Clue #108 - Fragment Code "44KU2VKQ" & Sign Language Clue
Fragment Code "44KU2VKQ" was hinted at yesterday on Ninja's Blog and was photographed and posted while we Americans slept.. The video fragment on hansoexposed.com is of Mittelwerk saying, "We all know what happened. The DHARMA Initiative failed."
Sign Language Clue
Remember the "nanite" glyph that we finally found on Trevtrevtrevor's Flickr page? His page was updated with a glyph for "Chocolates". The caption for the Chocolates glyph is "call tom k yegato". Also, if you go to Sublymonal.com and type in Chocolates you get "call tom k yegato"
If you type TOM K YEGATO into a phone, you get 866-593-4286. When you call that toll free number (as of 8/16), you get a recording in an English accent that says, "Sod off, I'm watching the tube." The recording will play three times, then hang up. If you then go to YouTube and search for "rblake" you'll find a video called "The Chocolate Factory" by CHARLABEELK which is another anagram for RACHEL BLAKE. In the video, there is someone doing sign language while wearing what appears to be a glyph t-shirt!
Several members of the community have been working tirelessly at translating the sign language. Here is a summary of what Trace, Kinetic, PhD, Pilferk, and KJ came up with: DISCLAIMER: Because of low video quality and the non-clarity/bad grammar of the signer (even to the "experts") and the fact that we couldn't see his face (important in sign language), this is a general consensus but not the end-all, be-all answer. There are some areas where translators have amicably disagreed, so we've used parentheses to show other possibilities.
"I am Mel, friend of Rachel. (Friend of Rachel - I sell Apollo Candy.) Apollo Candy conned Mittlewerk (or vice-versa) into having chemists run tests on...[unclear finger spelling]. Hackett found something important, but Mittlewerk wouldn't allow the results to be given to the competition (he hates the competition), they had a huge argument, and Hackett took...[more unclear fingerspelling] and found a new person to give the information to, who will distribute it. (something about giving away, reference to apollo bar giveaway?) I have to warn (help) people."
This is the best we've come up with so far.
Thanks to Lena, Lavenda, Gina, Dennis, Your Mother, Lucamu, Yuri, & Gerry for emailing us first with these exciting updates! Also thanks to Andrew, Brandon, The Lost Bird, Andres, ib4uc, Shannen, and Jason for emailing us more updates.
335 Comments:
Somebody translate that sign language! :)
Second!
yo
Morning all!
Pilferk is working on the sign.
Sweet find!!! HAHA! Get it? Sweet....find!!! Anyway, I wish I knew sign language but I think he is just signing the audio from the video...
HI THRASHER!!!
Anyone else find it troubling that someone "skilled" in sign can't even make out the tiny video!?
So this isn't #29? damn!
im here only for a second. i just called tom yegato. that was wierd.
at least it's a challenge and not a picture on ninja's blog. pilferk (or someone) will get it. WE BELIEVE!
sorry to post-n-run but the sign language might just be saying the same thing as in the narration. thats just my feeling.
gotta go. when i say im here for a second, i mean it.
Sweeet!!! Go Pilferk Go!
Shoot us an email when he gets it!
This is cool one. I hate to say something positive about Sprite but bringing sign language into the mix is a nice twist. Kinda like that refreshing twist of lemon and lime...
Good morning all! I finally got a shout out on the front page! Woot! I've also got a sign language translator friend of mine working on the video, so I'll post if she comes up with anything.
looks like tapdawg's got the half speed version of the video on youtube here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5J67zFodk
hope that helps!
are we still after a super slow one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg
boy I have been busy chatting all day... have barely had a chance to refresh and post here...
in Yahoo chat we had some of it worked out... but it crashed and I lost the window :( Callie was working on it good
tapdawg send it to her? will have to check previous blog comments to see who sent it to him...
btw, there are some season three minor spoilers over on ew.com in their blog.
Pilferk you are great!
re Speaker: don't know if "u8egnce86" is IT. Does not work yet anyway.
The other pic, the one of the tape (image not available when you click on it) has this filename:
thespeaker01x01.jpg
Perhaps another lead?
Hey guys - I know I missed the whole Ladies of TLE thing. I am always in the chat room and don't post much in the comments.
But I made this t-shirt design for us gals. Anyone is free to take the graphic to make their own: http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n201/christykilgorehadley/alvarsangels.jpg
Peace y'all!
:: ckilgore ::
Christy,
As a lady of TLE, I LOVE the design!
Christy,
Awesome idea to make a shirt for us gals! Not sure I want to be one of Alvar's "Angels" tho... Think I'll wait to see the rest of this video and find out his motivations first ;)
ok, it was ChrisAaron in the previous comments who hooked tapdawg up with the chocolate signing video so he could slow it down... if I have read it all properly... but if one can do it someone else should be able to...
GOOD MORNING TLEC!!!
Well, hopefully it's not just a translation of the vid. That would really suck. Well good luck PILFERK, We are counting on you. Let's beat everyone to it.
WV-byobrf= B O Barf
44ku2vkq is working now
..
oodles said...
re Speaker: don't know if "u8egnce86" is IT. Does not work yet anyway.
The other pic, the one of the tape (image not available when you click on it) has this filename:
thespeaker01x01.jpg
Perhaps another lead?
I think that thespeaker01x01.jpg is the next step, but not sure what to do next.
The naming is strange though, not sure what to make of it...
new glyph goes after i3gx?
looks like 44ku2vkq fits after ig3x and we have our first possible "two TWM clips in a row" sequence!
anyone agree?
Yeah, after i3gx, but I don't see anything else that matches on the other side. vou8vpnps5x may come soon after.
I'm with you missmegs. :)
kingdok, I agree it looks like the same glyph as chocolates, but the signing may be the important thing here... the glyph on the shirt was probably just to get our attention... but then there are some glpyhs that look very alike... and haven't we now had two in the UK that were exactly the same?
missmegs, I have other TWM clip pairs: nz59 goes with 748l and vou8vpnps5x goes with vdados7yre0.
I am not sure if this means anything - probably just a missing image page - but if you take the question mark out of this address: http://blogs.abc.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/thespeaker01x01.jpg
It goes here: http://6a.typepad.com/images/missing.gif
Kingdok-- I heard "We all know what happens if the Dharma Initiative fails."
Not that it has already failed.
Anyway, off to see the video now...
A transcript please! (no speakers around here!)
anyone have a transcript of the new glyph video?
hmm, if we are having so much trouble figuring out this clip because of the poor youtube quality... maybe it will pop up somewhere else soon? Apollocandy anyone?
wv: joypt
lostmyshape said...
dfizz: Fox blog hunt ends here: http://blogs.abc.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/thespeaker01x01.jpg.
some in the ITE comments said it was some comic that speaker make, but many just got an "image not found" message... that's what i get.
There are more cartoons in the Speaker's MySpace "View My Pics" section:
http://myspace-715.vo.llnwd.net/00866/51/76/866276715_l.jpg
http://myspace-171.vo.llnwd.net/00866/17/16/866286171_l.jpg
http://myspace-273.vo.llnwd.net/00866/37/22/866292273_l.jpg
dfizz, it's Kurt Cobain
oxillini - kinetic is working on translating it.
Mittlewerk saying "We all know what happened... the DHARMA initiative failed"
Transcript for 44ku2vkq:
"We all know what happened. The Dharma Initiative failed."
thanks christy? what is being translated? twm speaks english, right?
damn, i went to check those sequences and vou8vpnps5x went undefined. gotta go start over. BLASTED HE!!!
oxillini-sign language fromthe YouTube video.
oxillini - well - translating the sign language. i thought that was what you meant!
ange: i was asking about the new glyph video that just started working and everyone is trying to put into an order. i don't have speakers here at work? sorry for the confusion.
kingdok--I listened again and I bow before your superior ears.
oxillini- the new glyph video says "we all know what happened - the dharma initiative failed."
dfizz... I didn't actually view it myself... but it was at the bottom... something about highlighting text? I have been following the video and Sydney glyph today... couldn't get anything else to stick in my head, LOL But I think the highlighted text led to the week 6 round up and the cassette that you click on to get the comic linked to before
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/donnierawls/thespeaker01x01.jpg
On the Other girls blog on the channel 4 website she has posted a picture of the blast door map.
