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John_Galt
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It works for me, try mine. Give me a little bit and I'll also have the translation of the kevinmissing file.
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duke9509
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Oh, hey John_Galt!
Well, if you want a leg-up with that translation, I literally just finished OCRing the text portion of the document (my ABBYY doesn't do handwriting).

I've attached the Word document I output, and I'll give your zip a try.

EDIT: Huh, yours doesn't work either. Could you attach the image unzipped?
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John_Galt
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Here's JohnWilconson and a translated kevinmissing. I cleaned up some errors from google translate, but it worked surprisingly well.

Report missing person
March 2, 2028

Name:
Kevin Chard

Age:
18 years

Physical description:
Short stature, curly hair, brown / 63 kilos / height 1.63

Last seen in:
March 1, 2028 at 9 pm in the library VR Books

Places frequented by the subject:
VR Books, The Agora, the Xalapa Cathedral

Medical History: N / A

Family or friends of the subject:
Mother of the subject: 44-555-4067 Jess Chard

Subject's Employer:
Worldview Industries

Comments:
According to the report of Miss Melinda Bellhurst, Kevin spends most of his free time at the Catholic Cathedral or library VR Books. Miss Bellhurst suspected Worldview Industries. She says while drinking coffee with Mr. Chard in the local library VR Books the night before his disappearance, he was talking of the problems he was having at work. She also claims that the recent accidental death of Miss Sarah Valetta was a murder committed by Industry Worldview.

=> Talk to the supervisor of Mr. Chard
=> Contact Jess Chard
= No evidence to support the affirmations of Ms. Bellhurst =

Reported by-M. Bellhurst
Officer in charge-can't read the name
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:10 pm
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duke9509
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Nuts! We finished at almost exactly the same time!
Also, afirmalious should be affirmations.

Thanks for the pics! Don't know why the zip wouldn't work for me...

EDIT: That signature, to me, almost looks like... Alvarez... Am I seeing things here??? Shocked
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John_Galt
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It definitely looks like Alvarez... I chalked it up to seeing faces in clouds. Not to mention that's his first name. Who's signature is only their first name?

I didn't get much out those numbers and letters either. At first I thought they referenced the audio logs. For example, x-044##72 matches 0x044, but there's nothing that goes with x-846##99. Nothing with the letters or coordinates yet, but I think we'll be getting more as we advance through time.

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cherrytree98765
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No reply from Vidal, but I would expect they either
A: Need to tweak the satellite to take new cords or
B: Need all 21 to do the next set up.

That's not including if they need a security threshold or the other stuff.

Edit: When trying to input the sattellite cords you get slapped with a critical connection error, and only for THOSE cords. So I would guess they've blocked us for using them for right now.

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cherrytree98765
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Okay I think this deserves it's own post.
Here's a transcript of the John Wilconson letter from Henry's side.
Quote:
Dear Pam
I thought maybe I'd catch you before you and Tracy haead to your mothers.
Man am I glad I won't be there for that trip (don't hurt me!) but you know how well we get along. You've only got to endure her crap for six days sweetie and then you can pick me up from the airport and we'll head home for some serious R&R. I think it's so nice of you to spend some time with her.

I've got to tell you babe, this personalized font program you sent me the other day is really quite something! I can barely tell the difference between this and my actual hand writing. Well, except maybe this comes out a little straighter...

Work is going fantastic! Things are really starting to heat up with excitement
as Milestone one approaches. Everyone is so proud of the work we've accomplished in such a short period of time. Personally though I just can't wait to put it all behind me! I haven't felt this tired since the first few weeks after Tracy was born.

Three more of the foremen (including Dale) were allowed to go home today. It's incredible how close we've all become to each other since starting this project only a year ago. Tucker suprised them each with bottles of a really fancy cognac called Janssen Ancana...you don't even want to know the price-tag on this stuff. And guess what? Dale doesn't drink so with any luck i'll be coming home with two bottles! I'm sure your dad would appreciate it more than us, but still!

