As Georgia's [edit: Georgia Msika] handwriting was causing difficulties for some people, here are plain text copies of the letters discovered... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://barbizonhotels.com/lingchi/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INITIATE CODE HELLO: Have Gun Will Travel radio mix GOODBYE: Nikolaos Georgantas Hello, I created this email to be sent, five days after its writing to all collaborators unless cancelled. This is to say, if you are reading this, I have been unable to access my own resources and am presumably in danger. At time of writing, it is December 9th, 2012. At last check-in, I have been collaborating with others to investigate, deconstruct, and resolve the Class-S Event filed under “E.O.D.”. As has been recently discovered, The Morninglight are initiating several operations clearly set in motion in anticipation of the Mayan Prophecy. As you know, The Black Watchmen have been unsuccessful in attaining any evidence to support the theory that the world is “ending” on the 21st. That being said, stranger things have happened. I would cite specific examples, but this message may reach mass distribution. My point is, I am relatively unconcerned with the Prophecies themselves. Rather, the reason I am updating this failsafe message is that, recently, footage of myself conducting a phone call has surfaced. It was publicly distributed to our collaborators and agents. As I was under the impression that my line was secure, I am now questioning my overall safety. In the short term, that is. Overall, I have no doubts in either The Black Watchmen nor our collaborators. Though any personal notes would only convolute this message, I would like to take a moment to note the well-merited confidence I have in this team. It is for that reason I write this more within the context of sensical precautions and less within the context of being truly endangered. I have a tracking device implanted in my left leg that should allow my allies to locate me. Please find a link to details at ironridgewater.com. This has been added to the source code of the story regarding water at the bottom of the ocean. If I am gone for more than 72 hours, please tell my wife the usual excuse. With all due respect, Msika -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.barbizonhotels.com/fibonacci/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Urgent, At this point, I have been transitioned from one holding facility to another. As this message may be interrupted, it is important I state the most vital facts first: I have been held in a facility for some time and interrogated heavily. After two weeks of enhanced interrogation, I was able to placate my captors with Class A and Class B information. While this is non-essential information, I strongly urge the names and details be changed immediately. Was repeatedly asked about a “Carcosa File”. No idea what this is. Please monitor. Have been able to access help through insider. Identity unknown. Requesting confirmation of Watchmen presence in facility. Overheard intentions: Intensified interrogation with purpose of attaining Class D and Class F information. Will not disclose, obviously. Recently, I tried to access Iron Ridge Water. The site is down. I suspect Whitechapel. This would explain the lack of response. Understandable. This facility is in the tundra somewhere. I am unsure where, and it would be irresponsible of me to speculate. I do intend to attempt an escape later tonight. I’ve been able to pickpocket a pen from the interrogator. From what I’ve seen of the base, I should be able to incapacitate a guard, move through Hall C, ascend through what sounded like a stairwell, and then make my way to the roof. While there is no suitable way to proceed after that, this should give me a clear view of the area. From there, I can forward to the team more information for my imminent extraction. I have not yet been spotted. My insider assistant has been entirely true to their word. I should be safe sending this message, even if I don’t have enough information to expedite a rescue. There is no reason for me to worry, though. I get by with a little help from my friends. (Don't tell my wife I said that. She hated that show.) A door down the hall just opened. The foot steps are hard and slow. I recognize that gait. It’s the easiest guard to subdue. Now’s my chance. Will update soon. -m (Joan of Arc) + (Chartres Cathedral) + (Desertron) kHz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.barbizonhotels.com/UVB-76/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I now understand these letters may not be reaching their destination. On the chance that they are, I’ve been transferred again to a new facility. There is a scar on my left leg