mission 7 - venus in the shadows

I know I said I would post a summary yesterday, but things really got away from me.................. :(

So a little later than promised, here it is.

For those of you who like to just punch in the final answer there is still time!

I have to say I did the whole thing backwards again. Chaos in the house meant I couldn’t really hear what Ianto said! – I heard him mention Dark talk - but he does that every week! - I also picked up on something about a gadget

Oh yeah a gadget, if you have read anything I have written before, you will know I am a gadget fiend.

Following Iantos’ advice

Listen to dark talk – there are 2 pieces of info here –

The whistle blower has recently lost his wife (relates back to Conrad’s note) and he is propositioned during the call, so he is somewhere a little seedy perhaps? (I think its safe to assume he isn’t calling from home!)

As soon as he mentions Blue Sky the signal drops only to leave static. Abigail is suitably surprised she obviously hasn’t signed up to be a Torchwood recruit.

Time for the gadget: this week it’s an audio tracker!!

It’s a bit like playing a memory game - click on the start button and a 3D map appears, it zooms in to 3 blocks which change to red and labels appear, as each place is identified, listen to the sound clips and work out where the signal might be coming from click on your selection .

If you have got it right your map shifts to the next set of buildings – If you’ve got it wrong you will be given a signal lost message and you have to start again.

If you are still having trouble the buildings are:-

Bus station

Rock Club

Stadium

Fish & Chip Shop

Local Pub

Cathedral

When you finally get to the Cathedral, you are rewarded with a CCTV type picture and yet another dead body.

The clue is behind the body on the wall (written in blood- a suitably melodramatic idea!)

The whistleblower has written Venus

Type this into the mission response window and TA DA – that’s it till next week :)

Any theories I’m missing send me a comment.

twitter to the pidgin

Ok - There's been little to think about after Torchwood this week so I have been thinking about Twitter.

I'm not sure I get it or indeed, if there is anything, to get - (I'm sorry Mike)

I think it’s a generation thing - or it could be because it is a relatively slow method of communication, I'm not sure which.

Don't get me wrong I love the idea, but following your messages almost seems like an invasion of privacy- that at times makes me grin :)

I have enjoyed Madame Zee - this I think is because she writes for public consumption.

Your own txt style is tempered (different to your blog) - is this because you are aware of twitter or because you know your friends will just get it? (It could of course just be coz you are a man!!) (Men say a lot more in fewer words) - You seem to say a lot with such a few characters to play with.

I find some peoples messages are much more (I'm stuck for what to say!) - Mundane - more ordinary statements - less poetic. Do you do the poetry on purpose - "House music bleeds from the ceiling..." It’s not quite the same as limericks but there may be a market!

Sam - I hummed and ha'd about the whole Pidgin thing and went for it two days ago - I was working on the theory that I could always delete it if I hated it! :)

I have to say it appeals quite a lot - it’s not as pretty as some of the other IM devices but it’s a tidy gadget that has been designed by someone who has a sense of humour (that appeals!)

I don't have hundreds of contacts but I will continue to play with it for a while (I suspect it may stay)

It’s got quite a cool spell checker and if you type as badly as I do that's a good thing.

If I am talking to more than one person the conversation windows are contained and you utilise tabs to move between them.

All in all it’s quite a neat gadget!

If anyone out there has any other life changing widgets, gadgets, blidgets or gizmos that promise to make my life better I'd love to try!!

episodes - worth a look

If you are a true torchwood boff and playing the game you may well have found these already.

I have been quite disappointed that there haven't been any tools to play with for the last few weeks so I have been reading through the episode files.

Which, unlike my first thought; that they would be a brief who did what and when, has in fact turned out to be a glorious collection of torchwood paraphernalia.

All the bits you need to be a good agent!

If you have time to kill check them out. I guarantee they will raise a smile.

there's more to black and white when you add grey

Has Adam destroyed the chance of a family reunion or does Jack still remember? What sort of character will Grey/Gray be? Will he be a people’s saviour or was his integrity destroyed at such a young age and now as a adult he is out to destroy the brother who abandoned him?
Whatever happens I am sure his appearance will be fleeting, I can't see Jack having family commitments!!

the nose knows

Ok I'm back I'm up to date and I've done mission 5.

Sam if you read this I need help thinking through the time line - see mikes blog.

I have little of interest to add at this point, I am weighed down by a travel headache - driving up/down the A22 will do that. ;(

To this end my knight in shining armour has done such a sterling job on writing up this weeks mission so I direct you there.

updates -much caffine later

crossing wires

Just a quick question if you have watched this week’s episode, not one for vegetarians!

Is it a possibility that the alien, being cut up is the same alien that is being experimented on in New Eden?

