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RAD24
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 		Ok, well, I took a chance and asked TEDO if they know what "Aztlan" means:

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I see you have found the Beacon. It is a shame that you did not learn the ways of the Lorsham. If you had you would have known of the history of the people of Aztlan. We have searched your world's information resources. You do not have a full history of this people.


Nevertheless, if we were to show you the meaning it would aid you in your quest. It is a great shame that we are working at cross purposes. We both want the same outcome. Yet you would destroy the conduits that unites the realities together. Our hope is to bring Peace. But not all would have it so. By now you must know of the third reality. You would not be so proud of the Tylean and the Alovieb of that reality. They reign with a fist of blood. We would bring Peace to all the time lines. We offer you another olive branch, but be warned, this may be the last time.


I'm definitely not making a decision by myself, so what does everyone think? We could also "accept" their offer, then feed them false info and/or turn on them at some point (the latter of which I actually kinda did in RB Laughing )

EDIT: Sent this back:

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Your offer is a generous one indeed. I'll have to think about this, I'm not going to make a decision without considering all consequences, I'm sure you understand.

But, perhaps I would be more inclined to accept if you told me a bit about these "people of Aztlan."


And got:

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Let us just say that they were jealous of what Tylean did for their neighbours. They wanted the Per'tnel also and thought they could make one. They had no idea. By the time we found them, they had forgotten why they made the stone in the first place and had turned it into something else. We took the obsidian and taught some of them the language. More than this I cannot tell you. It is a shame, you and your friends would have made good Lorsham. Now we are afraid that you are getting too close. We will have to kill the Eves and the others. Perhaps we will get back to working on you once we have dealt with the Urk'Reja.


...Not really sure what to say in response to that, other than DON'T KILL THEM lol. Also, "We took the obsidian," obsidian is black, could this mean the old man didn't give OP a Donar'tnel, but one of the Aztlan's stones?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:19 am
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kobrosti
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 		i send out an e-mail to OP few days ago about the beacon and stuff,
still diddent get reply =/

i wonder if he lost the trust in me:(

PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:38 am
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silviablu
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 		This is bluesylvia. I'm at school and forgot my password. Embarassed

I would offer to send a message to TEDO but when I looked back at our last conversation...
TEDO wrote:
He must be stopped. He must not be allowed to find the rift. You must lead him away from the Isle of Man. HE MUST NOT TRAVEL TO OUR WORLD. This will be a test of your loyalty.

Well, ah, oops. Embarassed Maybe I could give it a try, although I think it would also be rather suspicious if I popped in after having no communications with them for a while just to ask, "Hey, guys, what's goin' on with this Aztlan thing? I just, um, found it on my own. I've never heard of Rad! Nope!"
Perhaps if you guys have some better ideas on how to word an email I could give it a try and hope they haven't noticed I have almost failed the test of loyalty.

I thought maybe the stone OP has is the obsidian made by the Aztlan but in the email from TEDO they said, "He has a Donar'tnel; one that was stolen from one of our Lorsham who was learning to travel between the worlds."
Unless, of course, they lied to me. It could be that the obsidian is the only means of moving between the dimensions, right? Or at least the only thing that can create rifts? And they lied and told me it was just a regular Donar'tnel so I wouldn't think of it as very special or want it for myself.

I don't think OP has lost trust in you, Kobrosti. If his post indicates anything he should be in a much better [mental] state than before. Perhaps he just hasn't been in a good enough condition to write emails; Eve did say it would take a few days to recover. Or perhaps he is being "detained" at the moment...

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RAD24
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 		Seems I was a little off about the Aztlan stones, I asked about them being black like the Donar'tnel's and got:

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No, they wanted to create a stone that shone like the sun. We taught them about the darkness that can engulf the light. They had the stones that shone with darkness, we took these and taught them how to use it. In my world, they prospered and fought against Tylean's little tribe. Your history is different, but they still tried to make the stone of the sun. But as the generations passed, they forgot.


So, they wanted to make stones like the Per'tnel, but TEDO intervened.

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bluesylvia
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 		Received an email from OP:

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Blue, I wonder if you know what I was supposed to find in the USB? I don't remember much about what was in the section that I was supposed to open once I knew my family was safe, but I wonder if it could help with my present situation. If I remember correctly, the other Eve is some sort of computer wiz. If so, she might be able to recover the information on the USB. Do you think any of it would be useful to our Eve? I mean, if she knew that what was in there could help her, then perhaps she would agree to travel to the other world to see the other Eve. She could then treat my family while the other Eve works on recovering the USB's memory. What do you think I should tell our Eve about the information she can expect?


All we know of the previous message OP sent was that the USB contained "something to do with a white looking stone. It looked like a recipe. I guess the old man wanted you to cook a stone or something."

Looks like this could be a way to get ThisEve to come, although I really have no clue what boiling a per'tnel (and whatever else the "recipe" called for) could do. I suppose it's possible it would make it an obsidian stone. Or a Donar'tnel.

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carpathianroses
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TEDO: I know you are focused on the source of the rift. Well, I suppose that I can tell you that it is a little more complicated than you think. There are three sources, so even if you find the location of the one from the Aztlan, you will not know of the others necessarily. Hah! Even if you find them all, I doubt you would even know when they are. And to find the other two beacons, you have to cross the rift, and as soon as you did, we would know about it.

Your non-speaker history would not have recorded it. It happened in a different phase as yours. We searched what was left of the Tesmna Etermul Dhrem Ol in your world and found remnants of the same battle. This was the battle in which we beat them. In your world the Tylean finished them. In mine, they became our allies.



We may not have many options. Should we take the bait?

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bluesylvia
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 		Knowledge is power, so why not?

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carpathianroses
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 		I don't see any other alternatives at this point. Let's give it a shot.

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jaeger138
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 		Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around to help but got soe stuff going on so won't have a lot of time to do anything. I'm dropping this one for now, just don't have time. I may lurk here now and then to see what you've all been up to and I may jump back in, maybe in a day or two, but for now I'm hanging up my keyboard. Good luck, I wish you well and I hope you manage to fix everything before TEDO starts taking over my bank, military and businesses!

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Abraxas
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 		What do we think...Aztlan was a PM goof? Not sure how to put it on the word list, now...

I'd have to join jaeger. As I said before, I will have little time at some point. Which is right now. I check back to update the word list, perhaps help with puzzles, but not much more.

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bluesylvia
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 		See ya, guys. Sad

I received a reply from OP, just saying that he hopes ThisEve will listen to him.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:49 am
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kobrosti
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 		Got a new email from OP:)
He is really thankful :O

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I have just been re-reading my e-mails. I feel much better now, thanks to Eve. I am trying to convince her that she needs to return to the other world to cure my family also. At the moment we are just sitting around while she tries to figure out the beacon.

Anyway, I wanted to apologise for the way I used you while I was under the influence of the stone. Although at the same time, I think I have you to thank for Eve eventually finding me because you managed to get the real map from me.

Thank you and I am sorry.

OP Smith


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RAD24
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 		Yesterday I asked TEDO if they had contacted a TEDO in the third reality (well, I wrongly used the word "dimension" Laughing ) Got this:

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Dimension is probably not the correct word, but of course as you were not a full Lorsham, you would no know about that. Yes there were members of the Tesmna Etermul Dhrem Ol in the "Third" reality. In that reality, the Tylean and the TEDO coexisted in a truce of sorts. He and the Alovieb were very different. Once the Abie joined the TEDO there, she was killed when she was trying to make a combined Per'tnel and Donar'tnel. Tylean never forgave himself. He became bitter and twisted. He eventually found a way to blame the TEDO and declared war. Those TEDO are now in hiding and have come through the rift to be with us. The Tylean and the Alovieb have taken over most of that world. We will deal with them when the time comes.


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Abraxas
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 		OK, I had to listen to Tylean some more. Too tired to stare at slides for the exam preparation, anyway. Smile
I have some good earphones, again. It's louder now. Here is what I got (sorry, if you already have this, I couldn't find it):

Code:

[Merk...Merk] ne vexem [felw] yim ank yatux. Dwond fai mi per'tnel?
ENGLISH
Kwa fai fe tnem, kwand fe Tesmna Etermul Dhrem Ol ne sekeri fain.


I had to laugh when I finally realised what that "sentence from hell" said.
The fast part is just TEDO. Laughing

Translation so far:
Quote:

[..] don't come [..] how to us. Where is my Per'tnel?
...
That is the time, when the TEDO won't even be.


Although sekeri can be a lot of things according to Abie. "won't be any more" is possible and probably more likely?

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carpathianroses
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ThisEve: Are the Alovieb working on what I found at the beacon?
OP has just asked me to take him across to the other reality to see if Eve can recover what he deleted from some USB.
I would prefer not to do so without knowing where the source of the rift is. They would know the moment I return, so time would be limited.
I just wish I knew how to use the Per'tnel a little better, then Time would no longer be a problem!

If you could tell me what you know at present it might help. I have some ideas, but none of them make any sense. I guess you'd have to be a member of the TEDO to understand.


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