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[TRAILHEAD] The Human Watchers
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inkflamewriter
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[TRAILHEAD] The Human Watchers

Alright, so this one has been very slowly building up for a little while, but I noticed no one has posted it yet, so here we go.

Two weeks ago, I ran across these twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/#!/SamuelSleeto
https://twitter.com/#!/TheFlainlings

After watching them for a little while (and decoding Sam's tweets), I found corresponding Youtube accounts:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SamuelSleeto
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFlainlings

It's a lot to take in, but it looks like a decent start to a good game. I'll post links to all the videos later tonight, just to make it easier for people to find them.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:39 pm
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And so "later tonight" turned into this morning...

Anyway, here's a list in order of posting:

The Flainlings:
1. Message 1
2. Storms Are Coming

Sam Sleeto:
1. v Arrq LBHE uryC
2. uv JBEyq, CyrnFr uryC zr
3. ynFG AvtuG
4. FGnL FGEBAt zL sEvrAqF
5. Erny DHvpx FpnEr

Responses:
Inkflamewriter(Me): SSdsbCBkbyB3aGF0IEkgY2Fu
Sam Sleeto: uv vAxsynzrJEvGrE
Inkflamewriter: V2hhdCBub3c/
Sam Sleeto: GurL nEr trGGvAt FGEBAtrE


A hint to people wanting to decode Sam's tweets and videos, plus my responses:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
He started by using an alphabet cipher (A=1, B=2, etc) then moved on to ROT cipher. I believe he specifically uses ROT-13. I have continually used base64.


Help me out here, guys...I feel weird being the only one doing the videos.
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Have you been able to determine what TheFlainlings are saying in their videos?

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I haven't, actually. I'm assuming right now that we're not intended to, seeing as Sam said in one of his other videos that that's how we sound to them, that's why videos are safe.

Pretty sure the descriptions on the videos give you a basic idea of the intention, though.
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I think this might be a Nexus Humanus thing.

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Why do you say that?
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I haven't been following it very closely, but I remember someone saying The Shadow Gang stopped tweeting, Mr. Hatchet was doing his Hatchety things and then a new Twitter feed appeared. I'm pretty sure that's where I'd seen "the flainlings" before. I could be wrong though. Since Strudel hasn't appeared on that feed at all I'm guessing I am. Sorry to confuse. ^^;

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has anyone added samuel bleeto on facebook? his about is quite interesting.

uv zL Anzr vF FnzHry, oHG zL sEvrAqF pnyy zr Fnz. v unIr EHA vAGB n yBG Bs GEBHoyr JvGu Gur synvAyvAtF ErprAGyL. GurL unIr orrA GELvAt GB nGGnpx zr sBE LrnEF nAq v qB ABG yvxr vG. v nz uBCvAt GunG ErnpuvAt BHG Jvyy uryC zr qrsrnG Gurz.

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Yup, he writes pretty much exclusively in cipher now...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Once again, ROT-13:

hi mY Name iS SamUel, bUT mY fRieNdS call me Sam. i haVe RUN iNTO a lOT Of TROUble WiTh The flaiNliNgS ReceNTlY. TheY haVe beeN TRYiNg TO aTTack me fOR YeaRS aNd i dO NOT like iT. i am hOPiNg ThaT ReachiNg OUT Will helP me defeaT Them.

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inkflamewriter wrote:
I haven't, actually. I'm assuming right now that we're not intended to, seeing as Sam said in one of his other videos that that's how we sound to them, that's why videos are safe.

Pretty sure the descriptions on the videos give you a basic idea of the intention, though.

New here... not sure if this is supposed to be spoliered so...
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They are just pitch shifted. Grab the audio, load them into audacity , and double the pitch to hear what they are saying.


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Hmmmmm.... I can't find a Samuel Bleeto on facebook....

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ZeroSum wrote:
Hmmmmm.... I can't find a Samuel Bleeto on facebook....


That's because it's Samuel Sleeto...his profile is here:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002952121019
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Embarassed Derp........

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inkflamewriter
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Just to keep things up to date, here are more of the videos that have shown up:

Sam:
6. vz onpx...xvAqn
7. jUNg Vf gNXVaT lbh fb YbaT?

The Flainlings
3. We Told You So

Me:
3. VHJ5aW5nIHRvIGdldCBoZWxw
4. U2NhcmVkIGFnYWlu

Note: Sam has not directly responded to either of my videos as of yet, although the Flainlings video does answer my third video in a way.
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I've been e-mailing Sam (samuelsleetoSPLAThotmail.com, taken from a qr code in his twitter and so far I haven't got much more information to add that is not already known. he's still asking for videos so that he can see how many people are supporting him. He also said that he'd "been very busy of late"

So far all of the conversation has been through Rot-13. But now he's changed code and my last e-mail read -

"xt eG fg ag co qk hi sr lz fp eK ft us dr us zb tu ml lb su hK gb xs mq lo cl sq fp tv ft gq ng es os do ik rg gq hk ag ll us lk gq ks lf lx tu qk tc bc fz dy sc ll zY"

Any ideas on where to go with this?

EDIT: Once again someone friendly pointed me in the right direction to decipher this code. It turns out that Sam has gone into hiding until Tuesday leaving his friend, Jared to man his facebook account. Also the Flainlings issued a warning via twitter - "It truly does not matter what we want anymore because the more you humans defy us, the more we will come to stop destroy you!" (I think the use of the word stop is a mistake, I take it to mean that the flainlings are coming to destroy humanity.... although I have tweeted them back for clarification.....)

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