Introduction

One of the striking characteristics of the third message is the presence of an asterisk in the line "* A recipe for a solution".

Analysis

If you spell the word MAROONED starting from the letter A you get the word AROONEDM, a letter pattern which exactly matches the word PASSWORD, as shown in the following alignment.

A P
R A
O S
O S
N W
E O
D R
M D

This tells me that the key to the password is somewhere in the message, because noone else has been able to explain the asterisk.

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