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Seadevil4
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Cherrytree, it seems a little overkill on the part of DS. I mean to kill less than ten people with an earthquake. A couple of snipers would probably be simpler with that sonic rifle that they manufacture.

The Church however are eager for their Guardians to appear and save the day and religion always seem to end up going to the extremes to get what they think is right.

Still I can't rule it out, since this entire venture is based on shadows of evidence. To paraphrase Walter's statement of "Trust Noone", I say trust nothing.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:13 pm
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Updated on the IDG Forums

Walter says:

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David Schelter has been kidnapped...


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"Everything was going smoothly – we had blocked his vehicle and put enough bullets into the driver to ensure he wasn't going anywhere. As my men and I approached the vehicle with our weapons drawn, I started to feel a funny vibration sensation in my ears. I could see my men were feeling it too as they were fidgeting in discomfort, some rubbing their ears vigorously and others visibly in pain. The last thing I remember before I apparently blacked out was the passenger side door of the car opening… and then, nothing. The next thing I know I'm waking up here, looking at your ugly mug."


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At this time I will be moving forward as originally planned. Brayden Shaw and I will continue working on the interface device as Schelter would have wanted, and the connection between our worlds will remain open for now.


Walter doesn't appear to be too upset by it all. Odd that.
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Last post by Alvarez (or his cousin actually)
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I told him that nothing else would go wrong, that since he skipped them up before coming here, everything would be fine. My damned arrogance, my "uncompromisable security," my impatience! What the fuck was I thinking? I should have listened to my instincts about this whole thing from the start. I shouldn't have gone near that facility and now it's all for nothing, it's all fucked and they're both probably dead.

This is... Krycek. I've been gone for a few weeks, a job in England I had to take for a friend of mine. Nothing was happening around here... I didn't think I'd be gone longer than two weeks and when it ran longer I didn't even think twice.

I was so sure everything would be fine. So sure. I finally came home a few hours ago to an empty house, empty bunker, everyone gone. I'd just spoken to Alvarez two days ago and everything was fine. He even said he was bored, wanted me to bring him home some more video games. Both him and my father were gone and there was no sign of a struggle or a break-in. Alvarez knows not to leave or let his uncle leave under any circumstance... I was wondering where they were until about an hour ago. My arrogance actually had me believing it was still OK and they were just out somewhere... out to a movie maybe, maybe they'd finally gotten tired of hanging around here all the time and snuck out together for some fun.

Then the tall American bastard came to my house, about an hour ago now. The freaky looking fling of shit who threatened Alvarez before he came here. It was obvious enough to know it was the same man. Long, skinny features stringing from a slim, tall figure and his smile was a stretched mess of skin and lips, widening in a "U" shape almost from eye to eye. He was far weirder than Alvarez was able to explain but just as scary.

The tall man didn't waste any time either. He only knocked on my door and when I answered, he stood there with his a sickly grin and told me to, "Drop all inquiry and interest into the K-1 Project or i'll begin sending you pieces of your family. Stay away and you'll get them back. Do you understand?"

I told the tall man I understood. He said "Good", smiled and walked away whistling a tune I didn't recgonize. I wanted to reach out and strangle him right on my steps, tear his eyes out and get the revenge I was craving as I pictured him killing my family. I was looking at a potential sociopathic hitman, professional fucking killer. And I... well, I'm a "network security specialist." Even through my rage I knew it would have been pointless to fight with this man. I'd be dead in ten seconds.

This will be the last message you receive from us, we're done. I'm sorry but I'm not about to fall into the same trap as Alvarez and get myself pulled into this further. After I send this message, I plan on sending another one to both Greenberg and Malcolm before purging this place and disappearing. I'm going to tell both sides that I'm out, we're out... and I promise to stay out if they return my father and cousin back to me. I don't care anymore which side killed my mother. I say let them fucking kill eachother and be done with it.

I'm sorry but this is how it has to be. I know this is exactly what they want, whoever the hell "they" really are. I don't care. This is all just getting too big and I think this may be our last chance to get out free and clear.

I suppose I should let you know a few last things before I incinerate this place for good. First of all there was an attack of sorts on both the Guardian Church Xalapa Chapter building and the K-1 Facility – both happened during the early afternoon, two days ago, April 21th, 2029.

