[3v1L Schwinn]

Obtusitivity wrote:

Hi All, i'm still in the process of getting everything together. Essentially I parked a few blocks from the cemetery in order to scope out the surroundings and look for a black Yukon. None in sight. I made my way past a beat-up blue motorcycle and shopping cart full of junk and the two grungy teenage gutterpunks sitting near the entrance (to whom i assume the aforementioned crap belonged). I would've taken a photo of them, but then I'd have to disinfect my camera, and that just seemed like too much work. I'd run almost immediately into the "11" marker, and did a quick circuit in the vicinity of the couple (who I immediately dubbed Jimmy and Jackie Corpsewater). Unfortunately (as is the case with sprawling ancient cemeteries) there wasn't much of a pattern to the numbering, 11, 9, 14, 14, 8... long story short I headed deeper into the shadowy oak infested belly of The Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary, praying I would somehow manage to spot a bright yellow marker reading "22" in this sea of oak trees and crumbling marble... and viola! there it was! it was at that point that my mind kicked into high hear and I drew out the composite of images we'd already receivied -- the bench, the tree, the wall, and turned slightly to my left. There it all was. right next to the grave of Wainright Finlay 1866-1878. I knocked away the piece of loose mortar covering our suprise and right behind it was a souble-bagged printout of the esoteric variety. you've already gotten my horrible color photo, so here's the horrible black and white scan.. That's pretty much it. I hung around a while and looked for anything else out of place, then made my merry way back past Mr. and Mrs. Corpsewater and headed off to work. -Obs EDIT: you can download the scan in .Tif format here: http://in.solit.us/archives/download/162748

Nice catch TheCheese! Obtusitivity was the one who went to the drop at the Santa Rosa Cemetery so that is Ob's flicker stream. Maybe another drop there? I new that name kept sticking out in my mind like I had heard it somewhere.

We have the were , we just need the when.

[TheCheese]

I'm thinking Wainright Finlay is a new important character. In searching his name I found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22863444@N06/3633849348/

Also, Princess Di died on August 31st. I have no clue, maybe it is an important upcoming date for us?

[classical]

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...and he's like you were saying "I was at Wainright Finlay's and got the two bisquits with gravy in honor of Diana Spencer" or some such bullscrabble and Im like hm like that'll come in handy

So the only thing I'm getting out of this is, perhaps, this may be in reference to the quote Schwinn refound recently about the bisquits and gravy:

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JJDeMolay: And since I'm stuck here, I'll recommend Charlie's 'Bisquits & Gravy' - http://tinyurl.com/da44a4

But er, I'm seriously grasping for straws here. Might also be because I've been staring at it for the past fifteen minutes and I'm going slightly crosseyed now. Stepping away from the computer...

In any case, I forwarded it to Rage, since he seems to have the utmost trust in this Randall fellow to lead us--but man, I ain't trusting a guy who can't keep his shit together.

edit;; his response:

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Fallaces sunt rerum species, my dear.

"The appearances of things are deceptive." As I figured!

[ironnikki]

Odd... even odder, I just watched The Soloist for the first time on Thursday night, haha. Unfortunately, I can't find any hidden messages in there either, but I didn't have time to look really closely; if I can come back to this later though, I will.

As for Bricker's reply... wow. I don't even know what else to say about that. But, it looks pretty clear that we're either A) his only shot at maintaining reality, or B) just screwing up his life beyond comprehension. I don't think we should break contact with him; in fact, I think that we should try and strengthen it. I'm guessing that the sooner we finish this thing, the sooner he'll be pulled out of that nightmare. Not to mention that he's supposed to be really important to the rest of this, so we need to make sure that he doesn't lose himself completely.

[Wulf74]

classical wrote:

If I'm supposed to be gleaming some sort of secret message out of this, I ain't seeing it.

