Unidentified broadcast - 7/20/07

Tables, References and Maps updated at the top of Page 9 in this thread.

I was wrong about where the Downtown target was .. He is actually on the

Club Hell building in Hampton Green. The new data drop is on a street corner

in the same Neighborhood. We now have a total of 13 data node files to study.

There are 3 ley lines that have yet to yield a Node. Good Luck with your analysis

Share what you are comfortable with.

Regards,

Con

Well if one of the jokers was eliminated, it was not thejokerofspades. He was on when I logged in tonight. But he wasn't too chatty with me. Anybody else visit with him?

We'll I throw out what I believe them to be, anyone else please feel free to add to or correct anything they see as not right.

What these nodes are that are pointed to from the pamela feeds are essentially the stored data that program 991 has cached throughout the matrix. this is what keeps him from being deleted I think and able to manifest himslf as the Jokers, his avatars. Some of what he has is from personal experience, others is from data gathered from those programs he has aquired.

That is why some of what is shown on the adelia pages is recounting the happenings of what transpired with TheWatchmaker. That seems to be the first point of contact, as least that vector had, with TheJokerofSpades. thejokerofspades is 991's avatar on Vector. I know there are two others, thejokerofclubs and the thejokerodiamnods, but i'm not sure to which instances they belong. 

The other pieces of information bayamos has cataloged somewhat and are from various sources.

The big questions on my mind are

Now that we have this information what should we do with it? but iv'e already asked that question and I still don't see a clear answer to it. 

 "is 991 a threat to anyone?" he has influenced others to fight each other(in an effort to study us or something) but has not to my knowledge permanently harmed anyone directly.

So that's all i got got anyone else wish to add?

AThingOfBeauty

Some interesting developments in the pursuit of the Nodes.. which will present and opportunity to

delete 991 in the later part of this week. All three instances will need to act in concert on three successive nights

for this to happen.

The Key data was provided by Broin ... He provided the link to Dr. Raj's lastwords

http://www.01mainframe.com/bq142p/r.../lastwords.html

Which in turns leads to the primary node

http://www.01mainframe.com/bq142p/r...3F694.1828.html

This in turn triggered Pamela to load the Endgame2 notification.

Translating the binary in Endgame 2 revealed a repeating message from Adelia "the end is near"

Substituting those four words into Adelia brings up Dr. Raj's final instructions.

http://01mainframe.com/bq142p/rajli...ndZisFnear.html

This document details a maintenance procedure that must be carried out on each of the three servers

Update Processes:
9.65556 1417, 21, -1052s
9.65590 -963, 1, -778s
9.65625 215, -1, 288s
9.65660 -769, 30, 550s
9.68889 1111, -4, -466r
9.68924 68, 32, -439r
9.68958 100, 4, 340r
9.68993 425, 2, -834r
9.72222 -173, 1, 416v
9.72257 -846, 25, -500v
9.72292 301, 0, -201v
9.72326 19, 19, 19v

These are just 12 of the 13 node locations that are described on page 9 of this thread.  (The initial Node in Sai Kung is missing)

The decimal number up front I believe is time expressed as a factional month

9.0 would be Midnight between Aug 31st and Sep 1st.

9.99999999 would be just before Midnight on the Sep 30th.

There are 720 hours in the month of September. So if we multiply the fractional part of the time stamp by 720 and then divide

by 24 we find that the Syntax nodes will be maintained on the 19th ... the Recursion nodes on the 20th and the Vector nodes on

the 21st.  .. The Maintainence shell will spend 15 minutes at each node .. Apparently disrupting the update at each node will allow Adelia

to destroy the node and cause a cascade of destruction among the minor nodes. Destroy them all and 991 is no more ....

The Syntax Nodes:

Sep 19, 1600 MCT    1417   21  -1052  An Apartment in Median Park

Sep 19, 1615 MCT     -963     1    -778   An Alley in Guiness Lake

Sep 19, 1630 MCT      215    -1     228   A Basket ball Court in Shirakaba

Sep 19, 1645 MCT     -769    20    550   An Elevator shaft at the Tarah Construction Site in Creston Heights

The Recursion Nodes :

Sep 20, 1600 MCT       1111  -4  -466   Camon Heights Church

Sep 20, 1615 MCT          68   32   -439  Wutai Sculpture Kaede

Sep 20, 1630 MCT         100    4    340  Skinjuku Fountain

Sep 20, 1645 MCT        425      2   -834  Lion near Chelsea SE HL

The Vector Nodes :

Sep  21,  1600 MCT     -173     1    416    Mara Bridge Toll Plaza .. Burned out bus

Sep  21,  1615 MCT     -846   25   -500    A Ruin in Roger's Way

Sep  21,  1630 MCT       301     0  -201    Garbage Can on Terrace Del Sol - Kaede 

Sep  21,  1645 MCT        19   19      19    Street Corner Hampton Green

Well for better or worse, I have released the dogs of war .. Only time will tell if my name will be cursed.

