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On July 07 2010 10:57 EchOne wrote:
>Flip through the pages of On the Origin of Species rapidly.
You take Darwin's On the Origin of Species from your backpack. This looks like a really old copy.
You open up the front cover and ready your thumb to flip through the pages, but you can clearly see that there is no need.
Inside, the pages have been hollowed out. The moment you turn the book upside down to flip through it, a small cassette tape clatters to the floor, followed by a piece of paper that lazily floats downward.
You pick up both and inspect them.
The piece of paper looks like it came from the corner of a yellow legal pad, and it has the following diagram and short note written down. It looks to be hastily drawn:
+ Show Spoiler +I----------O
O---------I DOOR
O--------X
I----------X
TYPHON AND ECHIDNA
DO NOT OPEN FACILITIES 31 OR 27
On the cassette tape is a label, "PLAY ME".
![[image loading]](http://www.topspysecrets.com/images/book-safe2.jpg)
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
A graphite ski pole
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
3 bottles of water
2 cans of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks a collapsed graphite ski pole a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME'
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((THE PLOT THICKENS))
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>Return to the switch board and move the "Security Door" switch to "Off."
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On July 08 2010 01:15 EchOne wrote:
>Return to the switch board and move the "Security Door" switch to "Off."
Ok.
The circuit breaker is now in the following position:
+ Show Spoiler +x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
kitchen____ON [X==] OFF___ON [X==] OFF___foyer
living room_ON [X==] OFF___ON [==X] OFF___security door
bedroom___ON [X==] OFF___ON [===] OFF__|||||||||||||||
bathroom__ON [X==] OFF___ON [===] OFF__||||||||||||||||||
x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
Nothing happens.
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
A graphite ski pole
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
3 bottles of water
2 cans of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks a collapsed graphite ski pole a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME'
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>Take the cassette back to the car. Check if car has a cassette player. Play tape in car's cassette player if possible.
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On July 08 2010 02:55 EchOne wrote:
>Take the cassette back to the car. Check if car has a cassette player. Play tape in car's cassette player if possible.
You leave the cabin and make another trip to the car.
The car isn't exactly new, but it's not old either. It has a CD player and a radio, and a black sound jack coming out from behind the sound system where Marc jury rigged a place to plug in his mp3 player. The system isn't stock and doesn't have a cassette player, and even if it did, you don't think it would help. The cassette is really small - something you'd find in an old answering machine or voice recorder. You look at the cassette and the note that came with it. There has to be some significance to the diagram...
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
A graphite ski pole
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
3 bottles of water
2 cans of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks a collapsed graphite ski pole a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME'
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>Examine the note for a long time until you have a sudden burst of insight as to what it means.
Edit: 5 bucks says someone opens facilities 31 and/or 27 
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The note refers to the circuit breaker, with DOOR referring to the security door and the 2 X's are the unmovable switches. I'm guessing O means On and | means off ... so we should turn off the kitchen bathroom and security door, and turn on the living room, bedroom, and foyer.
I would like to do a few others things first: examine all the film reel descriptions, as well as the shelf with some tools.
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On July 08 2010 03:17 KtheZ wrote:
>Examine the note for a long time until you have a sudden burst of insight as to what it means.
You pull out the note and look the top half again.
+ Show Spoiler +I----------O
O---------I DOOR
O--------X
I----------X
You squint your eyes and concentrate real hard. You grit your teeth and think as hard as you can - if you concentrated any harder you are certain the paper would catch on fire. You concentrate so hard that you get dizzy and sit down hard on the ground outside - you think you might have popped a blood vessel in your eye.
