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faithlessfate
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 		Russell: I've been thinking for a long while this sounded like V for Vendetta or whatever...


Anyway. Recruitment contacted me.

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Hello Faith,


Following your email, we are pleased to confirm that you have been selected for a pre-assessment test.

Please find your test attached to this email, and send your findings back to us within the next 7 days.


Recruitment


And at the bottom of the message was the following image.

http://i.imgur.com/6qFj1P8.png

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:09 pm
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Russell
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 		lol we got different messages and mine was longer ><

Thankfully got most of it using OCR software and then filled in the errors.

Mine decoded to:

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EVERY DAY, AT EVERY MOMENT, THEY WILL BE DEFEATED, DISCREDITED, RIDICULED, SPAT UPON- AND YET THEY WILL ALWAYS SURVIVE. THIS DRAMA THAT I HAVE PLAYED OUT WITH YOU DURING SEVEN YEARS WILL BE PLAYED OUT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, ALWAYS IN SUBTLER FORMS. ALWAYS WE SHALL HAVE THE HERETIC HERE AT OUR MERCY, SCREAMING WITH PAIN, BROKEN-UP, CONTEMPTIBLE-AND IN THE END UTTERLY PENITENT, SAVED FROM HIMSELF, CRAWLING TO OUR FEET OF HIS OWN ACCORD. THAT IS THE WORLD THAT WE ARE PREPARING, WINSTON. A WORLD OF VICTORY AFTER VICTORY, TRIUMPH AFTER TRIUMPH AFTER TRIUMPH: AN ENDLESS PRESSING, PRESSING, PRESSING UPON THE NERVE OF POWER. YOU ARE BEGINNING, I CAN SEE, TO REALIZE WHAT THAT WORLD WILL BE LIKE. BUT IN THE END YOU WILL DO MORE THAN UNDERSTAND IT. YOU WILL ACCEPT IT, WELCOME IT, BECOME PART OF IT.

One of my favourite books! 1984 George Orwell


I responded back with my own version of their code =)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:11 pm
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amandel
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 		Hello All. Am heading to Sleepyville and just mentioning that my pre-assessment is a longish passage from 1984 doubly encoded.

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HEX to ROT19 and then reading:

And remember that it is forever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there so, that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands-all that will continue and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful the less it will be tolerant, the weaker the opposition the tighter the despotism. Heresies will live forever. Every day at every moment they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon-and yet they will always survive.

[My note: Yikes, that FEA recruitment officer sure knows how to woo a potential applicant...NOT. Surprised ]

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:12 pm
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Aigis
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 		I joined...
http://imgur.com/KQCJ0CY

TBH I'm not sure how to do this so here's my recruitment page if y'all want it.

-Aigis

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Russell
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 		Hi Aigis, welcome on board.

Yours decodes as
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But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy.


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faithlessfate
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 		Russell, can you decode mine as well?

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Aigis
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 		whoot
You're awesome Russell! I apologize for joining in on this knowing little to nothing useful :/ Also that kind of future sounds really... not fun. Anyways, any idea how to respond (do I respond in english or w/e way they sent the text in the first place?)

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:26 pm
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booba
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 		faithlessfate
Check your message box, and welcome!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:07 am
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faithlessfate
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 		Thanks!!

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Russell
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 		Thanks booba was going to work on it now.

I wonder if we will have to wait the full 7 days.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:24 pm
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faithlessfate
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 		So, I just sat down with my ipad to decode the last message when I got an email from Simon Orchard.
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Hello Faith,


My name is Simon Orchard, and I'm in charge of recruitment here at FEA Global, and for the Seven Sisters collectively.


Firstly, I would like to personally welcome you to our recruitment program and wish you the best of luck in your application*.


Secondly, it was brought to our attention that you have received an email recently, claiming to be a 'pre-assessment test' from FEA Global. Kindly disregard that email.


It is the work of an outlaw terrorist whom the Ministry of Protective Services has been tracking for quite some time; an ex-Service Agent by the name of Abigail Whittaker. If in the future, she tries to contact you again, we would advise that you let us know immediately.


As a result of this security breach, all future communication will be dealt with using this email address only, as I am based at FEA offices. If you receive any further contact from this address or any others, please alert me immediately. It may just be that it's a follow-up email from myself, but it's better to be safe than sorry in this instance.


And thirdly; my hand has been forced on this issue so I ask for your forgiveness if this takes you a little by surprise. Pending successful applications, we intended to make the true purpose of your employment known to you at a later date.


'FEA Recruitment' was a smoke-screen we were using to keep Abigail Whittaker in the dark about our communication with you. However, in light of recent events, it would seem that that is now an unnecessary measure.


If successful in your application, you will be employed by the Ministry of Protective Services, as a Time Boundary Agent. Your job will be to provide intelligence on known terrorist associates such as the traitors Aimee Gill and Zachary Spencer, in order to bring them to justice.


We have put a lot of time and effort into this program, which enables us to essentially prevent crimes before they happen, and punish would-be terrorists before they commit the atrocities they are guilty of in the future.


I understand that it may be a lot to take in for a new employee, but I'll try to briefly explain the technology:


In the next few years, time will become much more accessible to us, due to ground-breaking discoveries made by the Ministry of Science, Environment and Technology. They will develop a technique they call 'Time Manipulation', whereby they're able to communicate across all time boundaries that exist in the digital age.


For example, the year I write this email in is 2026, but due to this technology, you will receive it in 2014. This is possible for all manner of digital communication, including email, text messaging and fax. Crossing a time boundary physically is impossible, but with this technology we are able to communicate almost as well as if we were sitting down at my desk together. Time Manipulation is not something which we openly allow to the public, but it is something which has been highly successful to date, in a crime prevention capacity.


Your job will be to help us maintain that success.


I have attached an application form to this email. The deadline for completion is Monday 23rd June at 1700 hours.


If you need any further assistance you can reach me on this email.


Good luck!


Simon Orchard

Recruitment Officer



*Please find attached, a document detailing your application questions.

Fill your answers out on a separate document with the title 'MPS Application', and provide us with your full name, date of birth, address and contact telephone number. Failure to provide the appropriate details will result in an instant rejection.


The image here was attached.




Edit: Fixed image tag. -SpaceBass

PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:29 pm
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faithlessfate
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 		Also my FEA recruitment email decoded to:
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THERE WILL BE N ART, NO LITERATURE, NO SCIENCE. WHEN WE ARE OMNIPOTENT WE SHALL HAVE NO MORE NED OF SCIENCE. THERE WILL BE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN BEAUTY AND UGLINESS. THERE WILL BE NO CURIOSITY, NO ENJOYMENT OF THE PROCESS OF LIFE. ALL COMPETING PLEASURES WILL BE DESTROYED. BUT ALWAYS-DO NOT FORGET THIS, WINSTON-ALWAYS THERE WILL BE THE INTOXICATION OF POWER, CONSTANTLY INCREASING AND CONSTANTLY GROWING SUBTLER. ALWAYS, AT EVERY MOMENT, THERE WILL BE THE THRILL OF VICTORY, THE SENSATION OF TRAMPLING ON AN ENEMY WHO IS HELPLESS. IF YOU WANT A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE, IMAGINE A BOOT STAMPING ON A HUMAN FACE-FOEVER.


I did it all by hand so I don't know if the typos are mine or theirs.

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faithlessfate
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 		Now I just re-read the email, and it's troubling to me that an ARG would ask for my snail mail address...

Granted, this is my first one, so... Educate me, comrades.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:16 pm
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Aigis
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 		I got the same email as you did Faith, and I can say that I've given a p.o. box as an address for a different ARG (IceFly), though I guess it's completely up to you whether you trust enough to give your address to anyone.
Did you send back a message to the first recruitment (Abigail Whittaker)?

I feel like we should make sure at least one person takes each route > at least one emailing Abigail, one emailing Simon, and one emailing both, considering Simon knew about Abigail's correspondence with us.

Also, don't you think its odd that 'Abigail' emailed us from the same email we were given to sign up, while Simon is from a different email? (recruitmentSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk) vs (simon.orchardSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk)

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Russell
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 		It is entirely up to you whether you give out your address but to be fair a quick Google of my name and my address is there for the taking! It is definitely not unusual for it to be requested though.

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