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[punxtr]

It seems Forest is really troubled. I tweeted during work, and he pleaded with me to help him. I couldn't.

[Lystella]

Who is Father in terms of Forest?

[Lystella]

Email from The Watchman:

[punxtr]

So... do we want to end Father, and give Forest a chance to redeem himself? Or do we leave both of them to their judgment by the Green?

[inkflamewriter]

I made a choice and emailed them because I wasn't sure how much time was left. My choice should be apparent with this response, which I was asked to show everyone:

[ddl]

I believe Forest to be an innocent, and if the price to pay is Father's life I feel it should be paid. I don't like it, partially because I understand Father's motives, his purpose and reasoning, but Forest deserves to live.

If no one objects I'd like to send the Watchman an e-mail in a few hours...

[pia ward]

I have no objection ddl especially since I did not consult anyone before sending in my answer. I argued for saving both Forest and Father and got this response:

[punxtr]

I've been looking at NLE Tractors... I feel like we're missing something. I need to see this through before voting...

[inkflamewriter]

Ok, guys...here's what I've got. An email:

[punxtr]

Freyja is the wife of Óðr. She names the next nychthemeron/24 hours/day. Then the Green will reflect for another... day! Today is the day of Our Lady of Meritxell--which is a Latin form of a word that means midday. Basically, I think it wants us to decode the message and see if it will affect our decision.

By the way, those symbols in NLE Tractors came out to be BtI. I put that in the base64 decoder and got Ò. The accent above it is the 'grave' accent. I'm not sure what else to make from it.

[inkflamewriter]

But where to start on the decoding?

Adding to that a little, Launcelot Gobbo (mentioned in the subject line) is one of Shakespeare's "clowns". He appears in The Merchant of Venice. One analysis of the play that I found describes him to be a "corrupter of words" by the end. In general, he loves puns.

Not sure if that helps any, but I thought I should throw it out there.

[punxtr]

Okay, so, if you follow WhiteRabbit, Forest says that I found the three symbols, and what they mean: BtI

Then there are three steps. At first, he told me to find the sequence after. The sequence after that doesn't make immediate sense is a few overlaid hexagons, with a rectangular honeycomb pattern on top. Then comes the Google image, but it only has 90 zeros--not 100. The name for that can be found here. Then comes the flickr logo, with an X and a painting of sorts inside the flickr logo.

So, if order is important, we have to figure out what the hexagons mean. Some hexadecimal message that needs to be decoded?

There is still the IIII V VI thing (4 5 6), which seems to still be relevant, although I still don't have anything on it besides the alien bird head race thing.

[inkflamewriter]

Well, I don't have much on the video, but as for the attachment, it spelled "Lyon Himan". When I searched for that, all I came up with was "Lyon Himan Green", whose stage name was "Lorne Green".

Significance? So far, I've got no clue. I'll keep looking, though.

[inkflamewriter]

Apologies for the double post, but I just got this email:

[pia ward]

Well sorry I won't won't be able to contribute to solving these puzzles since I can't do them (and I haven't really the slightest idea what is going on now!)

Not sure if this will be of any help either but when you mentioned hexagon I recalled that Howard "liked" the following video on his youtube chanel that looks like it has a hexagon in it, something called metatron's cube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqg5bPZ0HE

Also there is an angel by that name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatron

And the mathematician who seems to have discovered this cube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci