[Gadjilitron]

Just checking out the feed now and it appears that we're in the Brightman - not sure which dot is what though. 2 things wierd i've noticed though - on the latest feed (0230 at the time) it appears our feed is becoming distorted. Possibly a sign that they've detected Hatch or something?

That and the times posted dont actually match up with the times of the images. Don't know if this is intentional or not, but for me the images are about 3 hours behind the actual postings. Possibly looking at a delayed feed?

EDIT: Latest image (0245) confirms my suspicions. We've lost our feed.

EDIT 2: What would have been the image from 0300 is instead titled signal lost. No images have been posted after that. I think we better get that code cracked quick.

[Ryutso]

2300:



I'm scared right now man. There's a smaller dot on the map close to where the Brightman looks to be.

2315:




FUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Port is gonna get picked up by whatever that other dot is. I know it. Something's gone wrong.

2330:



And now Port is moving...away from the Brightman?

2345:



Still moving away. Now farther away.

[classical]

These seem to be being updated rather consistently here (automatic post timer, I guess?).

But I'm off to bed now, probably to dream of numbers and glowing little dots...

[classical]

I'm not sold on the 216, personally, since there's four stars which makes the code six numbers long. But that part does make some sense, considering that there were six blanks in the original puzzle...

That said, putting the '4' and the '3' into various blanks doesn't reveal any patterns or anything of that sort. More or less because there is no frame of reference here; I have no idea what sort of pattern we're even looking for that would reveal the rest. Mehhhhhhh.

edit;;

Quote:

ArlenRage: He's on the boat. Hatch is linking the GPS to one of the blogs. He's alone, my dear and once Hatch gets the code he'll give the all clear.

Odd, that rhymes.

Aforementioned blog is this one; there are four posts up with similar images, apparently tracking the movement of the dots we've seen before. '2215' was posted just after I got Rage's tweet.

Fairly certain that the dot that just launched into the bay is Port himself; the one left behind on shore is Rage.

edit edit;;

Quote:

ArlenRage: Alas, heading out for one last job. Will be hitting SFO on my way to Texas. If you recall I am no longer welcome at Will Rogers.

[Ryutso]

classical wrote:

Rage texted back a response, and well... Quote: (707): She had a poison capsule implanted in her tongue. That was the Pennywise Protocol. Not pretty. I'm sending King out on a boat tonight - hope you did your part. So umm ... how about that door code! Anyone? ... guys?? D: edit;; 1407 has been changed slightly; the number rollovers are no longer functional... instead only four change now to read 'SEND ME THE CODE' (whoever "me" is... I'm guessing Hatch?) And the door image has a rollover now, too.

Well fuck me. The Pennywise Protocol killed our only asset.

Based off the rollover picture of the door, the door code has 5 numbers, starting with 4 and ending with 3, so we're looking for anything that has that.

EDIT:

The tiles that now have "SEND" "ME" "THE" "CODE" on it were, in order:

(Row-Column)
2-2:


3-5:


5-3:


6-5:


These numbers have to have some significance to them, else Hatch wouldn't have chosen them.

EDIT2:

I'm thinking the combination is 4(216)3 with 216 being in any order.

[classical]

Rage texted back a response, and well...

Quote:

(707): She had a poison capsule implanted in her tongue. That was the Pennywise Protocol. Not pretty. I'm sending King out on a boat tonight - hope you did your part.

So umm ... how about that door code! Anyone?

... guys?? D:

edit;;
1407 has been changed slightly; the number rollovers are no longer functional... instead only four change now to read 'SEND ME THE CODE' (whoever "me" is... I'm guessing Hatch?)
And the door image has a rollover now, too.

[ASimulacraOfAlex]

Ryutso wrote:

Wait, figure out both puzzles? EDIT: rot(22) puzzle comes out to: Quote: ROT-22 you are now in a position to make demands.

Nah, I put the rot(22) puzzle in there.

