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[Rekidk]

I bet that if you emailed the Jumping Spider Gmail account, they'd start sending you the emails.

BTW, I really, really like the piecing-together stuff. Nifty, neato.

Edit: Here are all the words that have been 'replaced' (the words in brackets) in the text.

[person]
[people]
[expletive]
[man]
[King]
[Dozen]
[system]
[System]

Half of them are references to being alive or being a human (person, people, man, King); the other half may have been for censorship (expetive) or for other unknown reasons (Dozen, system, System).

So, what significance do this 'replacements' have?

[Daveman424]

New Email

[wargasm]

Alvyurin: wait, what are you doing?
Alvyurin: But from where? Jedditor:
contacting? Jedditor: dunno. Alvyuri
thought you'd had realized how bad a
im asking the [system] to find suita
how does the [System] know? Jedditor
curtail your [System] privileges. Je
intelligent. within its areas of exp
world. it can find [people] and brin
help. and you would never get anythi
hello? Alvyurin: Well at least you'r
aint no disease Alvyurin: I think th
that you've explained it to me it do
welcome. Alvyurin: Yes. If you just
perfectly. Jedditor: oh im always up
well as I get along with any [male]
results.



looks like we need more of the story. i think the story might be irrelevant. its just being used to send messages between Al and Jed

[plugs]

Well, I added the new bits. Think I did it properly Still got lots missing:

Edit: Nevermind, beaten to it xD

[sMooTH WuN]

dammit.. i was workin as fast as I could.. Im gonna post my spec'd convo anyways in case theres any differences.. anything in Bold is what I speculated..

[wargasm]

smooth i think maybe "within its are as of exp" might acctually be "within its area of exp" as in expertise possibly. the leading and trailing spaces get dropped when we get new pieces.

edit: yea that first part reminds of an IM convo where the first person asked a question, and then asked another before the other person got finished typing. so you get 2 questions from one person followed by 2 answers by the other. after that they seem to have gotten their timing down. pretty good detail from the PMs it seems

[thebruce]

"within its areas of expertise" I'm sure...

This is very good... I was wondering when the next email would come in
wiki's updated...
* The Book (4 parts so far)
* Core dump

Also more on the codes... I see a pattern emerging...

(left side original = right side ROT-17'd in case it needs to be rot'd as its context is)
0EAV1XRE3LHO = 0VRM1OIV3CYF
1XRE2ICC3LHO = 1OIV2ZTT3CYF
1XRE2ICC3LHO = 1OIV2ZTT3CYF
0EAV1XRE2ICC = 0VRM1OIV2ZTT

First, can someone verify that the 2nd and 3rd email codes are exactly the same?

Second, the codes are 12 characters long, looking to be in 3 sets of 4.
0EAV / 1XRE / 3LHO = 0VRM / 1OIV / 3CYF
1XRE / 2ICC / 3LHO = 1OIV / 2ZTT / 3CYF
1XRE / 2ICC / 3LHO = 1OIV / 2ZTT / 3CYF
0EAV / 1XRE / 2ICC = 0VRM / 1OIV / 2ZTT

note the # (0-3) and 3 letters. We really need to verify that email 2 and 3 have the same 12 characters, it could be important.

[Daveman424]

Actually, for the third email I see 0EAV1XRE3LHO. Can someone confirm this?

EDIT: Wait, never mind. It's the first and second emails which have the same code you posted. The third has what I wrote above, which you wrote as the first. The fourth is correct.

[thebruce]

Actually, using what's quoted in this thread, the codes are right (email 1 and 2 are on page 1, email 3's on page 2, email 4's on this page) ... I'd just like a re-verification on the 2nd and 3rd emails that what's posted is exactly what's in the originals (I received email 1, so I know that one's right).

[Rekidk]

These are the original, copied, un-ROT-ed codes from the emails. (I got them all and am copying them straight from my inbox.)

[thebruce]

shees, if not everyone gets the same codes for the email, then that throws a wrench in all this... what then would the codes be based on? If nothing, then do we collect all the different variants? Right now we know each 3 letter code for 0 through 3, and we've seen 012, 013 and 123... if that's wrong, then it seems like the only other choice is the code is random and made to throw us off, which I don't like too much

And I'm thinking daveman's rtf upload is a direct copy of his email, which is a different code than yours rekidk. I only got the first email, so I'm no help. =/

And the bracketed words I see as a lot like the bracketed words in the Terminals in Halo 3 - as you say, no direct translation could be made, so it used the closest word that may describe it. Things like cliches or cultural terms and phrases would become 'closest matches'

Also, I'm sensing a recurring theme of 3's and multiples... ever since the shell, and the dozen game. 12? 0-8 (9 numbers)? the shell with a 3x3 grid? 3 x 4 length codes? or, 3 sets of a number and 3 letters? 3 chapters to book 1?
*head asplode*

[Rekidk]

Ah, you're right! His second email and mine are different.

Here are the HTML versions of the emails I got.

(I wanted to ensure that there was no changing of information when I quoted, so I left them as HTML documents. This doesn't make my email account vulnerable to being invaded, does it?)

[thebruce]

nope, looks entirely safe. they don't even have your email address on them...

that helps in showing that the coredump segments are actually shifting, showing their actual positions in the conversation block... and that you're telling the truth so, anyone else who got those emails - can you confirm the code(s) you got are different from rekidk's in the corresponding emails?

[Twee]

I just got a new email. I got one this morning too, but this I can't seem to find on the wiki or here. (I might have missed it, I'm tired and heading for bed right now, so if that's the case, I welcome you to trout me.)

[sMooTH WuN]

updated convo..