The Guide v.X: LockJaw
by Steve Peters
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Introduction - Recap 1 - Recap 2 - Recap 3 - Recap 4 - Recap 5 - Recap 6 - Recap 7 - Recap 8 - Epilogue
A closer look at the Ganmed emails in Chet
Doan's box gives us an insight into Dan Thomas' private live. His wife's
name is Andrea. Hmm. Well, it's worth a try.
Entering "andrea" as thomasd's
password gets us in! Dan Thomas' email account is now officially "front-doored."
There are also an additional two emails there:
Famous, in which Kathy Jarrett announces her G-E-G
article, and re: Dilemma, in which Wolfe and Thomas discuss Chet
Doan's odd behavior. It's obvious that Doan
was interrupted right in the middle of his
online confession to Rev. Lee.
Come to think of it, we should probably look
for some other password hints. Hmm. Here's
a seemingly innocuous email from Tony Wolfe, where he mentions his dog
Rover. That's great that Tony's a dog-person.
It's even greater that his password is "rover."
Entering "rover" as wolfea's password
take us to Tony Wolfe's email account. No additional emails there, though. Okay,
we've know found three of the four legit
ways into the accounts we'd found previously.
We still have quite a few email accounts
to crack, though. Most notably, James Arney's.
An interesting note is that the URL to Dan
Thomas' emailbox includes the word "caduceus"
(/thomas9caduceus.html), which is the name
of the symbol we use for medicine (with the
two snakes around the staff). In mythology,
it was originally carried by Hermes.
The morning of April 6th brought us another
Serpent/Hermes email: 06/04/2002(archived). Hermes is pretty ticked at Serpent, for
seemingly putting his "project"
before human life. It's of note that Hermes
uses another /slash/ hint at something.
The I-Ching symbol behind this message is:
(07) Shih / Recruiting Allies
That evening, certain JawBreakers suddenly
started receiving emails from Hermes himself!
Attached to each message was a picture of
a piece of a ripped up document. There were
a total of 14 pieces, which were each named
various letters, such as _A.jpg. When combined
and rearranged, they spell ADD UP THE NUMBER.
Hmm.
More importanly right now, when pieced together,
the paper formed a spiral message that read:
[Inside-spiraling text, starting from the
outside]
"where do i even start... there was
so much going on that you never
knew, that i only half knew, things moving
in the background, terrible
things... I should have known to get out.
It was all too strange how
suddenly jules was gone. remember the forums
just before then? no, not
those forums, the ones you didn't have access
too because you didn't
see the inside, the dark interior that drove
this naive crew down an
unpaved road to an imagined - false - noble
victory over the "real"
evil forces... you would have never known
she existed, let alone that
she pulled the strings... jules defied her
and landed in prison, the
rest of them gave her free reign over us,
the gophers. i knew what
happened but i didn't stand against her,
didn't even have the courage
to leave. so she got me to send you. moot,"
[Outward-spiraling text, starting from the
inside]
"off to your death with "one of
the kids" at the wheel. none of us knew
what the point was, what the bigger picture
was. she didn't tell us,
me. now you're dead. i didn't go to your
funeral, didnt even know
where it was. they kept your name out of
the paper, family only. did
they play chopins funeral march, i wonder?
i would play holsts mars.
you felt disconnected from the rest of us,
so i sent you, make you
part of the group. you didn't speak the lingo
but you grasped the
ideals, the purpose, better than any of us.
now, i know youd warn me
off this, but theres no time for wu wei.
i am not a stream and she is
not a boulder. you went away and for the
first time i understood...
you won't be here to see it, but i found"
In the middle of the image were two chinese
characters. These characters were found to
translate loosely to:"The Use of Emptiness."
So apparently, Moot is dead!! This is seemingly
a note from Hermes to the deceased Moot,
feeling very badly about what he got Moot
into. And who is Jules?
It seems that Moot and another "one
of the kids" were killed in a car accident.
Is this referring to Holly and her fiancee
again? A closer look reveals that this isn't
likely, as the details and time-frame don't
fit that earlier "accident."
Hmm, some unanswered questions for now. Things
will probably become clearer once we can
see...
Over the next two days, the last two Serpent/Hermes
emails became available at URF:
07/04/2002(archived)-Serpent gives us more details
about the car accident, while Hermes indicates
that Serpent could have protected the two
victims, somehow.
I-Ching meaning: Li / Igniting
08/04/2002(archived)-Hermes resigns. Also, there's a little hidden
text in the source code: <--#k +-->.
Have no idea what that could mean.
I-Ching meaning: Huan / Dissolution
Well, so among these messages to/from Hermes
and Serpent, the I-Chings are giving us a
definite clue to something. The clue from
the spiral.jpg pieces, "ADD UP THE NUMBER"
seem to be telling us to add up the number
of these I-Ching symbols somehow.
As we researched the I-Ching, we discovered
that each symbol has a unique number to it.
We learned there were four different books/translations,
each using a slightly different numbering
system. So, following the spec that we needed
to add up these numbers, we proceeded as
follows:
| Date | Name | Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3 | Book 4 |
| April 1 | Hsu - Waiting (Nourishment) | 5 | 58 | 72 | 999696 |
| April 2 | Ts'ui - Gathering Together [Massing] | 45 | 6 | 6 | 666996 |
| April 3 | Chin - Progress | 35 | 5 | 5 | 666969 |
| April 4 | P'i - Standstill [Stagnation] | 12 | 7 | 7 | 666999 |
| April 5 | Chun - Difficulty at the Beginning | 3 | 34 | 42 | 966696 |
| April 6 | Shih - The Army | 7 | 16 | 20 | 696666 |
| April 7 | Li - The Clinging, Fire | 30 | 45 | 55 | 969969 |
| April 8 | Huan-Dispersion [Dissolution] | 59 | 19 | 23 | 696699 |
| TOTALS | 196 | 190 | 230 | 6330690 |
Okay, trying 196 around URF gives us a result!
At www.10101-10010-110.org/196/, we see the page entitled: which book are you using? Looks like we might be onto something here!
Clicking on the different digits gives us
four kickout pages, all having to do with
wrong numbers. Okay, we can see a theme when
we're hit over the head.
Trying the other numbers, 190, 230 and 6330690
all give us negative results, though. Hmm,
we're obviously missing something. Let's
look at the email pages a little more closely......
Aha! In the source code of the final email,
08/04/2002, we see the little hidden text has changed:<--#kb
+ -->. Okay, kb = kilobytes. So, it seems
we may be needing to add up the sizes of
some files. Seems very odd that we're being
pointed in two different directions, but
just for fun, let's add up the sizes of the
various .jpg files Hermes sent us.