Con

Please note that there is an uncertainty in the timing of this maintenance cycle .. As I described it, 19 full  24 hour days have elapsed with


remainder of 16 hours.  The Event could very well start on Syntax at 1600 MCT on the 20th ! ...  Having said that I believe things are as I

have posted with a start time on the 19th. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday seems a might more symmetric to me then a Thursday, Friday

& Saturday for some reason.  It could very well be that the monthly time stamps start at 1/720 or .00138888888 so that 00 Dark on

Sep 1 would be 9.001389 rather then 9.00000.

We will know for sure Wednesday at 1600 MCT.

Yes Othinn ..I am not convinced that 991 needs to be deleted. As things have gone down ... You all  have access to all the information I

know about. (others out there may have more) You all have about 35 hours to go over it and make your decision, one way or the other

just as Bayamo has indicated.  I suspect the nodes will be very hostile places at the indicated times... We will all, no doubt, have the

opportunity to argue "vigorously" one way or the other. After a year in the works ... I am sure this will be something to see.

I ran into the same issue decoding the Base64 data on the primary node..  The first stage of the decryption yields a set of space separated

digits notable for the lack of Zeros.  As a result it is unlikely that this is Hex or even decimal representation of ASCII characters. I will point

out that in the old days Base64 encryption was used as a means of embedding images in email. There are a number of different formats

used for images.  I have tried the GIF format and not succeeded in breaking the code .. others might be more lucky.  Another possibility is

the decimals might be a high density packed BCD format ... There are several flavors that one could try there... Good luck in your

deliberations.

Con, out

Let's start a poll :

Standing for DELETION or PRESERVATION

What is your choice?

I feel conflicted, in open admittance to it all i can say i both understand and am lost concerning the joker.

An entity with no defined purpose, yet spitting in the face of naysayers that say he needs purpose. Exiles - a collective batch or otherwise do not function without purpose, they replace purpose whether self-evident or otherwise.

The joker is a mask for the entities behind 991, but what 991's purpose is, is unclear. The old garbage management program if you will has potential beyond words. And though he can give no access to the tower, there is no doubt in my mind to his possible worth.

People seem so eager to destroy him without reason, they are torn in this question of ethics, this regard of who to defend, who to oppose, and it occurs to me neither side has asked for it. Were just observers trying to follow this twisted plot, some of us are opinionated and forceful, others are lost, others are onlookers who feel they need to step forward, to do 'something'.

I haven't decided what i'm going to do yet, but i know the death of the joker will only come through the destruction of his nodes, and yet it would seem people have more unanswered questions then solutions or insights. Seems to me, if your dealing with a story you can't grasp but you want to - the best idea isn't to burn the pages for no one else to read.

That seems rather childish doesn't it.

The way i see it, there's only a surviving manipulator.

A corrupt scanliner, a 'seemingly good' scanliner who is in the same boat most of us are.

And a crowd of people, some who seem to know what they are witnessing, others who do not.

To the majority of people - this whole game is irrelevant, but all it takes is the right question. The right offer, the right trade.

Try asking the questions he doesn't want to answer, more then the ones you want to ask.

==

Food for thought i suppose.

There is no grand evil scheme in place here, if the joker lives, the matrix won't explode or collapse in on itself, theres no doubt theres more depth to this then people can see.

More questions need to be asked, and i think were running out of time to ask those questions, so perhaps i'll defend the story till i've finished reading.

Perhaps i'll just seek the ending to the story tonight.

-why is she so important to them?

~Darminian

The four nodes of syntax are all deleted.....

Gray, Effy, Twin, Assassin

Let's wait tomorrow, i think evolutions is the key too

A corrupt scanliner, a 'seemingly good' scanliner who is in the same boat most of us are.

The four nodes of syntax are all deleted.....

Gray, Effy, Twin, Assassin

Let's wait tomorrow, i think evolutions is the key too

Unfortunatley due to commitments in the real I will be unable to participate in any of the events transpiring this week...

It was with a great deal of respect that the members of FA opted to provide, once again, a crucial part of the puzzle to Conrac and Ps10n, two operatives who have shown extreme perseverance and commitment in the final stages of this long journey. 

As far as what the fate of 991/thejokers/shiva should be... Well that is a difficult decision.  The program itself is an adaptive and yes sentient, being.  Due to it's chance encounter with the trashman (The Assassin), or Trashy as 991 likes to call it.  It has been able to continue to adapt its programming and avoid deletion.  However this adaptable behavior is cause for some concern.  You see the 991 program is able to gather up and store information from the system.... Any information within the system, even from the minds of the operatives (Zion, Merv, Machine) that are jacked into the simulation.  In fact at one point the Jokers were taking out hit lists on operatives so that when these operatives had to use their emergency jackouts it would be able to gather what thoughts or residual information it could from them.  Now how extensive of information 991 is able to get from an operative is unknown but just the idea of a program out there able to do such a thing is unsettling.

