Clue #65 - Rachel Blake Iceland Post 02 & RoT/Verizon BLOOD
Latest from Rachel:
I'm back from New Orleans. Still catching up.
There's a new post on Rachel's blog. Seems pretty self explanatory and very insightful.
Rot/Verizon BLOOD Clue:
There are some new documents on richerbroaderdeeper.com (the Verizon site). You have to open these in PHOTOSHOP and increase the opacity to view the image. They layer the 3 on one another to view the complete message.
NO. 1 http://www.richerdeeperbroader.com/blood
BLOOD was in all caps in the new email you receive from the RoT site when you give them your email for the newsletter. This new document is missing a lot of letters...
NO 2 http://richerdeeperbroader.com/money/
Want some more of the letters? We got an advance preview courtesy of Dennis who guessed MONEY first try! Open this in PHOTOSHOP and overlap it with the "blood" layer.
HERE is what the first two images look like already combined.
NO 3 http://richerdeeperbroader.com/sorrow/
More? Okay. Good thinking BellyOfDesire...blue...sorrow
Mochi hooked us up with the image of ALL THREE COMBINED.
"Polar Bear" is the new password to get into their message board this was also found using info from the new newsletter email..."He stated his name was "Wand Prowess." (new password anagram) He then stated that I should remember his name, "not as it is but as it can be." Then he began what seemed like a poem, "In the Pacific I'm in the ocean bare, when I'm up north I'm the sea bear." (sea bear, ocean bear = polar bear)
Thanks to Matt the Pale, Dennis, Evil^^, and BellyOfDesire for posting this latest find in the comments.
I'm back from New Orleans. Still catching up.
There's a new post on Rachel's blog. Seems pretty self explanatory and very insightful.
Rot/Verizon BLOOD Clue:
There are some new documents on richerbroaderdeeper.com (the Verizon site). You have to open these in PHOTOSHOP and increase the opacity to view the image. They layer the 3 on one another to view the complete message.
NO. 1 http://www.richerdeeperbroader
BLOOD was in all caps in the new email you receive from the RoT site when you give them your email for the newsletter. This new document is missing a lot of letters...
NO 2 http://richerdeeperbroader.com/money/
Want some more of the letters? We got an advance preview courtesy of Dennis who guessed MONEY first try! Open this in PHOTOSHOP and overlap it with the "blood" layer.
HERE is what the first two images look like already combined.
NO 3 http://richerdeeperbroader.com/sorrow/
More? Okay. Good thinking BellyOfDesire...blue...sorrow
Mochi hooked us up with the image of ALL THREE COMBINED.
"Polar Bear" is the new password to get into their message board this was also found using info from the new newsletter email..."He stated his name was "Wand Prowess." (new password anagram) He then stated that I should remember his name, "not as it is but as it can be." Then he began what seemed like a poem, "In the Pacific I'm in the ocean bare, when I'm up north I'm the sea bear." (sea bear, ocean bear = polar bear)
Thanks to Matt the Pale, Dennis, Evil^^, and BellyOfDesire for posting this latest find in the comments.
285 Comments:
second!
Second??? :)
i havent been following the ROT sideplot/clue thing cause its just annoying and i have verizon.
but WHAT ABOUT THESE HYROGLYPHS!?!?
we're actually getting a lot of answers about the SHOW!
didn't zander mention five or SIX hieroglyphs?
so, where is the ROT hint coming from today?
there should be 6 glyphs. one for each of the numbers.
I feel stuck already, but I don't think we have today's hints yet. I'm presuming (because I don't want to assume) that they are still to come. I'm figuring they'll come right about 5:00 CST when I leave work to go home, like always.
Who is the Dr. friend with a PS (postscript?) with a WORD?
Hey guys! I'm so glad to be back. Too bad I have to leave town again soon. I've been really impressed by the comments lately...the dialogue has given us TONS of meaty stuff to think about.
Just for a bit at the beginning here, let's focus on what Rachel Blake is telling us and NOT RoT stuff. I'm not saying that the RoT stuff isn't cool, I'm just saying...
Give it an hour or so...if you chat with RoT people, save it, and post it here a little later today. For now...Valenzetti...
