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cherrytree98765
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WrON3fm0w

I'll keep up for about 2 days then I'll delete it. Don't kneed people wondering what it's about.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:16 pm
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duke9509
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I watched the video. You can take it down now, if you want.

One thing you might not have paid much attention to while you were recording that was this previously unlisted message:
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Malcom Thomas is our greatest threat.


So... Malcolm has a last name now... "Thomas."

Also, I actually did get those changes. I was just mousing over the chess pieces. After watching your video, I tried the symbols and the "good errors" showed up.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:50 pm
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cherrytree98765
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New post by Malcolm. Again it's too big to quote. "Good" Henry has asked for us to get 2 things from Vidal, and to include it in a response to Malcolm. He also asked us to distract Malcolm somehow. For him to use Henry to confirm something, just anything. So i've already thought of something. I think it's a game Malcolm will run with.

I've already emailed Vidal. So after he emails me back i'll make a response to Malcolm.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:43 am
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duke9509
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Got a nice, timely response from Vidal:
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I apologize for the apparent drop off of information from my end. I promised my wife that I'd take time away from work and spend it with her, before everything gets going again. That basically meant my android phone stayed home unless for extreme emergencies =)

To answer your question though, the spikes continued exactly as they were from July 7th, until just yesterday, a few hours before the latest message from Malcolm came through. It appears as though the spikes were directly related to the "fight" going on between non-infected Henry, and his other half + Malcolm. Perhaps they have stopped because non-infected Henry is conserving his strength and awaiting the information and distraction he is asking for.

As for the information being asked of me. As I'm just about to reply and tell cherrytree, we're going to need to take a company-wide vote on whether or not to give the information out. It's the frequency which IDGI-1 was receiving on that has some people a little worried around here. It's the same frequency we've been using for all information incoming from the other side, for as long as the anomaly has been closed. It's possible that if Malcolm understands what the frequency is, him and crazy-Henry could theoretically cause some problems for us. We'll just need a day or two to decide - I personally think we should do it, if for no other reason than to see this thing through!


Cherrytree98765 should expect an email!

EDIT: My response. We'll see if he likes the idea.
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Well, perhaps (regarding giving out the signal) we simply wouldn't state what the number was. We could simply say:


"information given in the order asked for"


followed by


'1. the energy output

2. the frequency"


The units used for measuring energy and frequency can apply to so many things that, without labels, Malcolm couldn't possibly know what the numbers were. They could be anything! As far as I know, Malcolm isn't seeing what Henry's injecting into the messages, so, he wouldn't know what was asked of us.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:09 pm
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I think we need to put the units of measurement for Henry *Shrugs* Depends on how much specifics the PM's want.

Also here's my email with only the other half which was different from the other one (He copy pasted from your email)

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I'm hoping, if folks around here decide to go this route, that you can put the information into the message to Malcolm without being obvious what the info is? There's no question that he'll probably know we're speaking to good Henry at least, and will probably even stop speaking to us entirely once he discovers this. But I really think we've got to try and just go for broke!

I hope the rest of the team here feels the same way. I know Thrie doesn't and I'm not so sure how many people are behind him.

-Vidal


For ways to mask it I was thinking of using 2 ways. Both none too perfect.

1. Since our universes are different I could mask it as spam and say spam bots in our universe if they get into the server can do that XD I know silly idea.

2.Seadevil's post about the signal opens a door to give specifics to the signal. EX: The frequency of the signal was (Insert here) Something along those lines. Since Malcolm already pretty much knows Seadevil is lying then he'll discard it as a lie also.


Finally to get him to use Henry I was thinking of giving him a game. He finds the lyrics to the Berceuse lullaby, and i'll give him two/three questions which I will answer with the truth as far as my knowledge.

Of course the big loophole is "far as my knowledge" which gives me the room to give only a half truth, and fake being dumb.

I'll work on other ideas also.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:13 pm
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Well there is also still the possibility of Malcom simply not being able to read stuff that's in "Henry-Tags" (the 212121-pattern) since his system may not be able to cope with these tags. We would have to test this before putting in any useful information though. Like making a reply to Malcom inside those tags and seeing if or how he reacts to it. If he sees them we can still claim that they must be some transmission errors because for us they were some kind of highlight-tags (like BB-code) on our side.
Though that would require us waiting for a reply from Malcom before us being able to safely send anything to Henry. (should the theory prove correct)

Also since I never spoke to Malcom before I could probably format my posts in a weird manner without it seeming out of character to him.

