Clue #134 - Speaker Special
Speaker at Inside the Experience, just posted the pic above (he had the image flipped). The filename is "ironman_1". Could this be a message from Rachel to "Iron Man" Malik? The hex converted to Ascii is: "rewsna ym wonk ydaerla uoy neht era uoy kniht i ohw tuoba gniklat eruoy fi nadjd ot ni llac uoy draeh ti si thgif eht ni uoy gnipeek si ecneicsnoc --m" If you read this backwords it says: "M--Conscience is keeping you in the fight is it? Heard you call in to DJ Dan. If you're talking about who I think you are then you already know my answer."
Thanks to Gerry, Twinkle, Dennis, and PeaceandNamaste for emailing us about this cool new clue!
135 Comments:
first?
Woohoo! Yay, Saturday activity!
top 5?
Check the picture and text alignment, Admins. Thanks for the new post.
top 10!!!
Missed it. Frak.
Still nothing suprising here. I mean of course she was going to say yes. We need a clue for that like we need a clue for a full stop at the end of a sentance.
Still good work WIllow/Main and everyone else that got close.
Eight!
so what do with do with that leftover bit of code?
2d 2d 6d 00
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Repost from last thread:
We need that last bit for the "m -- c". Otherwise it starts with "onscience."
BTW, isn't it funny that TPTB (or whoever named the pic file on ITE, Speaker?) named it "ironman_1." Isn't that a fan given nickname?
thanks twinkle. i was too excited to post in the top ten to finish reading the last one.
I'm pretty sure the _1 is just because they changed their mind about the font. Check out this
I love that the one they released is the old Commodore 64 font.
Looks like just some build up to DJdan's live podcast, don't see anything that great...Oh well.
Congrats to all and thanks ADMINS for the post...
wow... something new
Fenris said...Still good work WIllow/Main and everyone else that got close.
Willow/Main? Wrong forum, dude.
welcome inthegame!
HereAndThere...
If you are still here... the website I use for decoding is:
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
who's this "M" they refer to?
Top 30?
Mick said... who's this "M" they refer to?
M is for Malik - the real name of "IronMan". He is the guy Rachel Blake hit over the head with an iron in one of her videos. Then he later rescues her...
Here's a crazy thought...what if the "him" that Malik is arranging for Rachel to meet isn't Alvar, but Gary Troup?
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Welcome inthegame: post once and then you can't control yourself! LOL
Fasten: You always come up with such interesting ideas; however, I really hope that it is Alvar...it's what we've been building up to all summer.
no, no evidence. just speculation. though malik did use the bad twin to convey his message to rachel. i actually think we'd be pretty disappointed if it was troup, now that i consider it more.
maven: Oooh so true!
here's something i posted earlier when things were slow. i'd really love the thoughts of the group. at the end of the sri lanka video, mittlewerk says
It is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus,but I promise you, someone is going to hel..." The end of the word is cut off as he notices Rachel, but it could be "help".
Does anyone have any ideas as to who he might be referring to?
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Fastenyourseatbelts said... here's something i posted earlier when things were slow. i'd really love the thoughts of the group. at the end of the sri lanka video, mittlewerk says It is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus,but I promise you, someone is going to hel..." The end of the word is cut off as he notices Rachel, but it could be "help".
Does anyone have any ideas as to who he might be referring to?
Maybe he is not saying "help"...maybe he is saying "Helgus Antonious"
FYSB: Wouldn't it be appropo for him to say, "but someone is going to hell for this?" LOL! Or maybe at least purgatory.
I think it could be "help" and Dr. Hackett is likely the person he's referring to. Wonder what Mittlework's doing now that Hackett's pulled out?
Dennis: Could be that too.
Well, apparently, Malik isn't the one who "rescues" Rachel at the end of the video. Did she manage to get away all by herself?
dennis: Good idea, but ..."someone is going to Helgus Antonious" doesn't make sense to me.
I think the word is "help". Maybe he's referring to other scientists?
lol, twinkle!
i hadn't thought about hackett. that's a great thought. earlier i was thinking david benson, but hackett makes more sense and ties back to our earlier clues.
though helgus could work to, especially if mittlewerk had more to say.
Yes, I too thought that perhaps TWM was going to say that "I promise you, someone is going to hell-inna-handbasket if you all don't successfully complete this project for me!" :-)
I wonder why TPTB still left out chunks of the video like that?
him..... so now this...
So... What does this mean?
This Still will get us nowhere
Well... Maybe there is something more i don't know
Unfortunately, I think that we will have to patiently wait and see, Dr. Spongey. No fun, but maybe they will give us some surprises before the 23rd. We can only hope.
