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July 31, 2006

Up to 21...

From katie, April Joy and hansoexposedfragments.com:

18: RXMHJH9Y - From the UK magazine
19: 7TI - From the US magazine
20: RGMR - From Channel 4 slash music
21: vix7zxt97 - From US official Lost Podcast

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hey~ If any of you guys need help with the sequence of the film try here.. Ive found lots of info on this site
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Video

Hey peeps, just adding my voice to the 'I'm bored' list, this is annoying me a bit and I keep getting behind and it's just not that exciting. Still addicted of course tho :-)

New glyph found. On Gary Troup. net on the about page. 89RMCOCDC6D. That makes 22 out of 23.
Also looks like sublymonal,com, has been updated. A new word "duh" appears and when entered gives you a tv screen saying g4tv.com. Click on the screen and it gives you cheats for games. Not found anything on g4 site yet still looking.

I found DITFFTR751 at letyourcompassguideyou.com but its not working.

DJ Dan's site has been updated and says this:
"Podcast Archive


Next podcast...

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! ConspiraSpies! Friday, the night of August 11th (PST - USA). For all you Brits and Aussies, that's... Saturday, August 12th? Is that right? Tonya, where's my international time conversion chart?

More details to come! Til then, keep your voices yammering, your hearts beating for the truth, and your EYES ON THE MAN!"

Also there are 2 more glyphs that have been released- for a total of 23 right now.

July 30, 2006

#18 & #19 found but not working.

Thanks to Gutsch, fragments 18: RXMHJH9Y and 19: 7TI have been found in the Official US and UK Lost magazines. As of now, however, they don't work.

Maybe tomorrow??

Let us know if they are workin'!

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They are working now

Fragments 18 & 19 now working.

Worked fine for me (2:07 PM EDT). And there's a 20th now too:

RGMR

found 21!!! vix7zxt97-Found in the July 31st Official Lost Podcast at 27:52. (7/31)

I actually have 21 fragments so far, and I know the order of the first three.

1 (film order) ohge
2 (film order) zy6c
3 (film order) 4kvklaydm0

The rest are in random order, though I think they are in somewhat connected order, if not chronological, the pieces that are similar are together.

4)gmx18bcj

5) ig3x

6) vdados7yre0

7) 48L

8)4ho

9) 7hkbh

10) rrgyxs

11) m6xy398

12) 3gtvi0m11

13) xygz2y10s2

14) 88ch

15) 7ti

16) 3zgt

17) ley8zczna2

18) vix7zxt97

19) rgmr

20) rxmhjh9y

21) fvh7n (I think this may be the last one in the video clip)

fvh7n and ig3x,
4ho and 7481,
xigz2y10s2 and m6xy398,
are together.

July 28, 2006

Post your weekend fragment finds here!!


Fig. Q: Find them fragments.

OK Sherlocks, post your fragment finds during/over the weekend. I will try keep up too!

DOUG UPDATE: BLAMO! Allison, Jesse and Gutsch find #17 (ZY6C)! Good job, guys. Keep up the good work. I will update this post over the weekend. Only 53 more to go. Ugh, 53.

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17th Glyph, found, I really thought I had a chance at first on that one, but alas not. Anyway, its on www.insidetheexperience.com week 3 round up, and its hidden in the "hole2" pic. But for me its not actually showing up, I got the code from the bar that you get when you run your mouse over something.

ZY6C - Speaker posted the following clue in his Reader Mail

The latest fragment has been found! It is on Speaker's site. On his weekly round up, go to week 3's round up. Look @ the hole2 pic. The fragment is ZY6C. Now if only we could make any sense out of these pieces to get a whole.

#17 is
ZY6C

I've been gone for a couple weeks with my job... What is the deal with the fragments??

So does anyone know of a reliable way to see whether the clips are placed in the correct order?

ok its saturday I think this is RXMHJH9Y-Code#18 AND 7TI-Code #19 but not working yet AND who will be the first to enter them I hope its ME

July 27, 2006

Can I get a fragment?


Fig. 16: < yeah, that.

Dave finds good ole' #16:

3ZGT (from The Fuselage Diary)

Keep smiling (that means you, Todd)!

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ok you all convinced me

:)

yea. a. new. fragment. yea.


Fig. ): Lymon, shmymon.

First Brandon was disenfranchised (we saved him from doom and he won a t-shirt), now Todd Sanders is bummed (read comments below)...

