What is this all about? Read the Introduction : http://ow.ly/aOKXa
Watch Gabi's vids Gone and Leaving. TheOldMan49 tweets about a controversial article into which Mary Carmen had some input. He digs it out and posts the
article Ancient Sumerian Biologists on his site, archaeologyconspiracies.com. This
means we now know that TheOldMan49 is an in-game character, presumably one of
the people who "oppose the global conspiracies that threaten to destroy
the world." archaeologyconspiracies.com mentions the Sect of Huracan in at
least two places as one of these suspicious global organisations.
Psysop has an interesting
theory about the meaning of the symbols on the Adaptor...tying it in with
part of the coded messages that Josh receives in ICE SHOCK from the mysterious
time-traveller 'Arcadio'.
Plot spoilers:
Gabi is horrified to
discover that her friend Jessica's family, the Ortizes have been kidnapped.
Gabi was supposed to be out to dinner with them but went to see her mum in
hospital instead. The police assume it's another horrible Mexico City kidnap,
but Gabi fears the hand of Hans Runig. She decides that she can't go to the
police and takes off, hanging out in coffee shops. posting to the blog from her
dad's BlackBerry. In one of these coffee shops Gabi risks another chat with
Hans Runig, who claims he did kidnap the Ortiz family. Runig tells Gabi that
she has 3 days to hand over all her dad's research...or else Jessica and her
family will pay.
The article Ancient Sumerian Biologists? is
very technical, but it basically says that someone discovered an ancient clay
tablet inscribed with specially modified Sumerian symbols that translate as
amino acids - the chemicals that make up protein. There's a comment on the
article - prob from TheOldMan49 although here he's called theheresiarch -
saying that it's such an outrageous idea - that anyone in Sumerian times could
know about amino acids - that they had to pull the article. TheOldman49 has
posted it because it reminds him of the symbols on the Adaptor.
Sure enough - if you
translate the Sumerian symbols on the Adaptor -
- they spell out the
amino acid sequence agylihrppreikgr
This is what Bennett
calls the Beltran sequence, it's also the URL of Hans Runig's site which
was set to pick up anyone searching for that sequence on the Web.
