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dekuprince
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Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Queanbeyan, Australia,
[NEW] libraryofbabel on the Academy yay we found something
ok so yesterday i received this email
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From: Garnet Reed
To: Henrik Tanner
Subject: Internal Security
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
as one of those leaked emails um i then put it in #syzngy and BrianEnigma then found this site
http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/
its a flash thing very odd it looks important
if anyone has any of the other emails corresponding to mine above please post
um ill let BrianEnigma take over hes the one that found it
but i helped yay
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:46 am
BrianEnigma
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 1199 Location: Pacific Northwest
Re: [NEW] libraryofbabel on the Academy
dekuprince wrote:
um ill let BrianEnigma take other hes the one that found it but i helped yay
Well, there's not much to say. The "Library of..." comment got me thinking about the Library of Babel (related to the "Combed Thunderclap" message on the cards.) Seeing as Garnet was talking about an anomalous directory and that the only place I could think of that he would have direct control over is the Academy systems (e.g. he wouldn't know about the folders and files on the Hesh Records system), that led me to try that URL. And BINGO! On the first try, I found that eye-opening (no pun intended) flash file.
So it looks it's written from the perspective of someone that traveled from Perplex City to Earth, given the stuff about waking up in a new world, a place he/she had seen previously in pictures and video, what sound like cabs and subway gratings. So did this person get transported during the recent wormhole, when the cube was transported, some other time, or is this assumption totally off-base?
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:53 am
fretty
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Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 281 Location: South Yorkshire, England
It's definitely important in some way but I don't know what to make of it, possibly some of those paragraphs are from books, etc
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:55 am
BrianEnigma
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 1199 Location: Pacific Northwest
Also, it was suggested in IRC by deku, Crippl3, and others--there may be something to the order in which the letters appear. Because you can't easily scrub back-and-forth in a Flash file, I made a video capture of the Flash if anyone wants to try this path. I didn't find much in a cursory look, but then I'm about to go to bed.
http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/Waking-capture.mov (6.6M Quicktime H.264)
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:02 am
dekuprince
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Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Queanbeyan, Australia,
oh also the writing above the eye thing looks like kanji
that may need looking into
oh and thers nothing in the sorce as far as i can tell
it also reminds me of the tribute page for anna
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:05 am
xnera
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Oooo, very cool!
The fact that it's on the Academy's website suggests to me that it was put there by someone within the Academy. The last bit of the text does imply it's someone who's been on Earth.
If it IS someone from the Academy, they can't be on Earth now, if we believe this statement to be true :
Sente wrote:
It is unknown at this time how many persons were transported nor their identities, but the Academy has been able to account for all of its faculty and staff in the days since. None of these transported individuals were employed by the Academy nor by the CRR; nor were they, to our knowledge, affiliated with the Academy nor with the CRR.
So perhaps they've been to Earth before. Or just want us to think they've been here.
Another thing that came to mind: up until the bit about the yellow cars, the text sounded a lot to me like someone who's had an epiphany--perhaps a religious one? I'm reminded of Kurt's fake "moment of dawning" that the Recons found so convincing. And actually, a moment of dawning sounds a lot like waking up, doesn't it? So maybe we're looking for a Reconstructionist?
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:39 am
dekuprince
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Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Queanbeyan, Australia,
i cant think of were to start on this one the kanji is less then clear and the mesage is more then confusing perhape sente may help considering its on his site and stuff
we defently need more of that discusion
so any thing dated on the same day as my message will help
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:44 am
xnbomb
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Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 654 Location: J302B S8JDC
Remember when words were forgotten That's nice work. Here's a little cherry on top (maybe):
Looking at the similarity of urls between:
http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/
and
http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/
I started thinking that maybe we were meant to get from one to the other. So, in the spirit of backsolving, one might take the mention of "meaninglesswords" (a bit of a conspicuous and odd contraction of two words) to get us thinking about babble, or Babel, the place where words became meaningless. Between that and dekuprince's email, it seems to me that this is a viable backsolve, where libermemorium was meant to bear another kind of fruit.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:49 am
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Arkai
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deku, the kanji things are letters turned sideways. If you look, they might just say Waking if you could see them going out from the middle line.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:50 am
dekuprince
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Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Queanbeyan, Australia,
i dont see it
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:51 am
Arkai
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This is a screenshot with extended letters to show you what I mean.
EDIT: Oops, didn't seem to want to work. Anyway, here it is again.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:05 am
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dekuprince
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Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Queanbeyan, Australia,
nice hand writing
so who thinks a new blog could be the reward here like aikos or somthing
that would rock
_________________you know the zombies didn't attack first that moron shot zombie #13 in the head while she was attempting to ask for directions to the lab with the cure but she got shot and that in turn pissed the zombies off leading them to go on a bloody rampage
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:10 am
rose
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Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4104
good work! Good work!
But honestly!
Gah, I wonder how long this was up! I can't believe that I didn't think to try an Academy page even though the memorial page was there ( with all the clues about words and talking =babel) and we all guessed that the Futures were telling us about the library of babel...and then to hit us with a stronger clue they updated the freaking Academy website. For some reason I was thinking it was a password and not a page, I guess we haven't looked for hidden pages for a long time in this game.
Under your nose (which I did at least sort out meant mouth and related to babel) indeed!
So any idea if Aiko or Kurt had anything to do with putting this on the Academy site? And the message of our friend "combed thunderclap" how does that fit in?
Actually I hope this isn't just to another blog. I hope we can get some direct information - documents or something. I am hoping this might help us unravel the cube theft and how it got to Earth...
edit to add: ok now that I have gotten over the frustration of missing this for so long. I want to add that it is lovely and I hope reflects the sensebilities of the person who made it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:33 am
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crovax1234
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Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 46
The person who's speaking seems to feel responsible for someone's death by not having spoken up earlier. Perhaps this person feels that Anna's death is his/her fault?
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:07 am
Scribe
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Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Brighton, UK
Woo, nice find! (Bet MC are pleased we finally got it after all the hints
Noticed some weird artifacts in Bri's video which turned out to be the encoding, but used the same technique (looking at my screen from a high angle...) to check out the original Flash. The white background seems to be more than just white - you can just about see some discolouration at the bottom when looking at it straight on. (This could of course just be a poor display...)
Still, I whacked the contrast up on a screen grab to get the attached image. Kind of odd how there are some blue spots, but these might just be artifacts of something in the Flash? Couldn't see anything obvious in it, but seems like quite a deliberate choice of image...
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