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amandel
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Mailed Wallace saying that his leading us to a Spoon so he cd tell us about a Fork was sorta farcical & was Bob doing that:
Wallace wrote:
Been working on the second puzzle too been thinking about the first and how it relates to the second.

Star Trek Original Series Episode: Nomad, originally launched from Earth
has a crash with an alien probe. They join and start killing everything
not perfect. In effect a tragedy.

Now we are looking for a farce, a repeat of the previous event. Half life
normally refers to some sort of radiation, is it perhaps something
Nuclear?!? Not sure where the farce comes in though.

Bob is returning to the familiar again, Star Trek what else is he reusing?

"four score & change yrs" = 80+ years My thoughts so far, hope it helps

ETA: My PW search is directionless atm 'tho I did get to review my fav ST:TNG epi "The Inner Light" for probe-ative value. Smile
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I was looking at Voyager 1 and 2 (Pu-238) and the V'ger thing, but can't make a connection to what we need.

PS: "probe-ative value" it took me a while but Laughing

ETA: Oh crap... "Stephen Collins as "Capt. Decker" "

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booba wrote:
I was looking at Voyager 1 and 2 (Pu-238) and the V'ger thing, but can't make a connection to what we need.


Gah! I was trying and trying but couldn't spell it right! Booba, you cracked it without realising:

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V'Ger


so we now have two more files, an archive called "deg.7z" ("fair" in welsh) and a text file called 201,347.txt with the contents:

Men in the Field

RLincoln not 201

Vetri the Cat

SKhawn

Get cracking Smile
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Thunderwolf wrote:


Gah! I was trying and trying but couldn't spell it right! Booba, you cracked it without realising:

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V'Ger



I must say, that password is NOT a length of four. It may only have four letters, but it is 5 characters long. Am I wrong in the understanding that the file name denotes the password length? I tried VGer and vger, but would have never tried it as V'Ger. Rolling Eyes
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Yaha Enaxor & things I knew I'd get to post: 1) Booba is bril, 2) Bob is dufos & 3) Style assaulted Drake. Wallace updated Laughing
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Let's hope that syringe didn't contain some sort of truth serum. I'm still drawing a blank for this latest pw.

OK so thanks to Star Trek Memory Alpha I have a lead of sorts:

Quote:
Roberta Lincoln was a female Human.

In 1968, she was a twenty-year-old resident of New York City. She was five feet seven inches tall, weighed 120 pounds, her hair was tinted honey blonde, and she had two birthmarks – a small mole on her left shoulder and a somewhat larger, star-shaped mole on a portion of her anatomy she'd rather not be discussed in public. She was considered erratic, but also highly intelligent by the Beta 5 computer.

The same year, she was hired as a secretary by Agent 201 and Agent 347, two Humans sent to Earth by aliens to sabotage the launch of an orbital nuclear warhead platform by the USA.


From http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Roberta_Lincoln (My emphasis added) and also http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Victoria_Vetri


And we're in:

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Gary Seven


So we have ANOTHER passworded archive with the same name as before (deg.7z), a pic of a tree and a text file called "Barkingratio" with a youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvzLeinKdsc&feature=related

Another Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzP0qctXMOY

Another Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pip1TwMt9FQ - What is in a name

a date? maybe:

8.15.13

a ROT (looks like):

monPumul

and an anagram?

beefing don ginn

So the two names I can get from the youtube vid are David Tart and Revealdallas. Can't ROT monPumul into anything useful, and I'll be blown if I can rearrange Beefing don ginn at the moment. The tree in the pic looks like an Oak or an Ash. Not sure if that's some writing or shadows. I shall fiddle around in GIMP.

EDIT: monPumil is an anagram of Punlumon, dunno how I missed that.
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Just 2 lil things: Oak trees were sacred to Celtic Druids & (maybe) "8.15.13"=hom=big@ROT20.
Naha,2 more things: <3 that "Assignment Earth" episode and nice work, Thunder.
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beefing don ginn unscrambles to "beginning of end".

What's in a name? David Tart(arus)?
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Annnnnd a new land speed record. Go Thunder go.

Trying real hard just to keep up.