They total 68. Sure enough, there is something
at www.10101-10010-110.org/68/. The page is entitled ISBN 0 486 29792 6,
and it shows a number 68 with a question
mark. This ISBN number, according to Amazon.com,
referrs to a book entitled "Tao Te Ching
(Dover Thrift Editions)".
What's going on? Now we seem to be being
pointed back at I-Ching books! A little wild
goose chase, perhaps?
Okay, back to square one on this. The clue
seems to be ADD UP THE NUMBER. Not numbers,
number. Add up the number of something? Now there's a possibility. Let's
see, if we add up the number of paper shreds
Hermes sent us we get 14. After trying it
at URF, we come up with nothing. Hmm, what
else?
If we add up the number of emails between
Hermes and Serpent, we get 8. Surely not....
Another Automobile Accident (AAA)
Wait a minute! That couldn't have been the
answer to the I-Ching puzzle, could it?!
Trying www.10101-10010-110.org/8/ gives us
01.04.02, a newspaper article about an automobile
accident.
The article describes a single-car accident
(presumably on April 1st, due to the page
title) in which 2 people died when their
car went off the road and exploded. The really
sinister part of all this is how the Moreland
County Police were assisted by the newly
formed Moreland Ambulance Corp.
So, now we know some more details about the
"accident" that took the lives
of Moot and his young friend. From putting
all the emails together with this article
we can surmise a few things:
Assuming that the accident occured on April
1st, and noting that the Serpent/Hermes email
fight we've been seeing started on that date,
it becomes clear that Serpent and Hermes
have been arguing about Moot's car accident
(and not Class 3/Credibility's accident that
occured some time ago). From this, it looks
like Serpent instructed Hermes to send Moot
and another URFer to get the mystery "tape"
in Moreland.
From the accident report, it looks like they
were returning from Moreland (heading west,
away from Moreland). It seems that they may
have gotten the tape and left town before
GanMed (or whomever) caught up with them.
Futhermore, note that moot & xURFer were
pronouced dead on the scene @ 6AM Monday
April 1, 2002. Remembering that this was
the Monday after Easter weekend, Vad was
showing Barbie around Moreland this same
weekend as well, so maybe they ran into each
other at some point.
Back to the spiral eulogy, Hermes refers
to "Jules" a couple of times: "It
was all too strange how suddenly Jules was
gone." and "...you would have never
known she existed, let alone that she pulled
the strings...jules defied her and landed
in prison,"
We find that the whois information about
URF shows "Jules Carmentis" as
their contact person. Coupling this with
the old URF "discontinuity" information,
and Serpent's threats to Hermes in their
email arguments: "You're rapidly outliving
your usefulness as an intermediary, and you've
seen what happens to people in similar situations,"
we can guess that Jules used to run URF and
be Serpent's intermediary to the rest of
"the kids". Somehow Jules crossed
her, so Serpent got her arrested and put
in prison. Hermes took over, and has been
acting as intermediary. Apparently, he's
now gotten on her bad side, and is about
to face the consequences.
On Monday, April 8th, ODES at Gen-Tel went active. At about the same
time, those of us who had emailed Lauren
Woods asking for more info a while back started
receiving responses from her. There were
a couple interesting ones:
Steve,
Thank you for your interest in General Telometrics.
First of all, let
me apologize for the delay in response time;
the company has been
changing servers to allow for a new data
entry system, and many
emails got lost in the works.
With regards to your question, if you would
simply like more
information about the research we do, please
email Dr. John Missoli
(jmissoli@general-telometrics.com), the head
of the GenTel research
department. If you are interested in possibly
cooperating with us in
supplying vaccines to Haiti, you would have
to email the president of
the company, Andrew Talloway (atalloway@general-telometrics.com).
Any
information beyond what the website offers
is beyond me as well, I
assure you.
Thank you,
Lauren Woods
The name John Missoli rings a vague bell.
A little digging, and we find the Dr. Missoli
used to work for Ganmed (!) with Dr. Wolfe
and Dr. Thomas, according to the hacked Ganmed memo found at URF a while back.
The other email of interest:
Hi shelmerritt,
Thank you for your interest in General Telometrics.
First of all, let
me apologize for the delay in response time;
the company has been
changing servers to allow for a new data
entry system, and many
emails got lost in the works.
I hate to dissappoint you, but I am actually
not a research scientist
at GenTel; I work in human resources. The
best I can do for you is
refer you to my boyfriend who works in the
Telometry department,
Kevin Asgort (kasgort@general-telometrics.com).
Hopefully he will be
able to answer any questions you may have.
Good luck!
Thank You,
Lauren Woods
Hmm, Kevin Asgort. His girlfriend's name
is Lauren. Well, it's worth a shot. Username:
kasgort. Password: Lauren........
Kevin Asgort Amino Acids Puzzle
Welcome to ODES:kasgort (you'll have to enter the username/password
in order to enter this secure page). Here,
we can see links to 3 pages of documents.
Interestingly, these documents are dates
a few weeks in the future, for some reason
(secial thanks to crfets for giving me an
accurate explanation of these):
ODES 4/5/02 p1-A weekly Telometry Research Update, dated
5/5/02. Other than some scary organic chemistry,
we see that GenTel is trying to design an
enzyme that will help them "construct
a TTAGGG sequence," i.e. manipulate
DNA in some way.
ODES 4/5/02 p2-The second page of the weekly update, with
part of the DNA sequence that codes for their
designer enzyme. There is also an "analysis
of the enzyme" in the form of a gel.
ODES 4/5/02 p3-This page contains a particular segment
of the DNA (or RNA in this case) that Kevin
found "most interesting." He mentions
that the corresponding amino acid sequence
was especially interesting, so translating
(no bio pun intended) each set of three bases
(or codon) into its one-letter amino acid
abbreviation gives us the following message:
Gentel Secret Someone: I know you're watching.
More to follow.
Also, at the end of the list are two sets
of numbers:T5T 4M2(1742) and 55425(N172). A little digging found that
these two main numbers were zip codes with
something in common:
T5T 4M2 The West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. North America's second-largest
shopping facility.
55425 The Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA. North America's largest shopping facility.
Even more intriguingly, the numbers in parenthesis
were found have meaning, too: According to
the Mall of America Store Directory, N172
is a Bath and Body Works store, and 1742
(for West Edmonton Mall) is the location
of a Body Shop store.
What the heck??! How do bath and soap stores
fit into all this???
Well, it wouldn't be Monday without a Horoscope update:
Aries (Ganmed): "Don't stop now, Aries! You've
started moving again, and although rest seems
to be a good idea, in reality stagnation
does nothing for you but make you smell funny." Perhaps there'll be some other updates coming
up at Ganmed. Whatever.
Taurus (Net:Sight): "You're buoyed by the
successes of the past week, but you've yet
to show the fruits of your labors to anyone
else. Think about when that should be; sooner
rather than later." Looks like they've finished a major project,
but have yet to release it.
