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SGP Task Force: Black Ops / Re: SGP: Request [DONE] - Crossing the Broken Bridge to ONI Facility

« on: December 16, 2009, 17:02:41 »

Brilliant!  Is there anywhere Tepec can't go in this game? Bravo Tepec!

So I am not so good with the translation.  How does a mook like me get over there?

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ODST Fan Fiction / Re: Perchance To Dream

« on: December 14, 2009, 21:46:05 »

Part three posted as well as some minor edits.  Tightened up some prose.  Promoted the ONI from "Agent" to "Major."  Renamed some characters slightly.

Part three uses the Booster Frame from the Legends episode "The Package." If you didn't get a chance to see it, it looks like a motorcycle had a baby with an X-wing.

Feel free to post critiques or where you think this story is going.  And sorry it took so long for part three to come along.

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: 55.6992.3840

« on: December 08, 2009, 17:45:04 »

Here is an idea from the big forum.  Adding each part together between the decimals yields.
5+5=10
6+9+9+2=26
3+8+4+0=15

So some speculated about the date October 26, 2015.  It doesn't look like anybody set their XBoxes to that date to test it out though.  Perhaps setting to that date and taking a peek at the magic wall or squidhenge might yield something.

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: J Banner 7

« on: December 08, 2009, 12:54:07 »

Okay, so two j banners in the henge and only two plinths at a time.  Let's look at those Plinths and see if there's any marking on them that might associate them with the banners.  If there is a connection we could get the correct plinths into the henge and see....

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: J Banner 7

« on: December 08, 2009, 03:36:36 »

...Maybe its just like the Pedestals.. just a couple of different versions of the same thing with no rhyme or reason. Maybe its purely aesthetic. 

Hmm, three J Banners and three Pedestals...and two J Banners in squidhenge.  Hmmm. Maybe one under each J and one in the henge?

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: 55.6992.3840

« on: December 08, 2009, 02:11:43 »

If you reorder the decimals you get.  556.992.3840  It looks like an American phone number, but I can't find the area code.

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: Task Force 7 Priority

« on: December 08, 2009, 02:06:46 »

Okay Brains.  The challenge for this week is to focus the overwhelming might of our collective mental computing power on the mystery of the Ubiquitous Number.  The thread for this has started here.

I want our ideas on what this could mean, decode to.  Is this a date?  A phone number?  Coordinates?  No idea is too menial, nor too large.  None too serious nor too ridiculous.

Alright Sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill...we ain't getting paid by the hour so let's Shag It!

>>SENT: [COLDGLIDER.ADMIN.SGP] 2009.11.07 >> Updated the thread link to point to the thread on 55.6992.3840. 

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: J Banner 7

« on: December 05, 2009, 13:37:07 »

Great idea Enigma and well done CG.  Seriously impressed over here.  Excellent. 

The J Banners have resisted yet another attempt.  Gherjsz-it!

I wonder if it isn't time to try brute force cryptography.  I mean if there is a column to letter ratio we could see which patterns repeat most often and try to map them to the most often occurring English letters - ESTONIA-R.  I am super busy this weekend, but if I get some time I will try to map this out and show my work, following ColdGlider's sterling example here.   

Edit:  Let's not toss out Braille hastily. Remember the J looks like an upside down seven.  Tomorrow I will try to recreate ColdGlider's Braille work for the upside down version as well as forward and backward like we did with the binary attempts.  Of course this will be between trying ideas on the Ubiquitous Number, of course...

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ODST General Discussion / Re: SGP: Weekly Challenges

« on: November 30, 2009, 18:23:49 »

I like the Sadie's Story angle.  I know Apollo is already compiling some stuff on this, and as this was what AJ was gunning for at the beginning it seems like a good starting spot for the website article.

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: Task Force 7 Priority

« on: November 30, 2009, 18:18:12 »

...Task Force 7 gets the spotlight for the first SGP Weekly Challenge to begin when voting closes on December 6th...

Shweet!  Thanks CG!

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Re: J Banner 7

« on: November 30, 2009, 12:27:33 »

This morning it occurred to me that the J banners may be part of a citywide sanitation system.  The Oliphaunts that Jotun Heavy Industries manufacture seem to be unmanned in Sadie's story.  Perhaps the dot code banners are there for them to scan, like checkpoints on their circuit of the city.  A way to test this would be to map out which codes are in which locations and see if they are just Jotun code for the different Districts.

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SGP Task Force: 7 / Task Force 7 Priority

« on: November 30, 2009, 03:55:20 »

Just trying to get a sense of which mystery we feel most compelling.

We all have our pet projects, and I wouldn't dream of asking to set those aside, but how would Task Force 7 feel about lending some neurons toward a single project for a set amount of time.  The spike in computing power could yield faster results.

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SGP Task Force: Arkive / Re: SGP: Bungie Pre-Launch Wallpapers

« on: November 30, 2009, 02:24:25 »

Thanks Coldglider! Great work organizing these into workable areas.  Okay numerologists!  Let's get cracking!

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ODST Fan Fiction / Re: Perchance To Dream

« on: November 29, 2009, 18:30:47 »

Part 2 posted.  It's a bigun because I had a lot of driving time and not much access to computers.  I typed it all in one sitting in a 1300 word spree. Just a warning, there's a little blood and guts type stuff in this one. A bigger warning, you get more Spartan humor as well. Actually the two are kinda the same thing.

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Theorizers / Re: SGP: The Hollow Men Theory

« on: November 29, 2009, 18:14:42 »

Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

Is there a way to get Buck or Dare near the Squidhenge?  Theirs are the only "Lips that would kiss" I can think of in-game.