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Tenshi Akui
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 		So I checked the phone number a bit ago and saw that it was the same message as last week, which made me check the tumblr.

12 minutes ago we got this post.



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QFDA Information

It seems the QFDA is doing one of two things. It is either operating very slowly (which it tends to do because of its age, of course), or, the next fragment is not arriving on this schedule we have created in our minds. I say that because, clearly, fragments of a destroyed reality would not simply come in to our reality on a schedule. Such a thing would be ridiculous.

So, while we try to eradicate that concept from our brain, I believe information, on the operative end of things, meaning your telephone number, should arrive in a few days. Wednesday perhaps, if I'm interpreting the data I'm seeing correctly.

As for the crossover of the fragment itself, I think it would be wise to assume (though it never truly is wise to assume) a one week hiatus from fragment retrieval.

That would put the crossover at, approximately, Aug 31, though, look what I have done. I have once again assumed that these fragments are coming over on a schedule.

It's clear that I need some more tea before I write such things.

Oh, another thing. I believe it would be prudent, during this time away from solving fragment locations and traveling far distances to retrieve them (which I appreciate thoroughly), we should attempt to dissect, analyze, and organize the information we have gathered through the fragments thus far. It would be wise, of course, to do so, to assist those who are newly assisting us.

Now, tea.


Looks like we may be on hiatus for a week.
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LOBO247
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 		take a break and work on the wiki. understood, Mechanic. Razz

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Tenshi Akui
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LOBO247 wrote:
take a break and work on the wiki. understood, Mechanic. Razz


LOL That was my thought as well hehe.
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MrBeefy
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heathian wrote:
I wonder if there was anything written on the back of the portrait? Maybe something in French...


Amazing spidey sense you have! Was just getting back into my regular groove here, and ready to post things. I saw that The Mechanic kindly posted the contents, so I don't need to scan anything, but there was indeed a message on the back of the watercolor. I've updated my game tumblr to show some things:

http://mrbeefyarg.tumblr.com/

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thebruce
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 		Yep every watercolour has french on the back.

Yours essentially reads "We are (the) lonely/alone"
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heathian
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 		Thanks for the follow up on the message on the portrait, MrBeefy and thebruce. Also, the Mechanic has answered a question I submitted sometime earlier.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
heathian asked: You said that you had been in Washington advising on Tube Alloys. As Tube Alloys likely refers to the British atomic weapons effort, I am curious about and would like to know 1) who you were working for at that time and 2) just who you were advising? Also, if I may be so bold, 3) what is the Mechanic's nationality?

Yes, it certainly does. Still get a bit flustered talking about it after being so secretive. I was a foreign asset to the Office of Strategic Services. At the time, the United States and United Kingdom were quite collaborative, as they still are today in many ways.

As for who I was advising, well, I don't mean to sound full of myself in any way (though it may come off that way), but it was the President.

And to finish answering your question, I was born in Wales.


It fleshes our man out a bit, I think.

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Eggz wrote:
I've confirmed with toenolla that she can get the Dallas location


I was just about to sign in to say that I acquired a person to make the drive with me to Dallas, but I see I am not needed after all. Thanks, toenella. Let me know if something happens and you can't make it, I will be your backup.

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 		I've been contacted by someone playing this game that you need a contact in Las Vegas.

Here's the problem. I work or I'm out of town sometimes. As long as there isn't a narrow time frame, and I don't have to go too far (or deal with Strip traffic), I can probably help you out if you have a drop here.
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Greystone
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 		Where the info in the Mathematician still does not match anyone historically. I have found the best candidate of who the Mechanic might be, and a tumbler question I need asked for me.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Although he was not actually born IN Wales, he was just out side and might consider himself Welsh.
Sir James Chadwick seem to fit the bill best of all the real people involved. I am not on tumbler. To confirm his identity I would like 2 things asked for me.
#1 How well was he treated as a POW in the Great war?
#2 would he like us to call him by his U.S. given cover name of James Chaffee?

Anyone looking him up, be careful with post 1943 info to him because we do not want to rip a hole in the space - time continuum Flaming Nutter

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danish.
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 		Just for the sake of it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
IRL, Alexei Kovalev is (well, was, until the end of March) a hockey player also known as: l'Artiste. Also, he is 6'1, like the passport.

It's almost certainly pure coincidence. but an intriguing coincidence


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Greystone
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 		The only Russian coming closest to the name we are looking for during WWII Scaled the now pacified Reichstag to STAGE the raising of the flag. This was done to copy the American Iwo Jima flag picture. The picture was also altered and widely used for propaganda.
The one who was attaching the flag to the building was was 18-year-old Private Alexei Kovalyov from Kiev. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_flag_over_the_Reichstag

It is highly doubtful that this young man Alexei Kovalyov, or the hockey player Alexei Kovalev (born in 1973) are the Mathematician or the Artist.
I have seen where the Mathematician was taken to London but I have seen little else other than being on the ship and at this point presumably died on the ship. The conclusion is due to no other information after the incident about the Mathematician.

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heathian
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 		I think we must remain aware of the Mechanic's warning that information received via the transported fragments may represent a jumbling of the material originally sent.

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heathian
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 		The hockey player connection is quite interesting and although out of time sequence it may pan out down the road.

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Burozog
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 		Okay. I'm all caught up. Read all forty pages. Very Happy

I don't really have anything to contribute right now, but I'm ready to help in any way I can if the phone message does indeed update tomorrow, as the Mechanic predicted.

Also just saying hi. Congrats to everyone for solving everything so far, especially figuring out the Sandyhook clue. O_O

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Tenshi Akui
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 		Just a thought about the passport.

In the sound file it states
Quote:
Meeting with the forger went well. He's given me an authentic looking Soviet passport that, if all goes as planned, will get me out of the country.


I just have a feeling the passport is the forgery that was mentioned, so the name on it doesn't really matter too horribly much.
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