ORA-29306
I agree, the background sounds seem rather shiplike and then there all these boxes and shrinkwrap etc.
P&N: I read that earlier too. Nothing significant came of it but it sure is intersting. TPTB love to throw us bits like this and then never explain it.
If you'd like to contribute some of these thoughts to the unanswered questions blog in our downtime, it's here.
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Yeah, no fun, especially for someone who can only play on the weekends. Sorry, Dr. Chris. At least you've got next Saturday!
Assuming it is Rachel who sent the message to Malek via Speaker, why did it take her a full month??? Malek told her that he can set up the meeting on Aug 11, now its Sep 9! She sure took her sweet time to respond to him.
no kidding oodles. let's hope malek doesn't wait that long to respond. i guess we keep our eyes out for his message to rachel with time and place. fingers crossed, somebody brings a video camera!
oodles said... Assuming it is Rachel who sent the message to Malek via Speaker, why did it take her a full month???
Duh...It's because we took so long to find the 70 video fragments that she hid. If we would have just found them sooner... ;)
Maybe Malek is going to phone in to DjDan again on the 23rd...
dennis,
how could be possibly have found them sooner? They weren't released sooner and there was absolutely no relationship between the time it took us to find them (only seconds at times) and the release of the next one. They were released on a fixed schedule...
... pretty much 9-5 Mon -Fr, cough...
On that note: Nice to see some Sat activity PTB!
Well I must say that this latest development blows one little theory that I had... that Rachel had contacted Malik and a meeting had been arranged between Alvar and Rachel... I had then thought that Alvar had funded the Apollo bar switcheroo and the payoff at WIA would be footage of Alvar (maybe the meeting with Rachel). Maybe instead it was Hackett that aided the Apollo bar remodel and distribution, and Rachel hasn't been able to contact Malik until now as distributing 70 video fragments was still at the top of her to-do list.
So if the WIA payoff was devised before Rachel sent this message to Malik, thus before any meeting with Alvar, what will the WIA payoff be? Will we get to see how Rachel got out of Sri Lanka? She's had Malik come to her aid, Hugh was kinda a good guy too, and we know Peter Thompson wasn't in full support of Mittelwerk, maybe it was PT that helped Rachel this time. Maybe we find out that Sri Lanka didn't go ahead?
meh... it's Sunday morning, I shouldn't be thinking like this.
Good questions, Lavenda! Rachel escaping isn't the burning question for me. It's Rachel escaping *with* the camera's video that surprises me.
Bad guy 101 says burn the tape first, interrogate later. But then bad guys are notorious for doing it wrong.
oodles said... how could be possibly have found them sooner? They weren't released sooner and there was absolutely no relationship between the time it took us to find them (only seconds at times) and the release of the next one. They were released on a fixed schedule...
I know. I was just kidding... sarcasm... that's why I put a happy face at the end...
Maybe Rachel's been cooped up in a factory all this time while her helpers have been forwarding the Mittlwork Apollo bars to her? Then she carefully unwraps each one, replaces it with a whereisalvar bar before sending it on it's way to the original distributors. That'd explain why she's been so incommunicado.
Not sure if I'm joking or not.
Funny, was it just two days ago we were talking about flipping a message, and adding punctuation?
Some folks thought that it was to convoluted, and complex, or TPTB wouldn't go that direction?!
Could it be today, we had a hint, in a clue?
Cypher 101 ReCap :)
http://users.newblog.com/thinbluemime/?post_id=11383
the fact that she is onl y responding now, like a month later is just stupid. She obvioiusly doesn't really care to get help or consider the fact that by waiting so long malik has already gotten caught or killed himself. This is stupid.,
twinkle, you are so right! Bad guys on shows always do it wrong! They take time out to explain their evil mastermind plan to their captor, their captor gets away, and knowing their plans, can foil them ;-) OK, maybe I've been watching too much Kim Possible.
~~~~~~SPOILER for season 2 finale~~~~~~
If she delayed the release of the Sri lanka video, condemming that 30% of those villagers... then Rachel is no better than Michael taking off with Walt and leaving behind his "friends"
Noblelawyer: Totally agree that this is stupid. Not life-like at all. While Rachel took her sweet time to get this video pieces out, 30% of the Sri Lanka Island population was dying. Appearing at ComicCon after she found out about Sri Lanka wasn't very realistic either. Now making us wait until the 23rd (maybe) is more aggravation.
and who do we think mittelwerk was saying was gonna help him as he noticed rachel in the frag film??
spoiler++++who really knows what micheal is going to do or if was was actually allowed to escape?
if the ROT helped us all along why did thet act like their last post was goodbye???
