Clue #135 - Ninja Special
Looks like Malik has replied to Rachel by sending a message to/through Ninja. His latest post contains this image which has been translated (see comments at the end of the previous post) to say, "R -- I think it's fair to say, whatever conscience I have was built on faulty equipment. This is a matter of duty. Loyalty... Speaking of which, I've been troubled by the very recent disappearance of an old friend, de Zylva. We all saw your Sri Lanka video. You were captured at the end, and yet, there you were, blasting those Lost producers in San Diego not a week later. And, I have to wonder... did de Zylva have something to do with that? Do you know what's become of him?"
Thanks to Lost Librarian & Gina for emailing us first. Plus, shoutout to Dante b/c we heard that he was one of the first to decode the message!
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First? no way!
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You beat me by 5 sec, fasten!
top 10 !!!
I bet this de Zylva is someone Malik referred Rachel to in Sri Lanka to help her. He got her on the Helgus and rescued her at the end of the video. Now he's paying the price, and Malik is worried. De Zylva seems like it's a common name in Sri Lanka.
pure luck, maven! hey, i'm booking my trip this week. thanks again for your tips.
Top twenty? First time posting. This ARG is rocking again!
You'll have a great time, fasten. Glad I could help.
mrmouse: You've got to shorten that name! LOL
Mrmouse: The Admins were just updating their post to include the translation.
Hey, Admins: You should give a shoutout to Dante! He decoded it first! Awesome work!
dante - didnt even get honorable mention on the front page??
Maven,
I agree...but we're in a tough spot. We don't want to create the expectation/feeling that we are ALWAYS lurking in the comments. During work hours and what not, it's much more sensible to have gmail open than to be constantly F5ing the comments. We try to limit our shout outs to people that email us. This is why we emphasize "email us" so much on the frontpage.
Do you understand?
Because I'm a softy, I'll probably give Dante a shoutout. :)
Just curious...how come nobody emailed us when it was translated and we hadn't posted anything? Did you just forget?
whooHoo!!
Well, Admin, I was gmailing you while you were posting your comment. I do understand what you have to deal with, and appreciate that gmails are more accurate than comments. Thanks.
I think the group was frantically rechecking the translation and trying to figure out what "de Zylva" means
admin, i think we were all so excited trying to translate, we didn't want to take time away from the game to clue you in. i'm sure you were in all our thoughts.
;>)
Sorry, Admin, about not officially letting you know. We just couldn't believe there was a Sunday evening (for me anyway) clue!
either way, EXCELLENT job dante'....kudos my man!!
I updated and added Dante's name.
mityh & all,
As a rule of thumb, never assume that we are lurking. Administrating a blog like this is a 24/7 job but there are really only 3 of us working on it. We all have full-time jobs and relationships and there is just no possible way that we can be on everything 24/7. This is why email is like our LIFELINE...We depend on and appreciate our emailers sooooo much. Unlike Speaker/Ninja/Other Girl, we have NO inside information to assist us. We only have our brains and your brains. (P.S. Donn/Dazzedelf is the best emailer in the world!)
Don't ever worry about filling up our inbox. We get TONS of emails but we're very efficient at sorting, archiving, etc.
:)
Thanks David!!
De Zylva is Malik's friend/contact on Sri Lanka. He helped Rachel get on and off the Helgus and is now probably being held by TWM.
I do think DANTE did a great job. I was actually trying to figure it out myself and was getting frustrated when I decided to check the comments. :)
No more apologies, I totally understand what it is like to get caught up in the latest clue and I'm sure it's not the first thought to email us. You guys are the BEST!
He's someone that inspires loyalty, someone M thinks helped RB get out of the jam, was his very good friend and just went missing. M is part of a 'we' so that is interesting too.
de Zylva... ze plane...ze plane...I gotz nuttin :)
maven is that a guess about De Zylva?
Totally a guess, admin, but...I think a pretty good one!
It sounds good to me!
maybe coincidence but a de Zylva link to food, longeviety and diet
chief of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota said at an American Medical Conference, “There will someday be such a thing as a longevity diet.
http://www.rsnz.org/topics/health/zylva.php
...still searching....
