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C.G.
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 		Good point. The list of keywords I can think so far are:

- truth
- destruction
- death
- epsilon
- prince
- king
- nightmare
- sleep
- kingdom...
- lioness

Yeah...


We should do an MSN convo soon. My MSN is anyaneonAThotmailDOTcom . I'll be away in a couple of hours, but much later, we could catch up for a brainstorm over msn. What do you say?

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TheMaximum
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 		New post from the King. It's basically an extra fun-fact about the ritual. Is he meaning to tell us we have a deadline? Eh. No idea.

Edit!:New post from the Prince as well.

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 		Mhh the note from the king is interesting.

You know... all this is happening really fast. It can be assumed that the story will find it climax within a few weeks/day???. So... if we knew a little bit better WHEN the ritual is performed it is possible to reduce the area. You know... it isn't half moon ont the whole planet at once.



Also the next character the queen is introduced through the prince.
If she comes to play?? Don't think so.. she should be dead, shouldn't she?
Also we kno that epsilon and the prince were childhood friends. Even then the kind didn't like the relationshi between the two.

So the problem with Epsilon ist not what she has done or know or something like this but WHO she is! She was a problem even when she was young and probably didn't do anything wrong.


My guess:
Epsilon ( a common folk) plays with the prince. This a scandal. The king is not amused XD...
Both grow older and begin to love eacht other.
An even greater scandal!
Epsilon is banished and hunted. She flees to our planet/dimension/realm.

Only flaw of this guess...
Epsilon states that she was created from the king. I assume that she isn't a illegitimate daughter (if she is the scandal would be even greater)... so she was really created (like constructed??) by the king.

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 		Note the Prince's words regarding the Queen: "The Queen was his only weakness... he ended up killing her, as well."

I think this is an important statement. Why did the King kill her? Simply because he's insane? Why would he kill the Queen if his anger should have been directed at Eppy?

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 		My guess:

The Queen tried to protect the Prince and Eppy out of mercy. The king got overwhelmed by his emotions and killed her. He seems to be kind of hotheaded.

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TheMaximum
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 		Good point, but do you think it's possible for us to use that against him somehow?

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Morganlefey26
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C.G. wrote:
Shadom wrote:
if we find out what yvbyaw5jzq and bhvzdgz1ba means we may extrapolate the email address of the king and the prince.




I have tried, and tried, and failed. Eppy did confirm they meant something, but to find that, we would need to "run it through some things.". Possibly using several translators at the same time.


But I tried base64, binary, hex, dec, and even ROT, and nothing makes sense.


Here're the tools I have been using:
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
http://stackoverflow.org/tools/base64.html
http://home.no.net/hellshl/main/translate.html
http://www.unfiction.com/resource/rot-it.html


*EDIT* Also, the King seems to be one to enjoy to spread his word of Salvation, and I don't think one person like him would be content with just a blog. There could be a website behind this, if we follow Shadom's theory.


I thought it was already found that Eppy's address ment "lustful" but it only seems to work if certain letters are capitalized like this: bHVzdGZ1bA

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 		And apparently, yvbyaw5jzq seems to mean Prince when I mess around with the caps. Hmm.

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Morganlefey26
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TheMaximum wrote:
And apparently, yvbyaw5jzq seems to mean Prince when I mess around with the caps. Hmm.


Yep I just got YVByaW5jZQ to equal "aPrince"

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 		Oh, it depends on the kings mental and emotional stability. The right comment in the right time might confuse/shock him enough to prevent him from doing ähem.. whatever XD




lustful prince
-.-


*feeling really stupid right know*

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She has horrid Lustful desires, and had a plot with another undesirable to dethrone me.


The king actually uses the term "lustful" when refering to Eppy here, its capitalized too. Might be of some use...

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TheMaximum
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 		Thing is, she used it as her own e-mail. Weird.

Though, with that, wouldn't it make sense for the King's email to be some Base64 of thegodlyking, theking, godlyking or something along those lines?

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Uberg33k
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 		Anyone notice comments in the King's LJ from "adeadqueen"?

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Uberg33k
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 		Ok, rev. 1.1 of the summary. Read the comments here and at LJ to try and fill this out a little more. Let me know if this sounds correct.

Summary
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So far, we have three characters : Epsilon/Base64/instigationplus, Prince, and the King.

Epsilon is a female being of alien origin who has been separated from her parents for the last nine years. She was in the service of the King in some manner where he would take her out to a "land of wires", connect them to her spine, and it would induce nightmares in Epsilon. So far, we do not know the purpose of this. She also developed a relationship with the King's daughter, Prince. While together Epsilon and Prince were together, the King would beat Prince and make the Queen watch. This is somehow associated with the death of the Queen by the King's hand.

On Sept 25, something happened. Epsilon was brought to Earth, presumably by the King. It would be a fair assumption to say that the King is also on Earth because he states that Epsilon is with him. Her first words on this planet were "begin, commence, and destroy". After which, she seems to be confused and disoriented. She reached out across the web using pictures, codes, and various languages to find help.

At this point in time, we do not know any character's location and do not know Epsilon's current condition. The King seems to have a great distaste for her, calling her Lustful and claiming that she and another are conspiring to overthrow him. He plans to perform a "purification ritual" on her that involves cutting out her heart and setting it on fire. This will occur on the half moon.


As an aside, I think you guys are reading aaaaaaway to much into the usernames and looking for codes where there are none. Even if those names are ciphers of something, the strings are too short to effectively crack. We have no idea of the encryption type or even which language it was encrypted in. Until we can better understand what's going on and the relationships between the characters, I'd concentrate on looking at the forrest and not the trees.

I also think we're past the point of using binary, hex, foreign languages for communications unless we have a good reason. I think that was just a flag set to attract ARG players.

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TheMaximum
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 		Just now. But it's not like any of the others... Then again... she's dead. It seems very.... wrong. Like it shouldn't be there. I don't think that's our girl's style.. You know?


Edit: Oops. My bad.

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