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Try copy/pasting the text into notepad first.

If you get readable text then you can copy/paste it from notepad into the translator.

[PlayVideo]

You can use mp4, I think, but that will mean that the player will need to have the same codec installed.

It's better to encode/convert to ogg, since AGS can play that without the player needing to have the codec installed.

If it's ogg, just place it with the game files and it will be included in the final game automatically.

From the manual:

PlayVideo

PlayVideo (string filename, VideoSkipStyle, int flags)

Plays an AVI, MPG or OGG Theora file, or any other file type supported by Media Player. The game is paused while the video plays.

Can it be that our perp is the one "making" the film?

I like to align my brackets { } as it allows me to see the start and end more clearly.

So using CWs code, mine would look like this:

Code: ags

function 
{
    if (something) 
    {
        actions
        if (something else) 
        {
            more actions
        }
    }
}

This allows to spot the blocks and let me visually see that all brackets are in the right place. If I miss one, then it's easy to spot the error.  AGS also adds a vertical dotted line | under each bracket, so you can easily follow it.
Hope it helps

Oh, and I forgot to close this. 

Anyway, Jack you have the ball.
Pitty you have to win by default though. It's a really good piece and it deserved a challenge.

Uhm... this is the second time the note is posted and no map for reference... maybe this means we're not looking for a map location but for a persons name?

Another thing that crossed my mind is that, so far, he hasn't killed anyone... was it just luck and good detective work or is his plan to injure/kill the town cops and the "victims" aren't meant to be killed but just used as decoy? He had the means and opportunity to kill them all before we even knew who the targets were after all.

I think we should warn the cops in town to be extremely careful, and threat every "search and rescue"  operation as that they, them self, are the intended targets.

RetroJay, if in doubt just put any other value as the total weight, and you'll see that only 200 can be the answer. 

You had 3 choices to pick from: 100, 150 and 200. And you now know the right answer is 200. Let's do the math for the other two, and you can do it for any other value if you still in doubt.

Let's say you choose 100. Half his weight would mean 100/2 = 50. Only 100+50=150... he can't have a total weight of 100.
Let's try 150 now... Half of his weight would be 75. 100+75 = 175. So his total weight can't be 150 either.

If you pick any other value, you will notice that you never get to a true value, except with 100 and total weight of 200.

But if it helps, I probably would have fallen for the trickery also and pick wrong. The riddle is phrased like that exactly to lead you into error thinking. Cause the first part makes your brain automatically think "he weights 100. And then add 50, that gives 150..." And even though this makes no sense (if he weights 100, he couldn't possibly also weight 150... but our brain accepts the first "fact" as true and thus gets stuck into figuring out the obvious.)

I gave it a try, but got nothing. doesn't mean there's nothing to find in there though. I was just looking for possible location names... but only checked those that matched with exact number of letters in the colored note and the locations names.

I know we don't need much Google, but decided to google "KS" anyway...

What is a KS?
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a cancer that develops from the cells that line lymph or blood vessels.

Can it be that he sees his victims as "cancer" that needs to be eradicated? Just the way how he refers to "KS" in the note. 
Or maybe it's just what you guys have assumed in the first place, and it's got to do with Stephen King. 

As for the clues, I feel like he's forming a sentence/location out of those 3 sentences, each providing a "sound" or "word" (though not necessarily 3 words, as some maybe put together to assemble a longer word).
But then again, I've been pretty clueless during all this cases, so maybe I should just stick to make sure you guys have the coffee just right and something to eat and fuel those gray cells. 

PS - Does anyone know if there's a Gymnasium or athlete facility in town? Maybe that's what the "somersault" stands for?
And I think that "audio that causes rain" is also known as white noise. Static could be a word to describe it as well.

Birds chirp makes me think of a park or something... but again, from lightly Googling:

A chirp is the short, high sound a bird makes. The chirps of the robins at your bird feeder through the open window might drive your cat crazy. Birds chirp â€" you could also say they tweet, twitter, cheep, and warble â€" and some insects chirp too.

just posting this, in case it gives some inspiration...

I'll go back into making some coffee for you, now... 

I mean, Chinese people didn't even have to be told to put masks on when the news broke; they just did it.

They (and other Asiatic lands) have been living with face masks since the "bird (H5) and swine (H1N1) flu" outbreaks some 10-11 years ago, some just adopted it as normal and others have them as backup for when these virus show up again. It's normal for them. Just like around 2009 and due to the possibility of it reaching us in Europe (or Denmark in particular) my then work place adopted the Ethanol hand sanitizing as normal procedure. We should sanitize when getting to work and into production, then when we went to the toilet or cantina/pause, again when we went back into production. Candy and stuff was no longer allowed to free "take", only wrapped food that you could take and so on... but we never did got an outbreak of these here... but procedure stayed in place (though it got slapped along the years and it was often that the ethanol containers were empty and took them a few days to replace - I assume they aren't now!)
Also Chinese people are used to be told what to do with little to no complain. We're not... and some people just don't accept the obvious.   

I still don't believe that their numbers are so low as they report. But that's just what I believe, I have no proof either way.

@PlayPretend, that really sucks!    If people want to be sick it's their right, but their rights stop where yours start! And you have the right to be healthy and not sick because of some idiots.

Can only see terrorists thinking it's a good idea.
Unless you can design it so that your own population is immune, this disrupts as much the western world as the eastern and northern and southern... So all lands in the globe are having a hard time dealing with it and a serious economic bash.

I do have vacation about half the month... so maybe. 

[hotspot]

You can't click on Edges, they are used to walk past.
You need to create a hotspot for each "clickable edge" you want instead.

Extended to 3rd July then. 

I can extend it if Jack doesn't mind.

Wow, I'm finally agreeing with you for once... "the tastiest fish is swordfish." that it is, that it is! 

  That is brilliant!
If these aren't the exact places, then maybe we could ask the ner IT experts to trace the constellation for us. I'm sure they can do a better job, since it's worth pursuing this path to it's fullest. 

Last day to post your entry!

[<]

Can you copy/paste the entire code? Including the function names?

This should not make a difference, but try changing < to <=or =< ... if it makes a difference then something is off with the engine logic.

Code: ags

    if (Pionzombie9.Visible==true && zombies9 < 12) 
   {
      Pionzombie9.Visible=false;
      Display(String.Format("pionzombie9 was true and zombies9 = %d"), zombies9);
    }
    else if (Pionzombie9.Visible==false && zombies9 < 12) 
      {
       Pionzombie9.Visible=true;
       Display(String.Format("pionzombie9 was false and zombies9 = %d"), zombies9);
      }

Also, try calling the GUI, after setting the variables. That is At the end of your if/else conditions.

[W]

Every time I think I "see" something the rest of the clues don't match.

Assuming A is  the Bushwick location I followed the A-G path assuming that each letter is a bifurcation on the road. That lead me to Brooklyn Museum. Only problem is that I can't seem to do the same upwards. 

Then I thought that maybe the W mark the victims locations, and the lower right seems to align fairly good with the 3 sites there, with the Bushwick w either being the far middle one or the one 1 down 2 right from it... But then there's all those Ws on the top part of the map... does that mean this clue includes more potential sites (future victims?) other than the site(s) we're currently after?
Unless he's got 2 victims both cut in half at those WW locations? Middle left and far up left... uhm, maybe this theory does have some foot after all? What if the G-A-G path represents the river?

Okay, I'll risk sending a patrol to the (Potential Solution) to that area were there's a bridge (under the Times Square text) and the one longer up above the text (East Harlem).