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Q: I called that phone number from the trailer, and I got this cryptic message! What should I do?

Q: I got an e-mail back, but it doesn't seem to have any clues.

Q: What should I find at Bangalore University?

Q: I called Jeanine Salla. Now what?

Q: I e-mailed Jeanine Salla and got a response. What now?

Q: Weird, I found this Demo in Jeanine Salla's representative papers that links to Cloudmakers! What's up with that?

Q: What sites can I get to from Catskill Seaview Clinic?

Q: What sites can I access from Aleph-Naught.org?

Q: What sites can I access from Eliza's Tearoom?

Q: What sites can I get to from Clinique De Lille?

Q: What sites can I get to from Watchtower Security?

Q: What's at the Familia Salla homepage?

Q: What other sites can I get to from the Chan Family Hompage?

Q: What am I supposed to do at the Coalition for Robot Freedom page?

Q: What can I find at 7to1.net?

Q: What sites can I find at Cybertronics?

Q: What sites can I get to from Donu-tech?

Q: What sites can I get to from AIT?

Q: What sites can I get to from ARM?

Q: What sites can I get to from SPCB?

Q: What sites can I get to from Belladerma?

Q: What sites can I get to from Metropolitan Living Homes?

Q: What sites can I get to from the architects' home pages?

Q: What sites can I get to from Rogue Retrieval?

Q: What sites can I get to from PACO?

Q: I called that phone number from the trailer, and I got this cryptic message! What should I do?

A: Well, what did the message tell you to do?

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A: Something about thevisionary.net, right?

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A: Have you tried going to http://www.thevisionary.net?

Q: Yes, and nothing happened!

Q: Yes, and it crashed my browser!

Q: Yes, and it played a sound and then ... whoa.

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Q: Yes, and nothing happened!

A: Ah, this is a technical problem, not a puzzle problem. Is your volume turned up? Are you using a relatively modern v4.0 browser? You should hear a sound, and then an e-mail should pop-up. If this doesn't happen, consider upgrading or switching browsers and trying it again. Many of these puzzles appear to be designed for latest version of Internet Explorer (5.5 as I write this). If you really can't get this to work at all, ask a friend, or just give up. If this simple page doesn't work properly despite your best efforts, it's unlikely that you'll be able to play any of the more interesting puzzles that come later in the game.

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Q: Yes, and it crashed my browser!

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Q: Yes, and it played a sound and then ... whoa.

A: That's right, she said WRITE her at thevisionary.net! Just follow her instructions, already!

Q: But I don't know who to write to!

Q: What happens if you send her e-mail?

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Q: But I don't know who to write to!

A: Well, it's somebody at thevisionary.net, right?

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A: You don't have to figure this out right away... you can come back to this.

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A: But you can also guess the answer.

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A: Listen carefully to what she says.

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A: In particular, listen carefully to what she calls you.

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A: She calls you her child.

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A: If you're her child, what would that make her?

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A: Send e-mail to mother@thevisionary.net.

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Q: What happens if you send her e-mail?

A: Well, why don't you try it?

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A: Polite people tend to write you back, if you just wait long enough.

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A: If you're in such a hurry, you can find the mail that she will send back to you in the files section of the Cloudmakers site.

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Q: I got an e-mail back, but it doesn't seem to have any clues.

A: Maybe the clues are hidden.

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A: Try highlighting the entire message.

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A: If you use an HTML-friendly mail program, there is white text that only appears when you highlight it with your mouse.

Q: What's with this "you've seen her name before" business?

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Q: What's with this "you've seen her name before" business?

A: Well, where have you seen the name Jeanine?

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A: You'll have to retrace your steps.

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A: Try looking at the trailer again.

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A: According to Mother, Jeanine Salla, the sentient machine therapist in the credits of the trailer, is the key.

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A: Try looking her up in Google!

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Q: What should I find at Bangalore University?

A: Try to find out more about Jeanine Salla.

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A: Most of the options are disabled because your browser doesn't support AI counselors... you can only access Campuses, Businesses, Departments, and News.

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A: The "Campuses" section and the "Businesses" section are mostly uninformative.

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A: Search carefully through the entire news section. (Not that BWUNN.com is not a game site.)