The Helgus Antonious is the ship that sailed out of Sanremo, Italy with all that cargo and TWM's gang on it.
mityh,
"The Helgus" is the Helgus Antonious which is is a container/hospital ship, currently being operated by the Hanso Foundation. It departed from Sanremo in Italy on the night of July 6th 2006, apparently for Sri Lanka. Rachel has blueprints implying that sections of the ship are for quarantine.
Your reply was much more complete than mine, Admin. LOL
thinbluemime,
When "de Zylva" is googled lots of links turn up Sri Lanka. Coincidence? No. I think "de Zylva" is probably a name native to Sri Lanka implying that he was/is a local HF operative loyal to Hanso (as opposed to loyal to Mittewerk). I get the feeling that there are a handful of "double agents" working within the HF around the globe that have some sort of informal network.
maven,
copied & pasted from Lostpedia! LOL.
In all fairness, admin, we're running a skeleton crew here on the blog as well...last I checked we were listening to audio that may or may not be underwater random noise. I think we were all shocked that something showed up. The Sunday night crowd ain't used to all this excitement!
*shakes fist at the crazy kids making all this racket*
Bring on the Rachel escape video! C'mon, who else thinks Joop is gonna be a playa??
No one? meh, back to the rocking chair.
Yes, it sounds right to me...Rachel got away, and someone has had to help her, so the double agent theory seems most probable
after 4 months of glyph hunting, it's no surprise we are hearing bubble sounds in our heads LOL
fasten,
I hear ya and I love the fact that you guys are hear. It's always fun to have a good chat at 10:23 on Sunday night! :) I hope you're right about Joop. Don't give up hope!
hear=here (on my last post)
BTW, I'm already loving the irregularity that we've seen in this post-hanso-exposed era. :)
Evening everyone. What is the opinion of everyone about what's going on in Sri Lanka? Since we know Rachel got away, do you think TWM went through with his plans? At the very least, he has to be worried about what Rachel caught on tape and it about to show the world.
desperate,
Mittlewerk may not even know that Rachel has escaped...he probably knows...but maybe not. If she was snuck out and he was busy with his plans...
Admin: If by "irregularity" you mean that a lot of this makes no sense in that Rachel took all this time to give us the video through hansoexposed, while TWM has probably continued to go forward with his plans. She sure wasted a lot of precious time getting the info to us!
Admin: Good point...thanks.
We still aren't sure that Rachel escaped. Are we sure Rachel hasn't been compromised? Could Mittlewerk have convinced her to join him and he willingly released her? This is a stretch but still a small possibility.
maven: maybe she learned Mittlewerk's timetable and knew she could get it out in time with time to spare. She made it sound like she had to do hansoexposed.com the way she did for her own safety.
Live thread? no way!
glad to see everyone here. And on a Sunday night, too!
so now what? do we just watch as Rachel and Malik trade quips?
who is de zylva?
Admin: With this ARG, anything is possible. However, I want to think she escaped with the help of de Zylva and he got caught to assure that she got out.
noble,
I've speculated that he is one of many "double agents" loyal to Alvar Hanso (and opposed to Mittlewerk) in a globel inside THF network.
desperate: I agree with you but want to always keep an open mind about possibilities. :)
I don't know. Two months have gone by putting this video together. She was at ComicCon in mid-July after Sri Lanka. I know she feared for her safety and did this fragment thing to insure that the video got out securely. TWM sure gave me the impression that he was under a time-pressure in the video.
Admin, my thought exactly. I first thought oh yeah, she got away or else how could she show up at comicon? but then I thought what if now she has been won over and is now promoting the Mittlewerk agenda.
Maybe this exchange with M is TPTB telling us she is still antiHanso
Maven,
You're right. Realistically Rachel seems to have taken an awful long time to get the video out. Hopefully, we'll get a good explanation...and I want to believe that we will.