(Grrrrrr..I could have sworn I tried every possible combo of V'Ger)

Graffiti on the tree: Bottom line G Jones ?? Hard to make out.
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Could this be the puzzle which "One measures a circle starting anywhere" was referring to? Not sure if there's another trek reference in this one.

Also not sure if the line numbers on which the text appears in file is relevant.

Lines 1, 51, 70, 104, 111, 126

That's a difference of 50,19,34,7,5.

I could be barking up the wrong tree again.

EDIT: The aspect ratio of the picture is 262:175. Again, not sure it helps, just throwing it out there.

ALSO: 8.13.15 could represent a triangle. Using pythagoras' theorem, (the square of the hypoteneuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides), (8x8 = 64) + (13x13 = 169) = 233. SquRt(233)= 15.264337522, which rounding down is 15.

Tenuous.

I am now reading about the beautiful Golden Ratio.

And we are in!

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3.14159265 - gotta love the maths references. That's the value of Pi to 9 significant figures.


So we have three more wav files and a text file called "ned.txt" which links to a youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0&feature=related

OK I've listened to the files and they appear to be saying the following:

1m.wav - "Denton and the rest of you. The gateway stands open. We have taken back the land you have consumed for so long"

22.wav - "??? has come ??? You must help us ??? the soft place"

23.wav - "Sleeper has awakened ???"

cleaned up MP3s attached.
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22.mp3
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23.mp3
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Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.

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I Wuv U Thunderwolf. OT-tweeted him to add the wavs as my box won't unzip 'em.- BTW I don't Wuv Bob Twisted Evil

ETA: U ninjed me on the email & read your below, Thunder....well, a girl's gotta do what... yada yada. Am hearing at the end of 23wav "turn fast" & mailed Wallace saying imo the magetic stone with "the half inch deep hole" which Prof. Drake gave him may be essentially a key/locking device to be used to lock the portal. Shocked Exciting stuff!

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Awww I bet you say that to all the codebreakers you meet.

Also, just got this from Wallace:

Wallace wrote:
Just got phone call from Bob, he rang me on my office phone. Can't quite
believe it!

I've got directions he lives in Cardiff, no surprise I suppose.

I'm leaving first thing in the morning, Louise is making damm sure my
phone is charged and left on this time.

Had a quick look at your last email, if the YouTube video is anything to
go by it was the last puzzle Bob had for us. Definitely don't like the
sound of sleeper awakening either.

Wish me luck, I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight at all.

Louise just finished listening to the file called LM, she just turned
round and looked me as I was typing this email. She's as white as sheet.

Whatever it was on that file, I don't think I want know. Louise needs me
now.

I'll post tomorrow night, promise.

Wallace.


Nailbiting!
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I've just had a thought - do you think that Denton is wallace? We don't know Wallace's first name, but his email address is DWallaceSPLATmissingwallace.net. Is Denton the future version of Wallace coming back through time to prevent the gates of Tartarus being opened?
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OK Wallace updated and needs our help. Go check the full post on his website.

wallace wrote:
The transmitter Bob gave me has two settings: Frequency (Hz) and Degrees. There is a numbered keypad and switches to lock the settings into place and switch marked Send and Off. A single green light lights up when click on to Send, there is another light marked Battery Low. Its got a telescopic aerial as well. Its use I can grasp but I have no idea what frequency and degrees to set. Looking at the notebook, Bob has used what looks like some form of short-hand. The page marked by the purple bookmark is covered in blood stains, how he managed to write anything I really don't know I just glad he did. Bob had written the following:

Fenton, Clarke, Arthur

the darkness, no memory, 39 th....hide eenem s faith 3

Nearly forgot the frequency and degrees settings only allow three digits each. I must go now, email me the results Louise is on hand to contact me directly.

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Yikes! Just mentioning that those Denton msgs from the future ran "at approximately 333kHz" & this just came:

Louise wrote:
This is Louise, I'm monitoring Wallace's email. I've just posted up his recent data. Bad news indeed, I'll let you read it. I'm barely holdingi t together at the moment.

I'll pass on the stuff about the stone, he said he would me ring me when gets to the B&B I've arranged for him

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