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Olorin
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 		Re: Codex image
Cowabella wrote:
The thing that jumps out at me (and probably everybody else thats seen it Smile )about the Codex image is that it appears to be intended to fold in half, in which case: M=S, N=T, O=U, P=V, etc.


folding.. and substituting
DANTE <=> 74TN8

Probably nothing, but we might want to keep it mind. try to apply those substitutions as we go along.

----

Adam Perry blog is still there, and includes a new post ("My future is your past?").

TSO blog has been removed, apparently
and Secret's profile is "Not available" anymore
Dante's profile is also not available.

I got the feeling that the emails we got so far, and blogs might be temporary, so the 'disappearance' of some might be absolutely planned.

Anyways, I'll try and find time to follow the info from the latest Adam blogpost.

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 		New blogpost today reveals the email address to be yourfutureismypastSPLATgmail.com which gives you an "undeliverable" return message with binary that says

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I have never been able to find out why Dante and E.Y.E. had a fallout with T.S.O.
Somehow Dante and E.Y.E. lost their trust in T.S.O.
Unfortunately, the answer can not be found in the future, so maybe we can find it
in the past.
Your Future Is My Past�


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Cowabella
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 		A-HA (Maybe)
Could yourfutureismypast be Future Guy from Adam's blog??? Sounds plausible...
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Cowabella
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 		OMG!
Something new from EYE:

I sent a message from his youtube page. Went something like this:

Quote:
Subject: Not very comforting

Body: Your message says you can help us but your image gives the impression of death. Which is it? Can we trust you?


Here is his reply:

Quote:
Re: Not very comforting
E.Y.E. only show what was shown to me.
E.Y.E. am neutral. I guide both sides.

E.Y.E.


Sounds kinda AI-like; almost machine-y. Whaddya think, group?
Edit: changed "posted a comment" to "sent a message". There is a difference...
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degravedi
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 		Well, if E.Y.E. starts telling us to refer to it as Ariia, I'm running. Laughing

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Olorin
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 		Well, I got many thoughts going on.. most of which are probably irrelevant (such is life)...

For instance, since this thread seems to lead us down a time-travel scenario, I can't help but make a meta-link with the HUNT Corporation ARG presumably ramping up (see http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27490 for details). They seem to have lost one of the two people that can travel through time, and they're looking for either one (in the past, in the future ? See why I'm making the meta link?)

I left a couple of comments on Adam Perry's blog, one of which asking for details about his image (which, as noted, seems similar to the one on T.S.O. myspace page - although the similarity might simply be a result of the same color palette being used). Comments where not approved yet; we'll see.

Also, if I'm reading it correctly, Adam is on a "trip" (why the quotes ?) in the old continent.. maybe in the Netherlands ? Is this location important ? Maybe not, since they seem to have caught on to the Dutch portions of the blog and modified them to use English...

~ thanks to the PMs for giving us something *before* April ~

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 		Do we know this starts on April first? Or is that a deadline, perhaps?

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Olorin
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Talaisan wrote:
Do we know this starts on April first? Or is that a deadline, perhaps?


Well, the first video posted by E.Y.E. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG6TRW0gYKE&feature=channel_page) includes the following text:
"E.Y.E. Am Coming... April 1, 2009" (around 00:24)

I guess I've been reading it as the start of something, but it could turn out that we better finish the game *before* that date or the coming of E.Y.E. will signal our loss ?
If I have to go with my guts though, I think everything we've been given so far is 'intro material', establishing characters, a background story, etc... while we haven't seen anything like a task to complete by that date.

Anyone else has theories ?

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Olorin
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 		I sent a message to E.Y.E. on youtube and received an answer.

My message:
Quote:

Perhaps I can help.
When is Dante?


Reply:
Quote:

E.Y.E. thank you for your offer.
E.Y.E. do not need help.
It is mankind who needs help.
E.Y.E. am here to offer help.

Did you mean where is Dante?

E.Y.E.


Kind of disappointed that my question was shot down, but we'll see if we can get info on his location in space.

====

In the meanwhile, Adam kindly approved my comments to his blog, and added some info in a reply. See here:
http://adamfhperry.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-future-is-your-past.html#comments

Yummi info !

*** NOTE ***
My comment regarding the image:

Quote:

Adam, I wonder if you could share details about the image in the top-left of your blog (named Face002_Adam.jpg ). Thanks.


And a sniplet of the reply:
Quote:

The avatar I used? Well, if my blog ever gets controversial, then I don't want to be punched in the mouth by a random stranger who recognizes me Smile
I expect T.S.O. to have similar motives.


Interesting how Adam was kind enough to link his avatar and TSO's avatar (which I had not mentioned), isn't it ?

Anyone can check the images for anything hidden or out of order ?

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Talaisan
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 		And a solid link. Dante has done image editing work on both T.S.O.'s avatar and Perry's. I'm an utter hack at deciphering images, so I think I'll leave that to the experts.

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Olorin
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 		Quick question: anyone else noticed the different spelling of 'organization' in the myspace account ?

i mean it should be
'The Secret OrganiZation' but it is
'The Secret OrganiSation'

S vs Z.. specular letters.. might pair with the foldable Codex image ?

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CallistaT
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 		Okay, I don't think there's anytihng to crack on that codex. It's not a CODE. It's a codex. You might as well crack the alphabet. Because, that's all it technically is.

No I've brought the image into photoshop and played around with levels, and contrast. I didn't catching anything irregular.

Edit:

Also sent an email to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
yourfutureismypast[at]gmail.com


Waiting on the reply.

Edit again:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Your message did not reach the intended recipient.

The following recipient could not be reached:

yourfutureismypastSPLATgmail.com

The e-mail system was (currently) unable to deliver the message, but
did not report a specific reason.

Check the address and try again.
If it still fails, maybe you should try again later.



Log:
010010010010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000
110111001100101011101100110010101110010001000000110001001
100101011001010110111000100000011000010110001001101100011
001010010000001110100011011110010000001100110011010010110
111001100100001000000110111101110101011101000010000001110
111011010000111100100100000010001000110000101101110011101
000110010100100000011000010110111001100100001000000100010
100101110010110010010111001000101001011100010000001101000
011000010110010000100000011000010010000001100110011000010
110110001101100011011110111010101110100001000000111011101
101001011101000110100000100000010101000010111001010011001
011100100111100101110000011010000101001010011011011110110
110101100101011010000110111101110111001000000100010001100
001011011100111010001100101001000000110000101101110011001
000010000001000101001011100101100100101110010001010010111
000100000011011000110111101110011011101000010000001110100
011010000110010101101001011100100010000001110100011100100
111010101110011011101000010000001101001011011100010000001
010100001011100101001100101110010011110010111000100000000
011010000101001010101011011100110011001101111011100100111
010001110101011011100110000101110100011001010110110001111
001001011000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000
010110111001110011011101110110010101110010001000000110001
101100001011011100010000001101110011011110111010000100000
011000100110010100100000011001100110111101110101011011100
110010000100000011010010110111000100000011101000110100001
100101001000000110011001110101011101000111010101110010011
001010010110000100000011100110110111100100000011011010110
000101111001011000100110010100100000011101110110010100100
000011000110110000101101110001000000110011001101001011011
100110010000100000011010010111010000001101000010100110100
101101110001000000111010001101000011001010010000001110000
011000010111001101110100001011100000110100001010010110010
110111101110101011100100010000001000110011101010111010001
110101011100100110010100100000010010010111001100100000010
01101011110010010000001010000011000010111001101110100


That was the reply I got. I wonder if it's the same in the comments of the new entry. Gonna decode now and see.

Edit:

Definitely the same as in the comments.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I have never been able to find out why Dante and E.Y.E. had a fallout with T.S.O.
Somehow Dante and E.Y.E. lost their trust in T.S.O.
Unfortunately, the answer can not be found in the future, so maybe we can find it
in the past.
Your Future Is My Past


Maybe we should find out exactly WHAT TSO is.
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Olorin
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 		Got a bit more from E.Y.E. when I asked *where* Dante might be

Quote:

Currently, E.Y.E. do not know where Dante is.
E.Y.E. hope he is intact.


*intact* ?!?

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 		Also, new video: E.Y.E. am nearby

scrolling url
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://90021040.blogspot.com

image links to a downloadable package.rar file - which is the same image seen on the blog.

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Olorin
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):

90021040 is the reversed of 04012009 of course.
Again, I think there's something about the idea behind folding that Codex image, since it has a specular background in the top and bottom halves. Just like this url is the reverse of the original date.

The package description is simply "A present from E.Y.E. to you"
If you've never dealt with .rar files, they're compressed files (like .zip); I use WinRAR to decompress them.
The content of this one is, as mentioned, just the image found on the 90021040 blog.


My thoughts, rather obvious:

"Temporary space" may mean a place (e.g. a myspace page) you're occupying for a limited time, but also a place ('space') in time (again, tying to the future/past storyline).

The name of the image file is "present.jpg". yes, a gift, but also something other than "past" and "future".

Nice

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