Gemini (Moreland): "The events of the last
few weeks look set to continue. Don't get
complacent though; you may have had it easy
recently, but there's no indication that
won't change."
Cancer (URF): "Sometimes you don't know which
way is up, and sometimes you just don't care.
This is a dangerous time for you, decisions
you make now will affect you and those around
you for a long time to come. Choose wisely,
and your path will lead you back to your
friends. Choose poorly, and you might lose
those friends you still have." Obviously the Hermes/Serpent conflict.
Leo (Gen-Tel): "Though you may only suspect
it, you have friends in high places that
are looking out for you. Keep up the good
work and you may be rewarded more than you
expect." GenTel seems to be turning out to be the
virtuous one in this whole saga.
Virgo (Barbie): "You haven’t been very focused
lately. You’ve put most of your energy into
your social life. That’s fine…if that’s all
you want. Get back to work. If you’re stuck
in a rut, maybe you should think about taking
on a new project." Get back to work? Taking on a new project
may mean she needs to join Vad in saving
the day in Moreland.
Libra (TerraShape): "You've been playing
your cards close to your chest, but you need
to take off that poker face and let people
know how you feel. Criticism can be a good
thing, if it helps you grow. Let your friends
know that they matter, and they'll help you
come out on top!" We can expect more info from TerraShape soon?
Scorpio (Serpent/Pythia): "Change is inevitable.
You'll find yourself in a tricky situation,
but if you play your cards right you'll come
out ahead." Another reference to the current situation
Serpent is in.
Sagittarius (DCMC/Nocars): "Have you been playing
the blues? It’s time to get out of that funk.
You’re missing out on life, and that’s never
a good thing. Wake up, hop in the shower
and face the day. If you can get a hold of
yourself, there’s nothing that you can’t
handle." A reference to the "happy" Eric??
Capricorn (Grrl-E-Grrl): "Has your phone been
ringing a lot lately? Telemarketers have
just gotten to be way too much. It used to
be that you’d get 2 calls a day, now it seems
like it’s every couple hours. How many times
can you say “No”? Perhaps you should consider
blocking the number." Is this a scolding for the Jawbreakers' recent
scripting attacks? "How many times can
you say "No"? Perhaps you should
consider blocking the number."
Aquarius (WiredSouls): "The teeming masses love
you, but you knew that. Check your number--is
there perhaps one among you who is more--and
less--than he seems to be? Trust, but verify."
Interesting reference to someone being "more--and
less--than he appears to be. Funny, quoting
Ronald Reagan, "trust, but verify,"
considering Rev. Lee's disdain of Reagan.
Why does he hate Reagan, btw?
Pisces (Vad): "Life has been good, albeit
a bit confusing. Perhaps that’s because you’ve
been living with your head in the sand. It’s
time to look up, brush the sand out of your
hair, and accept what you see." Thing's have been good for Vad, what with
the new job and
all, but it's time for him to look around
and realize what's going on.
Interesting note. A few of these can be seen
to be pointing at specific individuals, if
you want to look at them that way: Taurus/Eric
Wyndgarde, Sagittarius/CaveBear, Aquarius/Rev.
Lee, Cancer/Hermes, and perhaps Libra/Jo
Burgess. Many of the sites definitely seem
to have one major character at the forefront,
but I wouldn't take these too literally in
this instance.
Again, no major clues to anything, but mostly
just additional insights into what's going
on around the LockJaw world.
There was one other update at G-E-G that
looked noteworthy. It's entitled Puppets for Social Change, and it's an interview with Devi, a young
Zero Population Growth advocate in Seattle.
There's evidence in the article that leads
us to believe that Devi may in fact be Mayor
Devenish's daughter. First there's her "name,"
then she mentions someone who bears a resemblance
to Nadine Devenish: "...Well, it was
sort of my mom’s fault. When I was little
the two of us would plant a garden each year
and spend a little time together each day
working on it..."
When you think about it, a Zero Population
Growth group would be just about as opposed
as one could get to anyone trying to extend
the human life span, let alone attain immortality.
Maybe the Mayor and his wife are in on things
a little more than we realize, and Devi is
trying to do her part to counter their actions.
Suddenly, the little squares at the bottom
of the Ganmed pages took on meaning. Various squares now
link to some apparently blank white pages:
http://www.ganmed.com/1.html
http://www.ganmed.com/2.html
http://www.ganmed.com/3.html
http://www.ganmed.com/4.html
http://www.ganmed.com/5.html
http://www.ganmed.com/6.html
A closer look reveals hidden white gibberish
code on a white background on each page.
Each page is entitled "breadcrumbs"
and contains a different message. "Breadcrumbs"
refers to the messages we found on the old
URF site Admin Inbox.
There are snippets of text that can be found
in each message, however:
1.html - inerators can handle five or six
at
2.html - obody missed them. That's the great
thing about the homeless--you can drop them
off
3.html - week and we could have had them
out of the tunnels and burned. Too bad those
ki
4.html - ot sure. The report listed ten of
th
5.html - aid there would be 'treatment failures,'
especially early on. I guess 'treatment failure'
sounds better than 'de
6.html - she was upset, but I took care of
Breadcrumbs, indeed! Looks like we have bits
and pieces of a hidden message embedded in
what was determined to be a split-up Ganmed
Logo .gif file.
Homeless people being used as guinea pigs
for some treatment? If so, looks like they
died and their bodies were stored in tunnels
to be incinerated later. Their deaths were
called "treatment failure."
Nice. I guess we know who were in those body
bags now.
April 9th brings an update at ThePythia.
The contellation now links to EASTERN, which shows the same snake on a branch
with the text: WHEN EVIL BEFALLS HIM HE IS
DESPONDANT
Letters that are lighter in color: N S I,
which last time was an anagram. There's also
some hidden text, according to the source
code: 'IT'S straightforward. quite"
The URL of the page is www.thepythia.net/allhave.html.
Using the "allhave" and the NSI
as clues, we're pretty easily led to the
conclusion "SIN" (All have sin(ned)).
Entering SIN at the LostSouls Sounds page takes us to PATH, which is another confession from Chet Doan.
Seems like Chet is being tortured by nightmares.
I can't imagine why!
EASTERN PATH is apparently a Zen term for
the Meaning of Life. Looks like Chet my be
on a little search for just that. Also, the
quotes interspersed with Chet's new confession
are from from the Quran. The chapter (or
Sura) is entitled _The Ladders_
(al-Ma`arij/al-ma`aarij), an obvious tie-in
with genetics.
April 10th brought some new email updates
over at the DCMC Underground at nocars.org.
We get new emails from April 8th throught
the 1oth:
Vad-Barbie wants to know if everything's okay with Vad, and invites
Vad to their weekly Euchre game.
