[ProjectXI]

Weird. No response from Kelvinator via PM. Yeah, I'd say let's back off of Mr. Portnoy King, unless you get another response from him about Queenie. Someone to add to our list of characters? I've already tried Port Queen on blogspot, along with a bunch of other combos--beanking (which is kind of a neat coincidence, but definitely OOG), bellaking, etcetera.

Wulf, you seem to be "chosen" somehow--you're the only one he responds too, and you're also the one that got the code e-mail blamed on him. If there's going to be a single point of contact, it's you. If Maury ever responds to me, I can take care of him, but I'm thinking for now we just let it chill.

And maybe bang our heads against the Konig Darzin Code?

Edit--Oh, and on Jennie being his salvation? Seems a pretty standard literary/psychological trope to me--he couldn't save his own daughter, so he tried to save that one, and failed as well. He's failed to save at least three women: the motorcycle accident, Bean, and Jennie. Then, he failed to save his marriage.

On Bean--death by blunt force trauma to the head? Isn't it a concussion that makes your pupils blow up like that?

[Wulf74]

I just got another reply from Port. From the tone of the email, it almost makes me question whether he's OOG game. Almost.

Quote:

isten. I'm tired. I had a crappy night and whatever is going on is bringing me attention that I don't/didn't want. I came in this morning and found that somebody has been leaving messages for me at work asking about the same stuff as you guys who have been e-mailing me. I'm nothing special. I'm a guy who had a chance to do great things but who fell down when the time came, you know? I've never even heard of Watership Down but I wish you guys luck in whatever you're doing, but I'm just afraid that I can't be of much help. And can you please tell all of your friends who have been e-mailing and calling me to just back off? For your friend Parker, my given name is Portnoy but I don't know what it "means" and for Jack who left a comment for my blog last night -- I have absolutely no idea what you are asking about. It seems I'm saying that more and more these days. You guys have a great day and Queenie told me to tell you to stop calling. She has work to do. --Port

Wow. So do we quit contacting him? Do we try and make it a single point of contact? Granted, there are going to be a lot of people watching this - and acting of their own volition, especially if they don't see these boards. Heh - I guess it's kinda strange that one of the main points of contact for information, etc about all this - is asking us to leave him alone, lol.

I'm sending him a quick reply, that we'll try and honor his request as best we can, but I've stated that we don't have his phone#, and that whomever is calling his work - must actually know him. I'm going to try and keep the channels of communication open with him, unless someone else would like that honor.

I've asked him a couple of times now, about what he meant about "Jenny being his salvation" - but he's blatantly ignored each time. I'll keep pressing.

[ProjectXI]

Right. Got my copy.

So the bracketed phrases are from the epigrams.

Beanflower passage is Book 1, ch 9: The Crow and the Beanfield. Also from Robert Browning's De Gustibus, end of the first portion. http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/browning-robert/de-gustibus-106962.html

Fortinbras passage is Book 1, ch 4: The Departure. Also from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Horatio says it nearish the end of scene I. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html


Don Alfonso passage is Book 1, ch 15: The Story of the King's Lettuce. Also from da Ponte's Cosi fan Tutte (which was written by Mozart). The lines are from the beginning of Scene 16, which happens to be the last scene of Act 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Così_fan_tutte

Okay, so we have passages from the end of the opening movement of their body of work, perhaps? I'll do some digging on Konig Darzin. I don't immediately see any relevance to 9, 4, and 15, but they might come up later.

Edit--Darzin is also from Watership Down. An evil king that the trickster rabbit of myth defeats in the chapter which the Browning epigram opens.

Edit^2--So Konig means King. King Darzin code. Or King King code, since Darzin is a king. Port King? Does PK have any German heritage? And how'd he get the name Port, anyway? Port wine? Port v. Starboard? Port in a storm? No ideas here, just free associating. Maybe one of my pinballs will hit something.

Edit^3--Just sent him an e-mail asking him about his name. Hoping it might drop a clue that helps us break the code.

