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duke9509
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Turns out Tuncarma was never licensed out. However, LAINSY picked up a high-profile message discussing how LMAO could be used for camouflage. I'm asking for more info.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:08 am
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Okay, I think we're getting somewhere. Netspec (netspecSPLATtechnologist.com) sent me an email:
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Heey! It's been a while. Been quite busy myself. So how have you been? Seems you're busy yourself as well. Ghost networks? You mean like a parallel network that runs along side the real network so that they can snoop off some data? Heh, you're talking to the right person. What do you need to know?

Now, if the PDA is a regular PDA, we should already have the tools for it. But if it's something new, we might take a while to reverse engineer it. Whos is it? Your's? I guess I wouldn't mind if it was your's.

P.S. One agent of ours has been monitoring a situation at FAILTECH. Seems another company has been snooping around as well. Now that I mentioned, are your question related to FAILTECH?

I went ahead and filled her in on what's been going on. Hopefully she'll help out, it sounds like she knows more about this ghost network stuff and could give us a hand.

EDIT: Also Daisuke Nakamura (AMSR Dept Head) sent me an update:
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Hello! I have completed the assessment of my department and it seems only Team Epsilon is experiencing the troubles. I have carefully inspected several aspects personally and didn't find much. I do however note that Team Alpha seems to slowed down on their project, which was a symptom of the up coming trouble in Team Epsilon. I have put in certain preventive measures to make sure no data loss will occur.


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duke9509
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Do you think that update satisfies the third optional objective?
Should I mark it as complete and comment that all other teams have their data, and that only Team Alpha is being slowed down?

Also, something that occurred to me while writing the above:
If only Team Epsilon is affected by the issue within AMSR, and another team in another department is also being affected, then there must be some sort of connection between the two. If this was something more broad, then we'd be dealing with wider spread problems. I'll ask Inno which department and team, specifically, is being affected on his end, and if they have anything in common with our Alpha.

EDIT: Well, seems LAINSY isn't talking:
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LAINSY: Due to corporate agreement, I cannot provide details on who the partners are including who the sender and receipient of the message is. Actually, the message only discusses the possibility of such application and does not go into extent of how.

I'm following up on another lead.

Also, Inno reports that the other team is Team Gamma of RHEA or Research on Human Evolutionary Advancement. Querying LAINSY for more info.
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I was just reading through the stuff I missed and talked about it with Captain Obvious (my friend) he points out something regarding the "bills, maths, and pub"

he says, maybe they are actually cue words and does not actually pertain to an actual bill, math, or pub. he says if someone would have been talking about something in secrecy, they wouldn't make it so obvious. Which, I agree. Might be something "right in front of us" and we're missing it completely.

anyhow, I haven't had much time to do anything, yet. I'll see what I can uncover.

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duke9509
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"Bills, Maths and Pub?" What are you talking about. I've obviously missed something.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:01 pm
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zeighy
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duke9509 wrote:
"Bills, Maths and Pub?" What are you talking about. I've obviously missed something.


Sorry, I was going through and poking through the investigation myself. I'm on a track similar to posse and managed to stumble on a message myself. I'm not sure if I missed it or if I'm dreaming that I read the same message. Posse was posting the same messages that I've been getting from LAINSY so I just stayed on a lurking mode for a while.

LAINSY was able to retrieve a message for me

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LAINSY: There has been one low level message intercepted on my systems from James Barron to Joseph Dillinger. Message as follows:

Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: February 24, 2012
Subject: Odd
Message: I believe you already understand the purpose of this message. Do not regret anything, for everything has a purpose. This message has been scheduled to be sent to you on the date I selected. I left behind the bills and maths for you to work on with. Believe in yourself for you are great on your own and all you need is to realize it. Go to the pub. Then, you'll know what to do. Good luck and farewell.


and I have been pondering it fro quite a bit. and of course, I've consulted my friend about this. I've gone ahead and asked if LAINSY can retrieve any documents regarding bills or math from James Barron or Joseph Dillinger, but she said she can't find any. I also asked if she has logged Joseph Dillinger to go to a pub since the date of the message but she said she hasn't logged any. So I guess I might be tackling this wrong. Either this is a dead end just to distract or point us in a wrong direction or that I'm, just doing it wrong.

