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[DC][Puzzle] Where in the World is Adam Brackin?
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burpiemcghee
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Smudged Letter

This may be nothing, but doesn't the smudged letter itself look like a relief map - with the smudged area roughly in the shape of Haiti / Dominican Republic?
(The Letter would be at the orientation East to West from top to bottom)

Probably nothing, but the letter looks like a landscape... Confused

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Wang Guantao
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[spec]Maybe the blackbird mentioned is the Black helicopter that took Phil to where ever he may be? I mean, there's one type of helicopter called a "Black Hawk" which could marginally fit. But I admit it's a long shot and doesn't help much with the rest of the text[/spec]

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Or of course the famous SR-71 Blackbird.

But I doubt that's relevant, since it's retired (unless you're a conspiracy theorist). There is one on display in Florida, but it's up in NW Florida, nowhere near our man.

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Wang Guantao
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Quatrain interpretation

Adam wants us to help him move on, but before we can give him advice, we need to know what he needs help with so to speak.
Therefore I think we need to make sure we understand the quatrains. Below is my interpretation of them (including holes), so lets fill in the blanks and we might more easily be able to help poor Adam.
Stuff written in bulleted style is a line-by-line commentary. Stuff in italics is spec on the entire quatrain as a whole, since no single line makes sense to me.
1. wrote:

A star rises towards the sky,
The nations united above the heavens.
The prophecy is passed to the new witness,
The incomplete circle leads the way.

- Launch of the space shuttle
- The international space station
- Adam recieves the prophecy from the old Spaniard in the swamp
- Possibly Key West?
2. wrote:

The pure tongue unlocks the prophecy
Until the time it can be read by all.
Machines of light and fire abound.
Infinite copies of infinite tru[ths.]

Hints that that prophecy in it's current state can only be understood by someone speaking the "Pure Tounge"? I think the last lines holds some significance, but I have no idea what it means. Machines of light and fire might be airplanes?
3. wrote:

The sliver moon sees the trave[ler] stop.
His way blocked by the [impassible] gulf.
Waiting for the blackbird [to come,]
The root of evil [makes empty] pockets full.

- Sliver moon: I see as a time indication. The moon at the moment is waning and only 9% visible, so I take it this means "the present time" and the traveler as Brackin. (Moonphase thingy online)
- Second line is no mystery I think
- Possibly a helicopter?
- Could mean that Phil has gone "evil" to get money, ties in sorta with the chopper idea.
4. wrote:

The brother's end is [his beginning.]
When [broken] links are re[formed,]
Three ag[ainst] one he will [stand,]
Prisoner [only] to [fate and faith.]

- Forshadowing of Brackins death or the end of his Brother Theo persona and subsequent rebirth? or does "he" signify someone else than Brackin, Perhaps Foo?
- Reunion of UTD members (Alex, Phil and Foo)?
- Elaboration on the fronts
- Unsure about this one, also that's more smudge than letters so it could be "wrong"
5. wrote:

In [De]us City there is [deafening] thunder,
two witnesses [are torn apart] by chaos,
while [found]ations [stand fi]rm, a leader falls.
The [th]ird horrible [war begins] as the city is consumed.

Two witnesses sound like a revelations reference to me. Deafening thunder could mean explosions of some kind, but i think it's more thematic thunder than actual booms. A change in leader ship causes world war three. The entire quartrain likely speaks about life 30 years from now...
6. wrote:

[From] the center of [Earth spe]w earthquakes and fire,
Ashes, lime, an[d dust are] thrown from the walls.
Close to the [great thousand yea]rs,
The heavens [draw] n[ear to recon]ciliation.

7. wrote:

The time of [great gr]oaning is at hand.
Mirrors and s[hadow]s shatter and fade.
Blood, bone, and [ma]rrow consume the fat.
Like the Phoenix, [de]ath's shackle is broken.

Both of these verses sound mostly like flavour to me. Mood setters, rather than actual information. Line 3 of vers 6 and line 4 of vers 7 seem somewhat significant though. Maybe the pheonix bit is the re-emergence of Adam in the future? Maybe it's something else entirely.

So those are my thoughts on the text, and I don't see any hints in it for what Adam should do next. Hopefully you all have different views on it, so we can discuss it, and fill in the blanks.

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notgordian
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Wow. So Brackin's last post seems to intimate that the long prophecy just tells him what's been going on rather than a future destination?

I don't see how that led Brackin to a solution unless "completing the circle" refers to going back home to UT-D now that he's broke. For the major parts of the journey, he went North then East then South, which I guess only leaves West.

