Dharma Initiative Global Recruiting Project Week 1

[chris]

I thought that we could make a list of everything that has happened so that we can keep it all straight.

On Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:17:58 AM, I received the first Octagon mail which stated:

Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, would like to
thank you for registering your expression of interest in our latest volunteer
recruitment drive.


We will be launching in San Diego on July 24th at Comic-Con International
offering select registrants the opportunity to take an exciting aptitude test
that will give applicants the chance to demonstrate their unique talents.


The Dharma Initiative hopes you will be able to join us to find out more about
their ground-breaking new research project. We will contact you closer to the
date with more information.


For those not able to join us in San Diego, Dharma's full recruitment program
will be made available online to registered recruits after July 27th.


In the meantime, the Dharma Initiative urges you to spread the word. Invite your
colleagues to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com and take part in
this once in a lifetime opportunity.


Viewing the source code yielded "March has 32 days" and that their site, octagon global recruiting is in Australia, note the au. (http://www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com.au/site/emails/images/OE_TOP_=v1.jpg" width=3D1)

On Friday, July 18, 2008 4:38:09 AM , I received the second email which stated:

ATTENTION ALL RECRUITS
DHARMA HEAD OF RECRUITING TO ATTEND LAUNCH


Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, is pleased to
announce that Dharma's Head of Recruiting, Mr. Hans Van Eeghen, has confirmed
his availability for the launch of our latest recruiting drive at Comic-Con
2008.


"My colleagues at Octagon Global Recruiting assure me that Comic-con hosts some
of the brightest minds in the country," said Mr. Van Eeghen. "As Head of
Recruiting it is my intention to personally assess the very best of this talent
in the hope that they may join us."


The Dharma Initiative will be conducting eligibility assessments at Booth 3529
at Comic-Con, San Diego between July 24th - 27th.


If you are attending Comic-Con and would like to submit your name for a randomly
selected drawing to secure one of ten (10) pre-release appointments with one of
our recruiting officers, please click here.


The volunteer eligibility assessment will be available online from July 28th for
a limited time at www.dharmawantsyou.com


The Dharma Initiative hopes you will spread the word. Invite your friends to
join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com

Once again, viewing the source code yielded a secret message:

If you're reading this, wanna hear something cool?
I've got intel about his little "recruitment drive."
They're doing some kind've personality/IQ testing or something down in SD for Comic-Con.
Buddy of mine works down there and has the approvals for their "booth," he says once you go in no one knows what happens inside and you need an appointment to get in. He also said to make sure you've got your Blue-tooth on and visible - he's rigged up a little something!
The whole thing sounds like elitist B.S., doesn't it?
Well, I'm getting in that booth and taking the test
As many times as I have to before I "pass" (whatever that means?)
And then
If I can?
I'm gonna tape it so EVERYONE can see what these idiots are up to!
Should be fun, right?
See ya in SD. RuckusGuy OUT!
-->

Comic-Con happened where 5 were chosen as worthy, and Dan Bronson got the message out, a message from Marvin Candle, aka Pierre Chang. The transcript of what I could make out follows:

Hello. My name is Dr. Marvin Candle and I... You know what? Forget it. No point in games anymore, right? If you're watching this now, you already know that my name...my real name is Pierre Chang (baby crying in the background) d**n it Laura! Just take him outside! Please! I have one chance at this. ...I am a professor of theoretical astrophysics from Anharbor, Michigan. I was brought to this God forsaken island years ago to conduct experiments to study the cur--- metric solution to the Einstein Field Equations and to ---- If I can keep this pinhole open long enough you should be receiving my message roughly 30 years---if your---this---ou---the American president is a man named George W. Bush. You share digital information instantaneously on something called Internet. And, unfortunately, my colleagues and I are all dead. --A kind of...of violent purge, one that we are apparently powerless to escape. This information comes to me from a source that has prooven itself to me to be credible -None of this matters. It doesn't matter. Just get to it, please! -Regardless. If this transmission is successful, it's proof the work I've been doing here is valid. This place it has extraordinary properties. I'm begging you, no matter what's happened, it's imperative that the Dharma Initiative be reconstituted. You have to continue the research and you have to do it now. Time is not just of the essence, it is the essence. Perhaps you'll be able to find a way to save us, to change the past and to----- please! You have to stop what is about to happen! You can't let it---- -Pierre, this is useless. Alright. It's useless. They're never going to see this. How do you turn this off? --No, no what are you doing? --How do you turn it off? <mumbles name>What are you doing?

Link to tapdawg's video of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_dNsaz-AA

People at Octagon were given a test, one of 8 choices, each based on one of Jupiter's moons. The choices were:
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, Elara, and Leda.

There was also RuckusGuy's blue-tooth video at the site, which has now been but on the Internet for us by RuckusGuy himself at:
www.youtube.com/user/ruckusguy or www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW6xkv9vwos

We at the Dummies took ODI's capture and pulled off subliminal images, which can now be seen more clearly. This images and questions came from the tests themselves. We were asked situationals and shown pictures, asked what's the first thing to come to mind.

