[Mason]

Highfivegame.com changed to this:

Quote:

Palmer Was Here. Counting: 1198 You are not expected to find it. Give up.

I googled Palmer and what was already in my search (the phone number) by accident... and got this!
http://www.wiredsussex.com/press/pressrelease.asp?id=153

Quote:

Contact: Runtime Collective website Giles Palmer +44 (0)1273 234 290 gilesSPLATruntime-collective.com http://www.runtime-collective.com

Runtime-collective.com goes back to Magpie.
HOW ODD!

[Scribe]

Mason wrote:

OK. This is getting odd.

Quote:

Scribe: Magpie are based in Brighton... this might be up your alley.

You think it's odd? I worked for Magpie for 2 years... o_O I thought that phone number rang a bell.

I can think of a couple of Nicks who worked there, but who have no moved on to other things. I think they both went through Informatics too.

OK, I just got the Janus link. It ties in with that code earlier. here's instructions for contacting me via PGP - same code. Seriously freaked out about now...

[Rogi Ocnorb]

While I was looking at the http://www.6op1libra.com/ site, it changed to a black background with the text:

Quote:

Janus had two faces, one looking forwards and one looking back, since a door can let you in, or let you out. Volg het Witte Konijn nadat u zijn voet vindt

which makes me think the decode would be "bipolar".
There's a LJ account out there for bipolar61, but I really don't think it's IG.

[Mason]

OK. This is getting odd.

Quote:

Someone from this number: +44 (0)1273 234 290 - Hide quoted text - On 6/20/07, mason7 <mason7> wrote: > Nevar indeed. > Was midnightcreative a personal site of yours that got dragged into this? > If you don't know what 6op 1 Libra is yet, then where does it come > from? Who referred you to it?

Eric gave me this number: +44 (0)1273 234 290.
It's a UK number. I rang it. A man answered (with lots of noise in the background, maybe children) and had no idea who Eric was or anything to do with 16op1libra. He seemed normal and a little confused about it all. If someone else can try it and get more joy, that would be good.

I googled the number and it comes up with Magpie: http://www.magpie.net/whereweare.html

Maybe it's not a Raven after all, but a Magpie?
I've emailed Magpie and will post when they reply.

Scribe: Magpie are based in Brighton... this might be up your alley.

[Scribe]

Uhhhh, WTF. This game just got odd. Informatics at Sussex Uni is my old dept - did CS & AI there, still know a fair few people. They do a lot of evolution stuff.

I also mailed c2c2SPLAT6op1libra.com, this is the reply I got:

Code:

mQGiBDyQl1QRBACshdu/WuyWcDCbKHBz/jhJFzCL4bk+xazVmHYK91Uzm0OY7vtQ SvoROgn9pbjl1X+R5zywfLGvHk4QCnYeyA6c9S3+JTNTNPzSN2DL9jK3eqoAq+CJ Kv+N3MUQr4i959Pcq8bqefT4vRwH+V6yQXvYEzbSRA33yoBqyRkIcg9e7wCg9npW W2xiJlxFd5f0f0/JYYkqZXkD+weRWNwguQLxRiS9bfyjgWizTfrvpEBDnbmITAzU ASukNffJdGiPC2EJ6bCxzJejPRLCuXnANobJhZ7oXZeOn3MEa8Hp8kd9VlYgzwOj 5rTKHlzDGDjjm69qk7T7KFRY8dGUPd9uaBCklfNanClomNGZa443mRVWmRkigicQ GDvJA/9UXBmMGBjrTfocsANO8SNbM0y8xBbeCvHOdmWdpB4TIN4cEP9fhogrmTu3 4aCOazTA4E0SzuUJE1nU6QROz5OyGH6lwtk6iG+tqIZ8lbZ/1JD+073+dnLXXBOU xwVP48sCiLHNAH267ERBCrLhg8/jPHZanVz0VACeChILcXP0mbQtR3JhaGFtIExh bGx5IChOZXZlcm1vcmUpIDxzY3JpYmVAZXhtb3Npcy5uZXQ+iFcEExECABcFAjyQ l1QFCwcKAwQDFQMCAxYCAQIXgAAKCRDBP4Bc89FMiG47AKCd5ky3nM4kRue4fLQY rQt735c20ACg7StCL2u0eZngnlwxWBO2JX/8yXC5AQ0EPJCXWhAEANEUKWzHGxnP WGBaEf+X6+Zp7ZyO0AQf+PAehJdjFYSfsg8r5aUjtBcqUlql7BJm87qqmZDJX0Nr n7Y1PEBse1BkryvdgAWNpVCjSevH166uibretY88FE9jgf9vVV1gPGM9nIlrHNiN XqLKmXbwEGH4tWPoDt44U3om8rcEHbXrAAMGBACiGed9IUCxwiP2nqoDrh66yDpY Kxns8rueXNegmnRaf0o7qBdpZi7EBWzD2B9raTuMs3bVmzJWMB0kSQIJkkD9KMh1 IGpChxOJ/fXi5orqBvB/zqGv2jNiroGkSXeGB6uwv9E11jnreLZCISv9IJQj5dUr nBuNZiMkPQrEzhOWzIhGBBgRAgAGBQI8kJdaAAoJEME/gFzz0UyI0voAoIcVdHFz tBbsRZ78i9glaIUHOn1uAJ9ipZaqKDIEGaxqlEd9npcQmNgD6A== =aHpu

Thought it was base64, but wrong character set. Think it might be PGP encyrpted or something...

