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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 21, 2006 12:41:48 GMT
The vids never work for me But have some teams gone silent? Uh oh!
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 22, 2006 2:22:24 GMT
Friday, April 21, 2006 The Thief of Bangladesh
Author: prjctmrc2sea (Gold Team leader) Subject: The Thief of Bangladesh
This is Gold Unit. We've been following Mercury for 9 days. Picked up his trail in Myanmar. He was nosing around a Naga tribe that supposedly descended from headhunters, but in the middle of the night he just took off and headed toward the border into Bangladesh.
It didn't take long to pick up his tail. He made it easy. Kept stopping in small towns along the way. He's got to be looking for the Nipah virus -- an advanced strain killed a bunch of Bangladeshis in these towns a couple of years ago. But it's been gone for a while.
This morning Mercury lost us. We got a report from a local contact that he had reached Thakurgaon, a district capital near the border with India.
By the time we get to the Thakurgaon Police Station -- where our contact said to meet -- everything's gone nuts.
Bangladeshi cops are streaming out of the station, waving guns around and shouting. Our contact is almost hysterical.
He claims that twenty minutes before, Mercury was walking in the middle of the street and he just stopped, dead in his tracks, right in front of the Thakurgaon Police Station.
Then he strolled straight inside.
Of course, our contact's wondering what to do ... mission protocol dictates that he stay back, rather than reveal himself. It only takes about a minute for the situation to hit meltdown. Our guy hears shouting inside, then gunshots. Then cops spilling out of the building like it's on fire. They keep yelling, "He took it! He took the death rock!" They say it came down a couple of months ago. Apparently, weird things started happening right after it struck. Local authorities decided they had to keep the rock in the police station, for safety.
Our contact has a friend on the police force -- according to him, Mercury barged into the station, walked up to the evidence cage, and just started staring at the meteor rock. That's when the cage started melting. Apparently, Mercury burned a hole about the size of a basketball into the fence with his eyes.
We had our artist render a version of it based on the cop's account:
pic - fire eyes!
We'd think our guy was crazy if we couldn't see the hole, still smoking right in front of us.
It gets more difficult to explain with logic. According to the cop we talked to, Mercury took the rock out of the cage.
He held it out in front of him -- and all the cops are freaking out. Because it starts melting into Mercury's hand.. Like he absorbed it into his own body.
The artist didn't even know what to do with this, but he gave it a shot and our contact concurred with the result...
pic - melty hand
Mercury's gone. Disappeared without so much as a whisper.
The cops keep shaking their heads and talking under their breath.
It sounds like they're saying, "Shoyt an." We're pretty sure that means "devil." A dispatch just came in over the radio -- sounds like they had a sighting of Shoyt An heading across the border into northern India.
We're on our way. And we're going to find out exactly what's going on.
prjctmrc2ldr at 9:05:00 PM EDT Link to this entry
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 22, 2006 5:29:15 GMT
Ooh and just got a new one. Saturday, April 22, 2006 New Instructions
Author: prjctmrc2africa (global mission leader)
Blue Team, Mr. Luthor has just issued new instructions, and I require a support unit to accompany me to a region approximately 5700 kilometers east of Moscow. You will curtail your present mission and proceed to my location for further instructions.
prjctmrc2ldr at 1:24:00 AM EDT
Link to this entryAnd another... Saturday, April 22, 2006 Your Order
Author: prjctmrc2shemi (Blue Team leader)
Blue team acknowledging your order, Ana. We will present our findings so far to you in person when we rendezvous on the way to Siberia. Be aware that this will negatively impact our work in the Queen Maud Land and surrounding areas. We are not sure how it is possible, given the other teams' reports, but Mercury was sighted here recently as well, apparently collecting surviving remnants from the Neuschwabenland campaign. As you know, our secondary mission was to move on and explore the regions described in the Piri Reis Adjunct provided by Mr. Luthor. Respectfully, this is an unfortunate interruption, but we will of course comply.
prjctmrc2ldr at 2:26:00 AM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 22, 2006 13:14:05 GMT
Heh, he's leading them a merry dance ;D I love it when he does the eye thing
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 23, 2006 2:07:10 GMT
Saturday, April 22, 2006 Report from Siberia
Author: prjctmrc2africa (global mission leader) Subject: Report from Siberia Mr. Luthor, please click here for my report from Evenkia.
prjctmrc2ldr at 2:55:00 PM EDT
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Post by Teebee on Apr 23, 2006 19:46:22 GMT
I've downloaded extra's etc, and this stupid p.c. Still wont play the bloody clip..... Thanks for the link anyway Cy ..
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 23, 2006 20:19:26 GMT
hmm the vids work for me.
