The Guide v.X: LockJaw
by Steve Peters
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Feb. 7th - Mar. 18th - After Mar. 18th - After April 5th - After April 28th
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Introduction - Recap 1 - Recap 2 - Recap 3 - Recap 4 - Recap 5 - Recap 6 - Recap 7 - Recap 8 - Epilogue
We've now begun our 12th week. Guess it's
time for some new horoscopes:
Aries (Ganmed)
You haven't noticed all the small changes
going on around you recently. That's too
bad, since those small shifts add up to a
big landslide.
Probably a reference to the breadcrumbs being
dropped for us around the site.
Taurus (Net:Sight)
Events of the last week have left you with
more questions than answers. But are you
asking the right questions, and are the answers
that difficult to come by?
Hmm, is there something more at Net:Sight
that we're missing??
Gemini (Moreland)
The weather on the horizon is ever-changing
and ephemeral. Try not to lull yourself into
thinking that a storm will pass over you,
leaving you unharmed. Life is what you make
it, after all, and time can be a wicked mistress.
Plan ahead for cloudy skies!
Perhaps the problems over at Ganmed will
start to manifest themselves at Moreland
soon.
Cancer (uRf)
You're a magnetic personality, and your sphere
of influence should spread easily this week.
You have the means, the motive, and the manipulative
tendencies. Be sure to take care of yourself,
take care of what you have left over.
Hmm, seems Hermes might surface soon in his
true identity, appearing in a position of
influence.
Leo (Gen-Tel)
Now is the time to examine the people in
your life that are holding you back from
becoming a business success. Take stock of
your resources, making extra sure that even
if your co-worker's agendas don't match yours
that you all still come out in the end smelling
like a rose.
Probably a reference to Linda Alvaro having
a hidden agenda of some kind.
Virgo (Barbie)
You have been spending too much time trying
to focus on the bigger picture. The problem
is that you haven't learned to relax and
absorb the image. Like a stereogram, it's
important to sit back, relax, and let the
information come together as it will.
Hmm, a reference to a stereogram. There's
been a lot of speculation that there may
be stereograms hidden in the pictures at
Moreland. We shall see.
Libra (TerraShape)
Things have been relatively quiet of late
on the surface, but secretly you've been
pretty active. It looks like you've been
meeting new people too, so try to make a
good impression.
Is Jo up to something?
Scorpio (Serpent/Pythia)
Think through your actions and try to look
at things from the perspective of the end
result rather than looking at the larger
picture. God is in the details.
As opposed to "the devil is in the details?"
Hmm.
Sagittarius (DCMC/Nocars)
Your life is a puzzle. Unfortunately someone
took a few of the pieces without your knowledge.
How are you going to find them?
Could this be hinting that there are more
things left by Vad at Moreland? Perhaps the
clues leading to them were missed or lost
somehow?
Capricorn (Grrl-E-Grrl)
Have you been feeling sluggish or just really
busy? It seems that it's taking you longer
and longer to get your work done. Perhaps
you should take a little break and gather
your thoughts.
Seems the May update may be a little late?
Aquarius (WiredSouls)
You're the newest pawn in a dangerous game
of chess, Aquarius. You're closer to the
eye of the hurricane than you suspect. Sudden
changes of allegiance may surprise you.
Poor Rev. Dan looks like he's being used
by someone.
Pisces (Vad)
Emotionally you are feeling very disconnected.
It could be that you are experiencing betrayal
from people that you thought you knew. You
will reach out to new friends. While this
is comforting, is it a good idea? Have you
gotten things a bit backwards?
Obvious reference to Vad distancing himself
from Barbie and getting closer to Oscar,
his new friend.
Based on the new clues left by Ninjababe
at Whispers, we renewed our effort to find
the secret Lite Side page at Gen-Tel. On
the Ninjababe card found on Kevin Asgort's ODES page, the gt/ls
hint has seemed to be pointing at a couple
directories. But taking a second look at
that card, we notice that the slash is more
of a horizontal underline. That, combined
with the superfluous undeline on Ninjababe's
post at whispers (Gossip_Queen) leads us
to try various things at Gen-Tel using an
underline. The gives us much success! Backing
up, and trying the obvious, we get www.general-telometrics.com/gt_ls. I tell ya, sometimes we make these puzzles
too hard for ourselves! The Greek letters
on the card are gt and ls, separated by a
_ .