Let's try to turn our frowns upside down. To get us all started, here's fragment number 15:

m6xy398 (from Lost Ninja's blog)

Uh, yeah, that didn't help much :(

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sorry to be such a curmudgeon!!

if act 3 were like act 1, the glyphs would be, i don’t know, something like letters of the phoenician alphabet and we would have to plot latitude and longitude coordinates to discover them, then we would have to find some rosetta stone, phonecian to danish, through some hanso shipping algorhythm over at hansoshipping.org (”shipping a better tomorrow to you” ) this would lead us to the helgus boat and we would have to compare the danish words to a passenger manifest for the ship and voila! the video would be found because we’d discover valenzetti’s nephew was skippering the boat….


and i am putting forth a new meme here i am hoping will catch on for act 3

LESS DISNEY MORE MYSTERY!

Well...I agree with you, Todd...I mean, I freaking saw Rachel in person, and it was cool...but the whole thing's getting a little blurry for me, too. And definitely less mentally stimulating than the first two parts. The big challenge now seems to be playing editor to these fragments we get...and yeah, (I think) that's actually kind of fun. But as far as the glyphs... they should certainly be in better places than just being "placed" on somebody's blog.

I'll say this, though...there were PLENTY of times when watching the show "Lost" (especially this season) where I thought to myself, "Ugh...where are they going with this...come on..." But they consistently pulled off satisfying payoffs to keep the narrative interesting (and I assume most of you would agree...otherwise you probably wouldn't be here). Plus, I really think we could possibly be sitting on a really MAJOR development in the video (both in terms of the show, as well as this ARG) that could very well be worth all the frustration. So...um... I'm gonna hesitantly go ahead and give a little more of my dwindling blind faith to the people behind the game, and trust this will all come around eventually.

Or, maybe I just don't want to have to end up admitting that I wasted three months on this for nothing...

And a 16th fragment:
3ZGT

July 26, 2006

The 14 fragments...


Fig. 12: Doug's lost... hee hee.

UPDATE: Revising Allison and Mattman's finds, nikkee411 has collected 14 fragments from HERE

All Codes:
1: 7HKBH - Main page of hansoexposed.com
2: RRGYXS - Instruction page of hansoexposed.com
3: 4ho - Found on a bracelet of one of the panelist's at Comi-Con
4: 748L - From Rachel's blog
5: ohge - From speakers blog
6: fvh7n - Found on Speakers blog
7: 88ch - From Lost Ninja's blog
8: 1EY8AZCZNA2 - From Lost Ninja's blog
9: VDADOS7YRE0 - From Lost Ninja's blog
10: 3GTVI0M11 - From EW.com
11: IG3X - From UK Lost Podcast
12: XIGZ2Y10S2 - Rachel Blake's cover blog
13: GMX18BCJ - DJ Dan's website, under links.
14: 4KVKLAYDM0 - Revealed in a comment on Speaker's blog

hansoexposedfragments.com is the site to watch!!

I will add it to the right nav, over there, under "Fan Sites" >

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Yea but where do they all go? does anyone think that might be a problem we find all the fragments, but not what slots they belong in?

WHAT HAPPEN TO http://www.hansoexposed.com
i can`t get it i get coming soon
whatup

starting to get bored here and i've been meaning to express my disinterest on the few blogs i follow.
excuse the soapbox....

part one of the game was brilliant and interesting, lots to decode and find, using everyones skills. an interesting thoughtful storyline unfolded and seemed to form a continuation with the season ender. it was a puzzle to savor as we all unlocked it

part 2 is ok but i felt it was taking us farther afield from the tv show. the world of 'lost' slipped over into reality with mcintyre on kimmel and rachel. and it all started making less sense. persephone of the first part who was so capable, became rachel who really doesn't seem the same. and all the story became was rachel saying 'trust me' and mistakes on the parts of the creators being covered up, like the early video release. it made the game twist convolutedly i think.

part 3 we are just being spoonfed each section. rachel now confronts the lost panel which seemed cool but on retrospec seems to blur the lines between the in game world and reality and really loses my interest (and then they had to give us the codes because few realized the arm band significance early on and so they posted a series of 'closeup photos' from the comiccon, which all seem taken with intent). we've seen the emperor without his clothes, the mystique isnt there anymore. day 1 or 2 of glyph hunting was good. but none of the glyphs were in the spots we expected them to be in - sublymonal, jeep, ROT, etc..

every day we get some new codes given to us and we stick them in. if we cant find a code someone writes a script to figrue it out. where is the creativity exhibited with part 1.

this giving us the codes bores me. it is peddling to the new masses who flock to the game. and it really isnt telling us anything. we have what? maybe a month of codes yet to get. and who really will care about 68-70, we'll have the story by then. you can bet code 70 is going to be the one that completes mr. beardy saying "i'm .."