Wow. Just wow. That was probably the most random tirade I've ever seen. The scary thing is - someone had to think that up sober, which makes it bloody brilliant.
I'm sure there's at least one important thing in there, but it feels like there's a few. Honestly, I can't wait to dig into this one - unfortunately I at least have to wait till later tonight.
In the meantime though, here's the reply I got from Bricker - I can't recall what I originally sent, cuz I sent it encrypted - but you get the gist of it from his reply:

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Life has fallen apart for me ever since returning from Portland. Car suddenly repossessed although I never missed a payment, I've been selected for a 'random' IRS audit, lost three sure-thing writing contracts for no clear reason, and one of my daughters has come down with an illness that the doctors can't figure out - been in the ER four times in seven days - talking about sending her to specialists now. Everything sucks. I can't really help...in fact I'm fearing that you all may have been figments of my imagination. Getting harder to differentiate. Don't have the energy for coding messages and to be honest I really don't care anymore. It's all stupid.

The man is obviously being hammered at pretty hard, poor guy. I guess the Feds finally found someone they could pick on. From what I've seen of these guys, they've never been very good at taking even fights, or even fights where the odds are against them. Instead they pick on some guy that wrote part of a story. That and old blue-haired ladies. I'd invite them to come after me, and leave Bricker alone - but I think the 3rd grader they have to read to them is taking a nap, and off for the weekend.. (abuse of government power is a real pet peeve with me).

I'm going to compose a quick email back to Brian, and I still haven't heard back from Rage.

[classical]

... well this is just weird.

r_snodgrassSPLATrocketmail.com wrote:

drunk as shit right now---haha---this is like drunk diling for the BUck Rogers set eh? Watched the soloist this morning---Jamie Fox is bloody brilliat---fuckin just talkin his ass off stream of consciousnesss you know. Steve Lopez LA times s-t-e-v-e-l-o-p-e-z LA times LA is beautiful God is right on the other side of that wall are you flyin that plane right now? just effen great! makes no flippin sense buyt then it does because youve been there struggling to know who to talk to and when I was in typing class man, I swear to this day that I got like transported to another class from like second period to fifth period the day before and I'm like talking to Tom about something and suddenly I'm back in typing and realized I was saying to Rick what I thought I was saying to Tom and he was loike what the frick is wrong with you, you know? I was like what was I saying and he's like you were saying "I was at Wainright Finlay's and got the two bisquits with gravy in honor of Diana Spencer" or some such bullscrabble and Im like hm like that'll come in handy God i am so shitfaced right now. Who are yoiu anyway classical? are you cute? wow---getting hard to focus

So I almost want to reply with some sort of Holden Caulfield moment, because what the hell, it's like reading Catcher in the Rye all over again. (Funny that, since I just finished reading 60 Years Later.)

If I'm supposed to be gleaming some sort of secret message out of this, I ain't seeing it.

[Wulf74]

Schwinn -

You rock at finding all this. I officially declare you Supreme Scribe & Knowledge Hound of the Brood or SS&KHotB for short...

Seriously though - thanks man.

[3v1L Schwinn]

I can swing any DC/NVA meets. (maybe)

I wonder if the meet will be in a Starbucks?

Looking through the thread I found some more tweets...

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JJDeMolayOn the move again. Oddly - I'm in a New York state of mind. JJDeMolayAnd since I'm stuck here, I'll recommend Charlie's 'Bisquits & Gravy' - http://tinyurl.com/da44a4 This one was interesting because there was no real reason for it and nothing realy came out of it. JJDeMolayOn layover and destined for Newport News. No Starbucks. Am I in hell?

[Wulf74]

ironnikki wrote:

Maybe we should ask Rage what he thinks? I mean, if he's given us clues to these places, then he would know what Randall was referring to. Probably. On a side note, have you heard back from Bricker at all, Wulf? Looking back at Randall's initial email, he gave us a pretty big poke in Bricker's direction.

Wow - great minds. I just got done sending an email to Rage, letting him know that we have been delayed, that Randall gave a vague clue as to where we might have to be meet him based off some vague clues that Rage has given to places he's been.

[ironnikki]

Maybe we should ask Rage what he thinks? I mean, if he's given us clues to these places, then he would know what Randall was referring to. Probably. On a side note, have you heard back from Bricker at all, Wulf? Looking back at Randall's initial email, he gave us a pretty big poke in Bricker's direction.