The K-1 Facility, from what I can gather from security channels, was hit by what they're calling an "obviously Russian special ops unit". The chatter suggests that a group of ten unmarked (outside their accents and appearance) soldiers successfully entered the facility – nine were killed, one was captured. No other information is made available through my connection and nobody seems to know what happened with the captured Russian. The entire attack has been successfully covered up and nobody outside of the facility has any clue it even happened.

The Churches Xalapa Chapter building was also hit and hit pretty hard. These guys were a lot easier to hack into, obviously, and the information I found suggests the attackers were a heavily armed group of Irish soldiers, using obviously military-grade weaponry and equipment. There are reports that the entire operation was pulled off without a single death. Everyone that got in the military units way was subsequently knocked unconscious by sonic weaponry and the "attackers" made a clean getaway without losing a single man in the process. Witnesses heard them on several occasions speak and they were certainly Irish. Security footage also confirms their equipment to be Irish Military.

Yesterday both Kevin Chard and his mother were found dead at Heathrow Airport – apparently their bodies were found in seperate bathrooms, throats cut, and the entire thing is going viral quicker than the Gutierrez video. I think Worldview is pretty much boffed, let's break down what the public know: Kevin's murder sees to highlight his connection to K-1 and the knowledge that both him and his mother disappeared a year ago. The death of Kevin's nanny, Sarah Valetta, only a month or so before Kevin disappeared, has come forward. Elisa Gutierrez was pretty much murdered on live feed, seen by millions, and she was at the time berating the K-1 facility for horrible atrocities. The public is coming down hard on Worldview, to say the least, and Schelter is nowhere to be found after he vanished under "myterious circumstances".

The shit is approaching the fan and I'd suggest even you pull out while you can still save yourselves! Take care of your own asses... I'm sure if down the line you need to contact me, Henry can find me easily enough. I'll never again understimate that thing's ability to get what it wants and I resign to the fact I can no longer adequately conceal myself from all of this.


So now we have Schelter who was "kidnapped". With the accounts on the events it sounds half/half that it could have been planned by Schelter himself. Convenient way to dissapear.
I'm going to assume Sourgrapes was Kevin as he is now dead along with his mother. Can't really tell without saying how long he was dead.
Alvarez is now gone with Krycek shutting it down.
Now attacks on both facilities. Reason Malcolm's gone maybe? Seems the church attack one went too smoothly if you ask me.

With the adding of the catchup threads I'd say they're wrapping the interlude so hopefully we'll reach the second part soon.
There's only Greenburg left that we've had contact with recently.

Edit: Ahem. Well I just recieved an email from Kevin or a late email. I'll try to type up what makes sense. Some of it is to far corrupted it's impossible to decipher. There's also an attachment with an .idgi ending. I'm guessing this is what Vidal needs. I'll post the email shortly.
Corrupted equals=****** (These are things I can't decipher from the message)
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Seekers. Power is at minimal levels. ROT13 transmission faltering. Strenuous use of the connection modifications sent to ********. This transmission on if/when you get this in time i'll be safe, and ****** (Gone?) The date right now is ******** (The only thing I can tell that might say the date is a 3). Get out of this dammned country alive. I know they're coming so ****** stop running. The K-1 facility ****** (Is?) compromised, and there's no telling what my contacting ******* (Greenburg maybe?) get my mother, and go home. I've cut a deal ****** ROT13 alone for good the past erased. My mother is being ******(I think it's supposed to be "Watched") and i'm not too inclined to do it alone. I made a connection with an ex-military ******** hack into the Cuban facility. There's no chance those bastards ******* of Malcolm's involvement with the attack. ******* (I'm pretty sure this is "I'm") sure without any doubt that ****** (Again i think it's "He's working" with the context) alone. His superiors only wanted K-1 shutdown and he's ****** dangerous. Walter Greenburg drew the ********* completely his device could potentially stop ******* ROT13. Fail in killing Malcolm, and his flock he could ******** all fucked. You must ******** cost. If the brains are not corrected ******* (Pretty sure it's "We'll lose") control. I wish you all the best of luck. Seekers.
-Kevin Chard.