maybe i'm wrong and there is some grand intent with the glyphs icongraphy that will reveal itself

the only revelation really interesting to anyone seems to be who is mr. beardy. is he hanso or not.

and all of this dribbling (without any elegance of working through a puzzle) for probably 4 minutes of video. and each time we input the codes we have to sit while the system starts up and lets us log in and then drags while it loads all the fragments found so far (even on DSL)

not seemingly worth it. just release the video and get on with it i say. i think maybe i'll just start checking in once a week or so and gather the 10 codes released by that time and stick them in.


also what really does any of this have to do the the TV show at this point. there dont really seem to be any links to characters on the show at this point. time-wise all this is takig place years after the time in the show.

seemingly this glyph video might tell us something about the island. who knows.

i may be wrong about all this, perhaps there is a grand plan that will reveal itself and i'll be amazed. for now i am just bored.

DOUG NOTE: It's not just you!

ok i found a code on letyourcompassguideyou.com and i was wondering if anyone else saw it too i tired it on the hansoexposed site and it says it dosent work but i dont the code is DIFFTR731 if anyone else saw please tell me

katie

that 'code' on the compass site has been there from the beginning

I have to agree, this part is frustrating. The pieces are not hidden where we have been looking previously. Also, they are very easy to find, which does not make it at all exciting.

On another note, Matt the Pale has a page on aol. You can get the link on thelostexperienceclues.com. He has his guess of how the clips fit together so far, which might be worth looking into if you are interested.

I will probably not be checking back in with the regularity I was before either. It is just not that exciting right now. Good luck to everyone else!

July 25, 2006

New Rachel post

Beverly brings to our attention a new post on Rachel's blog. It links to an FAQ page (to catch people up with the game -- I'm guessing the ComicCon appearance brought a lot of new folks in), and it also has a new glyph for Hanso Exposed. How totally kitchen!

And with that, I leave you in Doug's capable cyberhands for the next few days, as I'm out of town. Happy glyph hunting!

DOUG NOTE: Rachel's FAQ is pretty kitchen! Catch it here to get all caught up (you, cheaters!): stophanso.rachelblake.com/recap.html. I added it to the "Official Links" over there >

AND, who has all 12 glyphs?!?!

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So far, I have 11. Here is what I have:

4ho
ohge
88ch
748l
ig3x
fvh7n
7hkbh
rrgyxs
3gtvl0m11
vdados7yre0
1ey8azczna2

I heard someone found the 12th, but I have not found it for myself or seen it. Happy hunting!

um...kitchen?

;-)

common thread to the new mandrake wig photos,heads being buried. perhaps it is a metaphor for someone (ours perhaps) heads being buried in sand. that we are ignoring something.

also on other blogs a user named 'catseye' supposedly has the 12th glyph. perhaps this isnt a player at all but the game authors giving us a clue, maybe a password - rblake/catseye that needs to be put somewhere for the 12th glyph?

The code your missing is
xigz2y10s2.

does anyone have the correct order that the clips should be in? There are 14 clips right now which can be found on
http://www.hansoexposedfragments.com/

All Codes:
1: 7HKBH - Main page of hansoexposed.com
2: RRGYXS - Instruction page of hansoexposed.com
3: 4ho - Found on a bracelet of one of the panelist's at Comi-Con
4: 748L - From Rachel's blog
5: ohge - From speakers blog
6: fvh7n - Found on Speakers blog
7: 88ch - From Lost Ninja's blog
8: 1EY8AZCZNA2 - From Lost Ninja's blog
9: VDADOS7YRE0 - From Lost Ninja's blog
10: 3GTVI0M11 - From EW.com
11: IG3X - From UK Lost Podcast
12: XIGZ2Y10S2 - Rachel Blake's cover blog
13: GMX18BCJ - DJ Dan's website, under links.
14: 4KVKLAYDM0 - Revealed in a comment on Speaker's blog

July 22, 2006

Hanso Exposed

So Todd and Alison updated us on a new development from the SD Comic Con this weekend -- Rachel appeared and lambasted some cast members and writers from "Lost" about the Hanso Foundation. There's a video on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2Ys9qORbM

She says to go to Hansoexposed.com, which now has some stuff on it, including a message from Rachel. We have to find videos and put them together. Let's hear your findings!

Also, note that Rachel says she is "living proof" that Alvar is real. Adds weight to the Alvar love-child theories, eh?

