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[SquareKnight]

It's all right, I'm half-remembering research I did when I got distracted from a paper I was writing on public key encryption.

Still, the thought horrified me.

-Square Knight

[bakntime]

[heatha]

[colin]

[apology crap] Sorry if this has been covered somewhere, or its not relavent, or should be somewhere else[/apology]

Has any one correlated the dates between paintover posts and beth's list of events. it seems clear now that the 'hackers' are following the same thing as beth. not sure the info will help atm, but we might be able to predict paintover updates(!)

[spec] hope beths a hacker [/spec]

[Azathoth666]

I can't say I've ran the numbers, but I'm fairly confident that the paintover updates will be a different entity to the paranormal events. However, the Whomps in some of the paintover posts (server log posts) probably will correlate...

And Scratch didn't see a thing: when everyone else was going "oh wow, check out this server spike" he was like "I'm so l337, you guys just can't configure a firewall that's all". Heheheh... your pudding is SERVED, scratch!

[Lucent]

Trying to get in touch with Caesar using his own tactics, check out the comments field of the latest paintover post. It's a pretty simple puzzle, I think he'll figure it out.

We'll see what comes of it.

[XtRaVa]

Trying to get in contact with characters is a good idea, but I cant help feeling that we are over doing it. The email to ethan about the CD I think is a great idea, but leaving pics and stuff for caesar might be going too far...it might turn out that he does contact us, and if so...nice job, but if he doesnt, i think we should take a hint, and stop trying to get interaction with them so much.

Not that I'm saying what you did is bad or anything, good work on the pic and stuff, thats just how I feel.

peace =]

[Zimbu]

I agree with Xtrava. I can't help feeling that the puzzles are getting so difficult now, people are willing to look everywhere fo soloutions and scrabbling around for anything to help.

I know theres the no stone unturned theory, but you have to admit that's kinda like brute force hacking the game.

Maybe someone who isn't at work (i.e. not me - at work ) should create a map similar to the one I was given as a newbie (that points who has relations to who) but on a puzzle=>solution=>unlocked info level; then draw on the path everyone took to get the answers.

Then you can find which areas have been over looked, and those which have been done to death.

All IMHO.

[Xforce]

First off:
You girls and guys are absolute hardcore.
Lacking time and living in the wrong time zone, I mostly watch this for entertainment. Hope you all have as much fun as me.
Thanks!

And for what it's worth, another stab from me on the story:

I guess that one or more of the AI's (Labyrinth, Gorgon, Aquapolis Security, etc.?) are interfering with the Matrix.
Remember, an AI can't determin which "level of reality" it's actually on.
A data mining AI running wild inside the Matrix and messing it up would require some patching or fixing, as mentioned by Tex.

Maybe someone could continue the line along which the incidents appear (geographic), I wouldn't be to surprised if it goes straight to the Aquapolis.

Cheers,
Mac

[Wix]

Texel says:

[niobexrev]

Okay help me out since I'm not all as computer knowledged as everyone else here. Am I supposed to be seeing a bunch of boxes with only a couple of symbols here and there?

[jba]

[niobexrev]

1. Okay next question. Are the files in the 11/10/03 post the just the same thing that we see posted at Paintover for 11/08/03?

2. Other question...

[Zimbu]

Right, this might be a hole load of donkey, but...

Is this message a message from a guy hanging around with Avery. The reason I ask is the Dimitri photos. In the photo there is a man looking up (assumed avery) and in the background there is another man looking up. His head is there in etheral white but his body isn't. Could this be a link between the two... two cases of visual echos where the observer saw themselves?

Wild spec, no basis need sleep now. Darn this frail human body.

Good night.

[Azathoth666]

Not sure that we can say Texel is hanging with Avery... Avery (from the Dimitri photos) looks like he's in some concentration camp somewhere. For the purposes of this post, we shall refer to said concentration camp as Camp Wongmo.

Texel describes some sort of civilisation: buildings changing etc... Camp Wongmo just looks like crudsville. Texel is caught in a Whomp (possibly never to be seen again)... I'm not so sure that photos would escape a Whomp, or if they do, who took them and for what purpose?

Avery and Phil is a better connection here, I think. Right now, I'm more worried about what has happened to Texel and why someone kicked him in the g_...