She says in her post "So I'm guessing that map is going to be very important indeed - especially as you can make out all kinds of fascinating things if you blow up the grab"
On closer inspection in the top right-hand corner there is some red writing.
It looks like it says STYLEZ www.psp-spot.com
Make sense to anyone??
Interesting. I still get a coming soon message. Perhaps they're in the middle of propagating a DNS update.
thanks for the transcription kingdok and anne!
and thanks for the hard work to all who are working on the sign language: pilferk, g_man, anyone else i'm missing.
clare, one of the places the large map was originally posted was on psp-spot.com. I remember seeing that tag on the image when it first hit.
therealgodfather, can you ping whereisalvar.com and see what ip address you get back? I'm getting 216.21.229.197.
dfizz ... Check the previous comments for post #107.... it's all in there.
You can also find the solution in the current ITE comments.
Everyone else - please stop half-assed helping people. That is why these comment pages get into hundreds.
clare, that was discussed in the previous blog comments... the psp-spot.com is just the website she grabbed the image from
Thanks grimlock
I was getting excited that i'd found something!
Nevermind back to work!
kin, are they signing a "v" in Mittelwerk, instead of "w"?
grimlock, i am also not getting a response from whereisalvar.com perhaps it's going live soon? or maybe they just lost power. who knows
Ok, WHOIS shows that the DNS record for whereisalvar.com was updated yesterday and is now served by the mediatemple DNS servers. Definitely going to get some action there soon.
wonder if maybe the email or web addy in the sign language that is giving pilferk trouble will be from whereisalvar.
Pilferk, good going! You mention "face"! Remember yesterday I posted about hidden stuff in 'The Beginning' at apollocandy.com, including some scripting stuff labelled 'face'!!!
A little late but, christy what a fun idea... makinf a shirt! :o)
Looks pretty exciting today! I wish I could watch youtube here at work but its amlost just as exciting watching it all unfold here! Great work everyone!
The Johnny Depp reference in Speakers comic reminds me of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring JD. Note that video title is: "The Chocolate Factory". I had actually tried inputting Charlie as glyph code some hours ago but to no avail.
the chocolate factory is foreshadowing.
the "chocolate tour" that takes place next month is going to be a "willy wonka" homage kinda' deal!!
there will be glyphs or whatever in one or a few of the apollo bars that are to be "given away".
DFIZZ - IT'S JUST IN FUN. IT'S NOT A GLYPH OR A CLUE.
Of course, in my opionion, you do need to get a clue.
gretna-dragon said on our blog:
"more from pilferk: "Hanso found something important but mittleverk can't STAND COMPETITION ..... A BIG STRUGGLE/ARGUMENT .... hanso disappear with"
MY RESPONSE: "pffft......know what THAT is?? That's my whole theory from like a few months back. Mittelwerk "got rid" of Alvar and took over Hanso. He's perverting the company. Alvar found the fountain of youth or whatever (enter own discovery here). Mittelwerk wants to "rule the world" so to speak. power hungry, etc. They're telling us THAT?"
just a thought. carry on.
Actually, there'll probably be five Golden Tickets in the Apollo Candy bars for a tour of the Benson/Hanso chocolate factory... and for the one very lucky winner there'll be an extra prize beyond their wildest imagination!!! (a trip to the Island?)
:)
so is there an email address for apollo candy?
*....chewing on apollo bar...*
*chokes......cough, cough......gags up paper*........
what the hell? hey, i found a glyph!!! I found a glyph!!
(stander-by)...run chucklez......run home as fast as you can!!!
The original version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" aired last night on the ABC Family channel. Very Strange indeed...
And Lostpedian, I hope your joking around...
ryandrumz - not strange at all, ABC Family plays that movie all the time.
And no, I'm not joking around. dfizz is constantly annoying me because he can't find things for himself and refuses to read previous comments before posting.
not joking man.
i've been serious about this for since the apollo candy thing popped up.
even BEFORE the tour idea popped up there.
