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Dvorak
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 		Update
I've just come back from a trip, and I found this message in my inbox:

Quote:
Dvorak:

I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to get back in touch with you. I was ordered not to contact you until my superiors had made some critical decisions. After their initial series of meetings, they asked me to conduct some research on the evolving situation and get back to them with my findings. Then they had another series of meetings and asked me to provide you with certain information.

Following is what I have been instructed to relay to you.

1. On My Superiors

My superiors have given me permission to tell you a little bit more about them. They are known as The Group. The Group consists of between 8 and 12 individuals who -- after benefiting from DNArgus' Cryobooth technology -- have been blessed with long lives and long-term perspectives. Their goal is to enhance the peace and prosperity of humankind by decreasing the chaos associated with rampant creativity. Most of the time, The Group been small. However, because the Pathers have increased their activities lately, they decided to begin an effort to recruit more individuals to serve as "helpers" for our greater cause. This is why we started the recruitment drive on DNArgus.com.

2. On Our Recruitment Efforts

During our research, we learned that a Pather operative hacked into our communications system and redirected messages intended for those who indicated that they "crave innovation." We had originally created an automated message thanking them for their interest in our company, but the Pather created a process parallel to our own to recruit people to their cause. Our sources tell us that the Pathers have recruited many individuals. Unfortunately, we have been less successful. However, we are confident that our other Agents (and you) will be enough to help us turn the tide of the conflict.

3. On Barbara Chung

We have taken the time to observe Chung's "musings" over the past few weeks. We appreciate you providing us with the password to her encrypted posts. After reading the content, it appears that there is nothing threatening about the posts -- so far. However, we continue to read them carefully. In addition, as Chung is a DNArgus employee, we have the means of interrogating her using internal resources. We plan to do this in the coming weeks.

4. On the Prophecy & Other Materials

Thanks to you, we were able to access the password protected documents you led us to. The Group was disturbed that information that has been secret for generations has been released to the public. These materials were created by someone we choose to identify only as Subject 159PD. As Chung suggested in her posts this individual participated in an early trial of the Life1K serum. The historical information you read is mostly true. However, the Pathers have inserted an unfortunate amount of . . . propaganda into the text to make the Stables look bad. In fact, they have done this for most of the documents. However, the Prophecy is mostly true. It is you (and the Pathers) who will determine the Elder Protector's fate.

5. On the Book

The prophecy also mentions a Book. We have conducted some research about this document and have learned that it will appear sometime in the next couple of weeks. We have learned that the Book will not portray Stables in a positive light. However, the actions we took against the Elder Protector were necessary. Once you have read the Book, you will be aware of what I am speaking about. When you read the Book, keep this in mind.

6. Next Steps

As I mentioned previously, we have not met our recruitment goals. Given this, we would like to ask you for your ideas on how we can attract others to our cause. I will take your suggestions to The Group for vetting. If they approve your suggestions, I will ask you to implement them. I look forward
to hearing your recommendations.

Please contact me with any questions. There are certain restrictions on what I can say, but I will try to answer your questions as openly as possible.

Stability Brings Peace


PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:21 pm
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Bruce
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 		New posts at Barbara Chung's blog - she's still focusing on 'stability brings peace.'
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Bruce
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 		There is a link to a new puzzle on Barbara Chung's blog:


http://idxpo1.com/mess1/1.html
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:50 am
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Dvorak
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 		The Puzzles
I've been able to decrypt the puzzles:

Puzzle 1:
QRCode

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Your task is to put the clues that follow together to find my first message. I reside in the cloud. Thus, my message is there as well. Remember, using the name of Kasner's creation will lead you astray.


Puzzle 2:
Wingdings

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I sit on my bum and read in the sun.
I'm lazy, I'm crazy,
Like my brother in arms. We're like
two peas in a pod.


Puzzle 3:
Diary
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
For this one, you have to rename the linked mp3 as a PDF.

Here is the content of the pdf:

June 8

Dear Diary:

Today I am twelve years old. My birthday was not a lot of fun. I'm really MAD!

Just when I was going to blow out the candles on my candied bean b-day cake, mom told me yet ANOTHER story about what things were like when she was young.

You see, she is always muttering under her breath about how lazy and ungrateful I am. She says that I'm lucky. In her day, rationing was so bad that they only had two meals: breakfast and beans.

