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Lucavex
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Awesome work Hex.

Looking forward to more developments.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:38 am
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H(e)x
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Thanks -- I'm in now.

So we have someone who signs off as "T.C." and calls Abby "dear one" baiting and challenging her, who is powerful enough to access her secure computer and secure shipments. They've been lightly concealing messages in images on her computer, and now in a radio broadcast pointed to by an actual paper message.

This is moving apace.

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Lucavex
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Yes. I love the fact that this recent puzzle was done ala "Numbers Station" style. I've always been a huge fan of them.

I love how this is playing out so far.

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AbbyPapanai wrote:
Going to check on an alarm in one of the buildings - probably nothing


G'Morning. Posting the tweet as an excuse to give more PROPS to H(e)x. Am really biting my nails at this point. Shocked
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grokken
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amandel wrote:
AbbyPapanai wrote:
Going to check on an alarm in one of the buildings - probably nothing


G'Morning. Posting the tweet as an excuse to give more PROPS to H(e)x. Am really biting my nails at this point. Shocked


Just a note, that tweet was 5 hrs ago we've heard nothing from Abby since.

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H(e)x
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Yeah, I'm worried.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:27 am
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Coal
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Is there a wiki kind of post for this game yet? With a kind of up-to-date list of all websites, puzzle, characters, twitter accounts that have been found/used? It's confuzzling me already.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:00 am
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H(e)x
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Not yet, but it's pretty straightforward so far -- that was the first real puzzle. Here's a basic summary -- someone can feel free to use this as the seed of a wiki!

Plot:

Quote:
In 2001 a privately funded medical research team studying an emerging virus in Uganda was murdered by the very people they had sought to help. The team's final radio transmissions pointed to a viral-induced psychosis that consumed the carrier within 72 hours of the start of peak virus shedding. Researchers embedded with rescue teams were able to retrieve the advance team's initial findings and remove samples for study from the victims and that work has continued since.

While research is still ongoing, we are taking the unprecedented, and admittedly unconventional, step of notifying the general public about the significant threat posed by our findings. We seek to raise awareness and encourage preparedness for a human-engineered pandemic which may be unavoidable.

www.zombietruth.com


ZT.com has now been set up to communicate to the public about the dangers of the "Z1" virus -- a virus which makes infected behave in the manner of a "Rage" Zombie (28 Days Later), behaving erratically and extremely violently before dying.

The lab has recently received 9 corpses of primates which were infected with Z1, and studies have begun.

Meanwhile, Abby Papanai, a researc her at the lab, has begun to be harrassed by someone who signs as "T.C" with various taunts and challenges, presented through disturbing images and messages. The las we heard from her, she was going to investigate an alarm. That was 6 hours ago . . .

Websites:

http://zombietruth.com/ - Main game website, narrating the emergence of a "zombie virus" through a blog.
http://krfgroup.com/ - ZT's mysterious funders. Very little info so far.

Twitters:

http://twitter.com/ZombieTruth - The official ZT Twitter
http://twitter.com/AbbyPapanai - A scientist at ZT's labs, and our point of human interaction.
http://twitter.com/SurvivorCommand - The selected group of people ZT has recruited to help prepare for a zombie plague.
http://twitter.com/KRFGroup - KRF Group's Twitter. Has been following many who've communicated with or followed Abby and ZT, but hasn't allowed anyone access.

Puzzles:

1. Gaining access to SurvivorCommand
- The ZT Twitter posted a series of questions about what followers would do in the event of a zombie plague. Those who gave responses had their follow requests to SC accepted.
- The SC Twitter provides access to the protected posts on ZT.com by posting passwords as new posts appear.
- ZT has not posted new questions recently, so it's unclear how latecomers can gain access
- Current password is "project9", and Command page reads:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
07.17.09 | 6:48pm Friday (GMT)
We have just received word that our foundation shipment, including the primates with suspected #Z1 infection, will arrive in three hours. Lab going to full alert status in 2 hours. Standby for updates.

07.16.09 | 1:42pm Thursday (GMT)
From this point on communications that are restricted to Survivor Command members only will be released here in the following format:

RESTRICTED | MESSAGE TEXT | END

We ask that you not share these messages with others outside of Survivor Command. We appreciate your cooperation. Communications in any other format can be discussed freely.