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 23, 2006 23:17:07 GMT
Well go on, give us a summary of the last one at least, Cy
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 24, 2006 2:14:35 GMT
The vids are actually an annoying blonde girl... ehhh don't remember what she said... something about authorizing charges for something... I'll relook later. New post: Sunday, April 23, 2006 Message for Hancock
Author: prjctmrc2ldr (LLuthor) Subject: Message for Hancock
You weren't brought onto this project because I woke up one morning in a generous mood and said to myself, "I feel like subsidizing the research for Luke Hancock's next thesis paper." You were brought on to find answers. We need to know if Fine is who he says he is or if there is something much grander at work here. Beppo is pretty expensive for someone who, as yet, has not produced a single answer. Tick, tick goes the clock on that guy. There are world-renowned code crackers who don't work in basements in Smallville that can be gotten.
prjctmrc2ldr at 8:44:00 PM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 24, 2006 11:05:43 GMT
Oops, that's put Hancock in his place! ;D
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 25, 2006 3:17:21 GMT
Monday, April 24, 2006 RE: RE: Code to Decipher
RE: RE: Code to Decipher Subject: RE: RE: Code to Decipher Author: prjctmrc2sa (mission archeologist)
Beppo, as it has been several days since you promised info "soon," I can only interpret your silence as reluctance to share your knowledge out of security fears, etc. My team and I have just risked our lives trekking to the location you specified. As incredible as it may seem, we have found something that has either been undiscovered or overlooked by previous expeditions, perhaps because of the remoteness and treacherous surroundings of this location. Take a look at this and you'll understand the urgency.
pic here
Now I simply must know what you can tell me about the Honduras image I uploaded. It is my opinion we're dealing with warnings here, left by much wiser minds for us to find. If my suspicions are correct (and I sense you share them), security will be the least of our worries.
prjctmrc2ldr at 10:52:00 PM EDT
Link to this entry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April 24, 2006 Hi Lex, Greetings from Cambodia!
Subject: Hi Lex, Greetings from Cambodia! Author: prjctmrc2sa (mission archeologist)
Click here to see how much I love you.
prjctmrc2ldr at 11:08:00 PM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 25, 2006 10:53:43 GMT
If that's a Brainiac glooping from the ship, he must have been working out over the centuries ;D
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Post by Teebee on Apr 25, 2006 22:18:32 GMT
It's all so intruiging ;D ;D I still reckon the first image is 'Zods' prison , second image is Brainiac and ship, third image the two disciples from the earlier eppies , as for the symbols/language I have no idea Knowing me I'm probably as far off base as you can get.... lol lol.....definately ;D
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 26, 2006 2:47:04 GMT
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 RE: RE: RE: Code to Decipher
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Code to Decipher Author: Beppo apologies. since your message came in, i have also received a personal "attitude adjustment" from our generous benefactor. thanks for bringing him in on this, buddy truth is i thought you guys would have put it together by now. more than a week ago, i posted the relevant ezra diary entry at the smallville chamber of commerce site for the Ezra Small House.
scroll to the bottom and don't be afraid of the dark. like i said...put it together
sorry for the defeatist tone, but as you said, there's gonna be much bigger fish to fry pretty soon--especially where i am. i've been saying this for years, but only a handful of people were listening. at any rate, if the message we're seeking follows ezra's familiar conventions, its meaning will be clear after three lines. however, i am beginning to think you may have a fourth key destination to visit before we fully understand what's coming. when you're done playing in Polynesia, Ana will have another set of coordinates for you. BEppo
prjctmrc2ldr at 7:04:00 PM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 26, 2006 9:51:24 GMT
Heh, attitude adjustment ;D That site is pretty - complex series of numerical, alphabetical and symbolic representations... inscrutable visions and bizarre metaphysical experiences. Interesting ;D ETA - gawd, I've had a look at some of the articles about the journals and I am so not getting into the number and letters code thing!
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 28, 2006 8:14:40 GMT
Friday, April 28, 2006 Vaccine Production Update
Subject: Vaccine Production Update Author: Dr. Sam Kling
Sir,
Dr. Lee asked me to update you as he has grown uite . He'd like you not to worry about him and instead be pleased to know that Stage 1 of the vaccine production has been completed and everything is proceeding on schedule.
We have been following Mercury's instructions to the letter and at this time deem it necessary to inform you that we are bit intrigued by them. The team you have assembled for this project has over 120 years of combined vaccine production experience, and yet not one person on our team finds anything familiar in the techniques Mercury is asking us apply.
But, that said, we are excited by the early results of the 1st stage of testing so perhaps we are seeing something new - and that is always good in science. The greatest innovations always start that way.
Till the next update.