DOUG NOTE: I heard rumors that this happened at Comic-Con... cool to see the video proof! Also, for those interested: 'LOST' executive producer Damon Lindelof revealed at Comic-Con that during Season 3 "something will happen (on the show) that will effectively fry peoples' brains." The show's panel joked that fans might feel this would mark the show "jumping the shark" (yet again) and that it was something the creators strived for. HMMMMMM.

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to log in you just sign up with by clicking on register and enntering in a username/email and password

other updates: there may be a verizon tv ad out there with a glyph on it and one of the other actors at the comiccon was wearing a glyph too.

the 3 of 7 glyphs (70 in total) found so far can be saved in particular slots. they will stay there once they are in the right slot

i havent seen this posted yet but the latest ROT thread "3 will 3 will rock you" title means that we are in the 3rd chapter now

three codes so far that i can find

4ho
rrgyxs
7hkbh

that's all i can find, WHERE ARE THE OTHER ONES!!!!!!!!!

What I found:
RRGYXS
4HO
7hkbh

something driving me crazy is that i think i saw a glyph at the end of a recent rachel video but i cant remember which one.

i am sure there must be one on sublymonal and one on the jeep site but no luck finding it yet

and it is also interesting that in the most recent rachel video that she talks about the 'wards' on the ship, another meaning of 'ward" is glyph, a magical symbol that seals something.

just my musings

ok someone needs to tell me how you got the codes how did you get 4ho were is that. do you have a link to it
thank you

4ho was on one of the wrist bands that the lost panel wore at the comiccon

people are trying now to decipher the codes on other wrist bands

og here for the full story

http://www.hansoexposedfragments.com/

new code fragment has been found in one of the photos from the comiccon bracelets (finally some higher resolution photos are being posted to various blogs), this seems to be the symbol most of the panel was wearing

ohge

it seems to fit into slot number 2, so now we have 2 in a row

someone on one of the other blogs is trying to put together the glyphs into an anagram

so far they have:

r--hel b--k- g-y--hs

h---o org -x-----

(potentially ... rachel blake glyphs hanso org exposed)


very interesting theory.... perhaps?


and can i register a small complaint about how frigging long the hanso exposed site takes to load each time. why cant there be a cookie so i could bypass all the login stuff, that glyph loading and unloadng takes forever.

Just wanted to let you guys know...yeah, I was there, and yeah, it was awesome. People had been buzzing, so you could tell something was gonna happen...but I think people were genuinely surprised by Rachel actually being there. For anyone who's been dissing the girl's acting skills, well...I used to do a little theatre myself, and let me tell ya, she pulled off that (mostly) improvised bit really, really well. (Damon's pretty good, too.) And just for all of you Rachel-Lovers...yeah, she's not bad looking in person, either.

Anyway, the panel was awesome, the crowd was great and enthusiastic, and all in all it was a great day. Sorry Doug -- couldn't score the Be@rbricks for ya...not enough time. But I was definitely representin' the lost.beloblog crew with my 1000th post Dharma T-Shirt!! (Thanks again!)

Anyway...on to Act 3, shall we???

I have 5 fragments so far: ohge, 748L, 4ho, rrgyxs, and 7hkbh. I have found them from speaker, rachel's blog, etc.

Do we have an assumed order for any of these so far? I would think that ohge would be slot 1, but someone said something about slot 2 earlier.

I'm really not happy about them splicing the game with the tv show. if rachel appears in real life to talk to people who act on the show, then the game is refuting that the tv show is real (obviously its not real but in the shows storyline it is) so if hanso is real but the show is not, why does the show paint such a bad picture of hanso? I preferred it when they both could have been really happening, seperately but two sides of the same 'story'

Does anyone know what slots these clips go into? with one clip i tried all 70!

2 new ones uncomfirmed where they come from yet

1EY8AZCZNA2
88ch

3rd new glyph (8 of10)

vdados7yre0


these come by way of lost ninja's blog. he supposedly had a photographer friend at comicon who just emailed him photos of the panel's bracelets.

2 of these newest ones seem to be part of the hanso film with mr "beardy" (as ARGers have named him elsewhere) the third one seems to be a part of the mittelwerk film.

got one
1ey8azczna2 this slot 2 i think

Just in case you haven't heard, Ninja has three codes at his yahoo blog. I don't see anyone mentioning it comments, so just thought I'd pitch in. I am up to 8 now, looking for 9 and 10 and still haven't seen the alleged Verison commercial glyph.

ok here one more
vdados7yreo
worked for me

ok i got 8 i need more

wow got other two
fvh7n and
88ch trying to get more

ninth code posted (found on "speaker's blog" (who seems to be an in game person)

all nine are as follows

7HKBH
RRGYXS
4HO
OHGE
748L
88CH
1EY8AZCZNA2
VDADOS7YRE0
FVH7N

the ninth being the latest.

