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[tipsila]

[NEW] altusveritas site

[AngBa]

The marks are very hard to make out, so I modified it a bit. Here are the exact letters that are underlined:

[Arkaham]

Altus Veritas

Latin for Higher Truth

[tipsila]

From the altusveritas site: "Altus Veritas was created by papal decree by order of Pope Alexander in 1410. Some scholars refer to him as Peter of Candia."

Pope Alexander V = AV

[mycroftxxx]

The name of the person who made the original posting about the history of AV is Fulkes de Villaret. Fulkes de Villaret was a member of the Knights Hospitaler. I think it's safe to say that we're looking at a well-done, but VERY in-game site.


Who wants to conatct them first? I'm going to let the doc know.

EDIT: Ok, he knows, but is more focused on IG weirdness in the "relationship" between him and Banana. (also, replaced a misread Templar, with Hospitaler)

[mycroftxxx]

Also, check out the source, there's a link to an image of Christ commented out. http://www.altusveritas.com/images/christ.jpg

[AngBa]

Yeah, Doc is weird tonight - whatever he did this weekend, he won't talk about....

He thinks I'm mad at him...

I'm sure that someone has tried to contact the AV site - and I hope that information is posted as soon as possible.

[Wabonan]

I found 2 sights that were deleted..but cached by google..they are in latin ..the only problem is is that they make no sence after using a latin translator..both have Altus Veritas in the text..Ill link the google addy so yall can try to decipher it.

(click for wide link)


(moderator embedded the link in a tag, because it was too wide for the forums to display properly -- catherwood)

[maradydd]

Interesting find, Wabonan; my Latin grammar is crap and my fiance's vocabulary is rusty, but I don't *think* it's lorem-ipsum junk text. I doubt they're especially related, but if anyone thinks otherwise I can apply some linguistics-fu.

Personally, I'm more interested in the login/password thing in the sidebar on altusveritas.com. Note that there's also an "email new password" link which leads to a form that takes either a username or an email address; it has to be an already-valid username or email, I don't see a way to sign up.

This could be bruteforced to yield a valid username, then the login could be bruteforced to find a valid password for that username, but I'm reluctant to do that, since I'm given to understand that's poor ARG etiquette. I can code it up in Python if people think we need to resort to that, though.

FWIW, I tried jochen, peiper, jochenpeiper, jochen.peiper, drjpjr, doctorjpjr, joachim, and joachim.peiper as usernames, and none of them were recognised as valid.

Also, just to satisfy a bit of curiosity on my part -- would someone go to the Contact page, view source, and look for the value in the edit-form_token tag? I get 281b5bf301512e093392574733398cf4 every time I reload, and I'm wondering if that's static ( it might be ascii, now I think about it... nm, f3 is way too high to be an ascii code, guess it's just random hexadecimal)[/strike]

[maradydd]

Mycroft observed that

[Wabonan]

ok his password seems to be,,,

[mycroftxxx]

[Forgery]

I'm sure he did, otherwise the password wouldn't have been altusveritas lol

[maradydd]

Gah. Remind me not to ARG when I'm tired, since clearly I miss obvious things...good one Wabonan.

Anywho, they replaced the sidebar with some different text (woo css templating), but as you can see if you look for yourself, http://altusveritas.com/user is still alive and well. I tried

[DetroitLegend]

Here's the whois: