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[Trailhead] Wallace P.I. & The Janus Archive
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amandel
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 		**am so doing the happy dance you are feeling fit again, Zobot** I'll continue to update the trailhead post tho this game just isn't my cup of tea.

Yet when even one player finds a game rewarding am happy to help. I've made many fails with the locked zips from Ja531q0sa & Ja630w0s (595.zip). The other 13 locked (Yikes!) zips lead to only a few words so I'm unmotivated there. After 8 weeks still getting incidental YT puzzles instead of direct clues from the IGs is imo odd.

1) Maybe (YT coords)=Orus + (latin converted to english phrase: "my twinned Artemis")=Apollo which is an unscholarly manuscript on hieroglyphics by Nostradamus.
While the Ja630w0s archive 595.zip is riddled with Nostradamus' Century V Quatrains this info doesn't direct anywhere & a triple word lock is pretty player unfriendly.

2) Reversed is 729: LRH. Those initials are how L. Ron Hubbard was also known. Combined with the "Snow White" vid it likely leads to The Snow White Operation
3) Cairn is correct. Yet it's redundant b/c the PM reads the uF thread so he knew that we had already solved that zip file.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:31 pm
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Zobot257
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 		Update on my end: All caught up on the thread and got an email from Sun saying he knew I knew where Maad was and didn't tell him. He's more or less made it clear I'm persona non-grata to him now. Oops.

I'ma gonna email Louise and Wallace tonight and maybe other people as well, hopefully to get a better idea of what everyone's up to now in-game...

Good to see you around, Amendal!

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FuzzyGoodle
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 		Nice to hear you are both still alive! I was worried.

And the Janus Archive has been updated with "All Good Things..."

For one:
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Teams sent to coordinates in China, Maad had already left

Which makes me feel better.

Ja647x0l is the only other thing that has changed. It now reads:
Quote:
Michel de Nostredame is Alive

Find Him Here

So...Holden...is Nostradamus? Weird.

I guess we should be able to find the pages for at least the two other guides since we know they are all (presumably) joined.

Also, in the EXIF data for Nostradamus.jpg (the picture):
Quote:
Contact = 14011950 Auto-pilot


Kinda looks like a date...January 14, 1950?

EDIT: Oh, also, I got the impression that the youtube clues were posted before we solved the 3 zips, which would explain why we already knew about cairn. We just didn't notice the hints and solved it anyways.

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Tharol
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amandel
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FuzzyGoodle wrote:
Also, in the EXIF data for Nostradamus.jpg (the picture):
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Contact = 14011950 Auto-pilot
Kinda looks like a date...January 14, 1950?

Anything's possible tho Photoshop uses a batch tool called "Digital Auto Pilot" that inserts a signifier into the JFIF/EXIF as a digital number string like the one above.
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 		Building on my theory that all the names would be things we had already been told, I found a couple pages that led to a couple other pages. Here they all are:

http://729-inc.wikidot.com/richard-colvin-cox (Nothing in EXIF, has past guide's email, leads to the Snow White video again, which made me realize that Amandel was right about Hubbard)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/lafayette-ronald-hubbard (Nothing in EXIF, has future guide's email, link at bottom leads to a weird site, the list of things led me to the next 9 pages, "regal" and "traitor" don't seem to be used)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/angel (Stuff we already have)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/betrayer (Possible clues for 496.zip? Suetonius and maybe Wall? What would be 6?)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/devil ("Many keys to create one last key" seems important)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/god (Again, might contain clues for the 3 .zips in Ja847u590y)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/heaven (All good here)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/infernal (Weird stuff, but I think we solved this zone. There's a link to the Shadow Events page, which I'll put later)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/monster (I think we had all this, including the link)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/nightmare (I have no idea what to do with the image. Also, you might have to zoom out to see the whole thing.)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/quarrel (Possibly contains clues for 595.zip in Ja647x0l)
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/se (These are all things from Wallace's blog, I think)

EDIT: And I just found http://729-inc.wikidot.com/18 totally by accident. Another weird picture thing.

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FuzzyGoodle wrote:
I have no idea what to do with the image...And I just found http://729-inc.wikidot.com/18 totally by accident. Another weird picture thing.

"18" and "nightmare" are generated by Wordle images so there's nothing per se to do with them further. Possibly the text contains hints which will be clear later?
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 		Hm...

