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Pregame Synopsis [Completed June 14th]
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 		 Pregame Synopsis [Completed June 14th]
Ok I have created a guide to whats happened so far as a few people have asked for it, any changes or additions just IM or PM me. All the bits in between are somewhere in the forums, but you can use this as a refresher, enjoy!


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This thread was deposited in the rumours section:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=212822

A whois of the site revealed :

Registered to: Megamoo
Registered on: 20-Apr-2005
Renewal Date: 20-Apr-2007
Last updated: 20-Apr-2005

Speculation is that Daisy who dropped the original thread is also megamoo.

The original thread led to:

http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/zoe0005/index.html

Which originally contained a photo of her home town Pemesent and three blogs.

In one of the blogs was an essay she had written regarding Dimensions.

There was some coding in the essay providing us with a user name and password which would come in use later on.

A few replys from Zoe were received and the capitals spelt "HELP ME".

At the bottom of zoes blog was a link to the IT hosting company:

www.imfriendly.co.uk/

A number of us submitted our username and password to the tech support guys as at that time we did not have access to Veo's account. We received a reply back with a message in hex "GIVEITTIME ".

There is a flash programme which contains what looked like many clues, but as yet none have been decoded.

We received back a reply from tech support leading us to:

http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/ERRORCODE532.htm

Using the following solve and some guesswork, we have created an alphabet which the 5th seem to use when they post clues (a few mistakes but it seems to work).

One of the codes was hidden but led to a mirror puzzle which we solved and with a blog update from Zoe and a nudge in the right direction we located:

www.imfriendly.co.uk/prove.htm

This is Veo's personal email and bookmark page.

The two book marks in Veos section led to:

Location One - http://www.earthcam.com/uk/england/london/index.php

Fact Or fiction - http://razimus.com/5.html

The second email contained a picture with a hidden link in the girls trouser label Wink to a message regarding an attack near Covent Garden.

The third email contained a flash regarding the fifth dimension.

The fourth email contained a picture of glyphs which was translated to "TWENTY MAY CG 1PM /CLOCK " using the picture from Leos flickr account below.

Once the /clock Puzzle was solved we all discovered an opportunity to sign up at:

http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/clock/

Asking for name, address, and bluetooth ID.

Zoes latest Blog led us to her friend Leo's Blog

http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/leo666/

And his Flickr photo account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20273039@N00/

Zoe has an MSN account and can be contacted at zoe0005<splat>hotmail.co.uk

UPDATES

May 11th - Labfly spotted Razimus' forum had a new email with a hidden message "Your first mission is soon"

May 12th - Spoke to Zoe and discovered that there is more to the May 20th meeting than meets the eye! An email from her to Veo suggests that Leo will be the one passing us the info on the 20th as lond as he isnt eliminated beforehand! Also Leo left a new picture on his Flickr account which has yet to be solved.

May 13th - Leo IM'd Maxsteele via MSN and passed on a message : V and Z are part of operation prove. I am being set up, i am innocent. They have created a fictional threat to cover operation prove. Please meet on the 20th as im not safe to talk like this or via any other means.Leo Seagrave.
More MSN chatting with Zoe revealed that she was lying about a number of things leading to us questioning her intentions.
Zoe also updated her Blog and a new link also appeared on her site leading to another Blog with excerpts from her local newspaper. http://informantnews.blogspot.com/
Using the omniglot link on this site Kjartan saved our collective brains by solving Leo's picture puzzle as "Beware Not Truth".

May 15th - New story on Inmformant site plus The final instructions for the meeting were posted via MSN but from whom we do not know. Hidden in the background was the message "9880261 this is needed"

May 16th - New story on Informant site about.....Hamsters??

May 17th - New story on Informant site about a high ranking General going missing

May 19th - New story on Informant site about a Increase of Dimensional links

May 20th - Jeb, Paulzilla and myself all met up in Covent Garden for the mission. We were approached by somebody who said we should have a number and that "His Masters Voice holds the answer". HMV is a music shop and we realised the number from the Final Instructions was an HMV product code for an album called "Bravery". We went back to the webcam and spotted a woman we thought was the contact we gave her the password and she gave us an envelope each. The contents of which can be viewed here http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10390&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

May 23rd - Leos Blog page changed revealing a movie and a new directory http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/leo666/apps/ asking us so ben is? A number of us emailed back but were never told us if we were correct. A message appeared later that day saying **Recruitment Completed**.

