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jegger · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:31 pm

Re: The whole Nico thing

Abilor · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:26 pm

With regard to Nico, I think there's got to be a way to handle him that's beyond good and evil, i.e. it doesn't matter what his intentions are. Before you freak out, what I mean is that Gracesmom, with Gala_Teah and Yucky covering her back (along with Uncle Frank and Tom) should be able to extract the info he has. If he needs a little cash, so be it in my opinion. Get the info, that's the important thing. It doesn't sound like Nico is in a position to seriously hurt anyone at this point, regardless of his particular intentions. Personally, I predict his assassination sooner or later, but that's just me. I watched too much X-files.

Abilor · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:22 pm

Well folks, I have sent out links and audio to native Bulgarians around the world, including an artist right here in my home town whom I located. I actually met with her, just showing up at her office and asking for help - I hope I didn't come off as too "out there", but she's an avant-garde artist, so I'm hoping this kind of thing might appeal to her. Several professors have confirmed independently that the language is indeed Bulgarian, so at the very least that lead is iron-clad. That said, both a professor at Cornell and the Bulgarian artist said they'd be happy to translate, but not until after the weeked. Grrr... Still, they're doing me the favor, so I'll take what I can get. Anyone else having luck with this?

lirath · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:11 pm

The whole Nico thing

lirath · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:59 pm

The Shakespeare reference comes from the Weird Sisters in the Scottish Play and is actually 'harpier' as opposed to 'harper'. (right on Pachinko - just misquoted but easily done)

It's a corruption of Harpy and appears to be a reference to a spirit creature or familiar for that sister. (the other two having mentioned a cat and a hedgehog) This begins the famous 'double double toil and trouble' speech wherein the sisters brew their odd mixture just before literally all hell breaks loose.

It certainly seems appropriately timed in our situation.

rose · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:03 pm

On pachinko's live journal the April 24 image has a quote from Macbeth. Harper cries tis time tis time
(always glad to contribute Shakespeare into the mix;always happy to see Shakespeare in a game)

I can't read the background.

http://pachinko-chance.livejournal.com/

Abilor · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:19 pm

picture of Nico on "vacation", along with pic of "natasha" giving Nico a message on youtube; or am I trouting?

RedHatty · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:14 pm

I believe it is This One

rose · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:57 pm

Quote:

If we hadnt posted that picture (sorry Pachinko!) they would never of connected it to him.

which picture exactly?

ararejul · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 pm

hi i'm new to the game and this is my first time actually playing an arg so i'll probably mostly be stalking for a while but I thought i'd introduce myself and all that.

name's Jul, i actually had my aim, lj and vox all a long time ago and I'm going to actually try to use my real life ones to play the game (that should freak out some of my friends so it will be amusing at least).

i have to add you on aim for you to see me but I'm
ararejul
ararejul.livejournal.com
ararejul.vox.com

and just about anything else you can think of.

i'm really interested in why mpathy would be doing that scifi quiz (then using that to determine what kind of people they are) and i commented to it last night. and she doesn't seem to talk to people directly there so I guess I'll just watch for more updates from you guys while I settle in.

edit: I completely forgot to add that I put myself on the wayfaring map and it looks like I'm the only one in CO so far which is a bit interesting since it's the birthplace of the 8TSOC

RedHatty · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:50 pm

I tackled the challenge of a story so far & here is what I came up with out of thses 20+ pages.

Feedback is welcomed, if I missed anything you feel is important, let me know!

cissmiace · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:41 pm

DarthBunny wrote:

redhatty mentioned aliens?

http://www.panix.com/~danielc/world/calvin.htm linked from mPathyTest del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us/mpathytest ).

no deeper meaning here, i think - altho i choose to recognise it as evidence for the alien theory, because, why not?

and I like calvin & hobbes

THAT WAS MEEE!! I didnt think anyone had read it! *keeps conspiracy hat on* xD

WolfHawk wrote:

cissmiace wrote:

Because we use MPH Very Happy

Well I'll be. I thought everyone except the US used kilometers. Thanks, cissmiace!

Oh yes! Were not Europeans yet no no! /anarchist xD

Slyfox · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:53 am

jwiv wrote:

I made a suggestion about playing the market awhile ago on one of their LJ's, but it didn't really go anywhere. Also, I'm not sure I agree that going short on this would be wise as I think we'd see an increase in the price of oil securities, not a drop.

Hmmm... True. I suspect that the oil price would spike as you suggest. Embarassed

I just need to go and call my broker...

jwiv · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:37 am

I made a suggestion about playing the market awhile ago on one of their LJ's, but it didn't really go anywhere. Also, I'm not sure I agree that going short on this would be wise as I think we'd see an increase in the price of oil securities, not a drop.

Slyfox · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:13 am

I know this is very cynical but if Nico needs money badly then a bit of stock market speculation might be his answer.

Selling short on oil stocks with a closer date of end of trade on the 30 April should return a considerable profit if these 'oil shock' predictions turn out to be true.

If you don't know what this means you can look it up here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sell_short

If 8tsoc are serious maybe they should be willing to put their money where their mouth is Razz

Does anyone feel like suggesting it?