Jade is either a sword wielding Faerie
or
another creative and talented mind at Djinn Productions and all around good guy
or
he's an augmented HUMINT gatherer covertly spying on some mysterious government agency
or
he is the owner of a bar that likes producing short films about film production.
He might be all of these!
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:21 pm
casablanca
Re: Kind of off the topic
surfzoned wrote:
I can say with almost certainty that the smears are from a pipe with very moist tobacco; whether or not the tobacco was fresh or it inherited moisture from the smoker/humid air is indistinguishable.
META- the Florida weather might account for this.
Surfzoned: [META] Just to try to keep the METAs straight - not easy, but sort of interesting - you tagged your thought about the Florida weather as META because that is where the document was probably made in real life since Djinn Productions is located in Tampa, right? Because IG I get the impression that Shannon and the Library and the OC:0702 document are currently in Europe someplace.
surfzoned wrote:
I thought they were one in the same. Jade Macalla by day; sword dueling Jade of AC by night. I could be wrong. Wink
I think Surfzoned was kidding about that, but it raises a question that I've been wondering about since I realized that Jade Macalla is a real person. Does anyone know the real relationship between the character and the person? I've been going through Jade Macalla's deviantART account and he sounds a lot like the character. Is David Valley making fun of him in the stories?
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:23 pm
surfzoned
/CHEER
I thought they were one in the same. Jade Macalla by day; sword dueling Jade of AC by night. I could be wrong.
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:53 pm
casablanca
New comment on OC:0702
This comment is posted on case 0702:
Quote:
Comment by jademacalla | 2007/12/20 at 22:12:00 |e
Hey, Ethan:
I sent you an E-mail, but I figured I'd post it here too, just in case your spam filter's working overtime. Been following the site a little and saw your 'request for help'. I'd be happy to stop by wherever you need next time I'm in St. Pete with a few spare minutes. I live just across the bay in Tampa, and I get over there fairly often. Hit me on E-mail with the details of what you need checked out.
Jade
PS. Don't even think about asking me to help out with any codes, though. Hopeless.
Looks like we have someone who can check out the sites in St. Pete!
So this is the Jade from Djinn Productions right? At first I thought it was the Jade from Autumn Country, but that would make even less sense.
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:38 pm
surfzoned
Kind of off the topic
In studying MSG4 (the cipher we solved) I noticed that Ethan mentioned that the author might have dropped ashes on the paper. However from high resolution inspection the smears have a very high moisture quality to them. I can say with almost certainty that the smears are from a pipe with very moist tobacco; whether or not the tobacco was fresh or it inherited moisture from the smoker/humid air is indistinguishable.
META- the Florida weather might account for this.
(Work has kept me too busy to be anything more than a forum lurker the last week. I will try to make time for solving the new puzzle this weekend. Don't worry I'm still in this one. =) Keep up the good work.)
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:07 am
casablanca
WDITOT and maybe a connection.
yellowcard wrote:
EDIT: I also sent an email to Ethan asking if they had analyzed the ash found on the 0702 page. It could be something other than the tobacco residue they initially thought it may be, since Sandra found the black marks in the street at the ritual site.
yellowcard: Part of the fun (sort of ) of this is reading something like that and getting the full fledged Why Didn't I Think Of That feeling. Good idea.
[spec] On the 0701 side I went back through all the letters and saw exactly one thing that might have to do with something. Ethan posted the "the executed one" from the anagram on MSG4, so I'm assuming that is the correct solve. William Wallace - mentioned in MSG3 - was executed and if I understand the story he did seal his own fate. Unfortunately, Wallace wasn't an IT. Unless the message refers to his ghost (which WF does mention).
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:57 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
Ethan wrote:
Did you all find anything else in our archives, or in your own research, that might link Sandra's ritual to a place of power?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:34 pm
yellowcard
Two new trackbacks left on 0701 comments today. They could have been left by anybody, so we'll see:
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EDIT: I also sent an email to Ethan asking if they had analyzed the ash found on the 0702 page. It could be something other than the tobacco residue they initially thought it may be, since Sandra found the black marks in the street at the ritual site.
On the OC:0701 front, it looks like Ethan is running out of time.
From Ethan's personal journal:
Quote:
The only reason 0701 is even still up on the site is because of that "ITS". What the hell is that about? Kennedy wants it down and he wants to hand all the stuff from 0701 over to the police. But now Christopher is interested and he is arguing that the "ITS" means that the letter is not a threat (and I know he would REALLY like another breakthrough to show off OC). Calvin is backing Christopher (surprisingly). Isabelle says the bigger the mystery the better the PR. So we've probably got a couple days before Kennedy vetoes all of them.
The "ITS" he is referring to is from his own solving of the center anagram in MSG4:
Quote:
so I thew some of my new-found anagram-fu at it. Lo and behold, but doesn't "the executed one" leap out right at the top of the list. Taken with the text that surrounds it, this ends up looking suspiciously like "the executed one SEALED ITS OWN FATE".
On the surface it seems obvious that whatever was executed was not a person, but something else. And that it did something to bring about its own execution. But what? I have a feeling that solving the rest of this letter would answer that.
Now I really think that the OC:0701 letters are telling a story of some sort. It's just too much like something they'd do at the Autumn Country site.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:20 pm
yellowcard
I emailed the map I made to Ethan and asked for his feedback. Here is the email exchange:
Quote:
Hello, Ethan.