So, now we've found the GT Underground. Taking a look, we do indeed discover some
things:
First, notice the hidden text at the top
of the page.
Oscar Gray has taken off for parts unknown.
Could this be the Oscar that Vad's been referring
to? Seems very likely.
Hmm, seems Vern Stevenson's birthday was
March 7th. What??! March 7th is my birthday!
Hey! I'm in the game! w00t!
A new food service has been contracted. I
wonder if they'll be serving Iduna applesauce.
Dr. John seems to be John Missoli, and he
seems to be a Beatles fan.
That seems to be all there is of consequence
at first glance. Hmm, Dr. John is a Beatles
fan, and doesn't know what color the White
Album is? Well, lets use that info and try
some ODES passwords for him, shall we?
A little trial of Beatles-related words quickly
yields a password: "white." Entering
jmissoli/white takes us to ODES:jmissoli, Dr. Missoli's private page.
We're rewarded with some good information.
Well, almost. Seems someone doesn't want
to share their "shared" files.
The links to all the weekly research updates all link
to the same message: "Research: see
me." The note attached talks about a
resistance to make files available, but it's
not exactly clear who is making this statement.
In the Private Files section, there are two
files:
FILES LA Memo-Dated 1/28/2002, it's the memo that was
sent out announcing Linda Alvaro's arrival
at Gen-Tel, along with an apparent annotation
showing how excited Dr. Missoli is about
it.
FILES LA Orient-Dated 2/4 to 2/6/2002, this is an outline
of Linda's orientation period at Gen-Tel.
Then there are some notes:
NOTES 04/05/2002-Gives us a bunch of links:
- The Roslin Institute Edinburgh-Famous for cloning the first animal, Dolly the sheep.
- The Myeloma Institute-Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects plasma cells. Missoli references the fourth abstract down on the page, which is entitled "Studies of telomere length and telomerase activity in myeloma and normal hematopoiesis." Uh-huh.
- Yeast Ku protein yada yada yada. More telomere references here. Missoli's a little smug about how far behind these guys are. Yeah, I would be, too. Still using old technology. The nerve.
- BJ Klein-Seems to be down as of press time.
- New Heaven New Earth: Physical Immortality-Interesting site about how we're on the cusp of attaining immortality.
NOTES 04/08/2002-A Note To Self, quoting Linda Alvaro: "It
is not enough to conquer, one must know how
to seduce." This in turn is a quote
attributed to Voltaire, the famous French
historian/writer. Hmm, that's got CLUE written
all over it, doesn't it?
NOTES 04/12/2002-Talks about Gen-Tel's project named Ambrosia.
Looks like Ambrosia is Gen-Tel's attempt
at the Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately,
it's caused one death already.
Okay, let's go back to our Voltaire clue.
Something makes us want to try 'voltaire'
as Linda's ODES password......
Sure enough! Entering lalvaro/voltaire at
her ODES login give us ODES:lalvaro. Again, the links to all the weekly research updates
all link to the same message: "Research:
see me," but with a slightly different
note attached. Same result, though. Looks
like we will have no access to Linda's research,
at least not here.
On to the private files:
FILES Intro Memo-A response to Misolli's memo of introduction.
Seems kind of smarmy, doesn't it??
FILES Feb Thoughts-A journal of Linda's. The 2/12 entry is
interesting, as it seems that Gen-Tel has
a particular lab tech who doesn't really
seem to know what he/she is doing. Imposter?
Spy?? Also, it seems that she has met Lauren
(L) and is getting to know her a little.
FILES April Thoughts-(Where was she in March??) This journal
mainly concerns itself with Linda's progress
in the lab. She talks of cloning and things
going mysteriously wrong due to contamination,
which she seems to blame on an inept staff.
