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QAlchemist
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 		Talked to Gerald today.

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howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: Good evening - or morning - time is irrelevant as you measure it...
Jeff: For those of us limited to only one direction in the fourth dimension, it matters. Wink Good day, Howard!
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: It is not Howard, but his great uncle, Gerald.
Jeff: --aren't you dead?
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: I no longer need to hide behind his visage - he is, as you know him, no more.
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: The part that was known to others, the mortality, was burned away on a fire, as you imagine, whilst I held the phoenix feather.
Jeff: What did you do to him?
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: Ah yes, the instant thoughts of simple man. "What did you do to him" - not - what happened to him - but who to blame...
Jeff: Then what /happened/ to him? Where is he?
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: Best he tell you - for each it is an individual process - though I am glad now not to be alone...
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: but I would not wish this on any...
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: Work out my simple divisions and then talk to me mortal man.
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: Until then...
Jeff: If he's in any danger...
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgmail.com: HAHHAHAH really - what? what will you do? Report a man who by all accounts is dead? Where do I live? Where is he? what are you going to comment on - the occult, magic and saying things to an authority... Please, I granted you with more intelligence. I was wrong.Goodbye mortal - WE will not talk again - allow your betters to verbalise words with me.

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punxtr
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 		Organize it by family? Not sure how to impose Li on H or vice versa.
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RandomGuy26
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 		Apparently no one mentioned this yet, if you rearrange the line order a certain way... You get another segment from "The Ecchoing Green".
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You start by taking a number according to the element's atomic number.
"H virulum N. Hydrogen is "1" and Nitrogen is "7". The equation 1/7 is equal to a famous cyclic number, 0.142857, in other words, a number that uses a vinculum. You start by using "142857" and order the lines using those periodic numbers.

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O C F U T Y I N A B E A E E W T T I D W G G H A W A Y C A R - H (1)
L D J O H M D H W N O R E N M A E A H H S T A . E S I T T I – Be (4)
H N I A I E A G W D F T E S A L I B T O R G N G U N D E R T - He (2)
W I T H W H I T L N D A R A H H A H F I L K S U E O N M H E – O ( 8 )
E H A I R D Y N R N N O A L E A . S E P T N U I I O A K A M – B (5)
D O E S L A U O O O M I D W S L S T D O D A L E R N X O N G – N (7)
I G N O R A T I O E L E N C H I C L U P E A H A R E N G U S - Li
C L U P E A P A L L A S I I O F C O U R S E I F Y O U R E S - C
T I L L R E A D I N G T H E S E L I N E S Y O U A R E M A D – F

This is only a partial solve, I don't know what to do with the remaining lines. I think last time you eliminated the lines from the poem then read down, but that didn't seem to work. Hoping someone else can figure it out.

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JehosephatDostoevsky
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 		If you remove the letters from "this echoing green", and the lines "of course if youre still reading these lines you are mad", we're left with this



Code:

C F U T Y I N A B E A E E W T T I D W G G H - H (1)
H M D H W N O R E N M A E A H H S T A .  – Be (4)
I A I E A G W D F T E S A L I B T O R G - He (2)
L N D A R A H H A H F I L K S U E O N M – O ( 8 )
D Y N R N N O A L E A . S E P T N U I I – B (5)
O O O M I D W S L S T D O D A L E R N X – N (7)





Now, there's quite a few words I see here reading vertically - child, many, the arm, warn, who has, fall, the, walk, this, warn (again). there seems to be a few other words that are split in half - i.e., after 'this', you get pa(h)th. I think there is a message there vertically, but requires us to remove more letters this time



EDIT: removed all of the bottom few lines. Spells out the following message:

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Child of man, you did not hear my warning and now Howard has befallen the same fate as I. Dee also walked this path but listened to our warning. gmixgh(?)



no idea what those last six letters are

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RandomGuy26
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 		Nice spotting that. My post made a mistake on bolding the end lines, so that should actually just be "gmix".
I noticed the last few lines contained random words like "no ratio" and "clupea harengus" and "clupea pallasii" which are a type of herring (possibly a crack at "red herring"? Mean anything to anyone?

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punxtr
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 		Dang, yeah, I just got the same thing. There are two 'i's in 'warniing' for some reason. I emailed Howard/Gerald but got the autoresponse. Waiting...

