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Ok. So, this is so fucking awesome it hurts. We just received a mystery gift from… well, we haven’t figured that part out yet.

Inside the box was this porcelain unicorn (fuck yes), a picture of yours truly with my hair as a bird (inspired by the classic Nick Cage image) and this message:

The binary below decodes to ‘leroux’ (my last name) making the front of the message read:

please leave with leroux

The image is from the epic gastown sno ball fight (which was five days ago). Some of the letters are glued on and some are taped on. Yes I am researching civilian fingerprint analysis techniques.

The message on the back (characters circled in our Nitobi component minified javascript) reads:

merry Christma5; hohoho00; respect tO nitobi buil7 for people;

And a Merry Christmas to you mystery hacker.. this is gotta be someone I’ve gotten into some heavy alternate reality game discussions with. There was a receipt in the box from buffalo new york though I would not put it past a person who took the time to construct this magnificent and humbling gift to have the item shipped around a little to throw me off the trail (and *really* fuck with me).

Will more clues emerge?

UPDATE: received a mystery text message after publishing this:

And sure enough the mailing address had more binary reading:

a special message for you…

They responded to my query of “who is this????!!!!” with “look outside”. I went outside and recieved a text “made you look”. Fucking rad!