[R00tie]

I wonder what Sunday is about. Hi everybody, by the way. Loooong time lurker, though it'd be fun to play for once . I haven't gotten a reply from bowty yet though.

[Sylvia]

email from Stu

[Sylvia]

hi jrod, welcome aboard. as the main page says new comers are to start here: http://www.thegatereaction.com/julie.htm
If you have trouble everything is in spoiler tags in this thread or you can contact bowty25 @ gmail.com for hints or ask one of us.

for everyone else the page has updated: with a new mp3 Feb22hike.mp3

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Gone for a hike Be good while I'm gone. The roster Newcomers are to take this Test Questions? Comments? Bowty25 @ gmail.com

edit: for those who don't have speakers all it says is:

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See you on Sunday.

[jrod]

Hey guys, just read up on everything and i'd really like to get in on this. Anyone got suggestions, since this would be my first one, i wouldn't mind a little guidance

[Palm]

OK, we have 3 questions to be asked so far:

Silent Monk - What is the key to salvation that you speak of?

Palm- If you were to meet Julie one last time, what would you say to her?

eliteFencer - What are you trying to tell the world?

[eliteFencer]

Palm wrote:

1) Where or from whom did you get the virus that is in your possession? "You also hold the key to salvation" 2) What is the key to salvation that you speak of? "Who would I like to meet? Julie - one last time" 3) If you were to meet Julie one last time, what would you say to her? "The first stage of enlightenment has been granted." 4) How many stages of enlightenment will there be? 5) Bowty, you also go by the alias Sx Aff. Can you tell me what that stands for? "Wallace Wears a white box over his welted body end." 6) Can you tell me what this statement means? Who is Wallace? 7) What is the signficance of February 15?

Nice!
A few more questions...if anyone thinks they're good...

8. Why do you feel a desire to release the virus?

9. What are you trying to tell the world?
(If no one minds, I'd like to take this one if that's okay...)

[Palm]

Re: My question....

[Sylvia]

yes I noticed the analysis earlier. Anyways, I thought it was time to break the ice with Stu so I just sent him the following email:

Sylvia to Stu, stuburn @ live.com wrote:

Mr. Washburn I've been reading your blog and the virus you've been studying sounds gruesome. I hate what it did to poor Shelby. What happened to her in the end or have you got that far yet? I've found some info about a virus from a different avenue but might be related to what you are studying. A guy or something that calls itself Bowty25 seems to have possession of some sort of mega virus. You might want to have a look at his or its blog and website, The Gate Reaction. And for some reason the date February 5, 1958 is important. The only thing that makes sense about that date is the Tybee Island Bomb incident that happened February 5, 1958. Apparently somewhere around Wassaw Providence. The only thing I can find about Lazaretto is that it is a creek. I would hate to think what would happen if a virus of that magnitude got into any sort of water supply, not that Lazaretto Creek is cause I don't know yet. Bowty25 seems to have this virus in his possession and is threating to release it if we don't comply with his wishes. And if you look at his website you will see that we have been appeasing him the best that we can. It appears that he is looking for someone named Julie. Don't ask, I don't know who that is. However, there seems to be another group that may be trying to stop Bowty25 but they are having to stay low key for now and we (my friends and I) haven't been able to find out much about them. They call themselves the Lazarus Union Organization. A guy who goes by the name Endrid Mercy from LU has contacted us and told us basically that he is trying to help us but for now to do as Bowty25 says. Actually, he is the one who lead us to your blog. Maybe he or someone from LU is the one who left the information at your home. I have to believe they thought you could help. Therefore, I thought you might as well know that the group I'm associated with are also working on this. We may have to compare notes with you from time to time to get to the bottom of this. Actually, Bowty25 has sent a strange file to one of my friends that we can't make sense of. Maybe you could take a look at it and see what you think. Also, I was wondering if there might be something in the information that you received that might get us a user name and password into the Main part of LU. If you don't care could you take a look. Endrid sent us to the Main site but apparently we are so dense we can't decipher the user name and password he obviously put under our noses. Maybe you can help us with that also. Once you visit the above sites, you should have a better understanding of what I'm talking about. Oh, before I forget, Bowty25 has gone by a couple of aliases that we are not sure what to make of. At one time he referred to himself as Sx Aff now he is calling himself Va Gjj. He seems to be analyzing us and he is about 49% finished analyzing me but he seems to have completed analysis on one of my friends, Jacob, and this is what his analysis says. Bowty25 says that Jacob is Isabella Bottan and that he has been waiting for her/it. Which is odd cause Jacob is a guy. But it makes me wonder about the "Belle's Disease" you mentioned as Belle could be a nick for Isabella. Have you heard of or do you know an Isabella Bottan? Well, I'm getting a little wordy here. But thought we should try and get on the same page. Let me know if you need anything else and when you get the time I would love for you to take a look at that strange file we got. Sorry to take up your time, but looking forward to hearing from you at the same time. You can call me Sylvia and I hope that I have earned your trust enough that I may call you Stu. Until Then. Sylvia

