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[Layloken]

I think we need more pictures.

Can anyone make out what it says at the top of the pictures? My eyes hurt from all the squinting.

Also another thing I noticed, probably irrelevant but if you play around with the translating like Ardiente did you can come up with this.

"Hello you all - Yia'sas"

Just throwing that one out there for you.

[AngBa]

I can't make it out either, and at work don't have any software that I could use to clean it up. Zooming in on it, it looks like an overlay of some sort -

[Forgery]

Hey all, just though I'd announce my prencense in this, having not followed an ARG for ages, just thought I'd mention, although it probably isn't relevant... the quote in the Warning 'You kill them all, you're a god' etc is also from a Megadeth song. Probably useless but ah well, hi all.

Forg

[Layloken]

All right. Closing up shop for the day and heading home.

I thought I would offer a few more points before I go.

In the picture if you examine the writing that is vertical you will notice that it is of a different color than everything else and also the clearest thing in the picture, which leads me to believe that it was added on top of a pre-existing picture. It also seems that the writing at the top was intentionally blurred. Perhaps this is to keep our focus on the vertical phrase.

I looked in to symbolism a bit. This may already be known but just to put in your head for thought.

-A cross often symbolizes the Christian religion or the supreme sacrifice.
-A lance symbolizes the weapon of death.
-A pick which is what the item at bottom resembles symbolizes mortality.

Another item = Jesus was hung on a cross, with stakes (picks) through his hands and feet, a crown of thorns (similiar to roots seen in picture) and then stabbed with a lance (which I read "lance"as one of the blurred words).

I can't wait for some more pictures.

[ardiente]

Well done layloken! To refine the translation - I'm at work at the moment and we have greek fonts on my pc, so I went over to Babelfish... The fish says our phrase is:

[AngBa]

[Arkaham]

Arrggh, This is what I get for wasting so much time with the cassie crap. I think I'll dump that and focus on real ARG's.

My greek is not fluent, but I can translate it well enought to confirm the findings. I'll pass the image trought photoshop tonigh to see if I can make something out of the letters on the top.

Have you noticed how the 'sword' has a horizontal line across it (right oer the 't' of the greek letters). Maybe is not a sword at all.

I wish the good dr was writing to me. I guess If I find anything good and tell him he'll reply.

[AngBa]

Well, I emailed the Dr. a while back telling him that we at least decoded the Greek - this was his response:

[Arkaham]

I'm playing with the contrast and brightness of the image.

Fist word is defetively unlegible.

Then it's a clear OK.

Then is L and something that I do not think it's an 'a'. All other letters are capital letters. So it may be a '#'.

Then it comes LANCE, altought I'm not sure about that 'C'. May be LANUE.

Then a letter I can't see, and 'HEST'. And after that J.C.

Finally, 'FUUFEDUE'.

So its:

******.OK L# LAN*E *HEST J.C. FUUFEDUE

[Orphevs]

Hello all. Not sure if I'm actually gonna get involved in this one, but I got tired of waiting for YourLife so I decided to read some of the other threads in here. My random hit-and-run speculation:
J.C. may very well be a reference to Jesus Christ, if this whole biblical connection has merit (though this may be somewhat obvious...)

There also appears to be a forward-facing accent mark over the last letter... over that e. Not sure, but if it's just a non-english language that might help figure out which. That thing that looks like a # might be a lower-case a, but I don't see why it'd be the only lower-case letter. Also, Fuufedue is a funny word.

That's all I got. Maybe I'll pop in every now and again and try to see if I can help out with this AV mystery.

[AngBa]

Well, I was thinking J.C. Fuufedue could possibly be someone the good Dr. knows??? Hopefully I'll hear back from him - but his specific asking if we had any more information leads me to believe that there's more (of course that could be linked to the other postcards he's left). I'm at a stopping point in trying to figure it out... (hehehehehehehe)

[ardiente]

[Arkaham]

I did all kind of image manipulation, but is not really possible to get a clear image. Text recognizment trew me all kind of crazy stuff, from fuufedue to prrpecuf. Nothing that makes sense.

I goggled all the posibilitied I could thing of, with no luck.

So nothing to do but wait for the next postcard.

[GoodChild]

ok, I'm in. It's been too long since I've gotten involved in an ARG. I'm going to compose an email to the Dr, since I can offer no help on the postcard.


PS: ANGBA! long time no see! how have you been?

[ardiente]

The doctor seems reluctant to create a space of his own to host material, so to encourage him into releasing more to us, I have established a blog at http://pathlab.blogspot.com/

I have also asked him if he could transcribe the illegible text from the original that was left under his door. Perhaps that way we will know if its relevant or not.

Meanwhile... I'm coming up with the number 4 a lot.

• The diamond at the head of the postcard
  
• The curved stem, which if multiplied by four and rotated forms a circle (a crown of thorns) and the lance forms a cross, reflecting the cross pattée inside the diamond (notice too, how the wedge begins to form the arms of a swastika - I don't know how much credence to give any of this - this type of thing just happens when you multiply and rotate an image):
  
  
• Since one of the videos showed what seemed to be alchemists, AV could be the alchemical symbols for air and water, 2 of the four elements: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/symelem.html
  And the cross within the circle being the "universal seed": http://www.levity.com/alchemy/symgener.html
  
• it comes 4 you
  

Or is this too esoteric?