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Re: reply from Ethan

[Sylvia]

Ethan said this:

[Typoxic]

Jade doesn't work for the Foundation, so he's still free to help us if he wants. I sent the original email to Ethan's gmail.

I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes in our ability to investigate St. Pete. I mean, it's not like Ethan was even here for most of it.

[mortality]

[Typoxic]

I like the smoke-related screen name idea. If I manage to create a Skype account, I'll take the name Dunhill (or a variation thereon, if that's taken).

[petunia]

Okay then, my skype name is perique3 (perique was taken). Pallmall or a variation thereof might also be a good choice, since that's the address of WCF UK.

Sounds like Jade's our man. Still waiting to hear back from his recon of St. Pete's & NJ, though. Wonder if he might be willing to check with his cop contacts about our missing Philly, put out some feelers or something.

We may be heading into a new phase here... at least I hope so, since WC isn't helping... Just so we have everything straight, does Jade know about all the sites we do? RN, BE? I don't think he knows about the NJ scifi club, I can use that as an excuse to email him again.

[Typoxic]

I got the program to work! My firewall was being a spaz. I'm dunhill_s.r.

[petunia]

DAMMITALLTOHELL, Smoke messaged me with a "?" just before 3pm and I was asleep.

Her profile says "Contacts: 2". What does that mean exactly, that she only has 2 contacts? Who are they?

If/when we do get lucky with the password, what question(s) should we have ready to ask? Here's what I'd like to know, for starters:

Where is Ramback/Philly?
Who is Brighton Early?
Who was the Nov. 12 target?
Who is Reality Now?
Who will be initiated in London Feb. 6?

Although the first thing I'd like to know, of course, is what the password is.

[Typoxic]

Dammit! She came on and I screwed it up! Maybe she'd be more receptive if the smoke theme extended to my "real name" as well. Ramback has "P.M.", which could just as easily stand for Philip Morris.

[yellowcard]

Hello, all. I'm back from visiting the internet black hole. It sure is boring over there, and I recommend that you don't ever visit. I'd like to thank AT&T or SBC or whoever it was that transfered my call three times to get me someone who could tell me why I went so long without a connection.

Anywho, nothin' like a good round of spec to get back in the saddle, hmm?

I apologize for sending the gamejack theory out there; it was really an off-the-cuff remark. The danger of publishing the third location, whether to Ethan or even right here on unFiction, is that it opens up the possibility of a third party to "perform the ritual" and record it so as to hijack the game a bit. Sure, there are a lot of extra characters involved, but why not? Is this a gamejack? I shrug my shoulders.

> If so, it would make sense for Ethan to tell us to ignore St. Pete completely. Oops, the uC followed the wrong trail and now it's back to the drawing board for the PMs.

> If not, it certainly seems like a plausible way to pass the narrative off from WF to Jade. I am having a really hard time accepting that the Scarpelli document has nothing to do with the events in StP since the first one (Nov) happened before the ARG started and the second one (Dec) occurred before we knew about it, not to mention that WF sent us the info on the Dec event through "Sandra" in the first place.

I'm not going to discuss the gj idea anymore unless the PMs send us a sign. It's not worth the energy otherwise.

Speaking of signs, I don't think anyone noticed this in Jade's blog:

[mortality]

So...does that mean we need to figure out the shade of David Lee Roth's shirt in the video?

Looks like we definitely need the right password before Smoke will talk. What shade of purple do you get when you combine salmon and midnight blue?

[Typoxic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA

Patton Oswalt was right. It really is gayer than eight guys blowing nine guys.

Colorwise, the recurring theme seems to be orange, but at a few points David Lee Roth seems to mysteriously change outfits into something blue-grey. The first shirt you see is yellow with black stripes, whatever that means.

The second result when you search for "Van Halen Jump video" is a recording of them playing live in Greensboro.

[mortality]

If "Jump" and those posts were a clue, they probably had to do with solving MSG4, not the password.

Password guesses: as badaim pointed out, midnight blue and salmon are web colors. Why not try some of the purple web colors? Violet, Orchid and the like? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

Orchid didn't work.

[yellowcard]

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