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Mudbrother

actually just tried the anagram thing. Looked through quite a few, and there were none that jumped out as me as being very good.

I'm worried it's a play on words which would require us to guess more. But that doesn't seem to be in the spirit this ARG has followed so far.

I'm still thinking it has more to do with the mission statement on the first page... although what... not really sure yet. Trying not to get too stuck on it.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:04 pm

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

**Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:05 pm

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cvk_0 · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Canada, eh!

maybe it's an anagram of exe., leg., jud. but that is a lot of letters to make into three regularish words.
it could be an anagram of the goal mentioned on the first page:
developing the world of the information society

or just ignore me as I'm just getting caught up on this trail and seem to have anagrams on the brain.=P

edit: whoa, you guys are fast

**Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:06 pm

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TheOutspoken · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 18

Hey, I added the trailhead tag to my OP now that there appears to be something to it. Smile

**Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:34 pm

Gremlius · Kilroy Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Montana

Very clever. I think he is being absolutely literal.

The three branches spell out our mission:

I can't figure out if I want the anagram finder to make 3 words from "three branches" or 4 from "the three branches" or maybe just 3 from "the three branches"

I've found some interesting words like Breach and Search and others I can't think of. I'm guessing this is it but there so many Confused

EDIT: More interesting words (still can't get anywhere): breathe, teach, reach, hatch, chant, snatch, hear, thrash, earth, cheer, cheat, beat

I'm sure the list goes on and on but I thought I would add this just in case it triggered something in someone's mind.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:36 am

Russell

hmmm

**Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:32 am

Whalewashingdolphin · Decorated Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 153 Location: Canada

Hiya! Not sure if this was covered anywhere...but it seems now that, when entering an incorrect answer on the Terminate page it asks you to try again, but links you back to the Main Landalan page.

Also, on the Main Landalan page, in the source, it now says something that I don't think was mentioned before.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:34 pm

Russell

good find, nah you arent trouting, I was wondering when we would get a prod from the PM. Razz

Welcome aboard.

Sometimes i really hate myself for overlooking the obvious lol

**Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:40 pm

Whalewashingdolphin · Decorated Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 153 Location: Canada

On the Internet page with the altered map of Abilene, there are boxes with Cyrillic letters in them...and one box has a letter missing with an _

I can write the letters out, but it doesn't really make any sense...

EDIT 1: Just some random thoughts...the map image is called tblr.gif; three boxes have just only ONE letter in each of them and they are B, L, and R...but no T is on its own...but T does occur in other boxes with other letters...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:42 pm

Hangman42

Hi - first poster here (and first ARG game too) - was wondering if the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) held in Tunis 2005 has anything to do with this puzzle? Its a real site but maybe there is something in there we can use for the 'three branches puzzle' since it seems to relate to the 'mission statement' on the first page.

Just a thought since I am not familiar with the 'rules' for PM's using real sites in games - am currently investigating further.

Please fell free to comment and/or 'trout'.

Edit - Or perhaps not - another thought occurs - could the 'branches' refer to the pages off the main page 'Update' 'internet' 'future' or similar - will try those combos.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:16 am

zerosignifier · Boot Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

From the front page, same sentence layout as the puzzle maybe?

**Posted:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:50 pm

Hangman42

Found something interesting checking the source on Tunis page :

**Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:05 am

Watchman · Kilroy Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

A google search for :

"Goal: developing the world of the information society."

Yields this : TUNIS AGENDA FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY.

Quite interesting, might provide useful information.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:42 am

Mudbrother

Hangman... good catch. I'm assuming when we find the path to the 3 branches page from the internet.html page, we will know our 3 branches. We have 2 now... Terminate, Sewer and now we need to find the last.

Hehe, I already tried "Terminate the Sewer Urchin" :p

I'll start poking around again on the Abilene page.

**in studying the page... I see that the div section styles are focus, text, tab and logo. They are nested divs, so I'm assuming they are trying to give us a message. The first letters of each style section are FTTL. A little research terns up that FTTL can mean Fault Tolerant Time Line (having to do with computer network design), Fiber To The Loop (telecommunications term) and it is the aiport code for Bol, Chad. Nothing overly helpful yet, but I would argue there is definitely a message here, as there is no need for so many nested divs. Maybe used in conjunction with the TBLR?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:47 am