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[TRAILHEAD?] (disunity) What is this countdown?
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Jiroe
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 		Interesting, the dates on the blog posts are dated November 2009.

I emailed Rachel about her site being hacked (reminiscent of ILB).

Quote:
Hi, I found your blog through Disunity. You say your site was hacked? How so? My friends and I might be able to help.


And got a reply:

Quote:
I don't know what happened. One day, everything was gone. I've lost all my
photos. They're all corrupted.

Rach.

I love Michael <3


Then I responded with:

Quote:
Do the photos still exist on your website? Looking around, it seems like everything looks okay for now.


I'll post a reply if/when I get one.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:34 am
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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		Hmm, had lost interest when I thought this was part of some rpg...but seeing as Rachel stays near me I'm interested again...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:09 am
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Jiroe
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 		Got a reply.

Quote:
Can you help me recover this image?


And here's the image she sent.

Most notable is the 3 sets of binary at the bottom. Translated into letters, it says o s t.

Could be an album cover for a soundtrack.
adonisbaths.jpg
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:47 pm
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Russell
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 		Using Photoshop i have started translating it but am playing WOW at the mo, it starts:

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I am TRIX. I am Eschaton. I am the begi


Will finish it later if noone has but will be another 2 hours or so

PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:12 pm
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Jiroe
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 		Finished it up for ya.

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I am TRIX. I am Eschaton. I am the beginning and the end. I am the future. I am the past. I am everything. I see everything. I am lost.


Sent this to Rachel...waiting for reply.

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Jiroe
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 		Got a response from Rachel....3, actually.

Quote:
Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to look at it, especially since you don't even
know me. It is much appreciated.

For starters, I have no clue what that means. A lot of strange things have
been happening lately - and it's not just on my blog. My boyfriend has a
gig at a local club coming up, and they've recently been hacked too.
There's either a prolific hacker working his way through Roundedlove
clients, or something stranger is happening.

Do you have any idea what TRIX is? I've never heard that acronym before.

I have heard something about the Eschaton, though. Apparently, it's some
kind of supercomputer that IBM is building. Michael would know more, he's
the computer type.

Rach.


She then sent two more emails, both containing the same picture. The first one asked for help with the next picture.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:36 pm
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mijitosan
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 		Possible rl viral scheme
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I'm new to this, so take what I say with a grain of thought. But could the link to the ESUS rpg-thing be a sign that this trailhead is related to an upcoming Jennifer Government movie?


theory over what this ties into in real life

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mijitosan
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Swift-Tuttle is thought to have the chance of hitting Earth in 2126 A.D.


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Jiroe
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 		I recieved an IM about Rachel's site. It looks like her blog has been replaced with a ransom note.

http://rachel.roundedlove.co.uk/

Some letters are outlined in red and spell out Escaton, similar to Rachel's mention of the Eschaton computer.

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TheSeasickPirate
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 		Re: Possible rl viral scheme
mijitosan wrote:
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I'm new to this, so take what I say with a grain of thought. But could the link to the ESUS rpg-thing be a sign that this trailhead is related to an upcoming Jennifer Government movie?


theory over what this ties into in real life


Hmm...

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I read that book years ago, but I can't figure out what you mean about ESUS. How does that connect? I'm having a hard time connecting anything with this to JG.


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yadaman
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 		I think I found something. if you go to www.roundedlove.co.uk (the 'hosting site' for rachel and michael's sites) you get apage that appears to be an intro for a corporate site. when it ends, if you click on the logo, you get

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*** Error: Temporal mismatch.
Data collision; there may be corruption.

Dumping data:
87A045146F62B302D376AD57B45D0CAA
186816CB171D6B58A6C663B6BE3135DE
98B2049314DBB0EFDAFBD69C3DCD5826
985D87AD3793BDAFFBF6D91E0A65CF0F
0F57BE87669C39776CBE7C23C3A07734
6A4FA87ACF45822FFA8F0E19842B0777
0D20F36D8CA7085E7947E2BA449CC49F
ACAFA98981C4E9EDF58BCD2408007998
39870457344D2B74F279CCA8E4093445
15C39452513BA8DCFB7C171550DA83C0
F29D5B89FE51B2C9FFD6A0C841252517
FC41592E33F3E63DD67423CDF7CB3942
ED4EE52B867EAD8BEEE06D1AF56BA0C8
7A1343B4213DE6F3F25981B6F40DD859
993F538E41CCFDEF20B667A964317773
CDEAE2A24F66FB3231FDD81027CCCA1E
661895512B25FD87638619582B134639
E03E0C470C06A5F5CB806C3A46FE2D98
DBD65185D5A18A5885B52EE9C37FF193
3E2EE655AF56681E093DAE1F7F74C45F
end.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:50 pm
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Jiroe
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yadaman wrote:
I think I found something. if you go to www.roundedlove.co.uk (the 'hosting site' for rachel and michael's sites) you get apage that appears to be an intro for a corporate site. when it ends, if you click on the logo, you get

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
*** Error: Temporal mismatch.
Data collision; there may be corruption.

Dumping data:
87A045146F62B302D376AD57B45D0CAA
186816CB171D6B58A6C663B6BE3135DE
98B2049314DBB0EFDAFBD69C3DCD5826
985D87AD3793BDAFFBF6D91E0A65CF0F
0F57BE87669C39776CBE7C23C3A07734
6A4FA87ACF45822FFA8F0E19842B0777
0D20F36D8CA7085E7947E2BA449CC49F
ACAFA98981C4E9EDF58BCD2408007998
39870457344D2B74F279CCA8E4093445
15C39452513BA8DCFB7C171550DA83C0
F29D5B89FE51B2C9FFD6A0C841252517
FC41592E33F3E63DD67423CDF7CB3942
ED4EE52B867EAD8BEEE06D1AF56BA0C8
7A1343B4213DE6F3F25981B6F40DD859
993F538E41CCFDEF20B667A964317773
CDEAE2A24F66FB3231FDD81027CCCA1E
661895512B25FD87638619582B134639
E03E0C470C06A5F5CB806C3A46FE2D98
DBD65185D5A18A5885B52EE9C37FF193
3E2EE655AF56681E093DAE1F7F74C45F
end.


Yeah, I think I saw that. They appear to be MD5 hashes and I don't think they decrypted into anything known, but it might be worth looking into. I think Rachel's blog mentioned something to the effect of "what the hell is a temporal mismatch?"

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yadaman
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 		on using the word 'temporal', I say that this either has to do with time travel or the people making this ARG are no good at making up technobabble.
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Jiroe
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yadaman wrote:
on using the word 'temporal', I say that this either has to do with time travel or the people making this ARG are no good at making up technobabble.


That would make sense. Rachel's blog posts were dated November of 2009. I asked her why, and she seemed to think it was the year 2009.

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Max Steele
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Jiroe wrote:
yadaman wrote:
on using the word 'temporal', I say that this either has to do with time travel or the people making this ARG are no good at making up technobabble.


That would make sense. Rachel's blog posts were dated November of 2009. I asked her why, and she seemed to think it was the year 2009.


Ah, yet another "time travel communication but the person doesn't realize it" ARG....

I haven't seen one of these succeed yet. Let's see what happens....

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