Concerning the diversion, we might even be able to profit from it if we ask him the right questions and he accepts to check it. For example we might use some of our discoveries from the "starscape-future-list" to goad Malcom into looking at a specific point in space using Henry (if this is even within Henry's capabilies...)
Other than being capable of limited interdimensional communication I really dont know what else one can actually do with Henry (except the controlling people part that Malcom wants to do anyways)

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duke9509
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cherrytree98765 wrote:
I think we need to put the units of measurement for Henry *Shrugs* Depends on how much specifics the PM's want.


Let me clarify, cherrytree: I wasn't suggesting we leave out the units, I was just suggesting that we simply not tell Malcolm what the numbers are. He would see something like this:

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Information provided in the order asked for:
1. 22342 UNITS
2. 87585 UNITS


What I was saying to Vidal was that those units can apply to so many things that, without us telling him what the numbers are used for, they could be describing any frequency (there are multiple tied to the satellite) and any power output (also multiple related to the satellite). Only Henry would know which specific frequency we meant.

EDIT: All of your ideas are great. I sent a list of them all to Vidal.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:29 pm
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Well I think it's being a little too plainly obvious. I mean granted Vidal did say that most likely Malcolm will figure out we're talking with Good Henry and shut up then, but I think if we just post the numbers and units as you shown even if he does not at that moment know what the measurements are for he will figure out at that moment that we're talking with the other half. I mean who else would we tell someone that. Then we can't "distract" him properly because he would never post again. Well that's my 2 cents. I guess we'll just need to wait for Vidal's emails. Then we'll know which way to really go.

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Yeah, you do make a point.
When I sent the email to Vidal, I asked him to tell me which method his company would prefer.

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Got a reply. I guess we'll have to take a poll or something (or whoever gets gets stuck with writing the response can just say "screw you guys, I'm deciding myself!" XD) I vote poll.

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Oh no no no, you're not putting this one on me! Wink

As I just told Cherrytree, I'm definitely taking a back seat on this one! You and your group have been handling everything wonderfully on your own so far and I'm not going to interfere. I really do want to give my opinion here, but as Thrie keeps reminding me - we're supposed to be taking an observatory stance on everything that happens. It's getting harder and harder to do this, admittedly, but we must stand by it for this entire project to work out.

And also I should have an answer for you by tomorrow night, whether or not we'll publicly release the information Henry needs. We're going to have a team meeting tomorrow and discuss it at length.


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Well no email from Vidal yet. Maybe we'll get it today.

I don't mind which way i've stated my 2 cents on your guys own ways. A little bit later on today i'll post an example post of what I would say to Malcolm (Only the excerpt that pertains to it.).

Which makes me think. Maybe we should post here what our posts would look like? Then we can kinda view it in text format then trying to imagine what the other is thinking, and how it would come out.

Edit: One thing I think should get a small mention. If we are to trust what Malcolm, and Henry have said about not being the one responsible for the Vancouver earthquake. So do we have another party in this mess?

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catching up

sorry guys I've been busy with migraines, sinus headaches and packing for moving house.

It seems to me we could use both methods suggested.

1. Use Cherrytree's signal idea (excellent btw) for the first 87585 Hz ?
2. Use the 22342 inside the 212121 what is the energy unit watts?!?

Not sure about a distraction though...needs to be something credible yet utterly recursive.

I'll come back to you on that one. BTW it doesn't have to be me to reply to Malcolm please feel welcome to jump in anytime.

EDIT: Okay perhaps we need tell Malcolm that we've been in contact with Kevin via another method other than the forum and that despite our best efforts to persuade Kevin otherwise he intends destroy the Church's HQ very soon using a Sonic bomb which works on the similar principles of the sonic rifle used against that reporter. Now whilst we think the removal of the Church is a good idea overall we do not approve of killing people.

Also if someone else replies to Malcolm instead me, make mention that we are all part of 'The Group' which works outside of the any one government and that we have been working with Vidal for sometime since he invited us to help him with his Satellite.

And also that whilst the "signal" mentioned Enlil we do not think it was really purporting to be from Enlil.

That should confuse him.
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Okay I got the email from Vidal with the info. I'll start composing a response, and I'll post it here. Then we can take it from there.

@Seadevil: about your distraction. Malcolm probably already knows Kevin is dead. I can probably make seomthing up that may sound believable, but "Dead men tell no tales". I don't think he would bite on it, but you never know.

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Ok, for everyone who didn't get the email with the info, here it is:

Energy output: 84 MJ
Frequency: 13 Hertz

I don't have time to write a response right now, however, if, by the time I do (likely tomorrow), no one's actually sent in a post yet, I'll try to put one together.

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there's me not paying attention again, I forgot he was dead.

Any other players we can use blow up the Church HQ?
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