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[jessie1326]

One of the pages (forgive me, I can't remember which one off the top of my head) has a clue in the source code that says the first few batches are just a smokescreen. Has anyone been keeping track of what the "batches" are? I.e., which entries were posted together and when?

[teh_lisa]

I have been emailing back and forth with hatshoe as well. Nothing interesting to report yet.

[Yaslana]

To Jessie1326:: That page is 'door unlock'.

Something I noticed while looking over that particular phrase is that he mentions 'code within code'. To me that originally meant 'code' as in programming 'code' but now I think it might be more, like a puzzle within the code. that makes a little more sense. I haven't been able to get anywhere particularly meaningful as I am really rusty on my super-detailed-'grammar'-rules of HTML. I do suspect that what ever it is, is hidden in the 'coordinates' for the links on the page leading to the individual pages in the 'journal'. That's the only place I can imagine something easily hiding-in-plain-sight in... maybe if we had a way to 'see' where the link coordinate rectangles are on the page....

Any help/thoughts on this?

[teh_lisa]

Please bear with me, I know nothing of coding. What do the location of the </style> </head> tags mean? In some of the source pages it is:

</style></head>

and others it is:

</style>

</head>

[fezzik]

When you perform intense brightness/contrast on Sleepwalk.jpg, there is one thing that pops out that seems a little too coincidental to be random. It's centered around the "h" in "woke up with". It appears that - perhaps - a word was written vertically and blended in to the base text. But it also could just be random. I've spent an hour or so trying to analyze it and just can't quite get anything out of it.. like staring at a Rorschach test. I've managed to convince myself at various times that it's nothing, or the word "Tuck", or just an artifact of the scanner.

Acting on a different clue, maybe we're looking for individual letters that are just lighter than the others. It's worth noting that Sleepwalk is the only one of Hatshoe's messages where the intensity of the characters varies; in all the others the lettering is very uniform in pressure (either because it was done that way when written or it was post-processed). However, I've stared at Sleepwalk for a long time now, both with the bare eye and in Gimp, and I can't get anything out of it. The problem is that, unlike in the clue sent back as a response to the email, the intensity of the letters forms a fairly uniform curve from light to dark, with no obvious breaks. Of course some letters are lighter than others, but where do you draw the line? For example the "h" in "in his sleep" is very light. But what about the "t" in "tell-tale"? Does that count or not? Also if you look at it long enough you realize that some, if not all, of the letter intensity changes could be just the idiom of the writer; for example, he seems to draw "t" lighter than other letters particularly at the beginning of the word. The overall document, even under careful analysis, seems to just have been written "normally".

That is to say, in both the brightness/contrast and letter intensity evaluations, the signal is just too low relative to the noise.

[Stæld]

[teh_lisa]

Sleepwalk also has the word "without" twice next to each other. "You move, you are controlled, without without really choosing..."

[teh_lisa]

[pancito]

Yeah, prolly means nada, and may even be an artifact of whatever is being used to generate and or upload the html code... (Does anyone actually do html by hand? Beyond bold, etc.?)

[natas]

[punkymonkey]

I usually code by hand. mainly because I'm usually just doing edits to existing pages so all I need is to change the code here and there

[Mehetabel]

[Yaslana]

[jaeger138]

Carl is his neighbour, apparantly we're going to learn about him together. Also, Carl is drinking too much coffee according to the Twitter.

Yaslana ma have found our 'batches', and looking at the title's seems such an obvious thing to do but well done Yaslana, for looking where we didn't.

Not quite sure what it all means though, we may have got our batches but what do we do with them? Still pretty clueless at the moment. Feels like I've missed something obvious.

[whitecross8]