Glyphs? I'm lost now. At least I'm here early and maybe I can keep up.
ok megs. like what?
so now are we having guided discussions? will there be a post regarding the ROT site so we can discuss it there
too many clues to digest at once
I'm still trying to figure out what all this RoT stuff has to do with anything...BEFORE I go posting it. For all we know the AIM chatters, Mandrake Wig, etc could be just another type of sublymonal commercial...I want to be sure that they are actual ARG clues and not just lures to keep us hanging around Verizon and talking about Verizony things...(between the weeks Rachel posts videos there)
They gave us 48 hours. Not really a big clue. Just a timetable. I have a feeling...
Remember when sublymonal came out and we all watched all of those commercials and played all those stupid games and listened to those foxworth bentley tracks etc...a big piece of this Alternate Reality is marketing...Marketing isn't really our concern. What we really care about it Lost mythology and what we're being told about it.
For now, the admins of this site have agreed that the Rachel stuff is more probably more productive for everyone at this point. You have the freedom to chat about whatever you want here but we're waiting for something more solid/clear to post about (like I said though, I'm still catching up...send me an email and prove my suspicions unfounded)
maybe youre right, megs. in lost anything is possible. tptb have a tendancy to pull out the rug from under us at the last minute.
sean: they could be used to represent blocks of an eqution like any other symbol or letter.
i guess, oxillini.
Well, said, Admin! The ROT clue will most likely lead us to a video about Verizon! Stay focused on Valenzetti! (But have fun with ROT when there's "quiet time".)
Not "guided" discussions. You can talk about whatever you want ("wink-wink" for those of you who were around earlier this week - what a mess!). I just put up the clues and then play along. I was just making a suggestion like any other commenter would. I'm building a pretty strong/suspicious opinion about Verizon and that first post was my lazy way of sharing it without explaining. I'm running on VERY LITTLE sleep right. :)
Zander probably just got a quick glance at the glyphs so he wasn't sure if there were 5 or 6...
I've had some experience teaching the Hieroglyphic Alphabet so I've been working on translating the glyphs. From what I can glean, the first glyph, a folded cloth, represents the soft c or s sound, the second one, the coiled rope, stands for the th or h sound, the third, a single feather, represents the long e sound, and the fourth, the vulture, represents the short e or short a sound. I'm stuck on the last glyph. What does it represent?? Anyone have any thoughts? Once we figure it out, we can find possible anagrams.
So, it seems to me that rachel knows what she has in mind but won't spit it out. She's telling us, "I’m not saying it’s NOT, but we shouldn’t shut our eyes so quickly to other possibilities." regarding the Valenzetti equation and the glyphs. What other possibilities is she wanting us to explore?
I just keep getting the same feeling when she said, "However... and I'm not doubting you guys... it's just... this doesn't seem to make sense! I KNOW what I saw - I keep replaying it over in my mind's eye - Mittelwerk grabbed my arm. I looked down and saw another map of an island near the zero degree latitude line. My lapel-cam didn't catch it, but, that IS the equator, isn't it?"
They seem do be trying to guide us where they want but they're doing an odd job of making it look believable.
sorry if I seem to have it our for you david/admin, I was brought up to play both sides and it's always easy for me to play devi's advocate, blame my awesome government teacher in HS. No harsh feelings i promise and thanks SO MUCH for helping us Katrina-ites. We really appreciate all of your help :).
The Powers That Be
tbtp- the powers that be - writers, producers, so forth
SPOILER:
so the GLYPHS, i think it is clear is tying the VALENZETTI equasion to the HATCH. therefore, maybe eko is right in assuming that what they are doing there is very very important. if VALENZETTI=end of the world calculation, then the HATCH HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT?!?!?!
am i right or wrong?
SO WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF SEASON 2?
this is what i want to discuss...
mark your spoilers!
so, supposed to be "have it out for" not "have it our for"
I guess its a nerd thing.
pingerficker, I think that term has been in use for a while now, just like saying the phrase head honcho. we just use it here as the term for the driving force behind where this game/ARG is going.
YAH!!!! I AM NUMBER 45!!! HEHEHE
Well its big to me...I never get on till this gets to the 100's!
