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Boot


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 		[SPEC] Crispy Heaven article
No one has really mentioned this article to my knowledge, so I'll add to some spec. It seems to me that 24 has been an important recurring number in the game (i.e. milestone 24, 24 digit number, etc.) so when I read the article something interesting popped up in my mind.

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Twenty-three Crispy Heaven locations have been shut down after City inspectors claim to have found serious health and safety violations at a central food preparation plant. Food safety inspector Charles Nebbick stated that the violations included "improper lack of refrigeration for meat products, willful tampering with product expiry dates, and blatant disregard for contaminated conditions."

Shares for Crispy Heaven dropped nearly seven percent on the news, to PCL153.37.


Only thing I can make of this is that when the article gets updated on the news of the 24th Crispy Heaven store (if that happens) we should scan it very carefully for clues, puzzles, codes, etc. It's kind of a stretch, but I think it may be worth noting.

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 		ahhh, very perceptive of you. I had been thinking "why is this article so important, when so many others are not?" the cube is mentioned, economic decline is mentioned .. but elsewise --- so? Yes, this is one to keep an eye on. as you say, it may amount to little. or, a very subtle clue of something quit a bit bigger.
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 		It's a marketing ARG for something related to the show 24!
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Good spot though... I didn't see the '23' either... I wonder how many stores there actually are, and if the 24th is really the last one... hm.

If anything I think Crispy Heaven may become a recurring name in the future...

But I'm also likening to think of '24' similar to bungie's use of 7's... there's a chance it may not have anything to do with the plot itself, just something recognizable as a 'stamp of approval', per se, for all things PPC... *shrug*
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 		Re: [SPEC] Crispy Heaven article
thanks wrote:
It seems to me that 24 has been an important recurring number in the game (i.e. milestone 24, 24 digit number, etc.)


Indeed, Gatehouse 24 is where the security breach occurred, and the public entrance is Gatehouse 12 (24 derivitive). I'm not convinced all these 24s can be connected tho'. Confused

One funny thing: the name of the reporter, NATASHA VALLIERE, does include the word 'heaven' in it, not to mention the obvious references of St. Paul, etc., mentioned in another thread. What's with all the name tie-ins?

Oh, her name anagrams to LAST AERIAL HAVEN, if anyone wants to connect her to the Lando Calrissian/Star Wars "air city" thread...
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 		Crispy heaven has some interesting anagrams 'A ciphers envy' and 'A cipher vines' (possibly a vignere?)

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 		My friend noticed that as well, I didn't think of Vigenere though. I'll try that soon, I just don't know what the key would be.

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This is kind of a stretch, but the name of one of the correspondents on the letters page, Kylie Sharp, is an anagram for "key is ralph."


on this thread

Might be worth trying ralph Confused

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 		Re-iterate it.
I don't even know where to start. The ever-elusive 'Thanks' and I have been collaborating pretty hard-core, trying to dig up something--anything, really--on what seems to be all the left behind clues. Take, for instance, the e-mails and error logs. What exactly makes all of these entries errors in the first place? The two error logs at gatehouse 24 seem to be just normal interactions, save for the fact that from the construction of the computer log, Fran Mendling had either poor pronunciation or a heavy/non-native accent. Unless it were typed text through a terminal type process, in which case Fran typed to fast and/or sloppy for her own good, and naturally had to be offed. Then, of course, there's the sub-sema code 24-digit number, which seems to be coinciding with "milestone 24" (project syzygy, which we're conviced is actually us to the "Them" of Perplex City, 24 hours mentioned from the Daemon 3ea5 in the e-mail response to Sente, etc.

And then there's an attempt at getting more from the hand-written text on the back of the postcard. We tried constructing a Huffman Tree starting from the paragraph and *including* Sente's signature, to see if we could make any sense of the resulting self-made binary. We tried converting it back to normal text and hex, no luck with either. Perhaps we'll take a run again without his signature. We tried incorporating this with the 24-digit number itself and it divided by 21, which turns out to be a whole number. (wondering why 21? That's how many faces of the cubes you can see in the academy symbol itself).

Also, why is there a very large academy symbol only in the low-res picture of the post-card, but nothing worth noting in the decent scan? Fix that. Seriously.

One last thing, perhaps a huge white rabbit. But believe me, this white rabbit is HOTT. The "Nascent Beston Scholarship" Makes an Anagram including both "Sente" and "Banach," who happens to be a rather large-scale old-school Polish Mathemetician who did a lot with topological.. uh, stuffs. Speaking of Topological, lets all go back to ye olde Hillbert Cube. Look into it, I'm getting tired of typing. The remaining letters can make stuff like "school prints" or "Corp hints loss." Coincidence? maybe. But after all those hours of trying, I'd like to think not.

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 		Crispy heaven anagram?
Just playing around with anagrams. Found this. Probably wrong...

Crispy heaven = Pry 'n' achieves

Could mean one of the puzzle needs to be solved with brute force?... nah...

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 		sorry
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 		24 is clearly a significant number, but I doubt it'll be put to crucial use until later in the game.

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