Figured out another access code. Since realiTbendr’s comment yesterday - that OMH calculations refer to something called the Odd Man Hypothesis - I’ve been trying to figure out anagrams that might unlock more information about it.

Just got it:

OH DAMP DISHONESTY

Still reading through it, but it looks like several of you were right: the Odd Man Hypothesis is the result of a series of tests conducted to determine which member of the Wildfire team is best prepared to make difficult decisions under pressure. It’s hard to summarize, though… enter the code at the Wildfire Intranet and take a look at the full document for yourselves.

Also, a reader using the name of “Yuvar” sent me an email last night with another access code: DEMON PIT, which is an distressing but valid anagram for Piedmont, and which unlocks the video from the gas station which Wheezer already passed along. Seems like this might be where he was finding a lot of his information.

Well, apparently Stone’s team has one more member than I originally thought. Another reader, who asked to remain anonymous, just sent me the following access code for the Wildfire site:

WE LIE LIKE MAN

It’s a strange development, given the existing conflicts between Stone and Keene. The file makes it clear that Stone didn’t request Keene for inclusion in the Wildfire Project, and that he’s there to keep an eye on Stone.. but why? Stone is the whole reason the project exists. Perhaps someone farther up the ladder felt that Keene would keep Stone in check if he headed in the wrong direction?

And I can’t help but wonder, even though this code is an obvious anagram for WILLIAM KEENE, whether it’s supposed to have some other significance…

Several people sent messages encouraging me to keep looking for a link that connected Dr. Stone to Major Keene… and after two days of digging through the library archives, this is the only thing that has turned up. I’m assuming this is what they wanted me to find:

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So Major Keene is not only the hero of the Houston incident, but a distinguished scientist. I’ve never even heard of the virus discussed in this article, but apparently it’s important in the scientific world, and the source of a bitter dispute between Keene and Stone. But I was reluctant to post this, because even if it does show that there’s a history between the two of them, I have no idea what this has to do with Piedmont. Are Stone and Keene both involved, somehow?

I’m getting more and more worried that I’ve been wasting time following dead ends. I don’t see how knowing any of this is going to help me figure out what happened in Piedmont, or what happened to my family.

I don’t know where this stuff is coming from, but I woke up this morning to find that three of you had sent me another classified document. This one’s a little harder to make sense of than the transcript I received earlier this week:

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It’s a leaked military doc, highly confidential. Some of the words are coded/covered up, but it looks like an internal report about some thwarted bioterrorism attack that took place near Houston a couple years ago.

Whatever happened, it sounds like this would have turned into a catastrophic event if it weren’t for “Major W. Keene.” (Another name that means nothing to me.) What I can’t figure out is how this relates to Piedmont. Did something get into the water?