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[cronogenesis]

Just for completeness, heres the autoresponse:

Thank you for writing to me in this difficult time. My physician says I
should not be exerting myself to respond to this overwhelming flood of
support from our friends and neighbours, but know that I am comforted by
your thoughts for Pietro and I in our time of trouble.


Regards, Sylvia Salk

[DogsHead]

... uh...check BriEnigma's find... http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11326

[Max Steele]

http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Image:The_salk_logs.doc

[spugmeistress]

i've just updated the wiki with a fair bit of tonights finds, let me know (or better still, change it yourself) if you see any glaring mistakes or ommissions or want to tidy it up to something that doesnt look so much like it was typed at 5am :s

http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Pietros_maze

http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Salklogs.doc

-edit: since im not sure its been explicitly explained yet, so this is how we got them (spoilered to be on the safe side)

[tanner]

[JebJoya]

As i have said in IRC a few times now, this surely cannot have been done by an auto mapper:

[cronogenesis]

Dear Jack,

This is Sylvia's brother, Adam, here. As you can surely understand,
Sylvia is very distressed right now, so I am handling all of her
correspondence. Thank you for your email, we've found it very
enlightening. I've been working on the maze since Pietro made it, and
I'm amazed you managed to solve it so quickly.

Even with spending nearly all of my time on it, I have only been able
to solve a few dozen of the levels. Since level 7 is picked randomly
from levels 7 to 1000+ (as it turns out - the highest one I got was
912), the fragments of text I gained at the end of each level were
scattered widely and I wasn't able to make any sense of it, although I
did guess that they were parts of a larger message.

Did you and Simon and BirEnigma and presumably many other people
collaborate together to 'fill in' the different levels of the maze and
derive the full text from that? If so, I am profoundly touched that so
many people have worked hard to unravel this mystery, and I will let
Sylvia know about this and the text of the full message. I'm sure she
will appreciate knowing Pietro's last message, however strange it may
be.

Again, thank you. I will not be able to keep in touch for some time
since I must attend to the funeral preparations and other affairs.

Yours,

Adam Cachin

[Bongadoo]

So it was possible to solve without brute force after all:

[JebJoya]

[SteveC]

Just eeking a little bit more out of this.....

[firefox]

right, i don't see why Brian gets fingered (unless of course the work he did after the solve) but I guess its up to Simon to decide what he wants to tell Adam. I suppose we could discuss it, but when it gets down to it, Simon register as a user and tell us what happens

[cassandra]

I was thinking more like a sideways 3...

[JebJoya]

IRC:

[SteveC]

[JebJoya]