After the dizzy spell goes away, you did have something come to mind:
+ Show Spoiler +
((editing... 5 min :D))
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I want to point out a few things to us readers:
Steinholz, the word found on a film reel description, is German for "Stone Wood", there's an interesting and short wikipedia article here:
+ Show Spoiler +http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinholz_(Belag)&ei=Gsw0TKarFIP98Aaf5fyOAw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsteinholz%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26nfpr%3D1%26prmd%3Dvm
Also, everything about this cabin implies it's been abandoned for a long time. The dust, the film reels, the date on the reel (10/19/64), and the technology implies nobody's been here for decades.
Also, the note referred to Typhon and Echnida, known in Greek mythology to be the mother and father of all Greek mythological monsters. It's implied in the note that they're in facilities 31 and 27 ... and I've got a bad feeling the two X'd out switches in the circuit board have to do with facilities 31 and 27 lol.
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Following what Happy.fairytail said,
>Flip kitchen and bathroom off also.
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On July 08 2010 03:46 Happy.fairytail wrote:
The note refers to the circuit breaker, with DOOR referring to the security door and the 2 X's are the unmovable switches. I'm guessing O means On and | means off ... so we should turn off the kitchen bathroom and security door, and turn on the living room, bedroom, and foyer.
I would like to do a few others things first: examine all the film reel descriptions, as well as the shelf with some tools.
On July 08 2010 04:06 KtheZ wrote:
Following what Happy.fairytail said,
>Flip kitchen and bathroom off also.
Your epiphany leads you back to the circuit breaker. Sure enough - 8 switches, 2 at the bottom right broken. Just like on the scrap of paper. Your heart beats hard with anticipation as you flip the switches. Some lights go off and on in the house according to their assigned breakers. You flip the door switch into the off position and... nothing.
Hmm.
The circuit breaker is now in the following position:
+ Show Spoiler +x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
kitchen____ON [==X] OFF___ON [X==] OFF___foyer
living room_ON [X==] OFF___ON [==X] OFF___security door
bedroom___ON [X==] OFF___ON [===] OFF__|||||||||||||||
bathroom__ON [==X] OFF___ON [===] OFF__||||||||||||||||||
x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
![[image loading]](http://www.heimer.com/images/photographs/electric.service/circuit-breaker-panel-6.jpg)
You turn around and look at the shelf of tools while you ponder your next move. A lot of this stuff is old and rusted from being out for so long, much of it seems unusable. These are (or were) all construction tools, maybe for when this cabin was made. Hanging from the wall is a rusty wood saw with half of the teeth missing, which is next to a hacksaw with the rusted blade broken in half, with a half dangling from each end of the saw. On one end of the shelf is a box of nails that have rusted together, and on the other is a Phillips head screwdriver. On the very center of the shelf an old claw hammer.
After studying the tool shelf, you go back to the film canisters. In no particular order, you examine their titles:
Steinholz - Replicate 27 - 19 Oct 1964 (this is the one you made armor out of )
Steinholz - Te|||||||l||||| |||||||r||||||||| (this label has been scratched off with a permanent marker)
Steinholz - Facility 7 Environment Control Log - 12 Oct 1964//12 Apr 1965
Steinholz - Dictation on Replicates 1-24 - 22 Sep 1964
Repair Log - 29 Apr 1965
Steinholz - Modified Epidemiology of Filoviridae
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
A graphite ski pole
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
3 bottles of water
2 cans of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks a collapsed graphite ski pole a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME'
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((happy.fairytail please spoiler your link on Steinholz - it is breaking the page layout ty ty <3))
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> take screwdriver and hammer
I'm pretty stumped here guys, someone take over while I take care of some work...
Some notes in my head:
Filoviridae is the family of viruses that Ebola belongs to, a disease that results in death by diarrhea and is usually fatal. I'm guessing there are same # of facilities as there are replicates, which refer to the virus. Replicate #27 and #31 sound particularly deadly, as indicated by the note. Finding a way to listen to the film reels and the cassette tape sound pretty essental.
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Turn on the kitchen, bathroom and security door. Turn off the living room, bedroom, and foyer.
