[Grady Martin]

here's mine

[the buddha collapse]

I got this.

[paperbound]

Got this from TT about an hour ago, while standing in line at Walmart (where, coincidentally, I was parked directly across from a black Yukon with tinted windows).

[3v1L Schwinn]

This just showed up in my inbox a couple mins ago. It came as a reply to my email to TT. No message TT just replied to me with this image. I assume it has to do with the cemetery. maybe a grave marker or something.

[syntacticAtrocity]

[quote]From: jjdemolaySPLATgmail.com
Subject: Re:
Date: June 14, 2009 9:52:21 AM MDT (CA)
To: ****

We had a good rapport, back when this all started. I need perspective, my friend, so I naturally thought of you. I fear I may have eliminated those who I actually needed, making things much more complicated now. I'm not accustomed to confusion and definitely not regret. I am seeking advice and thought of you.

A.R.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:58 AM, **** <****> wrote:
Yep! But I'm so drunk right now. That answer needs context

Sent from my iPhone


On 14-Jun-09, at 1:53 AM, Jack DeMolay <jjdemolay> wrote:

Are you still out there, my friend?

[classical]

As of about four hours (about half an hour after my last post):

Quote:

ArlenRage: I have avenged Arianna but feel no vindication, only fatigue. Regret. And Reynaud has followed me to California. I'm tempted not to fight.

...

ok, wat

[classical]

Okay, so the Cathedral is located in Garden Grove, California. Which is where Port said the Watchers had moved to.

Uh oh!

edit;; so I sent a quick, 'hey contact me if you see this' sort of email to Port a couple of hours ago but I haven't heard back from him...

But my phone just went off. Someone left me a text message. Guess who?

Quote:

They are all dead. If King contacts you, you need to text me! - B. Starr

Number is unfamiliar--i.e. it's not Bricker's, but his number was apparently his home number, anyway. It is a Santa Rosa number, though: (707) 758 9229

But I will take this information only lightly if I must. :B

FOR FUN ADDITIONAL WEIRDNESS: JJDeMolay @ Twitter apparently works again--and this tweet from May 15th only JUST showed up in my feed reader. I dunno if y'all saw it before me or something, but... that was a few days before the thing all went to hell, yes?

And... now it doesn't work anymore. I might have jinxed it. But that totally wasn't a fluke of my cache or anything...

Quote:

JJDeMolay: I'm sorry.

[elfis]

classical wrote:

Well this isn't good. Quote: ArlenRage: http://twitpic.com/7amj1 - Perhaps it's time to force a fumble. ArlenRage: http://twitpic.com/7bfjc - Although inevitable, the Watchers have ceased being useful to me. Warn them, it will make this funner. I don't know what the first image of the building is (though it seems familiar, I can't recall right now!) but the second one is an image of Al Capone's St. Valentine's Day massacre. So um.

Well the first pic is the Crystal Cathedral where not too long ago a man committed suicide during a service:



Man commits suicide at Crystal Cathedral - Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/19/local/me-crystal-cathedral19

So ... murder / suicide?

New St. Valentine's Day Massacre
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-st-valentines-day-massacre.html

[classical]

Well this isn't good.

Quote:

ArlenRage: http://twitpic.com/7amj1 - Perhaps it's time to force a fumble. ArlenRage: http://twitpic.com/7bfjc - Although inevitable, the Watchers have ceased being useful to me. Warn them, it will make this funner.

I don't know what the first image of the building is (though it seems familiar, I can't recall right now!) but the second one is an image of Al Capone's St. Valentine's Day massacre.

So um.

[paperbound]

3v1L Schwinn wrote:

Quote: ArlenRage: Incidentally...how do you say "key" in Chinese? Simplified Quote: 钥匙 Traditional Quote: 鑰匙 Of course I have NO idea how "say" it.