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A: Amongst other things, you'll find two new sites listed there: www.metropolitanlivinghomes.com and http://www.cliniquedelille-fr.dk

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A: Jeanine Salla is also mentioned in the news, however.

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A: How could you find out even more about her?

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A: What department is she in?

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A: Read the news article about her carefully.

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A: She's in the AI Studies department.

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A: Go to the AI Studies department's page and search for "salla"

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A: We're looking for more web sites and/or more phone numbers to call.

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A: See a phone number or e-mail address?

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A: Call Jeanine Salla, and go ahead and send her e-mail.

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A: Her phone number is 212-502-1177. Her e-mail address is jsalla@bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz. You can also get to the Familia Salla page from here.

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A: And there's something else hidden on this page.

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A: This link actually comes and goes.

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A: It's towards the bottom.

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A: It's on the bottom on the left.

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A: There's a pair of eyes that blink open and closed on this page.

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A: Click on them, and they'll take you to a new site: http://www.aleph-naught.org/index.asp?a=1.

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Q: I called Jeanine Salla. Now what?

A: Well, what did the message say?

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A: Did you press 2?

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A: Listen to the message you get when you press 2.

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A: Try calling the number Jeanine leaves in that message -- 919-425-2310.

Q: How do I listen to Laia's message?

Q: What's Jeanine Salla's voicemail code?

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Q: How do I listen to Laia's message?

A: Well, I bet you need Laia's code.

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A: You don't have that information yet, but feel free to try.

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A: Come back and try Laia's code in a later Episode. This Episode is just to get you exposed to all of the game sites.

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Q: What's Jeanine Salla's voicemail code?

A: You don't know it yet.

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A: But her Administrative Intelligence did give away a lot of info.

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A: Don't go on until you've been to Laia's home page.

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A: Then you already know her middle name.

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A: Just dial it on your phone.

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A: We won't follow up on this information until a later Episode. This Episode is just to get you exposed to all of the game sites.

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Q: I e-mailed Jeanine Salla and got a response. What now?

A: Well, you follow the link, of course!

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A: There's also a hidden websites in one of Salla's reports.

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A: Examine the report about the oneirophage carefully.

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A: There's hidden text in this report.

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A: It's just like the hidden text in the Mother e-mail.

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A: Select the text to find the hidden link.

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A: It's actually an e-mail address, but the right half works as a website.

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A: It's http://www.catskillseaviewclinic.org

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Q: Weird, I found this Demo in Jeanine Salla's representative papers that links to Cloudmakers! What's up with that?

A: Cloudmakers.org is an example of "Multi-person social problem-solving arrays considered as a form of 'artificial intelligence.' "

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A: We think it's a kudo tossed to us on the part of the Puppetmasters behind the game for all our hard work at following their trail of crumbs. Flattering, isn't it? : )

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Q: What sites can I get to from Catskill Seaview Clinic?

A: None... but there is a puzzle on this site, so keep an eye out.

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Q: What sites can I access from Aleph-Naught.org?

A: Just one.

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A: If you enter just about anything in the Nickname/Secret lines in Sophia, you'll be transported to http://www.elizas-tearoom.net

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Q: What sites can I access from Eliza's Tearoom?

A: Quite a few!

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A: But none of them are game-related.

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A: This site is a puzzle, so we'll come back to it later.

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Q: What sites can I get to from Clinique De Lille?

A: Just the first one, linked to on the front page.

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A: It's http://www.watchtower-security.net

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Q: What sites can I get to from Watchtower Security?

A: None... this site is a puzzle.

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Q: What's at the Familia Salla homepage?

A: Well, why don't you take a look around and see what you can see?

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A: Seriously, just read the pages and follow the links.

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A: There are links from this site to the Family Chan home page, and to In Our Image, the site for a pro-A.I. organization.

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A: You also learn that a man named Evan Chan is dead... and it looks like he might've been murdered.

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A: This is also where you find the first puzzle of the game, the chemistry puzzle!

Q: How do I solve this funky chemistry puzzle?

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Q: How do I solve this funky chemistry puzzle?

A: Why, it's elementary!

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A: Don't worry, it doesn't require expert knowledge of chemistry.

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A: Take a good look at the periodic table of elements using this reference guide.

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A: Maybe this "letter" is trying to tell us something. (The answer is NOT 406... why does everyone think that?)

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A: This puzzle is a kind of rebus.

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A: The chemicals spell out a message, if you only substitute them with their chemical abbreviations.

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A: And also do the "math" in parentheses as for any rebus (for example, (Rb-B) would be just R).

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A: It spells out "coronersweborg".

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A: It's not Coroner Sweborg! (You'd be amazed at how many people make this mistake.) Just imagine this puzzle had begun with Tungsten x3.

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A: It's a hint to go to http://www.coronersweb.org.

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Q: What other sites can I get to from the Chan Family Hompage?

A: Well, Evan links back to the Familia Salla page. They're all friends, right? What other links can you find?

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A: You can get to Donu-Tech, Evan's employer, from his page here.

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A: There might have been a link to another site here once.

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A: Maybe Evan forgot to take it out.

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A: Look at the source code for Evan's page. (If you don't know how to do this, you might just want to reveal the next clue without trying. Using the Journey in place of finding an expert is perfectly fair game.)

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A: There's a hidden link to AIT in the source code. It's at http://www.ita-es.ro.

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Q: What am I supposed to do at the Coalition for Robot Freedom page?

A: You're supposed to find the addresses for two game sites.

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A: They're both opponents to the CRF.

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A: Only one of them is clearly linked.

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A: That's http://www.7to1.net.

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A: The other is a little bit trickier. Make sure you've read the question in the Introduction about how to tell the difference between game sites and non-game sites. You'll need it here.

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A: You're supposed to figure out the address of another site.

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A: CRF mentions the names of another organization.

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A: Searching on this organization in Google and using our WHOIS trick from the introduction, we should be able to find another game site. (By the way, if you've been paying attention, you'll notice that SphereWatch, mentioned prominently on the CRF news page, is not a game site.)

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A: It's referred to as a hate site.

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A: Parents are told to block this site, and others like it, and to work to have it banned.

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A: It's the Anti Robot Militia.

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A: Search on them in Google.

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A: Their web page is: http://www.unite-and-resist.org

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Q: What can I find at 7to1.net?

A: There's a link to another site on this page.

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A: It's their corporate sponsor.

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A: They have an ad banner.

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A: You can find it on their "How you can help" page.

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A: It's http://www.cybertronics-corp.net

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Q: What sites can I find at Cybertronics?

A: None that you haven't already found.

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A: There's at least one puzzle here, though.

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Q: What sites can I get to from Donu-tech?

A: None that you can't get to some other way.

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A: But you're welcome to have a look around, since we'll return to this page later.

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A: In particular, you might try sending e-mail to all of those people.

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A: Someone might send you new information.

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A: Mario Dauphin's autoresponder has a link to http://www.unite-and-resist.org.

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Q: What sites can I get to from AIT?

A: Only one new one.

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A: And it's right out in the open.

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A: Check out the Graduate Placement page.

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A: You've encountered most of those sites already... except one.

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A: You can access http://www.belladerma-srl-it.ro/ from this page.

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Q: What sites can I get to from ARM?

A: One is linked right off the homepage.

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A: That's the Sentient Property Crime Bureau: www.spcb.org

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A: The other one is hidden more subtly, but in a manner you've seen before.

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A: Again, make sure you've read the question in the Introduction about how to tell the difference between game sites and non-game sites. You'll need it here.

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A: You're supposed to figure out the address of another site.

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A: This site mentions the names of a certain private agency.

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A: Searching on this organization in Google and using our WHOIS trick from the introduction, we should be able to find this game site.

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A: It's mentioned on the News page.

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A: It's in the context of rogue AIs: those who have fled from their human masters.

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A: They've been hired as part of an investigation.

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A: Belladerma hired them.

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A: They're Rogue Retrieval.

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A: This leads you to www.rogueretrieval.com.

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Q: What sites can I get to from SPCB?

A: Nothing new, but there are a number of puzzles here.

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Q: What sites can I get to from Belladerma?

A: None, but there's something else to be found here.

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A: Don't continue until you've accessed the member-only pages on ARM.

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A: You can get your own Universal Access Number there.

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A: And, on the contact us page, you're allowed to enter your UAN/password.

