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[NEW] Letters from Iwo Jima... I mean, Tagruato
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McPhearson
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[NEW] Letters from Iwo Jima... I mean, Tagruato
Now in English

Apparently, three seperate people claim to have found shreds of a letter in the boxes in which their Slusho! products were delivered. And once they scanned the shreds, we noticed that there was not only a handwritten message on the back of them, but a typed memo on the front, written, coincidentally, in Japanese.

And after a long night's labor, myself and a select few were able to translate the memo, which was, this is the important part, sent out the day of the First Tagruato Website Hacking. Apparently, the company became a bit shaky, with suspicions that it was an 'inside job'. And this memo was the result.

You better enjoy it... alot of sweat and tears was put into getting it to you. Laughing

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d6tjqpn_2fb4xq4

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m0r1arty
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Cheers very much for this!

I wonder how this will pan out?

Staff are pretty much jailed until they[The Company] know what's happened!

Serious stuff, hope there's more where it all came form.

Thanks again for all the hard effort you guys all put in.

-m0r

P.S. I'm starting to be swayed to thinking that maybe Rob has knowledge of "The Cause" and might have indirectly been an inside man.

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daisho
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Thankyou all, and nice idea on the document collaboration from Euchre.

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keeno_82uk
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thanks McPhearsonfor your translation.

however, i don't see any clues within the memo. The message on the back of the memo seems to be the one that stands out.

is the memo the same with every ocurrance in slusho packages?

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NeoNK1
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i wonder if the letter on the memo is from teddy

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i would like to think that it was, but i happen to think that it isn't

What brings me to this conclusion is that as Teddy is an American and i'm sure everyone agrees, then why would he address the note to "Americans" and assume we can all read the japanese writing.

I am of the view it is a high ranking Tagruato employee, maybe a slusho staff member who has had a bout of guilt with knowing all of this classified informaiton that is being presented to him i.e. missing ppl, mysterious happenings, and he is seeking outside help by smuggling letters through Slusho packages because the external mail routes are being closely watched.

if he gets caught by Ganu, we will be sure to hear about it on the website as an example for all other employees to set an example.

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rose
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Great work guys, you may want to post the text here, and not just link to the document, I'm not sure that everyone can access google docs. I think you have to have a gmail account (if anyone needs one, we can get you an invite, though I don't think those are required anymore) to access the docs.

I didn't want to post it for you, because, after all, it is your hard work that got the translation.

Does it seem like the Slusho employees, being forced to work and stay in their employee lodging and not send out any mail, are smuggling out messages to the world?

Or maybe they are just saving paper.
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NeoNK1
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another thought is that maybe one of the missing is teddy and not necessarily the author of the note.

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Elaralas
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Well how about....

I know and thank you guys for translating the pages, but how a little more credit to the people who found the documents the first place and said something about it.

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indeed, well done Elaralas. It was a good find.

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bmoney999
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Great job people! I, personally, trust the validity of this new find, although I know there are some skeptics. That being said, it really provides further interesting back story to the troubles of Tag Corp. I remember the opening scene of Jurassic Park when that one worker is eaten by the Velociraptor, it kinda reminds me of that. Secret things going on and 'work accidents' are starting to increase at the Chuai station. Great find and good work!

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i wonder if us brits will receive the same note on the back of the letter (i.e. Americans). If it does i'd be really resentful. Whats wrong with asking Britain for help? .... well come to think about it... lol

Laughing

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Thanks for this, its interesting they specifical mention Chuai station.

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keeno_82uk wrote:
i would like to think that it was, but i happen to think that it isn't

What brings me to this conclusion is that as Teddy is an American and i'm sure everyone agrees, then why would he address the note to "Americans" and assume we can all read the japanese writing.

I am of the view it is a high ranking Tagruato employee, maybe a slusho staff member who has had a bout of guilt with knowing all of this classified informaiton that is being presented to him i.e. missing ppl, mysterious happenings, and he is seeking outside help by smuggling letters through Slusho packages because the external mail routes are being closely watched.

if he gets caught by Ganu, we will be sure to hear about it on the website as an example for all other employees to set an example.


I would assume the memo is in Japanese simply because Tagruato is a Japanese company. It's sent to "Americans" because an American ordered the Slusho! merchandise.

Much like you, I'm interested to see if anyone in other countries recieve letters. I have to say though, I'm disappointed in the marketing for this. "Buy our merchandise and get clues you can't get otherwise." What ever happened to "no purchase necessary"?

Edit: Thanks for the translation!

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Maybe it was an on the fly thing, they have to do something with all those caps and shirts.

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