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[SPEC] Discussion of text snippets from the ads
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yanka
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 		[SPEC] Discussion of text snippets from the ads
I think it might be a good time to make a separate thread for all the spec about the ad texts. Let's try to direct the speculation etc. about the substance of the ads here, and leave the adverts thread for meta-ish discussion.

Here are the snippets combined by am520dj:
am520dj wrote:
so putting them all together...

LA Times wrote:
The Receda Cube is an archaeological artifact of unknown origin. It has unusual scientific properties, and has been extensively investigated by the Academy over recent years. Several religious and mystical groups

Post-It Note wrote:
around Perplex City hold the Cube as an object of reverence. It is housed in the Academy museum and has been on public display
since 228AC. The last serious attempt at theft was in late April of 235AC


-- and then --

The Times, London wrote:
confirmed the thieves reprogrammed portions of the Academy's security systems, disabling three different

South China Morning Post wrote:
forms of security without tripping warning alarms. Academy security personnel discovered the theft at 2am when security guard Mendling failed to check in for her shift change.
Police as yet have no suspects and are still questioning ball attendees. Perplex City Council leader Camryn Scott confirmed today that a police task force will work with Academy experts to find the culprits. She said, "The murderers of Fran Mendling will pay for their crimes.
Those who perpetrated this heinous act should know that we will

La Presse wrote:
Find them and that will bring them to justice. "Sente Kiteway", Master of

Sydney Daily Telegraph wrote:
the Academy, said in a statement today: "As is well-known, the Cube is a unique object, with certain unusual properties. We have full confidence that, using our knowledge of its composition, we will be

New York Sun wrote:
Able to trace it without any difficulty wherever it may be. The Cube is

USA Today wrote:
not only an object of great significance to the city but also a technological wonder


-- then left out is still --

Toronto Globe and Mail wrote:
security on the ball, to make sure no one
gatecrashes their exclusive party." In previous years, the annual ball
has been the occasion of various student pranks including the ''sofas in the stairwell'' incident.

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 		I wonder if there's something to the changing font sizes.
I don't know
what in the world it could mean. ..
but it seems to be a recurring oddity.
The size goes up and down on the S. Marchant quote as well.
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 		maybe its to make it stand out against other adverts....if you were just flickin thru the classifieds you'd sure as hell notice it just for how unusual it was wouldnt you? well i would anyway Smile
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 		ok, so let's analyze the south china bit some, shall we?

fFran was killed, and 3 fForms of security were bypassed.
overe here we have a log of a security transaction which takes place on a pretty continual basis.

I'm wondering which 3 fForms of security were circumvented.

I see one:
Quote:

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }
{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }


two:
Quote:

Please place your hand on the scanner [.]
{ gatekeeper system 24;
biometrics interrogated, passed }


and three i guess is fFran being there at all. maybe armed, almost certainly with a radio and stuff to sound the alarm.

we don't know when this log was made, but at the top it has "start 074302 " & "start 074412", so probably 7:44 in the morning, but no date. Sente's gang sure likes to keep us in the dark about dates, don't they?

Well, that log was made october 6th, 2004. what's fFunny about that is this: fFran had been dead fFor nine months and 20 days!

well, it's a log which was placed fFor us to fFind by sente, it could be a clue fFrom any old security log sente had on hand, used to show us what sort of security we talking about. There's the speculation which says time runs backwards in perplexcity-land, which would be supported by this log and murder, but i'm not a big fFan of that bit of spec. i speculate it's a random log of a random interaction.
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 		The date on the log is just the date that the file system shows that file was last written - the log text itself doesn't include this date. So perhaps the file was created some time before this and only ended up being dumped there at a later date, either through sheer cache-sorting-daemon fluke or because someone put it there on purpose.

So maybe there's an explanation for this time discrepancy which doesn't require their time to be running at a different rate or in a different direction to ours.