Gosh guys,
Thinking of Golden Tickets - remember where glyph #26 was eventually found on that Korean website?
http://www.chcgv.com/series/lost/lostmania/maniaworld_read.asp?idx=587&page=&no=%B0%F8%C1%F6
The only English words apart from hansoexposed.com were "Golden Sticker".
it definetly says whereisalvar.com and when did 44KU2VKQd start working?
anyone know sign language??
2costa, it went live at 2006-08-17 14:13:34 GMT, and pilferk and kinetic are working diligently on the signing.
Way to go Pilferk and Kinetic!!! I know enough about sign language to know he wasn't signing the words to the video and to know that there were a lot of letters in there, but not enough to interpret. You guys are awesome. Sounds like we may be getting some big info with this message. Keep going! oh and BTW- good morning everyone :)
ya the candy will be a huge part coming up, but with the candy giveaway 3 weeks away I think it will build to a slow boil...
CHARLABEELK it was slick to turn rachelblake into an anagram close to charlie. Alvar is gonna be like genewilder and johnny depp respectively
Lostpedian - I know theyt play that movie all the time, I just thought the rest of the TLE community would like to know since it's relevent to our game, So sod off...LOL
in case you havent seen my super slowed down version i made last nigth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg
so where do we stand 41 found 43 released?
Anyone UK bound the robot ad has just been on E4 again. It will therefore be on E4+1 at about 4.20 during Big Brother. Just a haqds up for anyone who's not seen it...
ever wnder why djdans conspiracy of the month has not changed in 3 months
"we all know what happened.... the dharma initiative failed."
it would be cool if when we see who mittlewerk is talking to its kelvin or libby and huge shrink..
hugo's shrink
the code is working now...its Mittlewerk saying that the DHARMA initiative failed
the password is 4 digits
2Costa said...
Alvar is gonna be like genewilder and johnny depp respectively
I can just see Alvar now walking down the red carpet, fake tripping, and doing a little summersault...LOL
Tapdawg- great job at slowing the video down. Much easier to read now. I'm sure it's helping those working on the message.
By the time TPTB start giving away those Apollo bars, I think we're going to know enough about what TWM did to them that none of ya'll are going to want them! We'll be wanting to avoid them like the plague. LOL
this new piece goes after ig3x
2costa said...
it would be cool if when we see who mittlewerk is talking to its kelvin or libby and huge shrink..
***SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't finished season 2***
That would be an interesting feat considering they're both dead...
i changed the sawed off
christy -
I know I'm a little late with the kudos - just got on. Great idea for the t-shirts, though! I love it!
PS - I was watching a rerun of Without a Trace on TNT last night, and one of the suspects was Henry Gale! Yikes.
i changed it to namaste
call and see
i was not trying to but i stumbled on the password
Tried e-mailing ?@apollocandy.com:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
mdbenson@apollocandy.com
mdavidbenson@apollocandy.com
davidbenson@apollocandy.com
mdb@apollocandy.com
d.benson@apollocandy.com
m.d.benson@apollocandy.com
benson@apollocandy.com
maybe i shouldn't have changed it???
tapwawg i accessed the sod off number and stumbled on the password
changed to me saying namaste
it was tomk
2Costa- so what did the password give you? anything?
Gotta run for now- GO PILFERK AND KINETIC!
but i changed the pasword
pil please tell me your using this super slowed down version i made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg
2Costa - That's hilarious...I just called and heard NAMASTE!!!
Marcus,
LOST search the Golden Sticker of chocolate inside wow that's neat, especially given that glyph #26 was found on 4 August and apollocandy.com only went live on 7 August. I don't remember anyone attempting a translation before.
2costa - it totally creeped me out when i called because i didn't know you had changed it. i actually jumped!