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A: If you do so, Belladerma should send a three page fax to the fax number you listed on your UAN. If you don't have a fax machine, we have page 1, page 2, and page 3 on the cloudmakers-moderated site.

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Q: What sites can I get to from Metropolitan Living Homes?

A: You should be able to reach three new sites, all of which are directly linked. Read carefully. You really shouldn't need help for this.

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A: You should be able to find the home page for Beate Bosch, Martin Swinton and Kate Nei.

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Q: What sites can I get to from the architects' home pages?

A: None. Some of these sites have puzzles, though, so keep an eye out!

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Q: What sites can I get to from Rogue Retrieval?

A: There are two sites you can get to from here.

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A: The first one is left as a taunt for one of the agents.

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A: Check out Diane Fletcher's record.

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A: She's listed under "Agents" in the main menu.

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A: Click on her record and you get a link to http://www.badmetal.net.

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A: This next one's the trickiest site to find. Pay close attention to the two news items listed on the front page: "Fletcher caps murderous Sexbot's flight" and "Tigerteam Takes Down Hostage-Killing Rogue"

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A: Look closely for details.

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A: These pages mention something in common.

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A: Both mention a certain place in common.

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A: Both Belem's capture and Fletcher's capture happened in the Washington D.C. Area ...

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A: ... and they both mention a D.C. store.

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A: Neither of them mention the name of the store, however. How could you find out what it is?

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A: People died in front of this store.

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A: There must be records kept of where they died.

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A: Where do you find records about dead people?

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A: Don't go on unless you've solved the chemistry puzzle on the Familia Salla page.

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A: You have access to coroner's reports at PACO.

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A: Read the question about PACO.

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Q: What sites can I get to from PACO?

A: Don't go on unless you've been to the Rogue Retrieval site.

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A: You can find out info about dead people here.

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A: Try a few out. Some of them require payment, which means that you can't access them. Others, like Evan Chan, have been paid for already by someone else. (Who is Sencha?)

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A: Try out dead people from Rogue Retrieval's news pages.

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A: One of the working ones is Kent Whitman.

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A: There are two sites to be found here. One of them is mentioned explicitly, the other requires solving a puzzle to find it.

Q: I can't find the one mentioned explicitly. Where is it?

Q: How do I find the other site?

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Q: I can't find the one mentioned explicitly. Where is it?

A: You can use the Google/WHOIS trick to find another game site mentioned here. You may want to read the Rogue Retrieval question to get it.

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A: It's Electric Toyland, the DC store mentioned in both Rogue Retrieval news pages.

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A: Its address is www.electric-toyland.com

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Q: How do I find the other site?

A: Read this coroner's report very carefully.

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A: Now read it again in the context of the Rogue Retrieval news page.

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A: Pay especially close attention to the pictures in the report.

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A: Also pay close attention to the section labeled "Remainder of External Examination" in the coroner's report.

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A: Mr. Whitman had some ocular implants for light/color filtering.

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A: Diane Fletcher supposedly used some "nifty image manipulation work."

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A: If Whitman were filtering colors, what color would he filter?

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A: Look at his eyes.

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A: He's got a green "bio-optic" color filter installed on his eyes.

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A: Now look closely at the image of the PDA.

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A: Why would it say bio-optic filtering enabled?

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A: Do you suppose there's a hidden message there?

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A: If you don't know how to select particular shades of green, I can tell you how. Alternately, we can just pretend you did and skip to the end.

Q: I don't know how to filter the image, but I'm using Windows and I'd like you to tell me how.

Q: I don't know how to filter the image. Would you please just show me the filtered image?

Q: I've figured out how to decode the PDA, but I still don't see a site.

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Q: I don't know how to filter the image, but I'm using Windows and I'd like you to tell me how.

A: Fortunately, it doesn't require anything really extravagant to do this. You can do it in MS Paint.

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A: You can to it with the eraser tool.

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A: If you hold down the right mouse button (as opposed to the left mouse button) when you use the eraser tool, you erase only the foreground color, leaving all others intact.

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A: Use the eye-dropper tool to make that exact shade of green the foreground color.

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A: Now, holding down the right mouse button, wave the eraser over the image. The filtered result should appear.

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Q: I don't know how to filter the image. Would you please just show me the filtered image?

A: OK, here's the filtered result.

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