[BlackandBlue]

Sort of Tempest

[Tempestdevil]

referencing the map: is this the hallway that leads up to the room where people who meet with the oracle talk to her? I would assume the eye is the little room where the person has to sit, and the computer room is where they monitor with their little 'killswitch' of sorts.

edit: also, it's cool we got a bit more clarification. Arlen's anger about his sister wasn't because she was killed or anything, i would assume it was because he found out she was an exotic dancer/adult film star now, after all he did to protect her.

are we sure Rage is the bad guy here?

[syntacticAtrocity]

slso, I'm not sure if any of you have picked up on this, but one of our PM's idiosyncracies is to exclaim his sentences like so;

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omg !! that's so cool !!

a space after the last word, followed by two exclamation points. i noticed it with TT a lot, and at times with JDM.

[classical]

syn: ahahahahah oh god, win.

So... I dunno, we have our map. Now we wait for Starr to get back (hopefully in one piece) with permission to get out to the Oracle, I guess?

[syntacticAtrocity]

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From: T Bettelheim <distortedview> Date: June 24, 2009 12:18:56 PM MDT To: **** Subject: I'm Sorry It's about goddamned time some body figured out that this wannabe "game" is a pointless piece of sh*t that does nothing but double back on itself and obviously only moves forward based on the actions of the "players"!! Their's is no clear story woven all the way through it, right? It just kind of chugs along and things only get interesting when people get bored on the forums. I'd like to see everyone start ignoring I'm Sorry out of principal and its generel stupidity!! Can you belive this pointlessness has gone on for this long? Later, Toni

To which I wrote:

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Hmm, I'm wondering if this is a tirade from an offended PM or a deepening of the story and interaction. Only the PMs have thsi email, so you can imagine what I'm thinking.

Grady - can't check the video at work. Description?

[classical]

We have a map, folks!

Our four blogs were posted with different user images... all pieces of a temple-like layout. Very exciting. 150 x 60 cubits (a 4/10 ratio) fits the shape of this building perfectly. Maybe 21 cubits is the height.

So it looks like this may be a view of the very top of the building... it's marking out cameras, a computer room of sorts, and the 'eye' symbol--the Oracle, who is apparently one floor under. I think.
Maybe this will take Port being there and seeing the building before it makes sense, though.

edit;; rotated; it was upside down, according to the 'begin in this order' thing

Also, oraclewatch.org is currently redirecting to a fake 404 on another site that doesn't really exist. Maybe the PM forget to pay his bills.

[DarkWings]

The blogs updated with presents. Im too busy at the moment to pull the pics off, but looks like a layout to me. check em out.

[Grady Martin]

syntacticAtrocity wrote:

i'm still certain that there is no game and that we are ad libbing an ending to the story as we go.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXl-UiIufE

[classical]

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clas1ca: Kinda melty! Bad heat wave here. Also, still trying to make sense of this 'map'; I think we have all the pieces, but it doesn't make sense. klokworkalex: Wish I could help, are you sure you have all the pieces? Starr is headed for DC today. I guess more Food Network and boredom for me.

Hm. So maybe we don't have all the pieces yet...?

Also, why the hell is Starr going to DC? D:

[paperbound]

Wulf74 wrote:

syntacticAtrocity wrote: this story has metamorphosized so many times in such extreme degrees that kafka would be proud. i'm still certain that there is no game and that we are ad libbing an ending to the story as we go. Schwinn has sold me on his idea, that this is just a big viral marketing campaign for Starbucks.

I'm leaning more toward the ending of the story than Starbucks, mostly for selfish reasons, because I'm in a land that Starbucks has forgotten - the closest one is over an hour away from here. Now if a Starbucks suddenly pops up in the area, I'll be more inclined to agree with the marketing campaign idea.

[Wulf74]

syntacticAtrocity wrote:

this story has metamorphosized so many times in such extreme degrees that kafka would be proud. i'm still certain that there is no game and that we are ad libbing an ending to the story as we go.

Schwinn has sold me on his idea, that this is just a big viral marketing campaign for Starbucks.

[syntacticAtrocity]

this story has metamorphosized so many times in such extreme degrees that kafka would be proud.

i'm still certain that there is no game and that we are ad libbing an ending to the story as we go.

[classical]

Whoooooooa.

As far as I remember it, the Oracle and Rage meeting will not be necessarily bad for either of them, per se. It's the rest of us that we're supposed to be concerned about--said confrontation was supposed to lead to some sort of alluded apocalypse, I think--which probably has something to do with Lincoln.

But then again, I think this was fake!Bricker/Eric telling us this, so I have no idea if it's true or not.