Edit--Some humor. What lines remain? Why, it might just interest you that yet another poem comes up:

3-6-9 The goose drank wine
The Monkey chewed tobacco on the street-car line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little row boat

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JehosephatDostoevsky
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 		Call me blind, but I can't see that meself?
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punxtr
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 		Lines 3, 6, and 9 remain. None of that poem is actually in there--just some humor.
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JehosephatDostoevsky
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punxtr wrote:
Lines 3, 6, and 9 remain. None of that poem is actually in there--just some humor.


Ah, gotcha.

On another note... anyone got anything yet? (I'm guessing not, but thought i'd ask just in case...)
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Zobot257
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 		Thats it. I need to talk with Gerald. He uses google Talk, yes?

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 		I've only ever seen Gerald online once, and that was about 5 minutes after he sent out the most recent parchment, not seem him online since. But worth a shot...
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punxtr
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Quote:
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgooglemail.com: Gerald here - I sense someone has been trying to get hold of me?
me: you sensed correctly
can you explain to me why Howard thought you were dead?
howardfairinthegreenSPLATgooglemail.com: We are here but briefly - we spoke to someone who made us doubt whether you were worthy of the knowledge that both Howard and I possess...
Howard is returning shortly - though you willl most likely not recognise him - his email will be restored when he sees fit.
For now - be patient.
Goodbye.
me: hmm


Which sucks because I couldn't ask who they talked to in time. Hence, my hmm.
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 		I guess Gerald was talking about his conversation with QAlchemist here.

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draghkar
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 		I sent the following mail, lets see what reply I get on it..

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Child of man, you did not hear my warning and now Howard has befallen the same fate as I. Dee also walked this path but listened to our warning.

please tell me about the warning, and I might heed it on the green..

As I already have started thinking of green, I would like to posess the power of green, therefore, I need to speak to either of you...

If you are not able, I will seek out Misthemar or Jaadian..

Allow me in and provide me with the knowledge that I am seeking..

If worse comes to worse, I will summon a golum and send him to the world of green...

Enteresthes, Akmai Adonai Bidemgir! Elohim, pa rahulli! Enteresthes, HVOI!


Draghkar the Green, also known as Draghkar the real, or simply Draghkar


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punxtr
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 		The Watchman
green welcomes
Got the email:

Quote:
.....................................................................................................................

.....................................................................................................................

FILES RECEIVED?
SOMETHING TO ASK: WAS IT A COINCIDENCE BOTH OF THE NECROMANCER'S FAMILY MEMBERS DIED AT THE TIME WHEN THE QUEEN, HIS PATRON, DESIRED SOMETHING FROM HIM?

HOWARD, NOW GONE.

If you can read this - then things have... changed. We will talk, you and I. Soon...

The Watchman...............................................................................................


Attachments:
Vert Verity.wmv
The beginning of the end.doc

The green text has a green background as well, so it is semi-hidden. The Verity has hexidecimal side-scrolling text. I'm copying it down now. I haven't read the document yet.

Vert Verity code:
Code:
69 66 20 79 6f 75 20 77 6f 75
6c 64 20 77 61 6c 6b 20 77 69
74 68 20 6d 65 20 74 72 75 73
74 20 74 68 61 74 20 79 6f 75
20 77 69 6c 6c 20 62 65 20 61
6c 6f 6e 65 3b 20 69 66 20 79
6f 75 20 77 69 73 68 20 74 6f
20 73 65 72 76 65 20 6d 65 20
74 68 65 6e 20 74 61 6c 6b 20
74 6f 20 6d 65 20 61 73 20 27
74 68 65 20 77 61 74 63 68 6d
61 6e 27 20 61 73 20 6d 79 20
6e 61 6d 65 20 6e 6f 77 20 6d
65 61 6e 73 20 6d 6f 72 65 20
74 68 61 6e 20 65 76 65 72 20
62 65 66 6f 72 65 2e 2e 2e


Decoded:
Quote:
if you would walk with me trust that you will be alone; if you wish to serve me then talk to me as 'the watchman' as my name now means more than ever before...


The word document message:
Quote:
Friend

You are one of two who receive this. Should I think what may happen to me actually occur, I will not return – not in the same form you knew me as.

Thank you for your time.

Treat whatever talks to you as me next as something new, something different – the Howard Fair you know leaves this night.

Howard.

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