So the images, to me, refer to either specific times or places:
1) 1994/1996; now; 1997; 2001-ish ... orrrrr
2) Ball Harbor, New Jersey; the forums here (or maybe where I'm at?); Bodega Bay, California; Norman, Oklahoma
I would tenatively say the images also refers to an order within the manuscript pieces we've gotten, except the link to my cover throws that off a little. Unless he means the entire thing, respectively (or maybe just the first portion? cause that part is the only one with the title in it).
Or I'm totally missing the meaning completely, which is probably the most likely option.
edit;;
About five minutes after I posted, guess who I got a PM from?
Quote:
From: Kelvinator
To: classical
Posted: Today, at 6:45 pm
Subject: Order
You are the second.
So um, either that was in reference to the location line-up I just did, unless it's about people, which would be:
Port (or Annalisa); er, me?; the Oracle (perhaps Bernie); Bricker
Either way, I still have no idea what it means. D; If you look at the aformentioned locations on a map, it basically scales from coast-to-coast, then backtracks halfway across the country to Oklahoma.
Port's blog, the Hazeltine Report, the Brightman Oracle blog, and the Oracle Project blog were all updated today, each with one word.
Haven't seen updates on any other related sites and the postcard that was on oraclewatch is gone.
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:09 pm
E.Y.E. Spy
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:45 pm
Wulf74
Well, I just heard back from my brother about the Chinese characters, and it's not good.
He said that there appear to be several characters within one, painted on top of each other basically. So being the clever guy he is - he forwarded it to a bunch of his friends to take a look at. One, a young lady born and raised in Hong Kong, and just recently came to the US. She doesn't have a clue. She said the characters are all muddled. She said she felt a bit embarrassed she wasn't able to pick anything out of it.
He said he's going to keep looking into it - and see if he can't decipher it brush stroke by stroke - but he's got to find his book on it first. Until then - if anyone else knows of a way to decipher this - it'd be a good idea to jump on it.
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:17 pm
classical
TRUEFAX
Hahaha. I might go so far to feel vaguely sorry for anyone shadowing me.
In other news, I juuuuuust got my train ticket to Portland. Officially going to ARGFest! whee
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:23 am
paperbound
classical wrote:
... sweet, we have stalkers!
It's always entertaining to see Gun Barrel City mentioned somewhere, considering it's not really a big town and it's rarely mentioned outside of the lake area. Last time I saw it in print outside of the local newspapers was Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned.
Pretty sure being assigned the task of following me would be boring as hell, though. My routine is pretty much the same, 24/7.
I'm gonna keep details to the minimum, here, because I don't know how safe this is but: you know your way around the Brightman Institute, do you not?
In short: we really need your help.
-- C
From: water.tightSPLATlive.com
Subject: Re: Hatch
Yes, you do need my help. Please pay close attention because this is the last time that you will get direct information from me so you are going to need to up your game a bit from this point forward. There are very few of us left to help and the danger is very real, I've seen the surveillance data and you are all being watched to some degree or another and I know that your groups' observational skills aren't the best. We've been in your store (Trina wore glasses like yours and said that you kept looking at her), we stood behind one of you at the WalMart in Tilton, and followed another on Main Street out of Gun Barrel City. Hell, we were able to walk right up and put a package into a mailbox in Utah. But our proximity to your little group has always been for protection, unlike the people who are watching you now. They are just waiting for the call that you are getting too close to interfering. I will be providing what you need, but it won't be obvious and we can't risk pointing things out anymore. Three pieces of advice going forward; never jump to conclusions, get familiar with everything you have seen or you won't recognize when I am communicating with you, and no matter what you do, protect the writer. He is the only one who can truly finish this.
Begin.
...
... sweet, we have stalkers! :D
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:14 pm
classical
At the Hazeltine Report:
The Fisherman wrote:
"A lot of what I know," says Curt Gowdy, the retired host of The American Sportsman, "I learned from fishing. Fishing has been my life, and I can tell you that you have to have a lot of patience."
Far too many people drop in a line, get impatient and pull the hook from the water just as the bass is creeping out from under the rock.
I... don't get it. D:
edit;; lol okay I get it now
Quote:
From: Casey Lawrence (water.tightSPLATlive.com)
Subject: Hatch
I saw your ad on craigslist but it was pulled and the e-mail address in the cache no longer works. Had to have somebody hack it.
Why are you looking for me?
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:22 pm
Wulf74
Just spoke with my brother while sitting in the Columbus, OH airport. He said he's only had a chance to glance at the image so far - but will really look into it now. He said the center symbol appears to actually be 2 characters, the first one meaning "small". However depending on what the 2nd character is, it could change the meaning of the entire thing.
He'll get back to me as soon as he can. I might not be able to post anything till I get to my layover depending on how long it takes him.
I'm fairly willing to bet, that Hatch's Craigslist listing is whatever the Chinese characters spell out....
