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[kyuurijanaidesu]

ChuckDideEate Celebrated the opening this afternoon with Mayor Vincenta Cruz, members of the Decatur Tourism Squadron, and Big Brass Industries.

Mike said to pay attention to Chuck this week, and we just got this fax - AND the fax matches up with the mayor's league like onedreamofsleep said. Handbook says Mayor's League was founded in ACT 3 - anyone know off the top of their head when that would be our time?

[NotMeAtAll]

Yeah, cool.

[synspark]

Re: Barcode

[PostLarval]

Just got off the phone with Russo-

I told him I received an odd fax today, which I thought might be Milwaukee related (due to the symbols on it matching those found on Dark Dollars). He seemed surprised, and appeared to know nothing about it. Then he asked what exactly was on it... I mentioned the symbols again, and the odd thumbprint looking thing in the center. He got interested, and asked if I had been giving out my fax number recently. I told him I had, actually, to a Milwaukee number. He asked where I found this number, and I told him it was found hidden in a library. Then he started to open up a bit.

He said he shouldn't really be talking about this, but that he thinks I intercepted a rebel communication. He says the rebels are very cautious, because communications are often monitored, so they prefer to send messages 'old school'... faxes being old school, I suppose. He then continued on to tell me, again, that he really isn't the person to talk to about this. But that I can forward the fax over to him, and he might be able to take a look. Though he warned that any actions I take may have consequences. I told him he seemed to be trustworthy and helpful so far, and he reiterated that he's just a lowly mid-level executive. Finally, he noted that if I share this with anyone else, NOT to let it get into Blackstar's hands.

He really seemed to stress the point that there are other folks we can communicate with. I think perhaps, as far as the fax goes, we should consider who else out there might have info on the rebels. We should tread carefully though... he also stressed the point that different rebel groups don't necessarily play nice with each other, and that there may be repercussions to what we do in this world.

Long story short, the fax IS a secret message of some sort. Whether or not we can decode it on our own, I don't know.

[samspade]

Has anyone verified that each of the faxes received is identical? It's possible that the "thumbprint" shape is meant to hint that there are unique variations. Probably a stretch, but maybe worth looking into.

[Atropanocturna]

Maybe we should give the info to Mars. She is freelance, dosn't work for Blackstar (yet). Although she seems to be having a change of heart, she was planning to speak to Lipps today...

[Molecular]

So we're most likely communicating with... rebels?

Alright, let's take a few steps back. We first got in touch with them through the youtube video, right. This video was found in the thisismymilwaukee.com source code, meaning that the rebels (supposedly?) hacked in there and left this trail message for us.

The rebels must also be the ones to have left the note and wanted to have a way of contacting us through means of fax. it's pretty appearant that the rebels are supposed to be located in new york (I would assume? Considering everyone else are actually replying through milwaukee-registered phonelines, only the rebels so far seem to be in new york, part from the actual movie being made).

We're still left somewhat in the dark on what we're supposed to do with the fax, however, we do have their faxnumber, don't we?
Question: Has anyone tried faxing them back? Or do you suppose once we do crack the code of the fax, we're supposed to fax back the result?

Maybe we're supposed to use the "dark dollar" assignment code in the pamphlet to organize the figures on the fax in certain ways, and fax that back to the rebels as a form of line of coded communication.

Just tossin random ideas out there. I'd wager faxing them would be worth trying, though.

[PostLarval]

[synspark]

[PostLarval]

[BigRedCat]

I really think this will work:

If you zoom in really far, towards the X, and highlight the whole blob, if you copy and rotate it transparently using a picture editor(even paint), numbers will randomly appear(they look digital style). I've also gotten an arrow and a butterfly like shape.

Though most of my results are random, I believe if you use the Dark Dollars arrangement(same symbols in the corners), it will tell us exactly how to rotate two copies of the images and overlay them exactly to form a number/message.

It would be easier if you had two large transparencies IMO.

Thoughts? Someone with more time and better tools want to try this?

[GMcG]

[teufelsdrochk]

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[NotMeAtAll]

Don't send the fax to Mike.