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Nighthawk
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...the audio quality of the message.


I head it through Skype, so it wasn't a matter of interference on my end. It's recorded as if the guy's chewing cotton balls; I can't make much out.
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 		i thought it sounded like "simulacrum now" googling this gave me 1 result (as simulacrumnow, one word. not two. that gave me a ton of results), but not a .org address. its weird as hell, but i dont know if its canon...
edit:nevermind, ive listened to it a couple hundred times and its definitely _____landingnow.org

http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Fall04/161A/projects/agraydam/final_project/live/suragate/index.htm

also, heres what i believe to be some of the undeciphered phone message...

Welcome wanderer. I know not from whence you came, but know that even if you are not aware of it, you are chosen. My name is Benjamin (Nice?) and I would like to help you find the answers you seek. (No doubt you'll see the duality). (We?) are known to find comfort living, loving, and laughing in the digital realm(, where) you are never growing older (and losing your faith). Others, in real life, have made you feel guilty about this, but surely you see the hypocrisy in that. (There is little known)about the facade that you must endure (in the) _____, and _____[space]. The society for digital (reincarnates?) welcomes you [and] ___________. I invite you to come by our little slice of cyberspace _________dot org. (Double down?). *click* *beep* *beep*


oh, and if it has anything to do with xenu, im out! screw that. i aint getting brainwashed

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 		punkrawk just posted this on JustBuds

RE: Strange Phone #

Wow you guys sure did a number over on that phone message... I don't know if I have too much to offer... but I'd have to say i'm hearing "sing....now.org" for the end there...

original message:
http://www.gamerdna.com/GuildThread.php?t=167219&r=3#post3

PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:20 pm
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Absynth wrote:
punkrawk just posted this on JustBuds

RE: Strange Phone #

Wow you guys sure did a number over on that phone message... I don't know if I have too much to offer... but I'd have to say i'm hearing "sing....now.org" for the end there...

original message:
http://www.gamerdna.com/GuildThread.php?t=167219&r=3#post3


Yup...I just saw that. I think the site we're after is singularitynow. If you check out that site's whois information, and scroll down to the bottom, the nameservers section lists four guildcafe.com subdomains...and it looks like GuildCafe redirects to GamerDNA.

So, now I guess we need to figure out the username/password?

EDIT:
EvilAerosolCan from the JustBuds forum has found Mr. Benjamin's YouTube profile.

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 		ok, im done. that vid was a big disappointment.

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 		I just noticed that on Leaelfadril's profile, under her latest activity, it says she's received +200 (points?) for a new signup by voicelessharbringer. And he has made a guild for the "Society Of Digital Reincarnates"...

The top part of that page has an image of binary code, which after a few minutes of copying/messing up/re-copying, I discovered converts to just "Society For Digital Reincarnates". *shrug*

Anyways, there's also a complete transcript of Mr. Benjamin's phone message, with "Tell them Ben sent you" bolded. So, I'm guessing the username we need is "ben"? The word "chosen" is also in bold, but that doesn't work for the password...

(By the way, is writing posts on the JustBuds forum really laggy for anyone else? Writing the above message over there was kinda annoying. >_< )

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James Blond wrote:
Anyways, there's also a complete transcript of Mr. Benjamin's phone message, with "Tell them Ben sent you" bolded. So, I'm guessing the username we need is "ben"? The word "chosen" is also in bold, but that doesn't work for the password...


Perhaps it's bensentme? Althought that doesn't work with chosen either.
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 		I've also tried using "chosen" as the username (since the transcript says that we are chosen), and ben as the password...no dice.

EDIT:
I have a private message over at GamerDNA from my new buddy, Mr. Benjamin. It says:

Quote:
knock
I see that you have been guided to my message

you have knocked

but will you enter?

only if the voiceless ones have brought you here

remember who you are
and that
Bursas Sepias Fox


I have no idea of what that last part could mean...

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 		I received the same exact message after I friended Benjamin.

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remember who you are
and that
Bursas Sepias Fox


Well, according to Benjamin's phone message, we are "chosen." That might be a user name?

As for Bursas Sepias Fox, it sounded like a latin phrase at first glance. "Sepias" is latin for "often, frequently, repeatedly"...but the rest of it I can't seem to make sense of.

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 		I'm certainly not trying to convince any of you that I'm correct, but am I seriously the only one who's getting a kind of creepy "cult" vibe from this whole thing? (I've been silently lurking, thus far).

