Hey, and what anamzingly crazy week of truth learning it's been! I went to post Friday night, but some major stuff was going down so I opted to wait it out. It was totally worth it, because the Ninja now stnds correct and victorious - Rachel confirmed she is indeed Persephone! Let me take you through from the top. I'll try to cover everything, but you should check a lot of it out for yourself.

It looks like everything we've learnt in the last few days centres around the mysterious Valenzetti Equation. On
P's first post since my last, she explained why her latest video was now on YouTube and not GaryTroup.Com where she'd originally hidden it - either their server crashed or Hanso shut them down. Like us all, she wishes Gary Troup were alive to have delivered us the truth about this equation. Thankfully, Dr Armand Zander got in touch again, sending only the image to the left - and we all know what that means! Not only is it some sort of warning code for the button, but the same hieroglyphics were used in the graphic test for autistic savants that revealed the meaning of DHARMA. But why this particular sequence of hieroglyphics?

Unfortunately, Mittelwerk's ran again, and Zander seems to have disappeared into thin air. He isn't answering Rachel's calls, her emails are bouncing, his car is gone and cops and reporters are going over his house with a fine tooth comb - they think he's responsible for the fire at the Vik Institute. Rachel seems pretty sure that his disappearance isn't accidental, and I'm in complete agreeance.

So, at this point,
DJ Dan's new podcast goes up. Go have a listen - and prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor afterwards. Yes, the caller is our favourite hot hunter for Hanso hate crimes, Rachel Blake aka Persephone and, even better, she
confirms it. I'll tell you now, a HUGE smile broke across the Ninja's face at that moment - I wish there had been a camera on Speaker's (lack-of-a) face when he was listening that! Also in the cast is a caller who is a mathematical forecaster with some information - Dan may never have heard of Enzo Valenzetti, but this guy knows all about his death - sorry,
disappearance - in a plane crash. The focus for
Eyes on the Man for the month has changed as well.

Moments later,
Rachel posted again from Iceland, asking for help. She hadn't heard from Zander any further and feared the worse. Thankfully, GidgetGirl helped out Rachel in the comments, confirming that the Valenzetti equation is a high priority for Mittelwerk. She also told her that Mittlewerk has had the autistic savants running the equation on a loop around the clock since the minute the institute opened - they were never allowed to stop. I'm definitely liking Rachel's ninja-like thinking - Mittelwerk bolting must be linked to the sequence being stopped. Finally, GidgetGirl came through with the goods in a big way - Mittelwerk is en route to Sanremo in the Italian Rivera, Valenzetti's place of birth and final address before his fateful trip,. Now, so is Rachel, unsure of the validity of claims of Valenzetti's death...

I've gotta give a big shout out to Lavendah for keeping me completey up to speed on what's going down with all the ROT/
RicherDeeperBroader.Com madness. All sorts of amazing stuff has been happening, a lot of it frying this poor ninja's senses pretty badly. If you've been to the
ROT site in the last two days, you'll know you can't get through to the boards anymore. If you enter your email, the reply from Dr Vincent Wally Bole you recieve has the phrase Wand Prowess - New Password - and there is a poem about bears... Try polar bear.

Fiberoption on the Retrievers of Truth site told us to keep our eyes on RicherDeeperBroader.com, as there would be things to find. As I said, Lav filled me in on how this all went, but when the word
BLOOD was added to the url, it gave you a seemingly black image. Increase the opacity in photoshop and you'll find the beginnings of a memo missing several sections. Later in the day it was worked out that the othe two words needed were
MONEY and
SORROW, giving us red, green and blue. If you did the same lighting trick to each image and laid them over one another, you end up with
this completed memo from Mittelwerk. Turns out the other sites (alpha, beta and delta) he had looked at to possibly use are not appropriate and that they need to fall back to the original island target, and even though this site has not been used by the Hanso Foundation for some time, he feels it will be "adequate for their purposes". Now, if that's not diabolical sounding, you can call me Speaker's Mumma.

I've added some of the pictures to the
Anti-Hanso Artwork Alley and
Clue Pics folders that you submitted, keep them coming. If you're running a 360 of your own don't forget you can set up a pic file of your own to keep your clues. That's why I added the link through up the top of the page, and for messenger too, which I'm now on quite a bit. I'm off to snoop some more and to try and work it all out...
Namaste