07.15.09 | 11:02pm Wednesday (GMT)
Lab team met. Lead scientist assures us that necropsies of the 9 primates can be dealt with without significant interruption of current investigations. Handling 9 live primates would be impossible but we are not faced with that problem. A small team is being assembled to prep the BSL-3 and BSL-4 spaces for Friday's event.

07.15.09 | 7:29pm Wednesday (GMT)
All hands meeting scheduled in two hours. We will have more details about this development and what it means later.

07.15.09 | 7:19pm Wednesday (GMT)
Transcription errors in feed (dates) corrected. AP

07.15.09 | 6:00pm Wednesday (GMT)
We have received the following urgent communication from the foundation:

HIGHEST PRIORITY

PREPARE FACILITY FOR 07.17.09 ARRIVAL OF 9 PRIMATE CADAVERS VIA STANDARD RESUPPLY PROCEDURE. PAN PANISCUS ADULT CADAVERS PROCURED BY ARTEMIS|AF FROM FACILITY IN CENTRAL CONGO BASIN. HANDLERS REPORT ALL PRIMATE FATALITIES RESULTED FROM "UNPRECEDENTED" VIOLENT BEHAVIOR IN TWO ILL MALES WHICH WERE SCHEDULED FOR ISOLATION.

PREPARE TO SUSPEND ALL POSSIBLE CURRENT INVESTIGATION TRACKS FOR 72 HOUR PERIOD STARTING 12:00AM GMT 07.17.09

07.14.09
Operation launched. Core team identified. Communications channels under construction.


2. Abby's Desktop Pictures
- AP posted on her Twitter that someone had been leaving disturbing pictures on her desktop. Those players who messaged her about them gained the passwords to those pictures.
- Both pictures featured cadavers or people with necrotic wounds, and an obscured message overlayed. The first was an extract from the Bible (Hebrews 11 35-3Cool, (superficially) describing resurrection and physical violence and torments (; the second, in Japanese, read "Can you hear them in your dreams?" (password: wallpaper)

3. The Radio Broadcast
- Within the delivery of infected primate corpses was a message for Abby (password godisvoid) directing her to listen to a particular radio frequency.
- Later that day, Abby posted on ZT.com a video of the radio broadcast (password radio). This was decoded as (detailed on the previous page) as:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"Let's see how clever you are, dear one. Can you stop the inevitable? Will you play my game?


PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:41 am
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Coal
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Thank you so much H(e)x!

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Nos
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Jeeze I was hoping for an update from Abby, nothing? Yikes.
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H(e)x
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Yeah, this doesn't look good. I'd hope she was just busy performing the autopsies, but that she went to investigate the alarm and didn't tweet afterwards is deeply concerning.

I'm supposed to be oing out tonight. I won't be able to enjoy it for worrying about Abby!

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DJ_Jenns
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Sad Hi all, first post - hope she's going to be ok

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bluesylvia
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Okay guys, started up a Wiki with help from the awesome H(e)x's information. Anyone is allowed to edit and contribute, although you will need to sign up first. I figure it'd be better to post this now than to do it when we have a thousand things to all put up.
http://zombietruth.pbworks.com/

What if the alarm was set off by one of the monkeys? Being underground, surrounded by zombies isn't gonna be fun...

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solfood
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Lucavex wrote:
Not sure this is relevant, may be a loophole.

The SSL Certification for ZombieTruth.com comes from Lurker Films.


Lurker Films runs "Zompire: The Undead Film Festival". Maybe they're doing the ARG in conjunction with an upcoming zombie film (World War Z I hope).

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grokken
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It occurs to me that we are missing some important information.

1. What is Abby's position in the lab? Is she one of the scientists or part of the security? Its clear from her tweets that she has a plethora of duties.

2. How many people are at the lab? A few, a dozen, more than 40? My guess from her comments is less than a dozen but definitely close to that number.

3. KRFgroup... we really need to find a way to get in with these people.

Some other thoughts.
Could T.C. be one of the researchers sent in to locate the team that was killed?
Is it possible one of the original team members survived and has been underground ever since?

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