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On July 08 2010 05:20 Happy.fairytail wrote:
> take screwdriver and hammer
I'm pretty stumped here guys, someone take over while I take care of some work...
Some notes in my head:
Filoviridae is the family of viruses that Ebola belongs to, a disease that results in death by diarrhea and is usually fatal. I'm guessing there are same # of facilities as there are replicates, which refer to the virus. Replicate #27 and #31 sound particularly deadly, as indicated by the note. Finding a way to listen to the film reels and the cassette tape sound pretty essental.
You take the screwdriver and hammer from the shelf and fit them into your very full backpack.
On July 08 2010 05:28 Durnic wrote:
Turn on the kitchen, bathroom and security door. Turn off the living room, bedroom, and foyer.
![[image loading]](http://www.carlmartin.pl/images/octa_on_off_switch.jpg)
You return to the circuit breaker and switch everything that was on off, and everything that was off to on. You click the final circuit, the one labeled as '"SECURITY DOOR" on the inside of the circuit panel, and immediately hear a loud CLICK echo from the other room, like the sound of a thick metal bar sliding into place.
Chills run down your spine.
The circuit breaker is now in the following position:
+ Show Spoiler +x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
kitchen____ON [X==] OFF___ON [==X] OFF___foyer
living room_ON [==X] OFF___ON [X==] OFF___security door
bedroom___ON [==X] OFF___ON [===] OFF__|||||||||||||||
bathroom__ON [X==] OFF___ON [===] OFF__||||||||||||||||||
x----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
A graphite ski pole
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
3 bottles of water
2 cans of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks a collapsed graphite ski pole a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME' a claw hammer a Phillips head screwdriver
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>check to see what is making the noise
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> arm yourself with the hammer and the crappy shield and drink some water, this could get messy
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>Instead of the water, drink a beer. It has water in it. Right?
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On July 08 2010 06:07 Beloth(OD) wrote:
> arm yourself with the hammer and the crappy shield and drink some water, this could get messy
The crappy shield is already tied to your arm, so you collapse the ski pole and put in your pack, and gird yourself against unknown dangers with the fury that only a claw hammer can bring. You pull a bottle of water out, drink it down and put the empty bottle back in your backpack. Gotta stay hydrated when you're bringing the fury, you know.
On July 08 2010 06:19 Durnic wrote:
>Instead of the water, drink a beer. It has water in it. Right?
To cover all of your bases, you pull out a beer (not quite as ice cold as it was in the car) and down it fast. Beer brand beer - liquid courage at its finest.
![[image loading]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bneoRnNbfNE/RebWnB92UcI/AAAAAAAAAZU/cs6ZnKJgV5w/s320/generic-beer.JPG)
On July 08 2010 05:48 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:
>check to see what is making the noise
Armed and ready, you walk back into the living room. The dark cabin is eerily silent after the loud metal sound you heard just moments before. The smell of old furniture and dust is overpowered by the electric smell of ozone. Deep below the cabin, you now notice a very low frequency hum at your feet that must have been there before - more of a throb, like the slow pumping of a diesel engine.
From behind the empty bookcase you see a light.
Inventory:
+ Show Spoiler +Weapons+ Show Spoiler +A poor excuse for a shield made from a magnetic tape roll
a claw hammer, "The Fury"
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A hollowed-out copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
a scrawled note on a piece of yellow legal pad a bag of peppered beef jerky
2 bottles of water
1 can of beer
a big bag of trail mix
3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches A backpack Cell phone house, car and mailbox key on a keyring Wallet with $26 and your ID a ball-point pen a tire iron an iPod with earbuds a dirty pair of socks 2 collapsed graphite ski poles a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY ME' a Phillips head screwdriver an empty water bottle
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>examine the bookcase for any change, try to move it again
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>reexamine the pile of computer parts to see if you can find some way to play the tape
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EPT![[image loading]](http://dclips.fundraw.com/zobo500dir/io_anthony_liekens_01.jpg)