Today, we have three meals: breakfast, beans and ham. During breakfast, my parents combine ham and beans into lots of stuff. But, she ONLY had beans. They figured out how to do a lot with beans. They also had vitasupps, so they didn't die from scurvy or other diseases.

Diary, have I told you how much I HATE beans? I don't care how many varieties we have, beans are just NASTY.

My friend at school told me that her daddy's best friend said that the airships are close to breaking through the blockade. But, I'm not holding my breath. They have been saying that since I was ten! It will be beans, beans, BEANS for the rest of my life!

Anyway, I know there is a black market for those special beans. You know, the ones that make a girl fall in love with you? Suzie Maincamp is so cute! I wish I could kiss your, but she ignores me and calls me names. Bean breath is her favorite.

Diary, my breath does not smell like BEANS does it? I only had one bean for dinner and ate my ham like a good boy.

Sometimes I dream about being married to Suzie. Those are really nice dreams. I mean REALLY nice (if you know what I mean). But, it's not so nice when I wake up feeling icky. That's awkward. Good thing Billy has is own bean bed to sleep in now.

It's also not nice when I dream that our kids look like giant beans!


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Bruce
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 		I think the answers confuse me more than the puzzles did. At least we know not to Google anything. Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:09 pm
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Dvorak
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 		Puzzles
Puzzle
I've was contacted by John Smith, and he said that:

1) The book will come out this week on the web.

and

2)He was asking about idxpo1 and said he thought that the clues on the website are leading to some sort of podcast.

I think, that until the book comes out, we need to figure out idxpo1's clues.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:58 pm
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Bruce
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 		I think you're right. Perhaps Clue # 2 refers to a planet - Earth or Venus.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:34 am
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punkymonkey
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 		just found something kind of interesting. I was poking around at the idxpo1 site and found an open index at http://idxpo1.com/mess1/ it contains a file called "manjpg" that I didn't see on any of the clue pages. just thought I would share. here's was the image looks like when you add .jpg to the file:



PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:53 pm
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Bruce
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 		Can someone de-steg that image? I tried imagecipher.com, but it gave me gibberish. I still think there may be a hidden message.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:29 pm
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punkymonkey
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 		JPHS says that the image has not been modified

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:51 pm
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Dvorak
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 		Book
Book
The Book is out now at:

http://tinyurl.com/kvdanx

I think that we should still focus on finding idxpo1's podcast. He may be one of the Three.

Edit:

I just found this website:

http://pathoftheblueeye.com/

BTW:

I found idxpo1's podcast:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://idxpo1.podbean.com/


It decodes to:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Go to message1.html on my site for the final clue.


We need to use what came before to figure out the login.

Also, on the profile page for the podcast, he names himself as "Mole DNArgus." I tried e-mailing him at the DNArgus website and got a response. He gives an encoded message, which is encoded with the puzzle key from the pathoftheblueeye.com website.

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Bruce
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 		Wow! Good work, Dvorak! Can you post the email you received?

Also, did you figure out the username and password to get the WAV file on his website?
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Dvorak
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 		E-mails
E-mails
Here is IDXPO1's email from idxpo1SPLATdnargus.com:

Quote:
How can I be sure you can be trusted?

If you have opened the door, this should be no problem for you: 12 15 16 26 18 21 12 8 13 18 1.

http://www.dnargus.com/images/im012.jpg.

This is not an active e-mail account. E-mails sent to this address will be ignored.



Here is Jim Doe's E-mail:

Quote:
Hello All:

As some of you already know, we have been awaiting the release of the
Book, a high-level chronicle of the War of the Shadows for some time.
Our sources tell us that the Book has been released.

However, before I provide you with the location of the Book, I want to
discuss where we will be hopefully going in the future. Up until this
point, we have been providing you with clues and information to help
you understand the context of the conflict we are waging against those
known as the Pathers. Now, the future shape of this conflict will be
determined by you and your colleagues.

As outlined in the Book, The Three will be making a decision over the
coming months about which side to choose: the Pathers or the Stables.
Or, they can decide to opt out of joining the conflict, which will
serve our purposes as well.

Your task, should you choose to accept it, will be to convince them of
the benefits of the Stable cause. We would like you to:

-Develop content (audio, video, written, etc.) focusing on a series of
questions that the Three will be contemplating over the coming months.
-Recruit others to the Stable cause by asking them to view the
questions you will be tasked to consider and develop their own content
focusing on this query.