David Schelter himself came by the site yesterday after we had completed one of the deepest sections fo the complex. He is a neat character and I completely see why he's known as being kind of crazy. I think you would love him! He gave an incredible sppech thanking us for our hard work and dedication...after which he took us all out for dinner and drinks at a local resturant. As with everything else surronding this project, money was not an issue as the menu prices were just astounding. Needless to say the steak I had was the best damn steak i've ever tasted.
It's really no wonder Schelter is the C.E.O of one of the largest and
most respected companies on the planet. He may be quirky but he sure knows how to treat his employees.

Do you remember the restricted access room I told you about before? The one that is off limits to everyone? Well this morning I managed to get a peek inside while Schelter was in there with Tucker. The entire room was full, top to bottom with paper-thin display screens and large devices that could have been computers I gues (you know me and anything electronic don't do well together). It was like those old pictures your brother showed us
from the 1950's with the rooms full of computers littered in blinking lights. The room was packed with these screens and they were displaying non-stop blocks of text which looked to me like total gibberish except it was all written in a flurry of random colors. It was the strangest sight. Before I could see any more a guard came out of nowhere and I had to bail before he saw me. All things considered, I'll bet anything they wouldn't have minded me being there...but i'm not one to push my luck!

Something pretty weird happened on my way back to the hotel tonight. I stopped into the local VRBooks to pickup something new to read (I finished The Light of Cain by the way, that was a great book! Thanks for recommending it!) when I was approached by a woman i've never seen before. Apparently she is one of the anti-WV activists that have been causing
us some trouble over the past few months. She spat at my feet and screamed at me something about how I was going to be responsible for the destruction of our saviors. She was pretty nuts and I ahve no idea what she was talking about. Security had to remove her and the manager of the store told me she had been harrasing WV workers at random, usually cursing the same insane shit.

Well i've got to get some sleep. Tomorrow the Xalapa mayor is having a going away party for the remaining workers and he's promised us an even better time than the bash he threw when we first arrived! All I can say is if they are serving more of those Picadas Veracnugamas. I'm going to be one seriously happy camper! I'm a sucker for food, what can I say?

Take it easy at your morthers Pam, please? Don't let her walk all over you like she does your dad and me! Just remember that she's your mother and well, good or bad, you owe her for many of the good things I love about you! Oh and keep Tracy away from that God awful kid that lives next door...I'll bet you anything he spends his free time killing the local animals for fun.

Love Always and Forever Yours,
Johnny xoxoxo


Here's the letter from the Church's side:
Quote:
Dearest Pam
I miss you and Tracy so much sweetheart and I can't wait to be home in your arms. However I would never forgive myself if I didn't tell you what is happening down here. To get right to the point, things are getting out of control and I'm running out of time.

Only five more days and i'm beginning to wonder if they'l ever let me leave...or let any of us leave for that matter. They took our cell phones away a week ago and they now have armed Xalapa police officers posted outside each of our hotel rooms. They refuse to let us leave without one of them in our shadow. Tucker is saying it's for our own protection but protection from who or what?? The local civilian population has been nothing but kind and courteous toward us in general...and the police force has shown us no (ill will?) until these guards showed up.

Three more of my friends up and disappeared today...no goodbyes, nothing. That brings my count to at least two dozen people gone missing over the past two weeks. Tucker is again feeding us more bullshit: "They were sent home because they were no longer needed" he says. I don't believe him for a second. I know for a fact at least some of them would never have left without saying goodbye first.

David Schelter himself came by the site yesterday after we completed the deepest section of the complex. His "uplifting" sppech to the foreman's was rather impressive but at one point Dale decided to open his big mouth and demanded to know what happened to the missing workers.

This immediately triggered a bit of a frenzy with some of the men. Within three minutes, Schelter walked away and over two dozen guards armed iwth XM8s stormed the room. The guards took away three people and I have not seen them since. I can't help but feel like i'm in a concentration camp and the grip they have on us is only tightening.

