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Replied,quote:Edward, I figure a little white lie (about Budgie) won't give away too much.
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KatWithHands posted:Ohhh poo poo! They could be photos from a while ago (pre shaved head). Is the guy in the picture her ex boyfriend? Generally speaking people only tear up pictures when there is either some sort of intense hatred/disgust/pain associated with the subject in the photos, or complete apathy (such as- this is a lovely picture let me toss it).
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Skipjack posted:There is no way at this point that this is not an ARG. For shits and giggles you should mail him back and say that you think this is totally messed up and you are gonna call the cops RIGHT NOW, see how he responds. That's rude. Not to mention he'd probably just go to someone different and lose us this awesome opportunity at being hero's. Plus, think about it. If you call the cops for some chick that went missing and you don't even know her, you'll probably get arrested for false information. I'm sure the guy has thought of that.
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UnctuousSerendipity posted:They could be photos from a while ago (pre shaved head). Is the guy in the picture her ex boyfriend? Eddy doesn't know him, but he mentioned the boy she moved to the country with had a shaved head, not that that means much. Could be them both from before the head shaving or a different guy.
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Carthag posted:New post, because: You know, I'd say that's a pretty good reason to involve the police. It's actually really suspicious that he says not to contact the police. Also, do they mark the post office the letters are sent from in the UK? Edit: holy crap beaten
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This seems like an odd piece of the puzzle if it is an ARG. How would these further the storyline, other than creating fear?
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intervoid posted:This seems like an odd piece of the puzzle if it is an ARG. How would these further the storyline, other than creating fear? I think that's an excellent piece for creating fear. Because then when the real clues come in, we'll be all the more eager to solve them.
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This is one of the best (hopefully) ARG's I've ever seen - there's a definite sense of purpose and urgency to it, aside from just "Keep decoding things and you'll get a .gif that says congratulations at the end!" Can anyone make out the text on the envelope, that isn't obscured by the pen?
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Dec 5, 2007 00:49
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Dec 5, 2007 00:49
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So he "called" the police?
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intervoid posted:This seems like an odd piece of the puzzle if it is an ARG. How would these further the storyline, other than creating fear? It's an ARG. Maybe creating fear is precisely the point of this update. Also, isn't 'You'll get what's coming for you' incorrect?
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mix.lunar posted:That's rude. Not to mention he'd probably just go to someone different and lose us this awesome opportunity at being hero's. Plus, think about it. If you call the cops for some chick that went missing and you don't even know her, you'll probably get arrested for false information. I'm sure the guy has thought of that. You're right. I wasn't seriously suggesting he should do it, just illustrating my point that this is clearly an ARG, and the bit about the police serves to allow the player and the gamemaster to indicate to each other that they know what's up without seriously breaching the immersion of the game. When I notice these sorts of things in any kind of game, my first instict is to try to break the game, to test the boundaries and see how robust it is v  v
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Klauser posted:It's an ARG. Maybe creating fear is precisely the point of this update. that bugged me as well, considering the rest of the sentence was grammatically correct. Maybe it's just part of the fear angle, considering that it would imply that something (like a person) was coming after him, not just an idle threat as 'what's coming to you' would imply.
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EMAIL I got this in the budgie email, but I can't tell if it's a goon or not. It's from ichkannihnenhelfen@x.y (I can help you) quote:Sie sind ein Pfandgegenstand in seinem Spiel gerecht Stoppen My german is really bad, but as far as I can tell it means "You're a deposit bottle in his game stop immediately before it's too late" or similar. Someone who speaks German better should translate. Edit: Replied with "Entschuldigung, meine Deutsch sind nicht so gut. Wer meinen Sie? Wessen Spiel?" (My attempt at "Sorry, I'm not so good at German. Who do you mean? Whose game?") Also, I wrote back to Edward: quote:Edward, Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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Mephiston posted:that bugged me as well, considering the rest of the sentence was grammatically correct.
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i dont speak german, but a quick babelfish of that email produced "ich kann ihnen helfen" which translated into "i can help them" Also, luigi, that would make sense, given the newest email. Good catch. edit: babelfished the sentence, and despite it not being the best source for online translations, it did come up with this: "They are fair a pledge article in its play to stopping It now, before it is too late" A reference to this thread maybe? Mephiston fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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Mephiston posted:i dont speak german, but a quick babelfish of that email produced "ich kann ihnen helfen" which translated into "i can help them" Pretty sure that's the formal plural. It's normal in German to use the plural "you" when speaking to someone of higher authority or whom you don't know on a first name basis. Anyway, EMAIL quote:Knud, quote:Edward,
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My flatmate who speaks German translated it as "You are now collateral (or a safety object) in his game, stop now before it's too late" but the word "gerecht" doesn't make sense. Edit: The person could have meant "pawn" instead of "collateral" I think, they aren't fluent in German Ferretten fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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Mephiston posted:Also, luigi, that would make sense, given the newest email. Good catch. I have my doubts about the German email. All the other correspondence has been so profoundly British it's not funny. We have all known email addresses at the moment, so why would one come from a completely random angle?
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bonne chance posted:I have my doubts about the German email. All the other correspondence has been so profoundly British it's not funny. We have all known email addresses at the moment, so why would one come from a completely random angle? Ya I'm not entirely sure about that one either. For now we should probably concentrate on what Eddy has said.
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It might be some goon trying to play up the whole neo-nazi cult theory that was brought up earlier in the thread.
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Dec 5, 2007 01:11
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In that first batch of photos, why are all of them in color but the one of the building's interior? Even the supposed closeup of the splotch on the ground from the interior image seems to be in color since it has a brown-tinted area.
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Fair enough, it was a relatively weak association, i admit. Shelving it for now.
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Sara's on AIM again. quote:1:11:05 AM sara: sandstone houses WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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Dec 5, 2007 01:14
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This is moving eerily fast.
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One thing that is bugging me, if I haven't actually missed an explanation of this in the thread, is how did Edward Northwood get your email address to get in contact with you?
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Tongsy posted:One thing that is bugging me, if I haven't actually missed an explanation of this in the thread, is how did Edward Northwood get your email address to get in contact with you? My email address was at the end of Sara's email to Edward, so he thought I knew her.
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Well, obviously email her brother asking if sandstone house means anything. Damnit, man, hurry people's lives are at stake! Also, if she's leaving dry land to go to some sort of other land... what could that mean?
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Glitch posted:In that first batch of photos, why are all of them in color but the one of the building's interior? Even the supposed closeup of the splotch on the ground from the interior image seems to be in color since it has a brown-tinted area. That's been bothering me as well. If the "closeup of the splotch on the ground" really was that, I feel like that photo would also be in black and white to illustrate the connection. Also if you take that photo and rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise it almost looks like a bear with water running at its feet. Maybe a cave of some sort. Although the upper part is not defined.
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Llama posted:It might be some goon trying to play up the whole neo-nazi cult theory that was brought up earlier in the thread. Nope, Im just watching the thread and trying to see the significance of the weird picture with the 9s. edit: but the german may denote a 3rd party is now getting involved to make itself known at a future time. River Raid fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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SgtScruffy posted:Well, obviously email her brother asking if sandstone house means anything. Replied, quote:Edward, Edit: "leave terra firma" = die? Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 5, 2007 |
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Terra firma is earth, buddy. So, I think so, yes. 
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Verdafolio posted:efb: That is what I get for answering a friend's question about Java. Along these lines the clouds are only on the left hand side of the "flag", does this suggest color pattern, or was it just a coincidence that the clouds are only in the left most squares of the photo? Perhaps she wanted to emphasize blue and white? I'll be damned this is intriguing. Subscribed
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Llama posted:It might be some goon trying to play up the whole neo-nazi cult theory that was brought up earlier in the thread. This is funny because I keep reading Edward Northwood as Edward Norton for some reason.
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Carthag posted:Replied, I figured that, but she says she'll be going to some other terra - is that essentially saying somewhere in the afterlife, or perhaps a more literal translation is necessary?
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Carthag posted:Replied, Most likely, many cults beleive in killing themselves in order to "leave the earth" and go party with aliens.
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In the b/w picture is it just me, or does the chair look blurry. More so than it should even with digital zoom. Is there something underneath the chair?
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SgtScruffy posted:I figured that, but she says she'll be going to some other terra - is that essentially saying somewhere in the afterlife, or perhaps a more literal translation is necessary? Maybe the cult she's in is Heaven's Gate 2.0?
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SgtScruffy posted:I figured that, but she says she'll be going to some other terra - is that essentially saying somewhere in the afterlife, or perhaps a more literal translation is necessary?
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daveb29 posted:Along these lines the clouds are only on the left hand side of the "flag", does this suggest color pattern, or was it just a coincidence that the clouds are only in the left most squares of the photo? Perhaps she wanted to emphasize blue and white? I'll be damned the is intriguing. Blue and white with a Nordic Cross would be an allusion to Greece. But it seems unlikely at this point.
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