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faeryqueen21
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 		Got an e-mail from Ashley today with this hidden in it:
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A.Martin 061389


I had tried Martin, Ashley with that password when we found the freewebs page but I guess I didn't get creative enough. So there it is. It flashes a paragraph and then goes to the same thing as when you input "Jundak; loves you". I don't have any kind of software that will pause the flash so if someone does, please let us all know what that paragraph says!
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TheFitcher
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 		Hey all!
First post, and I might be a bit of help... hopefully. The exact text reads:

EDIT: Image included rather than text:



Doubt there is anything helpful there though, but hey. I tried! Not sure whether this should be spoilered or not, doesn't seem to reveal too much though. But now I come to think of it, that doesn't look too good for Ashley...

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squid808
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 		I got a reply today, after asking for information. It's basically the same as the email already mentioned, but it doesn't have the first and last paragraphs and no hidden objects that I could find. I'll quote it nonetheless. The only thing bothering me is 'accompanied'. It doesn't fit, in my mind. Should it be accustomed?
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Vena was looking into developing biotic enhancements, to help soldiers in combat. We even made a special program that could allow us to modify already implanted robotics, you have become accompanied with it.

One day while we were testing a new biotic amp in a volunteer, J.U.N.D.A.K glitched, and since we were still programming the amp, caused the volunteer to become violent and nearly super human. Thankfully it only lasted a short while, but this recent one has made this man extremely powerful and the only way to stop him is to shut down the amp, at the cost of his life. And since I was put in charge of watching over him, I cannot ethically do it, so I instead keep him mildly sedated, which has allowed me to befriend him. Thanks to the research we did, the amps do not effect the brain so he can fully converse with me.


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lergnag
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 		Just Emailed, waiting on a reply. Also checked the site earlier today at like 3 - 3:30 CST, and nothing had changed. Probably check it a little later, but now I'm just gonna surf da webs for..... I dun oh.

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squid808
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 		I e-mailed her back, and got this response:
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I will have to update you through the website, from now on. J.U.N.D.A.K. might be catching on and the website seems to be the only safe route, as J.U.N.D.A.K. doesn't scan websites that I know of.


Edit: New website face: has a picture of jundak to the right, and the message on the left, and what looks like a building. http://www.freewebs.com/venatechnologies/

Edit 2: Might not need to be in spoiler, but:
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http://www.freewebs.com/venatechnologies/overload.html found it in the source. Title is VJeUna TANechDnoAlogiKes (JUANDAK is big letters) and this is in the page (typed upside down and backwards, like in the Malignant Hatred game):˙ɯǝlqoɹd sıɥʇ sǝxıɟ puɐ qoɾ sıɥ sǝop ˙ʞ˙ɐ˙p˙u˙n˙ɾ ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹns ǝʞɐɯ llɐɥs ı ˙ʎǝlɥsV ǝɔuɐɹouƃı ɹnoʎ ɹoɟ ʎɐd noʎ ǝʞɐɯ llɐɥs ı (I shall make you pay for your ignorance Ashley. I shall make sure that J.U.N.D.A.K. does his job and fixes this problem.)


Then, this is all I could make out of the second picture, the * means I really did the best at making out the word, it could be wrong. An ellipsis means that words in between (sometimes entire lines) are missing. I put it in spoiler just in case you want to figure it out yourself.

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...oses Adam Wallers*, 26, De...33 and William* Cocker*... all died of a single gunsho... the bead* and initial* forensic... determined* that all three...ner visible signs of damage...

e not having been proven... at approximately the....e early hours of Thursday...ere killed in the same manner...were no signs of a struggle or forced entry...oms of Wallers and Brennan Cooper has.... confirmed to be a security guard who was...dened outside the room of Wallers. Police have refused to comment on whether or not the three deaths are linked.

The two men were cheduled to check out of their rooms at different poin...p the day, however, when both failed to do so, a manager was sent to investigate and discovered the body of Cooper. Pufire* then subsequently discovered... second and third body.

The Metropoklan* Police currently have no suspects, but have issued...statement that they are working hard to find the person respons...them to justice. A motive has not been suggested.


Next to that is a list of something...I can see it going up to 10, and this is what I can make out:

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2 Teenag...police...ing
3 Seven US college st...
4 Breeders*... end in tragedy again...
5 Seven college....
6 Turkish si*... kill...
7 Rafatoill*...
8 Biatna* sad "Oh...
9 US...
10 The world....soup
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:10 am
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lergnag
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 		I went to the site, and got to the second image but I didn't get the same as yours' but it has the same basic concept. I mean it looks fairly similar.
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 		Doubt it's of any use, but I altered the levels and did some very quick editing so the building is more visible. Probably not relevant, but hey, you never know.