Actually, I'd prod him more about why he 'cannot go near Lincoln'. What I do know is that the Oracle needs to meet with Rage, because she knows what he is and what he can do. And she has a 'ghost' to remove in the Brightman, right? Which is probably Lincoln.

[Wulf74]

classical wrote:

Quote: klokworkalex: Getting tired of waiting. Starr seems to be having trouble getting approval to see the Oracle. How are you doing? Yay, he's still alive!

Good to hear. Although I'm beginning to wonder i they're waiting on US for something. But so far as I'm aware, the only thing we're missing so far is a complete and accurate translation of the Chinese prayer sheet.

=edit=
Sorry for the late post on this, but I just noticed I got this reply from Rage while I was out golfing. And WOW.

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Wulf, my friend, you are sometimes so far off target that I get concerned for you, but then when I least expect it you demonstrate a clarity that causes me to believe that you have a perfect grasp on all that is going on and are just playing your cards close to the vest. This is one of the latter times. As you know by now, I created the Oracle. Unintentionally and with much regret. It's done, though. And I can assure you that just as I left her alive in that motel room when I could have taken her with me, I will do everything in my power to not allow harm to come to her now. As for Lincoln, I cannot go near him. Hiring me to resolve that situation would waste your money and probably end up ruining everything. You are correct in that I have been doing much thinking lately. About what I have done, about who I am and about where I came from. Did you know that the first life I took was my father's - to protect my sister? I wonder what Freud would tell you about that fallout? Ari and I became closer than we ever were before. The official report was that our father had committed suicide, so deep was his grief over losing his wife. We never corrected them. Thanks to a foster system that gets things right once in awhile, they kept us together and for a few years we just lived our lives and got older. My whole focus in life was to do everything Ari asked and to protect her from the world. The second person I killed was a boy at the junior high that we attended who pushed her against a locker and kissed her. It was at that time that I started to understand Ari's sensual nature, and the effect it had on those around her. I saw her through different eyes. The way she looked, walked, talked and breathed gave off an aura of sensuality. It was inescapable, overpowering and, for her, completely unconscious. She was a fourteen year old girl who could simply walk down a hall at school, immersed in the Depeche Mode song on her walkman, and leave a trail of frozen boys, teachers, administrators and janitors. I developed much of my hypervigilance in that environment. Then as we approached our fifteenth birthday, I started to notice her too. My shame and guilt was deeply upsetting to me, as you can imagine. I had killed my own father over his desire for her and although I would do it again in a heartbeat, I found myself desiring her and trying to resolve that struggle within myself. And then one night she came to me and slid into my bed. I turned away and fought against her but it was no use. It was what she had wanted and I had absolutely no will when it came to resisting her - even if she was destroying me in the process. And she did, Wulf. Ever heard the term 'cloak of respectability'? It's the idea that we all hold onto one positive aspect of our selves and we can do horrible things in our life but still see ourselves as generally good as long as we don't violate that one behavioral tenet. That's the cloak of respectability. Mine was protecting Ari. As long as I was protecting her, I could do no wrong in my own eyes. And then I failed in my passion for her and became my father. I sat on the roof of the house with a gun in my lap until the sun rose the next morning, feeling the entire structure of who I was falling apart within me. I tried to shoot myself so many times that morning and just couldn't do it. Self preservation is a funny thing. So I climbed back in the window, stood over her as she slept and felt my love and desire for her rising again. The torture of it, my friend, to desire so much that which will destroy you the quickest. I dressed queitly, left and never came back. I now had to protect my sister from me. I didn't see Ari again until after I encountered Jenny in that motel in New Jersey. I found her dancing in a place in San Francisco and making extra money in adult films. Our relationship, tumultuous and angry by that point, limped along for awhile - and then that little girl in the nightgown looking to me to protect her from the world was gone, trailing her pain and her loneliness with her. And that was the beginning of the end for me, friend. I tried to move along as normal, get back to work and maintain composure but it just didn't work. I am haunted by those souls who I have gathered and tortured by the one soul that I can never experience again. And my sorrow and regret are like a boulder on me, I am like Atlas faltering, ultimately failing. Mr. Wulf, I am not going to survive what you are now deeply involved in and my only goal is to come face-to-face with Jenny again before I am done. I will protect her, but your brood must promise not to try and stop me from seeing her when the storm has passed. If it does. A.R.

I had considered removing the first couple of words from his letter.. lol .. but again - WOW.

Any suggestions on a reply? I'm at a bit of a loss. We know that, according to TGATT at some point, when Jenny and Rage meet up in OK - that IF that happens, it's supposed to end badly for Jenny, or am I recalling that incorrectly?

[classical]

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klokworkalex: Getting tired of waiting. Starr seems to be having trouble getting approval to see the Oracle. How are you doing?

Yay, he's still alive!