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Scalare · Lonely Fan Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 137

Background info on "Who Watches the Watchers?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F
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Jengels2002 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

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The pics give a clear tie between OpAphid and Lucy/The Order (plus the canon status of this).

Tachyon's note in the book alludes to "a move" that suggests she might have something to do with that family Gemma mentioned.

Jengels2002 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

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Jengels2002 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

covedweller · Guest

we need a SHOW YOUR WORK thread. Laughing

Jengels2002 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

I agree, like I said before...there is no continuity between the IRC Channels and the Forum.
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covedweller · Guest

Agreed. I love these videos and like to follow the ARG. I don't have time to contribute more (like a lot of other people with obligations we can't shake).

I think it is part of what has given OpAphid this elitist vibe. The IRC people occasionally dominate and do not update or maintain the forums.

We appreciate it when they do fill us in so that we can enjoy it.

Plus you have to imagine that the OpAphid/Tachyon/LG15 puppetmasters appreciate it, because lurkers are probably 90% of the potential audience of this sort of thing!

Probably gonna be more of us now too, since LG15 and Op/T are interweaving it seems.

Scalare · Lonely Fan Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 137

Err.. we've been asking "Has this been updated on the forums?" all the time in the chat, and Ivé personally seen to it that a clue or something didn't arrive at the forum too late. Are you imagining things, or are you confused that not everything is there in a cookie-cutter format which you can read from beginning to the end? Smile

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covedweller · Guest

The moderators in this forum section seems to have abandoned us.

We haven't had the stickies change since the first drop. HELP!

tiltingwindward · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject:

OKAY. Here's what we know and how we discovered it (as I understand it). I wasn't there for all the decoding, so if I get some details wrong, please tell me so (nicely?) and correct me here.

Lad and Luv recovered the following items from the drop: A postcard with a note on the back; another SD card; a book with a post-in note inside. Here we go...

The Postcard Clue:
49
20
57 41 49 54 49 4e 47 46 4f 52 2e 2e 2e
4d

This decoded to
I

WAITINGFOR...
M

We don't know anything about the meaning of this at this time.

The SD Card:

The Sd card contained a 17MB winrar file entitled
54 41 4B 45 20 57 41 52 4E 49 4E 47

which was in hex and decoded to
TAKE WARNING

which is the title of a song by a band called Operation Ivy.

The file was password protected. The password ended up being GPS, which you may remember from other puzzles. Inside the winrar file was a textfile entitled Grigori which contained the anagram

ACT TWO WHET HARSH ESCHEW

which anagrams to
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS

which is a famous Latin quote from Juvenal's Satires (original quote: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?).

The winrar file also contained five pictures (displayed elsewhere), all of which appear to be Daniel spying on the fake ceremony. Two of the pictures match the two pictures Daniel looks at on Lucy's computer in "Following the Helper," although the pics Daniel looks at may be cropped versions of the ones in the winrar file. The other three pictures are also of Daniel, but they appear nowhere in the "Following the Helper" video.

The file name Grigori appears to be a reference to the mythical Grigori, who are angels that disobeyed God's commands in Genesis by marrying mortal women. Their offspring were the Nephilim. More details are elsewhere.

This is all we know about the SD file at this time.

The Book:

The book was entitled "Nancy Drew's Guide to Life." Within it was a pink post-it note reading:

Danielle · Thor's Hammer Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 1248