Ah, and I just noticed, if you flip the image horizontally and look closely, the lighter blue text appears to be some of a screencap from the News and Rumours page. The text [TRAILERHEAD] and [NEW GAME] are clearly visible in a list, a la the forum.
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lergnag
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 		I got a couple of the other things figured out int the image as well. Although I doubt they have any importance probably just random things.
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 		Got an email today with the following attached.
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This will be the last e-mail for awhile as things have become very complicated with the patient, I hope to get back to you within a week or so.
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In the second one you can clearly see a screen cap of the forums in the News & Rumors. The pink/purple spot is next to the thread for '2monthsleft' so I'm not sure if something is there.

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 		I flipped the second new image and rotated it, you can match it up directly against the first. So they are the same image, just mirrored almost. I'll attach an image, it's easier to explain that way.

Also contained is the message I posted above which was contained in the flash video, i.e. the subject belonging to JUNDAK, etc.
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 		The top image is also shown at:

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http://www.freewebs.com/venatechnologies/NEWS.html which was found by viewing the page source of overload.html which, if you view this page source in turn reveals venatechnologies/yearbook.html


The image displayed there is shown at the bottom of this message. It contains the text:

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"I love you Ashley and always will, James". James Kline is the missing man referred to in the article contained in the images. So it seems Ashley and this missing man had some sort of relationship at some point. EDIT: This is the case, as the link "I love you too James", hidden beside the picture on news.html, also leads to yearbook.html


Is it me or does this all feel like two totally separate things? Tragic love story? Insane A.I. Construct? Hmm...
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 		Not to mention that in the lower... oh, right
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the lower right hand of the yearbook picture it says "I love you too James" in the diagonal thingy. *sigh* seriously, is there like a link to what we should and shouldn't put in spoilers? Anyways, back on track...

So we know the following 10 or so points, in some semblance of order. May contain spoilers, I'm not gonna make it all one big red box.

1. Some company named Vena Technologies developed biological amplifiers for soldiers.

2. While testing, J.U.N.D.A.K. had a glitch and one volunteer started freaking out and getting all super saiyan; the company ordered him taken out.

3. Our hero (heroine? is that the same as the drug?) our protagonist Ashley Martin seems to be the one in charge of that, but due to morality issues could not terminate the subject. Instead, she sedated him and is now his compadre.

4. Ashley has been doing some things that J.U.N.D.A.K. doesn't like. But, what the crap is J.U.N.D.A.K.?

5. JUNDAK (the periods get annoying, but weren't even present in the first e-mail... that is, the first e-mail after the re-vamp of the ARG, ya know the one that had the Lorem Ipsum in the source? that's basically where I figure we should start... right? ) seems to be some kind of system. With user Ashley Martin having access. Mmmmk.

6. So because of said incident, Vena Tech is on lockdown, and Ashley is with PatientX (Let's call him Pax for short, who doesn't like nicknames?) but can still talk with outsiders like us. She says that he is normal when sedated, so they just talk about nothing important.

7. Ashley was involved with some guy named James who, if I'm supposed to follow the bread crumbs, is James Kline. In the screen caps it shows us an article about how Kline went missing from somewhere I'm assuming is called Harper, and the the Harper Police Chief is Don Jacobs. Oh, Jimmy was 27 when he came down with a case of the missing.

8. Ash lets us know she "will have to update you through the website, from now on. J.U.N.D.A.K. might be catching on and the website seems to be the only safe route, as J.U.N.D.A.K. doesn't scan websites that I know of." However, if the fact that JUNDAK already showed us it can not only manipulate Flash files and wish us a good day (the blue image, page 4) does not suggest the contrary, the integration of JUNDAK or JUANDAK in the overload page's title should help cement the idea that it DOES.

9. If that weren't enough, it seems that Ashley has another crisis; JUNDAK's accomplice has caught wind of this terrible situation, and gives away his master plan saying "I shall make you pay for your ignorance Ashley. I shall make sure that J.U.N.D.A.K. does his job and fixes this problem." Oookay, so JUNDAK isn't just a thing, it's a he with a job, and 'he' fixes things. AI construct or sad lonely programmer, you decide.

10. JUNDAK, Ashley or whoever making these pictures are letting us all be hyper aware that they know of the forums by including screenies of them in the pictures. Thus we know they know of us, and that they know we know they know of the forums, and that... well you get it.

So now I have a few things I'm confused about. (And also, just wanted to summarize what I did know, and make sure it was correct.) Is it possible this James is the 'volunteer' she couldn't morally dispose of? Does the missing James have anything to do with the partial story in the first overload picture about the three deaths? What are we even trying to figure out here? Does JUNDAK really love me?

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squid808 wrote:
Not to mention that in the lower... oh, right
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the lower right hand of the yearbook picture it says "I love you too James" in the diagonal thingy. *sigh* seriously, is there like a link to what we should and shouldn't put in spoilers? Anyways, back on track...


You know the rest



Wow after all of that I'm more confused than I was before. I'm starting to think that there might be some red herrings.

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