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kosmopol
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VindicatedEagle wrote:
Danke, kosmopol, ich hoffe dass ich eine gute Zeit haben werde.


Gern geschehen Smile
Auf jeden Fall wird es sehr spannend sein.
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veebee
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 		Though I'm not convinced it means much, I am becoming more convinced that this:

شىنجا

is Arabic, but I think it is back-to-front.

PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:14 pm
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Zaranai
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veebee wrote:
Though I'm not convinced it means much, I am becoming more convinced that this:

شىنجا

is Arabic, but I think it is back-to-front.


Does anyone read Arabic, or know someone who does? I thought Arabic when I first saw it but wasn't sure, and would have no idea if it was written backwards. I took and reversed the order of the characters, but didn't get anything useful out of that.

The wiki's not terribly far behind, but I'll get it updated best I can tonight. Got nothing else to do now that I'm off work. XD

About four hours ago, Pollina wrote this on my wall:
Quote:
thanks Smile.

Ill make an email to keep in touch and announce it here before i go. Smile

Seems I put her at ease re: Pancito. Go me. ^.^

Edit: The wiki is named for a character (Ehasver, leader of Parousia) we never meet who's killed fairly early in the story. That's what I call funny. XD

Edit again: Reading through the thread again to update the wiki made me realize something - the purpose of the game has completely changed over the course of the week. It went from a possible holy war to being a scavenger hunt versus a weapons company. Is this kind of 180 normal?
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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:14 am
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kosmopol
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Zaranai wrote:

Edit: The wiki is named for a character (Ehasver, leader of Parousia) we never meet who's killed fairly early in the story. That's what I call funny. XD


Mea culpa. I thought to name a wiki "Are you following this?" would make it somehow not original. So looking for something original I took Ehasver. OK, I didn't know he will be killed... Rolling Eyes

Anyway, I searched for شىنجا and didn't found at the moment any translation, but:

* there are a lot of Uyghur-themed pages with this word.
* In this page (from Iran) they write about "Battle Realms". At the end of text theres something like credits, and the last line includes شىنجا (If I'm not blind... text search doesn't find it, but it looks very like):

Quote:

شينجا : جادوي اوIntimidationباعث ضعيف شدن دشمن مي شود.


Compare

ARG-text: شىنجا
Iran-website: شينجا



http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/newspaper-arch/vijenam/javan/1382/820907/_panjera.htm

UPDATE. OK, perhaps I'm wrong: there are some diferences (this accent points under the writing)...

UPDATE2: Pancito is fully right - Ehasver cannot be killed, that's why he is organizing the whole thing.
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Zaranai
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 		From what I could tell by the amount of search hits I got, شىنجا is a fairly common word. Gods only know what it translates to, though. Sad

I got an email a little while ago (about an hour and a half) and wasn't sure whether it belonged here or not, so I hadn't posted it. Thinking about it, though, the address references Israel, so it's worth a shot. Removed player address domain names, but there aren't any nicknames on the address list. Oh, and the message doesn't make a damn bit of sense.

Quote:
From: aaeghiimsst aaeghiimsst <aaeghiimsst>
To: tehirorox, pomegranatekiss, jbfish, hedgepig88, brandonmanrules, me, space4rnt, dimestoredreams
Subject: (no subject)
Body:
come of-- our

stop Dear to

you press

desist Korporation desist

charges do

being that
have what of not

our will press. press So
attention. Dear

children
will Spades will

come being So

of! desist
allow charges It


Edit: I lied. come of-- our isn't the subject, it's just bolded and everything like a header. The message has no subject.
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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:07 am
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Komissar
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 		As a native Russian I can tell you this:

What you thought was: Машина Вога
Is actually: Машина Бога

Translates as "God's Machine"

The schematic in center with Hebrew characters is actually "The Sephirot Tree" - a metaphisical model of universe from the Caballa...
Sometimes referred to as "God's machine"...

PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:19 am
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kosmopol
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 		Thank you for informations and welcome to our game Wink
Спасибо за информацию, кстати здесь есть википедия по этой игре:
http://www.argwiki.de/index.php5?title=Ehasver

Btw, Sephiroth as God's Machine - that's interesting! Perhaps we should follow this link...
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Komissar
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 		Thanks for a welcome Kosmopol Smile
It feels so nice to have someone welcome you in your native language Smile

Vielen Dank Smile

I'll try to be of help Wink

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kosmopol
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 		Great! We really need help, because our Puppetmaster is really a smart one Smile

P.S. Internationality rules Wink
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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:42 am
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pancito
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Zaranai wrote:
Me, a few minutes ago wrote:
Aye, Pancito. It's the screenname he uses and he has it as his first name on here. Pancito Twinkieman.

