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[Rogi Ocnorb]

Try "Tom Strunk"
The same quote comes up at several sites promiting Jon.

[doublecross]

OK, the fact that he has worked for Microsoft before suggests this may be a custom-made video, but to me he still seems to be doing the trick to an unseen audience rather than for viewers of the video.

Anyhoo, is there any mileage in the covering up of the professor's door with a 'bulletin board'? Perhaps our next step is connected with a virtual bulletin board.

There ought to be more to the second 'round completed' video than just Loki boasting about how wacky she is.

[tcpvtec]

 

[xmythx]

Not sure if this is repeat, but we found a phone number in posters.

1 - 3 roses
2 - 1 moon
3 - 3 shoes
4 - 5 clocks
5 - 2 bells
6 - 5 handcuffs
7 - 1 owl
8 - 4 bugles
9 - 2 doves
10 - 3 cards

313 525 1423

It rings through and asks for a message, like any ordinary cell phone. It's probably wrong, so please don't spam it. =)

Also, 23 is a Telnet port.

3.135.251.4:23?

Also, she refers to crawling through a window. Accessing something is my guess.

Swim Meets or Book Swaps sounds like a Cryptic Crossword clue.

[NML]

*friendly fire*

[aliendial]

Some folks at neowin are tracking Loki's actions with her glasses as being possible directional clues for some future purpose - e.g up, down right, left. (Apogee even posted a video clipping the moves: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=531483&view=findpost&p=588246466


..And that she seems to move one chair to her left from one video to the next - and you can often see the next chair in the current video.

[doublecross]

She definitely says a direction when she lowers her glasses in each video:

Hear the challenge video - "RIGHT?"
Bellagio video - "... a trip UP to space ..."
Box 1 complete video - "... you've earned it, RIGHT?"
Box 2 complete video - "... that's 24 puzzles DOWN"
Box 3 complete video - "... you've got only 12 puzzles LEFT"

The second to fourth directions take us round in a square, FWIW.

[blackhawk127]

[Shad0]

Re: [META] - Has Everything Been Found in the Meta Puzzle?

[SuperRob]

Well, it looks like we're going to get not one but TWO questions next week. Collectionplate is asking for the puzzle pieces, but More_Answers is asking for us to have solved all of the puzzles.

Seems like a bit of a pointless hurdle, considering having solved all the puzzles doesn't "prove" anything, but I guess we'll find out next week.

[aliendial]

BTW for more possibly pointless spec fpr connections, who else kept moving one chair down? The Mad Tea Party? (and who disappeared at the end of that - didn't dormouse get stuffed in the teapot? or should we look at the Cheshire Cat?) Goldilocks?



But anyway - metapuzzle-wise - the discussion or trail now seems to have focused on accumulating sequences of clues from the videos, but this week no phone numbers? No websites to find? No more itineraries? We've overmined the meaning of Loki's many names by now, but what can be done with the clues about her life? What does the Enigma Director do? Are the voicemails unchanged?

[L.Boomer]

It could be that there is not just a single Loki moving down the chairs, but maybe there are four chairs because there are 4 Loki's (and 4 editions of Vista), and each is simply sitting in their own chair. Quadruple major in two years because each Loki had just a single major.

Sounds a bit far fetched, but since we have little to do this week, might as well throw out spec.

EDIT* (she does say in the 3rd video that there is a "secret she couldn't tell them" but gave them a few details about her life. Also never taking a sick day but able to travel all over the world? Either that is one amazing job that she left, or they split a single job so one would work while the others were away.)

[cglrcng]

If you look in the directions she gives....

[SuperRob]

[doublecross]

So "right up right down left" could correspond to "green red green yellow blue"...

Also, I think Loki is more likely to correspond to 'old' Windows than Vista.