Happy Saturday everyone - nice to see some activity on the weekend... although I have to admit I am not one for Weekend gaming as I have too many kids activities normally. Just stopping in for a quick post and update on the Apollo event in Lexington!
Apollo - Glad to have had the opportunity to meet TLCM and Dennis at the event, nice to meet others who's family looked at them as nutty too!!!
As far as the event goes, Dennis pretty much summed it all up well. My family and I stayed till the very end... Men In Trees is an okay show, but Ugly Betty was the better of the two premiers. We talked to a few of the TV workers at the end that were collecting surveys.. They thought we were nutty for driving the 1 1/2 hours just for the Apollo Bars. They seemed very nice. By the end of the Men In Trees premier the ABC guy with the extra Apollo bars was gone - disappeared into the night and took the chocolate with him.. how rude. Nothing LOST occurred, so Dennis, no you did not miss anything.
Wow.. think this is my longest post ever.
Hoping to be able to get my Apollo pics up on WIA by tomorrow or monday at the latest..
Well off and running again.. probably see everyone on Monday!!
i know im coming in at a strange time. very quiet around here. its just that im out of town, coming home tomorrow and i dont have much time to spend here as id like to. Interesting new clue. I'm glad to see the story is finally picking up and getting somewhere. i cant wait to see where it leads.
speak to you all soon.
Hi everybody. I have nothing to say, just testing my new avatar.
FTSB... TWM at the Vik Institute Savant Ball.... LOL
Fun!
thanks joann! i submitted it to whereisalvar. we'll see if they have a sense of humor.
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(Update)
Since things have slowed down around here:
1) this is WAAAY off topic but
Did we ever end up finding all the pieces to the Gary Troup interview?
2) For all of you that have the Lost Season 2 DVD:
I'm sure some of you previously saw the UK Lost promo (if not, its on the S2 DVD). When I first saw it a long time ago, I thought nothing of it other than the fact that it was weird and didn't really have much to do with the show. But, watching it again (while going through the DVD special features) something caught my ear: the phrase "one of us is a cop."
I forget exactly when this promo came out...but wasn't it a promo for Lost season 1? And, am I mistaken, or isn't Anna-Lucia the only cop on the show? Does this mean we've been handed something about one of our core characters that we didn't know yet?
tune into the discovery chanel (east coasers). marvin candle himself is in a WTC renactment special.
Man I'm sooooooo Bored
I think i'm going make a new blog....lol i'm serious.
Maybe about the New York Yankees or Derek Jeter
I don't know but I AM SOOOOO BORED
Peace and Namaste,
It took me a while to find it, but I went into the archives on the lost experience clues, and it looks like that was clue #34--I watched the You Tube video and saw it had been posted May 17, so I went back and looked at clues from May. The wording is an anagram for "The Mouthpiece" which I think ended up being a password somewhere. The archives of this site are great--it reminds me how many clues I have already forgotten and what a fun game it has been!
Wow! I have been out all day and just thought what the heck I'll check TLEC before I go to bed- and low and behold a clue! At least we have something...hopefully there will be more before WIA ends.
Also, my first thought was, "I wonder who found this first?" As if someone's name would be entered on a leaderboard somewhere for finding it....residual effects of that darn glyph hunt. I still find myself looking for glyphs.
And BTW P&N- sitonamonkey is old, created by admin and the guys at save joop as a joke.
Interesting post by Matt The Pale in the comments at stophanso...
Well put, Matt. Couldn't agree more.
man i still can't believe i was first...
Post 100 :)
100 and something....
This is kind of cool, bu tI hope we don't have to wait until the 23rd.
Can anyone tell me if they also have issues loading pics to WIA and how I might be able to fix this? I tryed it with my HE ID and I created a new one and I get upload error and then RB sends me an email telling me that I can only upload on per 24hrs, well, I have not uploaded any, ever...heck I just got my bars yesterday....what gives?
I just stumbled across this on myspace, I'm assuming it's not ingame, but thought I'd point it out (because you can never be sure I guess):
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=101865965
Yeah it's fan, links to another site with the Swan orientation film on it.
Twinkle and Fasten (and anyone who cares to have a look) The Unanswered Questions Thread has been updated.
Unanswered Questions
Good morning Ange! I'll head over. Thanks for the heads up.
Thrasher---
It seems every time you load an image to WIA you get the 24 hour message. Wait awhile and you'll get another message that states your image was uploaded successfully.
The Alternative One
who is Malek? I forget...
raechel....malek is the man who broke into rachel's hotel room. rachel hit him over the head with an iron (hence his affectionate nickname on the blogs "ironman"). we learned his real name when he called into dj dan's live show and gave out a series of numbers that corresponded to pages in the bad twin.
