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posse
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Emailed Miller with the decoded message. His response:
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I don't get what it mean? what I hidden protocol?
Daniel Miller
Board of Director, FAILTECH
Pretty uneloquent response... how very unlike him...

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zeighy
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Maybe he knows what it is and he is in panic of some sort that he can't type well anymore? I don't know... hmmmm...

EDIT: SO are we rebooting LAINSY? Or still waiting for more from Dan? I can't follow right now.

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Hey, I'm back again. Sorry, I'm still a bit busy with overflow from yesterday.

Anyway,

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Pretty uneloquent response... how very unlike him...

Actually, I've been noticing a lot of typos and grammatical errors throughout this ARG. I think English might just not be the PMs' native language and that they are simply using it to appeal to a wider audience.

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SO are we rebooting LAINSY? Or still waiting for more from Dan? I can't follow right now.

Well, I hate to sound narcissistic, but I still like my plan. (plus, it did seem to be in line with what several other people were saying) I say we do our best to squeeze as much essential information out of Scimitar as possible and then decide on what to do from there. I'm willing to email him with one of the questions. Specifically, I'll take the "WHY." What say you all?

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Been in talks with both Miller and Scimitar about the audio message.

Dan's message (after the uneloquent one):
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Sorry, I just had a short panic attack because I don't see why there would be a hidden protocol in LAINSY. What could it be for? What would Genus want us to do with it?

Scimitar's opinion about the hidden protocol:
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That's probably what Orein was talking about. He said, after the reboot we'll need to send LAINSY something. Which is why we'll need to run a particular code on her startup. Not sure what he wanted to be sent to LAINSY, but I'm sure he said it will be something he'll provide later on, which could something on the blog right now. Not very sure, but that can be a possibility.


What it boils down to, we can't reboot LAINSY unless we know what to send her to start the code. So we need to look at the blog to see if there are any clues.

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I think scimitar mean we need to send LAINSY something AFTER she reboot, but that's what scimitar doesn't know, yet. SO if we reboot LAINSY, code will run and it will wait for the next thing we send to it.

Now, on the sstv it says something about logic and problem. Also about a graphic problem we have to send in as a sentence. I suppose what we need to send to LAINSY that scimitar doesn't know is what's on the sstv?

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Well, it sounds like we're going to end up rebooting her sooner or later.
Since it's generally a good thing to ask, I am going to go ahead and send Scimitar the following message, which ended up including the "WHAT" question as well.
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Hello, Scimitar.

I know you haven't heard from me as of yet, and that is because I have thought long and hard about what I would say to you, if anything at all. I have decided that the most logical response to what you are asking of us, and one which I am surprised has not been asked of you yet (to my knowledge, that is), is this one simple yet potent word:


Why?


Why would we want to initiate a LAINSY restart sequence? I know that the purpose of this restart would be to allow for a special bit of code to be run, but I know nothing of this code or its purpose. Why would I want to run this code? What is it for exactly? What does it do?


I am perfectly willing to cross over to your side, Mr. Scimitar, however, I am a very logical and systematic person, and I will not do so without sufficient reason. It will take more than a mere question and vague motives to convince me. What more can you offer?


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Okay, Scimitar had to embarrassingly spell it out to me that Alex = Alexander Sword. And that it's probably a good idea to ask him about the blog. So I'm doing that now.

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Scimitar's reply and my rebuttal. I'm trying to be stern in my tone yet hint decreasingly subtly that I am slightly corrupt.

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Well, the code is basically to unlock a particular function of LAINSY that has since been locked out. It allows us to send in a particular command that it would otherwise reject or ignore. That's as much as I can say about this.


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I'm sorry, but that is just short of dodging the question. You answered the basic purpose of the code but you failed to answer my main point. Why is it that you ask us to initiate this restart. What do you, or, more to the point, what do I have to gain?


EDIT: whoops, didn't copy that rebuttal correctly. XD

EDIT2: Ok, here's his even more vague response. I assume he's referring to your message, posse. Apparently, to continue, we're going to have to switch our interrogative efforts over to Alex.

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Now's the best time to ask one of your teammate what I just told him.


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That would probably be me. Scimitar just got a little too impatient with my emails, I guess. Laughing
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OK, I give up. Alex = Alexander Sword = Scimitar

After you sent the last msg on my FAILTECH email, I simply can't believe you didn't catch the point. I am Alexander Sword. And why am I doing this? Well, do you think the news "FAILTECH Board of Directors Chairman causes massive company losses" is a good headline for tomorrow? Of course not, I've been working with Orein for a few years already. So just please do reboot LAINSY NOW.


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Well, I guess that answers the "WHO"...

Ok, so, who's up for being the ones to "split from the group" and restart LAINSY (after telling Dan that you think you are "doing the right thing"), and who wants to stay on the "team?"

EDIT: I think, like Cherrytree said, the ones to split off should be those who have been less communicative with Dan. This way, he won't assume it's all of us turning, cut his losses, and sever all ties with us.

zeighy? You're still online, right? You haven't emailed him at all, have you? You'd be perfect for the job! (Not that anyone's forcing you, of course)

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Oh just reboot already. I wish I knew how! Simply sending the poem to lainsy@failtechnologies didn't work, I got an "invalid command".

Is this the poem? Or should I be sending something else?
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
The rain falls from the sky
And the sun rises before noon
The girl who waits
No wizard shall save
Dorothy and her shoe
The Oz gave such a clue


I gave Dan a heads up that Alex Sword was ordering the reboot, so at least he has time to get out of there.

edit - aha, I realize that 'gave' is supposed to be 'is'. But zeighy got it right.

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Done, I just sent, and seem to have worked. Got a confirmation email, and website is down.

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Ok, I played the "snitch/good guy" and emailed Dan with the following:
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It would seem we have a splinter. Posse (you know him as Posse, right?) and zeighy (he hasn't emailed you yet) have initiated a reboot on Alex Sword (AKA Scimitar)'s request. They believe they have the best interests of... someone... at heart. Alex and Genus, as well as other FAILTECH employees, have been planning this all from the beginning. They seem to think this is all for the best, somehow. I, personally, am not convinced as they seem to be being purposefully vague. Fortunately, Scimitar did assure us at one point in his convincing measures that any toxins would have been frozen by now in the arctic cold and that no one would die. Supposedly, this is all aimed at somehow initiating some previously disabled LAINSY feature. That's a specific as he would get. Once again, I'm not too sure about any of this.


Just thought I'd let you know that, to my knowledge, those two were the only breakoffs from the group.


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Let's keep track of the current status of the website/LAINSY. Currently the website says:
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=== REBOOT SEQUENCE INITIATED ===
REBOOT TRIGGERED BY : EXTERNAL USER via EMAIL COMMAND
REBOOT STARTED ON : 20:54:29 -05:00 GMT


Preparing to consolidate data . . . DONE
Receiving network status . . . DONE *NETWORK STABLE*
Halting all unrequired processes . . . DONE

Preparing data transfer . . .


I don't know if this page will change or get added to, but you never know.

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Code:
=== REBOOT SEQUENCE INITIATED ===
REBOOT TRIGGERED BY : EXTERNAL USER via EMAIL COMMAND
REBOOT STARTED ON   : 20:54:29 -05:00 GMT


Preparing to consolidate data . . . DONE
Receiving network status . . . DONE *NETWORK STABLE*
Halting all unrequired processes . . . DONE

Preparing data transfer . . . DONE

>>> FACILITY LAINSY MIRROR TRANSFER RUNNING <<<


that's what it is now

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