The Syndicate

Aww, thanks for believing me, guys.

It was super super fun.

One gaffe, if it was even that, hardly makes my track record "a lot" worse than anyone else's.

I mean I'm Joe Biden over here.

Overall, I feel like you are deflecting a lot toward me instead of proving why you are innocent. That's really the burden of proof each of us would have to meet. I spent 80% of my post talking about what I had done for the civ cause, explaining any perceiving misstep, and showing that I had behaved admirably, even when no one was watching (when in the saferoom and no one would have known that I had took someone else out). I only spent a few lines discussing your culpability.

The MM thing was unfortunate, but I've gone into detail three times now about that. I was trying to tell him no and it was difficult to communicate via a cellphone.
I tried to paste it in two separate posts ab initio, but I got timed out while waiting to make the second post.

You didn't really go into why you are innocent. Epi and I had totally different saferoom experiences, which we enumerated ad nauseum. He experienced something totally different than I did, although they were both Lynchian. Just because he didn't have a whack at a gun doesn't mean that I did not either. I am totally befuddled by you stating you took the gun to keep it from me when there were three of us still alive and Lizzy could have been the killer then for all we knew. Why were you so certain it was me?

May it please the court.

Your Honor, Members of the Esteemed Jury, Ladies, Gentlemen. Wombats.

Today we are gathered to listen to the oral arguments between myself and Mr. Head. While I do have some evidence to proffer to you on why Mr. Head is guilty, I also have evidence and exhibits to share with you on why I am not guilty.

Exhibit A: My Track Record.

Throughout the process of this game, I have tried to be a team player. Let the record reflect that I have been trying hard throughout the game to solve the puzzles and put forth instructions when possible. I was not able to figure out the puzzle with the book titles, but I must insist that this was only due to a defect of the mind and not of moral character.

Things have not always gone perfectly. I will admit that there may have been miscommunication between me and Mr. Marsh, but that was not deliberate. To me, it was sensical to state that *turn light off* meant leave the cord uncut. If this was in error, then I must humbly apologize. Please note that I have a distinct lack of recalcitrance about this whole situation and feel positively sick about it.

We did not purposefully get lost in this chamber. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us.

Exhibit B: Pacifist By Action.

After Mr. Gnosis vacated the safe room, I elected to go in, hoping I could be of some use. I wanted to pull my weight, and I thought this would be a good way to do it.

Inside, I was given the opportunity to use a gun on someone - any of the remaining players OR I could communicate with the thread. I elected not to murder one of my fellow dear players and instead decided to ask for collaborative help.

Once again, I eschewed the power of the pistol when I tried to disarm it. This trick did not work. At this time, Mr. Head took the gun for his own personal use, but has not used it yet. I would like to direct the jury's attention to this fact.

To recapitulate, I refused to use the gun on two occasions. I even tried to disarm it.

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.


The Defense rests her case, your Honor.

Well that's freakin wonderful.

Don't shoot me, bro

I assigned numbers to the cipher above but didn't really get anywhere, even after disregarding the numbers of Scaramouche.
Do we think the end result is a string of numbers or a phrase? Someone help me so that we can win k.

insertnamehere wrote:The computer screen lights up with the following message.

MEJFPUMSHCHLTQATMQATMQTHTALAEQHS

HERO

I'm going to concentrate on the QATMQATMQ" part of the cipher. TH?

TH - Any idea about the cipher above that the host posted?

{observe:
N: The Qur'an
W: Flatland
S: The Jungle Book
E: Sun, Moon, Talia}


{observe:
N: How Green Is My Valley
W: The Little Vampire
S: The Queen of Spades
E: Quo Vadis }


{observe:
N: True History
W: The Aeneid
S: Escape to Witch Mountain
E: Uncle Tom's Cabin}



{observe:
N: The Monk
W: Queen of the Black Coast
S: Pride & Prejudice
E: Scaramouche}

(Looking at the individually books/contents now)

{touch all the books}

(to see if there is a secret passageway)

{take bullet out of chamber}

{hide bullet]

{read book titles}

{take down numbers from book cases}

{Scan current room for items}

{Call Diane Selwyn}?