Could such a thing be useful for Zion... Of course but then if we were able to bend the will of 991 to our own liking what would stop the Mervs or the Machines.  Currently the machines and agents of the system are seeking the deletion of 991, perhaps they realize that even though his program would be a great value to them if they could control it, in the wrong hands it would be even a greater detrminet. 

Could the adaptive abilities of 991 and his insatiable hunger for continued information and knoweldge eventually adapt him into another Assassin or even a second coming of Smith?  It is not outside the realm of possibiltiy.

Then again 991 is as I said before a sentient being.  What right have we to take away the life of someone or something which only wishes to exist?  Even despite the extreme harm or extreme good it could cause? 

It is a difficult position we find ourselves in....

May those who make the final decisions upon this matter do so with great thought and respect... and may their decision not be a seed for strife or bad ill among other operatives.  For in the end who can say, truley, which is right or wrong...

• Incredible 6+ hour event (total)
• Event across all three servers
• Included all five organizations
• Featured at least twelve Live Event Characters (their likenesses, anyway)
• Has a variable outcome based on the actions of the players
  
• Featured content which otherwise might never have been seen again, without violating the story
• Was the culmination of 13 months of mysteries/puzzles (and much longer planning)
• Required the efforts of most of LESIG and the Live Event Devs
• Had two dozen internet pages to be found and deciphered (filled with cryptic messages and incredible art)
• Required the efforts of many players over many months to solve the riddles
• Main enigma involved very challenging math and cryptography to solve
• Included dozens of LESIG mini-events with Scanline, Strayshot and the Jokers
• Resulted in the creation of MxO datasets which will be used for future events
• Still leaves mysteries to be solved and in-Matrix secrets to be found

Seeing these events that were tasteful, cryptic and challenging degrade into spam and nonsense really hurt my opinion of it.

Joker was really revitalizing the matrix esque vibe i feel this game lacks so often.

It was a terrible sort of anti-climax to the whole thing.

I mean to date there are people here who don't know who 991 is - don't know that all the LET that have been were imposters and more so just don't even know what happened so much as they showed up to shoot *CENSORED*.

Now i know excusive events in mxo is too much to ask for sure, but my god, this is the first time i think i would have prefered if the LET had stayed out of a story.

At least that was my opinion on recursion. I don't know if rewards are being given out for anything, and i wouldn't wine about getting one, but i pray to god conrac gets one, cause i'd say without him a good 75% of these people wouldn't have known where to go, cause it's apparent 75% of them don't know what happened.

~Darminian

Seeing these events that were tasteful, cryptic and challenging degrade into spam and nonsense really hurt my opinion of it.

Joker was really revitalizing the matrix esque vibe i feel this game lacks so often.

It was a terrible sort of anti-climax to the whole thing.

I mean to date there are people here who don't know who 991 is - don't know that all the LET that have been were imposters and more so just don't even know what happened so much as they showed up to shoot *CENSORED*.

Now i know excusive events in mxo is too much to ask for sure, but my god, this is the first time i think i would have prefered if the LET had stayed out of a story.

At least that was my opinion on recursion. I don't know if rewards are being given out for anything, and i wouldn't wine about getting one, but i pray to god conrac gets one, cause i'd say without him a good 75% of these people wouldn't have known where to go, cause it's apparent 75% of them don't know what happened.

~Darminian

I freely admit that I haven't followed much of this event.  I've heard Bayamos thinking out loud about it in Vent but for the most part I've watched from afar.  However, I can honestly say that this was probably the best event we've seen in a long time. 

Granted, it may not have ended the way you wanted it to, and I respect that.  But looking at the bigger picture, MANY people really benefited from this event from the puzzles to the PvP.  In the end, whomever planned this touched all the aspects of the game we love and for that I'm eternally grateful.

Also, I can't wait to see what they pull off to top this.

This sort of "opening the mysteries of the matrix" backs story is half the reason I signed up for this game. And this one delivered. Excellent work to all who prepared and solved the puzzles.

Unfortunately due to time-zone issues I missed the live events, but the data logs poached from 991 have given me much insight into the historical happenings of the Matrix... In particular it would seem that Morpheus may or may not be dead, but his ship and crew were never found. But we do know that 991 managed to analyse morepheus' dead rsi (not sure if it was the one the assassin killed or an EJP leftover).

So what happened in the end? Were all the nodes taken out? If so was the core destroyed, or was it captured to be nurtured like a child and studied?

