Hi, Dale here. Some people have written me worried that I wasn't online last night like I said I might be in our chat a couple of nights ago. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm fine, I just got tied up with a couple of things and didn't have a chance to finish the new pages I said I was working on, the ones to give everyone access to some of the research I've been doing. I'm still hoping to get that done and online as soon as possible but it's had to take a back seat to a couple of more pressing concerns. First of all, there seems to be something strange going on with the Ash Grove Park website; I've been unable to access it in the last couple of days and my e- mails have gone unanswered. Normally it wouldn't concern me but it just seems awfully coincidental that it's happening at the same time that other people are asking me questions about the park. Dr. Kendra just wrote me yesterday asking me for information to contact the park because she's been unable so far to find a working phone number, etc. Mayor Dobbs called me this morning asking the same questions. It seems he's never heard of the place, either, even though he's lived here all his life, and he's afraid people are going to be asking him about it at his upcoming Press Conference. I really don't know what's going on, but if I have to, I'll round everyone up and drive them out there. I need to go ask some questions about Digitalis anyway. I have an appointment with Dr. Kendra tomorrow, so hopefully we can clear everything up then. The other thing that's been taking up my time is that damn second message from the "guides" at mythosphere.org. Several people have e-mailed me saying that they received the same e-mail but no one seems to have completely figured out what to do with it yet. Luckily, I had a digital camera handy and got a shot of the screen before the e-mail "self-destructed". Here's what I came up with: 3 7 8 9 8 26 16 5 5 16 5 26 14 17 2 16 22 27 14 24 16 22 3 14 12 5 15 8 0 13 5 3 7 0 3 2 7 16 18 7 16 22 5 14 12 26 7 3 3 24 23 8 10 1 14 23 16 0 18 24 25 0 1 11 14 16 5 8 11 22 24 16 24 1 23 10 14 1 23 7 24 22 25 24 0 23 24 10 23 14 9 23 7 20 1 22 10 After quite a bit of thinking, searching, and ciphering, I managed to deduce that the numbers were actually two encoded messages, each encoded with a slightly different encryption scheme. They both though, appear to be encrypted with something called "clock arithmetic", where letters are encoded according to numbers on a clock. What made it difficult is that these examples appear to have been encoded using a 28 hour clock and then a separate "code number" as well. The messages de-code as follows: "the beginning of wisdom is to unlearn that which is nought" and "let us not make random judgements on the greatest of things" Some Googling turned up the source of these quotes - the first being from Antisthenes and the second from Heraclitus. After a little exploration I found webpages on the mythosphere site using these names each of which yielded one half of some kind of pictograph image, which is basically a grid filled in with dozens of different symbols. In the source code of each of these pages is another string of encoded numbers but they don't appear to use the same "code number" as the previous encoded messages from the e-mail. I believe that these messages may be the key to understanding the message that must be in the pictograph somewhere but I haven't had the time to run them through different combinations to de-code them. Has anyone else had any luck with these? Here are the encoded messages: 16 0 18 8 10 0 18 2 20 16 24 24 and 17 0 23 1 8 9 0 17 17 8 27 19 Let me know if you figure out what these say. Finally, a couple of people have asked about the pictures from Wes' last "Devil Hunt" that he's been promising to get posted on his webpage, especially of that strange disc he found. I was supposed to go down to his shop yesterday to take some pictures for him, because Sam has been so busy with other things, but Wes called me a little while before I was due to go and said he had a last minute appointment and asked me to wait until today. He said he would call sometime this afternoon but nothing so far. I'm going to try and be online tonight but no promises. I still have a ton of catch-up work to do. Thanks for your help, Dale