[Wulf74]

ProjectXI wrote:

Just so I've got this straight: He sent you an email which quoted what he claimed was an email from you? And I've read Watership Down, some years ago. I don't see how the second two could come from it... I'll see if I can find my copy.

Correct. The email he sent to me, appeared to have been originally sent BY me. Although I obviously didn't do it. But it looked to have been sent from my email address.

[ProjectXI]

Just so I've got this straight:

He sent you an email which quoted what he claimed was an email from you?

And I've read Watership Down, some years ago. I don't see how the second two could come from it... I'll see if I can find my copy.

[Wulf74]

Wow - things are getting stranger and stranger. I just got an email from Port:

Quote:

What? Apparently not. What the hell is this about? On Thu, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Wülf <wulf74SPLATremoved.com> wrote: Can you understand König Darzin Code? <<with the beanflower's boon and the blackbird's tune and May and June>><<now sir young Fortinbras of unimproved metal hot and full hath in the skirts of Norway here and there sharked up a list of lawless resolutes for food and diet to some enterprise that hath a stomach in't><Don Alfonso: "Eccovi il medico, signore belle" Ferrando and Guglielmo: "Despina en maschera, che triste pelle!">>!

I searched the phrases, and they all seem to come from a book called Watership Down, by Richard Adams. The book in and of itself seems pretty strange, just from the description of it. You can read about it here. Has anyone actually read this?

I replied back to him with much the same thing.

[classical]

Wulf74 wrote:

What do you mean? I don't think he meant an actual misspelling, like port vs porte - but simply but down the wrong URL. However, I doubt it as well...

I mean, the web address provided in the email in this thread, which I assume was the one also sent to Port, works. So which address is he looking at that's 'misspelled'?

[Wulf74]

I received a reply back from Port, about the emails we originally received - but it was blank..? I'm thinking it was simply a mistake.

I posted a comment to his blog, asking specifically about the last line "Jenny should have been my salvation." I doubt it will be posted on the website, just because none of them have been posted, but perhaps he'll respond to it in the next post.

classical wrote:

... it was? Because it works all the same ...

What do you mean? I don't think he meant an actual misspelling, like port vs porte - but simply but down the wrong URL.

However, I doubt it as well...

[classical]

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The only thing I can think is that the link to my blog was misspelled. It makes no sense to me.

... it was? Because it works all the same ...

[syntacticAtrocity]

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From: portking1970SPLATgmail.com Subject: Re: The Curran Date: April 9, 2009 5:00:32 PM MDT (CA) To: *****@me.com I saw the e-mails and they were definitely odd...and nothing that I know about. The only thing I can think is that the link to my blog was misspelled. It makes no sense to me. As for the article link that I sent, I personally think that he was set up. It stuck in my mind because to write that on a suicide note would make no sense. That's like writing "I'm at 1407 Oakhurst Avenue, come help me!" and then getting in your car and driving away, you know? I would only write that on a note if I was under duress and wanted to let someone without alerting the person who has me in that position. I was just giving your colleague an example of how the symbols and codes of Masonry tie so many things together in odd ways. That's all. I didn't know he would share the link. --Port On 4/9/09, **** <me> wrote: Have you seen the emails linking your blog? My colleague forwarded them to you. Why do you think the man in LA who killed his kids wrote that Masonic code - "oh lord my god is there no help for a widows son" maybe he was set up?

The address is a clue, and a big one. That's my thinking, at least.

Additionally, there's a second blog post for today that just went up. Pretty interesting read.

*edit* There are 6 1407 Oakhurst Avenue's that come up in google maps:

1407 Oakhurst Ave, Norman, Cleveland, OK 73071
1407 Oakhurst Ave, Jacksonville, Duval, FL 32208
1407 Oakhurst Ave, Los Altos, Santa Clara, CA 94024
1407 Oakhurst Ave, Parkersburg, Wood, WV 26101
1407 Oakhurst Ave, San Carlos, San Mateo, CA 94070
1407 Oakhurst Pl, Independence, Montgomery, KS 67301

None are in Jersey, San Fran, or Chicago. There is, however, an Oakhurst, New Jersey.

