The numbers they gave...so the 23 09 09 04? I've been trying to figure out what to do with those and haven't gotten anywhere yet
Edit: Also, I thought I'd share an OOG comment the PM made to me once:
Quote:
[oog - the watchman's a git in terms of tone and address - the pm is glad you're enjoying and replying - don't get the two confused ok?!!! ]
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:43 pm
punxtr
The asshat responded to me:
Quote:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/conscience
'What he deserved' ... do you deserve? 'I serve' or 'I deserve' - always a person's choice...
Did you HAVE to decide? No. You chose to be where you are, and what you do. You ask for help - we provide it. We do not empathise - why should we. We have no emotion, only necessity.
Share these words with others less concerned with philosophies and more with saving life - time is not on your side for too long, as the numbers we gave you should tell you...
The Watchman.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:38 pm
inkflamewriter
New email:
Quote:
Subject: Worthiness
All below were worthy:
Richard Ithamar Aaron, Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell, Marius Barbeau, Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Norman Cameron, Edmund Fellowes, Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen, Richard Hughes, Sir Francis Kynaston, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, J. L. Mackie, Philip Napier Miles, Edward Thomas Monro, Henry Monro, Thomas Monro, Thomas Mozley, John Nunn, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Alexander Todd, Joseph Warton, David Wright
They all passed immortality almost every day as they sought their disciplines - yet found immortality in other places. If only they, like Anthony Collett, looked closer at things...
Follow the trail: a picture paints much...
The Watchman
I've got some nice breaks between classes today, so I'll start looking into the names...
EDIT
Found it:
All of them are scientists, poets, musicians, and philosophers, but...
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All of them studied at Oriel College, in Oxford. That is also where the plate resides that contains the quote on the hidden image.
There's obviously more to it than that, but it's a start.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:53 am
Lystella
Coming from a not-so-picture savvy person, the images with the text look to be geographical. The second image looks like India and the third to be part of Europe and a strip of Northern Africa. Not sure about the first image, though.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:27 am
inkflamewriter
Then perhaps we should look in that direction...those here that are better with pictures than I can perhaps tell us more.
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:28 pm
punxtr
Pictures always have importance.
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:18 pm
inkflamewriter
I was wondering...does anyone think the picture we're given along with the text have any importance? Knowing this one, it probably does...
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:44 pm
punxtr
Well, shit, I work all weekend and now both of them might die? I still have a lab report to do tonight... sometimes I wish the Green time was slower than ours, not faster!
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:30 pm
inkflamewriter
Ok, I'm really, really sure that we're missing something. I keep thinking of the email:
Quote:
You have until the time specified.
You fail = all die.
You succeed = you will know what to get and then can ask they who know what to do...
We have until sunset and we'll know we succeeded if we know what to get and who to ask.
ddl speculated that we might be able to go on with the lottery, assuming Forest is worthy. So I guess I have to wonder if The Watchman means that we should know that we need to get the rest of the tickets and that he Howard Fair folks should ask the FFEY-T Venice people how to proceed with the lottery. Just my thought, but I don't know what to do with said thought now.
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:48 pm
inkflamewriter
Ah...thank you for the correction. All I'm getting is that somehow the lottery is once again of importance?
Which is a text with some other interesting quotes like:
"That, late, the Forest clad with lively Green,"
That might be inconsequential, but I found it funny a the least.
"Winter comes to rule" the year (1) like a leader who rules a country; it falls "oppressive o'er the world" (58). In the first section of "Winter," the season is seen as a powerful "Father" (72) or "great Parent" (106) who has control over people, plants, and animals.
http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/95701.html
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:52 pm
inkflamewriter
Ok, that actually makes sense...
And I was right! Except it would take a code stick that's bigger than a pencil...
Anyway, here's the solution:
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The numbers and the "x" in boxes all lined up, one every six letters. I basically just wrote out the strips, cut them out in sets of six, and lined them up. They spelled out this:
Nature! Great parent! Whose unceasing hand rolls round the seasons of the changeful year, how mighty, how majestic are thy works! X 23 09 09 04
The quote comes from a piece called "States fall — Arts fade — but nature doth not die" by William Brevard Dusenbery.
The connection? The very first line, referring to the title, says this: "Such was the ejaculation of the immortal Byron while standing on the Bridge of Sighs, thinking on the sad fate of fallen Venice."
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:36 pm
ddl
The letters in italics when read down each row, from left to right spell:
It's basically several strips with numbers and a few punctuation marks scattered throughout...looks suspiciously like something you decode by wrapping it around a pencil, but I have yet to attempt this.
The text says this:
Quote:
Father will be maintained until everything is balanced.
Then, and only then, will judgement be passed.
This will allow the rhetoric of one voice to be enacted fully,
whilst the other opinion will be executed to the letter.
We do not desire this, but it is needed to be so.
We offer one idea of help, one which we rarely share with humanity:
If Forest is worthy and you are clever and realise it, the lottery may still be played out...
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Hidden behind the first image is another. The text is as follows:
Man, in thy draughts let reason be thy guide, and not the craving of perverted lust;
So honest nourishment will be supplied, and strife of tongue be trampled in the dust
We are making the decision now - whose heart will be heard?
Humanity fails itself when asked to the task
In friendship was our question - did we fail who we did ask?
We expected more of you all - hence our decision will be returned before the sun sets...
The Watchman.
Also in the first email,
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Hidden text:
The extent to which a person can distance himself from the impulses of the imperious self and draw closer to the realm of humanity is directly proportionate to the degree of his perfection . . . a perfect human being does for others what he desires for himself, and defends others against that which he does not desire for himself. This is much easier said than done . . . it requires self-control 24 hours a day and acting as one's own judge.
The second email:
"Subject: There late was One within whose subtle being..." wrote:
We offer this.
You have until the time specified.
You fail = all die.
You succeed = you will know what to get and then can ask they who know what to do...
Your choices. Your consequences.
Forest is safe. He will be released soon - until then, you are alone...
The Watchman.
The second email had two attachments that looked to have the same information sent for different Word doc compatibilities (doc and docx). I have yet to take a close look at the files.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:43 pm
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