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
info@apollocandy.com
tomk@apollocandy.com
i tried earleir and it made the video very blurry... but you can try
ange,
try chocolate@apollocandy.com
i changed it back, i did my best to match the voice
emails i have sent that got bounced:
mail@apollocandy.com, tomk@apollocandy.com, rblake@apollocandy.com, mdbenson@apollocandy.com, chocolate@apollocandy.com, rachelblake@apollocandy.com, info@apollocandy.com, persephone@apollocandy.com, sign@apollocandy.com, rachel@apollocandy.com, trevor@apollocandy.com, david_benson@apollocandy.com, dharma@apollocandy.com, alvarhanso@apollocandy.com, alvar@apollocandy.com
has anyone translated the sign language yet? I used to be a sign language interpreter (about 18yrs ago) so I am REALLY rusty, but I recognize some letters. I just have to slow it down, and it will take me awhile. Has anyone already figured it out?
call it now
sorry christy
i dont think i did a good job with the accent
noble: pilferk and kinetic have been diligently working on the sign language for a couple hours now. looks like it's going pretty well!
webmaster@apollocandy.com
admin@apollocandy.com
rachelblake@apollocandy.com
chocolate@apollocandy.com
All bounced:(
maybe noone will notice
noble look at this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg
i had to do all the message changing with my 4 year old harrassing me
2costa i kinda informed lost ninja about it... he hasnt talked since
by crique... the cats got his tongue
2costa, not bad man. You should have yelled, TLEC RULES at the end...
hopefully my head on a platter will get u favor with the ninja judas escariot
2costa, 8665 (tomk) didn't work for me as the password.
ryan your wish is my command listen to it now, and i changed it with my lame accent
i changed it
by crikey!
hey tap im not really mad
what do u think i should do tap, i was never meaning to hijack the line
hey marcus i changed the password u think i should change it back
hmm well if you change it back people will know he password... i say email speaker or ninja the new password.
ninja is currently online by the way.
Don't change it back, because somebody else will just hijack it.
once again if you want to rsvp for apollocandy distribution then head over to www.lostoverlost.blogspot.com
scott... thats a joke. Never ever ever take any post by themisfitishere as a serious post.
2costa, Very Funny. Great job on the shout-out.
Chill out 2costa, and don't change the password cause everyone knows it. If TPTB want to get back in, they'll know how to reach you. I think you should leave it as is...
No harm done really...
ya your right they should have picked a better password, thats why i changed it cause i thought i had stumbled on to something
im talking to ninja right now on yahoo 2costa... do you have yahoo messenger?
pilferk you are doing the fullscreen view right?
2costa, ninja said to email him the password at ninja_hanso@yahoo.com.au
2costa, ninja said to email him the password at ninja_hanso@yahoo.com.au
lol, 2costa, that's great! someone should record that audio in case TPTB shut down the number since it was "hacked"
Whereisalvar.com is going to be an in-game site. Whereisalvarhanso.com is not.
pilferk and kinetic - i have been posting on ITE what i am getting - i am an ASL interpreter - are you guys on a chat somewhere so we could work together more??
-trace
ya tap hold on heres my name
kilgoretrout420420
im that name
whats yours tap
i never really use it so IM me
YITB is a fraternity thing ... it means "Yours In The Bond". But no one tell my boyfriend I let that slip, or he'd kill me ;)
Hello all!
Melissa: How's the puzzle #3 going? Thanks for doing that!
To recap the whole "call tom k yegato" thing: We got an entertaining indcident courtesy of 2costa and a glyph we can't read? Pilferk translated most of the sign language (thank you). We got the idea from that to e-mail Apollo Candy?
pilferk said: "First, to beat Mittleverk, we need to answer some questions on [fingerspelling]" Any idea what was spelled yet?
Thanks for catching me up!
And about glyph #29, has anyone checked the Aug 21st People? That's the one after the People containing "tribalwars," we might not have gotten any hints about it until now because it was in People a week late on accident. Speaker seemed to indicate as much last week.
ambient: don't worry, YITB is not a secret per se.
ox, he made *everything* a secret. I had to do a lot of annoying to get him to explain YITB, and, in the quiet of his own apartment, he *still* whispered it! LOL
kinetic - where do i go after that link??