Cheers,
Sam Kling, MD, PhD Special Assistant to Director LuthorCorp Vaccination Production Program
prjctmrc2ldr at 1:15:00 AM EDT
Link to this entry--------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 28, 2006 report from Polynesia
Subject: report from Polynesia Author: prjctmrc2sea (gold team)
Hancock is now aiding us with Gold Team in Polynesia. The last dengue outbreak here occurred five years ago - but it was a nasty one. Which is probably what prompted Mercury's recent visit.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever isn't pretty. The blood vessels start to leak and cause bleeding from the nose, mouth, and gums. Bruising starts - that's the body bleeding internally. Without treatment, blood vessels can collapse. And then... well, it gets worse.
There's a tribe of people here that have developed immunity to dengue. They've been here for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Pushed back first by the arrival of the West (Captain Cook and friends) and more recently by the development of the tourism industry, they live in the most remote, mountainous terrain.
The locals don't ever see them - they're self-sufficient hunter-gatherers, and they're very territorial. They don't bother the locals and the locals don't bother them.
That's why today scared everyone.
Twenty of the tribe members - men, women, and children - came charging down off the mountain.
It's a terrifying sight - the adults are tattooed all over - legs, arms, chests, backs, buttocks - blasting through the jungle.
A couple of farmers barricaded their families in their houses and called the cops. They thought they were under attack.
But the tribe wasn't attacking. They were fleeing.
Our friend Mercury had found their camp.
The translator had trouble understanding their dialect - they still speak an ancient version.
But they kept flashing us their tongues - which were tattooed as well - and making a slashing gesture.
Apparently Mercury got to one of their women and took a memento.
We showed them images of the burial tablet from Honduras and the temple wall in Cambodia. The tribe intensified in hysterics when we did...the interpreter was pretty sure they were trying to tell us that Mercury's souvenir was tattooed with an image identical to the "z" symbol that appears on both of them.
Hancock just got orders from Ana to fly to China. The rest of the unit will proceed to our next destination at once.
prjctmrc2ldr at 1:18:00 AM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 28, 2006 11:48:26 GMT
Ewww! Stealing tongues is evil, Brainiac! Following "Mercury's" instructions to the letter? The plot thickens.
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 29, 2006 3:38:10 GMT
Friday, April 28, 2006 Message for All Members of Project Mercury 2.0
Author: prjctmrc2ldr (LLuthor) Subject: Message for All Members of Project Mercury 2.0 The material you've been compiling is intriguing, but second-hand accounts and ancient codes aren't going to cut it. I retained each and every one of your services because I wanted hard evidence of Mercury's unusual characteristics. Re-task the satellite surveillance, get lenses on the ground, utilize every resource in our arsenal. But bring me photographic proof. This isn't a bird-watching mission wrapped in a Sudoku puzzle. Now catch him in the act. And show him to me!
prjctmrc2ldr at 8:36:00 PM EDT
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 29, 2006 11:50:10 GMT
Oooh, I love it when Lex is being all strict and stern ;D
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Post by Cyrus on Apr 30, 2006 3:14:56 GMT
Oooh, I love it when Lex is being all strict and stern ;D You would! Saturday, April 29, 2006 Frozen Samples
Subject: Frozen Samples Author: PrjctMrc2North
We knew it was a matter of time before Mercury went for the most deadly virus of all time. We just didn't know he'd go to Canada to get it. We're north of the Artic Circle near the coast of the Beaufort Sea. Global warming has been hitting the area hard. And as it gets closer to summer, the ground thaws. That's when the bodies start turning up.
The freezing preserves them intact, sometimes even with food in their stomachs. But a long-forgotten lunch is not what Mercury's looking for. Last year, the CDC reconstructed the Spanish Flu Virus from the remains of an Inuit woman who'd been buried in permafrost in 1918. This is the Spanish Flu that killed between 20 and 40 million people in 1918-1919. During that time, the average lifespan in the US dropped by ten years. The CDC claims they've got the reconstituted virus on super lockdown at their headquarters in Atlanta. They also think they have a monopoly on frozen women from 1918.
Wrong.
He found her at the edge of a slope. She was just sort of jutting out of the ground like a grisly Whack-a-mole. Looks like she just dropped, overwhelmed. When the virus comes on, a person can die in a matter of hours.
He left incisions everywhere. We don't know how he got her thawed out enough to even incise. We're forwarding along some of our own samples for confirmation. Obviously, take the utmost care. For everyone's sake, we can't let this get out of control.
Mr. Luthor, apologies for not photgraphically catching Mercury in the act here. We'll try our best to do so when we catch up with him again.
prjctmrc2ldr at 1:20:00 PM EDT
Link to this entryEw!
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