[punxtr]

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Get well soon, leader PM guy!

[zeighy]

A new post from their OOG site:

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Due to unforseen circumstances, the mind who runs the storyline is currently hospitalized. While the rest of the team can still perform regular procedures, anything related to the story cannot progress because most of them require aproval from him or he does it himself. Thus, at this moment we are stuck and can't perform accordingly. We dearly apologize to everyone about this. We hope he'll be fine and back in a few days. His condition isn't that bad so we're pretty sure he'll be fine. Until then, the ARG is on a "pause". And again, we're sorry about this. -- FAILTECH ARG TEAM

[godder]

Great job posse. I'll try to see what I can do with Arnold as well. I would freaking lol so hard if they actually worked in a famous Arnold line somewhere.

[posse]

I asked Arnold about the current status of the recovery:

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ARNOLD: Data recovery status COLORADO FACILITY: 89% DONE ALBERTA FACILITY: 100% DONE; 21% SUCCESSFUL, 10% UNRECOVERABLE, 43% DAMAGED, 26% UNAVAILABLE FRANCE FACILITY: 99% DONE FAR EASTERN FACILITY: 93% DONE ANTARCTICA FACILITY: 85% DONE GEOSAT: UNAFFECTED; DATABASE LOCKED OUT DSN: UNAFFECTED; DATABASE LOCKED OUT

Looks like it'll be done soon? I've set Arnold to try and track down Genus, Emily, or Pedro. Maybe that'll give some clue as to where Scarlet is.

Also I asked Arnold about what it means by "database locked out". For the GEOSAT and DSN, that meant that the wipe database command was rejected and that executed a lockout.

Looks like Alberta Facility got hit pretty hard, so that's interesting.

[zeighy]

I wonder how talking to Arnold would be? haha, anyways, good luck guys! Maybe Arnold can help out on this. Since he's looking for her...

[posse]

Yeah, the lainsySPLATfailtechnologies.com address is back up, Arnold can't really answer queries that require access to databases yet (since the databases are all gone), but I"m sure you can talk to him.

EDIT - I'm trying to explain to Arnold what's going on. So far he's asked me to define Orkudusu. This is as best as I could define it (I am so bad at these explanations sorry!!):

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Orkudusu are advanced human beings from the future who are determined to destroy the efforts of the Jhuku in bringing an end to a future cycle of destruction of the Earth.

If that's a bad definition I or you can always redefine it to Arnold, just email him.

I'm trying to see if he can locate Genus, Emily, or Pedro. We'll see if he might be able to determine Scarlet's location, but I'm not hoping for too much.

[zeighy]

If you guys view the page source of failtechnologies.com you'll find this hidden... and cleverly placed to make it look like it's not there when you are in the normal viwe of the page

Code:

3e 3e 49 27 6d 20 6c 6f 6f 6b 69 6e 67 20 66 6f 72 20 73 63 61 72 6c 65 74 2e 20 48 61 76 65 20 79 6f 75 20 73 65 65 6e 20 68 65 72 3f 20 2d 20 41 72 6e 6f 6c 64 20 28 6c 61 69 6e 73 79 40 66 61 69 6c 74 65 63 68 6e 6f 6c 6f 67 69 65 73 2e 63 6f 6d 29

which translates to

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

>>I'm looking for scarlet. Have you seen her? - Arnold (lainsySPLATfailtechnologies.com)

which then probably means we could communicate to him using email?

[godder]

I like that, "Arnold signing in for duty" part. Classic! So I got an email from Patrice too. Here it is...

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Thanks for the updates guys, greatly appreciated. Ok, the forensics investigations our agents performed was quite informative. Since we don't have any camera video to check, they had to reply on any unusual details on the facility. Initial inspection of the path the infiltrators took seemed like they were only aiming to get to LAINSY's core. However, further inspection shows that some of them took a different path. Somehow, most of those who took a different path went around the safe locks area of the facility. We couldn't fully inspect what they took from the safe locks, but we could soon discover that once Alex does accounting of items in secondary storage. Let's hope Alex get's things organized so that he can do that. Also, aside from the obvious Scarlet core they took, they also took some memory storage modules from LAINSY. I suspect whatever's in those modules are of importance, possibly related to any item they took form the safe locks. What's sad is that we couldn't get any helpful indentificative detail on their trail such any organic leftovers (hair, skin, blood, etc) to figure out who exactly they are, and possible to prove if they are indeed from the future. It is quite possible that they wore protective suits to prevent this, or that they have some advanced technology that allows removal of such leftovers. Investigation, however, is cut short since Alex has already deployed people into the facility. That's as much information I could provide you from what we have. The best we could do is get more information from Genus and Emily, or have Alex provide information on whatever's taken from the safe locks.

Guess we just wait to hear from Genus now. Unless something else crazy happens.

