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miss_seph
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Loudboy: try mayoi.html


Looks like those messages in the source code are Travis and Kara's way of communicating Travis' email is down. We should make sure we copy them every week as Travis says he'll delete excess comments every week. Also Travis mentions YT is messing with the backend of the site - which we already knew by his creating directories and dropping files for us and creating forms and such.
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Tiny
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Typing that mayoi.html link directly into your web browser doesn't work for firefox, you need to click directly on the link on the blog page to get the pass/un dialogue box to pop up.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:26 am
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zeldafan8626
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New Blog Post by Travis

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Like An Enemy Soldier

Many, many thanks to laserv who deduced that Yours
Truly's "evoluti0n" set of photo pieces weren't simply to
scare the hell out of me -- there's more to them!

Apparently, Yours Truly used a program called "Camouflage"
to hide text files within each of the pieces. For those who
can't seem to find this program online, or don't have the right
software to run it, I've uploaded all of the text files here.

This is just one step closer to figuring out what the hell
Yours Truly has hidden in /mayoi/. .


http://hiru.starvedart.com/puzzle/


So now we have a bunch of puzzles, some french, google maps, Rot stuff, some text, more rot, and more text :3

1. French, I understand a few words, nothing on the overall

2. Google Map,
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Norfolk Virginia


3. Rot 2 -
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And you, XXXXXXX take that role of ultimate tool and ultimate user. Love leaves it's abusers, didn't you know?


4. In order and skipping the rot in between

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you used us all like tools.

all to hock yer petty wares.

all of us were used used used by
the greatest user of them all. but
don't pat yourself on the shoulder
quite yet, Travis. by the end of
this damned thing i'll prove to you
once and for all that while you may
be the biggest user of them all...

you're still the biggest tool.

xoxo Yours Truly


what do you know of turning pages?
creating worlds?
making a book into a reality?


! NOTHING !

our art is all we have left, and it's struggling
oh-so-Darwin-ingly for it's survival. you hold us
back back back. nothing can emulate how it feels to
touch to smell to hold. Fool!

unlike what your friends seem to
think, i was hardly the one to make
Hiru disappear. i don't think anyone
could keep a beast like that captive.

but i guess by now you've figured out,
Fool, that this has to do with Mayoi.
that angellic commercial goddess came
back to bite all of you right in the
ass, didn't it?

that's right, Kara, Yours Truly has seen
it. i know allll about hiru's little
secret. i can't believe you'd violate his
trust so to put down, but you did. and i
know.

and soon,
whether the you, the Fool likes it;
whether the user, the Tool likes it;
whether Jefferson, Weston, and Canini like it;
whether the sold-out idol, Mayoi likes it;
and most of all, whether or not the samurai, Hiru likes it:

THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT

you're a tool
a tool
a tool

nothing but slime
slime
slime

only nature moves us forward.


5. 2nd rot -
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Society pushes forward only through XXXXXXXX


My summary,
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
So your's truly is saying travis used them to aquire something. Saying Travis doesn't know anything about "Turning pages... Creating Words... and making books a reality". YT is saying something I'm not sure about, then he's saying that unlike we think (we being "Friends") he didn't make Hiru Disappear and that no one could hold him "captive". Next he says that travis/kara know that. Also mayoi has to do about Mayoi, "That angellic commercial goddess came back to bite all of you right in the ass, didn't it?" YT has seen it all, he know's about Hiru's little secret and can't believe kara violated his trust. etc. etc, some mention of Jefferson, Weston, and Canini. blah blah, Mayoi sold out. Hiru = Samurai. The Truth is comming out, more about tools and slime, blah blah.


Well... any thoughts?
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Kjartan
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The "french," which I could probably have translated is actually italian, which I can't... bablefish gives:

Quote:

you could not google the law company, tool? that one is because it is hidden. Jefferson, Weston and Canini are a law company that is much exclusive right to this purpose is customers who are known for must for being the company of law of sure graceful customers of celebrity of the A-list sound like that you know, that you work?


of course, this is a fairly awkward translation, but you can kind of get the gist.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:41 am
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zeldafan8626
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Ah, well I saw the non and the la and assumed it was french (mainly because I don't know a word of italian)

I tried a few diffrent combos of JWC names, nothing
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Loudboy
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any1 else get the phone call?

This is what i heard:
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This is yours truly. Stop looking for Setsumei Hiru, and stop now. *CLICK*


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HitsHerMark
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Hi all. Smile I logged into AIM for the first time in a dog's age today and I was IM'ed by an AIM name "xoYrsTrLyxo".

He wanted me to suggest to you people that you stop doing... What ever you're doing to help with this situation. He seemed to think y'all are in danger. (Possibly from him if you ask me.)

While not quite in these words, I basicly told him, "Yeah right, I'll tell them that and they'll do what I say... And monkies will fly out your butt doing a little jig in honor of your victory."

So yeah, I've passed on his message. You guys have fun and don't get killed. Cool

I suspect I was being recruited, and I'd love to join in, but I just don't have time for annother ongoing ARG right now. Sad

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crysarg
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Was also on IM and got a message from same person. Probably just looking to get me in, but thought I'd post for you all in case you find something interesting in it.