Human Pawn... did you notice that if you click on the word "lost" on that my space site, it takes you to the old hanso site?
Morning all: Hey, Ange! Great updates to the unanswered questions! Gosh, we have quite a list of questions that must be answered, don't we!
Morning everybody! Fasten- your new avatar is too funny. Hope they let it up on WIA.
Great work as always Ange.
Wasn't Malek the big boss vampire in John Carpenter's Vampire$?
Btw, thanks to Diss's mighty brainpower, my Where is Alvar parody site has a new home:
http://www.whereismanny.lostonline.co.uk/
Someone scored a BLING point too.
JoAnn, Hereandthere - I noticed the click on stuff right after I posted the first time (completely jumped the gun) hence the quick follow up mentioning the other site it linked to (which was one of the "fake" Hanso sites back before TLE started up).
Just guess I've been expecting something to happen on myspace, especially with Manny, Speaker and Ninja all over there (oh and while I'm at it, check my profile and join the Damon Lindelof group on myspace as it needs a kick up the arse/new members ;) )
Fenris, love your whereismanny site! I'm wondering how you score a bling point?
pan: Those are old clips. We're missing Clips 8 & 9, I think.
Peace; Hopefully this is the case, to lead us somewhere, and not just to try to sell more Bad Twin books because they did not quite sell enough to make it out of the red. :-(
Good afternoon all!
Fenris, I would post a pic on that site but I dont have any money ROFL!!!
Want Joe to put link to it on our site? You deserve it for sure! Whoohoo for parodies!
peaceandnamaste,
check http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Gary_Troup_Interview
The Amazon site has part 4 of the interview. Parts 1-7 are on youtube as well (search for Gary Troup), 8 and 9 are still MIA.
oh, and Fenris: PRICELESS! :)
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Hey Guys, I must restrain my excitment while I write this, but am hoping the sound gurus in here can help out.
Folks that know about sound and manipulating sound, have a good ear for identifing an unknown sound and matching it with a known sound, are the talents I hope, would help.
I am going way out on a limb here, with a hunch, so if this leads to nowhere, please be kind and don't roast me, ok? :)
The you tube "wave" video I posted a link to yesterday, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUqhga2ul-Q) ,
I have been examining and playing around with. Specifically the audio.
I know, seems the least important, compared to the video.
But I have taken the original DVD, ripped the video into an avi format, to make playing with easier. I then took the avi file and ripped or removed just the audio, and proceeded to speed, slow, change pitch and etc, to see what I could hear.
This first mp3 is of just the audio at normal speed, sounds like radio/TVstatic
http://www.lostdude.com/lostaudio/LO20NNT7240_2006-09-09A128kbps.mp3
Now, same audio as above, but slowed to 80 % of the original
http://www.lostdude.com/lostaudio/LO20NNT7240_2006-09-09ASLOWED8032kbps.mp3
I will not speculate as to what this sounds like to me, so as not to bias your opinion, but please listen and give feedback to what this sounds like to you trained ear. Each file is less then 500 KB
Administrators: If you consider this is way off topic, I will remove at your request, without offense :)
peaceandnamaste, I really want to say, but let's wait for more folks to listen, and voice their opinion. I will say though, I too, have never been very good at hearing the "whispers", and in this case that is not what I hear.
Thanks for your input, though. It is Sunday here in the States, and many folks are not here, prolly doing family things.
I will stay in "lurk" mode as long as I can :)
thinbluemime - Sounds like water sound, either lapping against the hull from inside a boat, or audio recorded underwater. The little blips and beeps sound a little like dolphin- or whale-call.
Not really sure if it means anything, or if it's just coincidental. Is that what you heard?
thebookpolice
YES!!
Maybe others can confirm this after a listen, but I am hearing water, bubbles, and either whale or dolphin sounds OR both.
I wanted to wait a little to confirm what I heard, but like a little kid, it's hard to wait :)
and PeaceAndNamaste thanks also.....
Let's see if there are more folks that can confirm. BTW, I included the 128 kbps "original" static, so folks can manipulate in audacity or similar software, to see I aint makin this up :)
thinbluemime:
I think that sounds like water too. And I think maybe sonar? (blip sound)
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
and MAYBE a metal detector of some kind?
team lena, thanks...I do not know where this will lead, but it is way to kool to be an accident......
I think you are right. Maybe even hear scuba diver equipment? Could it be divers using sonar and metal detectors?
Oh and thanks for sharing that video too! Not only do I NOT have cable right now, but dont have that DVD either!
thinbluemime - It feels a little graspy to try to make this connection, but I can't help thinking about the very strong fan theory of the underwater hatch. Given the scenes in the Season 3 teaser commercial, I can't help but get a little giddy thinking about the possibilities.
Thrasher: if you are around at all, just informing you that you are going to be celeb in my website. Just a warning LOL
Yes, the 3rd season , the underwater tank from the old TV show Hawii 5-0 (?) is rumored to be employed heavily.
Giddy here to, for several reasons:
1) The one legged Aussie woman who told Hurley about Lenny and her Husband hearing the "numbers". Some folks may have fogotten, but the radio waves they were monitoring were.....LONG waves, as opposed to short-wave. LONG wave is used a lot underwater, when short waves are interrupted.
2)To Many to mention now...but the killer, and the implications are mind boggling.......the sounds in question were found at the end (?) of the chain of the LOST Character connections!!! I will not say more, but season 3 will be amazing!!
Thin blue,
Listening to the unfiltered audio, whatever is there is on a loop. It sounds a lot like somebody is saying "Jesus" followed by all kinds of static. As for slowing it down.. While a good idea from my perspective their are no filters on it in the first place. So slowing it down will alter the sound but that is not how it originally sounded. It think it's just static?!?!?!?
passafist, the unfiltered audio, I will re-listen to, I missed Jesus (wink)
In the meanwhile, I recommend a visit to
http://www.whalesounds.com/home/index.html
and play around with the 12 or so sound bites.......if one listens VERY carefully, one might hear all sorts of LOST sounds......
Oppps, I said to much ...again LOL
What do we do with this?
nothing comes up in the usual translators. substitution code?
The punctuation doesn't seem to make sense for a substitution code. Could slashes be start of new sentence? Brackets are confusing, too.
good point maven. not sure what to do with the odd characters.
this is fun!
Would it have anything to do with the glyph codes?
anyone have the original link to ninja'a posting?
Ninja's post
maybe the slashes and brackets are substitute characters.
d=i or a
zt=rb?
JustWillow is working on it at ITE.
Wow, dante, very impressive! de Zylva. Who's that?
It looks like it's Malek's reply to Rachel.
excellent dante!
Now who is "de Zylva"
a new player?
a Mittelwerk Dharma stooge, gone to the "light" side?
dante, that's awesome. once the kudos die down, can you explain a bit more how that code works? i can't figure how z becomes r.
great great work!
There is a de Zylva, T.S.U. who's published a book of birds in Sri Lanka! Here.
Dante, you are on fire!
only one anagram for "de Zylva"
ADZ LEVY
so must be a proper name, or a surname?
any de zlyva's on the persephone hacks?
Did this de Zylva rescue Rachel?
sounds like malek's got a few questions of his own. i suspect (hope?) rachel is going to have to release the end of that sri lanka video.
"de Zylva" may be the guy that raised his hand and questioned Mittlewerks ethics and killing innocents
mityh: Yeah, I found that bird photographer. Strange that he has a book of birds of Sri Lanka of all places!
That other link is interesting, too. That family is from Sri Lanka!
just reread message"R -- I think it's fair to say, whatever conscience I have was built on faulty equipment"
not man, not machine, just sumpin in between? LOL
yay Dante! I figured it out myself because I flipped the image in Photoshop and don't have never used a character recognition program so decided it would be faster to type it out myself, and in doing so noticed that the "words" were like whoever typed the message had their fingers one place to the right. And you got that wierd shift near the end too, sweet, I am not going insane :D Thinking about it now I think it is to signify a question mark (since the key on the right of ? is the "shift").
That'll teach me for taking Monday easy! Now let's see if I can type my word verification without shifting my fingers one to the left or right...
So who does he have a duty to? A loyalty? Alvar?
Those Phoenix Days
found a link to a "de zilva"
http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Those_Phoenix_Days/9559853406/
double check the code translation, may be missing one or two letters
A lot of these de Zylvas/Silvas are linked to Sri Lanka. Strange.
I found the name "de Zylva" interesting... "de Silva" is a common Sri Lankan name, but I have never heard "de Zylva".
But YAY for action! Nice to see Malik doesn't drag his heals in replying to a message
Maybe de Zylva was someone who helped Rachel get on the Helgus Antonious in Sri Lanka and helped her escape. He was someone that Malik referred Rachel to in Sri Lanka.
ok... I'm too slow on everything this morning. I'll just shut up and save myself more embarrasment
I hope TPTB dont take two weeks revealing how Rachel got away :(
silva means woods or forest , of the woods? only one I can think of would be Joop.
NEW POST EVERYONE!
I just wanted to see if the archive was updateable
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