{Call Diane Selwyn}

I copied down some numbers (but don't know what they are) from books I picked up while in the first part of my saferoom, so maybe the numbers will be a string that we will insert into a device to deactivate a bomb?

{read numbers from books from saferoom}

S~V~S wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Rip Epigbrosis

Mongoose, what can you tell us?

I was in a room where I heard a voice recording of two people talking, some in Spanish. Dialogue I believe from Mulholland Drive. Then I was lead into an anteroom where there was a loaded gun and I had the opportunity to shoot someone or communicate with the group, so I opted to communicate with the group.

I have no idea why Epi is dead; it is not because I shot him, although I can see how it looks that way. I can only posit that it is because of his own choices he made on his saferoom journey (or perhaps his choices vs. my own).

You also gave MM the wrong instructions re the pink wire, didn't you?

I didn't think so -- I thought it was/would be clear that off means "Do not cut."

Turnip Head wrote:Everyone's dead, Lizzy

Mongoose is in the saferoom. She's allowed to tell us what she saw, but I can't seem to make any sense of it.

I don't know about all y'all, but it's been over 10 years since I've seen Mulholland Drive. Perhaps it would behoove us to revisit the plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland ... %28film%29

Not sure it will help, but can't hurt.

Turnip Head wrote:Rip Epigbrosis

Mongoose, what can you tell us?

I was in a room where I heard a voice recording of two people talking, some in Spanish. Dialogue I believe from Mulholland Drive. Then I was lead into an anteroom where there was a loaded gun and I had the opportunity to shoot someone or communicate with the group, so I opted to communicate with the group.

I have no idea why Epi is dead; it is not because I shot him, although I can see how it looks that way. I can only posit that it is because of his own choices he made on his saferoom journey (or perhaps his choices vs. my own).

I am allowed to communicate with you all.

Flip the safe room switch.

Turnip Head wrote:That's not a good start =/ Wonder what went wrong. RIP Marshy MP and jj. Mongoose, can you elaborate on the hints you received? Did Marshy input them accurately?

{observe quadrant one north bookcase}

No, the pink wire was supposed to be uncut. I thought that saying 'light off" would mean uncut, but if that was confusing, I apologize. It's pretty hard to communicate with just "light off" and "light on" but I did what I thought was most intuitive to me.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Should we cut (turn off) the pink wire?

*turn light off*

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Mongoose, can you address each question individually?

Should the green cable be plugged or unplugged (on or off)?

* turn light off*

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Here's what I've got so far. Just two pieces left.

NOT ACTUAL ACTIONS wrote:Brown cable = Unplug
Yellow cable = Unplug
Green cable = ???
Orange cable = Unplug

Pink wire = ???
Red wire = Cut
Blue wire = Cut (Done)
Purple wire = Uncut

North switch = Down
South switch = Up
East switch = Up
West switch = Up

Ok Mongoose, this is all we need from you.

Should the green cable be plugged or unplugged (on or off)?

Should we cut (turn off) the pink wire?

* turn light off*

insertnamehere wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:*turn light off*

Lizzy wrote:.meht elipmoc dna yas yeht tahw tuo erugif ot yrt ll'I dna daerht eht ni meht tsop ,egaugnal revetahw ni snoitcurtsni htiw su fo lla os ,yaK

tuC = eriW eulB

pU = hctiwS htuoS

Cut the blue

South up

And thanks for the assistance.

Holding your breath, you cut the blue wire. You prepare for the worst, but nothing happens. It appears to be the correct wire.

* turn light on *

*turn light off*

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Okay everyone, please communicate to us how to disarm this bomb.

I don't know how communication is limited. Please if you are limited to a certain number of words, only state the colors that need to be OFF. i.e. only state which Cardinal switches need to be switched to OFF, which colored wires need to be CLIPPED, and which colored cables need to be UNPLUGGED.

We don't need MP dying on Day 1 again. After we hear back from all of you we will attempt to complete the disarming.

*turn light off*

MovingPictures07 wrote:Seems I missed my chance at the saferooms.

*turn light on*

flip door 3 switch