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bluesylvia
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 		For some reason Gmail didn't tell me I got this...
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I just realised that picture must have been taken here in the hotel. That is the same sofa we have here.


Now, finally with some free time, I can forgo exhausting myself with school work and work on what really matters! Laughing
The Crescent Cross on the note may be a symbol of the Crusades, as that's the only remarkable time period I can think of. The first Crusades started in 1095 CE.

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Abraxas
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I figure it's written by ThisEve, but where did this picture come from? Confused
I can understand if you are reluctant to post it on the board (concerns for bandwidth...I still don't know if that is something we should worry about, I'd have to ask one day...), but could you provide a link to the upload on the wiki with a short explanation? Because this picture seems to have come out of nowhere, really. Smile
Just assuming that people are lurking, they might be very confused.
Not meaning to put you down, you are doing great work, Roses! Wink

@Blue
I could fill in a couple letters, but that doesn't help much. A lot of those words are close to some we know. I guess this might be the mistakes that OP mentioned in an email to me. Don't worry, it wasn't important. He was just saying that he doesn't fully trust ThisEve and that she keeps making mistakes with the Language which suggests that she is still in the process of learning it. She could have made mistakes here, although some words are more than just one letter off from any that we know.
Didn't respond to his email, because I didn't see a question in there and out of the loop too much to do much more than react in correspondence. Razz I hope he doesn't feel ignored...

On second thought...maybe this is helpful. ThisEve could by lying about being a whatsthename reja. Shouldn't she be good with the Language if she was one?

The character Blue is wondering about, the upper half is one of the characters on the Herculaneum 4-character script. There is another one later on.

OOG: I think the 4-character stuff might be years, after all. That sounded like a nudge.

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bluesylvia
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OP Smith wrote:
I wonder what the script says. I confronted Eve with what I know (don't worry, I found it once I knew what to look for among her things - so she doesn't know who gave it to me).
She says she knows what it says, but doesn't know what it means. She says there are a few strange symbols. Maybe you could ask her? She wont tell me. She says it is "beyond people like" me.

Hinty hint hint hint Wink

I have no contact with ThisEve. Carpathian, would you care to do the honors?

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 		I contacted ThatEve worried TEDO had stormed the house and hurt/killed her.
Turns out they didn't!
Such chivalrous guys!

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Yeah, I guess Carpathian Roses told you what happened.

When I came back they were all gone. I still don't know what to make of the note that Abie left, Carpathian has yet to get back to me.
At the moment I'm just hiding. I'm keeping a low profile. I wish I could get to your world. My world is seeming scarier and scarier all the time. I wrote to Eve, but she seems to be very goal-focused right now. She says she needs to find out some things before crossing and says she doesn't have time to come and get me. I hope that everyone is OK. I tried hacking into the hospital system to search whatever files they have at the moment, but it seems that the virus is still active. I wonder if the TEDO are responsible for it. I've been learning a bit more about your world. It seems my internet is now only connected to yours somehow. Your history is a little different to mine! Like the USA never became part of Mexico in 1991; and Evandale does not seem to exist in your world at all!

I guess that's what happens when you've got alternate time lines!

I'm unsure what to do next.


Perhaps I missed it, but what email did ThatEve send you, Carpathian? And what was the note?

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 		Sure I'll ask ThisEve. Sorry I've been a little lacking in the replies this weekend.


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ThatEve:Yes I was away when I they were taken. I was trying to find the rift to see if I could get people across. I had hoped that Eve would have come here by now, but I guess everything took longer than she expected. There was a note left in the house. I don't know what to make of it. It was hidden underneath the blankets that were keeping Abie warm.

It said:

"I have seen the 6th sun rise and shine its light upon the shadows. I have seen the power of the Earth come forth to crush and burn and sweep the enemy away. I have seen an small army bruise the spirit of the enemy and regain in days, what was lost for centuries. The Alovieb of Tylean were there at them all. They were there. Yet they have not yet been there. These events are history, yet their origins are the whisper of an idea that a future mind has not yet thought. Do not let them forget what not yet has come to pass. They must not feel like failures now because they failed to rescue us in time. Time has corners. Of this they know already. Time is their playground. Time is their weapon. Tell them."

I hope you know what this means.



Also, new info from Theodore. I had asked him about the treatment plan.

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Theo: It is exploratory Neurosurgery. There are areas on their brain in the MRI that are hypertrophic. This means that they are larger than normal. We do not think it is cancer, but a biopsy is the only way to be sure. Our neurosurgeon Professor Thaddeus Edward Devlin-Otto has suggested that the safest way to do this will be for an open craniotomy with dissection of the affected areas. These are mainly in the frontal lobe. You will be pleased to know that Prof Deviln-Otto estimates that the risk of dying is only 15%. The risk of serious personality change is 70%, but we would expect that from the process anyway.

I hope this helps to reassure you.


I'll try to be more punctual with my posts. Wink

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 		I got a response:

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ThisEve It seems then, that we have somewhat of a symbiotic relationship. I am a Speaker, you are not. Yet, you are the Alovieb and have access to Lore that is beyond that of my people. So I will give you the translation:

Kwa desd 800 zal kosalv fo; Da yatux vexo um n 8 jal herdhalv fo.

