[classical]

aaaaand he's gone. However, he did give me vague permission to email him again, which I will be (ab)using to the fullest extent, hrr hrr. (:<

I sent him a fairly apologetic email and attached the copy of Port's old blog and the more complete copy of the manuscript, plus I threw in Hatch's blog to give him something to think about. Hopefully he'll see us as no threat and email me back sooner or later with more curious details.

This only raises even more questions on top of the ones we have yet to answer. Who thieved the jumpdrive out of his house in Santa Rosa? (JDM??!) Port's not real? He's only a character? WHO THE HELL IS HE THEN?

Agh. Brain hurts. Going for a lie down.

[Wulf74]

classical wrote:

bdbrickerSPLATyahoo.com works and... I was kinda thrown off by how casually he responded. Er. Time to ask more questions. OH WAIT he's messaging me hang on-- Quote: bdbricker: Which oracle do you mean? clas1ca: The one in a manuscript I've found. One that has your name on it. bdbricker: Okay. Where did you find a manuscript with my name on it? clas1ca: Believe it or not--on a jumpdrive, in a San Francsico toilet. Entitled "The Brightman Oracle". bdbricker: I don't know what to say, that's my novel. But I've never shown it to anyone. A toilet? What does the jumpdrive look like? clas1ca: I don't have it, personally--a friend of mine collected it. I think it was green. The jumpdrive actually didn't have actual files on it--they were temporary autosave ones that ended up on there. YESSSS he's in game /breathes sigh of relief

w00t! Way to go! Start diggin, and let us know what he says!

[classical]

bdbrickerSPLATyahoo.com works and... I was kinda thrown off by how casually he responded. Er. Time to ask more questions.

OH WAIT he's messaging me hang on--

Quote:

bdbricker: Which oracle do you mean? clas1ca: The one in a manuscript I've found. One that has your name on it. bdbricker: Okay. Where did you find a manuscript with my name on it? clas1ca: Believe it or not--on a jumpdrive, in a San Francsico toilet. Entitled "The Brightman Oracle". bdbricker: I don't know what to say, that's my novel. But I've never shown it to anyone. A toilet? What does the jumpdrive look like? clas1ca: I don't have it, personally--a friend of mine collected it. I think it was green. The jumpdrive actually didn't have actual files on it--they were temporary autosave ones that ended up on there. bdbricker: I used to use that to transfer stuff from work to home. I thought I lost it -- but definitely not in a toilet in San Francisco. clas1ca: Where did you see it last? bdbricker: I had it about two weeks ago. At home. Can I get it back? Does your friend live in Santa Rosa? Have a habit of robbing houses? clas1ca: No--he lives in San Francisco. Funnily, we didn't just stumble upon it--someone led us to it. We're not entirely sure who they are, though. Just a vague pusedoname, "The Patriot." Does it ring any bells? but I'm sure we can get it back for you, if my friend could get in contact with you somehow. post, perhaps? bdbricker: Who are you? Your story doesn't seem right to me. How many pages of my book are on the temporary files? It's starting to hit me that you are reading it. I didn't want anyone to see it until it was done. clas1ca: I'm sorry. we found the thing and we were trying to figure out who it belonged to... there's only about 16 pages of the novel on it. bdbricker: Thank God. Then how did you know about the Patriot? clas1ca: The Patriot kinda contacted me first, before we found the manuscript. He had taken over a blog of another friend of ours who goes by the name of Port King. bdbricker: And how did you track me down from a name on a file? Was there more personal stuff on there? Port King? ahh...yes. Right. I thought by your art that you would be cooler. What do you want from me? clas1ca: What do you mean? You don't know Port...? bdbricker: That's personal information. That novel is very very important to me and it really bothers me that people are reading it. Of course I know Port King. I created him. clas1ca: You did? http://portking.blogspot.com/ Is this blog familiar to you at all? bdbricker: The problem is that other people shouldn't know him. clas1ca: Because this is how I found Port. bdbricker: I don't blog. And that doesn't have anything to do with my book. clas1ca: the posts were deleted... but in those posts detailed a lot of things that you talked about in your manuscript. which is why I assumed you knew Port... if I may, can I send you a copy of the original blog posts? bdbricker: Sure. Listen. This has really gotten me kind of torqued and I have to leave work. I'm sorry if was short with you, but it's apparent that somebody stole that jumpdrive and it REALLY upsets me that people are looking at my book. I can't even think right now. clas1ca: I'm really sorry. I'm just as confused as you are, really. I will talk to my friend about sending back the drive, if we could arrange that. but if Port is your character, I think you might be very interested in the blog posts, then. or at least who was writing them, because they are very similar to your writing.

YESSSS he's in game /breathes sigh of relief

[Deep, Deep]

I tried adding bdbrickerSPLATyahoo.com to Y! Messenger but he ended up declining along with sending me a blank message.

Silently glad, as I'm terrible at the communication aspects.

[Wulf74]

Re: Blurring the lines

[Kyra's Vengeance]

Blurring the lines

[classical]

Huh! I've tried emailing the address bdbrickerSPLATyahoo.com--hasn't bounced yet, so let's see if something comes out of it.

[Deep, Deep]

http://profiles.yahoo.com/bdbricker?fmt=2.0&intl=us&os=win&ver=9.0.0.2136 ?

They've been a member since April 2009, so maybe?

[3v1L Schwinn]

classical wrote:

Interesting. If you take the code at the top of the page: 88.55.99.209.198.55.11.132 And divide all of them by 11: 08.05.09.19.18.05.01.12 Simple substitution yields this: H.E.I.S.R.E.A.L "HE IS REAL" ?

Nice catch Deep Deep!

MAN! I cant believe I missed that!!! (OK yes I can)
All the D@mn'd searching I have been doing... S#!T!

Anywho looking at the RSS There is another set of numbers...

Quote:

A Warning... 88.55.99.209.198.55.11.132 Monday, April 20, 2009 5:57 PM 22.44.22.198.99.33.121.55.198

Using Class's /by 11
the new numbers come out too...

You guessed it....


wait for it...



22.44.22.198.99.33.121.55.198

2. 4. 2 18. 9 3 11 5 18

b d b r i c k e r



BD Bricker He is Real.

With a link to Yahoo?

[classical]

Interesting.

If you take the code at the top of the page: 88.55.99.209.198.55.11.132
And divide all of them by 11: 08.05.09.19.18.05.01.12

Simple substitution yields this: H.E.I.S.R.E.A.L

"HE IS REAL"

?

[Deep, Deep]

Probably nothing, or somebody already found it, but: http://findthewriter.blogspot.com/

[classical]

Didn't grab Port's blog, but I don't believe the card images strayed from the Sol magic square numbers.
That said, whoever was posting them apparently can't complete the spell now!

[BlackandBlue]

Recieved this yesterday, Wed April 22 at 4:32pm.

[Wulf74]

Kyra's Vengeance wrote:

Can't tell if that is in game or not...

I'm going to guess probably not. Whomever this person is, has had this account established since 2007, and that appears to be a "real" website - meaning you wouldn't be able to edit the date joined, or dates posted.

That being said - I never expected to be searching a real county assessors office website, verifying that someone we're trying to track down owned a house 4yrs ago...

[Kyra's Vengeance]

Here are some of JM's writings:

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/exasperanza

Can't tell if that is in game or not. Obviously a young person...and one short story is about "never growing up".