No 10 found on Entertainment weekly, on Doc Jensen blog.

3GTVI0M11

Rachel's blog has been updated again- this time with a FAQ.

There are 12 glyphs so far out there in cyberspace and ll have been found at the time I'm writing this.

I'm sure more are to come--but how fast they will be found is yet to be determined! :-)

Lost-n-Found says they've seen all 12, but I can't figure out which one they have that I don't. I have the same 11 that Allison has, and LnF is counting my 10 and 11 as 11 and 12. Anyone here have a differnt 12?
Also: What zone are the time stamps on this blog set for?

Sorry about that earlier post (I was so excited). LnF is numbering their clips in such a way as to be missing #10. Will be less hasty next time.

So, is there any way on knowing / remembering what order to put the glyphs in?

I have 10, but cannot seem to get any sort of a sequence.

July 21, 2006

New Rachel video - GidgetGirl's apt.

Rachel's blog is updated, and there's a video hidden on the ROT site. Anyone found it yet? Did we ever figure out the new password for the ROT message boards?

Update: Just saw on the Lost Experience Clues site -- someone says the password is "Steinbeck," and I tried it and it worked. Not sure where that came from; possibly a Wally Boles e-mail? Oh, wait, nope. It was in the ROT site source code.

Update: OK, so here's how to find it: (continue reading after the jump if you want to know, otherwise keep looking!)

On ROT site, there's a thread called "3 will... 3 will... ROCK YOU!" In that Fiberoptician talks about a Korean dinner with his girlfriend's parents. He particularly stresses "hoo-gonchoi" and references richer, deeper, broader and says something about light in windows of tall buildings downtown. So over to richerdeeperbroader.com and click on the "fuel passions" area, and once that page comes up click on the lit-up windows of the buildings in the background until a little pop up comes up -- put in the username/password (rblake/hoo-gonchoi) and then click the word "clip" and the video will SLOWLY load. It's big and it's got overlapping audio all over.

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I did a little digging, and apparently IOBSeeingYou was IMing with a TLEC person and gave them an actor's name for a clue. The actor was Pedro Armdendariz. He was in a movie version of Steinbeck's book The Pearl.

Pretty random. Oh, and the video is found by using the clues from the ROT board and going to richerdeeperbroader.com. Apparently, someone has already put the video on YouTube because you had to download it and it was WAY too slow.

transcript:

r: I'm in hugh and darla's flat. it looks like our code term id guy was right. mittlewerk didn't know about this place.

(reads letter) gidget, heading to the racquet club. didn't want to wake you. can you be ready by 3? i'll swing by and pick you up. hugh

r: if i was darla, i'd hide it...behind it of a video of gidget

fastforwards to opening the package(envelope)

r: okay guys, here it goes. An id, with my face on it, health way alliance. a plane ticket. Sri Lanka? That was the island. All those injections for sri...(remote falls out of envelope)
what the hell?
(turns on tv)

Darla: Rachel, um, I guess I fell a bit ashamed coming to you like this. But please, understand why I had my friend deliver this package to you in the park.
By the time you're watching this, uh, I'll be, see, that's the reason. The end of that sentence is always Dead and god knows I don't want to be that cliche. By the time you watch this, I'll have left the bloody country, I'll have left HIM, I'll have run.
I made you an id pass. Use it. Mittlewerk's about to do something awful Rachel. I'm not quite sure what, but I know you. You'll find out.
Just one last bit. Um, if Hugh's still, you know, around, uh look, I know how you feel about these people. And about us. But I love him, Rachel. There's still a good man in there. He got caught up, he's been helping me. Sri Lanka was the last straw for him too. And, believe it or not, he's been protecting you too.
Mittlewerk's convinced, at least for now. He doesn't want a Martyr on his hands. But that doesn't mean he won't change his mind. Especially after you uncover what's been happening in Sri Lanka.
So, be safe love.
And get the bastards for me, will ya. Once this is all said and done we'll be having Martinis in Monte Carlo.
You know, I never met the big man, Hanso, but something tells me he'd be pr-
(rachel shuts off)

r: (reading) spider protocol, trial j (end reading)
and... this is the ship, Paik Heavy Industries, The Hanso Foundation, The Helgus Antonius.
It's a hospital ship!
Oh god, why are all the wards labeled....
(word is quarrantined)

9:19 PM

New ROT newsletter too.