I went through the image on http://729-inc.wikidot.com/nightmare and here are all the things I found reference to:

The entire text of the poem "Dulce et Decorum est," excluding repeated words.
"Edgar Rice Burroughs" and "Chessman" and "Mars" (from one of the .pdfs from earlier)
"Book" and "Nonsense" (from one of the .pdfs from earlier)
"Veni, vidi, vici" (famous quote)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (famous quote)
"Narrative," "Captivity," "William," and "Biggs" (from one of the .pdfs from earlier)
"Open," "Society," "Enemies," and "Popper" (from one of the .pdfs from earlier)
Removing all that just leaves "Nightmare Monster," which is from the Janus Archive.

So...nothing important. Unless the fact that those 4 books appear means that we need to apply the book code (which we STILL can't solve) to them. Except there are only 3 coordinate sets. Hm...

And just glancing at http://729-inc.wikidot.com/18, it looks like it contains a lot of references that we haven't heard yet.

EDIT: OK, I just spent the past 2 hours trying to figure out the future code. I still haven't gotten any coherent answers, unless I'm missing something. The three parts of the code are:
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Begin, 2,4/3,4/6,2/3,5
Begin, 3,1/2,3/5,5/8,3/7,2/2,1
Begin, 1,1/4,2/6,5/1,1/6,4/7,1/8,2/4,4

Here are the 9 books, and what I think you get if you try applying the codes to them (in order) (N/A means the title of the book didn't have enough words or letters in one word to form an actual word):
COM: N/A, N/A, N/A
POM: N/A, N/A, N/A
GOM: N/A, N/A, N/A
landofsphinx: N/A, N/A, N/A
elear: N/A, N/A, N/A
osate: nine, N/A, N/A (this one actually works!)
letter: N/A, otipxl, N/A
narrativeofcaptbiggs: N/A, N/A, nainlbmt
devisesetembleme: N/A, N/A, dnrdetei

So...either I did that wrong, or the answer just doesn't make sense.

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 		I sent this email to the future guide:
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I tried doing what you said, but I'm not sure I ended up with the right keys...

I got Otipxl, Nine (which is the only one that makes sense), and either Dnrdetei or Nainlbmt. What am I doing wrong?

Also, we found this: http://729-inc.wikidot.com/lafayette-ronald-hubbard

Care to explain?

And got this reply:
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It always amazes me that people often remember the names of books but not their authors, I see something is causing havoc: http://foilheadwhy.blogspot.co.uk/

Yes I was that man much to my embarrassment although you have got to admit that Battlefield Earth is the greatest science fiction story ever written! You should read it, don't watch the film that was awful. How did you find my true identity?

I was joined at an early age barely out of my twenties obviously they saw my potential as a leader at least that is what I thought back then. Dianetics was just the beginning really being joined lets you see things, even me a celebrated wordsmith could never explain it fully. Then they wanted an alternative religion something to pick up all those that didn't believe in God but wanted to believe in the next best thing. In 52 Dick became their golden boy with phrase 'plausible deniability' and his mis-information, the war had started for real in the north fortunately for us it was underground far from the public eye. I began to realize that maybe being joined was going to be a bad idea after all, I decided to test this theory. I expanded upon Dianetics big time and came up with the pseudo science of scientology, it definitely doesn't deserve a capital 'S'. And they the Eight and the One loved it, for awhile I thought it might turn out all right especially when the incursion in the north ended in 61. That's when I saw the full horror of what scientology had become and what the rest of the joined had made it into. It had merely become another weapon in their arsenal against the Dern and I had become trapped by my own creation physically and mentally.

It didn't take them long to cotton on to my change in views, it was difficult for them though I had come somewhat big over the years. Eventually they gave me a choice, public death and seclusion from the rest of the joined or real death. Not a choice really but I didn't really realize until it was too late that I had chosen the wrong one but then again the punishment of seclusion is probably what I deserve.

They gave me the guardianship of the archive as a parting gift, what a mess!

The morse in Foilhead's post decoded to "OL FCVENY," and he says it doesn't make any sense unless it is some form of Norse. I still haven't made any headway on that.

And I still don't get what we're supposed to do to get the keys...

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 		OL FCVENY is rot13: BY SPIRAL. Liike you I'll continue to work on the two zip files I mentioned top of the page in my free time.
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 		Oh doh. And here I was, fooling around in Google Translate.

Another email from JAG Future:
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Bit of a silly question on my part there considering your source, nice to see that they used by full title for a change.

I realized that my last email may have been a little oblique, my book title is called: Battlefield Earth by L.Ron. Hubbard

One must be careful, the wires have ears.

So I guess my error in applying the book code was not including the "by [author]"? I'll try it again when I have time. Or someone else could take a crack at it...

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So I guess my error in applying the book code was not including the "by [author]"? I'll try it again when I have time. Or someone else could take a crack at it...


#543 COM , The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
and the third set of numbers 1-1 4-2 6-5 1-1 6-4 7-1 8-2 4-4
comes out to TARTARUS

(Hi everyone -I'm back for awhile)

Edit:
I can't get a proper title for this thing:
http://janusarchive.wdfiles.com/local--files/ja1583h1072xa/letter.pdf
taken as is, the only title that works for Begin, 3,1/2,3/5,5/8,3/7,2/2,1
that I can find is OTIPXL as pointed out by FuzzyG

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 		I got another email from JAG Future:
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It would appear that a previous author of my domain got it wrong with a book title you just cannot get the staff these days, I found this error whilst checking against your key names you supplied in your email below. The book in question which has been incorrectly titled is: The Narrative of The Captivity of William Biggs. The proper title is without the 'The'. I am sure you understand what this means in that the incorrect title will give a different but correct answer.

Please accept my apologies for the idiot I will see that he is derezzed.

T.

Using the unsolved book code on that yields "Origin." "Origin Nine Tartarus" unlocks 648.zip, which contains time-sensors.txt, which, after deciphering it with the playfair key "AmsterdamsePoortNightmare," reads:
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In the past we called them: Seers, prophets, witches and warlocks. Today we called them: Time-sensors. These people are sensitive to time, they can perceive beyond the present into the multiple possibilities of the future. In the past they were completely untrained and therefore unfocused upon what they saw, today we have methods to aim them at particular types of events.

Mostly we are looking for incursions so we can redirect away from harm unfortunately once a time-sensor has been focused upon a particularly type of event they cannot be refocused on anything after that.

They have varying levels of abilities, level 1's are only aware something is wrong but do not know what.

Since early 2011 we've had an influx of time-sensors where before it was limited to a maximum of ten per generation.

We only have to ask two questions to detect modern day potential time-sensors:

1. Do feel that something is different in world but you cannot put your finger on what it is?
2. If the answer is yes, ask: At what time did you suddenly get this feeling?

If the answer is either on or near the 9th February 2011 then they probably are. Most become paranoid, depressed and avoid leaving their abodes.

Max Drum (one of the Corcas Four) did something in his London lab on the 9th February in his attempt to access fictional realities (Pantheistic Multi-Person Solipsism). This appears to have changed the very fabric of our universe, it is also obvious that the nuclear crisis is somehow linked to this change.

The Three Prophecies:

The problem with seeing the future is that the farther forward you go the level is accuracy drops considerably, merely because the possible timelines increase exponentially. Time-sensors can easily lose themselves in the near infinite timelines which is why we always need more.

The information we have gathered regarding all prophecies before the beginning of the 19th Century shows a distinct pattern of three reoccurring future events.

The first prophecy appears to make no sense in relation to the current timeline so it is theorised that this event is the result of not iust an alternate timeline but a completely different parallel world, for instance it appears to only have three faiths.

Faith is control. The Joined are control.

The others will be discussed later.

Excerpt from prophecy:

"...the tempter of Eve opens the way and the children of the fallen return, spreading darkness across the land..." - It so obviously goes against everything we are trying to acheive.

Sounds of the Future:

These are flux echoes recorded mostly from soft/white zones and ex-incursion areas, flux echoes is a phrase coined by Robert Carne the famous researcher and friend to Professor Maad. Of course this aspect of his research has been kept from the public for obvious reasons. All recordings have been slowly pieced together since we've had the ability to record them. These echoes are less chaotic than what a time-sensor sees which helps us to map possible futures.X

And I've emailed the keys to the guide. PROGRESS.

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In a blog update Foilhead wrote:
729 have bought a big herbal remedies firm based in Boise, Illinois called Nine Remedies. I cannot find any mention of this company anywhere.

There is its Wiki page and also saw a couple more:
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/nine-remedies
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/pumlumon
http://729-inc.wikidot.com/breadth-of-god
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