Act 3 Timeline

# Act 3 Progress / Timeline

## July 23, 2021

#### Transcription of Drop 1 message:

> [description, printed on a cut off piece of white paper. font looks like Calibri. found in San Francisco]
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> Dr Schmidt,
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> Hopefully one of these messages reaches you safely. Sam reports that the secondary MA systems have detected a signal, and we've gotten reports that seem to corroborate something strange going on. We'd be much obliged if you would make contact and reach out to us. It seems like we may finally be able to test some of our theories. Sam hopes to have things up and running in the next couple months, and would be grateful if you could join our endeavours.
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> The website is still undergoing some work, but email should still work. Otherwise you can contact me on Twitter. Send the key "CONSOCIUS" so I know it's you.
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> -Dr. Tarzer.
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> Decoded Signal (MA-0721)
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> AU NA TR HS
> FL LN AO PN
> IG HS BE NA
> DI MA NN TZ
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> EH ES CA TN
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> Secondary Unstructured Signal (MA-0721)
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> A A A E
> E E E E
> E E E H
> I M M N
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> N O S T
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#### Adding the Secondary Unstructured Signal to the pairs of the first:

> AsU NeA TeR HaS
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> FaL LeN AnO PeN
> InG HaS BeE NmA
> DeI MmA NeN TiZ
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> EtH EeS ChA ToN
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gives the phrase: "A Sun Eater has fallen, an opening has been made, immanentize the eschaton"

## July 25, 2021

Greg Rossa tweets: "Interference Intervention. Choice made. Missed connection. Ally lost.

## August 1, 2021

* Dr. E Tarzer asks for anyone who knows about "Morphic Resonance" to reach out
* L hijacks Greg Rossa's account and goes for a walk. Helios intercepts message indicating a future drop

## August 3, 2021

* Greg Rossa account (under L's control) tweets:
	+ T-21.5: Who shall receive? (Aryabhatiya) Ñakagaṭathapakagaṭaṅaḍhaghaḍhaṇabanajaṅaḍhaṅabhanakhaṅachajhaḍhaḍhajhaḍhachanajaṅacajhadadhananaṇaḍhakaḍaṅanajaṅaṇanajaṅadadhajhabhaḍakamabakaṭhaṭanajaṅatakanajabajaṅaḍhanajaṅanajhaḍaṅagaṇaḍaṅadha
* Text is ciphered via Aryabhata Cipher and decoded to read: "j a c k q u a c k e n d n o w t h e n e x t b e g i n n i n g t h e f i r s t t o n a m f t h e o t h e r s i x m a y w a l k t h e p a t h w h e n t h f t i m e c o m e s"
* Starling and Ryson correctly named the remaining ducks, Ryson is given instructions for a dead drop on August 4th
	+ Deaddrop journey is archived here:
		- Imgur - Twitter DM Log
		- YouTube - Cell phone video recording
	+ Upon completion, several items were found

## August 4, 2021

Deaddrop items:

* Numerous symbols, some known, some unknown
* A letter which reads
	+ F, I'm reaching out to instances of the other founders. We will prepare for getting to the nexus, however things are still blocked on your end. You'll be alone working to gather the necessary resources to get the nexus open. I'll transmit something once I've found one of the key realities to embark from. As for the TE problem, it seems there's more evidence of tampering by the Entity via the Keeper. Try to find out what they think they know, but don't spend too much time. Getting to the nexus is paramount.
* A business card with instructions to contact someone, signed by both L and R
* A piece of receipt paper
	+ when formatted correctly and underscores treated as spaces, reads:
		- OE10-13/V(K=O)/Copy3 V pvxp tnmf ocfahop forqu wbc dmwl. Lseecf iym xobmai zrgvvo tu whdqnul bse csenbf iul zrmeakxnbpwys ci'ig zrmu lppkrqklt wu. Gzu cmyn lrmk bz etepv newawnor Sf eye-Mjpz-22. Yuy ntc ncapzrodrf rb qubprbiag uvbo AE tu iausem appix wlurru pa lczmicrrl ig ehk iaf ms bom jegv. Jg'pr qu bse vvbecfa vn qithvpe bcy spy, grq qlpm dm sabi nearaz bsruytj rum umiuy, xug mgplzd snshnb om dqehor bwp tzhaa. Wk hbp'r rfwmnt grl emzxsqnazmbpq nkjmdsort UR41035802 bz ZB32849201, muz qna lrmk bz mufvngmm mwcckw sqp FB02194217. Dm hirp pqlgqucp tu xeclfupb gig teqrbkvt Zsiee-Gauw-10
	+ which is ciphertext encoded with vigenere "NIHILAGENCY"
		- I hope this message finds you well. Forces are moving beyond to subsume the worlds and organizations we've been depending on. You will need to enact protocol Oscar-Echo-22. You are authorized to intervene with ST to ensure their system is activated by the end of the year. We're in the process of finding our key, and once we have access through the nexus, the others should be within our grasp. We don't expect any complications accessing ST41035802 or ST32849201, but may need to mobilize forces for ST02194217. We will continue to transmit via protocol Oscar-Echo-10
* A large big piece of paper
	+ A "Collatz" Grid
		- Taking the set of numbers at the top and placing them into groups of 4, then looking up the corresponding letters we get:
			* 0082 C 0041 O 0124 L 0433 L 0027 A 0016 T Z
		- Identified as a "Collatz Conjecture" which stipulates a sequence for any integer which should always return to 1
		- Using the Collatz Conjecture: If Even, N/2, If odd N\*3+1 we can then plug in some of the numbers in the grid and get a series back till we get to 1. Using process of elimination to determine the appropriate "Starting" number for the conjecture, we can get to **27** as being the only number that includes every other number of the grid in its sequence. Looking up the corresponding letters reveals:
			* ACOLYTEWEAREATTEMPTINGTOFINDAPATHTHROUGHTHETOWERHAVEYOUFOUNDANENTRANCEATYOURSIDEWEWILLCONTINUETOUPDATETHEWITNESS

## September 8, 2021

* During an email asking Dr. Eline when further updates from Spatiotemporal Technologies would be coming, a fragment of an email likely not intended for us was left in, which read:
	+ "im, did you have a chance to investigate the spikes from August 22nd that Elliot detected at the monitored sites? In all likelihood whatever happened at those locations is long gone, but just in case you might want to take a look to see if there are any residual readings."
	+ This lead to our checking of known sites and the discovery of a letter in reply to a message we sent to Paula Lewis. The communication reads as follows:
		- > TTP,
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		> Unfortunately without any information about how to establish communication, and what resources, information, etc you have available, I am only able to get this transmitted and hope that one of these makes it to you.
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		> I am Paula Lewis, the founder of the Protectors of Liber and one of the founders of PLACEBOS. Due to actions undertaken in various realities, the Entity has gotten a larger foothold on many realities, taking control of them and slowly spreading their influence across the Cycle. At the moment, various forces are working towards the Magnum Opus and the creation of (sun symbol). Chief amongst each group's goals is gaining access to a nexus reality which can provide access to the other realities believed to still contain fragments of the key necessary for the Magnum Opus. Unfortunately access to that reality is currently blocked off, and the right jumpstart will be needed to open the pathways.
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		> It is believed there is an organization in the reality this message is being sent to that is investigating the requisite phenomena, that will need to be given the right pushes to ensure they carry out the right sort of experiments to open the pathways. I have an ally there that is working on investigating how to get things moving there. Unfortunately reports indicate at least one other organization has operatives acting in that reality, and it is unknown whether my ally has been waylaid.
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		> With the uncertainty, there is a difficult decision that must be made, whether to delay the organization's experiments until such a far off time that an asset can be placed to influence things in a way to align with PLACEBOS plans to access the nexus or to let things take their course and hope that the other organizations can be overtaken. Our prediction systems believe that a decision will come that will determine what direction the organization's research takes. I would rather entrust my asset with this work, but until I can re-establish connection, I shall ask you to consider influencing things to our advantage. If the organization is convinced to perform the experiment at their MA site rather than their CA site, then their systems will likely overload and their work will be set back a substantial amount of time, hopefully long enough to give us more time to get PLACEBOS operations on track.
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		> Sincerely, Paula Lewis
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