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Korinthian

Been away all day at work - I've kept up as much as I can from my phone, but I have a few answers to give.

While I saw Bill's uploads, they weren't overly helpful in comparing what we received, to what he did. He only shows the envelope, and the black folder, and none of its contents. What is interesting is that he has an assumption as to why he received no letter from Dr. Veil himself, as we did in our packets. Questioning him now.

Emailing dataserver3 has been done numerous times, to no avail. There is never a response given.

Emailing R. Reines and S. Darling leads to Veil's Information Services replying with a terse "No such employees work here." despite the fact that the emails work - they don't bounce back. I'm assuming they're either not for current use, and will be made available at some point during this game, or the PMs made the emails, and then scratched their involvement. Either way, it's a dead end for now.

Bill would indeed have gotten the file from dataserver3, as he is now involved with Veil, and is being made out to be a player, like us.

Doing an inverse of colors on the email from Dr. Reines to Dr. Darling just reveals the blots that Britt (I think it was Britt, apologies if it was someone else) found when the contrast had been bumped up. Whether or not there's something hidden in that memo, contrast boost and inversion doesn't reveal much.

As much as I support destegging, I feel as though the PMs are advanced enough to know not to re-use a puzzle. Not that I discourage any attempts, but I'm thinking there's something else we need to be seeing.

Cory hasn't made any hint to being a subject himself - granted, if he was, I don't think Veil would want him to know, so it's a possibility, but I feel as though if they already suspect him (which they should, considering we (well, I) gave Theresa his name when we first discovered it through the packet) then they would have done something to have him taken out of the picture, or reprogrammed, so to speak.

Assuming that dataserver3 is some kind of knowledgeable beast, it's safe to assume that it knows of Cory's involvement, or knows that he's of some importance to this whole ordeal. Exploiting DS3 isn't working out so well yet. I don't think it's meant to be yet - have a feeling the PMs are using it just as a steady stream of information. I'm assuming the person behind the dataserver3 emails will be ousted at some point, but for right now, it just seems to be feeding us - an anonymous source, so to speak.

The 16.01, 4.10 numbers are definitely something of importance. As more numbers come in, they could be any number of things - conversion into letters for initials, definitely a good guess. Possibly an Arnold Cipher, if it develops further. With all the Frankenstein quotes, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Arnold Cipher of some sorts (though Arnold Ciphers usually contain IP-esque numbers (eg, xxx.xx.xxx)).

Anyone else notice the "Disappears from work from time to time" in his Management Notes in the Employee File? Might have to ask him about that.

As zygotesix mentioned, I'm pretty sure any traceback information is OOG. The PMs can't obviously fake everything to perfection.

All in all, a good bit of information has been received today. None of which has led to much, meaning we're probably missing something in terms of the greater picture. Also, since no one else seems to have mentioned being contacted by Alice, I'll quote what I got while I was at work:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:43 am

nichiera · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 112

I agree with Korinthian in that I dont think the images need to be destegged at all. For one the first image we got that did need to be destegged was over 5mb because it contained another image inside it. The last few we have got have all been relatively small in size like 375-500kb so at MOST it could have a hidden text only message but its doubtful the PM would expect us to use another program to desteg these PNG images with. Just my thoughts

As far as the numbers go. I wonder if its possible they have some relation to the Frankenstein quotes we have been getting. Maybe using those numbers relates to words in that quote or in the chapters of Frankenstein, and will lead to a message or name that Dataserver3 is sending us. Both quotes so far have been from Chapter 24. The 2nd quote we got was from earlier in chapter 24 than the first one. Dont know if that has any significance but I am just trying to make some sense of all this.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:37 am

Korinthian

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:54 am

ironnikki

I think that the Arnold cipher theory is a good one. Considering that page numbers are publisher-dependent, I would think that the first number may correspond to chapter, and the second to the word.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:57 am

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nichiera · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 112

I had sent an email to Theresa last night asking why I had not received my packet since I signed up last week. Here is her response:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:41 am

Devarin · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 141

Arnold cipher indeed does make sense. We have a book, and a pair of numbers. I mention destegging still only because the remaining sets of numbers could be hidden within.

Still no packet as of yet, but at this point, I doubt there would be any useful information in it anyway.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:02 pm

Tiberius · Boot Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 51

Cory just added a person to the FB group. Johnny exploits

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:43 pm

Devarin · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 141

Normally that would not be odd, but with as little info on the page, I dunno. Perhaps it is just one of the members here made a FB page to join in the group and not use their real account... I wouldn't count it suspicious.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:04 pm

Korinthian

MIT though? I dunno. I wouldn't rule the new guy out just yet. Hell, someone ask Cory about it?

Also, someone ask Cory why his employee file says "Goes missing from time to time". I asked last night, but never got a reply, and I feel like he's not going to reply to it today.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:13 pm

tlynne2002

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:03 pm

Korinthian

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:47 pm

Masquedman · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2010 Posts: 77

Okay, so I tried applying a modified Arnold cypher (1st number is word, second is letter). For 16.01, the letter (depending on whether you count 002 as a word or not) is either B or F (word Been or Fantastic). For 4.10, the letter was S (last letter of Researches). If we say that "been" was the correct word, then the letters spell out BS, dunno if that's right, but it's all I've got.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:58 pm

ironnikki

Just an idea: we've been given 7 numbers, which equates to a phone number, minus the area code. The area code for San Francisco, according to Google, is 415. A quick search on the phone numbers 415-410-1601 and 415-160-1410 didn't turn up anything interesting. I did find out that the first number is a landline, and it appears to be a private number, so I'm going to assume that this is not the right direction for now. Guess we'll have to keep looking!

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:08 pm

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Korinthian

Interesting. We've moved from Frankenstein, to the Bible.

From Ecclesiastes 10:5

**Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:12 pm