Which means:

What since/for 800 years safe/kept was; Then we came and in 8 days lost was.
(ie What was held for 800 years was lost with our help in 8 days.)



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bluesylvia
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 		Almost didn't notice this video from TEDO amongst all the annoying videos I'm not interested in watching on my front page.

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By now you will know that the Tilean is in our hands. You will probably know also that we have his sword with him, though I doubt he told you what his sword was really for.
As you can see, it is not sharp. What would an old man want with a blunt sword? What it lacks in sharpness, it makes up for in lethality. Notice the kind of pain that he appears to be in as I gently rub his sword against his bare skin. Notice the mark. This is the mark of his death. The mark is the sign of the poison that will kill him in 96 hours. The ritual to save him involves destroying two per'tnel. You happen to have two. We will not use ours.


There was also scrolling text on the video.
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Return To Us The Per'tnel
If you want him to live, we would be happy to perform the ritual for you, but we will need your 2 per'tnel.
Deliver Tylean's Per'Tnel to the hospital in Evandale North. Deliver Tnem'Abie's Per'Tnel to the southern-most lighthouse of the Isle.


However, apparently the ritual takes "2-3 hours" so we don't have 96 hours. We, instead, have 92 (so a little under 4 days).
(And for those new to us or those who have forgotten, Tilean (also known as Tylean) means keeper [of the Book].

ThisEve has the Per'tnel. The Per'tnel are what allow Abie and Tylean to remain connected with the book and continue their immortality. If it were to be destroyed they would obviously lose that. What more that could happen, I don't know, but I have a feeling that perhaps destroying the Per'tnel make unleash power capable of doing something the TEDO are after. Like, perhaps, uniting the dimensions.
They say it's used for a ritual to help Tylean, but I don't believe that.

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 		What direction should we go in now?

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 		Well, I certainly wouldn't trust TEDO. I think it would happen like this:

We'd get them the Per'tnels, they'd keep them, let Tylean die, THEN destroy or somehow use them for their own gain.

I can try to pry some info from them about the effects of destroying the Per'tnels, or even try to get them to tell me their true intentions (assuming they are in fact lying.)

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carpathianroses
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 		Yeah, they might be more inclined to answer if you asked. I can imagine how a question from me might sound. "O hai! I just all of a sudden really want to know what you're up to."

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bluesylvia
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OP Smith wrote:
I have seen the video now. Thank you for letting me know.
It seems from what they say on the video at the end, it seems that there is no guarantee that they would use the stones to help Tylean at all. They just want you to deliver them. We don't have much time. I will have to talk to Eve. But she is so focused on destroying the sources, that she will want to do this before saving them. I wish I knew how to help find the sources. There is not much time left. I will do what I can.


Eve has the per'tnels.
Eve knows the location of the rift.
Without Eve, Tylean will definitely die. With Eve, maybe maaaaaaaaaaaaybe he has a chance. Maybe.
So I think we should help Eve with the sources.

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 		Well, interesting response from TEDO:

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You are perceptive my young friend. Perhaps you will become a Lorsham after all this is over. We sense the darkness within you. We know your bones delight in it.

We have two Per'tnel already (from killing the Tylean and the Tnem'Abie in our world). We have used them to open the three sources of the rifts. However, for the rifts to be complete and the worlds be permanently combined, we will require the destruction of two Per'tnel. We now have the knowledge of how to make them, but it requires decades to complete. We will use the Per'tnel of your Tylean and your Tnem'Abie to perform this final rite.

This Tylean spoke something to us before we posted the video. He said: "You do not know what the Alovieb are capable of. Their inner-most thoughts, their communications are clouded even from me. Stop this now and they will not destroy you. I know that I am a dead man because of what you have done, but there is still time to save yourselves."

We may have survived, but the old man is feared by all. He is correct in that you and the alovieb are clouded from me. I need you to be my eyes and ears among the alovieb. Serve me well and your rewards will match your service.


Decisions, decisions... Twisted Evil
Just kidding Wink

So, we know what TEDO really intends do now. The question is, what should we do?

On a side note, just realized:
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Professor Thaddeus Edward Devlin-Otto

Another TEDO Laughing

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 		Aha! I knew it!

The Per'tnel were used to create the rifts and they can be used to combine the dimensions.
So surely they can also be used to close all the rifts, right? Perhaps ThisEve knows of how to do it. Perhaps it was even the "recipe" OP Smith deleted, and that we could possibly get back if we get that USB to ThatEve?

How I see it we have two choices.
Choice 1:
Help ThatEve with the sources so she can do whatever it is she hopes to do with them (do we even know?). Then, since we've finally fulfilled our end of the bargain, send her through the rift to ThatEve to deliver the USB so ThatEve can figure out the "recipe" of Per'tnala Mode.
This, of course, is if we can trust her and she's not planning on doing something with the Per'tnel herself.

Choice 2:
We figure out where the rift is, get OP Smith to somehow snag the Per'tnel from ThisEve and head over to ThatEve so she can take a look at the USB and show us how to create Per'tnala Mode.

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 		Jackpot!

The symbol in the beacon is consistent with the symbol of the Babylonian moon god.

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 		So we have a sun and a moon. Could the herculean mean earth or something else?

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