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Guin
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 		Hind sight is a wonderful thing - I wished I had stayed at the eye now and perhaps we could have intersepted them lol

have we got a definitive transcript? Is there a video file someone could upload somewhere?

[Spec] If that was V then how the hell is he getting from Perplex to Earth????!!!!!!!! If 3P where the benfactors of the tickets to the eye and they knew V was gonna be there and they need us to intersept information is this not a sign that they do not have the cube and V or someone else does?

ARGGGGGGG

more questions than answers though from me I am afraid!
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 		One of the flashers (so to speak! Wink ) was possibly Agent 02. (See http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/3PDossier) The other could be 07 or another agent not on the contact list?
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psyche
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 		Or it could have been Mysterious Benefactors - the New York text seemed as though it was from someone who wanted to help us beat the 3rd Power. Of course just cos it seemed that way doesn't mean it is that way.

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doublecross
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ninjagranny wrote:
b. the flashers were standing in the freezing cold !!


No wonder the results were difficult to see.
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tally
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 		Well I am getting thoroughly ticked off by this... I had been so excited by our progress on Saturday night, but now..well...
I have jiggled some more of the dots/dashes about but haven't really changed anything much. Like I said when I first posted this:
Quote:
this is a transcript of what I got down from the morse message on the South bridge (nearest to Houses of Parliament). It makes no sense, but you should know that a) it was very hard to distinguish between dots n dashes at some points and b) the transcript lines are NOT in order. It took some rather creative juggling of dots and dashes to make anything out at all (ie: logical assumptions regarding the position of marks, or changing a dot to a dash).


So here it is now, for what it's worth. The first posting is without jiggling and is on page 3 of the "The Day" thread.

Quote:

-. --- - … . - ..-. - .- - .- - . - --
n o t s a(?) f e(?) a t a t e t m (e?) [not safe at (?) tate]
..- … - -- - …. . --- …
(m) u s t m t h e o s [must ….]
.-.. .. . .-.
l i e r [ -lier]
- . …- -.-. -.-- …. --- . .-. -.
t e v c y h o e r n
… - … .

.. -. -.- .-.. .. ? .-- … - …. - …
i n k l i w s t h t s [inkling what?]
.. - …. - --- ..- - .-.. .. . .-.
i t h t o u t l i e r [ without? … lier?]
- .-.. .- -. -. -- … ..- … . .
c(?) a n y o u s e e [can you see]
…. .--. -.-- -.. ..- … . .
h a n y d u s e e [any… use]
. -. .-- …. --. -.
e n w h g n
--- .- -.
o a n
---. ..- . ---. ..- ..- .- … . .
u e s e u u a s e e

..- ..- . .
u u e e


Still suffering a surfeit of vowels, though. Any luck finding yours, Reason?
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NickF
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 		My videos are online!

http://pxc.alchemystudios.co.uk/

Many thanks to Pete aka bigmaddrongo, and please be careful with his bandwidth.

If anyone wants to take these and clean them up, compress them etc, please feel free.

The order is

    Morse1_1_19.avi
    approx 11seconds unfilmed (likely to be the end of the message from the large gap at the end of video 1)
    Morse2_3_00.avi
    approx 6seconds unfilmed (while camera saved the file - NOT the end of the message)
    Morse3_0_59.avi


My notes are on page 2 of this thread.

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Mikeyj
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 		Caveats:

I have not attempted to translate this, just read through the thread.

Guin wrote:

[Spec] If that was V then how the hell is he getting from Perplex to Earth????!!!!!!!! If 3P where the benfactors of the tickets to the eye and they knew V was gonna be there and they need us to intersept information is this not a sign that they do not have the cube and V or someone else does?


This post makes the most sense to me so far (together with Sledge's).

There was a mysterious benefactor that arranged the trip on the eye.

Two sets of morse code were flashed. Either the benefactor wished us to witness a conversation between two individuals, or the messages were for us.

The messages were flashed (there's got to be a better term for that...they couldn't have torches hanging from their willies and be opening and closing macs) simultaneously, therefore they weren't talking to each other, and therefore the message must have been for us. Also...if they were talking to each other why didn't they just meet and dispense with the torches?

So, we were meant to read it.

In which case, what's been translated so far doesn't fit the context. I don't think we received plaintext messages and I think that they require combining.

We need left and right separately (left was flashed faster and from what I saw, definitely contained five digit sets on occasion,which means we can expect numerals, and right was slower). Please contact anyone that may have got more info and get it here, defined by left and right. If you don't translate sensible words then it doesn't mean it's wrong. Also a surfeit of vowels in one side's message compared to the other lend credence to the the fact that they might need to be combined alternately.

Reason, I'll have a go at the pad and resurrect the morse we got from left.
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Mindez
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 		Video one:

"O" <long gap> "G A I N" <longer gap>

"o gain"?

"to gain"?

Something "to gain"?

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Mindez
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 		Video two:

I got a clear "ENIGMA" to start. The G M A was shown on the UPPER LEFT light, as that's the one that looks like the one we were following.

A couple of seconds later though, the upper left light went off and the lower right light was the only one.. It looks like there was a strange struggle down there, or something. The main light seemed to flicker a bit as another figure (light 2) came up to him, as if still trying to show the message but distracted/something. So.. I don't know. All I got was "ENIGMA". Then, I can't tell which light was the real one..

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Mindez
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 		Video three:

This time I got "AGAIN" rather than "O GAIN". Probably the same part of the message as video one, but video quality is very poor in both, so it is hard to tell.

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Quote:
-./---/-/ .../.-/..-././ .-/-/ .--/.-

n o t s a f e a t w a

--/..-/.../-/ --/---/...-/./ -/---/ .-/ .../.-/..-././

m u s t m o v e t o a s a f e

-../../---/-/.-/-./-.-././ .-/.-/.-/

d i s t a n c e .


I tried to keep the same dots and dashes, but moved the spaces around a bit. Apart from, and this might be where it all goes belly up when we see the videos, I changed the first SAFE I got - a dash to a dot to get an "E", and the dash-dot-dot to dash-dash-dash to get a "O" to make move, and again dash to dot for the "E" in move. In the second "SAFE" I got, I changed the dot-dash-dot-dot to dot-dot-dash-dash for the "F" and the C in distance was dash-dot-dot-dot, and I changed it to dash-dot-dash-dot. The full stop I got by changing the final dash (which was a dot).

I'm sorry if you all feel totally confused now, I know I am!!!!!!! Confused Confused
And I know that it seems like a lot, but it isn't really, honestly.

Don

EDIT: Arrrgggh, spent allday doing this, before I knew the video was there, so feel free to ignore what I put!!!!

BTW: I figured that the W A could be abbreviation for Westminster Abbey or something like that.
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 		I don't think anyone has posted this possibility, but what if one message was from the mystery benefactor, and the other from 3P, aware of their intentions and trying to prevent/ obscure the message?
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 		That's great donstobbart (don?)! that's exactly what I was trying to do, but brain melted... thanks and fably done!
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 		Great, then if it seems to be ok, then will try the rest of what I copied from what Tally and Modern_Hero put up. Feel free to pick holes though, its still a learning curve!

Don
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donstobbart
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 		How about:

Quote:
-. / --- / - / ... / .- / ..-. / . / .-.-.- / .-- / . /

N o t s a f e . w e


-- / .-- / ... / - -- / --- / ...- / . / - / --- / /.- /

m u s t m o v e t o a


... / .- / ..-. / . / -.. / .. / --- / - / .- / -. / -.-. / . / ,-,-,- /

s a f e d i s t a n c e .


That might be better


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