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**Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:55 pm

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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Blackcat- you solved 3r5d
it must be William Desmond Taylor but i don't see any gate -gateway =angel conection.......what were we looking for again?

ETA well maybe this, but it's pretty thin..

http://books.google.com/books/about/Fallen_Angels_a_Blackwood_McCabe_Hollywo.html?id=vheAP-jeJPgC

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Or if you run Angel of Heaven together with gates you get Heaven's Gate, another tragic event starring this dickwad:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21979219@N05/5248437711/

**Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:39 pm

FuzzyGoodle · Veteran Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125

Ahah! That would be the Golden Gate in Vladimir! Brilliant work, folks!

So our three gates are:
Namdaemun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun) on the Past page
The Gates of Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Alexander) on the Present page
The Golden Gate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_%28Vladimir%29) on the Future page!

Those three pages are also the only three with invisible links to other pages (they each link to their own wikipedia articles).

Its not clear if the gates actually correspond to the pages they come from or not. But at least we are making progress!

**Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:11 pm

amandel

Also, Props to FuzzyGoodle! In other news: Fred P. Sun appeared in various guises in Wallace's last case. He's a member of the "numbered", a shadowy group with amazing longevity. Louise despises him as he is arrogant, cunning and ruthless. He recruited Inspector Galesh (on the previous page) into the numbered.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:17 am

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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

I'll second that- Fuzzy your organizational and intuitive skills are much appreciated!

My apologies Zobot I miscredited your solve of 3r5d Embarassed

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:25 am

Adm_BlackCat

I group emailed the 3 guides yesterday, nothing really new, just fleshing out the story.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:47 am

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amandel

Sent Louise a tweet about F.P. Sun. Her brain WILL explode. Dr. Tyrell's opinion of JAGuide Present is mild. His 2nd email is his reply to my giving him the 3 gateways.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:54 pm

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Adm_BlackCat

Email from Louise's email addy, but am assuming Wallace wrote it. (ETA I'm starting to think this email was from our Present Guide D., but it was definitely sent to me via Louise's email.)

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:10 pm

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other possible IG characters

**Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:02 pm

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FuzzyGoodle · Veteran Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125

I give to you, the good folks of Unfiction, my (kinda) completed analysis of the entirety of the Janus Archive: http://www.mediafire.com/?o417os2sx74fq4n,78mnvn8cu4xg71h,4pz69d3vavp7zsg

I hope it proves helpful! I'm quite proud of it!

I've added a few new things to the Past and Present pages (image file names, few minor edits). The Future page is actually mostly empty. Transcribing the audio took a while, though. Transcripts are listed as endnotes. You can also bring them up by hovering over the little numbers in the grid itself. Its not the most convenient way for reading, but its the best I could do.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you are participating in this ARG, download them and check them out. This is, as I see it, the only possible way to prevent chaos on this forum. There are simply too many individual pages on the Janus Archive. This way, you can see what we have solved and what we haven't. I'll be updating them as we learn more, so I'll re-upload them and edit the previous links I've posted so no one accidentally downloads an outdated document.

If you can't download it for whatever reason, PM me or something and I'll send you a different version. And if there are any changes you want to suggest, do the same.

Go team!

reesylou · Decorated Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 260

**Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:43 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

A little bit of a break thanks to reesylou's memory jog.

A little reverse vigenere-ing on Tcyr Qcw Fullbx to make it read Bill Des Taylor makes the passphrase

**Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:02 pm

FuzzyGoodle · Veteran Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125

Good sir, that was the most brilliant display of backwards puzzle solving that I have ever witnessed in my entire life.

And in case you didn't realize, that's "Sungnyemun Angel" (Sungnyemun is another name for Namdaemun). Which is an actual thing. Which is amazing.

I'll see what that unlocks and get back to you soon.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:56 pm

Zobot257

Just got back to this, and quite frankly I am amazed.

Fuzzy, you're burning through this stuff quickly. We've got a great group for this!

I'm catching up now, gonna send out an email or two to different people and see who nibbles and who doesn't.

We're still looking for the keys, I see... what do we know about them? That's probably a good place to start.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:43 pm

FuzzyGoodle · Veteran Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125

Using "SungnyemunAngel" as a Vigenere key successfully decodes every single piece of text on the Present page, as you can see from the update version of my analysis here: http://www.mediafire.com/?o417os2sx74fq4n,78mnvn8cu4xg71h,4pz69d3vavp7zsg

booba, I'm in total awe at how amazing that was.

I can see some obvious similarities to the keys in the Mr Kat Is Dead ARG, but that's about it.

As for the keys, Zobot, I'm not really sure myself. I've been assuming that the decoded text would lead us to the keys, which we could plug into the Key Checkers in some specific order (and with spaces in between) and...win...something.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:51 pm