Dear friends,

I'm a truly honored to have so many loyal and dedicated fans and supporters. I wish I could sit down with each and every one of you and discuss my work and the science of what I do but alas, that would be too time-consuming for the both of us.

I understand you all took my advice to heed change. Or at least a few of you read my words and took note of it and that's all I can ever ask. Remember don't ever dwell on the changes that confront us on a daily basis but face them head on and allow them to evolve your life and yourself.

I won't tax your time or your brain today with a long message but I would like you all to take a moment out of your busy schedules to sit down in a quiet place, relax, and think about all the good things in your lives. While they may seem few and far between they do exist. It is easier to think of and focus on the negative but not always the healthiest or the most productive way to utilize your mental energies.

When the mind is at rest it is at its most productive. Maybe that's why the yellow lab will rest up to 18 hours in a day. Think about that my friends and have a wonderful day.

Yours truly, Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole

This site has changed and seems to be live. You have to register and find video clips.

Ellen: You mean the hansoexposed.com site?

http://www.hansoexposed.com/

is now active and very interesting

i've got one sequence on the hanso exposed site - 7hkbh (from rachel's initial glyph posting), i get a fuzzy movie start with it and an image in the storage section up above of a bearded man.

anyone know anything more yet?

rachel has appearded at the lost panel comic con 2006 - your tube link here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2Ys9qORbM

this ties in with hansoexposed.com

2 more codes for hansoexposed.com found through various comiccon sources
4HO (not zero)
RRGYXS

July 20, 2006

How much longer? Try October 4th!

We all know the game is deep into Act 2. We can assume that there will be a third and final act. We can also assume that the final act will lead up to the Fall premiere of 'LOST.' BUT, did you know that 'LOST' premieres on October 4th?!?!

So does this mean the game is not even halfway through?

Is everyone prepared for another two and a half months of Rachel?

Should Sprite introduce Lymon with caffeine?

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Is it just me or is everyone far more bored with the 2nd act than the first? I just dont think they put nearly as much into this as the 1st. Maybe because THF.org is down, I dunno but I'm really hoping part 3 is more exciting.

on rachels new video Mittlewerk's bodyguard said he wants me to help you, "He" must be someone like Hanso or Zander (if they're alive) and rachel knew who he was talking about so she looked down and fast forwarded through, anyone else think that too

Hey, maybe even longer. LOST will be shown for six weeks when it returns, then be gone for 13 STRAIGHT WEEKS all the way up to February. That's November, December, and January.

So I'm betting that there'll be a mini-TLE during that hiatus to pacify us. Mark my words.
Or, better yet, hide them in source code, scramble them into an anagram, and convert them into ASCII.

By the way, word is that Act 3 will likely start any day now...possibly even over the weekend, somehow coinciding with Comic-Con (which I will be attending -- and I'll let you know if I see Miss Blake anywhere around my fair city.)

DOUG NOTE: Brandon, pick us up some exclusive Be@rbricks at Comic-Con!!! I collect them :)

Definitely dead on. A lot of people are wishing it would be a lot less technical. I think we can expect something big at Comicon this week, like Rachel or Mittelwerk showing up.... or both
LostExposed

RB's new video is up! It is on the ROT site, but I have not yet found out how to get the video. I will work on it and keep you posted.

Rachel video continued

Dave and BEx write in to alert us to a new post on Rachel's blog, which leads to a new video. Go try to figure it out yourself, or scroll down to see their comments about how to find it.

Incidentally, I can't get the video to play, even though all the others on that page will. Grr... maybe because so many are watching it right now.

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Hey, has anyone checked ROT today? I can't get the new password to work, any ideas on a new one?

Bring on Act 3!

Right click on the video screen and choose options. Turn down your video acceleration. It worked for me.

Ellen: Thanks. I just tried it again, and this time it randomly worked.

i couldn't get the video to work at all either. thank goodness for youtube

July 19, 2006

More Mittelwerk ads

Thanks to Ben, Gutsch and Alison for writing in about new Mittelwerk videos on the DJ Dan site. Doug (contributor to Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene) and I actually watched these earlier today, but weren't sure if they were new and then got sidetracked in a discussion about the super-scary upcoming movie The Descent.

Anyway, not sure these videos tell us much except that the Mathematical Forecasting and Life Extension initiatives are important to the Hanso Foundation. Hmmm..

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perhaps it tells us that hanso is consolidating its power? they got rid of mcintyre and his mistress possibly, and have perhaps shot at rachel, so possibly they also have control over the djdan site now and djdan has been forced into hiding

There's a new RB video linked from her blog. Click the "Find the video here link." Scroll down to some advice about a bad boss, click that link, scroll to the bottom of the article and click on the link "To view celebrity career advice videos". At the bottom of the list is a video titled " Can She Trust Him?"