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Hi, was away for most of the weekend, but I did receive some more emails. Daisuke Nakamura mentioned:
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I have heard from Inno Ellis that this problem has showed up in another department, at RHEA to be specific. I am continuing to monitor the situation and hope the best that we get to the bottom of all of this.

This is very suspicious because I once asked LAINSY which FAILTECH employees were near James Barron around the time of his disappearance. LAINSY gave me this info:
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RESPONSE: Requested data as follows:

February 21, 2012
List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron:
Billy Chan
Joseph DIllinger
Carmella Lopez

February 22, 2012
List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron:
Billy Chan
Joseph Dillinger
Carmella Lopez
Althea Rosso

February 23, 2012
List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron:
Billy Chan
Joseph Dillinger
Matthew Johnson
Pablo Jose
Althea Rosso

RESPONSE: Billy Chan is the RHEA Team Gamma Team Leader. He has been working with FAILTECH since 1999 and was initially hired as a Junior Researcher for a restricted project.

I also asked LAINSY to retrieve any messages in James Barron's account that were suspicious and were either sent to/from Joseph Dillinger:
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LAINSY: I was able to flag messages that might be of interestin your investigation:

Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: February 10, 2012
Subject: Flight
Message: I have confirmed the effectiveness of the operation. I am sure the team will be very much surprised when the operation completes. Your plan will definitely work.

Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Joseph Dilinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: January 28, 2012
Subject: Walking around
Message: I've done the walk and it seems to be effective. When will the Bills and Maths get over here? I am trying my best to solve this and get things to work accordingly. Have you done your part?

Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: February 7, 2012
Subject: Confirmed
Message: I can confirm the file. Can you match this? GNL70COX8NZ mvvwuhvulqhrxuliukltdfuxdmobxrulvdtlquhqehg

EDIT: I believe Bills = Billy Chan. Maths could be Matthew Johnson, though I haven't researched him yet. But I got LAINSY to send me any messages between James Barron & Billy Chan:
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LAINSY: I have retrieved two low level messages and one high level message for a total of three messages which is the only number of messages sent between the two persons.


Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma
Sent on: Ferbruary 17, 2012
Subject: Bills?
Messages: Are you serious about bills? I find it very amusing you found a very in-you-face call sign. I think it is damn too obvious, and yet I feel like anyone not knowing wouldn't realize it and be too oblivious about it.

Sent to: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma

Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: February 18, 2012
Subject: RE: Bills?
Message: You do know these messages are archived? Let's not even start with the math behind it.

Sent to: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma

Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent on: February 20, 2012
Subject: Grid
Message: ABF-L20-Z2AB

What do you guys make of the grid message? I believe it's a FAILTECH location: Alberta Facility, Level 20, Zone 2, Area B. I asked LAINSY about it and also told it to conduct a search of the area (maybe the external drive is there) and also to retrieve the records of personnel who entered that area:
Quote:
LAINSY: Alberta Facility, Level 20, Zone 2, Area B houses specialized manufacturing of internal company materials and equipment. The entire area is fully automated and the need for employees or personnel is uneccesary. They are only required for maintenance or repair. However, I do keep records of any employee or personnel who enters the area.


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Nice finds, everyone! \(^_^)/ And based on recent developments, it looks like zeighy and his friend were on the right track. Also, I agree with posse concerning the Grid.

I don't have anything to add so far, but I'll be here waving the pompoms. *waves pompoms*
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zeighy
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Cool looks like we were on the right track after all! If bill is Billy... then Math is Matthew? Just a wild guess.... So what is the pub? or who?

