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theclaw
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 		new vlad
1.11
Vladimir Sirin What is next? Who is next? Who chooses...

I reply: Why am I still up? Will this headache go away... to be or not to be...

PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:16 pm
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Jim Sawyer
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 		OK so in light of the fact that Vlad has allowed me a question I'm gonna go with Telos's suggestion (sort of). As some1 else gets to ask a question as well, dont make this one yours haha. My question to him is this:

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If it is not too late I shall post my question now.

What is your connection To Vanessa Atalanta's family, specifically her parents???



EDIT: I was also thinking with the reference to the war scenario and one family escaping and the children being like butterflies, perhaps Vladimir is actually a blood relative of Vanessa and he was left behind by her family when the germans attacked however he somehow managed to escape/survive by other means. Just a thought...

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dreamerblue
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 		Ok, I am slow and need things spelled out...1:11 pm in what time zone?

PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:10 pm
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Telos954
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 		Ok, so, I'm feeling a lot better. No longer sick.
New problem comes up - I no longer have a phone. Dropped mine in the toilet earlier (right off the damn edge of the counter.) and well.. four year old cellphones don't take to toilet water well. Any way, all my sms updates mean nothing now, so I'll probably be a lot slower responding to things.

Vlad messaged me while I was away. Obviously doesn't check wall messages saying I'd be out til 9 or later.
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Vladimir

Rest has come. Rest will come again.
7:06pmVladimir

When you answer my question then I will tell you the next step. And do not ask me what the question is James. You have the answers. Now start asking the correct questions to yourself to give me the answers.a/b/c? Why? Where?

... when...
7:08pmVladimir

and, most importantly, 568 or 565 souls?
7:31pmVladimir

James

James

James.
7:39pmVladimir is offline.


Any way. If anyone knows what the hell he's talking about, fill me in.
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dreamerblue
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Telos954 wrote:

Vlad messaged me while I was away.
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and, most importantly, 568 or 565 souls?



(I liberally snipped out from my quoting only the bit that I wanted to respond to.) In Vlad's "Hierarchy" album, we've previously noticed that his comments on Jim's board include the question, "And the value of 568? Up to the king and queen to decide" and that his comments on James' board includes the question, "And the value of 565? Up to the king and queen to decide." The caption for the picture of James' "board" includes the question, "which is correct?" Perhaps we will have to figure out which of the two boards Vlad really accepts. Do the clues we have help?

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dawndilion
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Telos954 wrote:
Ok, so, I'm feeling a lot better. No longer sick.
New problem comes up - I no longer have a phone. Dropped mine in the toilet earlier (right off the damn edge of the counter.) and well.. four year old cellphones don't take to toilet water well. Any way, all my sms updates mean nothing now, so I'll probably be a lot slower responding to things.

Vlad messaged me while I was away. Obviously doesn't check wall messages saying I'd be out til 9 or later.
Quote:
Vladimir

Rest has come. Rest will come again.
7:06pmVladimir

When you answer my question then I will tell you the next step. And do not ask me what the question is James. You have the answers. Now start asking the correct questions to yourself to give me the answers.a/b/c? Why? Where?

... when...
7:08pmVladimir

and, most importantly, 568 or 565 souls?
7:31pmVladimir

James

James

James.
7:39pmVladimir is offline.


Any way. If anyone knows what the hell he's talking about, fill me in.


568 and 565 are in the comments of the hierarchy pages, right? The boards? We thought they were chess problem numbers.

And he did that to me, too, remember? I don't know if it's impatience or some sort of calculated thing, messaging someone's name 3 times in a row.

Anyway, I just got home and I"m catching up.

Thanks for the wiki! I had started just posting everything in the new group, but then work called

Edit:
Didn't see this mentioned, but it appears mysterious "John" tried to meet up with Claire at a bar. She thinks he's the same "John" that stalked Vanessa. Her new contacts will be via email. I'm going to send her one, just in case my email info isn't in my profile. I forgot what I turned on and off when the new privacy stuff started.
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Sirannon
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 		Just had a chat with Vlad, while definitely not at my brightest:

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Vladimir

Greetings.