[lhilt]

on topic humor alert:

2 interesting anagrams of stuart washburn

(spoiler becuase you might be at work or something:))

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

239. Thwart Anus Burs 240. Thwart Anus Rubs

could that be a mutation? the burs?

[Palm]

Mutating Gorilla

[Sylvia]

update Stu's Thoughts

[Oriza]

Ah yes-- the Isabella page was the one that had the invisible binary that read notwhatitseems.mp3. Did anyone ever find that file? Never mind-- typing in thegatereaction.com/notwhatitseems.mp3 gets my computer to start downloading a file, but I couldn't hear it without sound on my computer

[nextday]

Just sent in my picture.

As for the login and pass I was thinking the clue maybe in the purple things that were sent to you Sylvia. But I am not sure what we are supposed to get from it. I will quote all the messages I have gotten from support though just in case there is something hidden in them too.

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We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are still working on getting our server up. Thank you for your patience jljlkjljkjljdjlkjlkjlkjlkjo mnbmnbmnbmnbmnbnmbymnbbmnmomnbmnbmnbu wzxczxczxcxzaczxcxznxczcxzcxzt polpoapolpoclpooplcpollpepoloplspollpospolopl?

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Thanks for your MAIN concern, Alex. We are working on getting our servers on line. We are currently transferring a large amount of files from our old servers to our MAIN servers. Thank you for your time.

[Sylvia]

hey, bowty changed his name on mypace toVa Gjj
And a blog update from OMGzus

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Thursday, February 21, 2008 I am a disciple. Current mood: confused I sent in my picture (I just wrote the words on my hands and sent the pictures in) and I got an e-mail back a moment ago from Sx Aff: Quote: Sx Aff to me My Dearest Jacob, Here is your gift: http://thegatereaction.com/iamyourdisciple/0221081032 You are one that I have been waiting for for a long time. Sincerely, Bowty. Anyone get any letters like this back? Also, I noticed I was on the roster linked from the front page. The thing that caught my eye is what is written under Analysis. Who is this Isabella? I noticed it was an answer for one of the puzzles in the test. Also, here's a note; I was looking at his name, Sx Aff, and it seems like it would be some ROT stuff, but after ROTing it, nothing catches my eye. It's just that I've played some of these online game things like this before and when something's written in ROT, it comes out like that. Maybe I should look more into it. Also, another thing to note: His myspace name is different, but has the same amount of letters, in a similar configuration. Maybe that would be easier to ROT. Those are just my thoughts. OH, as for the Lazarus Union password, I'm still clueless; however, I'm thinking that if they sent me a message in code that said "Do you want access?" and sent me to a page with a login/pass, maybe they could have sent me clues before as to what the password is. The problem with that is, I was getting strange e-mails before, but I figured it was spam or something so I might have forfeited my chance to figuring it out @.@. Oh well, maybe there will be some clues in the future, or maybe they'll tell my outright. Who knows?

[Palm]

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So...who the hell is Isabella Bottan?

That's what I was wondering.
Maybe e-mail him and ask?

By the way, I opted not to put my e-mail online. If anyone wants to get ahold of me other than this forum, you can PM me.

Edited: There is a new blog on OMGzus' myspace page where he said that Isabella was one of the answer's to our test puzzles. Remember http://www.thegatereaction.com/443/Isabella/ ?

Here is the link to the blog: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=19094764&blogID=360111520

Welcome Jacob.

Edited: Ok, taking cue from OMGzus, thought I would take a look at Caesarian Shift and tried both Names (Sx Aff and Va Gjj). I don't know if it is significant or not but found:

caesarian shift 20 is Mr Uzz (for Sx Aff)
caesarian shift 17 is Mr Xaa (for Va Gjj)

No other shift made any sense.