Do you remember the restricted access room I told you about before? The one that is off-limits to everyone? Well this morning I managed to get a peek inside while Schelter was in there with Tucker. The entire room was full, top to bottom with paper-thin display screens and large devices that could have been computers I guess (you know me and anything electronic don't do well together). It was like those old pictures your brother showed us from the 1950s, with the rooms full of computers littered in blinking lights. The room was packed with these screens and they were displaying non-stop blocks of text which looked to me like total gibberish except it
was all written in a flurry of random colors. It was the strangest sight.
I overheard a little of what my boss was telling Schlter too...he was saying that everything was on schedule and in five days time we hit milestone one and the "next stage of cattle will be brought in". I heard Schelter laugh and before I could hear any more, a guard came out of nowhere and I had to bail before he saw me.

If you recieve this and I am not home by the 28th you need to bring this letter immediately to the FBI and they'll handle it from there. The field office in San Antonio is located at 5740 University Heights-Don't call them first and don't stall in any way...just go.

Don't worry though babe, they'll have to send the entire Mexican army after me if they think they can stop me from coming back to my girls. Do you remember what I told you the night Tracy was born? I meant every word of it sweetheart because you two are everything to me. That was the night my heart and soul filled in the missing pieces and became whole. You and our beautiful daughter will always and forever be the loves of my life.

I should have listened when you told me not to follow the money and drag my ass out here in the first place. I hope to god this letter at least can act as the spark which eventually brings down Worldview and whatever the hell they're building out here, I'm so, incredibly sorry...

I'm going to print this letter using the mail terminal in my room and try my best to ditch my guard and send it through the parcel system. I have no doubt they are blocking or at least monitoring everything electronic that is being sent from here. I hope to hell this reaches you as it's definitely possible they're not just blocking the hotel communications but also anything coming out of the local post office as well.

Love Always and Forever Yours,
Johnny xoxoxo


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cherrytree98765
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Okay I'm being really bad and posting a third time in a row, but I wanted to bring some attention to this.

Vidal responded and asked something that I want the group's input on.

He's asked me to explain "this group" in IG format. As we've said it in the IDGI forums a bit and he wants to tweet his thanks to the group. I'll quote him for more details:
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I was reading through past forum posts between several members of the public and the people on the other side. I noticed it before on the forums but I didn't think to specifically ask, and I think perhaps you've mentioned it as well through email. This "group" that you are working with… can I ask what you call yourselves? If anything? Can I also ask where you're situated, maybe how you got together? I'm largely just curious to know but I'd also like to tweet our thanks to "your group" for finding the codes, and for any future finds and/or things you may figure out or decide to do together. So what name should I use for such a tweet? Wink


So if anyone want to present a GOOD IG reason then I'll email him it.

He's also making a few winks at posts here.
He said that the do have to tweak the IDGI interface to accept ANY codes. And that it would isolate any new connections, and we would be the first one's in and there would be no 'testing" stage like the first one.

He also explained about the laser frequency and how it should be quicker to make time jumps. He also just talked about how he found it suprising we didn't recieve any new one's but he thinks it's a blanket for all of them.

Finally he mentioned he would tell us all when we can input cords into the interface.

So if someone can jump in and think of a good reason and name i'll email him back.

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Gimme20dollaz
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cherrytree98765 wrote:
Okay I'm being really bad and posting a third time in a row, but I wanted to bring some attention to this.

Vidal responded and asked something that I want the group's input on.

He's asked me to explain "this group" in IG format. As we've said it in the IDGI forums a bit and he wants to tweet his thanks to the group. I'll quote him for more details:
Quote:
I was reading through past forum posts between several members of the public and the people on the other side. I noticed it before on the forums but I didn't think to specifically ask, and I think perhaps you've mentioned it as well through email. This "group" that you are working with… can I ask what you call yourselves? If anything? Can I also ask where you're situated, maybe how you got together? I'm largely just curious to know but I'd also like to tweet our thanks to "your group" for finding the codes, and for any future finds and/or things you may figure out or decide to do together. So what name should I use for such a tweet? Wink


So if anyone want to present a GOOD IG reason then I'll email him it.

He's also making a few winks at posts here.
He said that the do have to tweak the IDGI interface to accept ANY codes. And that it would isolate any new connections, and we would be the first one's in and there would be no 'testing" stage like the first one.

