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cherrytree98765
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Okay left the message.

Basically it's as thus

"Contaiment has been completly breached. There have been deaths on site. Reccomadtion is to destroy the bunker completly, but we need to know the contaiment protoccol under this situation."

I then repeat it.

(Hope they like the cheesieness of that report.)

Also sent an innocent email to Zach to see his response to it. (Fingers crossed)

PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:41 pm
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muse
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Allrighty, my video message/plea for trust is up. Took FOREVER with this crappy internet connection lol.

I look like a total goober in the video, but oh well. Hopefully it gets him back in contact with us.

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muse wrote:
Allrighty, my video message/plea for trust is up. Took FOREVER with this crappy internet connection lol... snip.

Beleive your video msg may have worked, muse. My written YT msg to Zach, sent much earlier, finally got a reply:
Zach wrote:
I have been convinced by someone that you are not one of them. I watched my posting earlier today and this is not like me. I don't know what comes over me lately. It's like I'm watching myself lately but it's not me. Not really me. It's like I'm someone else.

But I can't tell Karen - she'll think I'm crazy and never talk to me again


So thumbs up we can talk to Zach again. My lil msg had just advised him not to shut himself off from his friends. Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:56 am
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muse
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All right! Looks like I'm not a goober after all. :3

Edit: got a new message from Zach about what he's seeing in his dreams. I'm gonna ask my friends who are better schooled in Lovecraft than I am to see what they think about this description:

Quote:
I see a figure - I can't make out his face really beyond his eyes. He is standing on a stone plateau and I know there is stone nearby. Mountains? Rocks? Buildings? I don't know - it is just a sense of solidity. Now that you mention it, there really isnt much color in my dream at all anyway. Not black and white, but mostly browns and yellows - as if it was lit by torchlight - that kind of color. But I don't remember seeing any torches.


So pretty much what we saw in that second YouTube vid.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:32 am
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Cobalt Monkey
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The newer static flashes on the Log page...
Someone suggested they might be Morse Code, and that they read SOS, or rather ... --- ...
I looked at them for a while, and I don't think that's the timing. To me it looks more like -.. ..- -..
Running this through the Morse Code translator, it gave me DUD.
This is purely based on the timing between the appearance of each o and O. It doesn't take the binary into account because I don't know how it might fit in. I tried letting each pause stand for 1 in the o sets and a 0 in the O sets, and vice versa. Nothing, but if someone else wants to give it a try, it's always possible I messed it up somehow.

Now, whether or not the this clue is, in fact, a dud (lol) I don't know, but I'd rather post something and look stupid, than risk missing something important.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:30 am
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Seyelback
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*thinking smiley*

It was me who said the SOS bit. I only looked at the appearance of the zeros: ooo OOO ooo, then I understood o=. and O=_ , but I did not look at the timing. I still do not know what can it be, tbh. Dunno Who is sending those interferences? What was the previous one? The binary hangman is still a mystery for me! I am uploading the Flash file for the previous eventlog (the binary hangman) and this one (the SOS/DUD), just in case we want to look at it again if it changes in the website.

Btw, brilliant job calming down Zach!
eventdef3.swf
 Description   Binary Hangman
 Filesize   1.56MB
 Viewed   1453 Time(s)



eventdef4.swf
 Description   SOS/DUD
 Filesize   1.62MB
 Viewed   1451 Time(s)




PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:30 am
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cherrytree98765
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I'll just throw in my innocent email which also recieved an sane response.

Quote:
I dont think so but thank you for asking. I feel a little calmer tonight. I don't know what came over me today. I was full of such anger and rage. I dont know why. Sometimes lately its like I am watching someone else - I don't know myself anymore. Maybe I'm just tired.



Just thought I might concur with everyone else.

(Now play nice Seadevil.) Wink

Edit: I was just checking the site and I looked back a few pages, and the archive message has been updated.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Senconsysop matrix deterioration is spreading to other system modules. Integrity of Sencon core function is in jeopardy. Initiate emergency stabilization procedures. Sencon37


Interesting thing to note is that this was not mixed. It came out that way through conversion.

Noticed something else the Sentinel Control status has been changed to "Warning"

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:31 am
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Seadevil4
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Well he sent me another couple of emails, one of which stated he was going to trust me after all.

In hindsight maybe it wasn't such a good idea to get him to ring the number, since the M.I.W's could track him via his number. Seemed like a good idea at the time Wink

However the M.I.W's do look like a better alternative to Mr. Hoodie.

Zach won't speak to Karen about it worried that she will think he's crazy, can't imagine why.

I still think the artifact is key to this whole mess, wonder if there is a back door to the bunker?!?

Lovecraft's characters either:

Go insane
Get killed off by members of the particular cult the hero is investigating
Turn into fish (Shadow over Innsmouth)
Kill the monster and then go insane
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:59 am
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Seadevil4
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Sencon37

I wonder whether Sencon37 is an actual person monitoring the systems from a location near to the facility?!?

Perhaps we could try sending to: sencon37SPLATsentinelcontrolnetwork.net

Never know we might get another Out of Office msg.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:03 am
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Seyelback
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I tried the sencon37 email a couple of days ago, no luck. But they could have changed that since then too. Maybe an email to senconsycop again?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:06 am
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Cortez
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New event log today...the cloaked figure opens the bunker door. The Event Log 'message' (what we thought was Morse) has also changed...now with added white noise.

The new morse uses O and o to make it clearer.

Assuming O is a dash and o is a dot,

-../--./.... = DGH

or if O=dot and o=dash

.--/..-/---- = WUCh

Neither really make much sense though.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:37 am
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Seyelback
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I downloaded the file and converted it to pics. It starts with the "H" (assuming small o= dot), then it might be a faded E (.), then the same as you got: D and G. So I get H(e?)DG.

Dunno

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Cortez
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Has anyone else noticed that when Zach's lying unconscious at home, the Shadow is at the bunker?

He emailed me today saying that he felt like 'he was someone else'.

Quote:
I now believe that you are not one of them. But this isn't like me. I watched my posting from earlier today and I don't know what comes over me lately. It's like I'm watching myself lately but it's not me. It's like I'm someone else and not really me.

I haven't left the house for several days. Not since my attempt to contact the people at the bunker. When was that - 2 days ago? 3? I cant tell. I've been passed out most of the day the past few days. Just too tired to stay awake I guess. I still keep having these nightmares at night and can't sleep much.


I wouldn't be surprised if Zach and the Shadow were the same 'person'.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:45 pm
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Badgerconda
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You know, that's a good point. Earlier in the thread, I stated that I originally thought Zack and Cloaky were one and the same, but I felt like that was busted by Zack posting blogs while Cloaky was in the woods.

But if he was going back and forth-- or Cloaky simply ceases to be when Zack is awake, or something, that would explain it, and it would help explain why it's taken Cloaky so long to get to the bunker.... considering the event-logs are dated, we can reliably tell it's taken a few days to make a trip that shouldn't take more than a few hours at most.

Supporting something along these lines, if you compare yesterday's event log to today's, it looks like Cloaky enters from the left today, when yesterday, he was standing directly in front of the bunker door already at the end of the log. Not to mention... and I can't really tell because of the quality, but... it looks to me kind of like in yesterday's event log it was raining, and it's not in today's.

Also, the actual event log page's animation seems to be different, but maybe I just didn't notice it before. and ALL the idle animations seem to be freaking out a little... probably has something to do with the 'warning' status on the Sentinel Control on the diagnostic page...

One more quick thing. it seems like you genius code-cracker types keep getting 3-letter combinations from things... much like the 'STK' before. maybe they're either alternate keys for current puzzles to give additional information, of the keys to future puzzles? I dunno, because honestly, I'm worthless at solving codes and such-- just don't have the brainpower for it, haha.

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Event interferences have changed again, they have darkened the background and make it clearer.

It reads:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

HELP


before it read:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

SOS


So there is a theme there... who is saying that? The artifact? The shadow? Zach?

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