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drizjr
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 		I tooka lazy way around with cut& paste. I'm still not seeing anything. (see attached) click image to enlarge
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:36 pm
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MrToasty
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>>Sys:Log//Continuing from previous session. There has not yet been success decrypting the oddly garbled datastream found in S's tentacle.

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>>Sys:Log//The datastream was very weak, barely detectable, and retrieved in 16 segments. These segments have a meaning. Continuing analysis


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halo422mjk
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 		not to brag but... Wink

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intimation>>Sys:Msg>@halo422mk//Very well done. It appears you are the first to have located a number of data segments S has strewn about.


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Nyst
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 		What does that mean?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:32 pm
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halo422mjk
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 		from when i completed new york in broken-peices

PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:43 pm
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halo422mjk
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>>Sys:Log//It appears this particular game S has created for the humans may require extraordinary teamwork and resourcefulness to complete.


it appears the only way to progress is through either the gpsmissions or these slow, painful degargling games

we need more support and participation

PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:53 pm
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Kilination
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 		I asked Intimation if the stream might have been cut off, so here's what I got.

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>>Sys:Msg>@Kilination//I am near certain the stream is complete. I could find no other segments embedded in the tentacle.


...and here is where it got interesting...
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>>Sys:Msg>@Kilination//Being relatively subconscious in nature, perhaps the segments are encoded in a method familiar to, even favored by S.


What kind of coding has Essy used before?
Could it be in the same format as the coding we got from the GPS Missions or something?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:28 am
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Nyst
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 		Here's the pic of what I had.

http://www.lookpic.com/files/0419092053.jpg
I couldn't figure out any way to view it.

I might be able to get some people to do the other missions.

edit: whoa, that wus big

moreedit: Kilination's quote got me thinking. Subconscious... dreams. Where are Essy's dreams? Youtube.
I tried every piece of garbled data as a Youtube ID
Youtube IDs consist of 11 alphanumeric characters at the end of every video URL, EX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKKCQkNDQ0
The same as our text. But none of them worked.

Any ID with a + in it is malformed, while all the other ones simply do not exist. I tried pulling random pieces of the data to create new IDs but I got nowhere.
It seems to me this is what Sys meant by that comment though.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:20 am
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halo422mjk
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 		I think Koreth was on the right track on page 40 that its supposed to be an image of sorts, mainly because of S's binary pig nose on ready-or-not that was made just before the garbled data was released

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troezen
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intimation wrote:
intimation>>Sys:Log//According to SWP, Jonas Volman's book "The Castaway Theory" was never fully recovered, only ever reported as "Out of print".
about 2 hours ago from web


intimation wrote:
intimation>>Sys:Log//Jonas' very limited communication to the outside world implies he had a strong dedication to his work.
32 minutes ago from web


intimation wrote:
intimation>>Sys:Log//The apparent knowledge of the highly advanced Forerunner technology he demonstrated, therefore, is something of an enigma.
4 minutes ago from web


I wonder if we're supposed to find the book or something?

And i liked the idea of using it as a URL address, but ive got no idea which section of it to use. I guess that from Intim's thing of it being a tried and tested approach, my braille idea is wrong.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:05 pm
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Yamato
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 		i too think that the garbled text has some sort of connection with the GPS missions. as i live absolutely nowhere near any of the locations, i'm afraid i can't help out with those. it's odd that we haven't had much more luck with these - what's more, the problems with getting the pieces from the missions (as evidenced in nyst's experience) doesn't help much either...

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0N1MUSH4
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 		Sent a dm to Intim right after activation. Basicly saying " Welcome back. we've been working on the data and still no luck. i've tryed Brail, Binary, Base64/32 encoding, and HEX. No luck there. tho we blieve that there are hiddin msg's in the data. but we just dont know the order."

the reply?

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Sys:Msg>@0N1MUSH4//I will attempt another reading of the faint datastream, and attempt to determine its most likely segment order.


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Brae
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 		So there's an order behind the segments then? Then should we swap around some of the data...I am beginning to wonder if there's a translation behind it...perhaps a cryptogram?

Which makes me wonder if my idea needs to be re-ordered...fantastic - if it is even the right idea to begin with.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:31 pm
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Brae
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 		Jonas Volman. On the latest twitters...

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>>Sys:Log//According to SWP, Jonas Volman's book "The Castaway Theory" was never fully recovered, only ever reported as "Out of print".about 6 hours ago from web


I did some spelunking around the book forums and found some interesting leads...

TOPIC -Jonas Volman's Location

Last edited by the author on Aug 8, 2007 7:34 PM PDT
manta drone says:

Mr. Thomas Sanatos,

Could it be possible that Mr. Jonas Volman is located at these coordinates?

Coordinates: "8.35, 5.05"

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QUOTES TAKEN FROM Comments about review:

Ernest Davis "Vlkoslak7" (Kansas City, MO USA)

This book is a real mind-bender! It proposes a new way to look at humanity's evolution (I won't spoil it for you). Check this book out, and make sure to spend extra time reading chapter 7... it contains an excellent interpretation of the medieval classic "Song of Roland."