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Wang Guantao
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Well the new post does mention him getting in contact with "them" and "them breaking down his door". I believe he's contacted Phil (as I suggested in my Email to him.). Prophecy does indeed mention what will happen next, just only in vague terms, and well in the near future, and 30 years from now (imo).

His newest post makes me believe that I interpreted the Prophecy correctly atleast to a large extent.

--Edit
Here's the E-mail I sent to Adam as an answer to his "prayer" for help.
Since portions of it is quoted on his blog, I believe it's not far off Wink
Wang's E-mail wrote:

The prophecy you've posted toubles me.

The parts about broken links reuniting, and three standing against one makes me think of Alex, Foo and Phil. The True Believers have been in contact with Phil, and he has mentioned something of being taken to his current location by a black helicopter. This might also very well be the black bird of the prophecy.
But Phil is with Defense Corp now, why would you want to seek him out? The missing GUI file?

I know you say your death is a scientific imposibility, and I have no doubt you're right, but every fiber in my body is screaming to avoid this confrontation.

If you really do seek Phil, you can just send him an E-mail and ask him to arange it. He'll probably be able to make it happen.
We got his E-mail adress off of his blogspot profile, it's: phil.mooreSPLATdefense-corp.com

If I read the prophecy right, this is what is destined, but the outcome looks dire.

Change the Present Adam!

/Casey
Truly Believing


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FMA2000
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Dont take all the credit. the other half of what he posted was from an email from me. Very Happy . this is my first arg and thats so cool to see. i also recieved an email from alex saying that alex had tracked adam because of a bar fight he was in. I wrote him an email with the parts of the prophecy i interpreted and a warning about alex. this is so cool.

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Wang Guantao
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I said portions =P

This is my first ARG too, but I don't have too much time for all the interaction parts at the moment, So I focus more on riddle crunching Razz

When did Alex say Adam had been in a barfight?
Might be a lead worth persuing or it might not =)

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FMA2000
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alex said he had caught wind of it 12 hours before he sent people and i got the email at 11:23 am yesterday. so midnight the night before last.

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notgordian
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I guess this can be "Where in the World is DefenseCorp", now.

In the video where Brackin is getting beaten up (see Interaction with Phil and Alex thread) the poster on the side says something in what I must assume is Spanish. So the base is probably outside of the US of A.

Thank you, upside down exclamation marks.

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Tezar
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as Jelly wrote
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I noticed as well that at about 00:21 in the vid, the police dude appears to be holding a book of some sort - anyone got any ideas about that?


there is interesting symbol on that book, best visible at 0:23
i am thinking about uroboros, but it's just guess

ad timestamp: there's 14 hours between Bracking last post and security video. I doubt they transported Brackin by helicopter whole way. But there were several mentiones of black bird, so may be we could be able to find nearest spanish territory from brackin last position and speed of black bird (if we assumed that they used it)

finnaly, spanish word:
i think it's just one long world and its starting with AY
so little digging in voculbary:

ayermado - desolate, desert, godforsaken, parched
ayermar - scorched

not sure about english translation because it's double translated (spanish>czech>english)
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FMA2000
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i recieved an email from phil describing where he's at and he thinks he's in southern california. so it could be at the top of mexico hence the spanish poster.

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Jelly
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Tezar wrote:


finnaly, spanish word:
i think it's just one long world and its starting with AY
so little digging in voculbary:

ayermado - desolate, desert, godforsaken, parched
ayermar - scorched

not sure about english translation because it's double translated (spanish>czech>english)


I'm pretty sure the word on the poster is "ayudame" which means "help me". If Brackin wrote that then did he somehow know that people would watch the tape? And also, why hasn't the police dude taken it down?!

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Maybe it's an inspirational poster a la Smokey the Bear that says "Help Prevent Forest Fires", and we just can't see the rest.
Wink

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Tezar
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Jelly wrote:
Tezar wrote:


finnaly, spanish word:
i think it's just one long world and its starting with AY
so little digging in voculbary:

ayermado - desolate, desert, godforsaken, parched
ayermar - scorched

not sure about english translation because it's double translated (spanish>czech>english)


I'm pretty sure the word on the poster is "ayudame" which means "help me". If Brackin wrote that then did he somehow know that people would watch the tape? And also, why hasn't the police dude taken it down?!


I do not think that Brackin had wrote that. Video was captured not so long after helicopter arrived so I would bet that Brackin saw his cell for the first time. May be someone of previous "tenant" left the message.

Why hasn't police guy taken it down? My tought itsn't poster. It's written on wall by blood. Have you seen how Brackin ride down the wall? That would take down or at least damage it if it is poster

EDIT: ok, I rewatched the video for the three times and it really could be poster...but that wouldn't be so dramatic Cool
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