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[DC][Interaction] Alex and Phillip
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Wabonan
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Phil just put up a new video... It was the moon test video I think. The date is 10-8-06.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=goldenfilmore
the above link is to his video

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Agent Lex
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And for you lazy people:
The 10-08-06 Transmission (and as the description states, that's NOT a typo!)

Looks like Phil's in trouble. I hope someone still has that file sitting somewhere, perhaps someone has it backed up?

(also, hypno-swirl woo! I wonder who that is talking over it? Sounds like they know Phil)

EDIT: I'm reluctant to email Phil asking if he's in trouble and still has the file, since at this point his account could be taken over by DCorp. I'm going to email Alex (NOT Foo, since I'm still iffy on trusting him to be honest) and seeing if he has a copy of the file mentioned.

EDIT 2: Looks like this was from the moon test. Brackin's blog post from October 9th says they had their test run over the weekend, that went well.

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Wabonan
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I think thats Phil talking to himself from the future

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Wang Guantao
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I believe that the hypno swirl is the fabled deleted GUI file that Phil still had a copy of. I think thats what the date means, and it means that we know know when he got coerced to help DC.

We REALLY need to find out where's he's locked up fast, unless it's too late Sad

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VioletNightshade
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1. What language are they speaking in the background?
2. Is Phil dead?
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Agent Lex
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I don't think so, Wang.

I think the file that Phil mentions sending (he says something along the lines of "I'm sending an IF file") is the GUI file we know about.

The hypno-swirl looks like it was stuck in by the DCorp people once they got into the lab, convincing past Phil to sign the contract they know they're going to have offered him.

(as always, when time manipulation is involved, tenses become awkward)

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Wabonan
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I think the language is spanish. I dono if he died but it sounded like they shot him. thats my take on it. I don't know much spanish. so I can't tell you what they were saying, I hope someone understands it though, It might help us.

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Wang Guantao
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Agent Lex wrote:
I don't think so, Wang.

I think the file that Phil mentions sending (he says something along the lines of "I'm sending an IF file") is the GUI file we know about.


I think he says "I'm sending you what I have". Right after phil leaves the computer says "Files accesed" and the hypnoswirl starts off by saying:
The 10-08-06 transmission wrote:

"Phillip moore, guess who buddy. Congratulations. Do me a favour. Defense Corp, they're gonna give you a call, do everything that they say. Do it for me buddy. I promise, you will not regret it. Because sin is in; greed, it is my favourite sin. Tell you what, Always remember that every man, woman and child has their price. Even Machiavelli had his friends, he had his enemies. But Image... oooohhh... Image is never anything. Do the right silly boy... I know i did."


I interpret this video as something Phil send to us, and the hypno swirl being the "file that started everything". Also I'm quite convinced DCorp found out that Phil had been contacting the outside, and that they came to kill him.

poor phil =(

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I got a reply from Alex. I told him we need to find out where DCorp is, since ingame I don't have that dat file we've decoded. Got a reply...

Alexis Wright wrote:
Oh man, this makes me angry! I thought Phil was solid, but it turns
out he's just another coward! It's more important than ever now that
we FIND OUT WHERE THIS PLACE IS!

_Alexis Defiant! (alex.mst3kSPLATgmail.com)


EDIT: I shoulda known Alex would tell Foo...

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I love that video, it's just like some fun advertising campign being ran by the devil.

*funky music and said in presentor voice* Come to defence corp, yea you're all gonna die, but who cares *fade out funky music*

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Wang Guantao
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Looks Like Mexico is the right spot. Below is some cut and paste of communication with Alex, after my first faulty angelopolis texas E-mail.

First up is my lengthy apology and explanation E-mail
Wang's E-mail wrote:

On 12/23/06, Kenneth Carlson <Adress> wrote:

You're right. I jumped the gun on his location, but I was so convinced!

The thing is, I recieved an E-mail from Phil, with an encrypted data-file he managed to pull of Adam's laptop. It was called "Maxine deSauch.dat" and contained the following data:

Pmxdekp
Adptrnh
Hotpfz
Nqyunn
Hemlqxz
Sv Zqzoqw Ckpxzd
Ua Ihgxwnarb
Wea Dmft
Drawplbonpa

Using a vigenere cipher on it with the running key "Deus ex Machina" (that's an anagram of Maxine deSauch) it was decrypted to

Midland
Abilene
Dublin
Norman
Eastman
St Simons Island
St Augustine
Key West
Angelopolis

All of Brackins last known locations, and "Angelopolis"

Now from Phil's letter we tried to take the letters of every single typo (The wrong letter and the right letter), every extra letter (like a in 'Todaay') every missing word (copter, The I) and letter (anyt_h_ing), and both letters in transpositions and tried making words from them.

Doing this we end up with the following heap of letters:

AIEHSXTHECOPTERCUHAGNL

Rearanging those I got to the solution:

"Angelopolis Texas The Church".

only problem being that I am missing an O and an L in my letter heap to spell out angelopolis, But I guess i missed that in my excitement.
But from the encrypted file, I still think Angelopolis is the right answer, but let's forget about the texas bit.