Also, note her frequent reference to headaches,
which seems rather odd. Not sure who the E.H. is that Linda refers
to in her 4/29 entry.
The little gray squares updated again at
Ganmed on April 29th, linking to:
www.ganmed.com/15.html
www.ganmed.com/16.html
Again, looking through the hidden text we
find the following fragments:
15) Villanueva girl "filed." When
she came in to see me
16) ds stumbled across the rooms and saw
what they did. Hell,the inc
This, when added to everything that's been
found so far, seemingly completes the series:
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 kids
stumbled across the rooms and saw what they
did. Hell, the
incinerators can handle five or six at a
time. They're fast, 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 than 'dead' or 'we fucked up big.'
We're covered as far as the
test patients, nobody 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 Villanueva girl "filed."
When she came in to see me
she was upset, but I took care of her. She's
not upset anymore.
So we know this is from Arney, but don't
know who the recipient of this 'memo' is,
yet.
So the URL for the Gen-Tel Lite side is www.general-telometrics.com/gt_ls. We know from ninjababe's postings on Whispers that she's been trying to figure out whether
or not to post the really juicy stuff she's
being told. In those posts, there are some
hints to these things being 'dark,' so it
makes sense to try www.general-telometrics.com/gt_ds. It works!
The Gen-Tel Dark Side gives us the more serious
gossip, the latest item dated April 15th.
Interesting items of note concerning folks
we know include:
- Oscar is apparently an infamous practical-joker.
- Oscar has left Gen-Tel for good.
- Dr. Missoli's wife has apparently left him.
On April 29th, Rev. Lee responded to a gene
therapy question:
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From: regenboogkapje
Subject: MedicalGene therapy, what`s against
it?
Dear Rev. Lee and all the peoples here at
the Wired Souls-forum!
I`m a 24-year-old medical student from Holland
and right now I`m
deciding in which direction to take my career
next.
I`m thinking of maybe going to work in the
gene-modulating field.
I was wondering how you feel about MedicalGene-therapy.
On your Wired
Soulspage you stated that you don`t approve
of this. But I was
wondering: "if it is being used to do
good e.g. help cure diseases,
what`s against it?"
And when in Europe rev. Lee, feel free to
visit Holland *welcome*!!!
I would be delighted to show you around!
Dusseldorf sure is great
this time a year, isn`t it? ! :-)
Take Care! Regenboogkapje
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From: Dan_Lee
Reply to: regenboogkapje [ Message 1 ]
Subject: RE: MedicalGene therapy, what`s
against it?
Greetings, Friend!
I'd say I'm not so much against cloning,
gene therapy, and the like
as I am...unsure about it.
We seem to be rushing headlong into playing
Supreme Being without
considering the moral implications fully.
Concerning gene therapy, on the one hand
it would be WONDERFUL to
stop things like cancer and other diseases,
but then again we have to
consider the fact that for thousands of years
we've been dying of
disease.
It's always been taken as part of the Natural
Order that we are born,
we grow, and we die. There are good reasons
for that cycle. What I'm
morally unsure of is whether by removing
disease and illness we begin
to interfere with the Supreme Being's master
plan.
It's a slippery slope. I hope we're all wearing
our spiritual cleats
so we don't lose our footing.
The Supreme Being's gene genie,
Reverend Lee
April 29th brings some new emails showing
up in our fearless foursome's email boxes,
dated from the 26th to the 29th:
Up for a visitor? tells us that Barbie wants to visit Vad
this weekend. Vad's response seems to indicate
he must not be all that unhappy with Barbie.
In B's distraction, Vad queries Eric about what's up with Barbie.
In Eric's reply, re:B's distraction, we confirm that Paul (RebaR) was not on
the body bags crawl, so maybe there was a
little case of mistaken identity with Arney
confusing Paul for Eric. Also, looks like
re: re:B's distraction from Vad to CaveBear shows us how Vad is
becoming closer to Oscar.
Also, though not email, Barbie updated her
thoughts and retitled them "Quaere"
(Latin for 'inquire') instead of "Confusion"
on her in-email-box links. This version of
Barbie's thoughts can be found here.
April 30th brings us our first new email
showing up at Ganmed in quite a while. In
Chet Doan's box is a reply from Arney, re:Meeting request. Looks like Chet wants to have some sort
of meeting with Arney this Friday. This could
be good! 
April 30th brings a mysterious email from
Hermes to various JawBreakers:
subject: o.o
message body: x.x
with this picture (cesyeuxmehantent.jpg)
attached: ----------------->
Looks to be some sort of round head with
the eyes x'd out, as if unconcious. The text
reads, "eyes in the dark shiny little
dead eyes."
There is speculation that there is a hidden
www address in the 'scratches.' Also, the
circle might be a cross-section of a human
skull, as seen on a CAT scan.
Also, the picture title, cesyeuxmehantent, translates to "These
eyes haunt me" (French).
No progress was immediately made on this.
It was noticed at some point that the registration
info for uRf had changed at some point along
the way.
The webmaster is listed as leomedia@10101-10010-110.org.
Emailing leomedia returns the following autoresponse:
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Subject: I am occupied
I am occupied.
Replies will follow when civil rights are
restored.
-jc
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The 'jc' seems to be Jules Carmentis, the
ex-uRf webmaster. He'll obviously get back
to us when civil rights are restored, or
when he gets out of jail, whichever comes
first.
In What's Up?, and the subsequent replies, Creeper wants
to get together with Barbie to see how she's
doing. She's a little concerned that Barbie's
not herself lately, even though she only
saw her yesterday.
And of course, Euchre tonight!
Our friends Vad and Barbie met again for
their weekly Wednesday night Euchre game.
Vad was a little upset at the lack of attention
he was getting from Barbie, but he didn't
know about the numerous conversations she
was having at the same time. A transcript
of the night's game can be found in message 3316.
Vad got tired of being ignored by Barbie,
so he left in a huff (oh sure, real mature!).
But as he left, he threw out a hint:
"Tell Bear that according to Hoyle 272."
Okay, so we go in search of a Book of Hoyle,
the standard of rules for all sorts of games,
in case you didn't know.
Amazon.com has a book listed with some sample pages.
One page in particular in the table of contents looks like it holds
our key. In the upper-right corner we see
what's on page 272, a game called Four-Five-Six.
So we try www.moreland-wv.org/four-five-six/, and find what looks to be a blank page.
In the source code, we find our answer:
<!-- badge.jpg -->
<!-- disciplinary.jpg -->
Okay, so we have two now images:
Looking at www.moreland-wv.org/four-five-six/badge.jpg, we see that Oscar is indeed Oscar Gray,
a former or current Ganmed employee, specifically
a Lab Tech.
Next, www.moreland-wv.org/four-five-six/disciplinary.jpg shows us a disciplinary report on Oscar.
Seems Oscar's been spiriting full copies
of research notes out of the lab, for some
reason. Plus, he's apparently gotten numerous
verbal warnings about this before.
Looking at the dates on this form and at
the Gen-Tel Lite Side, Oscar's timeline looks like this:
March 15th-Oscar leaves Gen-tel
March 18th-Hired at Ganmed
April 30th-Date of written warning
We also notice that Oscar's middle name starts
with a D, if that matters at all. Also, it's
signed by Lawrence Donaldson (Supervisor)
and Enid Fitzsimmons (HR), whom we haven't
seen before.
So, we have confirmation that Oscar quit
Gen-Tel to work for Ganmed, and Ganmed apparently
has a lab at Moreland, where he's working
now.
Our friend Rev. Lee wants to share more details
of his life for some reason. Here's his post
from Whispers on May 1st:
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May-1-2002 1:16 PM Message 1 of 1
Group: General, miscellaneous and sundry
From: Dan_Lee
Subject: General, miscellaneous and sundry
Boys and girls,
What a busy week this has been! The house
is a shambles, a complete and utter wreck.
I can only stand it because when it's over
and done with the Reverend will have a completely
redecorated place. The dining room is being
done in red and black...tres chic. The living
room is going to be a stark white with multicolored
accents throughout. I've picked out the most
wonderful Oriental carpet to go there. Black
with cream colored Chinese characters (at
least I think they're Chinese).
The kitchen and nook are being done in warm
wood tones and I'm finally going to have
that parquet floor I've always lusted after.
Each of the three bathrooms will have a different
theme: First floor is a sort of nature theme,
second floor is a bit industrial, lots of
chrome and glass. The third floor bath is
my favorite, at least in the designer's sketches.
Hollywood. Old black and white photos of
movie stars from the 40's. Studio-style lighting.
I've even found a shower curtain that looks
like a giant piece of movie film. Fabulous.
A friend and I went out last night, and you
won't BELIEVE where I got talked into going.
Square dancing.
Yes, I said square dancing.
Pick your jaws up off the floor.
Imagine the Reverend, in Armani, walking
in to a room full of denim, bad dresses,
and mile-high hair (side note: "The
higher the hair, the closer to God"
seems to be the mentality). To say I stood
out is quite the understatement.
The most surprising thing is I had fun, once
I blinded my eyes to the outfits. I'm going
shopping this evening for a pair of boots.
My dancing partner tells me she knows of
a divine little place that sells boots I'd
love. She suggested I'd look good in white
African python. We shall see.
Cowboy boots. Me. Whod've thought?
Well anyway, I need to dash off. I have correspondance
to attend to before my friend and I hit the
shoe store place.
I'm so excited!
May you find peace and Tommy Hilfiger,
Reverend Lee
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Very odd post, this. Why so many details??
It's just screaming "CLUES!" but
there's nothing here that we can find.
The new Iduna Newsletter was posted on May 1st.
First is another gardening article by Nadine.
Curiously, there's no list of flowers this
time around. That's not like her at all,
is it?
Next is an article on the construction of
the new Interfaith Hall. One curious feature
is the fact that it's got its own independent
power supply. Now why would that be necessary?
Last is an article on the Neighborhood Stroll.
Interesting that Gina Genet's name crops
up again here.
On May 3rd, another email from Hermes was
sent to select players:
Subject: x.x
Message Body: _._
Attached was a picture called despercebido.jpg.
Despercebido = Portugese for unnoticed/unregarded.
In the picture is the text, "the dead
are blind" and "the living is blinded
by the dead."
There definitely seems to be a 'blindness'
or 'eyes' theme going on here. Also, a furry
round head again, with the eyes x'd out.
Is this a reference to a mouse??
The larger text seems to contain the words:
crash, smash, crunch, bash, bang, bang, die,
die.
All the words are up for debate, especially
the second "bang."
Still no progress on the meaning of these
emails.
That same day, some new dirt showed up on
both the Lite Side and Dark Side pages at
GenTel:
New Material on the Lite Side:
"To have a heart attack would imply
that he has a heart"- Celia (this wasn't
about the ex, was it?)
"Stop swearing at me, what are you,
some kind of jerk" -Kristen
"He sounds like digital ewok" -Kristen
"Huge spiders are bad. Small spiders
are also bad." -Jennifer
"I lack ambition. I think I'd rather
go fishin'" -Celia
"I'm a bit 'self medicated' in the fruit
of the vine department" -Jennifer
"I love the absurd" -Marie
"Your mind is just so brilliant that
you don't have to think of stuff...it just
does it for you" -Celia to Kristen (???)
Celia- "My vibes usually get lost around
the Carolinas...something about the beach
and the mountains."
Jennifer- "Yeah, I hear there's a pretty
strong karmic riptide around there. Have
you tried to send vibes at tidal shifts?"
Celia- "hmmm, that just might be my
problem"
Jennifer- "You might be able to ride
a wave through two or three states and catch
the North south karmic winds"
Celia- "I'll work on that"
Jennifer- "I know for myself, the Rockies
really get in the way of vibratory flight
paths...very tricky, those little mountains"
(note: FREAKS)
New material on the Dark Side:
April 29: The loser janitor put a deck of
nude playing cards in Kev's desk. What a
freak! I have half a mind to show him what
a real ninja is made of.
Well, ladies, let's mourn the fact that janitor
boy is taken. Word is that it's with someone
around the office (the same someone that
left body paints in a supply closet....hmmm)
Well, it looks as if James has a crush on
Marie...for the simple reason that she is
always so nice to him. Hmmm...I seem to recall
that she loves the absurd. What does this
say about him?
So, I hear that Celia may be missing a few.
Apparently she was seen looking out the window
talking to herself. She claims someone was
in the room just before Simi spotted her...likely
story.
Apparently Dr. W. fell in love in a port-a-potty
line in the parking lot of some show! Yes,
you heard that right. He was overheard talking
about her long blonde dreads and over use
of patchouli oil. The only thing more disgusting
is the image of the beautiful janitor boy's
flesh interrupted by the hideous nipple ring.
Well, the really funny thing about these
is that most of them are quotes from folks
in the #jawbreakers chatroom. Folks' actual
names are even being used! Even the 'loser
janitor' is a reference to SpaceBass's new
alter-ego, GenTelJanitor, who has his very
own weblog. The reference to the nude playing cards
was in direct response to something posted
on the fictional janitor's blog, so it's
really cool to discover that we can apparently
create or assume character identities that
may be used as part of the game!
Along with the Light Side/Dark Side updates,
some new stuff appeared on the three known
ODES directories:
On ODES:jmissoli (jmissoli/white) we see a few new links:
NOTES 04/22/2002 in the private files section shows us a
scratch pad (on GANMED letterhead!) where
apparently Missoli is noodling around on
a problem he eventually finds the solution
to. Unfortunately, I know nothing about genetics,
so we'll have to wait for me to get an explanation
of all this from someone who knows what he's
talking about. Next update.
NOTES 05/02/2002 is apparently a memo going out from Missoli
to his team. In it, he mentions having heard
from GM. If this is referring to Ganmed,
then it looks like we have some sort of cooperation
or pass-off happening between the two companies.
The way it sounds, Ganmed is finished with
their part of things, now Gen-Tel is ready
to step up to the plate. What steps are they
about to take??
At the bottom is a quote by Thomas Paine
from The Age of Reason.
ODES:kasgort give us more:
ODES 04/26/2002 p1a is a diagram of some more amino acids.
Assuming this is another puzzle like the
first Amino Acids Puzzle, putting all the
amino acids in order is
Asp07 Glu08 Ala09
Asp11 Glu12 Asn13
Asp14 Ser15 Thr35
Ile36 Leu37 Leu38
Trp39 Ala40 Thr41
Cys42 His43 Ile44
Asn45 Gly?
Assign the amino acid abbreviations(using
www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/bio/amino-acids_en.html):
And you get: DEAD END STILL WATCHING?
This is probably a follow up to the decoded
message in the first decoded amino acid message:
"Gentel Secret Someone: I know you're
watching. More to follow"
ODES 04/26/2002 p1b is a note, presumably to Missoli.
ODES 04/26/2002 p2 is a graph of some sort of analysis.
Finally, there's a new file on ODES:lavaro for us to look at:
FILES May Thoughts dated 5/2/2002 tells about a problem in
the 'mouse room.' Apparently Linda's been
trying to complete a run of experiments and
has had problems with contamination of some
sort.
Could Oscar be snooping around the lab, looking
for files, etc. and in the process be contaminating
the experiments???
Meanwhile, looks like REVELATION over at Pythia has been updated, too. The
image now clicks through to PATTS2, another signs puzzle. This time we see
a Stop sign, a backwards number 2 and a Kangaroo
sign.
In the source code, we find the message <same
thing, only diffeerent>, so we try the
same thing we did before. First two letters?
No, the 2 is backwards, so maybe the last
two letters of each word: stOP + kangarOO=opoo.
Hmm, that doesn't sound promising, but it
works!
Trying www.thepythia.net/opoo.html takes us to JUDGEMENTDAY, which is a transcript of a conversation
between Doan and Arney. Well, I guess we
know what the appointment mentioned in the
Ganmed email was referring to.
Looks like Arney is being 'let go' because
of the guilt Chet is feeling. I have a feeling
he won't be going easily, though.
A select few players received another email
from Hermes at 2:33 am on May 5th:
Subject: <>.<>
Message Body: \./
With the attached picture, vuoto.jpg. Vuoto
means 'empty' in Italian.
This picture looks to be an extreme closeup
of an eye, with some braille and blurry symbols
superimposed over top of it. The braille
translates to:
IS ITS
AND IN
N MAKE
F HELL,
HEAVEN.
A little searching reveals that this is a
piece of the quote found in Leland.html,
one of the hidden .html pages discovered
buried in the code of the Net:Sight Browser
way bay at the beginning of the game:
The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in hell:
better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n.
-John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book 1, Paragraph
8.
Are we being pointed back to Sebastien Leland,
the Chief Financial Officer at Net:Sight
Solutions somehow?
In summary, the three emails give us the
following information:
| Email 1 | Email 2 | Email 3 | |
| Subject | o.o | x.x | <>.<> |
| Message Body | x.x | _._ | \./ |
| .jpg name (translated) |
These eyes haunt me |
unnoticed or unregarded |
empty |
The subject and message body may be depicting
eyes. If so, one possible interpretion could
be:
o.o=open eyes
x.x=dead eyes
<>.<>=blind eyes
_._=sleeping eyes
\./=angry eyes
Then, there are the blurred images on the
left side of the picture. Looks like roman
numerals for 15 (XV), with something that
looks like the word game hangman above it.
Hmm.
These puzzles have not yielded an immediate
solution yet.
On May 5th, the constellation image on Pythia
updated to link to EULOGY. Here we have the familiar picture of the
snake, this time with the text, "My
soul is removed far off from peace,"
from the book of Lamentations. The letters
m,l,o,r,a are highlighted, so following the
methodology from previous puzzles here, we
discover that this is an anagram for 'moral'
which we then enter into the input box at
the Wired Souls Sound Archive.
This takes us to another Chet Doan confession:
EPITAPH.
Once again, we see quotes from Frankenstein
interspersed throughout the page.
Th content of Doan's confession here leads
us to the inescapable conclusion that this
is a suicide note! Looks like Doan can't
live with the guilt any longer.
Recap 8: What do we know?
Oscar Gray is a former employee of Gen-Tel
who now works at Moreland for Ganmed, and
has been sneaking documents out of the lab.
There is major speculation now that Oscar
is our friend Hermes.
John Missoli is apparently in communication
with Ganmed about the Moreland Project.
Kevin Asgort is leaving messages in his work
to a 'secret someone' at Ganmed.
Chet Doan had a little chat with James Arney
about his techniques, resulting in Arney
being 'let go.' We'll see how easily he goes.
Chet feels such remorse at his actions having
resulted in so many deaths, that he is planning
on killing himself.
Barbie continues to get a bigger picture
on what's going on, thanks to info we're
giving her.
It's looking like Ganmed and Gen-Tel are
working on their own versions of the same
thing: Ganmed's work at Moreland is apparently
called The Eden Project, while Gen-Tel's
is known as Ambrosia. Some corporate spying
or something similar seems to be going on,
as some of the scientists are still in communication
with their 'competition' somehow. Are these
folks colleagues who are trying to combine
resources to come up with a solution, or
are they trying to beat each other to a successful
result? Plus, is Ambrosia being secretly
introduced to the population at Moreland
to counterract the life-threatening effects
of the Iduna apples? Hmmm.
Things that are unsolved:
- Hermes Email images/clues
- Who is Hermes??
- uRf Flash Animation?
- Diagrams on Missoli's and Asgort's ODES?
- Who is threatening Jo Burgess and her daughter, and what is her little project?
- Will there really be a Net:Sight party?
- Various Ganmed Passwords (especially Arney's and DeLaPuma's
- Various ODES Passwords
- Various Moreland's Residential logins
- Various TerraShape passwords
- Terrashape Department Icons?
- Who is The Toff?
