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[Sasuntsi Davit]

oh yeah, tomorrow morning ill be going to heathrow airport terminal 4 departures, ill be on the lookout for any suspicious looking postcards...kmon...something must turn up surely...

[Sygerrik]

My first post! All right! Also my first ARG. Let's see what we've got:

Thoughts: This postcard was sent by Sente, but it has a date corresponding to our world. Probably because it was sent to us. How, then, did we get it from Sente's world- Old Town, Perplex City, or whatever? The shoe ladies also seem to know our world, but their quotes ("Noone *you'd* have heard of) imply that very few people in their world do.
What do we have?
Project SYZYGY, apparently involving some kind of shipping. They need to use some pretty advanced machinery for this, though; so advanced it needs to be shut down carefully. Is the Cube part of this? Has this company, which seems to mainly involve itself with research and shipping, been using the Cube? Since not much is known about it, in either world, that would explain the secrecy. Could they be using this Cube to bridge the gap between the cities? I realize that most of this has probably already been discussed. So I'll toss out one of my less likely theories:
Perplex City is London.
It makes some sense. Perhaps this Cube is the key that seperates London from Sente's Perplex City. Maybe that's why Marchant wants it: to see London.
Just thoughts. Not many hard ideas for translating those numbers- I'm no math wiz, and I'm new to ARGing. But before we try, we should try to figure out what they are. Postmarks? ID numbers? What? Numbers have so many possibilities...
Well, we shall see what we shall see.

[Rei]

Hi

I was looking at 2210 from the back of the postcard, and decided to look it up in my Kanji Dictionary (chinese script in the japanese lanugage)

Although i dont think its done in the standard form, character 2210 is Kyu, meaning SEEK!

well, it was something.!

[Olorin]

[Sasuntsi Davit]

[Rei]

Looking at the larger number, we #syzygy thought it could be a sequence of chars that could form a sentance. Since the kanji are listed in 4 digit numbers it should have been fine.

However the numbers are all to big for my dictionary, im going to look for a much more advanced one, and see what i can find in that.

[Seej]

Ugh, so I had one more idea about that number - that it might correspond to letters in the text written by Sente, so I went through numbering the letters in order starting at the date, then 'My friends' then 'I need your help'. I tried including punctuation, some punctuation and no punctuation.

Every single result looks like gibberish, so I then ROTed each result and got.......

*drumroll*

.....lots more gibberish.

Right, bugger this for a game of soldiers; I'm going to sleep and hopefully tonight I won't dream of weird bus journeys and trying to decrypt ciphertext armed with nothing more than a biro and some maths as I dreamt last night.

I'm throwing in the towel on this given that it's such a short string it's unlikely to contain much info anyway, though I'll add a full and complete list of my failures to the Wiki possibly on Thursday (and if not then, well, I dunno cos it's my last day of work before Christmas on Friday and I may drop off the boards to get drunk for a few days ).

[Nik_Doof]

[timair]

Some thoughts on the postcard - being lucky enough to actually have one in my posession I thought I'd scrutinise it a bit.

The big 2210, the vertical text about academy tours and the academy logo (both the big one and the small one) are in a grey colour that seems to be part of the blank card if you know what I mean.

The handwritten text, the blacked out 'address' and the maze are all in black ink with hints of red in it (a bit like the Sente signature)



Other thoughts:

The maze looks like it has been 'stamped' or drawn over the top of the 2210 and semacode like a postage mark, especially givne its odd angle

The line "MC, Please expedite global release" is also signed off "S" so could be the same "S" as in the error log files. Since this handwriting is the same as that on the left of the card can we assume that "S" is Sente?


Very hard to read so might not be completely correct:

Other names around the small Academy logo are (clockwise)

Adamek
Carrick
Delaney
Kermeen? - very hard to read this one
Noi
Taversen
Zeller

and then the quote:

quaerere initium sapientiae




Also why is the handwriting on the left in such a narrow column when he has more space available

[EclecticMunk]

Cutout

[tanner]

just for the fun of it, and not because in any way do i believe in graphology, i got a handwriting analysis done of the postcard

the following is a word doc of the result

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tanspace/ssm/sentegraph.doc



[edit] please tell me if it dont work

BTW i know this is well OOG sorry

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[Nik_Doof]

[Centipede]

If anyone happens to get an extra postcard, I'd love one.

[Fi]

[tanner]

i need 12 cards so that i can make a magic card cube out of them --- err --- please

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