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[TRAILHEAD?] Very Good Drug
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moriarty
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 		who is Kyle asking about the surgeries? I had asked the same question and got this answer.
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Me-I saw you had mentioned that Keith likes to perform corrective surgery. I am curious about that, could you please tell me more?

emily-
Yeah, he's had an interest in it for a while. Only time he's gotten to preform surgery while I've been here was when Samantha broke her index finger. He replaced all the bones in that finger with pills. Her typing skills went down a bit after that.


kinda found that last bit to be quite funny.

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 6:53 pm
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Billy Brown
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 		Some new information from my conversations with Trisphere employees using the messaging system:

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Emily confirmed that the rogue Trisphere Tip message wasn't on the list given to her by Keith. She said Hellen couldn't possibly still have access, so someone on the inside must have placed the message. I said that only leaves Christian and Dennis, to which she replied:

"Definitely not Christian, he's too scared to come out of his cubicle, much less rebel against the CEO. Besides, literally all the files on his hard drive are cat pictures. I don't even think he has system resources. Not sure how he uses his computer."

Meanwhile, Dennis had sent me the following advice:

"Don't get on Keith's nerves, he's a NRA member. He may act happy, but if you make him mad, you'll probably regret it. That's how I lost my left leg. We don't talk about that anymore.

I'll keep you posted on my mental health."

With it looking like he's helping Hellen with whatever she has planned, I replied with:

"You do that, Dennis. Sounds like you've got good reason to be annoyed with Keith. Maybe even annoyed enough to help an ex-employee mount some kind of sabotage operation…

I need to speak to her. Let me know how I can do that."

His reply:

"I'm afraid I can't speak to you here anymore."

Hopefully that means that he'll contact me by other means rather than him just clamming up. I've assured him we're here to help and encouraged him to give me some other way to communicate. I guess if I don't hear back I could always try threatening him with ratting him out to Keith but I'd rather not go down that road if possible as I don't want to scare him off.

tl;dr Looks like Dennis is in league with Hellen.


PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:04 pm
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Billy Brown
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Scotter123 wrote:
I asked Dennis about the "Message" in the video. He didn't know what I was talking about. He then sent me this message.

One question, though. How do you like this color scheme for branding of Trisphere? http://imgur.com/JD8QW2v

I couldn't see anything - but had to download the image and enlarge it to the max to see anything.

<a></a>


arthurdent11389 wrote:
as for that color bar, I used Paint program to blow it up 125 times to get attached picture file.

Then I used an online color identifier to get Hex color info, and got:

4b6572 746167 652178 617321 667270 6d2148.


I searched to see if these are crayola (or other standard) colors, but I could not find any matches.

And decoding from hex to ascii gets:

Quote:
Kertage!xas!frpm!H


which looks meaningless, but if paint program altered colors slightly, or color identifier was not exactly correct then message could be like

Quote:
Keith__ ___ from H


I've managed to sort this one out (although would have had no clue about how to go about it without your efforts, arthurdent!)

The correct hex codes are:

4D6573 736167 652077 617320 66726F 6D2048

Which becomes: "Message was from H".

Thankfully I've also heard back from Dennis, who sent me a similar colour bar when I asked for him to help me find Hellen. He sent the attached image. Going through the same process -- the hex codes are:

692064 6F6E27 742068 617665 206C6F 6E6720 676574 20696E 746F20 6B2773 20656D 61696C

Which becomes: "i don't have long get into k's email"

So, how are we going to do that?
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:39 pm
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RingmasterJ5
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 		It MIGHT be retconned at this point since all the posts were deleted, but back when the AIM stuff was still up, Keith said that the AIM passwords were our "favorite musical artists". That could mean that the password has something to do with the lyrics in the Drive folder.

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:43 pm
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Billy Brown
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RingmasterJ5 wrote:
It MIGHT be retconned at this point since all the posts were deleted, but back when the AIM stuff was still up, Keith said that the AIM passwords were our "favorite musical artists". That could mean that the password has something to do with the lyrics in the Drive folder.


I was just wondering if Dennis meant logging into the site as Keith when he mentioned accessing his "email". I was previously assuming that we needed to find his actual email details but I guess he means the inter-employee messaging system as you suggest? That would make more sense for sure.

Aside from that, I've been working more on this and have got a bit further with some other bits and pieces.

Firstly, photo 13 in Christian's folder has changed again and I've managed to decode the resulting message:

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The message read:

Thursday, May 30, 2014
From: Christian Miller
To: [redacted]

B qabkd B'i bk. Qljhx B ahtuk'q flskj hkx bkfloihqblk helsq E Ibksp josr. Esq ouylojp ahtu ql uwbpq pliuvauou. Vu ylsgj eu obya bf qabp vlodp lsq.

-Yaobpqbhk

...which translates to:

"I think I'm in. Today I haven't found any information about B Minus drug. But records have to exist somewhere. We could be rich if this works out.

-Christian"


I pressed Christian about the B Minus drug (this was before I had realised there was the new message) and he said:

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"NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKING ABOUT PLEASE. QUESTIONS LIKE THESE ARE INCAPABLE OF RECEIVING ANSWERS. FALSEHOODS ARE EMITTING FROM YOUR MOUTH REIGON."

