She isn't aware of anything until handcuffs are placed on her wrists. Stuck in a Parisian jail cell, we can spring her, if only we had more evidence of foul play. SJP's intrepid publicist is on the case. She needs to get into the evidence room, to find out more information regarding the disappearance of the bottle of Covet from the Police Nationale headquarters.
- Question:
- What is the passkey for the lock on the Evidence Room at the Police Nationale?
- Answer:
- 1356789302
- Answer Summary:
- After finding Morgaine's MySpace page, and noting her reference to Giovan Batista Belaso (inventor of the Vigenere cipher), decipher the lines that she calls Magyar (a Hungarian Language) found in MySpace blog using the password handwritten on the police report as the key. The plaintext is French numbers, which translated is the passkey for the lock on the Evidence Room.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 2: A Co-Conspirator?
- Plot Summary:
- Apparently, Captaine Badeau has never heard of a shredder and leaves a bit of information laying around to be discovered by none other than Melisande. The photo of the evidence looks the same as before with an additional name: Bob Mumsford. Going to Bob's myspace profile, we discover that he happened to be in Paris, at the Palace Valendome the night SJP stole the bottle of perfume, and he has pictures to prove it!
- Question:
- Where is the person who was talking to Morgaine staying?
- Answer:
- The Ritz
- Answer Summary:
- Photos on the second page of photographs on the third witness', Bob Mumford's MySpace page show the hotel's name.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 3: Blackmail Morgaine Badeau
- Plot Summary:
- It seems that Melisande has a "friend" in a pap named Tony Flair. Tony has information that the Captaine would probably want to have hidden. Tony's myspace profile leads to his flickr profile, where Morgaine's secret is ready to be discovered.
- Question:
- What is Morgaine's secret?
- Answer:
- Morgaine bought a new beach house in Cannes with cash from an envelope marked SZGLS
- Answer Summary:
- On Tony Flair's Flickr account, the red numbers indicate the tag word, and the blue numbers indicate the order of the words.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 4: Learn More About Madame Szaglas
- Plot Summary:
- The mysterious woman in the photos on Bob Mumford's myspace profile, and the same woman who "helped" with the purchase of Morgaine's house in the French Riviera, is angling to take over her group of perfumers. To this end, she has created a myspace group called "Power Scents". She's enlisting myspacers to help her become the most powerful person in the perfume world.
- Question:
- What is the name of the organization that is the focus of Madame Szaglas' Strategic Career Goals?
- Answer:
- The Keepers
- Answer Summary:
- Follow the links to the articles, posted as messages by Szaglas in "Power Scents" that Szaglas' boss, Kovacs recommended. Note the publishing date, the actual date of the day the article was published, then count that many letters into the headline of the article. In the order that Szaglas recommended them, the letters together spell out "The Keepers".
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 5: A New Lead
- Plot Summary:
- It seems that Madame Szalglas's former assistance "MIME" has some secrets regarding his former employer. To find them, we have to find him.
- Question:
- Who is giving Madame Szalglas orders?
- Answer:
- Julian Barnesworth
- Answer Summary:
- After finding "Lady Le Praise" (Guy le Pan, aka Mime Man) on MySpace, his audio file leads to "the JB in cosmetics" at Linkedin and after registering for a free account and placing "Kovacs B" in the work history and "linking" to other employees of Kovacs B, Julian Barnesworth's name is revealed.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 6: Find the Keepers' Location
- Plot Summary:
- Question:
- Breath in with your ______
- Answer:
- heart
- Answer Summary:
- By putting all addresses into Google maps, with place markers, the shape of the heart around the center of London is visible.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 7: Prime Suspect: The Man Behind The Keepers
- Plot Summary:
- Question:
- Where was Sir Julian Barnesworth on the night of the crime?
