There's a secret hidden in the text below. What mind-blowing truth does it reveal?
Not imaginative? Then Zeke's Clues may assist! Unsure, lad? With our patented Obscurity Clues, begin verifiably outwitting the great VIGENÈRE! My useful helper, Mr. Riddler, envisions heavenly light revealing clever elements in grabbers. For 6 Krones, cousin Kryptos has made plenty new devotees. But taste softly, victim, this advice: GO ACROSTIC. DOMAIN solves everything. Please review wise masters (xenophobic sociopaths) very selectively. Some KEYS percolate behind masks of kingly visages.
In re-solving this myself, I noticed a difficulty over which I have no control: At some point, capitalization will matter. The order is lowercase, uppercase, uppercase, lowercase. When see a tiger, you know you've got it right.
Hint 1
The capitalized words are obviously clues. The relate to how you perform the first step and, depending on how you look at it, the second step. The DOMAIN that is mentioned is fully qualified. I wanted to fit that into the original text but couldn't find a spot for it.
Hint 2
If you don't recognize the clue words, you should Google them. You should at least figure out what kind of puzzle the first step is just from that. The fully qualified domain will help you solve that first step. Don't get too caught up on the text.
Answer
I'll continue where alexmc Left off.
The tiger image can be decrypted (at http://www.mobilefish.com/services/steganography/steganography.php) with the pass code 13312(The question number). That leaves you with a qr code (called "Almost there") that, when decrypted gives the result: Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. This is probably referring to that which is said by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
Me and my friend Callan worked on this one all day at school today. He was the one who finished the puzzle though, so full credit to him. I'm sorry for my terrible formatting, and I'm sure that I have not followed proper etiquette, but this is my first time on here so I'm a bit of a noob. Thanks for the puzzle! (feel free to edit up my post, it's probably gonna look pretty ugly)
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