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[distilled]

I received the following email earlier today, it looks like I was CCed in or something:

[cherrytree98765]

Got the same email. Also the picture that says "We are hiding" It's labeled as "The Hermit"

[mycroft7]

same here - mail and pic.

i am guessing vigenere cypher for now as that has been common in the game so far, and also the letter patterns look pretty similar to other examples. no luck finding a jey yet tho - if that's even the rigth type of encoding.

mycroft

[mycroft7]

sorry for the double post but this is long and not related to the above...

have been thinking about the sidebar on saranna's blog and the list of words there. one possible explanation/idea, which i haven't quite worked all the way through yet:

[MensVenatus]

Hey Mycroft -
I had a go at those too, with many similar results.

I thought maybe "frequent" might be a verb here, in which case "go to" might work (and the two in this case means two words?)

I like your 'incorporate' better than my guess (Jesus Christ, or the 'word made flesh...')

And containment is WAY better than my guess ('Joe McCarthy'...:>)

[mycroft7]

thanks MV

'containment' was definitely the official US phrase for their approach to preventing the spread of communism.

i'd wondered about 'go to' as well, or even just 'go'. i guess the meaning is either a warning against PIMCA, or an instruction for saranna to go to, or help PIMCA, depending on who exactly is posting odd things on her blog. don't think the puzzle takes us anywhere new yet - just storyline and possible explanation of PIMCA.

mycroft

[cherrytree98765]

New posts on the blog. There's one with 9 dates. I don't think it's just a connection but there are 9 ciphers on the email we got.

Edit 1: PIMCA website has been updated the application tab has changed to "Apply Within" which gives you a short application. I've already sent something in.

This is what it said afterward

[amandel]

[mycroft7]

sent off my application for PIMCA, another few days to wait.

saranna's page really is hinting at the cards being our solution to the latest code

[coffeegirl18]

Amandel RT on twitter...so I'm onto it. I actually have the deck the tarot lady is using (but they're the cheater cards). I also have a book on tarot if it helps. I also just emailed her

[amandel]

Doing the happy dance, coffeegirl18. Saranna advised us to infiltrate these bad boys at PIMCA too

[MensVenatus]

Nice job on the tweet to Saranna Amandel; looks right to me...

Now I have to say I haven't been keeping up that well. We got an email from agentoncall that was a cipher with the hermit picture attached. So does this mean that one of the agents is in touch with Saranna somehow? Or just that Saranna is actually psychic? Or what?

[amandel]

Hi MensVenatus. agentoncall may be a PIMCA mole having sent the "classified" David info to cherrytree (prev page)

Also, those dates on Saranna's blog are the birthdates of British authors including C. Bronte, Mary Shelley T.S. Eliot plus those Pimca agents/British authors initials on the Pimca site with the eception of T. H who was pegged as Thomas Hardy.

1930 matched J. G. Ballard(DOD 2009) & those living. Wonder if the 9th date (1837) matches Swinburne or T.H.(The Hermit)?

[cherrytree98765]

Amandel could you list them or have you already tried to put them in the cipher?

[amandel]

Just Googled. Never made a list or tried to form a word due to lack of vowels, various unknowns & at least 2 DOB are dupes

The "wearealldeadhere" JPEG has a hidden phrase: What I see. When it's opened in notepad the sentence "My real name is Beatrice" appears by the EXIF properties. That may be more meta than clue and if so apologies to PM for the minor incursion.