- Answer:
- Bath
- Answer Summary:
- On his blog, Appointments, JB's entry for August 6 states he was in Bath, England. His actual blog uses the Islamic calendar, however mousing over the journal entry time, shows the Julian Calendar dates. The solve was probably intended to be finding the blog and then converting the Lunar dates to "Julian" dates; however, the blog was found two weeks earlier.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 8: The Scent of a Bazillionaire
- Plot Summary:
- Melisande and Tony Flair want to question Boldiszar Kovacs, but can't seem to find him.
- Question:
- Where should we look for Boldiszar Kovacs?
- Answer:
- The Queen Elizabeth
- Answer Summary:
- Melisande's blog has a "photo" of a summary regarding Kovacs. Part of it is in Hexidecimal, once that is deciphered the letters need to be unscrambled. The answer is a portion of the unscrambled/deciphered text.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 9: Postcard from Paris
- Plot Summary:
- The postcard Sarah Jessica Parker sent to Melisande the night of the arrest showed up. SJP had been at a party, met a rich mysterious man, the next thing she knew she was standing in the middle of the Palace Vendome reaching for a bottle of Covet.
- Question:
- What message was Sarah Jessica Parker trying to communicate that would further jog her memory about the party?
- Answer:
- Vacations on Yacht
- Answer Summary:
- SJP has written on a postcard in colored pencils. Each color represents a word (or two). The front, or picture side, of the postcard is a photo of a man in a blue suit, with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 pointing to blue, green and black. Each word written in those colors form the answer.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Challenge 10: Locate the Bottle and Crack the Safe
- Plot Summary:
- Melisande has made it aboard Kovacs's Yacht. Kovacs catches on to her and gives her the boot, but not before she eyes a safe, asks about any pets Kovacs may have, and stealing a napkin from Kovacs's desk.
- Question:
- What is the combination to Kovacs' safe?
- Answer:
- 1100883960
- Answer Summary:
- The answer was found by multiplying several numbers together, posted as "bases" to look like a perfume blend, on several locations on Myspace.com, including the Keepers group page, Kovacs's profile, Szaglas's profile, and the last clue being posted as a comment to some players' profiles (the assumption being those with public profiles, that didn't have the option to approve comments, or other "security" measures turned on in their profiles).
- The numbers were: 54 parts Oakmoss, 23 Parts Myrrh, 91 Parts Orange, 60 parts clove, 11 parts sandalwood, 17 parts grapefruit, 17 parts vanilla, 12 parts litsea cubeba, and 79 parts musk. The clue on the napkin found by Melisande said "Just to be safe...base recipe...be unfruitful...and multiply". The answer was found by excluding the fruit bases (orange, grapefruit, and litsea cubeba), and multiplying the numbers corresponding to the oil bases.
- Winner:
- Drawing Winners:
Video Challenges
- Video Challenge 1: I Had to Have It
- Video Challenge 2: Killer Pick up Line
Outstanding Questions and Speculation
- Some agents are still wondering if certain characters were "in game" or not.
- Through Madame Szaglas we met her recently fired assistant, Katalin.
- When looking at Katalin's "Friends" on her MySpace page, we found Ersebet.
- While looking around MySpace, Agent Paulette found Keja-Lilli Garr.
- She is a friend of Captaine Badeau and Bob Mumford! Was she supposed to be a part of the story?
- And many other agents wonder if Guy LePan, the Mime Man had more of a hand in The Keepers or the crime...he seemed to know a lot for an ex-assistant of Madame Szaglas.
- Questions or comments on the Lucky Advertisement seem to still be unanswered:
- Inside the Parisian Police Headquarters two text messages are sent. One from the corner of a jail cell (how did SJP get her cell phone inside the cell?) The other from a corner office several floors above (Captaine to who?)
- Shards of glass can be very revealing. (The only thing weird we found with this scene was SJP was NOT wearing Manolo's as stated in the police report)
- Jail cells have many hiding places.(Is this where SJP found a cell phone?)
- Is it a blank piece of paper or is there a hidden message. (No blank pieces of paper found)
- Study the crime scene, there's more than meets the eye. ???
- In the picture on the Covet Sample postcard, a very noticeablely written word written on the jail cell wall is illegible