Admin: I think we're defintely "owed" one! LOL
amused,
Good thoughts...I think this exchange is also for the purposes of introducing de Zylva, explaining how Rachel got out of Sri Lanka, and beginning to lay the groundwork for the revelation of a modern day Alvar Hanso.
Everyone, I've got to hit the hay. Nice chatting tonight! Sleep well!
I'm not sure that two months is a long time for what TWM is doing. I'm no doctor,but how long do you think the virus/vaccine should take to have an effect? The disease must seem to "run its course", so presumably there is a few months to reach 30% mortality. And they need time for the post-mortem analysis too.
nite Admin!
admin - we know RB escaped because she was in Sri Lanka before Comic-Con, where she showed up.
ximfinity: LOL! I wonder if that's where TPTB got the de Zylva name from
::chuckle:::
well, she either escaped, with video intact, or is a plant leading all of us unwittingly to our doom (we know too much!)
Night all! way past my bedtime and gots to get up for a busy week tomorrow. see ya'll later!
Man, I just can't be bothered taking the Lost Experience seriously any more. I'm sticking around to find out information relating to the show, and that's about it. Anyone upset with the way "Rachel" or TPTB are handling the story should really be used to it by now.
I miss something again?
Wow, it seems like Malick is spoon feeding Rachel the plot now.
This is where we get another piece of story that has no tension to it because we already partially know the outcome and once again we know it's ancient history. Still, I think most of us do want to know how Rachel escaped. Hopefully Rachel will give proper info now rather then more cryptc text responses.
Anyway, the only reason I could see for the slow leak out was that she was on board the Helgus Antonius, stowing away and hacking into a ship-shore connection. In that circumstance she may have to keep her connection short and I suppose she could have done the Comicon and set up the HE site before she got onboard. But then that doesn't really make a lot of sense since pressumably the ship is staying in sri-lanka plus she still went and did the WIA site in the middle of dripping out the video.
Anywhere else she shouldn't have had any trouble uploading the whole video quickly to multiple locations. Hanso wouldn't have been able to stop her. But I've said that one before. Rachel is a nice girl and all (and cute), but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. She *so* needs her own series where she solves silly crimes accompanied by small children (that do most of the actual solving).
So anyway what I want to know is what The Hanso Foundation has been doing over the last few weeks while Rachels been doing this. Obviously Rachel wasn't too worried about the 30% of those villages that were going to die. Her life was obviously much more important then all those people (and this is the good gal?). Unless she also already sabotaged those plans, so is that what we have now? The rest of act 4 or the beginning of act 5 is dropping out videos of something that is long over. Again, I want to know, but not exactly tense is it.
Morning all anyone here?
Morning Dark... Morning TLEC
Good Morning all -
Wow - so we know that Rachel was rescued, we presume by this mysterious Sri Lankan Crony of Ironman - but how did he know Rachel was there and in need of rescue?
Cool, thanks Matt,
Well that neatly ties up how Rachel got out of TVM clutches, she no doubt caught a plane to Comicon.
It seems this stuff is just tying up the loose ends of Act III.
The question is what happnes now. Is it up to us to expose Hanso - I am tempted to send a few anonymous emails to Hanso and see what happens.
As Fenris said Rachel is probably suited to a children's mystery program, investigating missing dogs and the such
so 9 days to find out?! is that when apollo reaches 100%?
I think that's about the latest estimate, although I wonder if that will mark the start of Act 5. I can't imagine they would let us sit around doing nothing (well ok doing work, like we are supposed too). Isee Act 4 starting now and then ACT 5 leading up to October 4th.
Good morning all... 7:57AM here in Kentucky...
Quite a night I missed last night, but had to watch football... Had to see my fantasy team beat my brother-in-law's team ..hehe..
Matt and Johnny - did you all email admin?
ok.. well refreshed and can say guess you did :)
Hi Guys,
I think the problem is going to be De Silva seems a pretty common name in Sri Lanka - a google search of Da Silva and Sri Lanka gives 282,000 hits!
OK so home many TLECers are there (and that means all you lurkers too) - 200? Oh well I'll take the first 1410 sites....
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