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New post at Hiro's blog (all previous entries no longer visible):

Captain's Log: Stardate

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ETA: To access the old posts, see the first comment of this post for the full list of links.

Hiro's new post: Who am I?

Many thanks to Richard for his speedy report of the new post at Hiro's Blog:

Captain's Log: Stardate 1784.0

Who am I?

{{{(>.<)}}} (o.O) \(^o^)/

Who am I? I'm a time traveler and a teleporter. I've seen the future to prevent. I'm on a mission. To save the world. To save my friend.

Almost two months ago, I was sitting in front of a computer, in a cubicle, wanting more from life. Dreaming of a life of adventure. To fly like superman, to heal like wolverine, to be strong like the hulk. Who would have thought all my dreams would come true. Who would have thought that the fate of the world is in my hands.

There is no save point. There is no reset. Actions have consequences and decisions must be made. I couldn't kill Sylar and now my friend is in trouble. And now the world.

From the cubicle, to New York for the first time in my life, to back to Japan and saving the red ribbon girl, to the Nissan Versa, to the Montecito Casino, to the diner where I first met Nathan, to the underground poker game, to the car crash site, to the Burnt Toast Diner, to six months ago, to meeting Mr. Isaac, to the museum, to being kidnapped, to the port with father and sister, to the Casino kitchen, to Linderman's archive, to five years in the future, to Sylar's house, to Jittetsu Arms.

It's down to this moment.

Thank you father for the training. For giving me the strength of heart to carry out what I must do. I've learned so much in our short time together.

Thank you sister for showing me integrity. You've taught me to be true to myself and fight for honor. I take pride in carrying the Nakamura name.

Thank you Charlie for your love. You've taught me what is important in life, and to cherish every moment that I have with the ones I care for. I fight for love. I fight for you so that no one else will have to suffer the same loss.

And Ando. Thank you for showing me courage and loyalty. You've taken a leap of faith and come on this journey with me. You've always brought me back up when I was on my knees. I've put you in peril yet again, and I will not fail you this time.

I'm at full HP and MP, and have all my elixirs. It's time to take down the last boss.

I saw the future that I must prevent and I will prevent it.

Who am I?

I'm Hiro Nakamura. I'm going to save the world.

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Hiro's blog time warp?

Take a peek over at Hiro's blog, and you may experience a bit of déjà vu:
If you recall, in mid-March Hiro's blog posts were removed, replaced by a notice from Yamagato Industries, and then the cryptic messages/puzzles from future-Hiro began. They seemed to conclude when the "Final Message" post appeared last Monday.

The blog remained in it's "future" form... until today.
Go take a look, the old messages are available again, and the new ones are gone.

Is this good news?

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ETA: The future-posts can still be found, if you would like to take a peek at them:

- Bound by Death and Luck
- To Flower
- For Fun
- Final Message

Hiro's "Final Message"? Plus, new paintings @ Linderman's archive.

New post at Hiro's blog, titled Final Message with Captain's Log: Stardate 27288.0:

A mask bound by fortune on death row.

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Also, go check out Linderman's Archive.
The password is still Vietnam. (Remember, it is case-sensitive.)
There are 5 new images, contributing to a total of 28 currently in the archive. This new set is titled "Inevitable" Parts 1 - 5:

1. 
   Title: "Inevitable Part 1"
   Artist: Isaac Mendez
   Medium: oil on canvas
   Direct link to image:here


2. 
   Title: "Inevitable Part 2"
   Artist: Isaac Mendez
   Medium: oil on canvas
   Direct link to image:here


3. 
   Title: "Inevitable Part 3"
   Artist: Isaac Mendez
   Medium: oil on canvas
   Direct link to image:here


4. 
   Title: "Inevitable Part 4"
   Artist: Isaac Mendez
   Medium: oil on canvas
   Direct link to image:here


5. 
   Title: "Inevitable Part 5"
   Artist: Isaac Mendez
   Medium: oil on canvas
   Direct link to image:here

Crossword puzzle at Hiro's blog

Many thanks to tiassa for letting us know about a new post over at Hiro's blog. It is titled "For Fun" with Stardate 15000.0 by Jotaro Kujo. Have fun!

Clues listed in the comments.

A big thank-you to ghost22 for sending us an image of the finished puzzle!

Weekend recap: real and fake of April 1st

Just a quick post to point you in the right direction, in case you didn't stop by over the weekend:

The previous post, "Get to know MMbf15zu -- new Primatech profile", was obviously a bit of April Fool's fun. I hope that you enjoyed it. I am leaving it up for your amusement, but adding a tag to avoid any confusion in the archive.
BTW, if you didn't find the "hidden messages", check out my comments on that post.

Also check out the post "New puzzle at Hiro's Blog -- SOLVED!". It contains the solution to the latest puzzle from Hiro's blog. While it's hard to believe, that was NOT a joke. That really is the solution!

New puzzle at Hiro's Blog -- SOLVED!

Many thanks to Kat3MD and Rocco for reporting that a new puzzle has appeared at Hiro's Blog.
The post is:

Captain's Log: Stardate 12288.0

To Flower

Flower,
I shall bring you a game.

Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000.

