[Sylvia]

There's no point in ruining a good game for other players so I will make Alice's day and move on. I wished I could say I regret all the effort I put into helping get this going, but I don't. Hopefully, If I leave the rest of you can enjoy the game in peace.

[natas]

Re: Apology

[Oriza]

Apology

[nextday]

Ahhh...He had to make our meeting on that day. Im sorry guys but I cannot make the meeting because I will be at a wedding! Basically Saturday is out for me, but I will keep my eyes open for anything from LU in the meantime.

Any word about shrtyscott3 and I yet from LU NataS?

Should I email them or wait for them to acknowledge me?

[natas]

New email from Dr Bottan. :

Quote:

I will allow you to participate in the next stage of enlightenment, only privately; the others must not know of our relationship. I will also allow us to have a personal forum, but it will not go on as long as the others. It will happen after the forum has ended with them. At that point in time, I will send you the information on where to go and the password. However, as for the next task, you need not participate; you have and will have plenty of tasks to accomplish.

I really need to have something to tell him today beside the "tried but don't have any new info to report". Any ideas or can I snitch somebody out?

EDIT: New E-mail from Endrid...

Quote:

Subject: Re: Strange side effects of Virus From: endridmercy@lazarusunion.org Hmm... If you're referring to that e-mail I got earlier, I was wondering what all of that was about. No, the virus doesn't cause the host to hallucinate, but it might in the rare case that the virus takes control of the host's brain. Maybe she's just hallucinating for other reasons? I guess i'll just disregard all of that stuff about the wiki or whatever, but I did answer her question about what that strange message was all about. I'm guessing that it is a distorted message that was sent out using Dr. Bottan's experimental device called the gate terminal, which allows one to access and transfer data between our two worlds. I'm guessing that the intended message didn't come off as it was supposed to, rather just distorted gibberish. We can always try and find out what it was that the original message was supposed to be, if you want.

We're in the clear ... WHEW!!! and we are supposed to find out what the original message is supposed to be. How do we go about that?

[Sylvia]

So far here are the updates on the roster

Code:

Name           UF Name         Title             Our Other Sylvia                        Acolyte    Dr. Melianne Beckett (she was my partner) Alex           nextday        Acolyte    Blaze (McCarne) Alice        elite.fencer     Acolyte    Ella Pierce Caty        honeycreepshow    Acolyte    Dr. Norman Ott (he was my peer) Lee            lhilt          Acolyte    Alec Coltrane David        nighthawk        Disciple   Unable to Analyze Christopher shrtyscott3       Acolyte    Timothy Peters (he now calls himself The Wolf...) Palm                          Acolyte    Dr. Jennifer Collins (she was my peer) Cyrus                         Disiple    Unable to analyze John         jjocke           Alcolyte   Andrew Salt Silent Monk                   Alcolyte   Analysis: 21%

[natas]

Hey elite.fencer, don't get your tailfeathers ruffled here, but I'm gonna send something to L.U. along the lines of that you have had some complications due to the virus and is causing you to hallucinate and you imagined some crazy website and something you keep calling a "wiki" and see their response.

As for my report to Dr. Bottan, due this evening, I'll get back at you guys on that one.

EDIT: Here's what I sent L.U....

Quote:

Subject: Strange side effects of Virus Hello, NataS here. I have a quick question for anyone who might be able to answer. Does the sentient virus cause hallucinations or mental defect? We have a friend who has apparently been affected by the virus and has these symptoms. The person in question has complained of headaches, and claims she has been to some website created by this Dr. Bottan and supposedly there is some wiki?? or something. Any information you might have previously gathered regarding this might help us in curing her condition. Thanks. NataS

Let's hope they chose to disregard the whole thing.

[jjocke]

My Analysis is Complete

[Sylvia]

Do the best you can natas. Both sides trust you and I'm sure the PMs won't let their game get derailed.

On a side note. Updates:the gate reaction. com

Bowty wrote:

I have finally established my base of operations. This next meeting is now scheduled at Noon (Pacific) - 1:00, on Saturday. Also, I have re-connected with my equipment in Wassaw. This means that the I can post what you have been analyzed as. See you all then.

Ok that's Saturday at 12:00 noon PST, 1:00 pm MST, 2:00 pm CST, 3:00 pm EST

Bowty's myspace blog:

Bowty wrote:

Thursday, March 06, 2008 The next meeting. My own, The next meeting is on saturday from noon-1:00 (PST). Those who are acolytes will be contacted by one of your peers with the information on where to go and how to get there. Those who are not acolytes will get an e-mail from me explaining the next task and will re-engage the first stage of enlightenment. I will see you all there. Dr. Bottan.

Dr Bottan contacted me and told me he would be sending me the info.

Quote:

I have finally established my base of operations so I have scheduled the next meeting. I suggest you check my homepage. When the time comes, I will be giving you the information on where to go and what the password is, and I expect you to only inform those who are acolytes

I asked if I was allowed to give it to you natas, since you are his agent and not an acolyte, and he said.

Quote:

Jeff is never permitted to do anything that any of you are doing. I have other plans for him and that is all you need to know about him.

So natas, you apparently have a very important roll and you have your two agents, nextday and shrtyscott3 who will be reporting to you what happens in these meetings.

The meetings will be posted here on the forums so no one will be left out. But I suggest we play by the Puppet Master's rules if we don't won't this game to implode. It's his story and we are merely his puppets. Those who are not acolytes yet but are still playing this arg and want to become acolytes need to be here at those times to get their assignment via email.