When the test was released to us online at www.dharmawantsyou.com it contained 17 questions, some of them were right from the Con.

Around 8:15 PM pacific time on 7-28-08, www.dharmawantsyou.com went live. They started with 10 pictures with 4 choices each what comes to mind.
1. Surprise sign with an arrow pointing left: A. Trap B. Party C. Turn D. Disclosure
2. 4 blood spots extending downward: A. Wound B. Essence C. Candy D. Leech
3. Little Red Riding Hood woodcut: A. Vulnerable B. Deceive C. Naive D. Awakening
4. Clear cut of tree stumps: A. Evolution B. Devastate C. Opportunity D. Rehabilitate
5. 4 spines looking like guitars: A. Calcify B. Blend C. Seize D. Guitar
6. A carrot looking like a hand cut off with 4 fingers: A. Metamorphose B. Nutrition C. Amputate D. Eat
7. A girl being splashed in the face by a hose: A. Sting B. Humid C. Sibling D. Fright
8. A dark, straight road illuminated by headlights with trees on either side: A. Exit B. Enter C. Isolate D. Ambush
9. Diagram of molars and front teeth: A. Decay B. Grind C. Extract D. Smile
10. A shipwreck turned on its side rusted: A. Reef B. Rust C. Abandoned D. Tide
Then came the theoreticals:
11. A spider is biting your arm. You don't kill it. Why? A. It's not poisonous. B. You have a prosthetic arm. C. You're a Buddhist D. You're paralyzed with fear
12. You just stole a sick child's toy. Why? A. The child was choking on it. B. To replace the battery C. To wind it up D. You're a child too.
13. A tortoise is on its back in the sun. You're not helping it. Why? A. The tortoise is already dead. B. You're a herpetophobic (fear of reptiles) C. The tortoise is locked in a cage D. You're filming a wildlife documentary
14. You are crawling across a stormy beach. Why? A. You're shipwrecked B. You've lost a contact lens C. You're a crab D. You're a soldier in a beach invasion.
15. You are running down an unfamiliar street. Why? A. You're running a marathon B. You're on a Spanish bull run C. You're chasing an ice cream truck D. You're on the run from the police
16. You are lying face down on the edge of a cemetery. Why? A. You're sleeping in an adjacent park B. You fainted from grief C. Your body fell out of the Hearse D. You suffer narcolepsy.
17. You're sitting on your bed with a sharp knife. Why? A. A burglar is in the house B. You're about to cut the tag off a new pair of shoes C. You're eating breakfast in bed D. You're rehearsing a scene from Macbeth

So far, everyone has passed when it calculates. You can then register, update your profile, look at the leader board and your progress. They also make it sound like there will be a test a week. Volunteer Assessment Commencing Soon! You can click on About Us and get more information about the experiments and that's about it so far. When you register, the date of birth is preset to July 17 78.

This morning, we got an email from Hans Van Eegan at Monday, July 28, 2008 11:55:37 PM. It says:

THE DHARMA INITIATIVE WANTS YOU!


Recruiting Volunteers NOW.
Join the Dharma Initiative's latest groundbreaking research project.


Visit www.dharmawantsyou.com and complete an 'Eligibility Test'.
Our innovative research has brought together some
of the brightest minds on the planet.
And we'd like you to join us.


APPLY TODAY.
HELP GUIDE THE WORLD TO A BETTER TOMORROW.



If you can't view the images in this email please click here

Viewing the source code leads us to the youtube site of RuckusGuy. It is DOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOTyoutubeDOTcomFORWARDSLASHwatchQUESTIONMARKvEQUALScW6xkv9vwos
or www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW6xkv9vwos

It also yielded another alert that said: Banks Claw
When you run it through an anagram you get: Black Swan.

If I missed anything add it below. Also, add how you answered if you remember.

[chris]

I answered:
1. C Turn
2. A Wound
3. B Deceive
4. B Devastate
5. A calcify
6. B Nutrition
7. A Sting
8. C Isolate
9. D Smile
10. C Abandon
11. A It's not poisonous
12. A The child was choking on it
13. A The tortoise is already dead
14. D You're a soldier on a beach invasion
15. B You're on a Spanish Bull Run
16. C You're body fell out of a Hearse
17. You're about to cut the tag off of a new pair of shoes

I also forgot to mention that during Ruckus Guy's video, there are two foreign languages spoken, one male and one female.

There is also now a translation for the words during the Dharma test: "Those who come to the Dharma Initiative will have to travel a long way across the sea at a considerable speed. Work will include being outdoors and physical labor. You may also experience some [instability of time along the way]. Hopefully you, like many others, feel that your social duty is more important than your personal safety."

[chris]

Word on the street has the translation of the Ruckus Guy video as the french lady saying: high speed travelling over long distances
and the German being not grammatically correct, but saying something to the effect of: Therefore *** is still fluctuating in the space-time-continuum.

Thanks to the commentors at Docartz for getting these translations so quickly!