and I have lost approximately 32 pounds. For some time now, I’ve been trying to find information to send to you. It’s been a failure. These people. When I was brought in here, I heard one of the agents tell my new captors to not let me have any idea where I am. Sometimes it’s hot here. Sometimes it’s cold. I hear bird sounds that call back to different regions. They tell me to go to sleep two hours after I wake up. They tell me it isn’t time to wake up yet when I’ve slept for twelve. This is my new cell. I broke out of my last one and made it farther than the roof. I made a joke out of my last captors, and these new ones have found a way to make my mind a prison. As far as I can determine, it’s been fifteen months since the day I was taken. I may be off two months in either direction at this point. Fifteen months, though. I stood there. I stood there, in that crowded room in The Crusades. I told them “I am scared for my life”. There was bigger work to be doing. That’s fair. The rational side of me understands where my personal safety fell on the ladder. This isn’t rational. But sometimes, lately, I have these dreams where my mouth is sewn shut and I’m just ripping at the stiches. People are asking me “Do you need help with something?”. I just point to my mouth and they ask, confusedly, “What’s that, I’m sorry? Speak up.” In the distance, I see her. I try to shout her name, but it just comes out as three, agonizing thuds. Another Insider. She won’t talk to me. She’s just the only one that lets me get real sleep or eat actual food. I asked her if she was “Here to help”. She gave me the phone on which I’m sending this. There’s nothing on it of use. I don’t know if she’s on my side or what the situation is. Why she won’t let me out. Why the man before her wouldn’t let me out. None of this makes sense. I’m hoping there’s a slip-up and this email can be tracked back to my location. Doubtful. [NOTES: "Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь" is printed across the bottom of the page - Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, and, matching the PHO on the fibonacci letter, "ENIX" is in red on the margin of this one ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.barbizonhotels.com/deadsouls/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i can’t really think of anything else to say. they know so much. they know everything i know. it’s my hope that you gave me false information. surely that was the case. there’s nothing to lead anyone back here. it’s just cold steel. it’s just silence. not sure why they’re keeping me here anymore. there’s nothing left. i told them everything. it’s not as if i’m looking for things to end. i just don’t understand why they haven’t. he’s tapping on the wall. it’s him again. the same man from my second captors. i don’t know how he’s doing it. or why he’s giving me a time limit. someone must be coming. either you haven’t received my missives or you have chosen to ignore them. in both cases, this is in vain. it is hopeless for me to ask for extraction. or information. or affirmation. there’s no point in asking for anything for myself anymore. so please tell her i loved her. tell her i loved her with all my heart. when you see her. when you see g -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ordered as per Nikel's suggestion: http://barbizonhotels.com/lingchi/ http://www.barbizonhotels.com/fibonacci/
http://www.barbizonhotels.com/UVB-76/ http://www.barbizonhotels.com/deadsouls/ Confirmed Developments: (such as they are) Msika appears to have a handler - probably male - named (or with the handle) Phoenix. Guessed based on the red PHO ENIX scrawled on the messages Confirmed?) by communicating with [email protected] (details here) (at least we know that there's a Phoenix answering mail at TBW/D66, not much beyond that) Nighean noted, based on one of the email responses, that "Désolé is written in "male" form... it would indicate that this Phoenix is a guy" Msika's wife is named Gwendolyn. Letter 1: "tell my wife the usual excuse" --> Msika has a wife. Letter 2: "I get by with a little help from my friends. (Don't tell my wife I said that. She hated that show." --> The Wonder Years used Joe Cocker's cover of The Beatles 'A Little Help From My Friends' as the theme song. The Wonder Years has a major character named Gwendolyn. Letter 3: " In the distance, I see her. I try to shout her name, but it just comes out as three, agonizing thuds." --> 3 thuds, 3 syllables Letter 4: "tell her i loved her with all my heart. when you see her. when you see g" --> Name starts with a G. Phoenix: "Je vais faire le message, merci! Par contre elle se nomme Gwendolyn" She's really fucking pissed at us: http://www.division-66.com/msika/ Gwendolyn's Letter [http://www.division-66.com/msika/]: Div. 66 Internal Notification Do Not Distribute FROM: Gwendolyn Carlyle DATE: 9/20/2014 SUBJECT: My wife. REF: Msika [Filing: I-BARB #24389] DIST. LIST: FYT, EOD, SH42 _________________________________________ Message: To everyone concerned in the current state of my wife Msika, How the hell could you let this happen to her? First I was told that she was MIA, that was hard enough and eventually KIA... I grieved, I grieved so hard - never have I felt pain like that before. I wanted my heart to stop so I could join her. The news I received today has made me sick to the very pit of my stomach - she has been being tortured for the past two years? two fucking years?! I lost her once before, and now I am facing having to relive her death a second time? I can't take it...how can you put me through this?! How do you sleep at night knowing that someone who has helped you so much, and put so much trust in you is currently rotting somewhere, alone and in pain? You make me sick, all of you! brainless idiots. Mark my words, if she is not returned to me alive I will not stop till blood is spilt. I will get my revenge, in one way or another - you do not want to test me... You are all responsible for what comes next, on your heads be it... - Gwen [/quote] _________________________________________ 9:55pm EDT: Division66 popped into #division66 on irc: _________________________________________ 21:53 < Division66> Message from Div42: "Target barbizon site NOW. We have suspected them of human trafficking for a while. Stay in touch with Phoenix of any new development." 21:53 < Division66> Stay safe 21:53 < Arcadius> So hit their physical site or website? 21:54 < Division66> I'll suggest investigate first... Stay safe may not mean "full front attack". _________________________________________
Next letter can be found HERE, the "Hello, Goodbye" code corresponded with the date 11/23/1958, or 112358, the first digits of the fibonacci sequence. Bats, you can transcribe
Nice catch! Done. The one thing that didn't make it into the transcription is the scrawled red "PHO" on the margin to the right of the second paragraph. -Bats
Next letter is at /UVB-76/. Credit goes to Ugly, finding the correct radio frequency. These letters appear to be written in the order of Lingchi -> Fibonacci -> UVB-76 -> Dead Souls . This is unconfirmed. Marking of note is the word Phoenix spelled out between two of the letters.
gah, far too much information and too little fact agreed upon to advance...hmm what is missing...what is extra that could be cobbled together? some semblance of a bigger pattern
looks like someone at a keyboard? or the paper darkness staring has done stranger things to me this time
my first thought was a winged devil or creature on a cliff overlooking a watery expanse. started looking at Dore stuff but found no matches yet
Been trying to look into any Phoenix links to Russia seeing as both Gogol and UVB-76 have to do with Russia and Msika knew her first prison was in the tundra. There's the ballet The Firebird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird Also the Firebird fairytale http://www.artrusse.ca/fairytales/firebird.htm
I fear I won't be 100% active for the next 12 hours, but I have some wild ideas. If someone find them worth checking go ahead. Use the Golden Spiral in each letter and/or in the 4 letter collage. Try to pinpoint a location using something like google maps and the clues of the letters. From this point it's only a hunch, but I strongly believe we are looking for a "place". Maybe if we find it before Sun Sep, 21 2014 6:00 PM CEST, we may be able to help... Msika? Russell? In the images @MoPono and @dancingtheghost posted I think I see a landscape. Upper left corner seems clouds, bottom left corner seems a river and right half seem a mountain.
i've been looking into locations. i can pretty certainly state that the numbers (taken from the uvb letter) aren't a phone number. i had a look at co-ords, and the i got somewhere in the ocean, libya, oceon off of s. africa, nw of morocco, fraserberg and more oceans by playing around with numbers and decimal points (but idk if i was exhaustive). the other thing i looked at was the numbers being an ip address, but we came to the conclusion that there were a looot of possibilities, and i was too tired to do anymore. (eta: did a bit with ip addresses, nothing conclusive. so basically here's a list of routes not to waste a lot of time on) tl;dr: i did not come up with much looking at the numbers from the uvb letter
The first 3 letters have caps, the last 1 [deadsouls] doesn't Spoiler The missing caps are: ITTIISTIINTIIIIHITIOSEIIOOTSTTWWG And this is the font: http://www.dafont.com/catholic-school-gir.font?text=handwritten font with circles&fpp=50&back=theme
