Dan called me before my exam. Indeed, it is the same password; he signed the document too, with his linked email.
Also, I'm digging the Sawmill song from the website a lot!
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:57 am
godder
Sent Daniel an email and got a reply giving some information about what was taken from the facility.
Quote:
I just transferred my connection over to my personal network so that no FAILTECH or spy can intercept my email. I was at the office when I sent the previous email, so I didn't want anyone to intercept it. By the way, I'm in Texas right now and has filed the same report with the rest of the board. I'm heading back to the facility tonight, and hopefully my technicians are able to finish the recovery work.
Item C is probably the most dangerous experiment we have ever had. It has killed over two dozen of our scientist who has worked on it, and the entire research was shutdown. The Flesh Oxidation Reactant Bacteria (FOxR-B) eats away living tissue, quite literally. It's not an acid, but it's a living bacteria that creates a special chemical compound that allows it oxidize living tissue, such as human skin or any other human part. During the oxidization process, the chemical compound separates the necessary nutrients the bacteria needs to survive and replicate, and the heat of the oxidization speeds up the processes. This is why any small contact in this bacteria is highly dangerous and leads to death within seconds as it can quickly "dissolve" the skin and quickly penetrate to the blood stream and travel through the entire body while replicating at high speed. So quite literally, it dissolves you from human into chemical compound in a matter of seconds. It's the most horrifying death one can experience and one can watch happen. It is of the highest priority that this bacterium be returned safely and not released into the wild. Also, other than human tissue, it can also oxidize other living things, such as animals and plants, making it very difficult to kill and completely exterminate. Although it can be killed by normal means, like any other bacteria, there's almost no way it can be stopped once it has started to oxidize something.
Item D is the Human Tissue Regeneration Agent (or HTR Agent), which is quite the opposite of the FOxR-B. The HTR Agent speeds up human tissue regeneration, and allows faster healing of wounds, and such. However, the HTR Agent is still unstable at it's current state and the human tissue regeneration is uncontrollable once started. Which is why the the board has decide to temporarily suspend the use and experiments of with the HTR Agent until the team in charge figures out a way to control the tissue regeneration caused by the HTR Agent. It's a promising medical discovery, however, it's still years away from being complete.
Item E is a highly classified experiment that has been invested in by the Russian government. I cannot disclose much about it, but as it's name suggest, the Tuncarma project is indeed what the title says.
That's all I can say, and I hope it gives you an insight of how worse things are goings right now.
Daniel Miller
Board of Director, FAILTECH
On 7/22/2011 9:29 AM, Godder Bier wrote:
Your message was received. Our team is not familiar with some of the items listed on the report, specifically items c, d, and e on number 3 of your list of findings. We understand that information regarding these items is, no doubt, closely guarded. However, knowing the nature of these items may help us if you find that our assistance is needed with your investigation. We are standing by to assist.
Cheers,
Godder
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:20 am
godder
Here it is.
Failtech Report.doc
Description
Filesize
59.5KB
60 Time(s)
Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:39 am
zeighy
Been refreshing this page like a madman waiting to know what the attachment is... heh, anyone to post?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:26 am
godder
I called and left a message. Waiting on reply.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
You get to hear LAINSY's voice when you leave a voicemail.
EDIT: Just got the call back. He left a voicemail. The password is "line birds" ,...I think. It was kind of hard to understand .
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It was actually Daniel that left the message
EDIT2: Well, that's not the password as it won't open the file. It's got to be close to that though.
EDIT3: Okay, found it. Password for the file is "flyingbirds"
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:35 am
Badgerconda
So, looks like FAILTECH part 2 is Live. Got this email from Dan 15 minutes ago. Now I'm in Canada, so I'd rather not call long distance to do this, but if my curiosity eats away at me before anyone else calls to get the password, I'll bite.
The Email:
Good day Experts Team! I have have attached an encrypted report that has summarized the findings of our investigation the pas week since the incident. I didn't want for anyone to intercept this message and get hands on the report and thus I have encrypted and self-signed the document to make sure only you can read it, and that the information is not modified.
I will not go into detail, as I have already put into the report what I need to say so far. Please leave me a voicemail at our company number (210) 900-FAIL (or 210-900-3245, which is a USA number based on Texas) and LAINSY will then forward your voicemail to me. I will then call you back, and hopefully you answer or that you have voicemail, so that I can tell you the password for the report. I do not want to put here the password as it will just be stupid if I put the encrypted file together with the password to decrypt it.
Make sure you mention your name as I know it, as indicated here in the email, so that I will know if it is you. Make sure you mention something that only you and I know, and is not too revealing if ever someone can overhear it. This is to verify that I am calling the right person. As soon as I get your message, and number, I will call back with the password and mention nothing else. Also, make sure you clearly state that you wanted the message to be delivered to me so that LAINSY can properly sort the message.
Good luck, and I will get in touch very very soon!
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:41 am
zeighy
Just in case no one has noticed, yet, the contact form on their new site has posted a phone number. Anyone could try and call I suppose? Seems like a US based number, so I dunno, I'm from canada.... if they had their main office from canada, why not have a canadian number instead? I would definitely try to call them if they did.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
210 900-3245
EDIT: Looks like we'll need to call them at some point if they did setup a phone number just for this....
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:01 am
jjjonesy
I hope they get Ep. 2 running soon. I had fun just lurking for the first part.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:06 am
zeighy
Ooohh, they have a snazzy new slideshow up on their website... I just thought it was worth a look
Heh, so much for TINAG, the copyright line reads "(c) 2011 Failtech ARG Team"
lol, seems like they still check this thread... they updated to "Consumer Products Division" I haven't seen what you posted, but this is what I saw now,. and impressive, they have a new site
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:21 pm
duke9509
Heh, so much for TINAG, the copyright line reads "(c) 2011 Failtech ARG Team"
It has several different kinds of enigma machines, which may just be for the enthusiast at this point. It has a pdf file built into that explains some common methods of encoding and decoding, which did not include the method used to solve our own message. Balls.
Edit--I've stopped watching this thread, so... until a new email!
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:51 am
posse
I'm adding this for future reference for anyone who is interested in decoding enigma coded messages. Kind of a "how-to" for how to decode the message we got.
First off, this seemed to be the only online enigma decode program that worked on this message, at least for me (maybe I just don't know how to set up the other ones properly). This one was at least the easiest to use.
http://www.enigmaco.de/enigma/enigma.swf
Directions:
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1. Select the rotors (the top 3 letter circles). Each rotor is labeled by a bright blue Roman numeral in the middle. To change the rotors, click on the top yellow icon on the right side of the app, which will open up a bunch of type selections (I-V) for each rotor. In this case, I, II, V. Press the icon again to collapse the rotor selection view.
2. Set the starting position -- Move the rotors using the <and> buttons located next to each rotor. Set it up so the rotors' bright blue boxes spells out DON.
3. Set up the Steckers (list of letters, looks like vaguely like a DJ mixer board). This is probably tricky because if you mess up you will have to reset and setup everything again. But basically you take the little blue box from one letter and drag it to the letter you want to connect it with. AF CH ET IL
4. Confirm the settings by pressing on the yellow key icon on the right side of the app. Collapse the view by pressing on the key icon again. If you need to reset, press the yellow wrench icon and do everything all over again.
5. Copy/paste or type the encoded message in the Input field. NGOBGGXRYUIASWMSDCGDKICMKUYBWEMJMZCNJECPWXVX
Note: I noticed in this case that AAA didn't come into the picture at all in setting up this app to decode the message, so I don't really know what the AAA was all about anyway.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:57 am