Barbara-Well, Vad seems a little aloof or preoccupied. Cave Bear seems pretty happy, and Creeper wants to go shopping.
Creeper-Barbie talks about her completed
manuals project, and invites Creeper to help her
spend some of her new check. There's also
a copy of Cave Bear's happy email.
Cave Bear-Nothing new here. Nobody seems
to want to write Cave Bear. Hmm, I wonder
why?
Barbie and Vad played Euchre again on April
10th. A good chunk of the chat was posted
in JB Message #2474. Vad gave us another puzzle, this time 20
lines of cards as follows:
9s Kc Jh / Ad Jh 10h Jc Jh Qd
10s / 10h Kc Ks / Ah Jc Qs 10h Qs 10s
Kc / Ad Jc Jh 9s Js? 9s Kc Jh / Qh
Ks Ks Jd 10s/ 10h Kc Ks/ Qc Ks 10h
Jc Qs Ad/ 10s 9d 10s 10h Ks Qc/ Ac
Jh 9s Js? 9s Kc Jh / Qd Ks As 10c
Ks 10s/ As 10h Qd As Js 10h Qs 10s/
Jh Kh Kh/10h KcKs/ Qc As Jd 10s?
9s Kc Jh/ Qh Ks Ks Jd 10s/ 10h Kc
Ks/ Qc As Jc 10h Qs As Js 10s/ 10d
Js Ac Ks Jc/ 9s Jc As Jd 10s? 9s
Kc Jh/ Kc Jh Qd Ac 10s/ Ah As Ad
Qh/ 10h Kc Ks/ Ks Qd Ks Ad 10h Jc
Qs Ad/ Ad As Jc? 9s Kc Jh/ Qc As
Qh Ks 10s/ 10s 10h Ks 10c Ks/ Kd 10d
10h Ks Js Ah Ks Jc Kd/ As/ 10s 10h
As Jc? 9s Kc Jh/ Jc Jh Ah 10s/ Ad
As 10c Ks/ Kh Qs 10s Kc/Jh Kh/10h
Kc Ks Qs Jc/ 10s Qs Kd Kc 10h? 9s
Kc Jh/ Jc Qs Kd 10s/ Ks 10c Ks Jc
9d/ Jh 10s Ad As Jc/ Js Qs Kd Kc 10h?
This turned out to be a simple substitution
cypher, which when decoded says:
W H O / C O (n) T R O L
S / T H E / B R I T I S
H / C R O W N? W H O / K
E E P S / T H E / M E T
R I C / S Y S T E M / D
O W N? W H O / L E A V
E S / A T L A N T I S /
O F F / T H E / M A P S?
W H O / K E E P S / T H
E / M A R T I A N S / U
N D E R / W R A P S? W
H O / H O L D S / B A C
K / T H E / E L E C T R
I C / C A R? W H O / M A
K E S / S T E V E / G U
T E N B E R G / A / S T
A R? W H O / R O B S / C
A V E / F I S H / O F / T
H E I R / S I G H T? W
H O / R I G S / E V E R
Y / O S C A R / N I G H T?
The answer is obvious to Simpsons fans: "We
do! We do!" This is a song lyric (quite
funny!) from the episode where Homer joins
the super secret Stonecutters, and sure enough,
look what we find at www.moreland-wv.org/stonecutters/:
These turn out to be Elder Futhark runes,
which are translated using one of many online
references to read as follows:
My father would be so proud:
Who says you can't teach an old dog new alphabets?
Found this lot in the usual way, (the trash)
Maybe you can make something of it:
Stonecutter's Pieces
This leads us to www.moreland-wv.org/stonecutters/pieces/
When the shredded document is reassembled,
it turns out to be a memo from Chet Doan
to an unknown person at Moreland. The memo
reads:
[GANMED letterhead]
As per our telephone conversation of this
morning, you should plan on
providing Arney with a private office for
the remainder of the week,
even if you need to rearrange your entire
security department to do
so. You are instructed to treat him as royalty
with unrestricted
access to all areas. You are NOT to question
his actions or motives.
Arney assures me that he has taken care of
the issue of the two kids
who were found snooping around. He confiscated
the material they had
taken and sent them on their way. In his
words, he "scared the life
out of them and they won't be back."
In the event they do return,
notify the police and have them escorted
out of the town limits.
Your annoyance at being called so early was
quite clear in our
conversation. I'm beginning to wonder if
I made an error in placing
you in such a sensitive position; I thought
I was abundantly clear
when you accepted the job that you were expected
to be available 24
hours a day. That expectation HAS NOT changed.
CD
There are 4 shreds left over that don't fit
into the Ganmed memo or to each other. Either
they are extras thrown it to confuse things,
or there isanother document out there with
more pieces to be found later.
An image of the reassembled memo can be found
here.
(Thanks, Gupfee!)
Additional little squares at Ganmed were
updated on April 11th to link to 3 more breadcrumbs:
http://www.ganmed.com/7.html
http://www.ganmed.com/8.html
http://www.ganmed.com/9.html
More white-on-white jibberish with inserted
text:
7.html anywhere. Even in tunnels. How many
there are, I'm
8.html em, but there are names for some and
aliases for others. I still have a copy of
the report that that
9.html or 'we fucked up big.' We're covered
Combined with the first six crumbs, a message
is starting to fall into place:
Recap:
---------------
5/9: ...aid there would be 'treatment failures,'
especially early on. I guess 'treatment failure'
sounds better than 'dead' or 'we fucked up
big.' We're covered.
---------------
2/7/4/8: ...obody missed them. That's the
great thing about the homeless--you can drop
them off anywhere. Even in tunnels. How many
there are, I'm not sure. The report listed
ten of them, but there are names for some
and aliases for others. I still have a copy
of the report that that...
---------------
Remaining:
1.html - inerators can handle five or six
at
3.html - week and we could have had them
out of the tunnels and burned. Too bad those
ki
6.html - she was upset, but I took care of
Hmm, I guess we know who our Ten Little Indians
were now. We'll be watching for more breadcrumbs
tomorrow.
April 10th also gave us some new messages
in Jo Burgess's email box at Terrashape:
Scream [from: KW] gives us an encoded message:
eqeiy tsu siez vggssulgu mn kgwi ecogwex
yam yzpl zgv yiad xtfq mq sirmn
pg pfx tdq vf poosvv qe
This is a Vigenere cipher (remember the name
of the new stor in Moreland?). Using the
key 'scream' -- as per the title -- gives
the following:
money has been deposited in your account
you will not hear from me again
do not try to locate me
God I hate this is a note from Jo to herself about the muzak
chosen for the ice arena.