[syntacticAtrocity]

Soobs, one of the commentors on the Live Crime Report, is googled as this:

http://coalitionofcrimebloggers.ning.com/profile/Soobs1

Either a very intricately done ARG profile or this is all real. I really don't know.

The True Crime Report, and now Soobs blog, look way too ARGish to be real blogs. If this is as big as it looks, it's weird there hasn't been more interest generated.

*EDIT* I'm clicking through links from Soobs' page. Just came to her only friend, Nancy Reilly. There's a link to www.policepulse.com. It's also in the same format. This looks strangely like the blogs from Perplex City. I think there's something here... but on the other hand it's soooooooo detailed an incredible amount of planning would have had to go into it with a large team. So hard to tell.

[Wulf74]

ProjectXI wrote:

Actually, it seems to suggest a missing email. DeMolay's first email said "I'll tell you what to do next on Monday." The next email we have is from the following Wednesday, and it also references Monday's absent email. We've got two separate links in a chain. I've reached out to Maury with a question about why he travels to Chicago via PM. If/when he responds, I'll ask about DeMolay, too. Also, in the missing-links-of-chain department: PK's profile pic is labeled "annalisaattheshore13." Any idea on where to find the other 12?

Good catches. I searched through Flickr (since that's the most common one so far as I'm aware), and wasn't able to find anything that looked to be any of our protagonists at this point. There were several Kelvinator's, King's (no Ports), and even a few Jack Demolay's.
It'll be interesting to see if he responds to your PM's. I'm also anxiously awaiting a reply still from PK.

As you guys have pointed out, there's been quite a few definite references to different songs, and a few possible references to movies - but why? None of them appear to be related, that I've been able to see so far - and the movies even less so. I mean, Bill & Ted's combined with the Wizard of Oz? Unless they were both drug induced trips...

=edit=
I had a thought about JackN7 from the True Crime posts. It does seem random, but then there are a few posts from people on there acting like they know him? And frankly - I would say that using a true story about a very tragic event, as a place to drop a clue would be in pretty poor taste.

[syntacticAtrocity]

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I was wondering too - does that email from DeMolay look like it's from an gmail account? We have the first part of it "jjdemolay". Does anyone recognize the format from a particular email client/service? If so - we should try dropping a line to JM and find out WTF

I was thinking about this earlier - it is a good idea. I'll see if I can dig the reference out of the emails to this coming Monday. I believe it had to do with searching for "bricker".

*edit* ok there's nothing for this Monday, you're right. we do have to keep checking for "bricker" though, and are instructed to "wait for it". the missing email makes sense. i hadn't thought of PMing Kelvinator.

developing some paths!

[ProjectXI]

Actually, it seems to suggest a missing email. DeMolay's first email said "I'll tell you what to do next on Monday." The next email we have is from the following Wednesday, and it also references Monday's absent email. We've got two separate links in a chain.

I've reached out to Maury with a question about why he travels to Chicago via PM. If/when he responds, I'll ask about DeMolay, too.

Also, in the missing-links-of-chain department: PK's profile pic is labeled "annalisaattheshore13." Any idea on where to find the other 12?

[Wulf74]

syntacticAtrocity wrote:

I have no idea what to do next. We either wait for Monday, as per the emails

I wasn't able to find the Monday reference in the emails. It referenced an email that was sent on a Monday, but nothing I could see about next Monday?

I think perhaps, we're asking the wrong questions, which is what is holding it up. I've be hesitant to ask about his daughter, or Jenny since the response you got about being a reporter.

And I take back the not being related to Masonry comments. I wasn't taking into account Jack DeMolay .. lol.

I was wondering too - does that email from DeMolay look like it's from an gmail account? We have the first part of it "jjdemolay". Does anyone recognize the format from a particular email client/service? If so - we should try dropping a line to JM and find out WTF