May 25th - People started to receive emails from Leo each with a different part of a weblink that when was fully assembled led us to http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/operationprove/networkaccess.htm and an interesting note from Veo!

May 26th - New story on Informant site about a new exclusion zone being set up on the south coast as a new army base.

May 30th - I noticed that the movie in Leos directory had changed names, when i viewed the movie i noticed something new had appeared in it /ghyuiq, leading to http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/leo666/ghyuiq . Jeb and I quickly solved this by dragging the blocks over certain words revealing the message: by now you should have an understanding of the situation. please be sure to view this but add a D on on friday 9PM GMT for more information which gives ushttp://www.imfriendly.co.uk/leo666/ghyuiqd.

June 3 - An IM was passed on tu telling us to check Zoe's pictures. We found this link in the cache.http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/zoe0005/11104.txt
At the appointed time a wav file and transcript was posted. The transcript doesnt tally with the sound though!

June 4 - I discovered that the Maths puzzle led to http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/zoe0005/lsa3video.htm

June 10 - After no updates for over a week an article is published in the informant news - Zoe is dead

June 11 - Orlando spotted a new link on informant news:

http://www.pemesent.com/index.php

June 14 - Orlando noticed a new link on the Pemesent contacts page allowing us to sign up to "The Resistance" newsletter.

After many emails and prods, Mudbrother discovered a zipfile which had been posted on the Razimus site. Inside were keycodes to a police HQ and three pictures which we believed to be sign language. We were still working on a solve when we received this:

You have worked very hard to collect the information.

Its use is simple the one with the lock in the door is harmless to the man with
the key.

Evidence is only of use if it is visible

So if it disappeared no one need know.

I will be free from trial and may continue our mission.

TT UNIT BEGINS SEPT.

L.

Looks like thats the end of pre-game.....Tune in next time viewers for the latest installment of "Zoes World".


EDIT - Stickied thread - SG

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 		http://photobucket.com/albums/v687/2Ashes/?action=view&current=Leo6.png

http://photobucket.com/albums/v687/2Ashes/

the top address lead me to the bottom when i clicked on 2Ashes album
.. going to try some of the codes that have gone nowhere
for the password...
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 		That was a post by one of us to show what he found. The box says /leo666 and is the way into Leo's blog.

It is most definitely out of game.
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 		thanks for the heads up.... i'll stop bouncing around
on that one
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 		New Site from Zoe's Blog
Just noticed a new link on the left of Zoe's Blog -- informant news. It links to:

http://informantnews.blogspot.com/

With some information about Government disappearances.

Two links on there look like they're OOG, but there's also a subway map lightly printed at the top... at work so I don't have time to dig.

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 		What I don't get is why the Informant website is using blogspot.com to release its news. This is a well-selling paper in 3b, can they not use any method other than simple blogging? Or is it a fraud?
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 		There's a new mail from Zoe in Veo's inbox at Multiaccess:
http://www.imfriendly.co.uk/messages/45899101.htm

Quote:
Hi dad, how are you doing today i think we need to talk.

lots of love

Zoe xx

--

I have just been told that our friend is organising an exchange next week 20/5. Im not sure we can stop him they all seem to know now. Can he be eliminated?.

zoe.


My, my... bad girl.

Strange though, Russell told her we had access to veo's acount didn't he?

By the way the Multi Access page was made from a template that can be found here: http://www.templatemonster.com/free-templates.php

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 		What is Zoe's MSN? I don't have it, but I have emailed her asking for it. No reply yet.


Just noticed something on the MULTI ACCESS INC page. A banner ad says

Tahiti?
New York?
or even...



London?


The emphasis on London is what's bugging me. Is there something special about London? Is it particualrly hard to get to? Ideas anyone?
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 		check out the msn conversation w/zoe
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10607

pemesent=london (yet in the other dimension)
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 		hey am new to all this,

but as "russell_k" asked if people are reading this, i can say they are so keep updating! Razz

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 		Yes do keep updating

Very important for new players
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 		D'oh I had stopped updating, cos noone replied for ages will continue updating it again then.

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 		I'm new to this today, but



Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I found a messsage on the informant blog under the comments of the president story asking:
"What did the president do before the takeing" at this address:http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12875405&postID=111601194702840623&isPopup=true I think maybe it refers to the creation of the Dimensional Defence Group?


Where do people generally post the things they find? How do people stay in contact and most importantly, how do I sign up?
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 		That was me posting that capitalised comment - I was hoping to get an answer, but no luck Sad
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