RE: [from: witheld] is a very alarming email
thread. Is Jo on the take from someone? Taking
our cues from the phrases, "I'll tell
you in person" and "I wonder, does
the company know about our little liaisons?"
we can assume that the sender of these emails
if someone in Moreland with Jo.
RE: Success! [from: Iain Fitzboyle] indicates something
very important has been accomplished, but
we have no indication as to what it is.
A word to the wiser [from: John Hathaway] talks about "the
toff" and the problems he/she is causing
by nosing around. What is the toff?
Thought [from: Aleks Canzovich] (who is a woman,
by the way, and the head of the Ecology Dept.)
is simply four quotes from different sources:
1-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh; 2-Unknown;
3-Sun Tzu, The Art of War; 4-Lewis Carroll,
Through the Looking Glass.
The email is concluded with a graphic with
more Chinese characters of unknown meaning.
The only info we seems to have is that both
strips look like labels for something. The
red one reads something like "name(?)
taken wine something home choice". A
wine label perhaps?
The white one is shaped like an envelope.
The writing is extremely difficult to make
out.
With all the clues we had in the G-E-G article, it's amazing that this one sat here for
so long unsolved. I'm especially embarassed
as I've read just about every Stephen King
book written.
The password for Kathy's Ganmed Employee Login (garrettk) is 'pennywise,' who was the clown
character in the novel "IT." Pennywise
was an evil. Pennywise was a monster that
lived underground. Pennywise was played by
Tim Curry. I knew that.
On April 10th, Reverend Lee posted a message
to his flock on Whispers:
Update for the flock
Greetings from Germany, friends!
I'm on a rather shaky connection in a small
cyber cafe right now. It
is late evening on the 10th. There's so much
to say but I'll try and
be uncharacteristically brief since I'm afraid
the connection will go
bad at any second. I've tried sending a message
for three days now,
with no success.
Yesterday was spent leisurely strolling along
the Königsallee and
dropping by the utterly fabulous Ko Galerie.
So much to buy, so
little time! I much prefer the Galerie to
the Ko Center, as the
Galerie seems to be of a higher caliber than
the Center. Not that
the Center doesn't have its own charms, indeed
it does. The value-
added tax here is 16% (can I have an OUCH?!).
The day before that, I visited one of my
favorite areas, the area
known as Japanese Dusseldorf. I absolutely
never, ever visit
Dusseldorf without going there. It's a large
area of predominantly
Japanese, and has some of the most fabulous
dining establishments
anywhere. The shops are literally piled one
atop another and have a
wide array of offerings. Just walking through
the area is simply
wonderful.
I'm off to Zum Uerige in the Altstadt tonight.
Such wonderful
atmosphere! Stained glass windows, carved
woodwork...one could
easily have a religious experience in this
setting, if it weren't for
the cheeky waiters and the beer.
I can't believe I've been here nearly a week.
How time flies! I
hope you've been treated kindly by the webmaster
in my absence. I
left instructions to approve members and
take care of the day-to-day
of the site and the board.
On Friday I'm off to visit Paris again, then
back home, with a
brief stopover to visit a friend in Washington.
More chat will
follow as time and technology permit.
Discreet overseas smooches,
Reverend Lee
Well, at least he's discreetly smooching.
Interesting that we hear about Dusseldorf
again. Dusseldorf is one of the maps on Pythia,
our second map, to be exact: 144re. This seems to help back up the idea that
the pics/maps at Pythia chronicled Rev. Lee's
trip 'round the world.
Late on April 12th, Jo Burgess' Terrashape email was updated to include an email entitled
Calimacus. The mail was simply a list of old, archaic
words and some hidden-text numbers:
From CB Re: Calimacus
A preview of what's to come:
goliard
terebinth
cymmhorth
lant
dreaming-bread
petty-fogger
feague
fleam
bowssen
sockdolager
[hiddent text]
18 22 26 1 20 22 2 13 14 18 15 4 24 13 19
2 8 18 15 19 10 11 20 17
11 9 23 11 17 7 13 13 9 3 9 20 10 6 10 13
10 1 9 23 21 16 8 13 8 6 22
15 25 7 1 6 14 17 18 21 19 26 18 15 16 17
8 6 4 18 18 12 13 17 9 5 26
20 17 9 23 7 17 5 18 8 14 5 10 21 12 14 26
16 23 5 21 9 21 15 24 17 9
2 26 26 20 17 9 23 1 14 12 23 17 20 7 16
8 13 15 24 13 14 18 21 16 14
1 15 20 3 18 7 22 17 25 2 13 6 9 5 10 13
16 24 4 15 16 1 9 9 4 14 26
1 1 21 16 5 10 14 8 15 7 22 24 17 1 16 11
18 15 13 16 9 23 12 15 19 5
23 11 15 16 1 8 2 26 26 2 17 9 17 14 17 20
3 14 6 11 19 9 9 1 8 13 4
16 17 21 5 13 14 20 22 18 14 3 5 24 16 16
10 21 5 16 7 1 6 22 15 8 21
4 2 7 8 9 2 21 13 23 11 9 14 21 20 7 16 20
3 16 9 22 8 9 20 13 8 12 5
16 4 1 6 9 11 23 5 18 21 11 18 9 7 21 23
22 15 20 17 11 9 23 11 15 12
17 26 6 5 10 1 17 20 10 15 7 5 2 8 21 17
16 16 19 13 10 1 5 10 12 13
12 18 8 11 16 2 26 26 12 20 17 8 10 1 20
2 1 14 23 5 2 7 1 6 13 14 7
5 17 20 10 2 15 18 16 2 23 5 2 2 17 7 11
17 17 5 11 13 22 22 15 12 17
13 19 20 1 17 4 22 16 5 10 14 8 9 3 15 15
26 17 20 10 11 9 20 4 23 23
23 10 14 16 8 13 14 20 1 19 23 22 15 8 14
16 14 26 8 9 8 1 10 3 23 15
26 17 20 10 15 7 5 2 8 9 15 24 1 14 23 13
17 16 23 15 14 3 16 1 20 17
14 26 5 16 5 13 26 23 3 5 18 6 9 11 16 15
7 1 6 22 15 17 5 3 25 10 8
20 3 15 8 14 15 26 20 2 19 10 16 20 17 24
13 19 13 9 26 1 10 10 22 15
12 13 26 23 7 9 1 17 13 19 23 17 20 24 25
10 22 15 12 19 26 3 13 9 1
17 23 22 12 1 5 13 17 26 1 4 17 23 10 3 14
10 25 19 8 10 8
Well, it seems the list is of a bunch of
obsolete, almost extinct words. An initial
search for definitions yielded the following:
goliard: A wandering student in medieval Europe
disposed to
conviviality, license, and the making of
ribald and satirical Latin
songs.
terebinth: turpentine tree, small deciduous tree (Pistacia
terebinthus) of the family Anacardiaceae
(sumac family), native to
the Mediterranean region. It yielded probably
the earliest-known form
of turpentine, said to have been used in
medicine by the ancient
Greeks. The yield of the terebinth is now
called Chian, Scio, or
Cyprian turpentine.
