John's Personal Items

On the 28th of January, John posted a series of photos on instagram of the items found in the box given to him by Marshall in a secret meeting. The box contained five items: a CD, a dollar bill, a video camera, a name tag and a coded letter.

## **The CD**

* The CD features the Rebels’ triangle logo.
* John posted the contents of the CD online here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YMiAU6HE6ghfWALfUG7XBRUlb-RChNRx
* The CD contains the following files:
	+ A .wav audio file named “-. --- - .-- .... .- - .. - ... . . -- …” which is short hand morse for **SOME#THINGS#ARE#NOT#WHAT#THEY#SEEM.** When the extension is replace by .pdf, the file can be opened and shows the text **PROTECTEDTEXT** as well as **3782CF10B951** (the significance of this numbers/letters is unknown as of yet. Translating from hex to text just delivers gibberish)
	+ A series of 16 pictures of people in gas masks. Some of the pictures have a letter displayed on them. @Wormhole found that the letters are an anagram for **bequestjohn** which in turn lead to the Bequest John letter. (see below)
	+ Two images entitled “90degrees.jpg” and “180degrees.jpg” that, just like the 0degrees.jpg image show a series of grey and white dots and a single ideogram character at the end. The character for these two images are **c** and **s**, respectively.

## **The dollar bill**

* A $1USD bill.
* It turned out to be a hint on the bequest john letter protectedtext page (see Bequest John Letter below)

## **The video camera**

* A handheld Sony digital video camera in a matching bag.
* At first it was unknown whether the device holds any footage since the battery was dead and John didn't have a charger.
* John found a charger in some cabin later and started posting snippets from the tape on youtube, see Transmissions

## **The nametag**

* A ‘John’ name tag, presumably from John’s Scouts uniform.

## **The Coded letter**

* The coded letter is written in the same ideogram as featured on the Fire Map, see Rebel Compound.
* Through a team effort by @WhippedPistol, @Violetfyre, @wormhole, and @Svanu, the ideogram was decoded and the letter translated to: **2084-09-13** **Something was different today. I couldn't tell exactly what it was but a bad feeling accompanied our way since we started from the fortress. We, the three dusky figures in cowls and masks, were creeping along the old beaten path that hadn't seen a resident from the north for a long time. Or any human at all I guess. It's been a very cold dawn for a mid september day. The cold wind amplified my uncomfortable feeling. I remember the disturbing silence. Nothing but our (...)**

## **The Bequest John letter**

* Found after combining letters in cd images (see CD above)
* http://protectedtext.com/bequestjohn
* The password for the Protectedtext was found by @Svanu to be **INGODWETRUST** after hinting in the dollar video. (see Crag Winkler)
* The letter has two pages: one with a long HEX encoded text and one with a short Vigenere encoded phrase.
* The short phrase **Wbua, lbh unir gb yrnir gur erory furygre, lbh'er abg fnsr, yrnir - n sevraq** translates with key “nnn” to **John, you have to leave the rebel shelter, you're not safe, leave - a friend**.
* The long text translates to:

**Hello Stranger,**

**if you found this message that means you solved my code and probably that something happened to me. So I hope you are a friend, if not... there is no hope left.**

**My Name is John Snu (yes that's not my real name, SNU stands for "Subject Name Unknown" because ############ found me when I was a kid. They had no idea who my parents were, so I'm virtually what some would call a 'bastard')**

**I live in Capitol City and I hope I would not. This city is a disease, it's an abscess.**

**They lead us to believe this is paradise, but it's not. It's a surveillance society where every step of you is watched and every mistake you make will be remembered and used against you whenever needed.**

**So me and my friend L. decided to leave this place. By then we thought you cannot just dig a tunnel beneath the walls and leave this place. Man were we wrong...**

**But we thought the only way to get out of this hell is by joining our worst enemies, the scouts, the police force of Capitol City, thering and the force that also patrols beyond the wall. Trying to find others that escaped and bring them back. Trying to catch or kill wildlings. That is the story they tell us. But off-the-record we know that there are other dangers in The Zone they're trying to defeat. Why would we want to live in a place like The Zone? Because everything is better than this place...**

**Unfortunately L. and I didn't get in the same bootcamp for the scouts, and we didn't get the same start date for our trainings. He started in january 2084 and I followed three months later. 2084, the year it all started.. No I didn't follow him literally, because as I mentioned, we where shipped to different training camps. We said if we would make it beyond the wall (in a patrol or something), when we manage to desert from our company, we will meet at Building617, a place L. heard of from a rebel friend.**

**Yeah I forgot to mention that during his training L. got friends with a guy who claimed he was a mole for some rebels, but that's just something I got from L.s text messages. Not much information in such few words.. But he said this "Marshall" guy came from a rebel shelter near Building617, he managed to infiltrate Capitol City and the Scouts bootcamp.**

**As L. joined the forces earlier he wen't on his first mission beyond the wall before me. The first mission was on september 13th 2084, something happened to them but the commanders won't tell us details. So I have to find out for myself what happened....**

**John Snu - 2084-11-13**