May I say your profile picture especially pleases me.
4:30amAmanda

Ah, yes. I was trying to protect myself from the plague of the moment.
4:31amVladimir

If you squint [or have poor eyesight] it looks like a red queen drinking tea.
4:31amAmanda

Now that I take off my glasses and look, I can see what you mean. Perhaps I'll have to use that as next year's costume.
4:32amAmanda

I hope you're having a good day so far?
4:34amVladimir

Depends on definition of good.

The sun rose. That is good.

The miracles of God's creation walk the earth, that is good.

It is sunday, day of rest. That is good.
4:35amAmanda

Do you get a break on Sundays, like everyone else?
4:36amVladimir

Being the day of rest, it may b my last day.
4:36amAmanda

Why would that be?

Forgive me if I'm not thinking with my brain. It's fast nearing 5 am, where I'm located.
4:38amVladimir

...not to make reply,
...not to reason why,
...but to do & die,

Wht do you think with then?
4:38amAmanda

A good question. Maybe I'll have to make my own charge into battle to find out someday.
4:39amVladimir

I must make preparations for the longest night. Farewell.


The snippet of poem he gave as a reply is a paraphrase from Charge of the Light Brigade, I know. I had also forgotten about today being the longest night of the year. Not much time to do things, for a fellow who can't go out at night!

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amandel
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 		Coffee Asked Vlad if his surroundings were comfortable and if "several" reffies (not specifically 72/7) were psalm related.
Vladimir Sirin wrote:
As I am 'leaving' at current, no. I am not singing. Leaving yes. with the first Samuel? possibly. Jeremiah? maybe. Escaping Ezekiel though. Daniel is wrong in this case. Luke will help as the Romans tell us.

Clues have been given to the variety of speaking as well. 1 L P H 1 2 E T is one of them.
Sleep well. I will return in just over 78 hours. Sleep well until then.


Mega THX, dreamerblue, for our WIKI. Out to play in the snow. EDIT: Vlad's latest FB message (below) looks alarming.

Vladimir Sirin on Facebook wrote:
As a Grave men, near death, who sees with blinding sight, I will bid farewell to you all. If I survive the next 78 hours I will return. If not, heed my words and read between the lines, under the lines, around the lines. Look for patterns. It is not enough to find the man who's name is Ludwig for example, you need to unravel the link [s] between ... See Morehim and the pictures. Pieces. I will be here until 1.12pm. Then two questions finalised. Then the 13 candles are needed and I will prepare myself for the biggest battle - such a little time....Alone it seems as none understand the music yet.

Am more a cello than a chess player so will attempt to work the clues from that perspective.
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theclaw
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 		Timon in reverse?
Had a thought about reversed pictures.....
monit
monachus : monk.
Monasteriense : Mnster.
monasterium : monastery, abbey, convent.
moneo : to warn, admonish, remind, advise, instruct.
monitio : admonition, warning.
mons montis : mountain, mount.
monstro : to show, appoint, point out, ordain, appoint, nominate.
monstrum : portent, omen, monster.
Montensem : Mons.

another ecclesiastical reference?

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Crescent
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 		er - backwards
timon backwards is nomit not monit, sorry
but might be useful for anagrams he seems to be doing. Anyone know why he's going as well now? Who do we have left to communcate with?

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theclaw
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 		Bah, reading bah!
New chat:
Vladimir

Adieu my lady - hopefully I will read your ind words again in 78 hours time - until then. Adieu.

kind

Also, better latin translation:
nomit
nomen : name.
nomen Romanorum : Roman power.
nominatim : by name, expressly.
nomine tenus : nominally, in name.

I'm still no clearer.

