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enaxor
I Have No Life
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
[Website] Rainbow of Death Matt has updated his website to include more entries from his grandfathers journal.
Journal Entry #7, 7/20/66
Journal Entry #8, 8/1/66
Journal Entry #9, 8/4/66
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:30 am
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
Forgot #10 http://rainbowofdeath.com/whativelearned/index.php?uid=e5db34247db0
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:03 pm
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
Agent Yellow Alright, soo.. I just finished watching The Host.
Agent Yellow:
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U.S. and World Health Organization (WHO) with help from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) intervent and use Agent Yellow, though the decision seems to be mostly the US's. It is a state of the art chemical and deployment system developed by the U.S. to fight virus outbreaks or biological terror. It is an extremely powerful and effective system, that once activated, completely annihilates all biological agents within a radius of dozens of kilometers. Should not be within 500 meters of release point. Agent Yellow can be fatal especially to the elderly and children, pregnant women, and those with respiratory disorders. Citizens groups issue strong protests claiming "Agent Yellow is unsafe".
Also some more info / conjecture on it, however this also uses spoilers for the movie to explain in context:
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So there's this creature. It's hinted at that it's a mutation caused by the release of toxic chemicals into the Han River in Korea. News spreads around that its the host for a virus and the governemnt steps in to conduct testing. They decide that the situation warrents the use of Agent Yellow. However, it is also revealed that they know there is no virus.
So, if they're using Agent Yellow, maybe it has nothing to do with a virus? (It's never really explained) Either way, when the chemical fog is released the creature conveniently happens to be right beneath it. It then proceeds to blister up and pieces that looked like fins before fall off revealing themselves to be fish (mutation fused the the skeleton?).
So going on that info, I found this: http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/report/2004/hsc-planning-scenarios-jul04_05.htm which might be the real life equivalent. Either way. Having watched the movie, I still have no clue what's going on -.-
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:30 pm
enaxor
I Have No Life
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
Update Feb 2 Tinman=Dr. Tinneman Feb 2 update
Matt wrote:
After the handwritten code on the "Domain of the Golden Dragon" certificate was solved, I started combing through my grandfather's materials for other references to "The Tin Man." I found one on the back of this photograph:
I think the man in this photo could then be Dr. Tinneman -- the "Dr. T." my grandfather worked with on Project Rainbow. My grandfather's journal entry on 8/8/66 leads me to believe Dr. T. had a mustache and "salt-and-pepper hair," but that would've been 7 years after this photo was taken.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:11 am
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
There's a new entry up: Journal Entry #14, 8/22/66
In the video, does it look like that kid is wrestling with something in the water?
Edit: *entries
Journal Entry #15, 8/30/66
Journal Entry #16, 9/3/66
Journal Entry #17, 9/7/66
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:33 pm
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degravedi
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New entry
Journal Entry #18, 9/10/66
Edit: The code reads
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'watch your back'
Get it by using the dashes at the top/bottom as a locational grid with 6 rows. Mark the letter where it intersects with the corresponding row of dashes on the side of the note.
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:48 pm
Mountain Girl
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Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 650
Nice work, degravity!
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:01 pm
degravedi
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Thank you ^^ Hopefully, the code might be used in a later letter whith some more interesting results.
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:47 pm
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
New puzzle up.
Quote:
9g14 4gr Gruu pt 7rcrxo 5opc7? 4gr cr9 uis gr pt sjpu5pc7 pt to6r apc5 of 7pic4 2oourx ox xrfxp7rxi40x. 4gr 7P P 4iuar5 4o tip5 4gry ixr sxpc7pc7 pc 2ou5 9ri4grx 7rix fxo6 i sitr pc 7ootr Siy sj4 xoj4pc7 p4 4gxoj7g 4gr 1l4g Pcfic4xy t4i4pocr5 i4 2uixa Ipx Sitr 4o gp5r 4gr 4xipu.
