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[theclaw]

Ah! Greetings from the land of student! If you're based somewhere south of me, I could pick you up on the way down? Should we discuss this via PM?

[theclaw]

Hmm, Vlad going to hypnosis with a lady on the 22? Turns out Chloe

[Dagada]

O has posted a rather interesting video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cwXSU6sMg&sns=em

The soundtrack sounds to be both reversed and slowed. Anyone got the tech to work out what it is, or the string of hex at the start?

This also coincides with a mysterious phone call from a computerised voice - "the pathway is shown, do you follow?" repeating over and over.

[Cortez]

I got the same message too on my mobile. I noticed that Genia also says she got the message, although she believes it to be Stuart.

I don't think Vlad should go to see Genia, except for one thing...

We have been warned (via the reading that Stuart gave to me) that one or more characters is not what they seem. Given the obviously important choice of names and their meanings, I looked up 'Sirin'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirin

Like 'siren', it's a creature that lures people to their deaths by pretending to be something it's not. Anyone who heard a 'sirin' would forget everything on earth....kind of like Vlad.

Maybe it means he's (about to be) the victim of something sirin-like, or maybe he's the one we shouldn't entirely trust.

[theclaw]

bmVhciBvbGQgSGFtcHN0ZWFkIFRvd24sWW91IGtub3cgdGh1IHBsYWN1A==
is the start stream. Can't get sense out of it in base 64 which is what it looks like. It's not going to be that other code is it?

Edit: http://keepvid.com/?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DX-cwXSU6sMg Heres a link to download the thing in various formats.

[Dagada]

The Sirin is also a Russian creature, just like Oborot.

Here's the question; what do we do on Wednesday? There are at least three options - stop Aspen, stop Oborot or stop both. Or help both, if that's even possible. The other, more worrying, option is that one or other side is luring us there to be a sacrifice. Who to trust??

Might be a good idea to take a torch too!

[Dagada]

That string of Base64 - I managed to get it to say "near old Hampstead Town,You know thu placu"

[Cortez]

...nice one Dagada.

The audio on the YT vid is a female singing 'Down at the Old Bull & Bush'. It had been slowed, pitched down and reversed.

C

[theclaw]

Nicely done! Vlad is putting up more of his family photos on FB, and the pub is indeed http://www.thebullandbush.co.uk/

[Cortez]

O's tweet:

inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter

"He who gives quickly, gives twice." Trout avoidance!

The first building after the pub you see in the vid is Linnell's house.

C

[Dagada]

And here's the song as it should sound.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZlkScbpwbg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Cortez]

I think this is the bench...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgjones/1580971688/

The bench is here (where the green arrow is):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=51.56832N+0.177197W&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=22.666361,67.631836&ie=UTF8&ll=51.566587,-0.174644&spn=0.011591,0.033023&z=16

The Old Bull & Bush is also shown on the above map.

And the second blue plaque (the upside-down one) is this:

[theclaw]

[Dagada]

That's enormously useful! I can transfer them to my phone so we can refer to them on Wednesday.

[theclaw]

http://www.mediafire.com/?h5c215df6lmv4n9
This should be the images from the video. Hope it helps.