Drop retrieved by a wonderful, nice, beautiful friend of a friend who lives in Missoula. This transaction is how we always hope a drop retrieval to go.
The prize? A stamped meterstick. lolwut
Quote:
group 1 9e 0b a(a side ways b or infinity sign?) 6b be d8 95 40 35 17 8a e1 3b 8e 72 40 bf 81
She says she'll be sending the meterstick tomorrow from her work. I'll update when I receive it and quantify a little better what we're dealing with here.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:08 pm
morningcoffee
New black OTP message.
18278
Quote:
Z 30171632Z JUN 14
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/MX-TICKET//
SUBJ/BATT WARNING//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
TECH IS UNABLE TO RESOLVE ISSUE.
SOLAR PANEL REPLACED.
BATTERY HAS BEEN REPLACED.
BATTERY WILL NOT CHARGE.
WILL NEED TO CONTACT EMTANON. -MX //
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 3:42 pm
L0j1k
And here, by the way, is a contrast-improved copy of the picture of the guy at the drop site, as provided by AS37->69005:
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:15 pm
L0j1k
A few things: First, we received a new message on AS27, presumably about DROP4 which was compromised. Morningcoffee and myself (L0j1k) have been leaving QX messages to try and sort the situation out, both to psychologically distance Ai and her "field agents" from being counterops, and to try and trigger a new drop with the information that was lost at the Grand Canyon:
Second, I received the following information from our Grand Canyon (DROP4) drop agent about the picture received:
Quote:
I'm not sure that's me in the photo. I wasn't wearing a hat, my shirt was light gray, and my phone doesn't seem that large. Not sure what the black thing near his waist is either.
http://i.imgur.com/R4zX9A0.jpg is definitely where I was. The rock formation behind the trees on the left is the same as the one to the left of the panorama I sent you.
I think the photos might be showing that the item was under a rock across the path from the large flat white Rock I was investigating, that is visible in the photo linked above. It's possible I didn't look there, but I definitely walked towards that rock from the opposite angle of http://i.imgur.com/INDAAFV.jpg, so I feel like I would have seen it if it was there.
It appears that our drop agent is NOT the guy in the picture. Personally, I trust this guy to be able to identify himself more than a bunch of us (or even PM). If he says it isn't him, then I'm going with that.
That opens up the question of whom this person was, taking a picture of something at the precise drop coordinates. It's possible that this was the person who compromised the drop. If so -- and if this person knew to compromise the drop -- we can assume it was a Redditor who came across our drop information. I find it highly unlikely that someone would pick up the paper at the drop site and then also take pictures of the drop site unless they were there to retrieve the drop. This is purely speculative.
Finally, TonyTwoFish/TonyInICT looked over several webcams of the Grand Canyon and has determined that the camera used to surveil the drop site was probably placed by WORM/PM, and not a public trail cam (that he could find).
This is interesting because it could indicate that a WORM field agent is ON SITE. If true, this matches up with the "Keep surveillance of drop site active" messages we received previously on AS27.
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 9:58 pm
TonyTwoFish
Upon a random check of 16041, the number 69004 was given before the creepy music.
When 69004 was called, it was discovered to be SSTV
Here are the images:
This is the location of the drop referenced on 16041 by Grand Canyon
A kind redditor went to the area prior to our knowledge of the SSTV, but was unable to recover the drop.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:52 pm
L0j1k
Grand Canyon Drop
Damn. So we had a volunteer field agent (from Reddit) named Jonah head out to the drop site on Saturday morning at around 1100. He drove quite a ways (>170 miles) to get to the site, so hats off to him and E for effort!
He spent some time scouring the drop site and found some graffiti scratched into a rock very near the coords. At this point he called me (L0j1k) on my cell and we talked over what's normal and what's not. I mentioned that PMs very likely would not damage a national park (!) by etching words into the rocks, and that it is very most likely hidden under a rock, possibly a note in a ziploc bag.
The field agent searched for another fifteen or twenty minutes at the site but did not find anything.
Lo! A few minutes later, TonyInICT discovered that AS36->16041 had changed to "69004" and upon dialing, discovered a series of four SSTV images of the Grand Canyon drop. The pictures showed (surprise!) a paper note inside of what appears to be a ziploc bag, underneath a rock. I sent these pictures to our field agent after he had already left the drop location, and in return, he said that he specifically had searched those rocks, even moving some of them to look underneath, but had not found anything like a ziploc bag with paper in it.
Here are the images from 69004:
At this point, I (L0j1k) am also working a field agent (friend of a friend) to retrieve the Missoula, Montana drop (DROP3) sometime this weekend or early next week.
More to follow when that information becomes available.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:36 pm
MrArron
New AS27 message, sequence 39.179 -
Quote:
ALL AGENTS, READ PAGE 49, LINE 15, 16, 17, 17, 18 AND 26.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:25 pm
TonyTwoFish
AS27
39.178
Quote:
CONTINUE DROP SURVEILLANCE, AS36 REPAIRS TO BEGIN THIS WEEKEND
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:20 pm
TonyTwoFish
18277
Quote:
Z 27182654Z JUN 14 SECRET//PRJMLP//75X5 MSGID/MX-TICKET// SUBJ/BATT WARNING// /FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII// /OBJ/00001/ WE WILL HAVE SOMEONE ON SITE TOMORROW. MORE DETAILS SOON. -MX
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:15 pm
morningcoffee
New AS27 message, sequence 39.177 -
Quote:
CONTINUE DROP SURVEILLANCE.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:50 am
TonyTwoFish
I dialed agent number 16041 again and some new coords and notes were added.
16041
Quote:
/DROP4/OTP DROP ENCRYPTED LOCATIONS/LOC/46.989694/-114.662750/NOTES/SIGN/
This is Big Pine Campground in Montana
Coordinates:
46° 59´ 22.714" N 114° 39´ 43.447" W
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:45 am
morningcoffee
New AS27 message, sequence 39.176 -
Quote:
PROVIDE SURVEILLANCE INFORMATION ON REGION 9 DROP.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:04 am
morningcoffee
New black OTP message.
18276
Quote:
Z 25154722Z JUN 14
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/MX-TICKET//
SUBJ/BATT WARNING//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
DISPATCHING TECH TO ALPHA SIGMA 36.
TECH WILL HAVE VARIOUS SPARE PARTS.
NO ETA ON ARRIVAL.
WX CONDITIONS FAVOURABLE. -MX //
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:29 pm
TonyTwoFish
16041
Quote:
/DROP1/COLLECTED/
/DROP2/2014 SEASON MISSION OBJECTIVES/LOC/TBD/NOTES/TBD/
/DROP3/OTP DROP KEY/LOC/36.058312/-112.127187/NOTES/ROCK/NOTE/PATH/
/DROP4/OTP DROP ENCRYPTED LOCATIONS/LOC/TBD/NOTES/TBD/
Drop location is in Arizona, near the Grand Canyon
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:09 am
TonyTwoFish
New black OTP message
18275
Quote:
Z 24215430Z JUN 14 SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5 MSGID/MX-TICKET// SUBJ/BATT WARNING// /FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII// /OBJ/00001/ GUYS, WE HAVE SUNNY CONDITIONS THERE. DOESNT SOUND LIKE A BATTERY PROBLEM. SOLAR PANELS SHOULD BE CHARGING. SHOULDNT BE ANY MORE SNOW EITHER BECAUSE IT WAS WORKING FINE EARLIER. -RB //