A normal cryptogram substitution gives you:
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What the hell is Genero doing? The new lab he is building is some kind of giant cooler or refrigerator. The GI I talked to said they are bringing in cold weather gear from a base in Goose Bay but routing it through the a?th [? possibly a number nth] Infantry stationed at Clark Air Base to hide the trail.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:29 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
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The only Infantry unit that was ever really "stationed" at Clark Air Base was the 37th.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:30 am
konamouse
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Some history of Clark Air Base. I'm thinking we should be looking around the time of WWII? Or the 50's?
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:46 am
rowan
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konamouse wrote:
Some history of Clark Air Base. I'm thinking we should be looking around the time of WWII? Or the 50's?
Well, the lab that Dr. T is referring to really couldn't have been built until 1966 or after. John only started mentioning Dr. T's parnoia in the Sept 10th journal entry. So we should be looking for something during the Vietnam War.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:59 pm
enaxor
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Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
[Update] Feb 17 Several new entries today....
Journal Entry #21, 9/16/66
Journal Entry #22, 9/19/66
Journal Entry #23, 9/20/66
The Pudding Code
Military Aritfact Recovery Agency
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:41 pm
konamouse
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So we had wild spec fest this afternoon in the chat room. Is Matt's father (John Jr) still alive? Is he the one sending the clues to make M.A.R.A. public?
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[19:14] drizjr: i keep thinking about Dr. T's daughter , and wondering if she'll show up somewhere
[19:14] danteIL: um, Matt's mom!
[19:15] danteIL: i mean Derek
[19:15] konamouse: ooh, good spec!
[19:15] drizjr: and I'm still trying to wrap my head around what Matt's father might have found or if he hired MARA to find something
[19:16] konamouse: link between derek & matt, pretty weird
[19:16] danteIL: i like the idea of matt's dad hiring MARA
[19:17] danteIL: the time frame would be about right
[19:17] drizjr: oh, wow dante, i like the idea of Derek's mom being Dr. T's daughter
[19:17] danteIL: well i was kidding about that, because it seems farfetched
[19:17] danteIL: but if we start getting backstory on his mom, we'll know why
[19:18] drizjr: heh
[19:18] danteIL: so now how does cryptidtruth (in korea, no less) tie in?
[19:18] konamouse: try building a tree of relationship between characters?
[19:20] drizjr: i don't know about crytidtruth. And I don't even have a guess on who is slipping those puzzles under Matt's and Derek's door
[19:21] danteIL: well someone who obviously knows about whatever MARA has
[19:21] konamouse: someone who wants one of them to find out the truth, what is the motive for them finding mara ?
[19:21] konamouse: who would benefit?
[19:47] konamouse: so jon jr is the person sending the 5 per puzzles?
[19:47] drizjr: John Jr is Matt's father
[19:48] drizjr: he's dead
[19:48] konamouse: are we sure about that?
[19:48] drizjr: lol
[19:48] drizjr: no
[19:48] drizjr: that's what Matt thinks
[19:48] danteIL: john jr is cryptidtruth!
[19:48] drizjr: lol
[19:49] danteIL: i'm being sensationalistic again
[19:49] drizjr: sure, he's still in korea
[19:49] konamouse: i'm just thinking outside the box
[19:49] drizjr:
[19:49] konamouse: do we have proof he is dead?
[19:49] konamouse: would he have the motive to get the truth public?
[19:49] danteIL: well cryptidtruth could be sending the 5per messages
[19:51] drizjr: Matt's dead father would probably be motivated to get the truth to his son....
[19:51] drizjr:
[19:52] drizjr: but why would he steal Derek's toys..heheh
[19:52] konamouse: uhm, it was derek's mom workign in cahoots with matt's dad?????
[19:53] danteIL: and sun-yi stole the toys to get derek's attention
[19:53] drizjr: wow, this is some really juicy, wild spec going on here
[19:54] drizjr: so much fun!
[20:51] drizjr: kona: as I was reviewing some stuff on rainbow, I saw this "my father was reported missing and presumed dead after he failed to show up for his meeting ". So it's not impossible that Matt's father is still alive.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:01 am
konamouse
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Puzzles posted Feb 21st Working on these tonight in #mhc
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