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:16 am
3v1L Schwinn
I have been scouring craigslist for Hatch and his map. I haven't had any luck yet. I have tried almost all variations of his name. I looked for someone selling maps, Chinese money, Chinese symbols, anything to do with Brightman, Oracles, Watchers, sensual massage, keys, Keystone. I looked up the serial number on the money, I looked for DR starr, W.T. Hatch, Sgt Ernie I even tried "Hey Courtney Look here" and so far nothing
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:50 am
classical
woooo
Quote:
Court,
It seems like these last two months have lasted a hell of a lot longer than two months. I am sitting in Dr. Starr's living room right now facing a huge bay window that overlooks the town of Bodega Bay and the dark blue ocean beyond. He pointed out the Brightman, but from here it looks more like nothing but a dark rock sticking out of the distant water. He says that I will be able to see it better tonight due to the lights -- if the weather is clear.
Oh God, where to begin. First of all, Starr said that I should probably only use this account one more time and then not push my luck. So I'm going to try and make it count but I have to go fast because some of what I want to tell you I can't have Starr seeing. Although Starr apparently started the Watcher group with some of the original Brightman staff and others who were impacted by the Oracle, Darren told me that Starr lost control of them the same way he lost control of the entire Oracle Project. I will agree that Starr really likes himself -- almost to the point of distracion! So the Watchers, initiated solely to protect the Oracle, started to develop a bit of a larger focus once Starr appeared at their meetings less and less. The Watchers also included a pretty strong network of CIA and NSA employees all funneling information back to Darren. I guess recently, many of these "secret Watchers" have been suffering, though. Odd car crashes, falls in showers, child porn appearing on home computers, that kind of thing. A Watcher safe house burned mysteriously in Baton Rouge and right before Rage showed up in California, they had lost contact with the group in Arvada. They were systematically being choked off and isolated.
And then Rage happened. That man is like something from a movie. Just a killing machine trailing empty shells and blood and silence, you know? It came down to Holly and I hiding in an upstairs pantry, listening to the mayhem down below us and Holly whispered that it was all going to come down to me and your team, Courtney. I asked what she meant and she said that I was going to have to get into the Brightman, destroy what was left of Lincoln (?), and bring the Oracle out. That the Watchers had already had a plan worked out, but with the recent events -- including Rage killing everyone in the Garden Grove house -- it was over. She also said that you need to get what was left of her father's information on "Black Beauty" because it would be critical to our success. She said that "they were already in play" (does that make sense?) and that we had to hide our plan from Starr because he would refuse to help if it meant bringing the Oracle out.
Rage then smashed through the door and in the struggle between the three of us I got knocked out. When I came to, I was lying on the old linoleum of the kitchen surrounded by the broken pieces of the pantry door. Holly was gone and Rage was sitting at the kitchen table wiping his hands with a dish towel. After a minute he looked over at me and I swear, Courtney, that man was fighting back tears. I've seen that look a thousand times. I've been there a thousand times. "What do you think of me?" He said. I was still waiting for him to kill me and was totally unprepared for a conversation so I just shrugged. "What...do...you...think...of me?" I was honest and told him that I didn't know what to think of him other than that he was a monster. He just nodded slightly, stood up and said, "I haven't always been one." And then he was gone, out the front door and into the crappy neighborhood.
I went down to the basement to see if anyone needed help but there was nothing that I could do.
I'm staying with Starr while he figures out how to get me out to the Brightman, since he insists on me still meeting with her.
I hope you and your friends have a plan -- since I'm STILL not sure if anything that I am saying makes sense. Last night I dreamt that I was still in that little cell under DC and all of this stuff had been a dream. I was actually disappointed when I woke up, since I can deal with a little concrete cell much better than I can deal with the last few weeks.
Take care, be safe and I guess just call Starr if you need to get in touch with me. I'm depending on you for so much and when this is all over, I'm going to buy you a drink.
As always,
Port
Bolds are mine; I think those are the important parts.
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:09 pm
classical
Whoops. Somewhere, there is a PM repeatedly banging his head against a desk.
Remember looking for Dr. Starr? CL = Craigslist.
There are no listings for W T Hatch or anything of the sort in Warren or the entire Erie area but... what if we put out an ad? Actually, screw it, I'm totally going to. :B
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:07 pm
Wulf74
Hahah - I've said it a few times - I love the PM's cluebats. Never subtle - but always funny.
Durh - the Keystone state. Of course, it was never mentioned we were looking for a state - so it was easy to make the assumption we did. But still - the cluebats always make me chuckle.
=edit=
Looking at the Hazeltine pic - I looked through Warren's city website, looking for Hatch - but no dice. I'm not sure what the CL initials are for - unless we're looking in the phonebook again for a CL Hatch, rather than WT. I'll check..
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:18 pm
paperbound
Just checked oraclewatch.org and found this staring back at me. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for Hatch in Colorado at all?
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:40 pm