WOOHOO!!
that would be appropriate since its supposed to mark the end of the world.
ok so her post updated again and now zander's email is ka-put. What if he sent it to her to protect or to let her know that they were going to kill him, i.e. he was going to "die" as in talking to her and speaking out about the equation has "caused him to die"
Did anyone else notice that the following words from Iceland Post 2 were in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS? Does that have any significance:
BROKE FLAT DID FANTASTIC OF COURSE VIK INSTITUTE WHY EVIDENCE YOU NO PROOF NOT GOT
interesting speck...
good catch.
try to make something out of it?
they're in different tenses, i don't know that they can make a full coherent sentence. could maybe make 2 sentences
tiltawhirlgirl (hard to type without accidentally being inappropriate)
As I've been catching up reading through this past week's comments, I've been glad to see your increased presence because you've added a lot to a lot of discussions. I know nobody is out to get me/us...at least I hope not :). Thanks to you and everyone else for being a part of this community!
administrator, thanks for facilitating all of our discussions! this is the best place on the web for TLE stuff!
Agree with idaho girl. But richard, it is tempting to speculate isn't it? I mean aren't we all trying to get inside the heads of those writers!?
Okay, so it looks like we are going to get a new message from Dr. Wally Bole (makes sense with the new PW coming) who will give us 2 more words, and Mandrake Wig will give us another word tomorrow. So, we'll take those words over to richerdeeperbroader.com and append them to the URL. This sound about right to everyone?
David - waiting on pins and needles for the podcast!
speckledband: Rachel really has never talked in CODE in her posts before. She is a very exciteable person (who wouldn't be in her situation), so it's probably just emphasis. Good thought, though.
jimmycrack: Welcome. Your next video...
idaho girl,
i know, i've heard all that before, but i think TLE is revealing stuff that we will all find out in the future, like the last episode ever, or stuff like that. in other words, we're learning a lot that might not make sense to anyone yet.
and that's why i marked my spoilers, cause everyone will be caught up by the end of the summer.
the whole TLE not speaking to the show thing i think has been disproven, especially now that they are so blatantly referencing something that we've seen in season 2.
does that make sense?
jimmycrack- as for the ROT words, welcome, your, next, video. in that order. Although welcome was wilkomen (however you spell it) but is german for welcome.
do we know if RB and ROT are working together?
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omniscient:
that's why is put SPOILER real big on top of my post. its not inconsiderate as we've been doing that since DAY 1.
and, OK, forget about the finale (which Maven just talked about unmarked), what is the connection between the hatch and the savants at Vik?
that is fair game to talk about then isn't it?
SPOILER**************************
Just thinking out loud: With these glyphs being in the hatch on the countdown clock leading up to the EMP and also in the sub-basement with the savants and most likely the Valenzetti Equation, I would hazard an uneducated guess that the VE has something to do with EMP. Somehow harnessing it for their own purposes? Manipulating it?
richard so far, we know they've both got something to do with the glyphs. Nothing more conrete than that. Just speculation and theories otherwise
yea, thanks for marking maven.
i agree, there's definately a connection with the electromagnetic nature of the island and the Valenzetti Equasion and....
SPOILER
the emp that came in the finale.
but the EMP didn't seem to do anything except remove the 'cloak' from the island and suck in all the nearby metal.
good point tilt,
but isnt that what we're here for?
theories?
Just wait until Lena reads Mandrakes update! I'm emailing her now.
oh yeah richard, that's the best part, you just asked what the connection was and i was just keeping it concrete for you.
from mandrake's flickr:
bole is the guy from the ROT homepage.
who is that?
The picture of the Ship shows the Vapor de la Carrera, which translates to Steam of the Race
This is an actual boat in Argentina:
http://www.enjoy-argentina.org/argentina-pictures/spanish/buenos_aires-barrio_la_boca-buque_vapor_de_la_carrera_002.php
well, if the game is introducing two simoultanious but seperate storylines, its a good chance they will end up connected.
Re Mandrake's pics: Kind of asks who is the author of the tango song "Caminito". Carlos Garel. Tried to anagram it. Nothing jumps out.
right megs. ROT might host her next video. although, she did host it with them before and they didnt make a big deal of it.
Maven:
From TodoTango:
Caminito
Tango
1926
Music: Juan de Dios Filiberto
Lyric: Gabino Coria Peñaloza
Try them in your anagramizer.
Thanks, miss marple and engineer27 for the correction.
