The Mad Chemistry Professor
A mad chemistry professor seems to be going around in Rostock.
For quite a while it has been rumored that he seeks the blood from
innocent victims to conduct rather strange experiments, involving a
secret formula. Your task is to find out if these rumors are true
and to find out where he hides himself. But be careful! Don’t try
to find him alone! Take at least one or even more persons with you
in who you can trust. Once you know the exact location of his
hiding place try to steal the secret formula from him! But, under
no circumstances try to catch the professor himself. Just report
back the formula and his hiding place and we will take care of the
rest.
The intelligence we have gathered so far tells us that he seeks
his victims by placing ads in newspapers, featuring a fake
university email address. We have contacted him in response to such
an ad, pretending we were an interested participant in his
experiments. His response to our email is attached below.
Unfortunately, this is the only help we can give you. He talks
in riddles and we have not yet been able to solve them.
Best wishes,
The Chemistry Department
PS: Please take a digital camera along. Apart from possibly
helping you on your quest, it would be nice if you could show us
some pictures of the place later on … assuming you come back in one
piece :-)
PPS: YOU TAKE THIS QUEST ON YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY! IT IS
DANGEROUS! From the last person we contacted nothing has been seen
anymore. Only her camera was found, containing
a single picture.
The Email
From: Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. mult. Dan Sylveste
[mailto:d.sylveste@chem.uni-rostock.de]
To: Participant
Subject: Re: Participation in your experiments
Dear “Participant”,
I was delighted to see the email of yours in my inbox this
morning! Indeed I am looking for participants in some new exciting
experiments. Of course, all participants are generously reimbursed
for their time expenditure. And I can tell you that none of the
former participants has ever had the chance reason
to be disappointed!
We can not perform the experiments at the university, since
we do not have all the necessary equipment available. The German
research funding agencies are way too restrictive for that.
Actually, in the current state we can count ourselves happy that
IKEA has come to Rostock, providing university employees with free
pencils.
In any case, I kindly ask you to meet me in my private
laboratory in the inner city. Since my academic colleagues are
jealous of my recent success and therefore probably do monitor my
emails, I encrypted the coordinates at which you can start looking
for me. Please come by night (we need to be alone), bring dark
clothes (required for the experiment), and a lamp to follow the
stars.
The
coordinates:
XEBLIER
MGNHEZR
I am looking forward to meet you in person!
Yours sincerely,
Dan Sylveste
Another Email
From: Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. mult. Dan Sylveste
[mailto:d.sylveste@chem.uni-rostock.de]
To: Participant
Subject: Re: Participation in your experiments
Dear “Participant”,
Things have changed, the security of my laboratory has been
compromised by forces of the Evil. I and you have to be much more
careful now. Therefore, come to me but do so after 12 o'clock in
the night. Bring a small lamp and search for the BIG star,
do not consider the smaller stars ... they have been replaced by
the Evil. MAKE NO NOISE and AS LITTLE LIGHT AS POSSIBLE. Then you
will find me!
I am still looking forward to meet you in person!
Yours sincerely,
Dan Sylveste