Harvey G. Tidwell says:
there is no chapter 7, stop trying to lead people astray.

Ernest Davis says:
have you actually read the book? I didn't think so.

Adam D. Kawasaki says:
we can all read the table of contents and see there is no chapter 7, so did you read the book, i didnt think so either. You didnt even read the table of contents apparently.

Ernest Davis says:
Flip your copy to the "last" page of Chapter 6. Third paragraph from the bottom.

(These quotes are from 2007 - not sure if TWTWE has been that long in the making - but still interesting)

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TOPIC - THINKING OF YOU MR. VOLMER

Thomas Sanatos says:
It's been over a year and a half! Not much time in the cosmic scheme of things, I know, but it feels like forever.
Joanne and I lit a candle for you the other night. It's become a tradition every time we make Sunday evening pasta. We miss having you over for dinner, there are too many leftovers now! LOL

I don't know what happened to all the other notes that used to be in this area. I guess when the book sold-out everyone's comments got deleted. Don't worry though, no one has forgotten about you.
Stay strong Jonas, wherever you are.

Jacob A. Sillick says:
What pasta are you going to make this Sunday?

And did you know Jonas personally? Is he still alive? His book seems like a spectacular work of science.

Robert L. James says:
Sunday, August 12...what an interesting day to mention

Andrew V. Fertig says:
What happened on August 12th? Did Mr. Volman go missing?

Iggy73 says:
Hey there everyone, I hope you don't mind a noobie jumping into the fray. (Likely I'll be the tip of the iceberg with respect to a group of, shall we say, tenacious and knowledge thirsty individuals).

I'll bet that there are hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of potential fans who would love to start exploring this work. To that end:

Thomas/Jacob: could you direct us to a place we could come up to speed on Dr. Volman's work? It appears as though his work and our pursuit are intimately linked...

Robert: What, for you, marks the significance of August 12th? As an aside, I did find some references that led to the search for Amelia Earhardt in India and know from having lived there for a spell that the month of August also marks their national holiday (though I'm pretty sure it was the 15th).

Thanks for putting up with me and thanks in advance for your thoughtful insight!

Robert L. James says:
The 12th is a lunar event.

C. Valeri says:
What is the lunar event?

P. Sieber says:
The 12th is the first day of the "new moon" which is when none of the moon is visible and it is dark. So Mr. Sanatos, what does the new moon have to do with Jonas Volman?

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Still doing research - please stand by![/quote]

Think it's tied a bit to his involvement with Iris? I wasn't around for much of this and really don't know more than what I've read in some other of unfiction's logs.

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Brae
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 		[quote="Kilination"]Maybe if you connect the lines with each other.

Quote:
Line One
gpKKCQkNDQ0 HX39+fn6+vI

Line Two
H+AfeODC7Pg AAMe+IAAB/g

Line Three
CQkPB2Ji5KQ gICAgIBDR0Q

Line Four
QUFCgoOCgIA c39/fnzwAAA

Line Five
5AQIECDAAAA gAA8yJgwMDA

Line Six
AAADBAgQICA AIDA4T8A4B8

Line Seven
+AcABAYDAQE qDAhAQMDAwE

Line Eight
AADAIBAIBIQ JicTCQQDAAA

Does that make any more sense?


This got me interested in that youtube idea. I'm going to try combining these codes with the url's from intimation videos.

***Substituting +'s for the respectful value***

lf6q8EgmVEA -- FOREBODING DREAM ->Line 1: HX398fn6Vvi (NO) | A Line 2: HXAfeODC7Pg (NO) | B Line 2: AAMe8IAAB/g (NO) | Line 7: lAcABAYDAQE (NO)

k3DReFEOc5M -- KEYS Line 1: HX39Rfn6cvi (NO) | A Line 2: H3AfeODC7Pg (NO) | B Line 2: AAMeeIAAB/g (NO) | Line 7: kAcABAYDAQE (NO)

J7pICjI_1HE -- SYS LOG Line 1: HX39Ifn61vi (NO) | A Line 2: H7AfeODC7Pg (NO) | B Line 2: AAMeIIAAB/g (NO) | Line 7: JAcABAYDAQE (NO)


-----NEW TWIT-----

>>Sys:Log//Possible order: AAADBAgQICA H+AfeODC7Pg +AcABAYDAQE AADAIBAIBIQ QUFCgoOCgIA gAA8yJgwMDA CQkPB2Ji5KQ gpKKCQkNDQ0

>>Sys:Log//Continued: gICAgIBDR0Q c39/fnzwAAA qDAhAQMDAwE HX39+fn6+vI JicTCQQDAAA AIDA4T8A4B8 AAMe+IAAB/g 5AQIECDAAAA

-------FINAL------

I'm giving up on finding anything in the binary - but here's my final resutls.




If it were scrambled...

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