HAHAHA belly!! You funny! (but somewhat true)
Interesting info about Carlos Gardel
Born 11 December 1890 (My birthday!), Died 24 June 1935. Was an enormously popular tango singer kiduring the inter-war years.
His death in an airplane crash at the height of his career created an image of a tragic hero in his native Argentina.
Another Argentina connection...
The "famous" Lena has arrived!
Miss Marple:
The picture of the Ship shows the Vapor de la Carrera, which translates to Steam of the Race
This is an actual boat in Argentina:
http://www.enjoy-argentina.org/argentina-pictures/spanish/buenos_aires-barrio_la_boca-buque_vapor_de_la_carrera_002.php
WAIT WAIT!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT IN GAME!!!!!!!!
JUST A BUDDY OF HIS! Please dont bother trying to find ANYTHING in my pictures!!!! You may look them just for the heck of it though, if ya want. ;)
LENA
Yes. Go for an hour.
I'm confused (again): Fiber said the next word was going to be today from a Dr. friend in a PS (postscript?). Friday "the Drake" (Mandrake) will give a word. Saturday would be the final word to make the sentence to enter into the address field on rdb. So why did Mandrake post today? Should be looking for one word to go next in the sentence: Welcome. Your next video...
yes longer podcast! I love those things
why not megs? you dont like the podcasts?
I'd listen for an hour
You dont have to listen to the whole thing at one time. Start tonight, and finish tomorrow.
BTW-David, when would the podcast come out? I'd just like an appriximate timeframe so i know when to come online.
The Cantinito was written about the neighborhood where the Vapor de la Carrera is docked...as per ToDo Tango.
The mythical neighborhood of La Boca was the scenario where Juan de Dios Filiberto's life was staged. No one can say that he has known Buenos Aires if he has not walked visiting La Vuelta de Rocha, the Plazoleta de los Suspiros, the barges in the docks that include the traditional Vapor de la Carrera that made a daily voyage from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and the house of the painter Benito Quinquela Martín. To that we have to add today the "Caminito" thoroughfare, a must for tourists and tango fans.
Still don't know how it makes a difference with dogs, planes, etc.
Fiber said:
"...a doctor friend of mine and he's agreed to help me the only way he can. A short PS with a WORD..."
"Tomorrow aka Friday, The Drake... everybody loves The Drake, will clue you into something he's been working on. There will be something in there for the hint hunt...hehehehe... sorry, and there will be a WORD in there..."
"...n Saturday I will personally... not in person... give you the final WORD..."
So, with the four words we have already, a sentence with 7 words in it? I think The Drake posted prematurely maybe?
maven said...
I'm confused (again): Fiber said the next word was going to be today from a Dr. friend in a PS (postscript?). Friday "the Drake" (Mandrake) will give a word. Saturday would be the final word to make the sentence to enter into the address field on rdb. So why did Mandrake post today? Should be looking for one word to go next in the sentence: Welcome. Your next video...
PS is the country code for Palau, a country located from 4 to 8 degrees latitude in Oceania, just north of Australia. It consists of 343 islands, most of them uninhabited.
A doctor friend from Palau perhaps?
YES - but no more phone calls, they are funny but painful to listen to.
where is a good site to see where the definitions of the heiroglyphics are given? One where it shows that they mean "to cause to die" or whatever. Rachel said something along the lines of changing the order to maybe come up with something else. Is that possible? Or are they pretty set like letters?
good breakdown idaho
maven said...
I'm confused (again): Fiber said the next word was going to be today from a Dr. friend in a PS (postscript?).
I usually think of PS as PhotoShop. Maybe we need to photoshop that "strange" photo...
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i do believe that the "strange photo" is the wake from a boatlike what you see looking out the back of a boat and seeing the wake made by the engine. that's just my opinion but my dad did have a boat and I loved riding it until katrina ate it.
http://www.retrieversoftruth.com/ is updated:
there is a new post there by Fiberoptician "This is how it's gonna work. When you get a WORD, like the one today, Go immediately to http://richerdeeperbroader.com/, and in the address field type in the WORD right after the / and quicker than Vader can choke a flunky you gets the goodies."
I only have one word for the clue "The first word in the first song in Cabaret"...they said that we should have 4 words by now...
Welcom, your next video.......four words plus two more soon
Well, I put the "Strange" photo in photoshop, and adjusted the contrast.
http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/8931/strange8gi.jpg
The dark parts have lots of green in them, so I don't think it is a "wake".