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 		Looking basically at the thread, and going back to the errorlog messages, we also have this:
Quote:
From: Henrik Tanner
To: Sarah Covington
Subject: Access data
Date: xxxxxxxx

Sarah, I just looked over the logs for so far this month, and I've found three
distinct instances where the equipment wasn't shut down properly. Is there a
maintenance problem we need to look into, or are you force-quitting to shut down
at night again?

I understand you can be in a hurry on your way out, and it's been long days for
everyone. You aren't the only one who's got a family to get home to, and you
certainly aren't the first person whose work has made a huge impact on their
personal life.

I've got S breathing down my neck, and this really isn't something that I want
to have to be dealing with.

Please sort this out. I don't want to have to drop you another line about this.

Henrik.


which seems to directly corelate to the

Quote:
The Times, London wrote:

confirmed the thieves reprogrammed portions of the Academy's security systems, disabling three different

South China Morning Post:

Forms ofsecurity without tripping warning alarms.


So we seem to have "Henrik" reprimanding "Sarah" for the security breaks that lead to Fran's death and the stealing of the cube. Could mean either Sarah or Henrik are the inside contact ( we also have the error log where Fran and Henrik enter Gatehouse 24 at the same time (074302) which demonstrates that they do know each other and have contact

Who knows, random ramblings I suppose... any thoughts?

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uptownishnyc wrote:
we also have the error log where Fran and Henrik enter Gatehouse 24 at the same time (074302) which demonstrates that they do know each other and have contact


We know that they are familiar with one another, but I'm pretty sure they're not entering again. Sounds like Fran is already at her post.
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 		The text snips
I am a bit new to all this so this may be irrelevant but I have also tried arranging the ads and ended up with the same thoughts as above but I am concerned that the punctuation doesn't flow all the time e.g.

Quote:
forms of security without tripping warning alarms. Academy security personnel discovered the theft at 2am when security guard Mendling failed to check in for her shift change. Police as yet have no suspects and are still questioning ball attendees. Perplex City Council leader Camryn Scott confirmed today that a police task force will work with Academy experts to find the culprits. She said, "The murderers of Fran Mendling will pay for their crimes. Those who perpetrated this heinous act should know that we will

and then

Find them and bring them to justice. "Sente Kiteway", Master of


upsets me because the quote marks don't tie up. There are other places with random capitals and other bits where the punctuation seems to fit perfectly.

I realise there are still more pieces to be revealed but that would mean they would have to fit in where we seem to have fully completed and coherent sentences.

Like I say I'm new to this so the punctuation may have no effect but I thought I'd mention it.
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 		Re: The text snips
DrPiranha wrote:
Quote:
forms of security without tripping warning alarms. Academy security personnel discovered the theft at 2am when security guard Mendling failed to check in for her shift change. Police as yet have no suspects and are still questioning ball attendees. Perplex City Council leader Camryn Scott confirmed today that a police task force will work with Academy experts to find the culprits. She said, "The murderers of Fran Mendling will pay for their crimes. Those who perpetrated this heinous act should know that we will

and then

Find them and bring them to justice. "Sente Kiteway", Master of


upsets me because the quote marks don't tie up. There are other places with random capitals and other bits where the punctuation seems to fit perfectly.

agreed. I believe it was raised when that snip was released first, that it may have been an editor's fix in the paper, because a single quote wouldn't have made sense... so the original would have the quote after justice, and no 'unquote'... making:

She said, "The murderers of Fran Mendling will pay for their crimes. Those who perpetrated this heinous act should know that we will find them and that will(we'll) bring them to justice." Sente Kiteway, Master of [etc]

which makes much more sense
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 		It has been speculated that the editors of the La Presse newspaper "corrected" the ad to what they thought was right, which would explain the extra quote and the capital at the start of the line. That and it being translated from French mean that that section may not completely fit with everything else.

