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[Projectyl]

The Chain Links page has gone live, too: http://citizensofvirtue.com/ChainLinks.aspx

Looks like someone did indeed write a letter on behalf of political prisoners, and it inspired the people on the Job List to actually do their own tasks themselves.

Which means all of those puzzly-looking names with middle initials were... apparently just for decoration? Seriously? Wow.

[ToddE]

A lot seems weird about the Diligence week. The MIRDEK reference was more of a distraction from decoding PAGES TITLE, which we already had. If the cards in the video had been correct according to Mirdek rules, we wouldn't even have needed that clue. Then once the Mirdek clue is identified, we're expecting to actually use the complicated decoding process of Mirdek.

And that massively cryptic hint from Tabby which really seemed to derail us more than focus us on the Job reference. All that about God's hand and reinterpreting it how you should see it, with he lowercase, not uppercase. We were even told to ignore that dates!

Tons of noise and very little signal. I guess the dates would have stood out too much if there had been less data, so it's understandable. Ultimately, I'm glad the answer was simpler rather than something really complicated (like the 42-step Mirdek process).

Regardless, I'm glad we've successfully completed it, even though it feels like perhaps we missed a step. Maybe not, who knows.

[Projectyl]

I just got this email from Jack:

[Rich Reder]

Macons

[catherwood]

[FractalP]

Dunno if this is any use, but Dot and Sol could mean a .sol file which, if my memory is correct, is what flash sometimes uses to store data from a Flash application and is usually edited to cheat in a game (which I never do ).

[Projectyl]

Hm... If nicknames are allowed, these people (in order from top to bottom) can make a message...

Dot Hemirdek
Sol Vingli
Ken Orm
Al Black
Andre Daren
Otto Betrus
Ted Forth
Ed Eco
Di Ng
Steph Ere

DO THE MIRDEK SOLVING LIKE NORMAL; BLACK AND RED ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED FOR THE DECODING STEP HERE.

[worthy_m]

I think you've hit the nail on the head with that again Projectyl.

I personally think that we pre-empted the disciples puzzle when the card clue in the video was solved first. I think we were supposed to get the message from the disciples - then solve the card hands in the video. Which in turn pointed us to Job list, and then to the yahoo group, and Jack's message. I don't think there is anything else to solve in that week now.

I still think those initials looked like a puzzle... bah

[Rich Reder]

New Posting by Lila on the Garden Wall

[JennyG]

Hintage

[ToddE]

What appear to be the final steps:

[beauvine]

I thought I'd post the e-mail that you get after the first step ToddE mentioned that leads to the web page:

[ToddE]

Missing step on Week 6:

I dropped a note of thanks to the creator and asked the question about what we missed overall, specifically regarding Week 6. For the whole thing, we got everything that was intended to be solved with one exception. I received the following nudge to look at the initials of the ten disciples used to make the "DO THE MIRDEK SOLVING..." message.

When you look at the middle initials, you get PATRFGVGLR. These are the correct Mirdek translations of the cards in the initial video.

So, this all makes much more sense now and, as a result, is more satisfying.

The intended steps (I think):

[Qaqaq]

Unfortunately, once we quickly got to step 4, there was no way to see that we had bypassed three steps that used all the material we were now staring at.

If we had gotten the "Job List" aha earlier, we would have finished the week in quick fashion, but would have wondered for a long time about what all that extra information was for. Since we didn't get that aha until fairly late, it's no wonder we got so confused.

[ToddE]