It looks to me like it could be a satellite shot of clouds over...? Argentina perhaps...?
But, the top right corner makes me think it might be a waterfall / river / flood.
kinetic-where did traveling alone come from? did I miss something or was it deductive reasoning
dennis: looks like water crashing on a rocky shore to me. green algae/moss on the rocks.
I got a new friend on flickr...
Seems to be the person who put out the HOFFET video...
BUENOS AIRES
the name on the boat Vapor de la carrera and caminito point to buenos aires
Dennis said...
But, the top right corner makes me think it might be a waterfall / river / flood.
I agree with that, upon looking closer and zooming in it looks like it may be a waterfall or something. But i still get the feeling it's boatlike with the 2 steams/wakes, like twin outboard engines or something.
what are you referring to matt?
Fiber said
"Go back to the beginning and start the process again. I spoke to this doctor friend of mine and he's agreed to help me the only way he can. A short PS with a WORD that will lead you to the first part of my special super secret thing-ama-whatsit. Parts two and three... humm.. I'll be back."
Ok who are the doctors in game so far the newest Dr. Bole and PS could be Post script of course so is that to mean we are to go back to a previous post and also somewhere it said something about going back to the beginning...does anybody know what I mean? So should we go back to wher ethe first video was, was it on monster or youtube? ugh
What if the clue for today is actually "word"? He keeps capitalizing it every time he uses it, and it can't just be for emphasis, because that would make no sense. His inflection would be way off ... I know, because I read it as such ... out loud ... at work. Needless to say, my co workers are looking at me oddly.
Don't read too much into the tags on Mandrake's page. I can add them myself, so I doubt they are meant for interpretation.
thanks lainie
What happens if we photoshop (PS) the picture of doctor bole?
when was he last time people went here:
http://rachelblake.com/
how long has the iceland stuff been there?
The strange picture of the water appears to be something like a whirlpool to me, but that's just a wild guess.
Good golly, those pictures and subtitles are weird.
wait. david????
is DAVID HERE??
email me at chucklez3_2000@yahoo.com.
are you the same david as "sitonamonkey.com"??
dumb question- what does meh mean? I've figured out all of the other ones like tptb and imho and all, this one's stumping me. thanks for the clarification.
We have 4 words already. In the ROT post, it said that The Drake will give a hint tomorrow. Fiberoptician will give another on Saturday. So for today, there will be no new hints (possibly) and The Drake's post is just to confirm the clues that we have already (i.e. the 4 words). There will be a new clue tomorrow.
Uncle Diavolo...
I agree, I was especially interested in the new Iceland posts on www.rachelblake.com because now the pictures are clickable and you can look at them in a larger size...originally I wasn't able to do that with the Copenhagen picks. We're you? If not, perhaps we should be looking at those.
I was also interested because in the background of a couple of those pictures you clearly see snow covered mountains...Maybe its just my obsession (cause I thought that was where the whole canadia islands thing was going), but again I'm thinking listening post. After all, I doubt its ever something they will explain on the show, so why not in the game???
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meh=whatever *shrugs shoulderd*, at least in my world it does! :)
ok, thanks belly0 it was just an open ended post and I wasn't sure who or what he was talking about. He's kinda right though :)
Thanks for the meh translation too. I was racking my brain for some kind of meaning. Now I just feel stupid, it's an onomatopoeia hehe
rumiko: It's not an abbreviation for anything. It's an onomonopeia. It's the sound of apathetic or confused shrugging.
Also, let it be known that I'm at a complete loss for what direction to aim right now, so I'm going to leave this up to your fine folks for a while and get some paying work done. Comics don't draw themselves...
Okay
What the hell did that mean?
rissy: yes, catch up. After 108 seconds the link to one of the old videos blinks on screen.
Current direction should be "idle". IMHO, we are at the sticking point Fiber referred to. Now, we wait and "go back to the beginning", which I take to mean the RoT sign in to get a new email from Dr. Wally Bole (or maybe all the way back to the beginning, and thehansofoundation.org will come back up today?). I presume their will be a new email from Dr. Wally with a Post Script on it that gives us 2 new words (for a total of "say it with me children,'6'"). Tomorrow, we'll get another word from Nightshade Toupe (or Mandrake Wig, I suppose) to make 7 words. And finally, Fiber will give us an 8th word on Saturday. Once we have all the words ("and I mean all of them"), we'll be able to get his "goodies". I'm guessing it's RB's next video.