[classical]

ASimulacraOfAlex wrote:

Quote: Yes, I guess I am!! 3 286 199 199 97 221 199 199 255 3 97 127 299 318 286 299 299 255 97 127 173 173 281 181 286 299 127 65 65 281 127 3 286 46 127 65 46 3 97 127 3 173 97 286 65 286 286 46 173 3 221 173 97 221 89 255 221 281 3 97 286 181 286 65 65 255 89 31 173 286 181 299 221 3 221 111 221 199 Later.

... oi! I knew that looked familiar.

Code:

A   B   C   D  E   F   G   H  I  J   K   L   M   N  O   P   Q  R   S   T U   V   W  X  Y   Z 127 245 111 46 286 231 157 97 31 318 278 199 167 65 221 181 99 299 173 3 281 179 89 53 255 227

Code:

TELL HOLLY THA(T) JERRY HAS SUPERANNUATED AND THAT SHE NEEDS TO SHOW YOU THE PENNYWISE PROTOCOL

This is the code that we used to figure out some stuff in the package for Portland--it's all back here in this post I made.

That said, I was just gonna d/tweet Port anyway, because he sent this:

Quote:

klokworkalex: What's going on? It's been really quiet lately and Arlen is spending a lot of time sitting and staring at the ocean.

So I'll let Rage know...

[Ryutso]

ASimulacraOfAlex wrote:

Well im back in boston, and quite drunk, but here: Figure it out for me Quote: Alex Galle-From to T show details Sep 3 (2 days ago) Well fuck me. How convenient. Yo, TB, we still aint at odds though, we both want to keep the oracle safe...what do you say? You help us, we dont blow this/get in your way and fuck things up. rot(22) csy evi rsa mr e tswmxmsr xs qeoi hiqerhw. | T Bettelheim to me show details Sep 3 (2 days ago) Yes, I guess I am!! 3 286 199 199 97 221 199 199 255 3 97 127 299 318 286 299 299 255 97 127 173 173 281 181 286 299 127 65 65 281 127 3 286 46 127 65 46 3 97 127 3 173 97 286 65 286 286 46 173 3 221 173 97 221 89 255 221 281 3 97 286 181 286 65 65 255 89 31 173 286 181 299 221 3 221 111 221 199 Later.

Wait, figure out both puzzles?

EDIT:

rot(22) puzzle comes out to:

Quote:

ROT-22 you are now in a position to make demands.

[ASimulacraOfAlex]

Well im back in boston, and quite drunk, but here:
Figure it out for me

Quote:

Alex Galle-From to T show details Sep 3 (2 days ago) Well fuck me. How convenient. Yo, TB, we still aint at odds though, we both want to keep the oracle safe...what do you say? You help us, we dont blow this/get in your way and fuck things up. rot(22) csy evi rsa mr e tswmxmsr xs qeoi hiqerhw. | T Bettelheim to me show details Sep 3 (2 days ago) Yes, I guess I am!! 3 286 199 199 97 221 199 199 255 3 97 127 299 318 286 299 299 255 97 127 173 173 281 181 286 299 127 65 65 281 127 3 286 46 127 65 46 3 97 127 3 173 97 286 65 286 286 46 173 3 221 173 97 221 89 255 221 281 3 97 286 181 286 65 65 255 89 31 173 286 181 299 221 3 221 111 221 199 Later.

[ironnikki]

Yeah, that was a rather sad read. I'm thinking that I missed a bit of the main story, but I understand most of it.

So, I know I'm a little out of the loop, but has our main goal changed? That is, are we trying to do something other than getting Rage and Port into the Brightman? I know that we don't have much to go on for now in that area, but I was just thinking that with all of the different leads at once, we could use some organization.

[Wulf74]

Curiouser and curiouser....

I got an email back from Rage. In reply to the one where I tried to convince him he's a character in a book, included a bit of the ending Bricker has written (not the most recent version), and also asked him HOW he knew Bricker.