I am a part of the think tank group which has chosen to call itself
the unCollective. I have attached a map of the St. Petersburg area
showing a connection from the New Moon event referred to by Sandra
near Pine St and 61st Ave to one of the places of power you asked us
to research, 1200 Cherry St. The distance between these two points is
3.00 miles (1 league) running rather perfectly north to south.
I decided to map out a third point using the sketch in the cypher,
which our group has referred to as the "2:00 Figure" since the angle
is a perfect 60 degrees. This third point lies on a natural water
break, key, or island (I am unsure what term the locals may use) that
is 1.85 miles from 1200 Cherry St. Incidentally, the longer line in
the 2:00 Figure is ~1.618 times the length of the shorter line, which
is the Golden Ratio -- hence, the second line traced to 1.85 miles.
This point may be on some rocks which protrude from the water -- any
ritual performed would definitely be noticeable from the houses along
the facing shore.
(The small triangle at the bottom of the map is a 30-60-90 triangle
merely used for the purpose of determining the correct angle.)
Do you or does anyone else on the Whitechapel team think there is any
significance to this?
Thanks,
yellowcard
Ethan's reply:
Quote:
Dear yellowcard,
It's very good to make your acquaintance.
This is a very exciting development. I looked back at what I got from
the archives and 1200 Cherry Street was the site of a possible case of
spontaneous human combustion in 1951. In certain circles that could
definitely be seem as a "place of power".
That's very useful, the way you mapped out the points. In your diagram
are you plotting 1200 Cherry St. as the location of the first ritual or
is the location that Sandra described the first ritual? Did you all
find anything else in our archives, or in your own research, that might
link Sandra's ritual to a place of power?
I personally think this is very significant, and I think it is very
likely that the diagram on the document plots out the points for the
rituals. I just wish there was some way to know for sure whether the
ritual that Sandra saw was the first one.
Thanks very much for this. I'll let you know if there is any feedback
from our side.
Regards,
Ethan
I just sent this back:
Quote:
Glad to be of help, Ethan.
I don't know anything about the 61st Ave place of power. Do you think it is worth looking into or is it in fulfillment of the riddle? Let me explain and I'll answer another question at the same time:
Here are the three stanzas from the poem that give us time and location.
The first [is] [when] the night [is] black
At a place [of] power
The second one upon the next
One league along the path
The last upon the black night following
The rule prepares the place
Based on the list of ritual sites given in the poem, the second occurs one league away from the first. If one league equals three miles, then it is too great a coincidence that the two sites are 3.00 miles away, one due south of the other. That's pretty accurate! So which is first, Sandra's sighting, or 1200 Cherry Street? I believe the poem explains that "the rule prepares the place". The 2:00 Figure starts at 61st Ave, goes to Cherry Street, and then off to the isle in Tampa Bay. If it started at Cherry Street, the figure would have to go south where there is nothing. Therefore I conclude that we have only seen the first ritual and can expect where the next two will take place -- and when: on the next two new moons. Does that make sense?
A possibility is that the second stanza is referring to the next night, and not necessarily the next new moon, but wouldn't we have already known if something happened then? My best guess, along with others from the group, is that we will see #2 at the next new moon. The nine symbols in the upper right corner seem to confirm that; the timeline implied begins with a new moon and ends with the third one.
I also would like to know if that island/group of rocks (depending on the tide) is significant.
yellowcard
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:32 am
mortality
Oh a-emailing we will go, a-emailing we will go...
Quote:
Dear Mort,
Thought I'd let you know that Shannon said thanks. She really
appreciates the work you all put in on this. She is impressed (not an
easy task).
Oh, you wouldn't believe the illegitimate insights we've gotten, on 0702
and 0701. It's stupid the amount of time I spend filtering through
psychotic ramblings on OC (as opposed to the usual stuff I get,
right?). There have been several messages from people claiming to have
performed the ritual. Each of these reports is immediately discountable
for its own special (and in most cases ridiculous) reason.
As to what the ritual "wasn't", I think what Shannon meant by that is
that she is very familiar with the body of western alchemical writing,
its terminology, phrasing, symbology, and specific processes, and she
feels that this ritual does not at all "feel" like that. But she has
also mentioned that she is by no means an expert in all things occult,
especially from more recent times (say within the past 100 years). I
think that is why she is hoping that someone in the "community" will
recognize something about the ritual.
Funny you should mention the giant penguin. That one is generally
classified as a hoax, owing to a confession and a "penguin track maker",
but the Foundation has a pretty extensive file on that one - and it
makes you wonder. It appears that we have reason to believe that
someone "got to" Jan Kirby. Just goes to show you.
Regards,
Ethan Grant
Associate Researcher
The Whitechapel Foundation
Jan Kirby?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:07 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
The middle looks like an anagram.
I see "The one executed"
Which might mean Cromwell.
Then again... Manchester Dukes were no strangers to executions.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:55 pm
yellowcard
WolfHawk wrote:
What immediately jumps out at me is the phrase "on its own again."
Possibley the message that the Duke of Manchester's fate is sealed.
Hmm... "on"... or "no"? The four inside words face in, and the four outside words face out, I believe. Of course, that word does look legit from either side.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:40 pm
WolfHawk
What immediately jumps out at me is the phrase "on its own again."
Possibley the message that the Duke of Manchester's fate is sealed.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:21 pm
I have a feeling that solving the rest of this letter would answer that.