Pilfer, i am looking at the finger spelling parts too but I don't think I am going to be any help to you or tracer as I have a ton of work........I don't think I will really be able to get to it till tonight (at which time ya'll will probably have got it.)
trace-click on the link and open the window for chat. you may have to wait up to 30 sec. for the chat to go active. I think we keep seeing you pop in and out:)
ange - thanks. i'm really dumb when it comes to chats and stuff!
that one word around the 1:000 to 1:18 minute mark is all garbled due to the quality and the merge of speaker's hand in front of glpyh....this is one instance where glyphs can NOT be fun. :(
Pilferk: I see it. Thanks! This is really interesting since I've been thinking about picking up more sign. I think I'll need a class. :-D
Good Afternoon! Well done Kinetic and Pilferk! I hope it leads us somewhere!
phd - thanks Its been along time but It didn't look like the asl I was familiar with. maybe why some of those far supreior to my rudimentary skills are also having problems with this grammatically.
So is this MelODrama addressing us or Rachel?
okay ive made an interesting edit of the film might help with it a bit
o.k. I have GOT to get some work done. was excited for a moment that i might be able to really help, but I am way to rusty, and there are others here much better so once again I will rely onthe kindness of strangers to get it. :)
Thanks, phd. TPTB are really giving us a challenge now!
ambient: keep working on him. my wife eventually got everything out of me. and i too was looking around our house to make sure no one was listening. she thinks it's funny how paranoid i get about it.
2Costa, LOVE the new greeting on the tomk phone number. TLEC rules. :)
User trevtrevtrevor is logged onto AIM and has been for about 30 min. I have sent him several IM's with no response. Thinking it's some troll...but we'll see.
I see Mel,
I can't help myself
Can't
pull
away/////
my interesting edit is up here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfysVCy715U
noblelawyer said...
that one word around the 1:000 to 1:18 minute mark is all garbled due to the quality and the merge of speaker's hand in front of glpyh....this is one instance where glyphs can NOT be fun. :(
I almost fell off my chair when I read that!!!
I still think Glyphs can be fun! =)
wow shes amazing!
oh, does anyone think mel is mel0drama from way back on rachel's blog? didn't mel work for the ADC in atlanta?
2costa, that is so funny! Wished I could call but I'm in Europe.
ange, try dnsadmin@mediatemple.net (TPTB), perhaps you could ask them how to get in touch with Benson :)
ox, after hanging out with his brothers on the rare occasion, I have decided I don't want to know *anything*, let alone everything LOL One new girlfriend was hanging out with us all about a year or two back and didn't know to duck ... she ended up covered in tequila.
BTW, Costa ... I called the number for the first time today just to hear what you changed the message to ... classic. My co-workers wanted to know what I was laughing at ... I just mumbled "voice mail" and went back to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTG3mxTDXT0
2costa,
have you given anyone the new passcode yet? If not, you should use it to negotiate for glyph 29... ;)
video
Go Momma Pilferk, go!! ;)
Anyone else AIMing with trev?
after all the quality work yall are putting into this translation it better be legit.
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twinkle - thanks for the encourgagement last night - just saw your comment this morning. :)
I worked on the puzzle for hours last night! I should finish tonight - I'm down to mostly background pieces now. So far, I have a picture of Hurley, Leonard playing Connect Four, and a lot of random images of things that feature the numbers.
The front's not too exciting, but hopefully the back will reveal something!
i was gonna give the new password to ninja but he left
oodles-what is dnsadmin@mediatemple.net exactly? I have an e-mail ready to go.
they are probably done with the number anyways
ok, so mel works for dr. hackett edc in atlanta. could dr. hackett be one of the scientists/chemist mittelwork has working on (fingerspelling)?
i think i was trying an australian accent,badly i might add
Ange,
The apollo site and all the other big in-game sites are registered to mediatemple. As the owners of the Apollo site they should BE the contact or HAVE a contact e-mail.
Kinetic in chat is reporting that he was "off" in his translation on e-mail. It is in fact saying, "I am Mel."
so that's Welcome. I am selling Apollo candy?
pilferk: I think "I am selling Apollo candy." makes more sense than "I am Mel Apollo candy"
Ange and Marcus, thanks for trying that. Seems now that 'e-mail' was wrong but WTH, no harm done I'm sure. Maybe TPTB get a kick out of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfysVCy715U
i definetely can see the s there
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