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[FCR] [TRAILHEAD] Findings Cedar Rapids
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feriwiccan
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Damn, I missed a lot...

natas wrote:
feriwiccan wrote:

BTW, there's no way these are chords. There are no "8"s (EVER) and rarely are there "4"s.


ferriwican, You've got some explaining to do.... pal.


The chords you found aren't actually chords; they're guitar tabs. An "E8" chord is the exact same thing as an "E" chord. But in guitar tabs, I believe that the number also stands for finger positions. My bad, guys, I'm a piano girl here. And a jazz one at that.

Awesome solves. Sorry I haven't been able to help lately, been swamped.

Also, I do work some with computer graphics. I'll take a look at it but since it's a jpg file it must have only one layer. PS: Photoshop CS3 is pretty sucky Smile

It's really creepy that Steve is still emailing... "theta" I know is a greek letter, but that's the extent of my knowledge at this point.

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EDIT: Yeah, I think the best we can do is write out stuff from the background. Here's what I got so far.

Quote:
DAILY CHRONICLE
... man formally known
............
..... years (?)
.... reOld Macdonald had
...........
...camera. Steve is
...ing for you


Too close to bedtime to finish coherently. Nite, good luck.
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miki_38x1
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Theta is like, one of the most common Greek letters in math. It always represents an angle. Heck, the shirt I'm wearing says "cos^2(theta) + sin^2(theta) = 1."

And natas, it seems like you've had the most correspondence with Jeff, so I think you should try and get ahold of him and break the news, or at least try to lessen the blow. As for the weird numbers under Steve's obituary, they look like coordinates on a 3-D graph.
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natas
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I was thinking along those lines miki.. i am hoping it doesn't involve visiting some cemetery. count me OUT,

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miki_38x1
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Yeah, with the already creepy videos in completely normal settings, I shudder to think of the stuff that will pop up in a creepy Iowa cemetery.

The first and third sets of numbers could pass as graph coordinates, but the second and fourth have one too many numbers to be coordinates. Ack.
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tokkii
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What I've got from the text so far.

man formerly known
(next line obscured)
nine (?) years (rest obscured)
-reOld Macdonald had
farm (?) (rest obscured)
-his the time (rest obscured)
The next line is mostly obscured, but I think the first word after the partial at the edge is really.

A few lines are obscured, then...

-til (?) 2006. Do you rem (rest obscured)
-member (rest obscured)
-ise (?) do not (rest obscured but I think the next word is worry)
-camera. Steve is
ting for you (I think the first word is waiting, which I know makes no sense)

Then, the letters down the right side.

n v a n s u (beyond that I can't get it)

Text at bottom right.
the school. It was
and I liked it. I


Anyone want to correct? Any word that has a ? after it, I'm unsure of.

Still exploring possible marsh fire. Now that we know Steve is dead and there is some connection to ghosts, a mass explosion (esp considering that weird explosion on the last video) seem like a more viable lead. I'm not getting anywhere, but I'm not done. Is anyone of the opinion that I am so far off base that I should just give up?

One other thing, anyone talked to Jeff recently and should we tell him the pill is ok? I'm pretty sure with the info we are going on that it is just an antibiotic.

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natas
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oops I forgot about that. THANK YOU. I will email him now unless you already have.. in that case thanks again.

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tokkii
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No, I've kept the few contacts I have had with him to questions. I'll pump for whatever info I can get but leave plot forwarding to ya'll. Wink

Still working on the pic, I've got more in focus but I can't find any layers worth a piddle. There is this weird white noise behind all the text from the front. It's blocking most of the backside text. I got it removed at one point, but it didn't seem to help much.

Edit: One of the word you can anagram out of the theta email from Steve is reanimate, hehe.

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Way to go! Great solve!

Now I'm freakin' out.
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natas
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Jeff,

Natas here. We erred on the side of caution in telling you not to take the pill, but we now believe it might be best. considering they ARE trying to keep you alive (for their own reasons albeit, but alive nonettheless). Sorry to hear about Steve. Our condolences pal. Anything we can do let us know. I have some more info on that, but I'll wait for your response to tell you about it.

NataS


Hopefully I'll hear from him soon.

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natas
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JEFF DEAD????
New e-mail from Steve...

it Save me


the tape kill Jeff


eleven plus two = twelve plus one


EDIT: sidenote (I'm not even going to venture a guess as to what this e-mail means. I'm more confused now than ever Steve is alive and Jeff is dead? Mind-Boggling)

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Areia
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I had to run just as we got into the mail folder, and I only just got home. But, correct me if I'm wrong, the guy in the obituary picture is the man we know as Jeff, right? The way I interpreted it is that Jeff is not really Jeff, he's Steven Chalmers who supposedly died a year ago, and whoever he thinks is Steve is one of the "bad guys", possible sni or JB.

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natas
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I don't believe that's a picture of Jeff. As I have never seen Steve, I can't say if it's a picture of him or not.

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miki_38x1
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"Eleven plus two = twelve plus one" is an anagram. I think Steve is implying that he's been sending us anagrams. Or should I say Steve-ghost?
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tokkii
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Areia wrote:
I had to run just as we got into the mail folder, and I only just got home. But, correct me if I'm wrong, the guy in the obituary picture is the man we know as Jeff, right? The way I interpreted it is that Jeff is not really Jeff, he's Steven Chalmers who supposedly died a year ago, and whoever he thinks is Steve is one of the "bad guys", possible sni or JB.


I never saw Steve's face from the old blog vid and it's gone now unless someone still has it. Jeff has a bigger...girth I think. (Please Holy FSM, I hope "Jeff" never comes here, I feel mean for saying that.) I'm going to go back to the vids we have and take a closer look. Nose and ear size are key if anyone wants to squint with me.

Hand size would be good too, but Steve has his hands in his pockets, which is a shame because Jeff's hands are very identifiable. The marsh video has lots of close up on the hands.

Edit: I've done a bit of comparing, I don't think they are the same person but damn they could be brothers. Steve's ears stick out a bit more than Jeff's, the nose is similar but Jeff's is a bit bigger are seems to flare more. Now that I have insulted Jeff twice in this post, I'm going to go write an apology letter to be sent after all this is done. =/

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miki_38x1
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Okay, so I'm looking at the code from the /mail page, what's underneath Steve's obituary. I rearranged the numbers to look like this, for mere convenience...

Code:
 3 1 11   2 36  14  3
-1 2 38  23 49 -15 -1


Notice that the first and last number of each line are the same. I'm really pathetic at codebreaking, so I'll just stop here. Plus it's getting late for me. Good luck if anyone can get it! Kind of looks like a phone number(s) to me.
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