[Mason]

Uhh... might be a lil strange:
http://www.midnightcreative.com/1.jpg
http://www.midnightcreative.com/2.jpg
http://www.midnightcreative.com/3.jpg
http://www.midnightcreative.com/4.jpg
http://www.midnightcreative.com/5.jpg
http://www.midnightcreative.com/6.jpg

Also, waybackmachine says... http://web.archive.org/web/20050201115402/http://midnightcreative.com/
This seems to be Eric's personal site. From the emails I got, it seems like someone is forcing his hand to do all this.

Also: further back in the wayback machine says... http://web.archive.org/web/20040923204326/http://midnightcreative.com/
I looked at the co-ordinates on the original post and found that it's Congress St West in Detroit. Apparently home to a number of government buildings... including 422 Congress Street West Incorporated (check me on this). Maybe Eric is pointing us towards something in the Gov't?

[Mason]

I emailed him too:

Quote:

That would seem likely. But people are never where the rabbit foot goes... so things nevar seem to go anywhere. Maybe next time. On 6/20/07, mason7 <mason7> wrote: > So, in that case, are you the rabbit's foot? > > On 6/20/07, Eric Hachlinski <onfilm> wrote: > > This has nothing to do with my personal work. Trust me. Even I don't > > know what 6op 1 Libra is yet. > > > > On 6/20/07, mason7 <mason7> wrote: > > > Maybe it is my... fate to be next? > > > Do you have a way of contacting them? I think it is time that I did. > > > > > > On 6/20/07, Eric Hachlinski <onfilm> wrote: > > > > I'm not the author or the rabbit - you have to ask them. Maybe they > > > > will reveal themselves now that you found me... maybe you'll be next. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/20/07, mason7 <mason7> wrote: > > > > > Eric, > > > > > > > > > > I found your site. Who is the source of all this information? > > > > > It seems to me to be an endless circle with no answer. Why is a raven > > > > > like a writing-desk? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Adam > > > > > mason7SPLATgmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 6op 1 Libra > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 6op 1 Libra > > > -- 6op 1 Libra

UPDATE:

I emailed c2c2@... all the domains. Two bounced (midnight and highfive), but I got this reply from the c2c2SPLAT6op1libra.com (via the onfilm email):

Quote:

Eric Hachlinski <onfilm> hide details 5:12 pm (4 minutes ago) to mason7 <mason7> cc c2c2@midnightcreative.com, c2c2SPLAT6op1libra.com, c2c2SPLAThighfivegame.com date Jun 20, 2007 5:12 PM subject Re: Rabbit mailed-by gmail.com His name is "Nick" and he graduated from here years ago... I know it has to do with evolution and electronics in some way... http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/ On 6/20/07, mason7 <mason7> wrote: > Hello > > Do you know where I can find the rabbit? > > Adam > mason7SPLATgmail.com > -- 6op 1 Libra

[Scribe]

And as if by magic, midnightcreative.com has now changed to a blank page (for me, at least). The source reveals another c2c2 reference:

Code:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "c2c2"

Before, this was "wired". For 6op1libra.com, it's "lost" and for highfivegame.com it's "found".

My inkling is that c2c2 is the main route forward from here. However, highfivegame.com seems to be the "rabbit's foot" according to its metadata description, so maybe the white rabbit is on that page somewhere, but TBH that could be anything: number string, the picture of the book, etc. Can't see any jpg comments, and stegdetect doesn't turn up anything.

[chippy]

i fired off an email to Eric Hachlinski onfilm@gmail d.o.t. com

Quote:

i stumbled across your site, whats it all mean??

and just got this reply from Eric Hachlinski

Quote:

I just am doing what they ask me to do... I didn't ask for this... that's all I can say

[Mason]

Re: 6op 1 libra

[Scribe]

tipsila wrote:

Found this in the page source: http://www.genome.jp/ssdb-bin/ssdb_paralog?org_gene=hsa:7525

Saw the link before, but didn't notice the reference in it to "H.sapiens" - is this the genetic map for hoomans? Are there other "H. Sapiens" out there? No idea what I'm looking at...

[edit] yeah, definitely relates to humans...

[tipsila]

Found this in the page source:

http://www.genome.jp/ssdb-bin/ssdb_paralog?org_gene=hsa:7525

[Mason]

Description of highfivegame.com = "42 1 18 76"

Could this be an IP? Anyone care to connect via IRC, as I don't have it installed.

[Scribe]

Edit for anyone trying to catch up with all of this thread: there are a couple of wikis now set-up to try and sort through it: http://www.exmosis.net/6op1wiki (see this post for password and http://wikihost.org/wikis/6op1libra/wiki/start.

From the 6op1libra.com and highfivegame.com metadata:

meta name="author" content="c2c2"

"c2c2" is also the ALT text for the image at highfivegame.com linking back to 6op1libra.com.

Googling for c2c2 seems to throw up a lot of genetic references, in particular to the "Arabidopsis" genus. According to Wikipedia, "Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) (is) one of the model organisms used for studying plant biology and the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced".

Fits in with the genetics links that are cropping up, but it's a pretty spurious link nonetheless. I know nothing about genetics.

[Mason]

Code:

<script>... mycount = mycount + 11; document.write(mycount); // ...</script

On each page, the counter is increased by 11 for the... hits? Why is this so?