... so now that we know that the source and the core-systems are separate and that the core has guardians... what does this mean for the war efforts of EPN and Zion?

We'll I throw out what I believe them to be, anyone else please feel free to add to or correct anything they see as not right.

What these nodes are that are pointed to from the pamela feeds are essentially the stored data that program 991 has cached throughout the matrix. this is what keeps him from being deleted I think and able to manifest himslf as the Jokers, his avatars. Some of what he has is from personal experience, others is from data gathered from those programs he has aquired.

That is why some of what is shown on the adelia pages is recounting the happenings of what transpired with TheWatchmaker. That seems to be the first point of contact, as least that vector had, with TheJokerofSpades. thejokerofspades is 991's avatar on Vector. I know there are two others, thejokerofclubs and the thejokerodiamnods, but i'm not sure to which instances they belong. 

The other pieces of information bayamos has cataloged somewhat and are from various sources.

The big questions on my mind are

Now that we have this information what should we do with it? but iv'e already asked that question and I still don't see a clear answer to it. 

 "is 991 a threat to anyone?" he has influenced others to fight each other(in an effort to study us or something) but has not to my knowledge permanently harmed anyone directly.

So that's all i got got anyone else wish to add?

For the sake of greater good i'm glad that people enjoyed this event and im also glad it was as big of a proption as the days of old school - that being said i just felt like the secret and mysterious nature of all this sort of went out the window, and so did a lot of the thought and mysticism behind it when people are more or less shooting things because they can.

I mean i was expecting a morale choice between jokers life or death, and we more or less got random pvp.

But all in all it was well done in the end, and im curious where it will go - though i tend to just appreciate a more exclusive style of play - even if it should dissinclude me.

Good times all the same- especially to the lead up anyways. 

~Darminian

Syntax nodes are all updated with image of event happening and the name of who terminate thejoker and each sim

Yesterday was very very exiting event on vector, when the oracle sim blend  all the operative within 20 m... that scream....o my god...it was creepy.....

I too think this isn't over.  The encrypted portions of the primary node may prove interesting if they can be decrypted. Either way I think Pamela and Adelia should be tasked with monitoring and reporting on the primary node for further activity if they will not destoy it.

On another note Broin had mentioned that the primary node was placed in a district but I couldn't find it mentioned here, Does anyone have the suspected district? The only district I found in non construct areas close to that primary node is in pilsen. but it was 73 meters above that location.

That is the primary node, PS10N.

It corresponds with this in "lastwords":

However, what if his data were to be destroyed, but the primary node left intact? If this were the case and one maintained what I can only be describing as the most extreme of vigilance, then the first signs of his return could be spotted. With a great deal of caution, I believe he could be taken in this vulnerable state of reconstruction. Solitary and alone, this single iteration would likely lack a great deal of the knowledge and power the current 991 wields. You see, in order to avoid detection, the primary node would have to be of extremely minute dimensions. Even in a system as large, complex and convoluted as this one. Therefore it is my belief that this new construct of 991 will lack specific knowledge of its environment and those contained within, making it vulnerable to coercion, attack, or manipulation. He would have none of his current control over the elements of the system, or the ability to move through it with the ease he currently employs.

I started saving the node data to my computer several weeks ago; I believe it has all the nodes including the primary one, lastwords, etc. If anyone wants to see the archives let me know. I could prolly host them as .rar on my server if need be.

By best guess for the Primary node location is also in that sub-basement of the Pillsen High Rise .. If it were International the node would be located off the Playable area near the skinjuku tunnel.

Another possibility would be north of Bathory Row in the Aqueduct .. which correlates with the Assassin's Final resting place .. which is interesting possibility, it would also correlate with the general direction of the Data Anomaly in the ROger's Way apartment which Darminian pointed out to me.  

However the Data nodes did mention trying to fake out the mice by setting up a node in Hampton Green to distract them .. So ... hmmm  I go with Pillsen

These are the backups I have of the nodes with a few other things like unused images in the node root directories, etc.

Bayamo wrote:

These are the backups I have of the nodes with a few other things like unused images in the node root directories, etc.

   Sweet!  I was worried there.  Those sites are cool, and full of information.  I'd hate to see them lost (this coming from a guy who runs an archive site " />  ).

Ok guys, our rest time is end.... "IT IS NOT EASY", put this on adelia, e let's start thinking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_B...v,_1997,_Game_6

Ahem.

Notice that the mMcode letters correspond to the remaining pieces on the chessboard. The next move listed in the wiki is 1-0 meaning that black resigns? It also lists some other moves after which may have been kasparov's thinking ahead to where he resigns. the next possible move listed on the wiki is Kg6 I tried using the RK combo with each of the choices but nothing worked. i even tried relocating node RK to g6 but that didn't work either.