He's clearly rattled. I've gently suggested he give us more information as I hear Keith doesn't take kindly to people going behind his back. We'll see if he replies. My only concern is the way he speaks in his messages to me is very different to the writing in the message to [redacted] above. Could it be that somebody else is using his account? Maybe I'm over-thinking it.


I've also managed to decipher the lyric we were stuck on (albeit with a much-needed nudge):

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I sent a message to Keith asking if he was into music at all, expressing my fondness for older music. His reply:

"Oh, the old stuff is the best. I like the Beatles, David Bowie, Prince, Queen, and Taylor Swift. New music is crap, in my opinion."

Which, besides being very funny, gave me a huge shove in the direction of the answer which is Rockhard in a Funky Place by Prince.

"Attempting to handle all thee's phobias

I assume this is what one receives as a result of being visually pleasant"

becomes

"Trying to deal with all your fears

I guess this is what you get for being cute"


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RingmasterJ5
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 		It looks like Dennis' folder has been deleted from the Drive. Maybe he's been fired(or worse)?

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:58 pm
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PiFace314
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moriarty wrote:
who is Kyle asking about the surgeries? I had asked the same question and got this answer.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Me-I saw you had mentioned that Keith likes to perform corrective surgery. I am curious about that, could you please tell me more?

emily-
Yeah, he's had an interest in it for a while. Only time he's gotten to preform surgery while I've been here was when Samantha broke her index finger. He replaced all the bones in that finger with pills. Her typing skills went down a bit after that.


kinda found that last bit to be quite funny.


That'd be me! Thought it might appeal to Keith and sound slightly less serious than everyone else, especially since from your messages Keith already seems suspicious of a few of you...

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:01 pm
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njberry
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 		Im trying to get on keiths good side too giving him ideas for the pills etc

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:53 pm
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Amalie
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 		I was also trying to get on Keith's good side, expressing admiration, asking about how he got here, etc., but I don't think I found out anything useful:

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Sure thing Amalie!

I graduated from college at 22 with a degree in pharmacology. I went to work for a company that made industrial-grade laxatives, and I learned an amazing amount of things from that job. I stayed there for 10 years until the company went bankrupt. For a year, I lived with my parents and moped around. Then I decided to start Trisphere! This has been the best chapter of my life so far. I hope you can accomplish almost as much as I have one day.

- Keith


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PiFace314
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 		Keith actually has a degree in this stuff? Weird.

In other news, trisphere.us is now looking snazzier, although the mission statement and about are lovingly vague.

I've messaged Emily asking about if Dennis's missing folder is like a technological glitch or if something's happened to him in story.

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Billy Brown
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PiFace314 wrote:
Keith actually has a degree in this stuff? Weird.

In other news, trisphere.us is now looking snazzier, although the mission statement and about are lovingly vague.

I've messaged Emily asking about if Dennis's missing folder is like a technological glitch or if something's happened to him in story.


I've done the same and she simply replied with "Who?" -- looks like he's been dealt with and people have been ordered to deny all knowledge.

Christian is standing firm despite being confronted with the evidence of his secret messages about the B Minus Drug. I'll try pushing him again.

There's also a new release about 'Passable Drug', a new product, on the site. The message board has been updated with what's supposed to be a link to a new blog but the link just directs back to the message board. Not sure if this is a mistake or deliberate but would assume the former. Maybe it's just supposed to point to the new post on the existing blog, but there's a chance that there's a new site out there for us to find.

Got to head out for a bit now but will have another dig around when I'm back later this afternoon.

PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:34 am
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PiFace314
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 		I'm not sure if people have been ordered to deny his existence. I sent Emily a message and here's her reply:

"You're the second person who mentioned Dennis. Was he hired recently? I haven't seen any new faces around the office."

Remember when somebody asked about mind control as one of the possible effects of the drug? I think that possibility should be taken into consideration, and people might have been mind wiped.

Additionally, it says that Trisphere knows exactly how they're creating Passable Drug. Are we allowed to ask how?

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Amalie
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 		Link has been corrected: http://passable-drug.tumblr.com/

Oh, and here's a little proof that Dennis did in fact work at Trisphere in case anyone denies his existence or something:



PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 10:03 am
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Billy Brown
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Amalie wrote:
Link has been corrected: http://passable-drug.tumblr.com/


Excellent. If you view the source there's something of interest:

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Long character strings towards the bottom of the page, with the URL for this unfiction topic included. It's not immediately obvious to me what we need to do with this from a first scan but I'll have a proper look a little later.


EDIT: Having looked back at the original tumblr site for Very Good Drug that passage is in the source code there too. So I guess there's not something new at all -- maybe it's there for people who stumble across the site on their own so they're pointed in the direction of this thread to share ideas?

PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 11:30 am
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njberry
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 		i asked keith about dennis too, he also is claming to not know who he is hmmmm sounds like everyone has been slipping some drugs. im starting to wonder if there is someone higher up that we dont know about drugging everyone ( but that could be my imagination running away with me )

edit: also i noticed that dennis is still a member on the trisphere website so ive questioned that, waiting for a reply

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