This is based on Torchwood haven’t come across either alien, ref: Ianto’s mission brief last week and this week’s episode!!

I know that it doesn’t tie in with Conrad’s Alien conspiracy ideas but he was killed by a human… more later. (Definitely not a cat person/alien cross!)

So to mission 4

Straight forward – too straight forward – Torchwood spies take note!

As per instruction follow the link to Conrad’s blog. He isn’t dead as we were led to believe – no body - so no surprise there then!!!

As you watch his blog - guess who puts in an appearance – Natalie Blake.

I had said, oh so much earlier, that it was likely to be her sister in the car. (Go me!!) Having now used up my quota of brain cells for this millennia don’t expect too much more on the insight front.

Back to the Mission

Enter Natalie’s name in the mission response window

and for the sake of consistency - TA DA.

Job done. That I am afraid is it ‘til next week.

P.s - Don't forget to listen to Dark Talk!!

mission 4 - we could release a single!

Tonight’s episode of Torchwood was cool. Really sharp script I particularly liked Ianto's retort to Toshiko's comment "We could feed the world" for those of you who missed it he said "We could release a single" delivered with first class timing and dead pan expression on his face! Superb.

I have done the game but I'm not posting anything till tomorrow - I want to give you a chance, besides I adore validation.

Work the clues and you will see that one of my musings was spot on. Yippee!!
I will be more pious tomorrow and tell you all you need to know. lol

mission 3 - a password of chemical pursuasion

After enjoying the last episode of the Torchwood game, I was looking forward to the challenge and I have to say I am a little disappointed. It all seemed straight forward. (Perhaps I missed something?)

Check out the note Fischer’s son found - this is in the mission files under note (no surprise there then)

Reading down you will see 'FeS2 is the password. Common Name and no spaces!' (N.B. it's also all in lower case!!)

Best thing to do is Google FeS2 – you can cut and paste direct from the note. If like me chemistry was a long time ago, read carefully, FeS2 is Pyrite the common name for this is fools gold – (hence the need for no spaces)

If you have been following the blogs between myself and Liber Perplexus, you may well have picked up on Sam Strakers’ really observant comment about the Researcher's Login on the New Eden website if not listen to Toshiko she will tell you about back doors etc on websites that lead to info that isn't for the general public.

Take the link to the New Eden website you can find this in the files and type foolsgold into the researcher login this opens a video.

Play the video it ends on a file number copy and paste this in to the mission response window.

TA DA: - all done that’s it till next week

– oh I almost forgot, you were supposed to listen to Dark Talk - Abigail speaks to a caller who has found a video of Alien DNA on You Tube, supposedly stolen from a research facility. You know where.

I can’t think of anything else to add at this stage if something occurs I’ll add it.

I thought of something check out the note

'Astonishing… reliable? (Hasn’t just gone doolally with grief?)'

I think this is the bit from the note that refers to the whistleblower. I'm just not sure who's doing the grieving. It can't be Conrad over Natalie as he disappeared before she was found dead. Any Ideas?

new eden - new demons :)

This weeks mission seems straight forward, but I am having trouble with the video, can't get it to play. Will try again tomorrow, so watch this space.

I missed the first mission - did I miss out?

Torchwood, kids TV for adults, it’s great. Enough going on to hold my attention but not so complex that I can't fill in the blanks. Now I have discovered the game... lucky for me there seem to be loads of people keen on playing.

Validation is good for my self esteem!.

Liber Perplexus is posting summaries which are great. Not so sure on the whole alien cat thing?!! Who knows he could be right, I'll try to keep an open mind.

I suspect that there is, besides the obvious link between Dr Laura Winters of the Venus Clinic and Dr John Winters the CEO of New Eden some connection with the work they are both doing... watch this space.

I still stand by my thoughts that it isn't Natalie Blake in her car but her sister Naomi. Listening and reading all the evidence has led me to this conclusion. If you want to know how I got there, get in touch.

It seems to be fairly public now so if you are still having problems Natalie’s telephone number is

02920 322200

The clues to this are:-

Looking under the mission files there is tab marked card which is Natalie Blake’s business card (not sure how this survived the fire 5th degree burns mean it got quite hot! but there it is the last part of the number still visible. 322200

Tosh tells you that Gwen knew Natalie from the police and all though she lived in London she was now based in Cardiff (Clue Cardiff)

So using this info you look up dialing codes (on the internet) for Wales and choose the one listed for Cardiff that’s the 02920 unknown bit of the number.

TA DA…

that’s what you need enter this in to the hacker tool and listen to Natalie’s messages

Now I have to wait until next Wednesday for the next installment