Just my take on things...
is sean still here? If so, did you ever hear from david/admin when the podcast should be up?
http://www.flickr.com/
First, do a search for "video" then the first one that pops up is WEIRD. It is picute of child on potty and the title is "video killed the radio star"
AND I SWEAR I HAVE SEEN THIS PIC BEFORE!!!
This guy has ODD pictures... go see for yourself...does anyone think it could be something? I just dont know.
yes, belly: JWH1972 does have pictures...lots of them
so what does everyone think of
"Go back to the beginning and start the process again. I spoke to this doctor friend of mine and he's agreed to help me the only way he can. A short PS with a WORD that will lead you to the first part of my special super secret thing-ama-whatsit. Parts two and three... humm.. I'll be back."
theories on PS with a WORD?
teamlena: That guy on flickr has 2,318 picture, lena. No way in hell am I searching through those for a clue!!
Somebody asked me about WHEN exactly the podcast would be ready. Probably later than usual (like 10pm CST). I'm still trying to get my bearings with all that's happened since I've been gone and we're working on a few "extras" one of which depends on international time coordination for a possible live interview (Persephone? Mittlerwerk? Zander? Joop? Someone else?).
I'm not convinced it should be longer and I don't really have the energy to talk for an hour this week. :)
Chucklez3, you're cracking me up! I'm here. You can email me. This is so fun...
wichitagirl
I don't know I don't remember ever going there.
mochi said... teamlena: That guy on flickr has 2,318 picture, lena. No way in hell am I searching through those for a clue!!
No stress mochi...not even sure if it is anything. I assume that IF it is something, only the newer pics would matter. Mainly the pic you get when you search for video. WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT??????
oo7 surge. I think I agree with your assessment. Why go to all this trouble just to get to Rachel's next video? It hasn't been nearly this drawn out in the past. Do you think she asked them to help her complicate things to make it harder for Mittlewerk & Co to find? Or do you think Verizon just wants us to spend every free minute between clues thinking about Verizon?
Oh, and for some reason there is a theme of the number 23 on his pics. WEIRDER STILL!!
Welcome Back David! I hope you had a good trip! YOu are doing truly great work!! Thanks!!
Now to catch up!!
Peace & Namaste
mandrake is back online at myspace
But JessiePao those are NOT LAB RETRIEVERS in the picture...they are GOLDEN RETRIEVERS! Have no idea why they are, but they are.
lena: That's just the standard 23 fascination, methinks. It's called "the 23 curse". People seeing the number everywhere and obsessing with it (kinda like Hurley and his 6 numbers.)
thrasher76, I'm trying. I've read practically all comments and all clues. Now I'm trying to go through ITE and other sites...like the mammoth RESEARCH BLOG!!! I still have over 100 unread emails though! :)
"mammoth" is meant to be a compliment! Everything on that blog is extrememly helpful.
OH GREAT AND POWER RACHEL! WE BESEECH YOU! PLEASE BLESS US WITH A HINT IN THE DIRECTION WE SHOULD GO! WE LIE AT THIS FORK IN THE ROAD WITH NO COMPASS TO GUIDE US!
I'm stumped. See ya later, boys and girls.
crud, so much to go through...
hmm, go back tot he start and look at things again... just like that detective book in Bad Twin.
Yes we just had SOS in Aus, NZ are a week ahead but the UK are well behind... I doubt they have had lockdown, so they wouldn't know about the glyphs yet.
yes
back later
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I hope that the "mamouth" research blog is what you guys had intended!! I also knew mamouth was meant in the best possible way!! Loads of time and energy have gone into it and it is a fantastic resource for much of our conversations...I implore everyone to check it out...especially the posts I make...LOL...All kidding aside the Timeline is extremely helpful when seeing how things fit...
Peace & Namaste or should I say Chillax!!
same here idaho! The cursing was uncalled for esp. in an ABC affiliated game
WOW mochi...I never knew about the 23 curse thing! Went and wiki'ed it. COOL!
The YOU in the email kinda makes sense: Welcome. Your next video you....
