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[Trailhead][ARG]The Home Office
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coasterdigi
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 		Found out one thing while digging around...

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The book is set in Denver


Emailed Penn with the findings. Waiting for a response.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:29 pm
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Brave777
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 		Email to contactSPLATHymnOfOne.org bounced back.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:35 pm
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Loudboy
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Joined: 01 May 2005
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 		Another new e-mail with mp3 attachment Smile

Quote:
[Fwd: SECURITY BREACH]
1 message
directorSPLATwethehomeoffice.com <director> Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:02 AM
To: pennSPLATwethehomeoffice.com
Penn -

Move faster. If this is a mole operation and Russell's been playing us we
have to know what he was looking for sooner rather than later.

Use force if necessary, but no-kill order in effect. If he's been with the
Order this whole time then we have a lot of information to extract from
him.

File 2/15 releasing later tonight.

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: SECURITY BREACH
From: securitySPLATwethehomeoffice.com
Date: Tue, November 11, 2008 8:09 pm
To: directorSPLATwethehomeoffice.com
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Guest Russell entered into security department and acquired data unknown
from our server room. As requested, attempted to keep "7" note from him
until analysis was complete, but unable to do so.

Audio recording found by analyst, and turned over to us within an hour of
breach. Recording attached.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:02 am
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coasterdigi
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 		Here are my thoughts:


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"It's like death, only different,"[/i] is a line from a book called Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon. It is the definition for the word "Thatatoid," which is a shortened version of "Thatatoid Personality."

"and I am trying to think this was all only a matter of chance." is a line from Magnolia. The narrator says it three times.

The other two parts of the clue in the audio file are "They looked toward Mecca, and a little toward Dixie. It'll be red as the devil."

At first, i assumed the last 2 sentences were also quotes from something, but after a bit of digging (with no results), it struck me that vineland and magnolia might be roads. I plugged them into google maps and viola, there is a Vineland Ave and Magnolia Ave corner in North Hollywood, CA.

So now I am assuming that the last 2 sentences are directions. Haven't figured out exactly what they're pointing to, however.




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Rotation
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 		Well Mecca refers to the religious monument in the middle east and dixie is usually talking about the south (or Georgia), so maybe its south east from that intersection

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Brave777
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 		Hmmm anyone familiar with that area know what around there or want to drive by?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:30 pm
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Loudboy
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 		Don't know if this is helpful at all, but here is google street view of the SE corner of that intersection from both sides.
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Brave777
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 		New video up on YouTube. Plot development, could have something in some of the static...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:34 am
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tagosto
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 		anyone in north hollywood? i can't go I'm going to be out of town.

that street corner's well lit though, so it's no big deal for someone to just walk up there. Lot of theatres and coffee shops around.

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coasterdigi
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 		^
Western Massachusetts here. Confused

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r0b3r7
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 		joinin'
I'm looking for a late start. i was reading the thread so far and I signed up, so I guess i'm just lacking the emails. They seem to be leading the whole thing, so will i get the new ones if i've signed up, or is it exclusive to the people that put witty things into the "What you will give to the Home Office (or something along those lines)" box? Anyways, im looking forward to it

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Brave777
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 		Re: joinin'
r0b3r7 wrote:
I'm looking for a late start. i was reading the thread so far and I signed up, so I guess i'm just lacking the emails. They seem to be leading the whole thing, so will i get the new ones if i've signed up, or is it exclusive to the people that put witty things into the "What you will give to the Home Office (or something along those lines)" box? Anyways, im looking forward to it


It seems like its everyone, I think. I got one the last one too.
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Brave777
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 		New email, a fwd? Hmm..

Quote:
[FWD:] Tail
Hold until further notice.

Analysts - it's your call. We need an answer ASAP.

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Tail
From: cargillSPLATwethehomeoffice.com
Date: Thu, November 13, 2008 9:27 pm
To: directorSPLATwethehomeoffice.com
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Director -

Caught a tail. Large but otherwise nondescript. Letter T in a circle
tattooed on the forearm. Thus far been observing only.

Please advise: Engage or evade?

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NerdLight
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 		Maybe he is just dumb and it's a Sun Cross or something? Dunno

Also, just a thought, Theseus is the bartender from Penny Dreadful who is referred to as "The Glove" (from Hail To Frogs.jpg)

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coasterdigi
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 		A circled "T?"

It's the logo of Boston's mass transit system Smile

Honestly, I have no idea. I'll take a look at it tonight when i get home.

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