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punxtr
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 		I thought I recognized that name before...

Honestly, I'm with godder. This is getting way too convoluted!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:35 am
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duke9509
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 		Hey (yes, I'm still here, I just haven't had much to say), there's a new post addressing our concerns on the OOG blog:
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We've been reading the forums and we do agree that the game has became quite complex and "unsolved".

We'll be answering a couple of question without spoiling anything (or at least anything that you'll be actively participating in). Ok, we won't be directly answering your question, but instead let us tell you some background information and some future plans...

The storyline of the game was initially been meant to stand alone on it's own... However, a bit later on in the game we then merged the game into the storyline of a prospective novel that our game writer is writing since last year. We won't be revealing much about the novel, just yet. Now, as you already probably think, yes the novel is about 45459 and his "adventure" so we basically didn't loose him when he went to that alternate future. We'll follow his story later in the game and in the novel slated for next year.

So yes, what happens in the game right now WILL affect the story of the novel. Quite unique, if you ask us. Now, those who have been bearing with us and has stayed with us since the beginning or at least until a particular part of the ARG will be receiving a copy of the novel completely free of charge as a thank you gift for participating and influencing the progress of the novel's story. Yes you can be credited if you want to, either with your forum username or your real name which ever you prefer, however we will only credit you if you've been with us until a particular goal has been met. We'll email you to ask you if you want to be credited or not and how to be credited if you do choose to. Of course you can choose not to receive our gift, but we'd be happy if you accept our gift, even if you don't intend to read it. Physical and digital copies will be available and you can choose which format to receive (or you can choose both, if you prefer). Both copies will be a special version that will include some special content intended for the ARG players. And yes, the digital copy will be completely DRM-free.

Some characters in the ARG will of course make their appearance in the novel (if they survive). Also, some still unanswered questions is truly intended to be answered later on. As long as you guys post your ideas and theories in the forums we'll make sure to make the game very interesting. Right now, there's not much of active players so we're kinda slowing down on thing making the game and the story quite difficult to follow and extremely complex as we try to create something interesting but instead they create more complexity.

Now, we won't be introducing much of anything new and intend to answer most of those unanswered questions. We hope you all still keep up and please bear with us as we try to get things back to "how they were". Are you ready? We are! Let's go!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:56 am
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godder
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 		That was nice of them to address our concerns. I'm still willing to see where they go with this so...

I sent an email to genus saying sorry for the mix up and I hinted at the convoluted and complex story being difficult to follow and that we sometimes aren't sure what to do. His response...
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Oh, don't worry about it that much. Not much of a big deal compared to what we're facing right now. Might be an inconvenience to some people (Alex) but surely worth it. Now that you have done it, I see it could have been a better idea since LAINSY could essentially "preserve" the human race... if it comes to that, since she has locked down all the facilities, which of course is self-sustaining (as long as all the facilities are up).
 
Anyhow, the email system is still down, but it seems the old school phone line are still up. Emily can't patch through anymore but seems like calling the number still accepts messages. Maybe even sms. We tried to contact LAINSY but she's not responding to us. Maybe because she doesn't recognize the phone number we're using. Anyone of you who has been in contact with LAINSY through any of the four FAILTECH Communications number?
 
If she does respond to you, just tell her that "mom and dad needs to talk to you". Yeah, that's another backdoor AI command. Basically makes her trace me and Emily and make contact to us directly. By then we should be able to re-enable her email system and allow us to send in commands through email. If that doesn't work, then we might need to get ourselves into the FAILTECH Colorado facility to regain control.
 
Ok now, I am so sorry that you have been "demoted". I hope They understand that people do make mistakes, but often mistakes can be actual opportunities to see sides we've might never dare to see.


Edit: Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I also told him that I had been re-assigned to janitorial duties after turning everything over to lainsy. Laughing

So, those who were texting and communicating by phone, would you guys like to try getting through to Lainsy?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:42 am
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themedic274
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 		We've got some binary on http://failtechnologies.com/lainsy/:

Code:
LAINSY SAYS: Inbound data stream from UNKNOWN SOURCE via DSN:

00110110 00110101 00100000 00111000 00110010 00100000 00110111
00110101 00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000 00110111 00110011
00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000
00110111 00110011 00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000 00110111
00110110 00100000 00111000 00110110 00100000 00111000 00110011
00100000 00111001 00110000 00100000 00110110 00110110 00100000
00110111 00111000 00100000 00110111 00110000 00100000 00111000
00110001 00100000 00110110 00111000 00100000 00111000 00110110
00100000 00111000 00110110 00100000 00110110 00110110 00100000
00111000 00110110 00100000 00111000 00110001 00100000 00110110
00110111 00100000 00110111 00110111 00100000 00111000 00111000
00100000 00110111 00111000 00100000 00110111 00111000 00100000
00111000 00110100 00100000 00111000 00110001 00100000 00110111
00110100 00100000 00111000 00110000 00100000 00110111 00110001
00100000 00111000 00110101 00100000 00111000 00110000 00100000
00110110 00110110 00100000 00110111 00111000 00100000 00111000
00110010 00100000 00111000 00110011 00100000 00110110 00110110
00100000 00110111 00111001 00100000 00110110 00111001 00100000
00111000 00110100 00100000 00111000 00111001 00100000 00110111
00111000 00100000 00110110 00110110 00100000 00110111 00110010
00100000 00111001 00110000 00100000 00110111 00111000 00100000
00110111 00110011 00100000 00111000 00111001 00100000 00111000
00110001 00100000 00110111 00110001 00100000 00111000 00110100
00100000 00110111 00110100 00100000 00111000 00110110 00100000
00110111 00110100 00100000 00111001 00110000 00100000 00111000
00111000 00100000 00110111 00110111 00100000 00110111 00110000
00100000 00111000 00110111 00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000
00110110 00110111 00100000 00110111 00110111 00100000 00111000
00110101 00100000 00110110 00111000 00100000 00111001 00110000
00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000 00111000 00111001 00100000
00111000 00111000 00100000 00110111 00110000 00100000 00111000
00110001 00100000 00110110 00111001 00100000 00110110 00110110
00100000 00110110 00110101 00100000 00110111 00110110 00100000
00110111 00110000 00100000 00111000 00110001 00100000 00111001
00110000 00100000 00111000 00110010 00100000 00110111 00111001
00100000 00111000 00110101 00100000 00110110 00111001 00100000
00110111 00111001 00100000 00110111 00111000 00100000 00111000
00110001 00100000 00110111 00110101 00100000 00110111 00111001
00100000 00111001 00110000 00100000 00110110 00110111 00100000
00110111 00110011 00100000 00111000 00111000 00100000 00110111
00111001 00100000 00110111 00110101 00100000 00110110 00110111
00100000 00110110 00110110 00100000 00111000 00111001 00100000
00110110 00110111 00100000 00111000 00111001 00100000 00111000
00111001 00100000 00110111 00110110 00100000 00110111 00110000
00100000 00111000 00110111 00100000 00110111 00110011 00100000
00110111 00111001 00100000 00110110 00110111 00100000 00111000
00110100 00100000 00110111 00110000 00100000 00110110 00110101
00100000 00110111 00110101 00100000 00111000 00110111 00100000
00111000 00110000 00100000 00110111 00110000 00100000 00110111
00110111 00100000 00111000 00110010 00100000 00111001 00110000
00100000 00111000 00110000 00100000 00110111 00111001 00100000
00110111 00110101 00100000 00111000 00111000 00100000 00111000
00110100


which gives:

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binary > dec > good ol' enigma (ARK, I II III, LVSZBNFQDVVBVQCMXNNTQJPGUPBNRSBOETYNBHZNIYQGTJVJZXMFWICMUDZIYXFQEBALFQZROUEONQKOZCIXOKCBYCYYLFWIOCTFAKWPFMRZPOKXT)

THECHILDHASPOWERPOWERBEYONDLIMITINCONTROLORNOTALONEYOUFAILDARKNESSWILLCOMETHESTARSHALLNOTSHINEFAILUREISINEVITABLE

when spaced:
THE CHILD HAS POWER
POWER BEYOND LIMIT
IN CONTROL OR NOT (spacing?)
ALONE YOU FAIL
DARKNESS WILL COME
THE STAR SHALL NOT SHINE (...what star?)
FAILURE IS INEVITABLE


I don't have a US number, so I'll leave the phoning up to you guys.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:48 pm
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zeighy
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 		cool! Anyways, nice to see some older styled puzzles around... I don't have a US number either so it's for you guys...

I think we've only got 2 numbers so far... I'll post them up here:

(210) 900-3245 << where most communications has been
(213) 444-3245 << used only once, I think

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:52 pm
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posse
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zeighy wrote:
(210) 900-3245 << where most communications has been
(213) 444-3245 << used only once, I think


Okay, I sent a txt to both numbers just in case, I'll let you know if LAINSY responds in kind.

Also FYI after I decoded that Russian voicemail message I sent a similar message back to the voicemail number, just a simple "Hello." I was hoping someone was still waiting to hear back and my response would acknowledge we received their message, whoever 'they' were.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:10 pm
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godder
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 		Ah, how I've missed ciphers. Remember when we had to figure out the enigma machine? Makes my brain all tingly again just thinking about it.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:15 pm
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posse
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 		I asked Netspec/Patrice Heinz about the last time she saw Daniel and she replied:
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Last time I saw him was before we were called back to report on our organization. Right now we're sent back to investigate why we lost contact with our agents form FAILTECH, again. And one of yoru team mates informed me FAILTECH went on lockdown and LAINSY is now in control of everything. Essentially our mission is "complete" since we now know what happened. So right now, we're on standby.

Since Daniel has been good to us, we could probably help you out and look for him. Last location we know was in Morocco when we left him there. I do not know if they moved after that before he went missing. If you need help looking for him, we'd be glad to help out.

I already responded that we could use her help to look for him. Morocco = close to the Canary Islands where they were going to look for Emily, I'm guessing that's why that was the last place Netspec saw him.

