Here are the latest Recaps, V4: (updated Sept. 27, 2011)
The OP, InSanE1, found a mysterious ad on ATS. With this image:
Note: This is a GAME sponsored by ATS. Here are a few hints given to us by Springer:
1. Only two people are running the game, Skeptic Overlord, and Springer. (/pg46#pid12381609)
2. There is no other staff of ATS posting clues in this game. (/pg45#pid12381530)
3. There are no phone numbers involved. No clues derive to actual phone numbers. (/pg47#pid12382140)
Skeptic Overlord has reduced the 50 post requirement for chat to 10
for the duration of the game. Make ten posts to join the Enigma chatroom
on ATS. (/pg66#pid2390742)
8 pages into the thread, we get
THIS Motivation? Not really. Most of us
contributing love puzzles anyway. The first person to enter the last clue wins. Only one winner here.
Prequel to the Puzzle.(The story is by Skeptic Overlord but from 2003, and
any correlations to that story are coincidence.)
The story line so far: (feel free to correct errors!)
In the year 2111, corrections to past are easily achieved, by adjusting the TPE, yet they are experiencing some unperceived consequences. They have
assigned 8 differential specialists and 3 mathematicians to our current timeline, of which Kent is one, and he is trying to send
Journal
entries back to us in this timeline, and needs our help desperately. They are trying to localize the problem in this decade, numbered 138, but
are experiencing cascading errors which they believe will lead to the collapse of the Planet Earth.....
Questions you have after reading that? Well, that is what this game is all about.
Cast of Characters: (so far-thanks to stormson and Grower for listing them.)
1. Foster Taylor-Project Leader, Northern, Inc.
2. Parker Richardson-Curator, HCRG.
3. Kent Allison-Differential Specialist.
4. Carl-Kent's teammate.
5. Henry Carter-Kent's boss.
6. Tulaine Obama-Obama's great grandson - Senior member of the Joint Oversight Board of the UTA, and Vice-Chairman of the Enigma-Amgine project
committee.
7. Kenneth Ingersoll, Chief of Staff for Tulaine Obama.
Solved acronyms:
1. TPE-Time Phase Equation.
2. UTA-United Territories Administration.
3. IT-Incorporated Territory.
4. CE-Correction Event. (unverified)
5. AFA-All Feeds Announcement.
6. NR-Network Resource. What they call the "new" internet in 2111.
7: CA-Correction Adjustment.
8. TZ-Toroid Zone.
9. HCRG-Historical Compliance and Research Group.
kaleshchand tells us to follow the twitters for the game
HERE. (no Twitter acount needed!)
LightAssassin has concluded that the error message is a counter that is counting down to Oct 11, 2011. A deadline, perhaps?
Marshall Twinie provides transcripts of all the chat sessions with S.O.,
HERE.
Xcalibur254 compiles all the discovered Journal entries into a single .PDF file, available for viewing online
HERE.
Go there to view all of the Journal pages found so far. They are sequential to page eight, and we have nine with no particular place. See the
InTheFlesh1980 link below. We have 15 Journal pages so far, and time is running out.....
CLUES:
"the gates really twinkle"=solved
"the world is run by 147"=solved
"adl irony"=solved
"war time tt0"=solved
"a star story"=solved.
"important death is delayed"=solved
"oceaneering watch"=solved
"moderate brings fraud story"=solved
"last-line.before-next"=solved
"exlosion.nuclear.furnace"=solved
"pacific.missle"=solved
"stand.by.for.final"=solved
"4.03.historic"=unsolved
"receiving.final"=unsolved
Please read the lynn112 link below if you have questions about how they were solved.
Marshall Twinie also is compiling a list of who discovered which Journal entries, for proper credit,
HERE.(outdated.)
lynn112 also is organizing a comprehensive list of how we found the Journal entries, as we find them, listed with the filenames,
HERE. (updated Sept. 27, 2011)
InTheFlesh1980 has the best sequential order list of Journals
HERE.
Latest Clue, as of Sept. 27, 2011: (from the Enigma-Amgine site) "receiving.final"
Feel free to u2u any updates or revisions that may be necessary.
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