Edit - Uhm... yeah. I took my time writing this I guess. Thanks, thebruce . Smile
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 		Re: [SPEC] Discussion of text snippets from the ads
LA Times wrote:
The Receda Cube is an archaeological artifact of unknown origin. It has unusual scientific properties, and has been extensively investigated by the Academy over recent years. Several religious and mystical groups

Post-It Note wrote:
around Perplex City hold the Cube as an object of reverence. It is housed in the Academy museum and has been on public display
since 228AC. The last serious attempt at theft was in late April of 235AC


-- and then --

The Times, London wrote:
confirmed the thieves reprogrammed portions of the Academy's security systems, disabling three different

South China Morning Post wrote:
forms of security without tripping warning alarms. Academy security personnel discovered the theft at 2am when security guard Mendling failed to check in for her shift change.
Police as yet have no suspects and are still questioning ball attendees. Perplex City Council leader Camryn Scott confirmed today that a police task force will work with Academy experts to find the culprits. She said, "The murderers of Fran Mendling will pay for their crimes.
Those who perpetrated this heinous act should know that we will

La Presse wrote:
Find them and that will bring them to justice. "Sente Kiteway", Master of

Sydney Daily Telegraph wrote:
the Academy, said in a statement today: "As is well-known, the Cube is a unique object, with certain unusual properties. We have full confidence that, using our knowledge of its composition, we will be

New York Sun wrote:
Able to trace it without any difficulty wherever it may be. The Cube is

USA Today wrote:
not only an object of great significance to the city but also a technological wonder


London thing wrote:


in its own right. We are committed to ensuring its safe return." He was not available for further comment.

Possible motives for the theft remain unclear. A ransom demand is seen as one likely development, as the Cube, whose value is almost incalculable, could not be sold on the open market. John Ha, owner of the Ha Gallery on the Mobius Strip, conjectured that the Cube may have been stolen "to order" for a wealthy collector.

Academy insiders told reporters today that security has been notoriously lax on the night of the winter ball, the high point of the Academy's social calendar. One high-ranking Academy official who preferred not to be named, remarked, "Security's a joke on ball night. The Academy focuses all its



Toronto Globe and Mail wrote:
security on the ball, to make sure no one
gatecrashes their exclusive party." In previous years, the annual ball
has been the occasion of various student pranks including the ''sofas in the stairwell'' incident.


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 		I still think that the two sections you currently have at the start actually belong at the end, which means (quite neatly) that all we are really still missing is the headline and the first section.

No?
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spaceXplorer wrote:
I still think that the two sections you currently have at the start actually belong at the end, which means (quite neatly) that all we are really still missing is the headline and the first section.

No?


I still think "Lost. The Cube. Reward Offered" is the headline. We've seen it with every piece of text so far, but people are still expecting to have another headline thrown at them from somewhere.

And I know someone is going to respond that the full name needs to be mentioned before the abbreviation, but not in a headline it doesn't. The headline is simply there to grab your attention, and what better attention-grabber than "Reward Offered"?

For example, I just looked at the nearest newspaper and found an article on the front page with the headline of "Future of hospital in doubt". It doesn't say which hospital in the headline, but that information is given in the first sentence of the article, so I do agree that whichever section is first needs to mention the full name of the cube.
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 		This is all moot I think...will find out tomorrow Smile
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 		I know it's a bit off-topic, but I thought you wouldn't take my head for posting it here, as it's relevant to some extent.
just went through the errorlogs again, and i always come across this "irrelevant" thing, the shoemaker and stuff...

there's this really suspicious mail, sent to three people:

Quote:
From: Juliane Pero
To: Sarah Covington, Elizabeth Lee, Lyssa Ling
Subject: Re: Shoes!
Date: xxxxxxxx

Lizzie, you are too much!!!

I think I'd break my neck in those, but imagine the fashionista points we'd win.
'Who designed those fabulous shoes?' 'Oh, no-one *you'd* have heard of.' Hah!

then, there's this:
Quote:
How carefully did you check the logs? I wasn't the only one running tests at the time, are you sure it wasn't Lyssa? Stop jumping to conclusions and pointing the finger at me all the time.


And from 6290435729.cache we know that Lyssa Ling was around the security sytems, and she was "surprised" - rather interrupted - when sy walked up to her. So what do you think, is it possible, that she was one of the thieves?

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