(Some bits were in different colors, and all sorts of mayhem. I contributed it to corruption, but it may have a point. I didn't know if ROT13 was an important part of the message or not so I left it in.)
With this it sounds like
-Malcolm is a lone agent. He's working for himself not his superiors.
-Kevin was the one who engineered the attack on the Cuban facility?
-Walter's device can fix the problem?
The only thing that's really confusing is he talks about leaving then staying, and fighting.
Here's the original just in case you guys can decipher more from it.
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Seekers. Powwer is at minimal leve*ls, $-ROT13-*&ssss.... transmission @@3dd._--##... faltering %fee4432dDD--.... strenuous use of the connection modiifications seunt to #Wf2w2Kh--<<<lbh>>>))) . This transmisssion $e3b--$^ depending oon if/when you geet this in time, i'll bbe safe and @@@. The date riight now iss ww33%^&--+ gget out of this damned country alive. I know they're comiingg soo Xe==#@ ssstop running!




The K-1 Facility ###^-n comproomised and theere's no telling what my coontacting ^^><gf^^ get my motheer and go homme. I've cuut a deal #@SUu-ROT13-$3 alone for goodd, the past eraseed.




My motther is beeing r44E22**wd and I'm not too innclined to do it aalone. I made a connecttion with an ex-militaryy -+-<<<svaq>>>8$$,,, hhack into the Cuban faccility. Theere's no chance those bastaardss #21#$$5--&m.> oof Malcolm's involvment wittth the attackk -#-#c^ya) ssure, without any doubt thatt 4&7*&6 alone, his superiors only wanted K-1 shutdown and hee &&-g#ee-- dDANGEROUS




Walter Greenberg dreww thee +3!^bbb------------- completely, his device could potentially stopp --@-ROT13-%$ fffail in killing Malcolm aand his fflock, he couldd -<>>66U5()()- all fucked. You MUST (72<<<ernyvtazrag>>>@##--*) COST. If the brains are not corrected #ee5)* control.




I wwish you all thee best of luuck Seekerss,




-Kevin Chard


Anyone else get the same email?

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Yep the received same the email the .idgi attachment is a picture, I've converted to jpeg and attached it to this post.

Will look more closely at it later. Looks a bit out of focus.
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I just did as the message suggested and ran some things through a rot13 decrypter. The bits between <>'s are code for "You find realignment". Things are starting up again!

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Cool John.

I've emailed the picture to V, haven't heard anything yet but then it is Easter.
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wow interesting shit, it's about time. I was getting tired of going over old forum posts out of boredome, waiting for something to happen! haha! I'd say that email you guys got is seeeriously messed up. Reading the original version it looks like entire sentences could be missing when it displays gibberish??

So ROT13 is a cipher program then? and you got "You find realignment" in the message? Is there more? that sounds like a partial sentence or something, i dunno. I'm generally happy to see any talk involving "realignment" though lol

so lets break down where we are at with everyone...

- Kevin and his mother are dead (whaaat the fuck?! I thought he was like a primary focus in all this?!) it looks like in his email he mentions possibly going to get his mother, from somewhere? "My motther is beeing r44E22**wd and I'm not too innclined to do it aalone." --- his mother is being "held", perhaps? somewhere? and he's not to inclined to go and get her alone? also the line "get my motheer and go homme" in the previous pragraph aids this theory... heeeense, one of the attacks on one of the facilities? but which one is the Kevin Chard attack, which facility was holding his mother? And if Kevin was later found dead at Hethrow WITH his mother, theeeen I suppose he succeeded in breaking out mommy only to be found after anyway and murdered? ahh total mind fuck! grrrrr

- Schelter has disappeared and you're right cherrytree, it totally looks like it may of been intentional or something on his part

- Alvarez and his Uncle (I suppose?) have been kidnapped by the creepy thin dude (a Guardian alien maybe? except both Alvarez and Krycek have mentioned that he seems very American. I wonder if that has meaning?) uhhhhm...

- Krycek has gone into hiding, hoping it will save Alvarez and his Daddy as the thin man told him it would.

- Greenberg and that Shaw guy are building a device he hopes will let us fix Henry.

- Malcolm is nowhere to be found and it looks like Kevin Chard was trying to tell us that he is going against his superior and working on his own, maybe even warning us hat hes "DANGEROUS". To what extent though?!

.........am I missing anything guys?