-also-
A resinated wine additive to prevent wine
from turning into
vinegar. Tree resins--pine, cedar, and often
terebinth (which Pliny
described as the "best and most elegant"
resin)--were added to Roman
wines for just this purpose. Roman also used
resins for medicinal
purposes; indeed, modern chemical investigations
have proven that
resins can kill certain bacteria, thereby
protecting organic
compounds from degradation.
cymmhorth: A Medieval Welsh term for "ale-drinking
benefit", or a drinking
party such as a wedding reception.
lant: The Saxon word for urine, used through
the 19th century for the
stale human urine that was used for a variety
of domestic and
industrial purposes.
dreaming-bread: "The Infar-Cake, or Dreaming Bread."
A decorated cake of shortbread
is still the national bride's cake of rural
Scotland, and was
formerly used as infer-cake. The breaking
of the infar-cake over the
head of the bride, on the threshold of her
new home, is a very
ancient custom. Portions were distributed
to the young men and
maidens "to dream on".
petty-fogger: a lawyer willing to undertake any case
feague: to beat or whip
fleam: a medical instrument used in the letting
of blood
bowssen: To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse
(in water
believed to have curative properties). [Obs.]
sockdolager: A conclusive blow or remark.
As far as the numbers go, there was no immediate
progress on a solution.
Moot (and URFer-X) is dead! We're not sure
exactly who did it or why. It seems that
James Arney and the Moreland Ambulance Corp.
were involved somehow.
Thomas and Wolfe used to work with John Missoli,
but Missoli left Ganmed for unknown reasons
to work at Gen-Tel. Thomas and Wolfe's project
was taken from them and given to someone
else to work on for a while (probably Gen-Tel),
which has left them feeling a little perturbed.
Hermes has had enough of working with Serpent
on his project. Horrified by the deaths and
all he has seen, Hermes resigned from Serpent's
service, but there may be consequences to
outliving his usefullness with him.
Kevin Asgort is apparently in kahoots with
a "secret someone" at Gentel. He's
sending coded information to them via his
ODES reports.
Ganmed has been carrying out "treatments"
on homeless people. When they died, they
were stored in body bags in the DC Metro
underground, awaiting incineration. These
are the unfortunate souls our crawlers discovered.
Chet Doan is an emotionally tortured individual,
who can't sleep at night. Apparently all
of the nefarious things Ganmed is involved
in is finally catching up with him.
Besides having the vocabulary of a sailor,
Jo Burgess is apparently on the take, perhaps
taking hush-money to cover something up.
She's seems to definitely be under somebody
else's control somehow.
Vad seems a little preoccupied or something.
He just didn't seem himself in the recent
emails to Barbie. Is he eating the apples??
Or friend Reverend Lee is traipsing around
the world, gleefully posting about his adventures.
Still don't know whether he can be trusted
or not.
Things that are unsolved:
Our crawler friends got some new emails for
us to look at:
Vad-Only one new email for Vad (he's not quite
as popular as he used to be). CaveBear sent
him a rather strange message entitled standing idle:
Hey now
Since it costs a lot to win and even more
to lose, you and me bound to spend some time
wondering what to choose. Don't you understand
what I'm trying to say, and can't you feel
the fears I'm feeling today? If the button
is pushed, there's no running away, there'll
be no one to save, will the world in a grave.
Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to
scare you.
Am I ready to lay down my life for the brethren
and to take up my cross? Have I surrendered
to the will of God or am I still acting like
the boss? Am I ready, hope I'm ready. When
destruction cometh swiftly and there's no
time to say a fare-thee-well, have you decided
whether you want to be in heaven or in hell?
Hold away despair, more than this I will
not ask.
Faced with mysteries deep and vast, statements
just seem vain at last. My life has changed
in oh so many ways, my independence seems
to vanish in the haze. But every now and
then I feel so insecure. I know that I just
need you like I've never done before.
a Bear looking to connect
It was determined that these are lyrics from
the following songs:
Deal (Grateful Dead [surprise!])
Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
Are You Ready? (Bob Dylan)
Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead)
Help (Beatles)
D-E-A-T-H.
How nice. Must be a clue, ya think?
Also on Vad's page, there's a new, intriguing
link to a page called The Beaten Track. This seems to be a list of busy thoroughfares
of various sorts around the world, with one
(different colored) exception: Chagrin River
Road.
No immediate progress was made on what exactly
this is, either.
Okay, moving to Barbara's Page, we see an email dated April 12th from CaveBear announcing some new files
being uploaded to the platform. Oh good,
new stuff! Problem is, the "Icon Platform"
is gone! We can't seem to access it any more.
I wonder why CaveBear would've moved it?
Note that CaveBear didn't email Vad about
this. Also, TopSider apparently hasn't been
heard from in a while.
Journal is a message from Creeper about Vad apparently
meeting Arney. She also says something about
uploading something from her journal to the
platform. Ergh! Too bad we can't find it!
Lastly, there are two more emails from CaveBear and Creeper, replying to a message they got from Barbie.
Apparently Barbie must've told them about
her private conversation with Urban Zombie! Their advice seems to be leaning toward
not contact him again, but we'll see. Plus,
CaveBear mentions something about tightening
the security at the site, just in case UrbanZombie
is some sort of hacker.
On CaveBear's page, in addition to what we've seen so far,
there's a question from Barbie apparently as to whether she should call/email
Vad about Arney being the same policeman
as before.
Next is a reply from Barbie about the files uploaded to the Platform.
This seems to be in response to CaveBear's
quesion as to whether Vad was the one who
wrote about the 1st Recon.
Something to think about confirms that Barbie did indeed reveal her
conversation with UrbanZombie! Apparently,
Vad doesn't know.
Creeper's page doesn't reveal any additional emails, and
there's nothing else new there that we can
tell.
So, we have some new goodies awaiting us
at the Platform page, but we can't seem to
find it! We have a new Platform login, without the "ahead/behind" trouble
hidden text, so we must be needing to find
a new handle/password. Wrong anwers here
kick us out back to the turnstile.asp page. We seem to be going around in circles.
After spening the afternoon and evening searching
for a new handle/password, it was discovered
that the links to the two files on Creeper's Page still worked. Looking at the URLs of the
links, we noticed that they pointed to a
new directory: /1nfo_b00th/ (NOTE: This directory
has changed again since this time). Well,
it was worth a little experiment. The old
Icon Platform where all the files were had
been located at .../1nof0rmati0nb00th/pl4tf0rm.htm,
so let's try /1nfo_b00th/pl4tf0rm.htm.....