As Chinese is far from a language I've ever considered learning, everything I can find seems to pronounce it

Quote:

yaoshi

[3v1L Schwinn]

Chapter 44 begins with the quote:

Quote:

The enforced passivity of their defense, the interminable waiting, became insupportable. Day and night they heard the muffled thud of the picks above and dreamt of the collapse of the grotto and of every ghastly eventuality. They were subject to "castle-mentality" in its most extreme form

The chapter is part of the climax of the book. Where Woundwart is attacking the warren and Hazel leaves to go to the farm to set the dog loose.

Quote:

ArlenRage: Incidentally...how do you say "key" in Chinese? Simplified Quote: 钥匙 Traditional Quote: 鑰匙

Of course I have NO idea how "say" it.

[classical]

Mooooar emails from Port!

Quote:

Court, We're settled into a safe house in Garden Grove. Same M.O., run-down ghetto house complete with the DANGER: PIT BULLS sign and the old couch on the front porch and frickin' Houston Control in the basement. I never knew that houses in California even had basements. I've got to be honest, I'm starting to feel invincible with these people. They know everything everywhere and seem to move with impunity. I finally had to ask who they were, or more specifically "why" they were. They were initially organized by Starr and are mostly made up of former Brightman employees who seem to be zealously protective of the Oracle. I am told that when you meet with her, you either want to die for her or you want to hide and figure out a way to destroy her for what she is able to see in you. They say I'll meet her next week. On one hand I'm nervous, but on the other I'm almost afraid that I'll be disappointed, you know? Like she's just one of those fortune-teller ladies at the county fair who tries to speak in nothing but vague generalities. I don't know, but I'll keep you updated. I interrupted a meeting in the kitchen this morning and although they were friendly about it, they made sure I excused myself before continuing. But I did overhear that they think Lincoln is at the Brightman too, and has been since they finished with him at Fort Miley. I get the impression that he's not considered much of a physical threat anymore...but he is definitely feared by the Watchers. (?) Did you know any of this? You seem to know 90% of what I think is news! I hope all is well with you and I'll try not to panic if you do the same. Port

Plus, tweet'd not too long ago:

Quote:

ArlenRage: You say 'alienated', I say 'lacked vision'. Tomayto...tomahto. Potayto...potahto. Let's call the whole thing off! (Couldn't help myself!) ArlenRage: Incidentally...how do you say "key" in Chinese?

Huh.

And the Hazeltine blog was updated with the image below about ten minutes after Rage's last tweet. At the bottom lefthand corner is something that says 'CH 44'. Which I have no idea what it means, of course. The only thing I can think of that has a chapter 44 is Watership Down, called 'A Message from El-ahrairah'.

But if some more mysterious envelopes show up at my parent's house again, I'll let you guys know. :B

[paperbound]

In between tweets from John Mayer (someone remind me why I chose to follow him - or give him a job to do! Geez! My twitter page fills up fast just from him!), was this, posted about an hour ago:

Quote:

ArlenRage: Alas, it appears that I might have set the bar a bit high for the folded brood. Pity.

[3v1L Schwinn]

Quote:

Wouldn't it be irritating if this whole thing was just to get people to attend the ARGfest thingy?

I am still holding out for a Starbucks viral campaign.

[classical]

Wulf74 wrote:

Ok, so I'm now more confused.. I thought the One was some sort of supernatural, non-corporeal, omniscient, super-powered Devil. At the beginning of this, we were lead to believe that the One was somehow controlling Rage, and that Rage didn't have a lot of control over himself when he was being inhabited/controlled by the One, with the exception of Jenny...? This thing has been all over the place so far - and even as some of the pieces are fitting together they still don't seem to fit together or even be related. [/shrug] [/rant]

Hahah, maybe it's just me, then. As far as I understand, you're on the right track--it just happens that this devil was manufactured. In any case, I've always taken Rage's references to demonism/supernaturalism/etc. a little less literally than it was suggested so, like I just wrote back to Port, this whole fog just parted like the Red fucking Sea.

At the very least, Black Beauty has intersected with the storyline (finally) and the background behind one of the major players in this thing has surfaced. It does make me wonder (more than usual) about Rage's real background and his relationship to the One. Though I'm sure we'll figure that one out soon enough.