JessiePao: Perhaps you should check into the VIK institue and we could have a mole!!
Welcome. Your Next Video you...
Requested
Found
Want
Desire
Not sur eit would make sense...
I don't believe all of this ROT stuff is going to be Rachel's next video. Her videos come as things are happening...this is going on for days. I agree with Idahogirl that this will have something to do with Verizon. The Mittelwerk visit seems like a possibility.
I agree Maven, they are using our obsession for clues and the game to make us hunt down a verizon "ovaltine" commercial...kind of pointless to me...
Can't wait for the podcast!!!
Welcome. Your next video you....need to answer
will find
must decode
Just some thoughts to fill in the time...
Welcome. Your Next Video You...need to
make sure you drank your Ovaltine!
haha jessie,
that would be awesome to get some TLEclues folks committed into VIK!
i'm an idiot, i dont know about the savant part...
any chance the Ninja is the OS guest on the podcast?
"You" was in the original email from ROT. My understand of things is the password to the messageboard will change, so we will have to put in our real emails again to get a new message from Dr Bole that will have the new password to get back to the messageboard, where we will find something good. I hope. I think idaho girl said this above... or very close.
Whatever I click on the ROT cover site I go straight to the ROT forum. Just me or everyone?
JessiePao said...
Heya LENA and MOOCHi: I'm not sayin' I'm right about the You clue. But those are the tags for the yellow retrievers pics. Plus it makes sense that we'd go back to the first clue about Mandrake. It was a very weird email that didn't make much sense at the time... and stresses WORD in caps and YOU.
I promise not to rub yer faces in it when I proved completely on the mark! I'll just chuckle smugly to myself. ( Conversely, since I've rarely been right about anything in this game, I will, however, weep myself to sleep when proved wrong.) And by the way, Moochie I am indeed seeing clues EVERYWHERE—on my cereal box in the morning, in my verizon bill, in the pattern of cat hair on my bedspread... I fear this game is making me mentally ill.
JessiePao said...
Even more remote extrapolation: Maybe YOU is the begining of YOUTube. Possible that they're the next company using the ARG as marketing? I mean, the lengths of times that our video clues remain on their original clue sites seems to be getting shorter. Then one of us posts 'em on YouTube. I dunno...
Thrasher76: I am SO up for being committed at VIK! Perhaps we can take up some sort of collection to send me there.
FIRST: I have to say, YOU should be a commedian LOL TOO FUNNY!!!!!!! Liking the cat hair thing!!
JessiePao said...
And wait, TeamLena! Labs ARE retrievers. labrador retrievers. HA! so I wuzn't wrong
I WAS saying the picture is of GOLDEN RETRIEVERS NOT LABS!!!! So we are BOTH RIGHT LOL HAH BACK LOL!! JK
oh brother....
now we have another big morning with NOTHING else...
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Thanks, Belly. That explains it.
jessie;
forgot to comment on the youtube stuff...
YES I think you hit that right on the nose!!!! I am watching SOOO close to youtube right now. BTW, the guy who did the Hoffitt video was loged in to youtube THIS week. AND is a mutual friend on flickr appears to be the SAME guy that put out the hoffitt video.
they did.. i'm pretty sure...
ha
OMG!!!!!!!!!! Hoffitt IS ON NOW!!!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HoffittFilms
Yes, but let me explain something...
This video was put up on May 13th and since then, that person has NOT logged onto the site (it tells you when) TILL TODAY.
Yellow Brick Road and Oz
http://users.newblog.com/thinbluemime/?post_id=2191
Turtles
http://users.newblog.com/thinbluemime/?post_id=4000
YOUtube... its brilliant
We're recording the podcast right now...somebody say something and I'll say it "on the air"
:)
Kumquat!
"I sat on my monkey....and now my monkey hurts"...say that on-air!!
Mandrake rocks! There ya go admin!
David, how about this...
The Research Blog Team ROCKS!!
GORRAMIT!!
Belly - LMAO!!!
Go to the Research Blog now or you will be forced to SIT ON A MONKEY!!
Re Maslow's heirachy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.
I wish I had myspace!! Please fill me in! Where did blood come from? What is the new password?
MATT...SPEAK DUDE! Tell em!
I think the new password is polar bear. Worked for me.
Yup! polar bear works...nice job!