Quote:

Wulf, Very interesting read, my friend, and I appreciate you working to both enlighten me and clarify your own thoughts. I think it's important for you to know that what you have read and sent to me is the story that we have both created, not what the writer originally intended. I guess without my perspective it's difficult to comprehend so let me take this opportunity to clarify for you. Share it if you want, keep it to yourself if that seems better. I first became aware of my situtation while I was sitting in my car, listening to Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and watching a house burn. I had the oddest sensation that everything was only two-dimensional. That I was acting out of a will not my own. Inconsistent, as it were. And little by little over the coming weeks I became aware of "rewrites". I found myself going through the same situations over and over again, but responding differently. It was very disorienting and as I fought against it and tried to respond to the situations I was placed in the manner that I wanted to, something started to happen. I found myself able to control my surroundings like the dreamer who half-wakes in the midst of the dream. Then it happened. I stepped through a door, intending to kill that old stupid bastard Poughkeepsie and instead came face to face with the writer. He was hunched over a folding card table, typing on a laptop in Norman, Oklahoma. He looked up at me - surprise registering on his face - but not complete surprise. As if he had already sensed me pushing against his will, getting stronger each time. So do I know the writer? Intimately. Do I know that I'm a character in a story? Again, I say "aren't we all?" It's time we see where this story goes. A.R.

*twitch*

I've also continued playing with the numbers from the GPS portal - really just doing anything I can. And that gets a bit stranger also. Remember the sum total from either column or row ended up totaling the same amount? Yeah - well that particular pattern continues. I kept using Excel, and have done a few things, like color in the "squares" without numbers/symbols in them - to see if it spelled anything out - and vice versa. Interesting results - but nothing that I can see (I'm also going blind because of it at this point) - but the weird part? Say you count the squares without numbers/symbols in em- and total them up for columns & rows .. then add them together like I did the first round? Yeah - no matter how I do it - the numbers always match.
Now - I'm sure there's a simply mathmatical explanation for this - however, I'm no mathematician. My forte has always been in napping. So if the answer to this question is obvious, please be nice in letting me know.. lol..

[paperbound]

Call me a big baby or sentimental or whatever if you must, but I'm not gonna lie...

I just cried.

[classical]

So I was just about to go send an email to Bricker to see how he was doing/if he was still alive or whathaveyou, but lo and behold! I find this sent to me from his address:

Quote:

people are trying to get this - make this happen Courtney - she must meet with Rage

This is definitely not Bricker writing this email; it looks like Watcher's/Hatch's style.

Had this attached, though.

[Ryutso]

Wulf74 wrote:

As much as I hate to disappoint - I'm not withholding anything. And like the email said - you guys just aren't asking me the right questions, lol. I'm sure it has something to do with the book too, but I think I've spent too much time reading thru that book - I need to step back from it. As I've mentioned I cataloged and took pictures of every part of that book that was relevant. Everything that was written/highlighted/drawn on etc, is there. As a funny side note, when Classical and I were having lunch with Bricker in Portland we were asking him as many questions as we could, and at one point I made the comment "I know that there's something we're not asking, or not asking right..." At which point, he more or less said "Umm, yeah dummies.." and then finally drew a picture for us, which lead us to the new package, which you can see here in all of it's suspense and glory. Anyway, I promise I'm not deliberately hiding anything, or keeping anything back. I guess I'm just waiting for someone to ask the right question, and all of a sudden all of the pieces will fall into place...

Whats on pages 125, 12 and 22?

EDIT:

Also the last line of TB's latest email bugs the crap out of me. I know "Audi Bro" sounds like "Outtie" which is just another way of saying "see ya later", but like Wulf said, I got the impression that Jerry was a Chief of sorts, since someone referenced Holly being the "Chief's fingerwarmer", and being the Chief of a department, could afford something bigger than that SUV lookin thing in the ditch.

Maybe Jerry could afford an Audi