He also explained about the laser frequency and how it should be quicker to make time jumps. He also just talked about how he found it suprising we didn't recieve any new one's but he thinks it's a blanket for all of them.

Finally he mentioned he would tell us all when we can input cords into the interface.

So if someone can jump in and think of a good reason and name i'll email him back.


We'll call ourselves the Seekers.

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After going with the side of the church, I disconnected to continue later. When I entered to idgi1 again, I got this.



I tried again and everything went back to normal. Was this supposed to mean something?

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sublimetime
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Oh neat Wink I was determined to recreate that screen for myself shadowdancer aaand I just figured it out. You never mentioned doing this, but did you enter your password incorrectly a few times at the start of idgi1.net? or maybe just accidentally hit enter a few times before putting in your password?

It looks like after 3 password attempts up comes that `broken` version of the satellite screen. Pretty neat looking!

Oh and i guess it does make sense to just be called the Seekers, doesnt it? I`m with that. what about where we`re from or how we started up? gives some room for creativity in there lol we could be uhhhhhh, an anonymous Latin-american, meat packing glitterati!!!

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Minz
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After a bit of brainstorming I came up with a few (imo fitting) terms to describe a fictional group that would be interested in AI technology and interdimensional travel.

One of the most interesting is probably the term "technological singularity" which basically deals with the idea of having achieved a point where a human created intelligence would surpass the humans own intelligence.
Here is an interesting read about it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

I also tried to find some nice arconyms but they all still seem to be lacking a bit..

Anyway, here is what I came up with so far. Maybe someone else has an epiphany Wink

Code:
Union of
Society
Research
Group
Advanced
Enigmatic
Curious
Insoluble
Mystery
Progress
Global
Problems
Intangible
Perception
Institute

Society for Advanced Technology Management
Society for Emergencies Concerning Technological Singularities (SECTS)
Technological Singularity - Advanced Research Group(TS - ARG)
Technological Singularity Advancement Research (TSAR)
Underground Forum for Advanced Field Studies
Emerging Technologies Crisis Management (ETCM)
Union For Artificial Life
Society for the Unexpected and Enigmatic
Global Initiative for Technological Singularities (GITS or GIFTS)


Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (does actually exist)
Future of Humanity Institute (does actually exist)


Of course I'd also be okay with us being called the seekers, but that should imply that the group formed and adopted the name after meeting Henry during episode 1.

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sublimetime wrote:
Oh neat Wink I was determined to recreate that screen for myself shadowdancer aaand I just figured it out. You never mentioned doing this, but did you enter your password incorrectly a few times at the start of idgi1.net? or maybe just accidentally hit enter a few times before putting in your password?

It looks like after 3 password attempts up comes that `broken` version of the satellite screen. Pretty neat looking!


Yep, this is why I got this screen. I should have read the [?] before posting xD

I decoded a binary message from the SR_ folder and I got the following questions:

# If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

# Can you cry under water?

# How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

# Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’… but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s that extra penny going to?

# Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

# Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

# What disease did cured ham actually have?

# How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

# Why is it that people say they ’slept like a baby’ when babies wake up like every two hours?

# If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?


Wierd stuff...

(I hope I am not posting things already known. If I do so, tell me pls).

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Minz
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ShadowDancer wrote:
(I hope I am not posting things already known. If I do so, tell me pls).


The files from the SR_ folder have all been decoded during episode 1 and there have been no new subfolders added since (as far as I know).
The number of the subfolders used to increase during that episode, but apart from spammails that Henry caught from our side and the image parts that led to the Church-comments on IPaddresser thare was not much to note.

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cherrytree98765
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Well I had sent an email back about the group. (It was lame explanation since I just went with bare bone's. I'm sure I can send something else if someone want's to make something better.) but I haven't heard back from him yet. I'm guessing it's been buried behind all the other emails he get's. I had asked him if he had a rough idea when we would make a time jump to satisfy some of the more impatient crowd.

While we wait on Malcolm to respond someone else may want to ask Alvarez about Bellhurst to see if any info is the same.

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