Success!!! Looking at all the additional
icons, we must have a whole bunch of new
info here! Click!
Huh? Oh, man! Did we find this prematurely?
It seems none of the links are valid, we
get 404 errors on all of them. It looks like
the files aren't really there yet.
Or are they??? Here we go again. Things aren't
quite what they seem here. Seems the links
arent quite correct. Looks like the directory
has been misspelled:"1nfob00th" should be "1nfo_b00th". Well, that's easy
enough to fix manually.....
Yes! In addition to what we've already seen,
there are seven(!) new files:
Three brand new ones:
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/gps1.jpg
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/gps2.jpg
This is a journal entry from Creeper dated
12/3/2001. In it, we learn that Anson is
GPS! At least, we can assume that based on the
title of the images. Also, Arney came to
the funeral, watching from the back. Afterward,
he talked at length with Sherpa. Also.....Anson's
full name was Anson Lee.
Anson Lee?
Anson Lee!
Holy cow!, was GPS/Anson related to Reverend
Dan Lee??!! His son or brother, perhaps??
Could Reverend Lee be looking to bring down
Chet Doan and Ganmed in revenge?
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/nyavecrawl/2462.htm
This is a very eye-opening message thread
(all the links work) from the original DCMC
site. It's about the 2nd recon crawl to New
York Street Station, (at least, this confirms
our suspicions that it was NY St. Station).
This is the crawl that started it all, detailing
the discovery of the body bags. It details
the date (August 25-26), how that bodies
were found, and tells us more about who was
there and who wasn't:
Confirmed on crawl: Credibility, Class Three,
Creeper, Cave Bear, Popper, Vad, Barbie.
Confirmed not on crawl: GPS, Sherpa, Terra
Incognito, TopSider, Urban Legend.
As of now, the dead or missing are:
Dead: Popper, Class Three, Credibility, GPS
Missing: RebaR, possibly TopSider
Now, it definitely seems odd that GPS/Anson
is dead, but wasn't on this crawl. Was his
death merely an accident, or is there even
more going on here that we don't know about
yet. Was Anson in love with Barbie, so Vad
pushed him onto the 3rd rail to get him out
of the way??? Okay, just kidding (I think).
Next are four documents we've seen before:
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/memo.jpg
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/purchase.jpg
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/together.jpg
http://www.nocars.org/station/1nfo_b00th/req.jpg
Now, the important thing to realize here,
is that the Crawlers now have knowledge of
everything revealed in these documents:
It's interesting to note that the day after
this directory was discovered, the links
on the New Platform page were corrected (for the most part)
and the links on Creeper's page went back
to being the old "broken" ones.
Did we in fact stumble upon this before we
were supposed to?? Hmmm.
One of the JawBreakers (just one that we know of) received an email from Hermes on April 14th:Looks like Ane apparently discovered something the rest of us haven't, or was perhaps the first one to do so. Checking the message archive, Ane was the one who discovered wht #kb meant, leading her/us to the /8/ and /68/ directories at URF, which gave us I-Ching clues.
Subject: ...
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:36:49 -0400
quickly now, she isn't happy, wont leav
e this end loose for long. she never le
aves loose ends for long, j
ules proved that. jules fou
nd something, hid it deep,
action through inaction. sh
e wanted it back, jules off
ered defiance. that wasn't
the answer she was seeking.
saw from the server logs yo
u've followed the path, fou
nd the source. don't know t
he essence, time is a circl
e and meaning flows both in
and out. moot would know, m
oot always knew, but moot i
s gone and meaning now is d
ammed. he would say /we sho
uld blunt our sharp points,
and unravel the complicatio
ns of things; we should att
emper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.../
Looks like our friend the serpent is melting!
The Pythia's home page seems to have been hacked (this is how it
looked at the time). It's now a cool, "melting"
version of the snake image we've become so
accustomed to. It also no longer clicks through
to the various subway pictures. They're still there, but just no longer accessible through the
front page.
NOTE: The next day, the original page reappeared.
Looks like Pythia didn't take it.
When Rev. Lee left, he mentioned that everything
would be in the capable hands of his webmaster,
whom he'd given the passwords to. I just
wanted to confirm this, so for what it's
worth, I posted a question to him (the webmaster).
Here is the complete message thread:
From: WM1
Subject: Disclosure
In another post, Reverend Lee said:
"I hope you've been treated kindly by
the webmaster in my absence. I
left instructions to approve members and
take care of the day-to-day
of the site and the board."
Just to let everyone know, that would be
me. I trust there are no complaints. I check
a couple of times a day.
Reverend Lee will probably be back home on
Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
WM (that's WebMaster)
-----------------------------------
From: vpisteve
Reply to: WM1 [ Message 1 ]
Subject: RE: Disclosure
Are you also Rev. Lee's webmaster for the
LostSouls site? Again, I
may be able to help with those sound files.
-vpisteve
----------------------------------------------------------
From: WM1
Reply to: vpisteve [ Message 2 ]
Subject: RE: RE: Disclosure
Yes, I do upkeep and such on the WiredSouls
site as well as keeping
an eye on things here on the board.
It's been fairly easy to check in here. Reverend
Lee thought it would
be much busier and a much bigger job than
it has turned out to be to
keep up with this part. I know he was concerned
about adding more to
my workload since I don't get paid to do
this.
Once he gets home I'll let him know you may
be able to be of
assistance with the sound files. I may suggest
we discontinue the
message board part since it's not very high
traffic and he wanted it
to help fill in the loss of the sound archive.
Thanks!
--WM1
April 15th brought us a new seat of breadcrumbs,
again linked through additional little squares
throughout the Ganmed site:
www.ganmed.com/10.html
www.ganmed.com/11.html
www.ganmed.com/12.html
These gave us three additional snippets of
sentences, which then fit into the rest as
follows:
10/3- ...re: the screw up down there, things
are fine. One more week and we could have
had them out of the tunnels and burned. Too
bad those ki...
---------------
2/7/4/8- ...obody missed them. That's the
great thing about the homeless – you can
drop them off anywhere. Even in tunnels.
How many there are I'm not sure. The report
listed ten of them, but there are names for
some and aliases for others. I still have
a copy of the report that that...
----------------
12/5/9- ...too. You can't imagine how hot
they get. CD said there would be `treatment
failures,' especially early on. I guess `treatment
failure' sounds better thatn `dead' or `we
fucked up big.' We're covered.
----------------
6/11- ...she was upset, but I took care of
her. She's not upset anymore.
which leaves….
1- ...inerators can handle five or six at...
Looks like we're still missing a few.