New post on Rachel's blog, continuation of last video, to be found on monster.com.

It takes you to a thing about peoples 'worst summer jobs', where there is a post from someone who sounds like they've just discovered the Hanso Foundation's real motives. The administrator provides a link to some advice about dealing with nightmare bosses. On this page there is a selection of videos, Rachel's is at the bottom.

Here is the link to the video.. its at the bottom
http://content.monster.com/archives/video/

Ellen: Still doesn't work for me. I can get to the page all right, but when I click that particular video, it says "Connecting," then "Ready," then nothing. I hit the play button. Nothing. I hit it again... nuttin. Not sure what's wrong.

Ellen, the video has been posted to You Tube today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-eC99Q9-B0&search=Rachel%20Blake

Hope this helps!

Ellen: Thanks, Beverly! I finally got it to work today, but I don't think Doug did, so this helps.

I didn't know that Mittlework's AD for hanso was now linked to the HANSO site. if you wait for the red leeters saying the site's been hacked and is no longer available to the public the next sentance says clikc here for comments from TWM--how long has that been there?

July 18, 2006

New Rachel Post and New Video Clip!

Mucho thanks to super sleuth Alison who tipped us off to today's discovery:

Head on over to the blog of the lovely, and toothy, Rachel (HERE).

You will see a noggin image and a username and login: "rblake" & "honourbar" (I didn't have to use it, but 'Ultra Violet' author Ellen did). Clicking on the image will take you to the Jeep/Compass site (HERE), and by clicking on "252" then "my_docs" you get access to a new folder titled "zero_n_such." Obvious to everyone but me, it's an anagram for "crush zone."

Click on the new folder and head on over to the Jeep vehicle site. Look for a "crush zone" description on the featured Jeep and enjoy the new clip.

After doing this, we now have a few questions:

• What's up with the "honourbar" password? Hidden meaning? Canadian spelling?

• Who is Rachel's new ally? Your theories?

• Who is Rachel? What's her true identity? Anyone? Anyone?

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i think she is alvar hanso's lovechild

I think Persephone is dead and Rachel has taken over. Or maybe not, I dunno. But I like the idea of her being Alvar's love child! She has to be related to one of them otherwise there wouldn't have been all the mention of lying in her genes, the emotional stuff about her mother etc.

By the way click on the word 'lost' when you get to the error page of the jeep compass site.

Ok so i've gotten to an error page when I click the zero_n_such but I see no lost or anything to click on when I get there and I cant find anything just navigating through the jeep site. need help por favor.

Aiight, here's my theories to those questions.

1. honourbar - obviously to do with the hotel, other than that...who knows. (milkcartonman, anyone?)

2. The ally -- I have a feeling that he (like Rachel) is someone personally invested in bringing down the Hanso foundation, but has been working from the inside. Something pushed him over the edge (perhaps the death of Darla), causing him to blow up, blow his cover, and now, he's on the run.

3. Rachel's identity - Clearly, the Man in Black knows exactly who she is. And, being the only one in the entire freakin' game who hasn't said to her, "Wh...why are you doing this...?", he must have some idea as to her motives. My strongest guess (the one I've had for a while, and I'm certainly not the only one who feels this way) is that Rachel's father was/is a part of Hanso, maybe even someone we would know. Unlike many, though, I don't think it's Mittelwerk. (Or Alvar.) But somebody. And her new ally may be more connected to her than she realizes at this point.

One conspicuous thing stood out to me...why does our man refer to the gun as "this thing", he uses for "protection" from "them"? What kind of a gun is it, exactly? What is it carrying? Some kind of vaccine? If so...then..why would it still be fatal to Rachel?

And one more thing...those glasses she puts on at the end...glasses-cam? (If so, the next video should be off the heezy for sheezy, y'all) OR... a further clue...into her "real" (and possibly dorky?) identity?

Might be nothing but "honour bar" is anagram of on/no harbour.
Big maybe, it might link to the Helgus Antonius?

I loved her putting on the glasses-cam right before turning off the camera. Awesome spy-girl stuff right there.

Now that I think about it, I, too believe she must be Hanso's daughter. Can't believe it hadn't crossed my mind before.

milkcartonman could be a ref to someone going missing, i remember that someone (yes it is a dodgy source) said that they saw walt on a milk carton in the hatch on one of the eps after the others took him from the raft (as in he was missing) spooky, yes.

I followed all the instructions above, but couldn't find "crush zone" on any of the vehicle descriptions--where can I watch the new video?!

