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gramma
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 		Quick Summary until 17th November
i'm bored
Teaser of Super8 shows up beginning of may 2010

hidden message at the end of the trailer leads to http://www.scariestthingieversaw.com/ (STIES)

STIES runs a unknown Desktop System that is simulating a remote interface for a PDP-11 // 16 bit machine from Digital Equipment Corporation
(PDP-11 where widely used in the 70/80ies for controlling)

http://www.scariestthingieversaw.com/time.php shows the counter for unix time

Various steps on STIES offered many files:

Printable Page

(got updated during the game multiple times)

"Stop posting publicly. I can answer your questions. I have proof."


RSCOM8 - Two Pages of an old Newspaper

aligned x-markings on that pages highlighted the words

no certainity if a live may be after us we go underground

an advertisement printed on that old Newspaper from Rocketpoppeteers including a Maze to Saturn, was completed and the coupon submitted by several users of unfiction
www.Rocketpoppeteers.com was not available at this time

EXPCNV - Audiofile with tone sequence

Printable Page gets updated

Photo leads us to Josh Minker via googling to his craiglist estate sale (Postal Code 25801 on Box)

Pictures from this estate sale reveals a phone number for the Evelyn Minker Memorial Fund.

The phone number leads to a recorded message from Josh Minker
leads us to http://www.hooklineandminker.com/

Josh Minker asked on www.AboveTopSecret.com for help in authenticating conspiracy related material
we can assume that the chat on the continously updated printable page was initiated through Josh Minkers post on ATS

His email Address hlm1963SPLATyahoo.com and personal information on his blog hooklineandminker indicate that he is actually 47 years old

Users that submitted the Maze to Saturn Coupon received welcome letters and a new task to become a certified astronaut - counting the amount of stars printed on that letter

Rocketpoppeteer opened their Twitter account posting pictures on Twitpic from their ComicCon appearance

Printable Page gets updated again

First time Josh Minkers Father gets mentioned, Josh gets asked to take down the estate sale items - The craiglist items where no longer available after this update

Rocketpoppeteers website launch

Printable Page gets updated again

Josh gets told he has to be more careful if he wants to find his father

untitled.mp3 added to the STIES as a proof for Josh that Mysterio was still able to find him easily (and record his voice)

STIES gets updated

adds the function to pop out a Chat Bubble Icon

Printable Page gets updated

including a coded message for Josh:
Meet me at 4D & 5O's last leg. Bring the foghorn and the unexpected title

4 Down & 5 Over showed Josh Minker through his October Calendar the meeting time

Foghorn and unexpected title where the clues for him to find out the password for the chat activated by the chatbubble on the STIES site - Password: Toadfish112

The Chat started at the given time by the Rare Fish Calendar pointing to:

-empty cylinder with three dots on it
-picture of some guys in front of a hangar
-Super8 Film Material

The Rare Fish Calendar gets updated to november

A major update on STIES shows new Files in the PDP-11 Simulator including pictures of ID-Badges


Unsolved/unknown usage:

EXPCNV - Audiofile with tone sequence

ID-Badges

meaning of the words from the old Newspaper - no certainity if a live may be after us we go underground

Rocketpoppeteers - is it "just" a new slusho?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:05 am
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 		Thanks for the recap! I have been out of the loop for a little while and missed the ID cards and the chat password Sad

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 		Nice work! But I think we should point out for any newcomers etc that the EXPCNV file was decoded as the Golden Ratio. We just don't know what the Golden Ratio has to do with anything yet...

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 		I don't believe gramma wants to condition us to believe it is indeed the golden ratio. Right now claiming it is the GR doesn't really help the ARG develop, so I personally doubt it is the GR.
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gramma
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 		regardless that the tones are NOT exactly matching any frequencies that can be used for a pattern....



x² +sx - s² = 0 Wink
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Xeno Lambrose
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 		Nice brief recap gramma, somewhat like a Cliff's Notes of Multi's "Game Summary," and I agree that the golden ratio is still questionable at best, and although I'm leaning toward your comment regarding the reason the mp3 was posted, there's a lot of questions to be answered there, as well.

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gramma wrote:
regardless that the tones are NOT exactly matching any frequencies that can be used for a pattern....



x² +sx - s² = 0 Wink


Disagree - The sequence WAS found to be golden ratio, then recreated by using the golden ratio, finding frequencies that EXACTLY matched. The only difference is a pitch shift, but as pitch is helical then it is equivalent. The tonal sequence is the golden ratio (and is the one island of certainty in a sea of what ifs), the question is why.

EDIT:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29657&start=315

1. Overlay the to spectographs half way down.
2. I think there's a better audio a few pages later, but at the bottom of the above page is an audio overlay of Fib and EXPCNV (pitch isn't perfect, but close)

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 		Nice work
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:00 am
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gramma
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 		thx^^ bored=time=summary Smile

and i am bored 2 death again....but nothing to "summ up"


maybe someone call's a STICKY for this one Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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DoctorOdd
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 		Thank you for the summary! I had left I left some time in September shortly after rocket poppeteers launched because... well, I got bored. I see one this has really happened since... What the hell?

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