Quote:
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:31 A.M.]: are you aware of the setsumei hiru situation?
CrysARG [1:44 A.M.]: No I am not.
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:45 A.M.]: i bring it up because it seems some of your colleagues have found themselves directly in the middle of it.
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:46 A.M.]: after setsumei hiru's disappearance, his well-meaning but quite unstable friends travis and hiru took it upon themselves to scour the internet for strangers willing to help their cause
CrysARG [1:46 A.M.]: I will look into it.
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:47 A.M.]: unfortunately, several of your "friends" have stumbled right in, not knowing how mentally unstable travis is, or how dangerous setsumei hiru is. i urge you to call these people to stay off the trail of setsumei hiru. he is a dangerous, vile man and with any luck, he will stay "disappeared".
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:47 A.M.]: thank you, your allies will live all the longer for it.
CrysARG [1:47 A.M.]: What makes him dangerous and vile?
xoYrsTrlyxo [1:48 A.M.]: let's just say travis and kara aren't being entirely upfront about setsumei hiru.
CrysARG [1:48 A.M.]: What has he done?
xoYrsTrlyxo signed off at 1:49 A.M.


In the first line setsumei hiru was set up as a link to http://hiru.stavedart.com.

Good luck and be careful. I worry about you all. Smile

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Hikari
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Count me in. Very Happy

Set up an IRC channel since no one else seemed to, #setsumei Smile

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zeldafan8626
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I think I got a phone call from him, but he didn't leave a message so I can't be sure (I gave him my cell)

Still nothing in the mail
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G3K
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I don't know anything about this game and I'm not interested in any fxxking ARG politics, so I am not interested in hearing ANY sxxt from people about this. If it's trout, it's trout, but someone obviously thought this information important enough to IM me about it a bit ago.

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xoYrsTrlyxo (3:25:02 PM): some kids play games so much they can't even make out reality anymore.
your colleagues are playing this one with a particularly dangerous man.
if i can't convince them to let well enough alone, and forget Setsumei Hiru's disappearance, maybe you can.
xoYrsTrlyxo (3:25:16 PM): though from what i understand, they're hardly easily convinced.
sixhrstilmorning (3:25:37 PM): they're pretty dedicated
sixhrstilmorning (3:25:56 PM): who should I tell them sent this message?
xoYrsTrlyxo (3:26:35 PM): they know all about "yours truly". they're convinced that i'm out to get them, when all i desire is their safety and comfort.
sixhrstilmorning (3:27:32 PM): well, bro, I gotta say that I'm gonna have a hard time convincing them as a middleman
sixhrstilmorning (3:27:37 PM): and all I've got is your word on this
sixhrstilmorning (3:27:43 PM): (and the site you linked, of course)
sixhrstilmorning (3:28:09 PM): what guarantee do I have - what guarantee do they have - that you're only looking out for their best interests?
xoYrsTrlyxo (3:29:40 PM): what do they have from travis, the one they oh-so-quickly volunteered to help, mentally unstable though he is? nothing more than that he got to them first. setsumei hiru is dangerous. travis farren is the pied piper. and these people are like lemmings, being led to that monster's trap.
sixhrstilmorning (3:31:23 PM): I hate to seem like I'm far removed from a lot of this, but I am
sixhrstilmorning (3:31:39 PM): but I will indeed pass this on
sixhrstilmorning (3:31:54 PM): is there any way we can get back in contact with you?
xoYrsTrlyxo (3:32:25 PM): when i have something i feel you should know, i'll find you.
sixhrstilmorning (3:33:02 PM): if that's gotta be the way it is...
xoYrsTrlyxo (3:33:32 PM): it would seem so. thank you.
sixhrstilmorning (3:34:02 PM): np. always happy to help.
Previous message was not received by xoYrsTrlyxo because of error (3:34:02 PM): User xoYrsTrlyxo is not available.

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zeldafan8626
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Ah, well got my phone call, this time YT left a message

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This is Yours Truly, stop looking for Setsumei Hiru and stop now.


I got a pretty good version of it,
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Loudboy
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yeh, thats the same one i got zelda fan. soo that puts yours truly down as a "bad person", it was a female voice . and we are to watch the mail also?

also, hitshermark, great to have u on this with us. ive seen youve done some great things in the past

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Hikari
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Jenna figured out the username/pass for /mayoi/.

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username: Travis
Pass: Evolution


Which blesses us with the lovely image attached below.

Also...
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In the source:

<!--when goddesses fall.-->


and finally, a link...

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http://hiru.starvedart.com/yours_truly/mayoi/dear_user.txt


travis:

you want to know about Hiru?
then it's your funeral.

meet me here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/yp/B0003SCEBW/104-8965728-3811936

07.08.05
4.55pm

be alone.

xoxo Yours Truly

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Loudboy
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unfortunately that user/pass combo doesnt work for me in IE or Firefox soo yeh.


so we're going to need someone to go to that address in virgiania on July 8th by themselves it would seem

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