[R00tie]

Have we asked them to look at the gibberish/code for us yet? We could email Creed and tell him it's a computer virus from Bowty, and that the story/information was something he made up to keep them distracted while it worked. Or something like that.

[natas]

Now that's funny! For once, I'm not the one people are mad at. OOPSIE!!

Wait a sec.... HEY ALICE!!!! Whatdya doin???

EDIT: Maybe we can fix this... Let's all use our heads. LU has asked me for troops, so they seem to trust me for some weird reason. Maybe I can tell them that this "Elite.fencer" character is some rogue agent from ABC Corp. trying to sabotage blahblahblah. (or something along those lines lol) Let's figure something out quick guys.

[shrtyscott3]

elite.fencer wrote:

I sent this email to Creed and EndridMercy: Hello, I am a participant in the Gate Reaction, run by a person I think you might be familiar with. His name is Dr. Bottan. I'm assuming that since you're both with the Lazarus Union, you know what the Gate Reaction is and how it works. (Myself, I am not completely sure of the details-- all I know is that it involves a serious virus and it can seperate people onto different planes of existence (I think)). If you visit thegatereaction.com, you'll find a list of my friends and I, and a claim that we are his 'disciples' (although a few of us have been promoted to acolytes recently). Dr. Bottan, of course, is a terrorist. He threatened to release upon this virus upon my friends and I unless each of us sent him pictures with the words "I am your disciple" written on it. We did so, of course, and he then proceeded to place the pictures on his website, along with a title, an analysis, a status, and some notes. We believe his 'analysis' of us is an attempt by him to match us to our other selves in the seperate 'planes'-- for example, Sylvia's analysis now reads "Dr. Melianne Beckett", and Jacob's reads "Isabella Bottan" (who is his daughter, by the way). Since then, he has given us another task, and we have had a few meetings with him where we each asked him one question, which gave us much more knowledge about what he is doing and why. My friend created a wiki regarding the Gate Reaction as well, which should answer questions that you might have about us ('us' being all the people currently participating in the Gate Reaction). The reason I'm writing to you now is that Jacob and Luis, two participants in the GR, recieved an email from Dr.Bottan (who also goes by 'bowty') containing a lot of what looks like pure gibberish. But we were hoping that one of you might have the resources to decode it: [I put the code here] There is also another person who is currently researching this virus, Stuart Washburn, but who knows nothingabout the Gate Reaction. His website is stuburn.blogspot.com. Please send me any information you can about this bizzare code-- and provide a bit more info about what exactly the Gate Reaction and the virus does, if you feel it appropriate-- as soon as you can. Thank you! --Alice

Hopefully we'll get some answers...[/quote]

What the f***!!!!! OMFG, why would you do that! You just ruined everything, they aren't supposed to know everything, now we cannot manipulate them because they will know the truth! Was it necessary to go into detail about the tasks?!

Are you kidding, pulling our leg, because I'm enraged right now!

[Sylvia]

Well I hope the PMs ignore that and continue on. Other wise you have just destroyed this whole arg. And why did you mention the wiki, that's for us players not for the PMs or the characters. It's OOG just like these forums. LU already knows about the virus, it's yet to be determined if they are trying to stop it or trying to eliminate what stops it. And you just successfully stepped on natas's, nextday's and shrtyscott3's toes.

[Oriza]

I sent this email to Creed and EndridMercy:
Hello,
I am a participant in the Gate Reaction, run by a person I think you might be familiar with. His name is Dr. Bottan. I'm assuming that since you're both with the Lazarus Union, you know what the Gate Reaction is and how it works. (Myself, I am not completely sure of the details-- all I know is that it involves a serious virus and it can seperate people onto different planes of existence (I think)). If you visit thegatereaction.com, you'll find a list of my friends and I, and a claim that we are his 'disciples' (although a few of us have been promoted to acolytes recently).
Dr. Bottan, of course, is a terrorist. He threatened to release upon this virus upon my friends and I unless each of us sent him pictures with the words "I am your disciple" written on it. We did so, of course, and he then proceeded to place the pictures on his website, along with a title, an analysis, a status, and some notes. We believe his 'analysis' of us is an attempt by him to match us to our other selves in the seperate 'planes'-- for example, Sylvia's analysis now reads "Dr. Melianne Beckett", and Jacob's reads "Isabella Bottan" (who is his daughter, by the way). Since then, he has given us another task, and we have had a few meetings with him where we each asked him one question, which gave us much more knowledge about what he is doing and why. My friend created a wiki regarding the Gate Reaction as well, which should answer questions that you might have about us ('us' being all the people currently participating in the Gate Reaction).
The reason I'm writing to you now is that Jacob and Luis, two participants in the GR, recieved an email from Dr.Bottan (who also goes by 'bowty') containing a lot of what looks like pure gibberish. But we were hoping that one of you might have the resources to decode it:
[I put the code here]
There is also another person who is currently researching this virus, Stuart Washburn, but who knows nothingabout the Gate Reaction. His website is stuburn.blogspot.com.
Please send me any information you can about this bizzare code-- and provide a bit more info about what exactly the Gate Reaction and the virus does, if you feel it appropriate-- as soon as you can.
Thank you!
--Alice[/quote]
Hopefully we'll get some answers...

[Palm]

decoding giberish