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[BEIJING] Allies in Beijing
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VictorSueiro
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DavFlamerock wrote:
Lol Canzonett beat me to it.

But yeah it's the Couberteam fake document... remember... the fake desynch ritual...


I cant stop laughing... that was the fake unsyncro labyrinth!

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danteIL
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Can someone perhaps translate this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-FvYolEXB0

to help me understand how exactly this 'plan' was supposed to help Renata??

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lhall
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Diego and Mei Hui both wrote back, but by the time I was awake these videos were out Smile

I knew that Diego knew about the Couberteam and its plans, but I was still kind of worried, so I asked him for an explanation:

Diego wrote:
Hola Laura

Yes, it's me there.

First thing first: It's not what it seems. You have to trust me on
this. Don't tell MeiHui that I tell you this please.

We will need your help VERY SOON. We will need something that
definitely we cannot do, and most definitely not from here. It's for
the good of the agonothethai, we are not Theo. Trust us.

I'll send you an e-mail once we figure out exactly how can you guys help

Thank you

Diego



And I told Mei Hui to be sure she stayed safe:

Mei Hui wrote:
I know!!! I am so nervous! I really don't know what's going on and I am hoping that some smart friends like you would be able to help me to figure it out! Maybe you can ask others and see if they know anything about it? I am going to pretend everything is ok for now, just for the sake of unity and training for labyrinth. But I am really worried...

meihui

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VictorSueiro
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danteIL wrote:
Can someone perhaps translate this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-FvYolEXB0

to help me understand how exactly this 'plan' was supposed to help Renata??


Larissa: ... Renata (portuguese... cant understand -as a spanish speaker, i can understand some portuguese, not this time).
Diego: How?
Monica: we can make theo believe that has helped to fail in our mission (bad sound, waiting for more ears!)
Larissa: Couberteam?
Diego: Ahhh, the desyncronization ritual! We can do a fake labyrinth. Markus! Come!
MarKus: What?

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DavFlamerock
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New email from Diego:

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Hi people!

Good idea to contact Thermantia! I didn't think of that.

But we have been talking about it and we think that maybe an email out
of nowhere won't be enough...

What we need to to is contact Theo in a secret way... What method did
you all use to contact Theo secretly in the past? Lets use that and
then send Thermantia an email directing her down that path. (the
path, of course, would lead to MeiHuis video).

Also, sorry to have to ask you guys this, but we need this EXTREMELY
fast! You all now that we are extremely close to the olympiads and the
trip home.

As usual: thanks a lot, we could'n have done anyhting without your help!

Diego


I'm not a double-agent, so someone who is will have to do the Theo-talkin'.

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jasper
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We need some Bacon Code? Wasn't that La Secto?

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lhall
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Mr. Judkins pointed out that Diego is referring to the "Sektano" project, through which we communicated with Thermantia. She created websites whose source contained a space-based ABBA code: http://historyofantiquity.googlepages.com/home

Weezel made this awesome translator for us to use: http://chaos.greenhead.com/FTLR/LaSekto/


So, at Mr. J's suggestion, I pulled together this text so that we can create our own page and hide a message in the source. Whoever creates it, please feel free to add blinking tags, marquee text, glittery backgrounds, multiple exclamation points, etc. Y'know...for realism. Wink


Images to use:

http://www.beijingolympicsfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/fuwa.png

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/B/4/-/-/Olympics-Mascots-2.jpg

Individual pics: http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1350/the_curse_of_the_fuwa.html


Text to use:

The five official Olympic mascots were created to represent a combination of traditional Chinese symbols, favorite animals, ideals and sports.

The characters' names are Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Together, the names form the sentence "北京欢迎你", Běijīng huānyíng nǐ which means "Beijing welcomes you".

These creatures are known as Fuwa, or "good luck dolls." But if you continue reading, you'll find that they are anything but.

Presenting... the Curse of the Fuwa:

The claims appeared first in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Sichuan Province last month, with people pointing out that one of the Fuwa, Jingjing, is a panda, the animal native to Sichuan.

Jingjing, a panda. The panda is native to Sichuan Province, the site of a terrible earthquake on May 12, 2008. Official figures (as of July 6, 2008 12:00 CST) state that 69,197 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,340 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.

Huanhuan, the Olympic flame. The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008. In many cities along the route, the torch relay was met by protesters representing a range of political issues, particularly those related to China's human rights record, the recent unrest in Tibet, the war in Darfur, China's support to regimes in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, North Korean defectors, territorial disputes over the Spratly and Paracel Islands with Vietnam, Falun Gong persecution and the political status of Taiwan, resulting in violence at various locations. These protests, which ranged from tens of thousands of people in San Francisco, to effectively none in Pyongyang, have forced the path of the torch relay to be changed or shortened on a number of occasions.

