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Scribe
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Smithy's moved on to the next town, and seems to be learning to speak 1337. Somehow I doubt it's really 1337 though, yknow? Wink


Can't help but thinking he's talking a little like JJ... Weeiiirrrd.

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EDIT! I'm excited cuz I normally suck at anagrams, but with the help of the web anagram finder I got these!


Nice Very Happy Would never have got them... Hmmm, can see I'm going to have to go back over the story again very soon...
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 		Want weird? I woke up at 5am and was hit with the idea that Smithy is really a humaniform robot (a la Asimov) - only from Mars of course Razz, and with part of his "soul" or whatever removed. Say, the more "moral" part, that would keep a robot from doing something like what Smithy did to Petey ("Unknown" on JJ's audio). It wasn't long after that 2nd audio was posted that Smithy's typing got a little squirrelly, after all. Could be Smithy is having his own little meltdown due to either his actions with Petey, having to repress/edit his own memory of those actions (or having it done to him), or both. Then there's the Smith/Jones name thing, which of course could be nothing, but why would JJ name his sanctuary after Smithy?? And as was posted way back in the beginning, smithy111110 decodes to
smithy>
which looks an awful lot like a computer prompt to me.

This is all total crackified speculation, of course, but as it kept me from going back to sleep for awhile, I feel compelled to inflict it upon somebody else. Twisted Evil

Scribe wrote:
I thought maybe some kind of thesaurus-based word substitution thing, e.g. "consensual ferret" could be "meeting spot". But that's sketchy Smile


I was thinking some letters might be substituted for others, for example "fluster" -> "cluster" and "yooz" -> "boot", but that's just as sketchy. I think you may be on to something though with the synonyms. I looked some up last night:

softeners - buffers?
freelancer - mercenary
ferret - search, flush
resonance - echo, vibration
fester - rot (ROT?! oh please please baby Jesus please.... Jetpack )
zt4r7 - got me, but looks important

Got a lot more than this obviously, the problem is narrowing it down and it may not mean anything. GAH.

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 		Latest updates:

Smithy is in Pueblo Nuevo

Jon Jones has released some new audio about his history

Recovering - or attempting to recover - from a HDD crash here, so might be less here over the next few days... Sad
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 		Oh Scribe, that doth suck mightily... hope you had backups & you'll be back up & with us again soon!

That new audio... DOCTOR Smith? He sounds EXACTLY like our Smithy. Is he, or do we have a doppelganger on our hands? I bet he's our guy, and wonder what happened when he went to talk to the head honchos about what they were planning to do with JJ. Like maybe they did something to him. Poor Smithy.

Green people? Yes, something very squirrelly going on in Pueblo Nuevo.

(Sigh) Maybe we're not meant to solve the second half of that JJ message after all. It's just too convoluted. Let's see what happens at the new volcano...

Edit: With this new audio, I'm tentatively scrapping the Smithy=robot idea, because the Dr. Smithy one fits too. The user prompt
smithy>
is something JJ would have seen plenty of if Smithy were a researcher on the JJ project, and the audio implies they worked quite closely together. So maybe Smithy's and JJ's memories were both wiped by the CIA or whoever, and JJ is trying to reach out to Smithy (possibly his closest human contact) as best he can.

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 		You mean this Smith?

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=10681

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 		Ooh, that's right, I forgot about that. Embarassed Could very well be... so Smithy took off with JJ, or part of him, the "moral" part that kept him from doing icky spy things, and put him... where?? And then forgot about him? Or Smithy put him somewhere, and then the CIA got to him (Smithy) and futzed around with his memory. *all confused again*

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 		Very interesting spec, but looks like all Hell could break loose now. Literally. Transcript of smithy's latest message:
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I found the Necronomicon. The book was in a cave at the base of the mountain. Just as I picked it up, I heard... footsteps. Like duck's feet hitting wet stone. I ran as fast as I could to town... and the town was completely deserted. When I got in the junker, I saw a mass of people coming from the opposite side of town. I hit the gas pedal and drove as fast as I could.

I need your help - I don't know who is reading this - I need you to find me the cheapest (and soonest) flight to Boston from a town with these coordinates:

10 29 30 50 53 66

They're jumbled - you can figure it out.


Damn this US-UK sleep lag, that was probably put up hours ago...

ETA: Have updated Smithy's map so you can see where he found the Necronomicon: http://tinyurl.com/2zgv8q

Not sure how to turn that into latitude and longitude, not got Google Earth on this PC. Maybe someone else can? Initial analysis: are we supposed to add a minus sign to one of these so that Smithy is in the Western hemisphere?
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 		The best that I can figure out is it's Caracas, Venezuela. The airport would be Simon Bolivar International Airport (CCS) but it's not cheap. There is another airport called La Guaira (LAG) but not much info about it. It may be private.

10°29'30"N 66°53'50"W

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 		Find that JJ
Um, I think we really need to work out where JJ has headed off to. Latest e-mail from him:
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:33:51 -0500
From: Jon Jones <jones>
Subject: This may be...

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51732/*http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/

THIS MAY BE MY LAST MESSAGE. FIND ME.

0010101000010101001001010011101001000111000001010001010001010110

No luck quickly converting the binary, but YMMV.

Added: Think you're right about the location, Sylvia, and the airport. THe cheapest/only I can find is $1245 at 4.35pm today, via Mexico and.. uh.. Toronto!? Don't know if you've found anything cheaper, but do you want to mail Smithy with info?

Also, smithy has a new message up.
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 		The string numerically is 42 21 37 58 71 5 20 86 which again could be coordinates ... '5' could be 'E' but there's nothing there to indicate north or south.

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 		Another flight just popped up on Expedia for $1205, leaving at 3:10pm and arriving at 9:55pm. I emailed, let's hope he can swing it...

Oooo, this is exciting. Geek

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massive wrote:
The string numerically is 42 21 37 58 71 5 20 86 which again could be coordinates ... '5' could be 'E' but there's nothing there to indicate north or south.


I think this resolves to 42 o 21' 37.58'' -71 o 5' 20.86'' which is Massachussets Institute of Technology.

I've mailed Smithy.
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 		ZOMG Datango, that is sweet!! Rock On Could we be heading for a reunion here?? <3

Edit: The coordinates are right smack on top of the Green Building at MIT. From their website:
Quote:

Building 54 (Green Building)
street address: Access Via 21 Ames Street

mailing address:
Building 54
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
floor plans (MIT access only: Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
00 0 1 1M 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

here you will find:
54-100
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Dept. of
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Dept. of
Electron Microprobe Laboratory
Experimental Petrology Laboratory
Global Change Science, Center for
Hurricane Lab
Lindgren Library
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate
WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, MIT


Somehow I don't think we're going to be able to hack into those floor plans, though. Confused Emailed Smithy with a suggestion to try the EAPS Dept.

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 		email reply from Smithy
whew, that was close
(Sorry for the double post, but this is getting good. Razz )

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I'm at the airport. Sold the junker, bought a ticket. Have a few grand left over. I'm boarding right now.

I'll send you some scanned images of the diary. Some real interesting shit here.

MIT, huh? Coincidence I'm flying to Boston, huh? I was going to go to Miskatonic, but MIT may be an option.

Funny, MIT and Jon Jones seems... familiar. Like deja vu.


Heh, I keep forgetting that Miskatonic exists in this world. Laughing

Yay for deja vu, or foreshadowings thereof. Smile

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 		New Page of the Diary
There's a new page of the diary up on the Flickr.

Another reference to an historical UFO incident - this time to the "Kecksburg UFO incident" of 1965. Also known as PA's Roswell.

Read all about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO_incident


Also, Apparently Tettleson was visited by some Men in Black. Read the Wikipedia article - apparently, the primary civilian investigator of this particular crash ALSO was visited by some men in black and immediately clammed up. He died 5 years later.

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