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Giskard
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petunia wrote:
Ok, that was kinda cool. Now, I hate to say this, because I really like this game so far otherwise, but... so what? I'm sorry, but this jones.is.jon person is really starting to bother me. He's acting like an IG character, but posting here. Isn't that against the rules?


Yes it is.

petunia wrote:
This kind of thing seems to have been rampant lately, and I'm getting sick of it. I would really, really like for someone in authority to make some kind of a ruling here.


A warning has been issued, and yes, we've been seeing a lot of this lately, and yes, it's pretty annoying.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:03 pm
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petunia
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Giskard wrote:
Yes it is.


THANK YOU, Giskard! I was craving a short, straight answer, if you couldn't tell. Smile

I'm actually hoping against hope that this is a gamejack, because as I said, it's a fun game so far. And this guy hasn't really given us anything all that earth-shattering: A NY address leading to the ASCII alien (when we already suspected "aliens" were involved), and the author of the Necronomicon (when we already knew this was a Lovecraft thing). Oh, and warnings that Smithy is using us/isn't who he claims (big whoop, his self-description and "friends'" emails make me think he's kind of a grifter with a laptop).

Anyway!! New stuff!! Smithy's back from the peak, and begins: "Wow. Just wow." Plus 5 diary pages... I'm skipping off to read now... Very Happy

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:48 pm
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samsar
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I don't think it's a gamejack, I set up an email this afternoon to reply to smithy, and the only reply has been from jones. I think it would be to much of a coincidence if it wasn't the PM.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:22 pm
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petunia
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Then let's hope the PM will act wisely and stay out of here. It's not like Jones even needs to post here anyway... If we post what we get from him, and Smithy does the same, then everything will show up here anyway.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:11 pm
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historys_past
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New Docs on the Flickr

Hello all. A long time ARG-lurker, but never managed to find a game in the early stages! I'm not a computer expert (which tends to hurt my participation) but i am an historian/trivia geek/general nerd which always seems to help when the clues aren't code-related.

Though this is probably obvious, the diary entry for July 9, 1947 (regarding "new visitors") is referring to the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, NM. It was reported to the public on July 8, 1947. The information on the top of that page (referring to a "flyboy named Kenneth Arnold") is referring to the man who made the first UFO sighting (or, the first sighting recorded as such) which lead to the start of the "flying saucer" craze. He has his dates correct here too - Arnold's sighting was reported on June 24th.

Anyway, hi.

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petunia
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Hi, welcome to uF! Smile Don't worry about not being a code geek. There's always room for another wiki-brain!

More from Mr. Jones (don't put too much faith in my transcription, I'm tired and typing fast):
Quote:
This damned internet trolling software keeps corrupting my warnings to you. I have to warn you that Smithy is d4$5!---*

[MESSAGE CORRUPTED]

3F-04-14-33-*43-96-00-1A-17-*57-2E-
0C-00-04-*43-7A-0B-14-54-*57-23-14-
2E-56-*43-6F-28-28-3C-*57-13-01-2F-
10-*43-61-10-02-12-*57-0A-1B-2E-3A-
*43-54-2A-0B-28-*57-0A-1B-2E-3A-
*43-54-2A-0B-28-57-13-08-37-5B-*53-
44-29-25-3A-57-18-2B-0C-47-*53-44-
20-03-56-*57-20-27-04-5B-*53-46-00-
15-62-*57

[MESSAGE END]


Smithy's comments:
Quote:

Another email from "Jon Jones" about me, and another warning. But why send it to me as well? Strange.

But it seems that there's some sort of internet software that's interrupting this person's emails. Is it looking for keywords and blocking them?

Based on that last sentence, I'm guessing "d4$5!---*" was "dangerous".