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dawndilion
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Dawn, Jim - 1 question each to you. I have to go. The facebook will now be silent. Email me and I will put the answers [but not the questions] up somewhere public for everyone. I leave you now, peeling back the onion[s].


What do we want to know?

Edit:
I got a response from Claire:

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I'm not going to be using FB. Not for a good few days anyhow. tbh, pissed with peopel just assuming I'm a friend as I'm friend of their friend [V].
That and the John - FB is the only net presence I have - oh apart from work but that's a secure site.
Its really odd, I've never lost time like that before - I mean you do stuff you can't remember but this was I was talking, then 2 hours had passed in 5 minutes.
Hard to explain. Anyhow, simply put, with Christmas and all [and the mammoth tasking of the info for V WHEN it arrives] I'm up to my eyes and will probably not be online for a bit. See you around Boxing day. Family first - a few sheets of paper can wait can't they?


1. Claire "lost time" at the bar. Vlad has commented to some of us about how time isn't "linear". Interesting, eh?

2. Boxing Day is Dec. 26, so we won't be seeing the new scans until at least then.
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 		Re: er - backwards
Crescent wrote:
timon backwards is nomit not monit, sorry


Ok, so there must be some food reference we need to find, and then we need to NOM NOM NOM IT! No? Ok, sorry, I got up not too long ago Smile.

You are most welcome for the wiki. I joined the Intimation ARG pretty late into the game & made a wiki for that, too...and swore to never again let an ARG I was involved in get to 45 pages without a wiki Razz. I will work more on it today.

Vlad posted a couple things on my FB wall:
Quote:
Dropped

then
Quote:
Raised.
J.J. Abrams would appeciate.


I beat him yesterday at that Biggest Brain application, but couldn't beat Dawn, heh (and saw no need to, really...I was just happy to beat Vlad, since he is making my brain hurt).

Sirannon wrote:
The snippet of poem he gave as a reply is a paraphrase from Charge of the Light Brigade, I know.


There is a new picture in the Knights Only group: a picture of a hard-to-read copy of this poem. I am off to church soon, but will post it to the wiki later today.

ETA: The caption on said photo is "35 escaped possibly. Or was it 32?
Damn multiples..." I wonder if this has to do with figuring out which of the two boards (Jim's or James') Vlad accepts, and if it's related to the factor tree we got earlier.

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theclaw
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 		Butterfly brooch
vlads pic, on foot, on throne
I'm wondering if the butterfly brooch means something more.... the first pic was a soldier butterfly the second is Sarah Coventry's Madame Butterfly
Soldier? Madame Butterfly?
Story of a US Soldier marrying a Japanese Geisha (Butterfly), the Yankee wanderer is not satisfied until he captures the flowers of every shore and the love of every beautiful woman. He naffs off, gets a US wife, three years later returns, Butterfly has a kid, finds out he's a bigamist and kills herself. The child is called Dolore... Trouble.....
No mention has been made of Vanessa's father....

Literature: a name invented by Jonathan Swift as a nickname for Esther Vanhomrigh, then used to name butterflies.
Numerological Meaning
People with this name tend to be very inspired, intuitive, and creative. Their aim is to improve the world and can be quite altruistic. They strive to see the "Big Picture" and achieve their dreams.
Other sites say it also mean butterfly in Indian and Hebrew

Totally irrelevant:
Heh, mine states :People with this name tend to be balanced, and receptive to cooperation. They are the ideal partner and seek peace. It is important for them to learn how to speak up, or they may be taken advantage of. Sometimes they can get stuck on too many details and have feelings of loneliness.

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The snippet of poem he gave as a reply is a paraphrase from Charge of the Light Brigade, I know.


There is a new picture in the Knights Only group: a picture of a hard-to-read copy of this poem. I am off to church soon, but will post it to the wiki later today.


There's something at the top in a different font. I can't make all of it out. Looks like:

________lord
Freshwater
Isle of ___________

When you flip the image, it looks like a continuation of the poem, starting with stanza 3.
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