Angelopolis means city of angels, so I guess it could be Los Angeles California.

Angelopolis is also a minig city in Columbia.

A third option I've found, and which I believe to be more likely is a town in mexico called "Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza", as some of it's unofficial names apear to be 'Puebla de Los Angeles' and 'Angelopolis'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla,_Puebla
http://www.enjoymexico.net/puebla-mexico.php

Now in Phil's latest movie on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmU2jsgtzIY) it sounds like DCorp is trying to kill him, and he's sending us the file that started everything. I believe this to be the hypnoswirl sequence. The DC-guys are speaking spanish as far as I can hear, so this strenghtens my Mexico theory a bit.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help to you at the moment. I'm out of ideas, and I'm ashamed that I sent you an E-mail containing faulty information. Not something a man of science should do. And now because of this, Phil might very well be dead already. Forgive me Alex, I've failed you... I've failed you all.

/ken


This was followed up by Alex sending me this little "worrying" E-mail. He's sounding power crazy to me, much more so than Foo.
Alex E-mail wrote:
Your temporary incompetence has been overcome Kenneth. Foo and I agree that this is our best lead yet! I have some "friends" of my father's in Mexico city who were able to put some feelers out in Puebla, Mexico and it seems that there is an installation just outside of the city limits that fits our description perfectly. I have already scrambled my men to take the location, and hopefully by tomorrow I'll have a nice little Defense-corp sized Christmas present waiting for me. Well done.

_Alexis Defiant! (alex.mst3kSPLATgmail.com)


Oh yeah, so Kenneth is my real name. I guess that's what comes from sending E-mail from your work E-mail adress ^^

Anywho, I think the ball has been set into motion again. It still bugs me that we can't decipher phil's E-mail (if indeed there's anything to decipher in it at all), but atleast Adam might be saved now.

PS. Merry Xmas everyone =)

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Dang it feels good to bring this thread back to the top. Just as Trace got a message from Alex (through pm, i'd assume) I got an email response. With slightly worrying implications.


In my email to Alex, I passed on Foo's message about Alex's father's involvement in Defense Corp.
Quote:
Thank you. I trust you got my other message as well. I have decided not to pursue legal action against Defensecorp at this time for a number of reasons, but I am quite interested in this oddity about my father. It is another piece in a puzzle that I have yet to complete.

I can say that in his last days before he died he became a different person in many ways. His overeagerness to help "Brother Theo" for example was a great surprise to me I tried to argue against their silly trek, but they would not have it. I still don't understand the reason why. After going through my fathers things though - both at home and at his office in Wright Industries I have discovered him to be a man of many secrets. It seems I never knew my father. Not really.

I don't know why I'm telling you this Michael, perhaps it is because I am short on friends recently and you have been loyal to me during this difficult time - even when I was unavailable. So for what it is worth: Thank you.

Alex Wright, C.E.O., Wright Industries


This isn't as freaky as Pied Piper's recent incident, but still interesting--I received no other message from Alex since he told all of us to post our pictures on the Hack the Feed site over a month ago. So, messages are being read AND DELETED.

Fun.

EDITED--
Alex got back to me with the original message, which is exactly what Trace received.

Quote:
"I received your message. My presence here has been more for recon than anything else, but I'm now beginning to believe that there may be a greater sense of destiny involved. I will be looking for agents which show the most potential for the future of what apparently is called "Grey District" as I endeavor to learn as much as I can about my own potential future and role in all of this 30 years from now. Any way that you could help me in this would be greatly appreciated."


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notgordian wrote:

Alex got back to me with the original message, which is exactly what Trace received.

Quote:
"I received your message. My presence here has been more for recon than anything else, but I'm now beginning to believe that there may be a greater sense of destiny involved. I will be looking for agents which show the most potential for the future of what apparently is called "Grey District" as I endeavor to learn as much as I can about my own potential future and role in all of this 30 years from now. Any way that you could help me in this would be greatly appreciated."


Yeah, i got the same too.

It seems to be an automated response, as his tone in emails is much different.

Maybe the actual Agent account is a placeholder? A scanner?

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Agent Lex
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Indeed, I've gotten that exact response from him aswell.

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Ah, sorry--omitting the first part of the email omitted the reasoning he sent us stuff. Below is the whole email, in its entirety.

Quote:
I'm afraid its a bit anti-climactic, but why you didn't receive it though the temporal interface is unknown to me. I will have to be careful what I say and who I say it to while in that system. Perhaps a little healthy paranoia is no bad thing? Here is the text which I sent to a number of top agents who had contacted me in some fashion during my absence:

"I received your message. My presence here has been more for recon than anything else, but I'm now beginning to believe that there may be a greater sense of destiny involved. I will be looking for agents which show the most potential for the future of what apparently is called "Grey District" as I endeavor to learn as much as I can about my own potential future and role in all of this 30 years from now. Any way that you could help me in this would be greatly appreciated."


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