At around 11am on April 15th, first_tienle
was Private Messaged while in the #jawbreakers
IRC channel! He received the following message
from a LaoTze:
/obscurity/what you seek comes from nothing,
like the emptiness of a vessel.
www.10101-10010-110.org/obscurity/ gives us this message:
you have the right book, the one you didn't
read. it instructs in the Way of things,
and how we all should be; what you seek comes
from nothing, like the emptiness of a vessel.
Wow, talk about a clue! But a clue to what??
Repeated attempts at finding additional directories
based on the LaoTze book has yielded no results.
Realize though, that this means an in-game
character knows about us in #jb. Whether
that will end up making sense story-wise,
or is just another desperate attempt by the
PMs to help us dopes find something that's
apparently obvious remains to be seen.
New horoscopes for the 10th week:
Aries (Ganmed): "Feeling a little smug? Well,
don't. We all have vulnerabilities that can
be exploited to the advantage of another.
Don't get caught with your pants down."
Hmm, I hope this is referring to Ganmed as
a company and not to Chet Doan literally.
Taurus (Net:Sight): "You're working hard,
and it looks like that's not going to change
for a while; you're keeping your project
under wraps for now, but when you show it
to your friends they'll see a whole other
side to you." Alright already! What's this new mystery
product?
Gemini (Moreland): "Spring cleaning, spring
gardening, springing into action. Your planet's
alignments are asking you to choose, and
choose wisely. Water signs need to be aware
of the give and take of other elementals
this week!" Well, looks like something's gonna really
get started at Moreland soon.
Cancer (URF): "It’s time to get your bearings
and steer a clear course. It may look like
smooth sailing, but those dark waters hide
dangerous things." Are treacherous times ahead for the URF
kids, despite their promising rise from the
ashes?
Leo (Gen-Tel): "Sometimes everyone has
something they want you to do, and sometimes
you feel like no one knows you're alive.
Don't loose heart, things are about to change.
Hard work and determination will make sure
that change is for the better, but remember,
success is nothing if you don't have the
time to enjoy it!" Is this a hint that Gen-Tel may start to
play a more active part in what's going on?
Virgo (Barbie): "The theme for the week:
trust your gut. It’s important to heed the
advice of friends, but they don’t always
have the whole story. You know what you need
to do, so get out there and do it."
I hope this means that Barbie will trust
us and contact us.
Libra (TerraShape): "Balance in confusion,
deceit wrapped inside of good intentions.
At some point your karma will equalize, and
you'll be lucky to have anyone there to help
pick up the pieces or hold your hand."
Deceit wrapped inside of good intentions.
That might indeed summarize what Jo Burgess
has been up to.
Scorpio (Serpent/Pythia): "The ground beneath
your feet is starting to tremble this week.
Remember those disaster drills you had in
school? Keep them in mind." A not-so-subtle reference to the recent hack
of Pythia?
Sagittarius (DCMC/Nocars): "Today is like any other
day: an opportunity to prepare for the future.
What can you bring to today, what have you
brought to yesterday, what will you bring
to tomorrow, in order to clarify your future?"
Maybe we should be expecting more of the
same at nocars. Perhaps another map giving
us hints to our next handle/password.
Capricorn (Grrl-E-Grrl): "You’ve chosen a path
and stuck to it. The way looks clear and
you are headed on your way. You need to make
sure that you’ve chosen the right one, it
would be a horrible fate to walk all that
way to find a port-a-potty instead of a water
fountain." Don't really know what to make of that port-a-potty
analogy.
Aquarius (WiredSouls): "Be cautious when choosing
your words this week, water-bearer. What
you say--or DON'T say--may give people the
wrong impression about you." A warning to Rev. Lee about remaining silent
about things. Maybe we should give him a
chance to open up to us?
Pisces (Vad): "You haven’t been very careful
about who you trust. Is this wise? Beware;
you may cross a wolf in sheep’s clothing."
Vad may have met a "bad-guy" at
Moreland. Who is Oscar??
Rev. Lee posted a new message to us at Whispers
on April 15th:
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Apr-15-2002 10:22 AM Message 5 of 7
Group: Disclosure
From: Dan_Lee
Reply to: WM1 [ Message 3 ]
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Disclosure
Greetings, Friends!
I've just returned from walking on the Champs
Elysées. Bliss. Utter, unadulterated bliss.
I'll be packing for my flight soon but simply
had to stop by and see what I've missed.
I must apologize for not letting you know
about WM1. It slipped my mind, addled as
I've been with this trip coming up and all.
It's not like me to forget things like that,
and I profusely apologize.
Quoth WM1:
"Reverend Lee thought it would be much
busier and a much bigger job than it has
turned out to be "
So glad to hear it, my friend. I was concerned
but I knew you could handle it. The throngs
haven't teemed quite like I expected.
Continueth WM1:
"I may suggest we discontinue the message
board part since it's not very high traffic
and he wanted it to help fill in the loss
of the sound archive."
I rather enjoy the interactive nature of
this. Perhaps, in light of Net:Sight's troubles,
we can jettison the sound archive and keep
the message board. It's much less one-sided
(even though I understand you've all come
to love those netcasts) and feels more like
contact than me sitting enthroned while the
masses grovel at my electronic feet.
We can discuss this in our meeting. I will
add it to the agenda.
The supreme being loves you in spite of your
haircut,
Reverend Lee
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I'm starting to kinda like this guy! He's
strangely endearing, especially when you
realize that he's apparently lost a loved-one
to Ganmed.
Later that same day, the Webmaster responded
to another question about the sound archives:
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Apr-15-2002 5:45 PM Message 7 of 7
Group: Disclosure
From: WM1
Reply to: OphilyeStar [ Message 4 ]
Subject: RE: RE: Disclosure
Sorry, I don't actually physically have the
archives. I know the Reverend Lee mentioned
they were in NSA format (NetSightAudio, if
you wondered) but the actual archives are
stored on Netsight servers. I don't think
he understood when he posted, but that's
OK. He'll freely admit that he does good
just turning the computer on and finding
the site :) It's less like a standard audio
file residing on your local machine and more
like a streaming audio file...that's the
best way I can describe the Netsight system.
Not entirely accurate, but you get the general
idea.
Yes, I do know the Reverend. We've met on
several occasions. I'm also member #421 of
the Wired Souls Club. I'm wearing my T-shirt
as we speak.
I don't do HTML coding for a living, just
as a hobby. If I had to support myself with
web design I'd be even thinner than I am
now.
As for taking care of the site and board,
think nothing of it. It's a labor of love
for a person I believe in.
Talk to you later--
WM1
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Hmm, this guy is sure talkative for a webmaster.
In fact, with him referring to himself being
thin, there is speculation that WM1 may be
our friend CaveBear. Worth watching for more
clues to confirm this.
April 16th brings a new message in Jo Burgess' box at Moreland, obviously a "note to self"
about the Calimacus cypher:
Not simple sub. Previous was