ETA: 1. ...which would mean that the garbled words in Jones' earlier email 12 and 6 characters long, respectively.
2. Smithy's crappy disposable camera photos are up, and he's not happy with them. Also, some numbers written on the cave walls:
Quote:
3-15-14
4-21-5
14-5-3
15-13-9
19-19-5
18-15-14


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Sylvia
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the numbers on the cave walls

substituting letters for the numbers (1=a, 2=b, c=3, etc.) we get this:

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3-15-14 = C O N
4-21-5 = D U E
14-5-3 = N E C
15-13-9 = O M I
19-19-5 = S S E
18-15-14 = R O N


then rearranged we get this:

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14-5-3 = N E C
18-15-14 = R O N
15-13-9 = O M I
3-15-14 = C O N

4-21-5 = D U E
19-19-5 = S S E


giving
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NECRONOMICON DUESSE ??? I don't know about "duesse", though. Maybe some of you do or we need more numbers.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:26 am
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Scribe
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
DUE SSE

could mean
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Due South-South-East


Maybe something tells us how far it is, or perhaps there's just a tunnel..?

BTW, still not sure if Smithy is picking up our answers from here, or if people are gettingin touch with him directly with answers. As nobody's said they were mailing him, I'm assuming the former for now...

Right, lots to read!

Update: OK, done, and have transcribed the diary pages so far too. Is it worth posting them here, or on a separate site? Maybe it's wiki time Smile

Also, has anyone else noticed something about one of the photos smithy took?
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In "peak 2", the over-exposed on, you can make out the word "LAM".

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Another historical bite.

As an actual historian, I can't believe i'm bringing this stuff up Razz but as this seems to have something to do with aliens/UFO's, i guess it's pertinent.

After Roswell, the next big UFO "blitz" was in June/July of 1952. According to the records of Project Blue Book (the official Air Force gathering of UFO reports in the 1950s) there were 3 unexplained sightings around that date. On the evening of June 16th, there was a sighting of "5-6 greyish discs" by an army man at Walker Air Force Base (which, btw, is SSE of Flagstaff). On the 17th, there were 2 sightings - one in Cape Cod (which i think we can safely ignore) and other in Washington, at McChord AFB. Since the last "summoning" resulted in an historical event (The Roswell Crash), is it safe to assume that this one will as well?

Once again - please don't think i'm a crazy conspiracy freak - just trying to play the game.

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ive been in constant touch with smithy myself so u know scribe as well i just recived this email from him


Smithy Smith to Scribe, me, janus-arg

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With the triplets, or that hexadecimal computer code? Checkout is in just over an hour at the hotel - I'm fresh out of leads here..

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:03 pm
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Thank god for random googling

EDIT: Ignore this - it's been posted before. Thanks, scribe.

I think i've got something.

Do a google search for "December 1, 1947 and UFO" (the day of "aleister's" death) and you end up with a couple things, including this page. It maybe a total crackpot, but the information lines up.

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/crowleyalienlam.html

Search for LAM on the page, and you go to a picture - apparently, LAM was an extraterrestrial intelligence that Aleister Crowley was in astral contact with.

Something else - even though the page rambles through all sorts of various mystical UFO stuff, the name of the page is "CrowleyalienLAM" - is that what's important about it?

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More Background:

Jack is Jack Parsons, a disciple of Crowley's and the one-time head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Despite his immense contributions to rocketry he was largely erased from NASA official history due to his connection with the occult.

He apparently blew himself up working with "high explosives" on June 17th, 1952. His lab was in Pasadena - but he was apparently preparing to go to Mexico. His death has been considered suspicious for a long time. There's our date - and possibly our destination?

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Scribe
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Hi historys_past, good to see you Smile Looks like you were right about the Walker Air Force Base thing - see Smithy's latest diary scan. The LAM stuff has come up before, so a gentle reminder to check back on the thread before posting... (Better to mention it now than later, I think.)

New mail from Smithy:
Quote:
With the triplets, or that hexadecimal computer code? Checkout is in just over an hour at the hotel - I'm fresh out of leads here...

Mailed him back re the triplets and "Due SSE", but no luck with the hex.

New mail from Jon:
Quote:
ZEROTH LAW ZEROTH LAW ZEROTH LAW ZE-dfsh8;+z!

[MESSAGE CORRUPTED]

[MESSAGE ENDED]


Will have to have a think about this later...
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samsar
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yuggoth is a planet in the mythos, where the Mi-Go live - could this be the aliens that have emerged, (or invoked, or summoned) causing all the sightings. Maybe they are LAM? or at least beings that look like LAM?
Just a thought.

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A_champion
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Ive just returned to the thread, n im very confused!
Is it an occult thing or an alien thing?
or both, cos im not really sure where we are now!

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