[Wulf74]

ironnikki wrote:

<snip>"Be at X in two days."<snip>

Unfortunately I doubt it's going to be that easy, with the way he phrased it

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<snip>We will meet in one of the three places that AR has given you clues to.<snip>

Most likely it will be some other cryptic hint, that unfortunately so far - we just haven't been doing well with it seems like. At least to me - it feels like we've been missing a lot - kinda like not noticing the thing about meeting with Randall.

I hope we're right about Rage's clues only being from his recent tweets - and not the ones from the expired account. That will certainly make this a lot more difficult. And when my 'puter crashed - I lost a ton of info. I think there's a clue in what Randall said about the meeting places though, in the way he's phrased it. That being one of the 3 places Rage has "given you clues to, which says to me, it's not any of the places he's come out and mentioned, like Ireland. I'm thinking more along the lines of when he mentioned the Safeway(? it was Safeway wasn't it?) - or the vague references to places, like where he stopped for a drink, etc..

I dunno - just tossing out ideas..

[ironnikki]

That makes sense, classical. Unfortunately, we don't really have any way to be sure until Randall gets back to us. I'm not sure if we get to choose, or if he's just going to tell us "Be at X in two days." Hopefully the former.

In any case, out of all of those mentioned, the only one remotely close to me is Oklahoma City, and that's still about 3 hours away (even more if I'm back in school before our meeting time.)

[classical]

My feed reader has a small cache of JJDeMolay's tweets. Unfortunately, it only goes back to April 20th and he only mentions two places:

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JJDeMolay: Enjoying a beautiful Virginia night. It's strangely quiet here. Kind of nice. JJDeMolay: Was making arrangements to visit Mr. King, but discovered that he is being flown to DC. Curious, is it not?

Fortunately, I think we can narrow this one down a bit more without them. I don't think Jacky tweeting about his places of business are 'clues', necessarily; I'm thinking it's gonna more along the lines of the places he's used for his puzzles before.

So let's see: we've got the Santa Rosa Memorial cemetery, the Holocaust Museum in Oklahoma City (remember that? feels like so freaking long ago)... where else would there be? Apparently there is only one more.

... what about the Curran Theater?

[3v1L Schwinn]

Wulf74 wrote:

Got a reply back from Randall - I feel slightly embarrassed.. Quote: from: Randall Snodgrass There will need to be a meeting with me before you can coordinate the island assault---but it is too dangerous right now. 081509 has been compromised but we must get this done before 090909. You will know when it's safe. We will meet in one of the three places that AR has given you clues to. Be ready. Cheers. The place Rage has given us clues to eh? Would it be as easy as the places he's tweeted about in the past - for his travels? And if that's the case, how can one person be at all those different spots, assuming that some would be able to make it to one place... etc.. etc..

Great! AR tweeted about a lot of places. The problem is most of the places he mentioned were before his JJDemoly account was deleted. As ArlenRAge he has only mentioned a few but none of them seem to be concrete clues.

I went through his tweets and pulled what looked like might be clues from him.

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Heading for points north of the mighty GGB. Work is never done. 10:58 PM Jul 10th from web Leaving Ireland later this morning. Picked up a last minute bit of fun over in the Kings Langley area. Hope the folded brood is holding up. 10:02 PM Jul 6th from web Will be walking along the Marina, perhaps stopping at the Safeway there for another bottle of Kessler's. I love the lights of San Francisco. I always have. 1:44 AM Jun 19th from web Visited the Presidio this morning. So different now. They managed to get rid of all of the ghosts. Thinking I need to do that as well. 3:11 PM Jun 17th from web Sao Paulo, Karlstad, Anchorage, Calgary, Detroit, Springfield, Visalia, Bolingbrook, Hermosillo, Maiduguri? 3:41 PM Jun 8th from web Going to be taking a leisurely drive to SFO. 8:03 PM Jun 2nd from web Heading back to where I left my heart. 9:37 PM May 29th from web http://twitpic.com/678tk - Gotta love Jersey weather. 2:26 PM May 29th from TwitPic Hopping to SFO once again and I hear the inflight movie is Garden State. Here's hoping that it's good. 4:44 PM May 28th from web Washing off the blood. Washing off the rum. 5:12 PM May 17th from web

[ironnikki]

Haha, alright, well then that answers the question about whether or not to proceed as planned on the 15th. I don't suppose someone can remind me what locations Rage has tweeted about?