P.S. I got nothing with that image! slapped it into photoshop and it's so degraded I can't make out ANY of the words on it. Total blur. One thing though is in the Kevin email he says "Walter Greenberg dreww thee +3!^bbb------------- completely, his device could potentially stopp " === Walter Greenberg DREW the attached image?? maybe?? OH and there is 21 of those circles in the upper right of the image. probably means sooooomething as 21 seems to be a magic number in all this

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-The attack on the K-1 facility was not done by Malcolm? "Theere's no chance those bastaardss #21#$$5--&m.> oof Malcolm's involvment wittth the attackk"
-The attack on the Cuban facility i'm willing to bet my money was done by Kevin. Whether it was to get his mother or to get info. " I made a connecttion with an ex-militaryy -+-<<<svaq>>>8$$,,, hhack into the Cuban faccility."
-The only other point I could think of the attack was to kill Malcolm, and his people as Kevin states. "fffail in killing Malcolm aand his fflock, he couldd -<>>66U5()()- all fucked"
But like we've all seen. That message is pretty badly fractured so it's hard to go on context or anything.

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I'm a little confused about one point. The email from Kevin mentions the Cuban facility, " I made a connecttion with an ex-militaryy -+-<<<svaq>>>8$$,,, hhack into the Cuban faccility." -- except there was NO mention of the CUBAN facility being attacked, in Krycek's message, and Kevin only mentions it in that he HACKED it. His earlier emails said he hacked the cuban Facility and that's how he managed to speak to us, right? Krycek says that K-1 and the Guardian Church XALAPA Chapter were attacked, not the Cuban facility.

And where the HELL does an IRISH group of soldiers fit into all this??? Why was it an Irish group that attacked the Xalapa Church place?? The Russian group attacking K-1 coooould be connected to the Earthquake attack on Vancouver. That's the only other time the Russians have been brought up I think??

edit: there's just too many bloody details, my heads gonna pop. gonna go play the new mortal kombat game and turn my brain off from this for a while. lol. It's a GREAT fighting game by the way, highly recommend!

edit 2: almost forgot to ask. Has anyone else looked at the youtube video (unknown transmissoons) breakdown on the forums? it's recently popped up and it looks like Thrie wrote it. there is some really interesting shit in there, especially looking at transmission #5.

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Sorry I'm pretty sure that the Cuban facility had Xalapa ( I think it's the facilites name.) Since we only know it from the term "Cuban facility" I would think that place would have a name. Maybe I have my facts wrong. (As you can see that can happen with all the stuff we get in this game.)
Also I assumed that since that facility is the only church facility we know of that it would the most likely choice.
Also referring back to what you said. We are missing chunks of the message. For all we know the sentence of "hack, and "ex-military group" are not in the same subject.
I'll edit if I can backtrack the name Xalapa because I know it's come up before.

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toootally understand my man! but Xalapa is the name of the town in Mexico, closest to K-1 :=)-~ the "xalapa chapter" is the guardian church's "church" in or i think near that town. and the Cuban facility then is where Chard hacked to make his changes to the john wilconson website and try to talk to Henry again... also this be where i guess their hackers are, using their cwazy pazy signal that Alvarez hijacked. Also I don't think malcolm has said peep shit about the Cuban facility, why it's got no name i guess. its been talked about by other characters, even Henry early on.

**note: i use the search tool on the forums like crazy. it's really quite handy for bringing up specific information im thinking about

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Okey doke then. Knew I had heard it somewhere.
@John_Galt: I also ran it through the ROT13 decoder. A few bits you missed.
"You will find your realignment codes"
It feels like it was cut off right before he told us where to get it. Guess I'll go pick apart the message more.

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cherrytree98765 wrote:
Okey doke then.


I know, too much time on my hands. lol

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Reply from Walter. I think he's starting to break down from stress. I posted about the picture. (Meant for Walter?) I don't know how we're supposed to get it to him though. Isn't it only the other side that has the power to shove files across the barrier?

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I think that picture is Henry, I originally thought it was something for the realignment codes but maybe not.

Well done cherrytree I didn't notice that there were 21 nodes on the drawning.

I had a pog at the message Kevin sent again and couldn't find anything useful other than the ROT13 message. I thought there might some artifacts on the picture itself but it appears to be clean, unless it has been directly encoded in the picture. Nothing to suggest this however, anybody good steganography?
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