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[TRAILHEAD?]Received a strange package from "Mr. Veritas"...
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Amelić
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A few things stood out to me on the trailier:
XCOM beureo numbers.png
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XCOM beureo numbers.png

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 Description   the phone number is on a sticker on the phone.. anyone in the states fancy calling it?
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XCOM phone number.png


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Macavity
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Ooh, good eye, Pond!

That phone number looks like it might be either 415-507-7816 or 415-507-7618 to me... I'd wager it's definitely relevant, as most nonfunctional phone numbers I've seen tend to have 555 for either the area code or exchange number.
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Macavity wrote:
Ooh, good eye, Pond!

That phone number looks like it might be either 415-507-7816 or 415-507-7618 to me... I'd wager it's definitely relevant, as most nonfunctional phone numbers I've seen tend to have 555 for either the area code or exchange number.


My friend called it, it kinda freaked him out actually

Quote:
it's EXTREMELY muffled and staticy and hard to hear
like
you know when someone is too close to the phone you can't understand them?
It's music
like that
sounds... 50's
or 60's
cliche-ly so
the chorus of the song is "I wanna know...<garble>"
and it was just that part
but it would slow down and speed up and different parts
I couldn't detect a pattern

but at first, the anomalies were subtle

it's all audio
um
this was the voicemail greeting
and it was playing that audio
and at first the things wrong are so slight, you're not even sure you caught them
but as it carries on, they get more and more pronounced and elongated
then the audio sounds like you are actively hearing it melting
just deeper and dripping and horrible
like it's falling apart
and then it stops
and you hear a very dramatic rewinding sound
like in the movies
"zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZP!"
Like all the audio's being rushed backwards FAST.
Then silence
complete silence
then "After the tone, please record your message".


the number is :

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415-507-7616


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GuestUser17
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7618 - Desk of someone - sounds out of game
7816 - Desk of PR Director for "2K" - OOG but curious that they are behind this and the PR director's number would be on the phone. Smile
7616 - Recorded song as above. I posted the link below.

Edited to state that 2K is OOG but behind this

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2K is definitely involved in this, GuestUser17 - it's 2K Marin that's working on this game. The staff numbers are definitely OOG though.
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The music is also in the recently released trailer on youtube.

And my poor ears after listening to that message, yikes!
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Amelić
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Adm_BlackCat wrote:
The music is also in the recently released trailer on youtube.

And my poor ears after listening to that message, yikes!


Yeah, thats where i found the number in Smile

i guess it is a good thing that im over here in the UK and had to get someone else to call for me then Razz

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Recording of phone message

Here's the audio in case anyone wants to listen:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Ketu3zrHaS

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Some more screen grabs from the trailer. I didn't see anything leading us further along, just tidbits of info.
http://imgur.com/a/kB4fC
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Website front has the Pima Incident memo on the left with...two words we haven't seen? The video is better, as it has part of the second paragraph -
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
-rs a day until further
- and that second paragraph is something I'd like to read more of. There's a new memo on the right, and it's also in the video, and deals with sectoid analysis and a Dr. Weir.
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Has anyone left a message on the voicemail yet?

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Yeah I left my phone # and email addy. No contact back yet.
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New vid from Alice, thanking people for the help so far and also dropping a few more tidbits about figuring out who her grandmother was.

Since on Alice's Twitter we can see earlier tweets about trying to find her ancestry, particularly in relation to ancestry.com, there might be some info on that site somewhere?

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Okay, some more info from the "Info" page on erasethetruth.com (and my apologies if this is Trout-tastic):

On the left, we can see some text from the Pima Incident memo:

-nfirms that the [REDACTED] has cordoned
-e downed [REDACTED]. We are dispatching a ground team
to reconnoiter the area for [REDACTED]. Until we obtain
we must assume that any activity in [REDACTED] is uncontained.
-ting with [REDACTED] to implement
-s.

On the right, we can see text from an altogether different memo:

[REDACTED]
and will remain in [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Wier's
research into [REDACTED]
energetic pulse coded t-
[REDACTED]
frequency similar to th*-
[REDACTED]
remain on Alert S**-
information ga-
about the [REDACTED]
The [REDACTED]
working th-
[REDACTED]
Any interes-
incident o-

* - This is most likely "the", "that", or "those"
** - Given the context, the word is probably "Status"
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If you look at the background image for the [INFO] page you can see more of the wording, revealing the following:

Quote:
Security Command confirms that the [REDACTED] has cordoned off a site for a possible downed [REDACTED]. We are dispatching a ground team lead by [REDACTED] to reconnoiter the area for [REDACTED]. Until we obtain ground confirmation, we must assume that any activity in [REDACTED] in uncontained. [REDACTED] is meeting with [REDACTED] to implement contingency protocols.


It's basically what was pieced together from the different files sent to everyone by vidstudent on pg 2 so that the whole message becomes:

Quote:
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Security Command confirms that the [REDACTED] has cordoned off a site for a possible downed [REDACTED]. We are dispatching a ground team lead by Agent DeSilva to reconnoiter the area for RTL activity. Until we obtain ground confirmation, we must assume that any activity in Pima is uncontained. Director Faulke is meeting with Response Team commanders to implement contingency protocols.


So there's still two words we're missing, and can probably get from the 2 files that were sent to someone we have still yet to find.

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