EDIT: Just got a txt back from one of the FAILTECH numbers ((213) 444-3245):
Quote:
LAINSY SAYS: Acknowledged
FYI this was an auxiliary line Emily used at some point, not the main line (i.e. not the one with the recorded message that says it's the FAILTECH Southern Communications Line or whatever).

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:23 pm
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godder
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posse wrote:
I asked Netspec/Patrice Heinz about the last time she saw Daniel and she replied:
Quote:
Last time I saw him was before we were called back to report on our organization. Right now we're sent back to investigate why we lost contact with our agents form FAILTECH, again. And one of yoru team mates informed me FAILTECH went on lockdown and LAINSY is now in control of everything. Essentially our mission is "complete" since we now know what happened. So right now, we're on standby.

Since Daniel has been good to us, we could probably help you out and look for him. Last location we know was in Morocco when we left him there. I do not know if they moved after that before he went missing. If you need help looking for him, we'd be glad to help out.

I already responded that we could use her help to look for him. Morocco = close to the Canary Islands where they were going to look for Emily, I'm guessing that's why that was the last place Netspec saw him.

EDIT: Just got a txt back from one of the FAILTECH numbers ((213) 444-3245):
Quote:
LAINSY SAYS: Acknowledged
FYI this was an auxiliary line Emily used at some point, not the main line (i.e. not the one with the recorded message that says it's the FAILTECH Southern Communications Line or whatever).


Oh, sweet, so you texted her that backdoor statement that Genus gave us? I'll let him know that it has been done.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:41 pm
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punxtr
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 		I had not read the OOG blog in a while, after the announcement of episode 5, so thanks for the heads up. That's very nice of them, and a pleasant surprise that this is tied to a novel! I'll read it however it may come to me Smile

To be fair, the issues that arose from the new plot developments have to in their nature confuse the direction of the story. Once time ceases to appear linear, and the players we used to depend on FAIL us, the game is that much harder to follow.

Basically, I'm still here. I'll have to try and wiggle myself back into the attentions of Genus and Patrice, and so on and so forth. My indefinite leave of absence is over Smile (Oh yeah, I never told anyone I went on that, did I Razz)
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 		Woohoo! Punxtr's back! Just tell them that our organization found out that Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad and that you were tied up with that operation for a while. Wink Or maybe that you have been spying on Iran's nuclear activities and that your cover was blown. Laughing

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posse
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 		Okay some communication going on. From Netspec, Patrice is moving to the France facility and is working on trying to find Daniel and also trying to communicate with her FAILTECH spies/agents (since LAINSY kicked the email system when she took control):
Quote:
Thanks, I'll see what I we can do. We're currently on our way to the France Facility to check up on it. If we're close enough, our short range communications with the agents should work. That is unless LAINSY has some sort of blocking that may prohibit this. We'll look for clues later on when we get in contact with our agents, or if we don't which ever happens.

Genus sent out an email:
Quote:
Ok, LAINSY made contact a while ago. Sorry took me a while to send out an update. Anyways, her remote commands are back, or at least some of it. Some commands are still disabled since she's doing them automatically or probably she just denies to process that command.

So, if you have anything to tell her or make her do she should be reachable now. Also, using some inventive thinking, I've managed to track down, or at least (in theory) locate where Daniel has went. It seems he's been pulled back into that alternate timeline you guys have been jumping back and forth from. I don't know how or why. Let's hope he comes back. I haven't perfected any time travel device, yet. But I'm sure a future me already had, based on what you guys have already told me. So I can't help you about him right now.

On the estimations, the Orkudusu should be in range soon and LAINSY will put them in suspension to make them stop. She won't be destrying them or anything, but at least stop them from reaching Earth. Me, and my staff along with Emily and Alex will the approach them and try to see what their plan is. If they indeed are of hostile intention, I'll have no choice but to destroy them. If I can, however, make them go back, it will give me enough time to finish the machine I'm making that can send them back into their real time. And hopefully we can settle down and do other things such as get Daniel back and help my friend Winston about his concern about 45459.

You know, Winston's mission is in a much bigger scale than that we are facing, but with us being stuck here probably facing extinction, his mission will fail. Which is why he's helping us and setting aside his main task at hand.

Ok then! Let Scarlet do her thing, and help her out for anything. We'll sort the company problems later.

Remember Winston? I sure didn't:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=903410&search_id=936876724#903410
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=903524&search_id=936876724#903524

Anyway, I guess right now we are focusing on the incoming Orkudusu, figuring out what they might want, and figuring out how to get rid of them. And LAINSY may be query-able or command-able now.

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Genus wrote:
LAINSY just caught them and suspended them in flight. I'll be on the way to make contact. Let's see how it goes.


Four hours ago.
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 		And:
Code:
LAINSY SAYS: Inbound threats suspended.
LAINSY SAYS: Gravitonic Manipulation Equipment activated.
LAINSY SAYS: Sensors indicate outgoing ship departure from Earth.

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 		...so I presume Genus succeeded?

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