Matt: Where did that image come from and WHAT is it?
Lena...what do you know that you want Matt to tell us?
The new password to the ROT site: Polar Bear
Matt and Lena: What gives? Do tell!
The next word is BLOOD?
"And may the fiber be with you" per Fiber!
So this is what we got:
Wand Prowess anagrams to new password. Followed by a riddle re a "sea bear" which is polar bear. That's the new password: POLAR BEAR.
We also get the next word: BLOOD. Confirmed by Fiber's last statement: "May the fiber be with you."
But does this make sense. Welcome/your/next/video/blood?
Aaaaah...we got to talking about something else and I forgot! I'm copying and pasting everything and will put the shout outs in next week's for sure! I can get a little A.D.D. sometimes. Sorry everybody.
Welcome. Your next video needs your blood.
http://richerdeeperbroader.com/blood/
BLOOD
No problem David!
Should we be running our blood over this new image?
Maybe the next sponsor is the Red Cross!
come on matt! This is cool!
Rumiko said...
thrasher -
works with littletiger's theory
http://richerdeeperbroader.com/welcome/your/next/video/needs/your/
but would the last word have a / after it?
BLOOD???????!!!!!!!!!!! OH NO!!! JK!!
Jeez, I'm gone for 2 hours and I miss everything.
Props on the great find, Matt!
OH YAH! that is beyond cool!
Blood Photoshop File:
There are two "layers" in the file - the black layer, and the memo layer.
The memo layer has the "opacity" set at 0%, so if you set it to 100%, you will be able to see it.
Unless the last word is a directory and just has an index.htm after it which has a file on the front screen.
http://lostdude.com/lostpics/blood5_2.jpg
Matt the Pale said... Don't think I'm doing this because I like being here.
Can someone tell me what this means? Matt? Anyone? Was someone being offensive in the comments? Did we do something wrong administratively? Matt the Pale is one of our most faithful contributers and we wouldn't want to lose him.
Chillax...no need to spill Joops Blood!
There's probably no value in putting in random words and trying to guess the next ones. But hell, I'm trying it anyway. *shrug*
There's probably no value in putting in random words and trying to guess the next ones. But hell, I'm trying it anyway. *shrug*
THE NEXT WORD IS MONEY!
I just took a guess and typed Money after http://richerdeeperbroader.com/
This gives you part 2! which is another PSD file.
Combine these and you get:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/551/bloodmoney4fq.jpg
Ya know... things are slow, I have a little free time, so I go to do a little research, and of course everything happens at once.... it just ain't right.
MtP: Awesome job as usual!
dennis: praises be to you!
That's a hellova guess, mang. And you jumped us ahead of schedule by a day!
Yes...i guess I've been playing too much Hitman: Blood Money. It was the first thing i tried... lol
Well, if we've (and by we, I mean the people doing the most work) gotten this far ahead of the "schedule", then why don't we bust ass and get that last one figured out, eh? I mean, if we can step things up a bit and prove to the creators that we can handle things, they might step the clue's difficulty up a notch!
Hey if Money worked early then so should the long string. Get guessing people!
For some reason my computer wouldn't open the picture. What format is it in?
where do you sugn up for the Dr.'s news letter?
Gabriel F said...
so, when I'm on photoshop.. how do I chage the opacity of the layer?
Open the picture in Photoshop...
Look at the layers "window". You'll see two layers. One of them has the eyeball next to it - that means it is visible. Turn the visiblity on on the white layer and off in the black layer.
Then select the white layer, and in the opacity drop-down change the value from 0% to 100%.
To combine the two photos, make one 50%
http://www.darksider.co.uk/lost/bloodmoney.jpg
combined (if someone else hasn't done it while I was typing. lol)
BLUE something BLUE
Lol. They did. You really need to do stuff fast here. Nevermind.
HansOz said...
Something is wrong with your combined image. The bottom half is completly different from the one I posted...
I wonder if the podcast will hint at this new discovery?!
Clue has been updated.
Ladylaw--it's typo. It should be richerdeeperbroader.com/blood
One of Mandrake's pics today mentioned how BLUE is so calming (the blue seats).
Maybe a word has something to do with that?
I'm going to go with blue; simply because of the layers clue, Photoshop, and RGB formatting.
I've gone through probably 50 tries so far. No luck so far.
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