Yingying, a Tibetan antelope. Linked to the unrest in Tibet: "According to the non-government Save Tibet website, the Tibetan people are denied most rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the rights to self-determination, freedom of speech, assembly, movement, expression, and travel. Elliot Sperling, an Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies at Indiana University, in a statement to the Human Rights Watch, also detailed human rights violation in Tibet. The Tibet Justice.org claims that according to UN Development Programme data, Tibet is ranked the lowest among China's 31 provinces, and is ranked 153 out of the 160 countries on the Human Development Index.

Amnesty International has stated that political prisoners are often beaten and tortured, and sometimes summarily executed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tibetan_antelope.jpg

Nini, a swallow whose headgear design is modeled after a kite. Blamed for the China Railway train T195 accident, a major train collision that occurred on the morning of April 28, 2008, in Weifang, the "kite city." The collision killed more than 70 people and injured hundreds more.

An alternate theory is that Nini is a locust, and associated with a locust plague that infested Inner Mongolia in June 2008.

Nini, a swallow who looks like a kite, has been tied to a deadly train crash in Weifang, known as 'kite city', in Shandong Province on April 28.


Beibei, a fish. Over 1.6 million people were forced to evacuate their homes when the worst floods for 50 years swamped much of southern China.

A famous quote about the event read: "I am in Shenzhen. There is heavy rain for two days and no sign that it will stop… now the curse of the last "fish" has proven correct. What shall we do?" said a post by yellow_hades on Tianya, a popular online forum.

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jasper
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Ah, Secktano!

Thermantia Ringon
thermantia1920SPLATgmail.com

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mr.judkins
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Sektano has just sent an email to Thermantia:

Sektano wrote:
Hello Thermantia,

I am aware of your interest in how the History of Antiquity relates to the efforts of Theo, and I was wondering if you were interested in how some recent skepticism about the Beijing Olympics might be important too.

It seems a bit crazy on first read, but upon closer inspection you'll find it quite helpful I'm sure.

http://olympicsecrets.googlepages.com/home


Sincerely yours,

Sektano


If you're interested, you can check out the text hidden in the website using Weezel's Bacon Maker. View the source of the page, find the single line of content (near the bottom), copy and paste it into the "Enciphered Text" box and click "Decipher".

The Result:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
ITSEEMSOURENEMIESINBEIIINGARENOTASHOMEFREEASTHEYTHOUGHT
YOUMAYBEINTERESTEDINTHISUIDEOWWWDOTTINYURLDOTCOMSLASHDESYNCH


or

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It seems our enemies in Beijing are not as home free as they thought.
You may be interested in this video: www.tinyurl.com/desynch


Big thanks to Lehall for coming up with the content of the Olympic Secrets website, and for the team in the irc channel for getting this all polished and sorted!

Now to wait for a response!

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Khaos
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Could someone also use the Theo phone number we got ?

Can't hurt to have several channel of communication.
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Khaos wrote:
Could someone also use the Theo phone number we got ?

Can't hurt to have several channel of communication.


Let's try La Secto first and wait a while if she reacts. Carpet bombing on all available communication channels would look just as suspicious as if we wrote her an open mail pointing her to the vid.

Nice "baconing". Thanks, lhall and mr.judkins!

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Canzonett
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DavFlamerock wrote:
New email from Diego:

Quote:
Hi people!

Good idea to contact Thermantia! I didn't think of that.

But we have been talking about it and we think that maybe an email out
of nowhere won't be enough...
(...)
As usual: thanks a lot, we could'n have done anyhting without your help!
Diego




Included in the CC distribution list of that mail were:
MeiHui
Monica
James
Larissa

NO MARKUS. Seems to indicate they suspect him of still being a loyal Theo member. And that their original plan included him forwarding info about the desynch labyrinth to Theo.

PS Mail from MeiHui, explaining how she came to witness the labyrinth:
Quote:

They were just performing the ritual right outside of our hotel and I saw it and I just so happened to have my camera with me so I filmed it. James, Larissa, Diego and Monica had the chance to explain to me yesterday about this so I am no longer that upset anymore. But we need to figure out something else soon.

I am doing well thanks for asking. The time in Beijing has been amazing and we are training very hard for the final labyrinth competition. Smile


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The absence of Markus when they were explaining to Mei- that makes me wonder what they told Markus about what they were doing, and why.

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Canzonett
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SILENCE
silence ... silence ... silence ... silence ...

Is it just me, or has no one heard anything vital from our team in Beijing (apart from Diego's letter regarding the Thermantia mission)? No additional mails, no new videos, no photos, no blog entries. What will happen next?

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