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Lystella
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 		That's right, Tharol; there is still more to put together before this season ends! \(^_~)d

Unrelated to the recent puzzle, it seems that connection has been established with the Oriru Serku based on their main page.
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Well, if it helps the puzzle's answer boils down to one word. That was according to people I spoke with in Oriru Serku. I'm sure you are aware that the link to Oriru Serku has gone back up. I've had them check previous Hovago puzzles to get more clues how to solve the puzzle.

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 		I asked Winston about the weird language on the Oriru Serku site ("Nro Yat Shoreli Prakako"):
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Actually, that's "Nro Shoreli Yat Prakako", that's Vovexil for "We unite and cooperate" which is the motto of Oriru Serku.


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godder
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 		This is what Winston told me about the puzzle...
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We don't have much clue about it, yet, and since my connection with Oriru Serku has been re-established, I have asked them for assistance and they say previous Hovago puzzles always had one word answers. Which mean, only one word relates to the entire puzzle. Something that gives the entire puzzle meaning.


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Lystella
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 		Uh-oh....
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SYSTEM MESSAGE RECEIVED: UNKNOWN ORIGIN
--- MESSAGE START ---
You think I've lost? Too bad, because I've got your dearest Jhuku now! Oh, and your computer systems
are still very much under developed. Oh wait, this is the past... Hah! Attacking the past was one of
my best ideas. Catch me if you can! See you all later!
--- MESSAGE END ---

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themedic274
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 		Dammit, and just when I thought we could make some progress by looking through the older puzzles (which I asked Winston about):

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Of course, however, that is up to Oriru Serku's discretion. But then, we're having some serious trouble at the moment. It seems the criminal we hoped to have been sent back to the future is here and he's got the Jhuku!


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Lystella
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 		Here are some more details on what's going on:
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Well, unfortunately the criminal has not yet been taken care of. It seems he was able to sneak out before Afyg was sent back to the future. Now, he's got the Jhuku. Fortunately, he can't escape Earth. FAILTECH was able to deploy a safety net around Earth the prevent outbound departing crafts. Which also prevent any other craft from departing, such crafts from the European Space Agency, Roscosmos, and China National Space Administration.

FAILTECH reports that their now attempting to track down the criminal, however attempts seem to fail due to some compromise in LAINSY's systems. I will update you all on the status later today. I will have to request some assistance from Oriru Serku, if neccessary.

Hopefully, no one from rest of the world was n't planning on launching anything important. XD

Edited due to personal grammar panic.
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 		My thought is, this criminal must be one tough s.o.b. if he is able to kidnap the jhuku considering what we know about the kid's physical abilities. I wonder if he tricked him or something.
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 		New email from Winston:
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FAILTECH still hasn't got their tracking system up, yet. We are attempting to utilize other means of tracking to locate the Jhuku. Since the last transmission of the criminal to LAINSY, no other communication has been received. We haven't confirmed, yet, if what his main purpose of acquiring the Jhuku. If he needs the information, he should have had it all along and update what he has when he got the Jhuku the first time around in planet Afyg.

I'm pretty sure if he wanted the Jhuku dead, he should have already done it the first time around. I suspect there's another reason behind this, and maybe something that Oriru Serku is not actually disclosing to us. I will investigate further. Hopefully, FAILTECH will have theri tracking system up in a few hours.

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 		So there still puzzles think.

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Lystella
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 		Being utterly confused about how the cycles and time alterations worked in the FAILTECH universe, I asked Winston about them. This is his response, although as he mentioned in the earlier email, Oriru Serku might not have said everything to him:

Winston Yu wrote:
As far as I am informed, the criminal we are in pursuit of has tapped the knowledge stored in the Jhuku. It is more or less unrelated to the Jhuku's main objective, at least to what I am informed of. Otherwise, if the criminal indeed wants to impede the success he should have already disposed of the Jhuku a long time ago when he had the chance. I suspect there's something else going on. I have alreday made my apeal with Oriru Serku to completely clarify all aspects and circumstances of this mission.

Regarding how the Jhuku affects each cycle is rather complicated. The most simplest explaination that I could give is that on each cycle that the Jhuku passes through he carries information from the previous cycle. Information about the previous cycle can then be either be actively used by the Jhuku to alter the future, or the Jhuku can do nothing and his mere presence can change circumstance across the universe thereby creating a variation of events different from what happened from the previous cycle. Thus, he again collects information for that cycle storing the difference. And it goes on until either we solve the problem regarding the catastrophe or we simply admit defeat.

This time around, it seems a variation in the cycle of events might have created this criminal. It still purely theoretical since only the leaders of Oriru Serku is allowed to look into what is stored inside the Jhuku. This criminal may or may not have existed on previous cycles. It may even have occured that previous cycles never had an Oriru Serku or it could have been named differently or composed of different races compared to the original Oriru Serku.

You may also ask, if we rewind time and send him outside of the universe so that he is unaffected, wouldn't there be two of them to exist? and so on. You are aware that it takes thousands or maybe even millions of years for each cycle, correct? Thus, the Jhuku passes on the information to his decendant, which will then be passed on to his decendant, and so on. When a cycle is performed, the Jhuku of the previous cycle, which is the ancestor of the current Jhuku, will have their memories and DNA storage wiped completely thereby stripping them of their position as the Jhuku.

You can use this representation for easy reference

CYCLE ZERO:

A (first Jhuku)

CYCLE 1 BEGINS:

A > passes to > B > passes to > C

CYCLE 2 BEGINS:

C > passes to > D > passes to > E
A > memory and DNA wiped > can live a normal life the has a child > B > then has a child C

CYCLE 3 BEGINS:

E > passes to > F > passes to > G
A > memory and DNA wiped > can live a normal life and has a child > B > then has a child C

CYCLE 4 BEGINS:

G > passes to > H

and so on... I hope yo got the idea.

I'll keep holding onto the salt grains in the meanwhile.

One more thing! LAINSY update:
Code:
10/02/2012-03:10:12GMT : FULL DIAGNOSTICS COMPLETED. RESULT : OK - RESOLVED

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zeighy
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 		Wait, isn't our Jhuku had his memory wiped? Or was that just purely the work of Genus Orein? I'm even more confused now....

Anyone try to ask LAINSY if she can locate the Jhuku?

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Lystella
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 		Are you referring to the recent information transfer into Scarlet, or the 45459's state when he was first discovered? If the former, I was under the impression that it was just Genus (and probably Emily) that knew what happened. If the latter, I'm not clear on that either.

It didn't cross my mind to ask LAINSY about the Jhuku's current location. XD *slinks off to email*

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RESPONSE: Confirmed. Apologies, but while my tracking systems works, I am unable to achived a lock into 45459's location. There seems to be a lot of interference at his relative which diffuses and desaturates the tracking information. His relative location is within 150km of 38, 126.

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zeighy
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 		Somewhere in Korea then?

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Lystella
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 		Seems like it. Here's a visual:
approximate location of Jhuku.jpg
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Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
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