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maria2749
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Joined: 18 Nov 2009
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 		using the koji.takahashi user name with the 962 password you only get the Tokyo link.

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Tue, 11/17/2009 - 18:26 — Anonymous

The Creation Floor plans were finalized on 10/11/2007. Initial build work completed 07/04/2009.

Koji is currently installing testing equipment in each room.

DESIGN:

- The floor is sectioned into 8 - each section holds 16 chambers.
- Each Chamber holds an imprint chair.
- Each imprint chair is networked via IO back to the Rossum WAN.

PURPOSE:

- Testing ability to imprint longer term whilst Subjects captive
- Research effects of multiple switchable imprints (held in Subject at same time). This has proven to be detrimental to Subjects in previous House tests, however this research could be profitable to The Group.

Update Goal for Creation:
In early 2009, "Alpha" from the LA House appeared to remotely wipe an Active. This site is currently researching how this occurred - as the tech is seen as a valuable asset to The Group.


Liir wrote:


On the other hand I'm Portuguese, so reading scientific abstracts is not my forte.

Looking forward to solving this thing as soon as possible.

I'm Portuguese. We are a stubborn people.


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In the page source for Rossum there is a line about Rossum being part of Ambrose Enterprises. Ambrose is the guy who has Victor's body in Epitaph One -Perhaps a way to get into the LA house?


PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:52 pm
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Alder
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chloeoats wrote:
okay, so I've read this entire topic (instead of studying for my german test, i might add) and there are a few things i've been curious about. well, mostly just one. one the spectrin site, someone had posted a link http://www.spectrin.com/images/04_services.jpg of the services page, and i was curious why the tag line would be changed http://i50.tinypic.com/16ljuwh.jpg as such? and when did it happen, does anyone know? it just seems a bit foreboding to me.

also, if anyone was interested, i screen capped the 59002 case file image, http://i45.tinypic.com/27zjfie.jpg


The 04_services.jpg was never actually part of the site IIRC. I found it by poking around in a directory that the PMs left open to browsing, probably by accident. Best guess is that it was working version of the image that they decided not to use.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:01 pm
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chloeoats
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Alder wrote:
chloeoats wrote:
okay, so I've read this entire topic (instead of studying for my german test, i might add) and there are a few things i've been curious about. well, mostly just one. one the spectrin site, someone had posted a link http://www.spectrin.com/images/04_services.jpg of the services page, and i was curious why the tag line would be changed http://i50.tinypic.com/16ljuwh.jpg as such? and when did it happen, does anyone know? it just seems a bit foreboding to me.

also, if anyone was interested, i screen capped the 59002 case file image, http://i45.tinypic.com/27zjfie.jpg


The 04_services.jpg was never actually part of the site IIRC. I found it by poking around in a directory that the PMs left open to browsing, probably by accident. Best guess is that it was working version of the image that they decided not to use.


oh okay, i wasn't too sure. i was being in denial about not getting anything done because this is ridiculously addicting.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:02 pm
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Alder
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 		new logon at spectrin

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username sarak
password thjofastafur

password is the runestave to use against thieves, per sara's tweet


PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:08 pm
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chloeoats
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 		wow, awesome alder. you're on this. that was some interesting information.

i wonder if we'll get to see the case files...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:16 pm
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maxbell
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Alder wrote:
new logon at spectrin

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username sarak
password thjofastafur

password is the runestave to use against thieves, per sara's tweet


This doesn't work anymore?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:30 pm
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rantbysong
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 		Sara's Notes on her updated login

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Sara's Notes

11/18/09 | 6:40pm

Bobby,

I tried calling you this afternoon but M said you'd be out till late. Leaving you this note here, since I'm about to set off for NY and it'll probably take me close to 5 hrs to get there with traffic. Also, people have been trying to access my e-mail and Twitter accounts, so nothing is safe. They will undoubtedly see this also, but at least we can log IPs and monitor traffic. I believe prudence is essential.