"Chosen," "digital reincarnate"? And the video is a big, "Huh?"
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 		Ok, so I just got up to date on the JustBuds board, and pm'd VoicelessHarbinger. Here's what I got...

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Re: chosen ones?
know that you have found the keyhole, you have been given the keys, Mark My Words it is up to you to realize how to turn it chosen ones.


Quote:
Originally Posted by AnbhasFrostfire
Ok, I understand technocratic idealism. I want to know more, but do not understand the puzzle you have given. Is there a piece still missing?



mark my words? what has he said to us that we haven't tried?

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another_pilot_dwn wrote:
mark my words? what has he said to us that we haven't tried?


As far as I can tell, we have only heard from him in three places - the phone message (which is transcribed on the SfDR GamerDNA group), the YouTube video, and the PMs he has sent us at GamerDNA. The only things that stand out to me are the "you are chosen", and "tell them Ben sent you" in the transcript, as well as the "Bursas Sepias Fox" in the PM he sent me... I have no idea of how these things would fit together and lead to the login, though.

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 		I took it to read: Chosen, tell them Ben sent you. Together to make a sentence, but that didn't bring us any closer to the password though. I liked the idea of Chosen and Ben being the login info, which it wasn't.
...going back to look at "lame" youtube video *giggle*...
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 		So, yesterday I asked Mr. Benjamin for some help, and this is what I got:

voicelessharbinger wrote:
Look me in the eye and mark my words!

I learned in an earlier ARG that if a playerbase is stuck on a puzzle, and the PM(s) are repeating a particular phrase (here it's "mark my words"), then, well...it's probably really important. Razz So, I took "Look me in the eye" to mean the YouTube video, and keeping in mind Trent's earlier comment (" I was watching the vid again... what is up with the way that guy talks? It is like he is taking a sip of water between every line he says..."), I sent this:

James Blond wrote:
Users of the digital realm,
sit back and take heed of what I say.
Everything you think you know
is wrong.
I,
Benjamin Mace bring you a message from the voiceless ones.
Soon the singularity will come,
and bring balance to the world.
Bits and bytes are where the real truth
can be found.
All around you see evidence that this is true.
Reality is not found found in this physical realm.
Find the answers you seek.
Our conversation is just beginning.
Expect to hear from me again.

USEIIBSABCARFOE

Am I on the right track?

voicelessharbinger wrote:
The path you walk is almost straight though i eXpect a very minor course correction will lead you home.

James Blond wrote:
I hate to keep bugging you like this, but I know I almost have it...

Users of the digital realm, sit back and take heed of what I say.
Everything you think you know is wrong.
I, Benjamin Mace bring you a message from the voiceless ones.
Soon the singularity will come, and bring balance to the world.
Bits and bytes are where the real truth can be found.
All around you see evidence that this is true.
Reality is not found in this physical realm.
Find the answers you seek.
Our conversation is just beginning.
Xpect to hear from me again.

UEISBARFOX

..."User Entry Is Bar Fox"?

voicelessharbinger wrote:
To find what is lost, first look for what is missing.

So, I think I almost have it, but...

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James Blond wrote:

Users of the digital realm, sit back and take heed of what I say.
Everything you think you know is wrong.
I, Benjamin Mace bring you a message from the voiceless ones.
Soon the singularity will come, and bring balance to the world.
Bits and bytes are where the real truth can be found.
All around you see evidence that this is true.
Reality is not found in this physical realm.
Find the answers you seek.
Our conversation is just beginning.
Xpect to hear from me again.

UEISBARFOX

..."User Entry Is Bar Fox"?
voicelessharbinger wrote:
To find what is lost, first look for what is missing.

So, I think I almost have it, but...


Mr. Blond (by the way I'm going to keep calling you that Very Happy ), remember the messages Benjamin sent us?

Quote:
knock
I see that you have been guided to my message

you have knocked

but will you enter?

only if the voiceless ones have brought you here

remember who you are
and that
Bursas Sepias Fox


That's they key! Bursas Sepias Fox!

voicelessharbinger wrote:
To find what is lost, first look for what is missing.


I'm in class right now, so I can't investigate this further, but if we can find the right series of pauses in the YouTube video, take the first letter of those pauses, and figure out what is missing from the phrase "Bursas Sepias Fox," I think we'll have our password.

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