Pigeon message
First note from Mr. Zipp was delivered by a carrier pigeon (named HTMLvis later). Maddison and Adam found the bird outside Maddison's door. The note was tied to the leg of the pigeon. One side of the note said:
maddisonatkins@yahoo.com Login immediately. You will know the password
There was a message in the Morse code on the other side:
--... ....- / -.... .---- / -.... --... / ..--- ----- / -.... ..--- / -.... ..-. / --... --... / --... ...--
It translated to hex as:
74 61 67 20 62 6F 77 73
Hex translated to text as:
tag bows
"Tag bows" appeared to be anagram to "two bags".
It was unclear what this meant. However, Whiskey, Maddison's dog, helped to figured it out. Whiskey chewed the note a little and then Maddison noticed that there was some message inside the note as well. So "two bags" were supposed to mean that a note was "double bagged" and had a message inside too.
Message inside was:
In an Apple - In a Ruby - Under your elbows - Near the wall. 11(B)12 Hurry
It was solved as:
In an Apple - Big Apple In a Ruby - Rue B bar Under your elbows - under the table Near the wall 11(B)12 - the bar was located on B ave. between 11th and 12th streets in Manhattan Hurry
It lead to the first drop in New York.