Ellen: On the compass site, click the 252 area, log in with the info Rachel provided on the blog entry. Then go into the mydocs folder and click the zero_n_such link, which takes you to the Jeep site. Click on the word "LOST" in the phrase "well one of us is lost". That brings up the Jeep hot zones thing -- click "SAFETY/SECURITY" in the left nav and then roll over the orange hotspots until you find "crush zones." Click it, video window pops in below, click "Watch demo." Voila!

Ok for real every time I click the file to take me to the Jeep site it says page cannot be found. I dont know if anyone else is having this problem but I dont know what else I can do to get there if anything. Is anyone capable of helping me with this?

Ellen: Try this link -- it's the one that the zero_n_such link goes to:
http://www.jeep.com/zero_n_such

Or try this one, which is the next link in the path:
http://www.jeep.com/en/compass/

I think the guy who's Rachel's new ally is Mittelwirk's bodyguard, anyone agree

The Hanso Foundation page has been updated. It now has a link to Mittlewerk's TV advertisement from last week's episodes which promotes "spirited debate".

Looks as if the Hanso Foundation page will be re-opening soon!

On the shut down hanso site there is a link to the clip with Mittlewerk, is this an old clue or a new one

oh I think Rachel's new ally looks like Mittlewerk's bodyguard, anyone else

Hey. The new guy is English, and the spelling of 'honour' as in honourbar is the proper english spelling, maybe a connection?

Which one of the Verizon crew went missing? Could it be him?

go to djdan.am and click on the eyes on the man and there are two new mittlewerk videos

DJ DAN has been updated to Hanso commercials in Eyes on the Man

DJ Dans site has been updated, if you go to Eyes on the Man, you'll see links to 2 new videos about Mittlewerk.

July 17, 2006

New ROT letter and password

Alison and Brandon posted to say there's a new letter from Wally Bole. I'm irritated that I'm not getting these even though I've put my e-mail address in approximately one thousand times at the ROT site. ANYway, here's the letter text:

Thank you for supporting the Retrievers of Truth. You unwavering loyalty and patronage are what keep me working so hard to get the truth out there about the Labrador. Things are going very well for the organization and for myself. I would not be speaking to you if it were not for your belief.

Today I would like to talk to you about something that has effected [sic] us all at one time or another - change. Change is the nature of existence. Do you think the now mighty and mentally superior Labrador retriever was always such a symbol of canine superiority? Definitely not.

I myself have experienced change in my life. An awakening or rebirth of sorts. And from that change came personal growth. A flowering, if you will. When a young yellow is but a pup he hasn't the slightest inkling of the changes he will endure. He goes though life as a pet only to later become the true master.

I can't tell you how to overcome change but I can tell you to look to the future. Aim for the stars. Pick a point in your mind that you want to reach and allow yourself to change - to adapt and be ready for anything that might come your way.

Like a wise old yellow once told me, "If I didn't change my mind, I'd be thinking the same things every single day."

Yours truly, Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole

And the old "polar bear" password for the message boards isn't working. At least one person has sent us a comment with the new password, but I haven't approved it yet, as it's no fun to just get the answer. WHY is it the new password, people? How was it figured out? Let us know.

Update: OK, I'm getting comments (that I'm not approving b/c they're repetitive) giving me the password. No explanation. So, for those of you who just want the password without explanation, scroll over this white text to see it:
1CF11D16-C378-4D5A-B038-00DF9ED171FF

Now, anyone have an explanation? I don't have time today to research this, but I'm really interested to know how this was found. Thanks.

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Having looked at the new password, I can see where it was got from. If you view source on ROT there is a line with Hidden and then a lot of stuff after it. If you take the stuff after it and change it using a base64 converter, out pops the password in the converted text.
I'd actually converted it earlier but didnt take any notice of what showed up, as I disn't think it was password material, obvioulsy I was wrong.

Ellen: Thanks for the info!

new rachel post over at the compass site. click around the 252 degrees mark on the compas then rblake/honourbar

new folder called zero_n_such which takes you to a jeep site

you can click on the word 'lost' at the top which takes you to the jeep 'compass'

after that i'm stuck so far

ok clicking on the security features “crush zone” hotspot on the grill of the car, and then viewing the demo

Rachel has updated her Stop hanso site. Click on pic takes you to LYCGY site. New password rblake, honourbar. New folder called my docs. Conatins eerie movie and link to Jeep page witch clickable link on the word LOST.
Thats my findings so far.

New post at Rachel (http://stophanso.rachelblake.com/index2.html)
you need go here: