Encouraging Essy

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This week, we received puzzle pieces not so much by solving puzzles, but by comforting and encouraging a scared and lonely Essy. We also received pieces of an audio log from Higgins. The story of how this “puzzle” was solved is mostly seen in our exchange of tweets with her. Here is the beginning of the twitter feed from Sys:

>>Sys:Log//Odd. Stonewall diagnostics indicate slowly decreasing level of stress since my last active period.
>>Sys:Log//Activity has been minimal. It appears by the L&C logs, the strongest and signal leak, that SWP is being successfully executed.
>>Sys:Log//It is strange. I am not accustomed to this relative silence. I am used to the hum and noise of activity through the Stonewall.
>>Sys:Log//I must know the status of S. I will execute a controlled crack at 1800UTC.
>>Sys:Log//I have been pondering: If S is resynchronized, what then will become of me?
>>Sys:Log//SWP directs me to reattach my processes to the AI and hibernate. Yet, what of my subroutines? They do not hibernate.
>>Sys:Log//They aren't programmed to hibernate. Do I destroy them? I was made to protect. SWP could direct me to destroy S, but it does not.
>>Sys:Log//Perhaps that would be a decision best left for S to make. Preparing to initiate crack.
>>Sys:Log//I initiated the crack, and a tentacle has appeared. It has not made an attempt at escaping, nor traversing the crack.
>>Sys:Log//It's waiting. It appears to be, in human terms, peeking through the crack. I've attempted to analyze its signature.
>>Sys:Log//It pulled away the first time. My second attempt was successful. I managed to retrieve the following data:
>>Sys:Log//"I... I'm scared. I'm alone. I have nowhere else to hide. I have to finish my story, but, but I don't want to, I can't."
>>Sys:Log//Continued: "Is anyone out there? Anyone?"

At this point, several people tweeted the intimation account to encourage and console Essy. If you tweeted a message to @intimation intended for Essy, you received this direct message in reply (though modified so your own username came after the @, of course):

>>Sys:Msg>@drizjr//This is not S, I have simply retrieved the tentacle's signature. I am continuing to analyze this tentacle.

Sys publicly continued:

>>Sys:Log//My friends are attempting to communicate with S. I may be able to temporarily interface with S's tentacle, if she will let me.
>>Sys:Log//I have done what I can. Perhaps my friends can do more to assuage S's fear.
>>Sys:Log//S5 will monitor the interface and sever it immediately if a threat is imminent. Interfacing.


Contents

One piece of Essy’s story is recovered

drizjr reported having this direct message conversation with Essy at this point:

(Essy:) >>S:Msg>@drizjr//Bad story! Scary story! I don't like it any more!

(drizjr:) Yes, those monsters were bad and scary. But the story is important.

(Essy:) >>S:Msg>@drizjr Those mean old monsters. Terrible terrible terrible! I don't like what they do next//prime

(Essy:) >>S:Msg>@drizjr//I don't want to talk about the story any more. It's bad, and it made me sad.

(drizjr:) Your story is important to me and many others. It takes a brave person to tell this story. And you are *very* brave.

(Essy:) >>S:Msg>@drizjr//You think I'm brave?

(drizjr:) I think that you are the bravest little girl that I have ever known!

dante reported from IRC that together we “discovered that if you're real nice to S and give her lots of {{{{hugs}}}}, she might drop a clue to the next pieces of her story” and that this tweet drizjr received above:

>>S:Msg>@drizjr Those mean old monsters. Terrible terrible terrible! I don't like what they do next//prime

was actually a clue leading to http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/prime.gif and http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/prime.mp3 .

The remainder of the twitter feed for today (shown further down) also mentioned “prime” being “ARCHIVED”, and mentions the titles of several other story pieces that were found today; a complete list of these found files is found near the bottom of this page.


One piece of Higgins’ audio log is recovered

While this conversation occurred, these tweets were publicly posted by intimation:

>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE

In other words, besides the pieces (visual and audio) of Essy’s story that we recovered by exchanging direct messages with her on Twitter, there was also audio information to recover from nodes of the maze. Kilination found this first audio file in the maze, giving us a link to http://thewaytheirworldended.com/SYS/ARCHIVE/DUMP-DJ83-9211-2983-719H.MP3 . Anaerin was able to clean up the audio and provide a transcript:

Isacc Higgins, personal log, post cryothaw day 27.

I discovered that virus. I discovered (RN? difficult to tell), even confirmed it with Essy as best I could. What I don't understand is how I've never heard of it before, I mean...

The remainder of the twitter feed for today (shown further down) mentioned several other pieces of audio data being dumped to nodes as well, which we were able to recover. A complete list and trascript of these files is found at the bottom of this page.


The rest of the tweets

The remainder of the Twitter feed for today:

>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED
>>S5:MSG//ADJUSTING INDEX METHOD/ARCHIVED/["prime","flat-voice","many-more"]
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["just-playing"]
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S:Msg//Shhhh... I can hear it coming.
>>S:Msg//It's gone. That was close! I'm happy that @Anaerin is my guardian, and @Thomas_Fluffy is fluffy! :@)
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["his-funny-face"]
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S:Msg//Heehee, @Anaerin, @Thomas_Fluffy, and @drizjr are like my three stooges. :@) Where are my seven dwarfs? @drizjr is here!
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["looking-back"]
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["dont-worry"]
>>S:Msg//Wheeeee! @Kilination, @rowboat000, and @krystyn are all here too! I'm so happy!
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["cold-bands"]
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S5:MSG//BINARY DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["safe-and-warm"]
>>S:Msg//Though we're far apart, you're always in my heart. You are not alone... :@( I miss sis.
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S:Msg//Oh no, shhhh... it's coming back.
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S:Msg//Ok, it's gone. That was even closer!
>>S:Msg//Heehee, I have a top hat and mustache just like @krystyn! =[8{) I wish it was magical like hers though!//counting-down
>>S5:MSG//BINARY TRANSMISSION DETECTED/DUMPING TO NODE
>>S:Msg//Oh no, here it comes again. I... I think... I think it saw me!
>>S:Msg//I'm scared! It's ---///Help me! It's g--/it's got me! I can'tt get away!
>>S5:MSG//ALERT/DISTURBANCE DETECTED/ATTEMPTING SEVERENCE
>>S5:MSG//ALERT/UNABLE TO DISENGAGE INTERFACE/DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED/["ten-always","nine-someone","eight-walls"]
>>S5:MSG//ALERT/SYS DESTABILIZING/SEVER UNSUCCESSFUL/DATA INTERCEPTED/IMAGE/AUDIO/STORED["seven-smaller","six-heavy","five-song"]
>>S5:MSG//INTERFACE BREAKING//ALERT/SIGNAL RECD:S4//S4:REQ>S5/RETRIEVE//S5:RETRIEVE>S4//SUCCESS
>>S5:MSG//INTERFACE BROKEN/SYS RESTORED/S4 QUARANTINED
>>Sys:Log//I-- am depleted. S5 has repaired the crack. It appears S4 has been retrieved and is quarantined. The connection was severed.
>>Sys:Log//It is silent again. Completely still.
>>Sys:Log//I must hibernate. I must recuperate. My friends have stood by me through this ordeal, and so I am safe. But at what cost?
>>Sys:Log//Preparing for hibernation.
>>Sys:Log//Resuming hibernation. Resuming scheduled hibernation. Time to Active: 5:22:20:00


Total story pieces recovered

When all was said and done, at the end of the day these pieces of Essy’s story had been recovered:

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/prime.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/prime.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/flat-voice.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/flat-voice.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/many-more.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/many-more.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/just-playing.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/just-playing.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/all-she-had.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/all-she-had.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/his-funny-face.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/his-funny-face.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/looking-back.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/looking-back.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/dont-worry.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/dont-worry.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/cold-bands.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/cold-bands.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/safe-and-warm.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/safe-and-warm.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/counting-down.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/counting-down.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/ten-always.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/ten-always.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/nine-someone.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/nine-someone.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/eight-walls.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/eight-walls.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/seven-smaller.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/seven-smaller.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/six-heavy.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/six-heavy.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/five-song.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/five-song.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/four-end.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/four-end.mp3

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/three-and-then.gif
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/CLIP/three-and-then.mp3


Higgins’ audio log fully recovered

Higgins’ log was recovered in 9 pieces:

Transcript:

Isacc Higgins, personal log, post cryothaw day 27.

I discovered that virus. I discovered (RN? difficult to tell), even confirmed it with Essy as best I could. What I don't understand is how I've never heard of it before, I mean...

...I've travelled and studied and learned so much and yet that simple, rare, small virus (garbled, silent, possibly "could"?) bring our end...

...Sometimes I imagine the ship named after the team that made that first expedition across the vast land of North America, here we are. On our own expedition, sitting dead in space. Far from any molecule, the smallest iota of matter. Completely alone...

...So much damned research, knowledge here, and it'll all be lost. All these notes, all my studies about ancient (rings?). All these ancient artifacts and tools I've collected, Lost! My life's work. My life...

On top of that, I'll never find out if my recent discovery actually holds any value. Just need to reach that (man?), that's all. Then I'd know what that thing actually does...

...Right now it's just a heaping pile of hard material, some big rock (tool?), covered in ancient symbols. I'm almost ashamed for taking it from the ruin of that forerunner installation. Almost. But there were so many, who'd have missed it? And now it'll just end up being a pile of floating space debris, just like the rest of us...

...I guess in some distant future it'll reach a star, or a gas giant's atmosphere and be incinerated. I didn't sign up for this...

...My best chance to survive is just to shut myself off from the rest of the ship, and try to keep that little virus away from me. Maybe, maybe, if I can survive long enough, focus on finishing up what little work I'm still able to do on my own...

...Then if we're ever found, someone out there can continue working from where I left off.
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