Should we receive enough content on each question (from you and
others), we will move forward with the next query. Because both the
Pathers and the Stables adhere to some tenets of the Law of Balance,
we understand that Pather recruits will be receiving a similar
assignment. Content from both sides will be presented to the Three.
It will shape their decision about which side of the conflict to join.

The first question follows.

Question 1: Why is Stability preferred and how will it benefit humankind?

Develop audio, video or textual material focusing on this question and
submit your content to me at this e-mail address. You will have two
weeks to complete this task.

The Book

The book is located here: http://tinyurl.com/kvdanx. It requires two
technologies to view: Flash and an up-to-date browser.

We look forward to seeing your submissions and how your recruitment
efforts fare. Remember, you will determine the shape of the road
ahead.

Jim Doe


I haven't been able to figure out the username and password for idxpo1's message. I've been working on the puzzle trail on the pathoftheblueeye website. I'm now searching for "blue dot" hyper links in the comic.

I've also discovered an idxpo1 directory at dnargus.

dnargus.com/idxpo1/

Which is password protected.

The way idxpo1's e-mail sounds, I think that we'll get the password and username after following the pathoftheblueeye puzzle trail. Since he mentions "Open the door" in his e-mail.

Edit 2:

I've found the blue dots.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
After finding 2 blue dots on pages 10 and 14, I followed the links to:
http://www.pathoftheblueeye.com/Puzzles/BE_Event_Assessment.pdf
and
http://www.pathoftheblueeye.com/Puzzles/suris_packet.pdf

I decoded the messages on the footer of the suris_packet and got a message pointing me to a white portal link. Which was on page 4.
This link led me to:
http://www.pathoftheblueeye.com/Puzzles/memo_1.pdf

Which was apperently what was supposed to lead us to the idxpo1 e-mail.

I also found another link from the blue portal to:

http://www.pathoftheblueeye.com/Puzzles/audio_mind_puzzle.html

Right now,
We need to:
1) Look at the above documents for additional clues,
2) Make audio/visual/written arguments for the questions from both sides.
3) Access idxpo1's message.
4) Access idxpo1's directory.
5) Contact idxpo1.


PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:19 pm
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Bruce
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 		http://www.idxpo1.com/message1.html shows:

Quote:
The path forward lies behind you.

Use the knowledge you have gained to access my words.


Get it here. http://www.idxpo1.com/test_01/test_1.wav


There is a hidden line: Two times is the charm.
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Bruce
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 		Able to 'unredact' (is that even a word?) the memo at: http://www.pathoftheblueeye.com/Puzzles/memo_1.pdf


Quote:
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To: David Parker
From: Monica Dunlop
Subj: Subject P Seen Exiting From White Portal
Date: May 17, 2025

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Situation

On May 10, 2025, Subject P was witnessed exiting a shimmering white portal at 15:45 on the corner of White and Domania Avenue in the city of Arcopolis. We were able to quickly locate him using Omnividus.

Subject P was met by an unknown individual at 15:50. They proceeded to the suburb of Grovers Lane. This is the location of DNArgus's secret experimental cryogenic facility.

We conducted remote surveillance of the DNArgus facility over a seven-day period. Subject P has not emerged. However, we continue to conduct computer, visual, and remote surveillance of Subject P's accomplice, who left DNArgus at 21:30.

Our analysts speculate that Subject P was emerging from an alternate universe or reality. However, when we have observed Subject P in the past, he has emerged from shimmering blue portals rather than white. It is unknown what this color change signifies.

Following is a summary of what we have been able to gather thus far from XXXXXXX and XXXXXXX about this alternate reality.

Alternate Reality

The realm Subject P appears to be traveling from is the source of the creative energies health communicators rely upon. People tapping into this realm are unaware they are relying on its creativity for others, including XXXXXXX.

Given the color of the portal he emerged from, Subject P may have switched his allegiance to a being known as XXXXX. This entity strives to destroy the alternate universe. The entity appears to have many followers in our universe. If Subject P is XXXXXXX XXXXXXX then XXXXX. We will update you on Subject P's activites at our next weekly meeting in XXXX.


MD
Monique Dunlop
Special Agent in Charge
Department of Paranormal Investigation




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