[duke9509]

Looks like Arnold still works. This is now on the home page:

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===================================================== [[[         L.A.I.N.S.Y Hardware Commander        ]]] =====================================================           >>>ARNOLD SIGNING IN FOR DUTY<<< ATTENTION: Scarlet module missing! ATTENTION: Data Storage Module 46, 47, 92, 109, and            176 missing! ATTENTION: Extensive hardware failure detected! See            print-log for details ATTENTION: FULL LAINSY OPERATION NOT POSSIBLE! <Do> Y <CONFIRM> Y < CONFIRMED! RESTRUCTURED MODE ENABLED SYSTEM: Collecting data... SYSTEM: Complete SYSTEM: Compiling data... SYSTEM: Complete SYSTEM: Checking databases... SYSTEM: ERROR! No Databases found! <Has> N <Ok> N <Are> N < Ok. I'll assume the system has been wiped. <Do> Y <It> Y < Data recovery operation started. SYSTEM: Connecting to all systems... SYSTEM: Complete SYSTEM: Performing recovery operations...

[posse]

Patrice sent me a message asking if I could find out what happened to the rogue BOD -- i.e. Pedro Jose. I asked Alex, who responded with the following (and I passed that info to Patrice):

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Oh, yeah, about that. Miller's staff says they lost him over all the comotion during the Colorado Facility break in. It is possible he was taken as well, since he's on their side, or that he escaped out of the facility without any memory about himself. I fear that the latter is least likely so let's assume he was taken as well.

Pedro, I forgot all about that guy! I wonder whether we'll finally get to confront him over all this...

Also, finally the confirmation that LAINSY = Scarlet seems to at last explain a thing or two. Good job godder!

[godder]

Well, I got an email back from Genus. This does answer at least one question. Lainsy IS Scarlet. First, my email to him...

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Godder Bier <godderbier> wrote: Well. By now I'm sure you know that the group of people at the France facility is Patrice Heinz and her team. They are trying to figure out what has happened. They were instrumental in helping us find Emily and keeping 45459 safe for a while. They have been working with us for a while now. Through her and Alex we have learned about what has happened with Scarlet. From what we can tell, the Colorado Facility was infiltrated, many people were killed and Lainsy's bio-AI core was breached and removed. We can only assume that this is Scarlet and that she was kidnapped. We have so many questions. Like, "Why was your daughter inserted into Lainsy as the core bio-AI?" and "What does she have to do with the whole stopping the catastrophe of this iteration thing?" But right now we are here to help you get her back. And Patrice is at your disposal too. We can imagine how horrible you are feeling right now, so just tell us what you need and we'll do it. Most of the members of our team are now back at their posts, so we are more connected and ready than before. Do you know where they may have taken Scarlet?

And his reply...

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I still don't know where they would take her. She might be the key, but certainly not the solution. You see, if we could have prevented them from taking her, it could have been easier for us to finally settle the problem Winston was here for in the first place. Yes, it's all about that catastrophic problem in the far future. While I still don't completely understand it, I know they story very well to know the consequences of failing. I'll be in contact soon, I'll have to deal with something that requires urgent attention.

I haven't heard back from Patrice yet. Hopefully she can help us figure out what is going on.

[duke9509]

I meant to post this earlier:
The dimensions of that "main processor" Patrice described would be perfect for a young child's stasis pod... I really am starting to lean towards the LAINSY is Scarlet idea.

The question remains, however, whether or not that idea is true: What would the Orkudusu want with that core? Wouldn't they have the same, if not better, AI tech already? And if it is Scarlet, what would they want with a little girl?

[posse]

Heard back from Alex, after I told him what happened to LAINSY and about the biohazard issue:

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I see... I've received a similar report from my staff, and your info just confirms it. While I can't force employees back (at least right now since company assets are still under LAINSY) my staff are willing to help out in the situation, I've also got contact with some of Miller's staff and most of them are willing to help out as well. I haven't got a confirmation from both Black and Klein, but seems they are willing to help out as well. Fortunately, both their sub-comapnies (Black Industries and Klein Energy) are unaffected by the assets transffer and still remain ownership of their comapanies. We could still leaverage some resources from them for the time being while FAILTECH's assets are still frozen. The safe locks of the facilities are currently disabled due to the fact that LAINSY is unavailable. I've got Miller's staff do a work around for that so that we can get back all hazardous materials back to primary storage (safe locks) to prevent any further problems. I still trying to make contact with the LAINSY dev team to see if they patch through and establish basic primary systems to get facilities back online. However, since LAINSY's main AI processor is taken out we'll probably have to do some work arounds. They could also probably recover some data since databases has been wiped. I assume you can still make contact with Orein through his non-FAILTECH email even if he's not on Earth since he was able to use it while in outer space. I think he mentioned something about the DSN which makes it work. I'm not sure though if the DSN would still work if LAINSY is down, but I'll check if the dev team has a work around for that once I get in contact with them. I'm trying to get some help from our partner company Duo Corp if they can leaverage some resources to us, as well. I'm sure Hall won't mind.

Do you remember Duo Corp? I sure didn't. But after searching through previous posts, they're an investment company of FAILTECH. Most likely transfer of ownership of FAILTECH went to them? Still not sure about that.
Also, Hall = Weston Hall, Duo Corp's leader. He was also mentioned way back in the day too. So it sounds like Duo Corp to the rescue?

BTW I replied to Alex and asked him about Pedro. Pedro under Dan Miller's supervision, so I wonder whatever happened to him when Miller disappeared.

[godder]

I just thought of something. I wonder if Arnold is still functioning. I don't know if it works that way or not. I'm going to send an email and see if I can make contact with him.

[punxtr]

I got an email, but it didn't add much to what you've posted.