The forums are just for games we used to play. That's where his other name on here, Twinkieman, came from, a game that was Twinkies versus Ho-Hos (you know, the snack cakes). They were big puzzle mysteries, and sometimes very involved conspiracies, which is probably why poor Pancito is as paranoid and cryptic as he is. He gets worked up easily, but he's harmless. Very sweet guy when he doesn't think that aliens are out to get him or something of the like. XD I don't know what he's been saying to get you scared, but he probably is just trying to protect you from something. Don't let him frighten you, but consider what he says. Sometimes he's right.


Poor girl is skeered. I may have called you crazy, Pancito, but I called you sweet too. Balance things out. ;D
I've been gone all day (Yea Beach!) and still have two pages to read, but I had to say this totally cracked me up. (Homer-"It's funny 'cause it's true") Well sorta. Good luck with the teeth. Ouch. Demand codine! Unless they'll give you heroin. Back to reading.

ETA: Random stuff reading through...

1. We don't know that Ehasver is dead. If he's been alive for 2000 years I doubt a swat raid would do him in.

2. The weird email that Zii got... I think this is three sentences all mixed up (or maybe four depending on what you do with the dashes). The sentences end in 'press.' 'attention.' 'of!' Cap words = Dear, Dear, Spades, Korporation, It. Assuming a salutation (Dear Korporation? Dear Dear?) That leaves Dear, and pick two of Spades Korporation It. That's as far as I've gotten, and I may be wacked. (It's the aliens...Where's my tinfoil hat?)

There are a ton of anagrams for the name, but two that stood out were Aegis At Hims & Aegis At Shim since Aegis was one of our artifacts. I guess it could be Mish, too. Fried, bed, good hunting!
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Komissar
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 		The VOC symbol in the center righthandside stands for Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie

The Dutch East Indies company



It has been also referred to as "The Floating republic"

working on the dutch button atm Smile something about marriage...

PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:32 am
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Bartock
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 		I'm on my way in to work shortly, and there are a couple people I work with that can speak arabic. I will see if any of them can tell me what that word is and report back.

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Komissar
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 		ok this is what i have manage to find on the Recht En Trouw

it was a Motto of "HERTOG JAN VAN BRABANT"

This brotherhood is a group of elite soldiers (of dutch origins) belonging to SS forces in east front...



So what we see down there is the uniform button belonging to one of the soldiers from that brotherhood.

Hope that helps.

PS This source calls the Guys from HERTOG JAN VAN BRABANT - SS collaborators... http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw97-8/belgium.html

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 		I too got the e-mail, it has to be related of course. I agree with Pancito, it's jumbled. Severely.

Thanks for joining in Bartok & Komissar! All help gratefully accepted!

I'm going to have a look at the e-mail now. This could take a while......

EDIT: Hang on a minute! My e-mail is different!
Quote:
(No Subject)‏
From: aaeghiimsst aaeghiimsst (aaeghiimsstSPLATisraelmail.com)
Sent: 27 May 2008 06:41:00
To: thirdpinion; viske7; setokaiba800; kayleighrae; cubhaystack; Timelessrock3r23

to So please
Korporation if! desist if

the exist you

attention So

please so

Korporation So will the if of you

press attention will you
and charges if that
come

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what stop allow exist
what
cease we kill

children to Korporation Spades. and desist have
of that! to, being: It desist this He
of, have
the

attention please being Spades will
press to

of He
It

being It that

cease will if
do that. bunch stop charges

tried

allow

if! cease

to

you

to come
attention

children
desist

We need to know how many variations there are before we can sort this mess out!

EDIT2: Polina accepted my friend request on Facebook. I told her I had an anonymous e-mail asking me to find her. I just wrote this on her wall:
Quote:
Thank you for accepting my friend request. Do you have any idea why someone would ask me to find you? It seems a bit strange to me. I can't see that we have much in common! I am interested in architecture, but only ancient stuff, ruins and such like. I am in the UK, Where are you at the moment?

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Komissar
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 		I might be wrong of course but something tells me that "Korporation" mentioned in the e-mail is actually this http://silverladder.despoiler.org/index.php?title=The_Korporation

and Spades refers to same old activity (Korporation had a meeting with 2 of clubs)...

2,3 and 4 of spades have been revealed: http://silverladder.despoiler.org/index.php?title=Spades

This looks like a sequel to Silverladder If my guess is correct.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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