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amandel
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Hi Thunderwolf. Wallace asked me also about the Boudicca Blurbs / Arthur Unexplained. Giving Booba full Props I sent Wallace his two links on this thread as he is meeting with Prof. Drake tomorrow.
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heh I just did the same thing, great minds eh? Did you mention the GJJ connection?
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amandel
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Just mentioned that GJJ is likely our G J Jones from the "Shuffle River" poem clue. Leamas told us once that Wallace and Louise are blinded to the <meta> JAFO and GJJ in the source code so have always left that alone. Dunno
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Do we have a contact email for Leamas? Where did we originally find out about him?
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I'll just mention too that I've emailed Lewis for the first time, offering some information. Didn't say it would be useful information. In fact I fully intend to feed him disinformation and half truths which will lead him back to where he started, but hopefully in such a way that he'll think he's progressing.

That's the plan anyway.
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amandel
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Currently he's Leamas Alter leamas3SPLAThotmail.co.uk. Originally, a photo & an anagram file just appeared on Bob's page. Enaxor solved it leading to a FB accn't (now inactive) with a different email accn't. Know Lewis has met his match now Very Happy
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Got a reply from Style:

Lewis Style wrote:
Nice name.

I want all the most recent passwords to Bob's files. I understand Wallace knows where Bob lives, that would be useful also.

Do you know the name of the Cambrian mountain that Cpl. Jack Wright disappeared on?

Wallace isn't taking the energy crisis seriously, this could solve everything. What Edward Maad has discovered is the next stage in energy tech.

Time is short.

Lewis.


I answered his question about the mountain. "Yes, I do know.". Twisted Evil I also offered him a deal of sorts, but asked him what's in it for me. At the moment, I have things he wants, and I'm hoping with a wry back-and-forth I can distract him. I considered sending him an "unlocked 7z file" - a non-password protected 7z with the same filename as one of the locked ones, with similar yet nonsensical contents in. Not sure he'd buy it but we'll have to wait and see.

EDIT:

Just got this from Leamas too:

[quote= "Leamas Alter"]
I thought you might be interested in Bob's recent puzzle?

Wouldn't you agree that the paragraph makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, in fact the wording is definitely odd. Nothing is what it seems.

I see Wallace has also got into the act of creating a riddle as well. Quite right too, the information he received from Drake was quite scary indeed. You don't want the likes of Style who is technically working for my other half (bad half - Samael) access to the data.

A writer once said "The supreme irony of life is that hardly anybody gets out of it alive." Wallace has a hard time ahead he will need your help.
[/quote]

Slip-flop split personalities? Hmm. I'm going to go back and analyse the text in that file. The quote he states was made by Robert Heinlein. I recall seeing a Heinlein book on Bob's shelf - Heinlein also had a rather interestijng story about time paradoxes... Off to investigate Wink
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amandel
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RE: "Yes, I do know"...U crack me up. Wallace updated Case files saying his Drake convo is on Bob's page.

ETA:Clicked "Last Modified" to find it, a PW file titled '7.7z" & a doc called "amWoneTuv.doc"
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amandel wrote:
RE: "Yes, I do know"...U crack me up. Wallace updated saying his Drake convo is on Bob's page "tho am not seeing it yet.


Me either - Also the case update is dated Wednesday 2nd - which is tomorrow.

Got a reply from Lewis. He wants all passwords for files after 21st Jan. I told him he still has not made me an offer. I also told him that I was a neutral party, not affiliated to any one "side", which is a lie. He is offering detailed analysis of sound files. Are there any we actually need?

I asked him for more details on this free energy Maad has supposedly discovered.

Edit:

This was the HEinlein story I was thinking of:

wikipedia wrote:
"By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by Recursion time travel. It was originally published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald. It was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection, The Menace From Earth. Under the title "The Time Gate", it was also included in a 1958 Crest paperback anthology, "Race to the Stars".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps
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OK Style is biting. He wants the unlocked archive.

So now the question is - what do I stick in it?

Random youtube links and odd clues?

I could hack a sound file together?

Something in Welsh?
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amandel
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"amWoneTuv.doc"

There are five hidden words in Wallace's doc: fime, tuture, tontained in, cime, past. Exchanging the 1st letter gives:

time
future
contained in
time
past

No conbo I've tried is the ''7.7z" PW & am wondering if the doc title exchanged is am Tone Wuv or it's alliteration maybe?
Thunderwolf: Lewis will be duped. Am certain. Maybe also include one wrestling vid with Welsh commentary. Laughing
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from the hidden words the sentence
"and time future contained in time past"

is from T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets No. 1: Burnt Norton"

I have tried a number of these for the PW to no avail.

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Here's what I've been trying:

amWoneTuv could be amW1Tuv (which has 7 characters)

When ROT-7ed it gives

htD1Abc. (I'm thinking seven cubed here - 7x7x7)


The first stanza says that the first sage was called henry and was always last, which suggests that the "h" is the last letter in the password. I've tried lots of combinations with no success. Might be barking up the wrong tree.
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here's the file I'm planning on sending Lewis. Do you think it will get him? The 7z inside the fake archive contains a picture of the wrong cambrian mountain. It's passworded but is pretty easy to crack - I figure if I encourage Lewis to have a go, he'll crack it, think he's great, and go looking in the wrong place. (Won't let me attach so I've uploaded it to http://www.triplesix.co.uk/wallace/cracked.7z )
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amandel
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<3 it! Authentic, particularly the 60 strokes with fiery rods file. *a crack up*. Wink @SpaceCoyote, nice catch on T.S. Eliot poem.

ETA: For the "grog.7z" PW containing three wav. files that I'm too pooped to mess with 'tho they sound ominous. G'Nite all.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"riddle".....which is composed of the first letters of the 6 sentences in "chwech.txt"

EDIT: Am hearing (and plse make your corrections y'all) for wav19: Anvil..This legend worth a..
For wav20: Boudicca then Arthur destroyed...damaged the hammer, the fork. And for Wav21: Corporal...
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