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[posse]

I still want to hold off on rebooting LAINSY. If Dan is right about the biohazard material getting loose in the facility, we could kill him. And getting rid of the guy just because he's not been forthcoming about some sensitive information is not a good enough reason to me.

Instead I think we can focus on getting Scimitar to open up to us without rebooting LAINSY. Maybe if we keep talking to him he'll start giving us more to work with.

Also I asked Scimitar what he thinks about the images on Genus's blog. His reply:

[SolarMarr]

[posse]

Hehe, just to add more confusion! I decided to see if Alexander Sword had an email address and wrote this to alex.swordSPLATfailtechnologies.com:

[cherrytree98765]

Actually I just asked Scimitar if Miller was saying the truth or not. I want to see what his answer is before making the crucial decision.

I'll edit when I get the response

P.S. The link on the sfs server for level 1 leads to a Level 16 access. I found that amusing.

[Badgerconda]

All right, nobody panic. I'm not going to do anything crazy if there's this many objections. I'll sit on it for now, but I really think we need to reboot LAINSY to get to the next stage of the game.

Maybe if we warned Dan first, so he and his people could evacuate?

[cherrytree98765]

Here's his response

[duke9509]

Yes, I think that since it seems Genus, Alex, Scimitar (if he's not Alex), and very likely several other people high up (but not too high up) in FAILTECH are all in cahoots and agree that this code needs to be run, that there has to be some reason for it all. Plus, wasn't it Genus we were working with even before Dan Miller?

However, we have befriended Miller, in a way. And I do think that we shouldn't forsake him. Here is my personal opinion as to how we should proceed:

First, one of us (or more, if we each just want to ask one question, to make it seem less interrogative) should ask Scimitar these questions: 1. WHO all are you working with? You seem to have the same interests at heart as Genus, but you don't immediately seem to be directly involved with him. 2. WHY exactly do we need to reboot LAINSY and run this code? and 3. WHAT will this code do?

Next, if his reasons seem stupid, hysterical, radical, or otherwise not something we'd want to go along with, we'd have just extracted a crapload of info that we could turn over to Miller.

If his reasons seem logical or otherwise seem to have the best interests of FAILTECH and/or the general populous and/or the world at heart, we should go ahead and start a reboot. But, not without first:

Having one or more of us who have not been that chatty with him (people whom he would see as "minor" members of the group) send him an email stating that Scimitar is working with Genus and other FAILTECH members, and that they have nothing but good intentions in the grand scheme of things, and stating also that, without temperature control, the toxins would have frozen and could therefore be controlled.

Then, having some of the more "trusted" group members tell him that some of the lesser members have "splintered off" and have decided to reboot LAINSY according to Scimitar and Genus' wishes. This will alloiw us to keep with the dual-alliances plan.

Lastly, IMMEDIATELY after sending these emails, reboot LAINSY with the poem. This will give Dan no time to react and block off LAINSY's email address or anything like that.

This will allow the game to continue with all characters still in play and with us sure that we did the right thing. (I believe as well that the PMs are hinting with the encrypted files that rebooting LAINSY is the next step in the game)

I would appreciate your input on this. Thank you.

[SolarMarr]

Hmm, it is starting to look like we'll need to do it eventually, hmm? I would definitely be for letting Dan know. After all, if Scimitar is lying, we could end up with casualties; we don't know exactly what kind of bacteria they modified for that neat flesh-eating variety, and extremophiles exist that can survive Antarctica's cold.

So... What would be Scimitar's reaction if we told him we decided against it? And what would Dan's reaction be if we told him we needed to see what was going down? Prediction-
Scimitar: *shrug*
Dan: WTF NO
So if we do decide to set us up the bomb, I think we'll have to be careful about how we break the news to Dan.

I also wonder if Alex Sword is talking about us or a separate team, although common sense says Dan's keeping us from the company. Now why would he do that...?

[cherrytree98765]

I think the best way to tell Dan maybe to say that one of us (like me) has gone rogue and is going to do what scimitar has asked and you guys can't convince them otherwise. Thus they need to get out.

(Something along those lines. At least you can throw me under the bus or something)

[Badgerconda]

New email from Dan. I think it might be the PM subtly suggesting to us that we don't need to reboot LAINSY to move forward with the story after all. Maybe we should all just chill until Dan's next update.

Email follows:

We've got some of the audio out, and it seems like some of them are just random rambling Genus has made. Nothing significant, so far, but I think we're about to hit a gold mine here. So just standby and I might have some work for all of you.

[SolarMarr]

[duke9509]

Ok, I posted my plan. Although, I do think we should wait for Dan's "gold mine" before taking full action. (although, we could still ask my 3 questions to Scimitar.)

EDIT: Also, there are no new files or folders in /experts, so the audio files must have been really unimportant.

[posse]

I'm still in talks with Scimitar about those images posted on Genus Orein's blog. An interesting question he posed:

[zeighy]

Any updates? There seems to be a new file on /experts sounds like SSTV... not what I really do, so I'll just wait it up to you guys

[posse]

Okay folks, here is the decoded image from the SSTV message. The program I used cuts off the bottom so I had to re-decode the bottom part.

Also how I did this:
1. Download RX-SSTV & run it http://users.belgacom.net/hamradio/rxsstv.htm
2. Root around to find my old PC microphone and plug that into the mic jack on my PC's soundcard.
3. Plug in my headphones (so I don't disturb the rest of the house) and aim microphone directly into headphones to catch the sound
4. Play the proc.wav file
5. Press the "RX" button and watch the pretty picture develop!