0100010001110101010001000100011001001111100001000100111101001000010101110111
0101010101110100011001100001100001000110000101001000010011010111010101001101
0100011001001111010010000100110101000110010011110111010101001111010000100100
1101010001100100111101000010010011110110110001001111010000100101001110000100
0101001101001000010100110110110001011101010000100101110110000100010111010100
1000010101110100011001010111010010000100010010000100010001000100101001010111
0100100001000100010010100110111110000110010101110100101001001111010000100100
1111100001100101011110000110010011010100100001011101010000100101011101001000
0100010010000110010101111000011001101111011011000100010001110101010011010100
1000010111010110110001000100010010100110111110000100010111010110110001011101
0111010101000100011011000110111101101100010111010111010101010011011101010101
0111011011000100010001101100010100110111010101100001011011000101011101001000
0100010001000010010101111000011001011101100001000110111101110101011011110100
0110011000010110110001100001011101010100111110000110010011011000011001100001
0111010101101111100001000100110110000110010011011000010001010111010010100110
1111010001100100110110000100010011111000010001101111100001000100010001001010
0110111101101100010011010111010101000100010010100110000101001010010011111000
0100010011110100011001101111010001100101011101001010010011010111010101101111
0110110001011101100001000101001110000100010011110100011001001111011011000101
0011100001000110000110000100

The key is on the key. A picture is 5.

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04/01/2007 UPDATE: The puzzle has been SOLVED!
Many thanks to Klajv for posting the solution. Kudos to everyone who has been working on this puzzle, especially to Klajv and the others who solved it over at Hiro's Blog!

It turns out that it was a chess game. The resulting arrangement of the pieces clearly spells out "DL". Here is the Step-by-Step description:

• "I bring you a game." -- So, here is the game:


• "Use one part time worker at a time" -- Binary has two values, 1 and 0, or "off" and "on", so they are like part-time workers.


• "For every dollar" -- A dollar = 8 bits. We need to do something to every 8-bit group (usually how binary is grouped for conversion).


• So what are we converting the binary to? We translate to hexadecimal. The hint for this was is the Stardate (12288) – as many of us noticed, which is 3000 when converted to hexadecimal.


• "Add 3000" -- We now add 3000 to each of the converted hexadecimal pairs of numbers.


• Translating the resulting 4-digit numbers to text results in Japanese Hiragana. A hint to this was that this post was marked as translated from Japanese, even though the previous one was not.


• "The key is on the key." -- Looking at a Japanese keyboard, we can find the corresponding English letters and numbers on the keys of the characters that we found.


• "A picture is 5." -- The resulting letters and numbers read like a set of chess moves. If these moves are played out on a chessboard, the "picture" that is created by the placement of the pieces spells out "DL".

So, e-mailing DLH@PrimatechPaper.com (DL Hawkins), triggers the response:

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

Hiro's Blog puzzle -- solved!

Congrats to texgrog, over at 9thwonders, who has solved Hiro's puzzle!

The solution is as follows...

There were two major keys to solving the puzzle:
The title of the entry, "Bound by Death and Luck", and the line "To see light again, a rift will be chanced. I grow weary of hiding on the 15. In simple times, we used a courier to tell truth."

Death and luck are represented by 4 and 7 in numerology. Courier, as many of you know, is also a text font.

Copy the blog text into an editor, set it in Courier (keep the font size at 10), and allow 47 characters per line (don't break words, if one doesn't fit into the 47 character limit, move it to the next line).
Then, read the 15th letter in each line. Downward, it reveals this message:

flower, contact me
Kaiton@primatechpaper.com

Send an e-mail to the above address, and you will get this response from Kaito Nakamura's address:

November 8, 2010

Hana,
I knew I could reach you this way. I was able to hack into the old
Yamagato server. Times may have changed but their security system is
still ancient.

It's ironic that my father's email is still active. I figured this
would be the securest way to communicate to you.

As you know we are in desperate times. I've finally found Molly
Walker. I will find others. I seek assistance from you and your
partner to provide a safe harbor.

I will not give up. I thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Safe journey and god speed.

For Charlie,
Hiro

A lot of us were on the right track. I personally kept trying to use EVERY 15th letter, then trying to anagram the results. Oh well.
Congrats and thanks again to Tex for sharing the solution!

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ETA: Another bit of info was revealed today. To find out what Vietnam (the new password to Linderman's archive) has to do with our heroes, check out War Buddies: Unknown Soldiers, the graphic novel segment that was released today.

New text, e-mail & blog from Hana, Hiro's blog SHUTDOWN!

hehe. Sorry, I couldn't help the DJ Javi Dan reference...

Kudos to auron106 for informing us of Hiro's new blog posts!

First, there is a message from Yamagato Industries, informing us that they must shut down the blog due to the 'tragic events' of November 8th. They also declare that Yamagato is 'in no way associated with Hiro Nakamura.'

This is followed by a very poetic update by Hiro, titled "Bound by Death and Luck", concerning destiny and unity. He leaves us an e-mail address: time@primatechpaper.com
In case it is removed, we've copied a screencap (click on image).
A new e-mail address at Primatech... has he gotten in touch with Hana or Bennet?

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I also apologize for not posting this sooner. I was out last night when the message arrived.

Many thanks to all of you who reported the new clues! Our inbox was full of great updates.

Thanks to Dman176, Shindma, Lauren, J.J. and others for reporting the new text message received around 7pm last night and the email that arrived shortly after (both had the nearly same text):

I'm chasing down a new lead frm an unlikely source. Read more about it at http://www.samantha48616e61.com.

The email continued with:

May need more help with all this soon.

Some of you have sent us your speculations that SEA:V5J1K2/P/L will reference a file on Primatech's site, others have suggested meaning behind the numbers, including licence plates and zip codes.
Feel free to discuss your theories further here.

ETA: Check out the new graphic novel "War Buddies". Aside from the Nathan reference and random Tool poster, it also mentions that the file that HRG told Hana to look at is on PAPER, not digital (unless 'paper' was some kind of code word), format.