I've booked an afternoon flight from LGA to Tucson, so we should be able to have lunch together and talk this over. In the meantime, please view the following:

Ditch the Tech

Wipe the Future #matt/dendrobium

Rossum koji.takahashi/962

I'll forward you several e-mails I received today, which explain these in greater detail. Note particularly Ella's messages and the information on Alex Dawson, whom they believe to be the same person as the one sending the videos. If this is indeed the case and these messages date from 2019, please check with Tom on the likelihood and also the logistics of replying. I have contacted Alex on Twitter and offered to meet her tomorrow morning. She is reluctant and frightened.

Rossum appears to have a presence in both Akranes and Tucson. They also (based on what I've seen on their intranet) seem to be doing experiments with altering memory and perhaps personality. I'm starting to think that the cases of possession are in fact mind alterations via neuroscientific means. Of course, this actually makes it more sinister and more difficult to counteract.

I'm also considering that it was not the stave that helped those men recover, but rather the properties of some of the tattoo ink ingredients. But if that is the case, then why did only two of them recover? What made those two different? You will notice the second site lists a recipe that is identical to the ink recipe I recorded in Akranes. I was told the last ingredient was 'heiti'. I am at a loss as to what this ingredient might be, as there is no mention of it in the usual literature.

Lastly, one of the photos on the Rossum site shows a door with the number 59002. We will need to discuss this in person. Please pull the files on that case.

See you soon,
S





PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:37 pm
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nomfaux
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 		Quick thoughts on heiti:

1. Icelandic for name, right? Basically, at least. Perhaps if Sara can recall the name of the old woman she spoke with, we could derive some other clue?

2. What if the old woman wasn't using the official Icelandic term. It's possible she could have been using an older dialect, such as Old Norse? In Old Norse Heita is a verb meaning "to heat." Heiti is the.. uh.. first person present form? Mrph. Verb conjugation. *headdesk*

Whew. Probably stretching things a bit here, again. Embarassed

*Edit: Heat does sound kind of dumb, since you can't exactly add pinches or half-pinches of that, if it's the unknown ingredient in the recipe. *shrug*

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cinnamon_clover
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 		Some people suggested earlier that the last ingredient was boswellia (as per rossum source code). I was thinking that the 'heiti' reference could be referring to another name for boswellia, such as frankincense or olibanum (arabic term for both, from wiki of course!)....

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Ceribri
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nomfaux wrote:
Quick thoughts on heiti:

1. Icelandic for name, right? Basically, at least. Perhaps if Sara can recall the name of the old woman she spoke with, we could derive some other clue?


Not really icelandic for name, but rather the word means a substitution for another word. A replacement, if you will. (I think. It's late and I'm not all here right now, sorry.)

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Ithilien
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 		Heiti
Yeah, heiti is like a substitute word... a synonym that may be more poetic than the word it's standing in for... like "steed" instead of "horse".

I think frankincense could definitely be heiti for boswellia. And frankincense is the resin from the boswellia plant, so it might be chemically different from the plant itself, which would make a difference in the recipe.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:49 am
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nomfaux
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 		I actually have been following this since before Heiti was first mentioned.. I remember the initial heiti leading to the nomdeplume answer. Wink

I was just trying to think outside the box, since it appears the heiti puzzle has resurfaced. Perhaps I should have initially included the links I was getting my info from. I was speaking of the literal translation, not the poetic device.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9g_heiti

Which lead me to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heita#Icelandic

(Scroll up from there to find the heat reference.)

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Torrgud
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 		Heiti/hveiti
Maybe the old woman didn't say heiti but hveiti which is icelandic for wheat.

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Mary Beth
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 		Hey! I'm new here; I just wanted to say that in Sara's notes, Bobby is probably Robert Hunter and Tom is probably Thomas de Lard (both part of the Board of Directors of Spectrin); but who is M? What if it is Alex's Mateo?

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chixor1
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 		Lots of bickering between AlexfromPR and FutureALex via twitter this morning.
AlexfromPR is taking a sick day today.
She asked future alex "what happened this morning when I was getting dressed" as a way to confirm future alex's identity.
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