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punxtr
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Arg, I need to think up a story to explain why I dropped off in participation suddenly...
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Arnold didn't find anything out of place in the area. Maybe it's a meeting place then? Could that be the pub? I'm still not sure.

Anyway, LAINSY returned more messages:
Quote:
Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Matthew Johnson, AMSR Team Alpha
Sent on: November 12, 2011
Subject: I'm glad we have you on board
Message: There has been a lot going on and I think you will be great asset for the plans we have. Everything will be set in order of night at the archives. James has been enthralled by how quick you were able to catch up on what's happening. Everything is for a reason, just don't forget why we walk.


Sent to: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma
Sent from: Matthew Johnson, AMSR Team Alpha
Sent on: February 1, 2012
Subject: To the pub
Message: I've heard we'll be meeting to the pub. Is the junior coming along?


Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma
Sent on: February 1, 2012
Subject: Subtract that
Message: Screw the math, it's just going to ruin the plans. Math is the weakest link.


Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon
Sent from: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma
Sent on: February 1, 2012
Subject: The pub
Message: We'll be heading to the pub. I'm sure we'll have the math along, together with my bills, and the bars. You need to go to the pub if you wanted to get this done and over with.

So it looks like:
Bills = Billy Chan
Bars = James Barron
Math = Matthew Johnson
Junior?? = Joseph Dillinger??

Also, now what?

EDIT: I put this info up on the Agent portal site but I figured I'd put it here as well. LAINSY returned the list of people who have been in ABF-L20-Z2AB:
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LAINSY: List of employees and personnel who accessed the Area in the last 60 days:

James Barron
Alfred Smith

Note: the list on presents the verified identity of the ID Tag bearer. I do not list any companions the listed person came along with.

ARNOLD: Affirmative. I have received your request to do a search in this area. I will forward the result to Scarlet once search is completed. This search is fully automated.

As I said, Arnold returned with nothing out of place in the area. And LAINSY said that Alfred Smith is the Chief Maintenance Manager of Alberta Facility. It makes sense he would be there. But according to LAINSY, James Barron entered with 2 companions that LAINSY could not identify via optical sensors (they had their faces hidden) or ID tracking.

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duke9509
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I would have posted this yesterday when I got the info, but I was otherwise occupied. Besides, it's not exactly groundbreaking...

The only connection between the two affected departments:
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LAINSY: Ultimate goal of the entire research line is to create the ultimate drug to extend the average length of human life. AMSR Team Epsilon's current research is a segment of Phase 2 of the Seven Phase Research Line.

To me that seems too long-term to be a motive.

Also, LAINSY has shot down every possible method I can think of by which four people could have hidden themselves in the room with Althea. (And, based on posse's findings, those four would be our conspirators. I'm thinking they had her at gunpoint) The only remote possibilities would be a secret offshoot of the Tuncarma project, or an extension of a hypothetical application of LMAO proposed by some secret higher-ups.
I'll send LAINSY a general query on any other possibilities, but I don't expect any breakthroughs. If I don't get anything useful, I'm considering looking into ways of getting at the specific names of those higher-ups, including possibly asking Patrice if she has any agents in the right position to get at it.

I'm still kind of tired today so feel free to ask for more details on something if I wasn't very clear.
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Welcome back, punxtr! \(^_^)_

@posse: In case they didn't wear their IDs on purpose, would tracking whose ID(s?) didn't move for an extended period of time (between Billy, Matt, and Joe) be fruitful?

@duke9509: Concerning the mysterious hidden four, I wonder if they could be from the future with awesome future tech that we can't fathom yet? A very speculative guess XD
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Well, LAINSY actually returned a useful result. It turns out that her cameras could have been fooled by LMAO in its current state. Considering the other options that has to be it.

I'll ask if any of the four accessed LMAO technology around that period in time.

Also, to try and confirm my theory of Althea being held at weapon-point, I'll ask LAINSY to analyze her expression to see if she appeared at all scared. My only question if this is the case is why she was the one that told us about the problem in the first place... Wouldn't they be keeping tabs on her?
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