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DontCountToday
Kl00
Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 42 Location: Chicago, IL
even though that first pissed me off....still curious what the second one says...maybe something really really insightful... like
Where Moonlit Towers
arise over Silicon Hills
and Violet Crowns
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:46 pm
AUZ505
Unfictologist
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 1599 Location: Germany
We know the date and the city. But what about the location and the time?
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:51 pm
PostLarval
Entrenched
Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 806 Location: 32° 43'N, 117° 10'W (give or take)
AUZ505 wrote:
We know the date and the city. But what about the location and the time?
The Watcher will give us more clues over the next week. We'll likely get another Q&A, too.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:01 pm
vapor
Entrenched
Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Dallas, TX ya'll
Hmm. Well that was all sort of, anticlimactic.
So some stuff that wasn't mentioned here yet.
The back of the journal entry was signed "J". The beginning of the journal talks about Richard Moore, which is John's fathers name. So I don't think "J" is for John. Unless John didn't know who his father was.
Whoever it was had some dream about some Sky Inc. people chasing him out a window and he woke up before he hit the ground. He even drew us a nice little picture with some cryptic notes. I take it that the building he jumped from is shown in the pic as well as the symbol on the guards uniforms (Sky Inc. logo). Not sure what to make of the other weird symbol as it does not seem to be mentioned in the journal. What's with the case numbers? Why is it mentioned in the journal.
Also, icecrimp could you tell us if there is like a sticky note on top of the picture or something. Cause it looks that way. And the very top of the picture is cut off. We can't see the case # at the very top. If you can get some better scans that would be great. No biggie if you can't, though.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:44 pm
icerimp
Decorated
Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 230 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Yep, for the picture, that was a sticky note on the top right. It's labeled Case 4, and it had that symbol on it that mirrored the one on the picture itself to the left. In addition, Case 5 on the lower right is another sticky. I figure I'd save you from having to look at more files and just scan them together. Sorry for the confusion!
Edit: That symbol shows up yet another time as well. I made note of it, but in case it was missed, it's also on the backside of the sticky with the note from 13.
Edit2: Or at least, I thought I made a note of it. The image notes didn't update, I suppose.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:20 am
vapor
Entrenched
Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Dallas, TX ya'll
Okay, just to be sure was there anything else? Anything written on the back of the picture?
So we have case #s 4, 5 and 6 and a note saying:
Quote:
Case #s
Dream
Too frequent to be unimportant?
I've tried plugging /case6 and /case#6 to the end of urls but got nothing.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:48 am
Nighthawk
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 4751 Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth
So let me get this straight: they are providing semi-complex puzzles that require an extensive amount of manual labor... to give us information we have from other places anyway?
If I'm gonna put that amount of work in to it, I'd somehow like it to be for a purpose.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:58 am
Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
I'd bet it was just simple miscommunication.
That can happen when you're working in diverse locations.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:04 am
noisy
Boot
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Seattle, WA
13lights.org has been updated:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"01001001 01010111 01000001 01010011 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 01010100 01001111 01000010 01000101 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000100 01000101 01010100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01000101 01000100 00101101" = Binary = "IWASCLOSETOBEINGDETECTED-"
"44 41 54 45 22 45 52 52 4f 52 22 41 54 43 4f 4e 54 41 43 54 57 41 53 54 4f 54 48 52 4f 57 54 48 45 4d 4f 46 46 2d 0d 0a 0d 0a" = hex = "DATE"ERROR"ATCONTACTWASTOTHROWTHEMOFF-"
"flRIRVdBVENIRVI" = Base64 = "~THEWATCHER"
So, I guess our next drop will be 8/23 instead of 8/24?
Huh... Um...
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:23 am
Last edited by noisy on Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:24 am; edited 1 time in total
vapor
Entrenched
Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Dallas, TX ya'll
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
yes 8/23 instead of 8/24. More in the page source
!--DEBUG: %CURDATE = %CURDATE-1 = 08.23--
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:32 am
Nighthawk
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 4751 Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth
PMs: Nice save there, I must say.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:52 am
stratagos
Unfettered
Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 339 Location: Philadelphia suburbs
vapor wrote:
The back of the journal entry was signed "J". The beginning of the journal talks about Richard Moore, which is John's fathers name. So I don't think "J" is for John. Unless John didn't know who his father was.
Keep in mind that if "John" is in our world, he *doesn't* necessarily know who his father is - which might mean that Dr. Moore is somehow here as well.
We should ask who else from John's primary world is on our one.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:38 am
AUZ505
Unfictologist
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 1599 Location: Germany
You all did a nice puzzle solving with the actual 13.lights.org page.
But it seems because of all the hidden information you missed the head line of the page:
DATABASE TIMING ERROR: COMPENSATE -1 DAY
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:50 am
stratagos
Unfettered
Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 339 Location: Philadelphia suburbs
Vapor picked that up, actually
So, icerimp, can you give us a little more detail on the meet? Did the dude just hand over the package, say "ta ta!" and take off?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:15 am
PostLarval
Entrenched
Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 806 Location: 32° 43'N, 117° 10'W (give or take)
stratagos wrote:
Vapor picked that up, actually
So, icerimp, can you give us a little more detail on the meet? Did the dude just hand over the package, say "ta ta!" and take off?
icerimp talked a bit about this in chat yesterday. Apparently there were some OOG moments... the guy had a hard time finding the park (traveled from downstate), and was about an hour late. I gathered there wasn't much discussion of character or game, but I'm definitely curious about what exactly was said.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:38 pm
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