Chat History with William Forth | Mr forth? (#morelaak/$william.forth;eb3d256ec49d79f1)

Created on 2007-02-12 19:21:42.

Andrew Moreland: 18:56:21: Mr forth?
William Forth: 18:56:33: Yo
William Forth: 18:56:38: who's this?
Andrew Moreland: 18:56:53: hi. you've spoken with a friend of mine over the past day... Notgordian?
William Forth: 18:57:07: I don't remember that name
Andrew Moreland: 18:57:15: about Slewth.
William Forth: 18:57:23: oh.
William Forth: 18:57:30: There was a fella from Japan
Andrew Moreland: 18:57:36: yeah. that's him.
Andrew Moreland: 18:57:56: so, he told me you said slewth wasn't one to be trusted.
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:03: i was wondering how so.
William Forth: 18:58:19: It's a very long story
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:23: personally, i've been a little sketchy regarding him from the start of this whole thing.
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:26: I have time.
William Forth: 18:58:28: It's not that he can't be trusted.
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:32: oh?
William Forth: 18:58:33: he's just better forgotten
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:42: really.
Andrew Moreland: 18:58:57: so what is this "very long story"?
William Forth: 18:59:35: He screwed me over.
Andrew Moreland: 18:59:41: how so?
William Forth: 18:59:42: took everything away from me
William Forth: 18:59:54: but, I can't really say that I blame him
Andrew Moreland: 19:00:27: so where would the blame lie?
William Forth: 19:00:52: Myself I guess
William Forth: 19:00:58: always comes back to myself
Andrew Moreland: 19:01:03: how so? or would you rather not talk about it?
William Forth: 19:01:29: I don't really feel comfortable talking about this
William Forth: 19:01:33: who are you again?
Andrew Moreland: 19:01:36: ok. thats fine.
Andrew Moreland: 19:01:43: my name is Andrew Moreland.
William Forth: 19:01:46: what connection do you have to this slewth guy?
Andrew Moreland: 19:01:54: Ok. bear with me here.
Andrew Moreland: 19:02:10: I assume NotGordian alerted you to the site www.deuscity.com
William Forth: 19:02:21: yes
William Forth: 19:02:28: looks like some roleplay game
Andrew Moreland: 19:02:31: there's a whole lot of backstory around it...
William Forth: 19:02:37: or some matrix thing
William Forth: 19:02:40: is it fun?
Andrew Moreland: 19:02:59: some of us in the system would call it a game.
Andrew Moreland: 19:03:06: some of us would call it a reality.
Andrew Moreland: 19:03:16: you see...
William Forth: 19:03:24: I don't follow
Andrew Moreland: 19:03:32: kk, give me a minute.
William Forth: 19:03:38: it's either real or it's not
Andrew Moreland: 19:03:43: Deus city is a city in the future.
William Forth: 19:03:52: right
William Forth: 19:04:04: this definately sounds like a story
Andrew Moreland: 19:04:18: a few months ago, a man named Al Brackin was working on his doctorate in Temporal Communication
William Forth: 19:04:41: right?
William Forth: 19:04:43: aaah
Andrew Moreland: 19:04:47: he had a group of people working with him, and his goal was to communicatw with himself one week in the future.
William Forth: 19:04:51: I've read a little on that
Andrew Moreland: 19:04:53: yeah.
Andrew Moreland: 19:05:17: well, something happened during the buildup to the test, and one of the members of the group (Foo) went missing.
Andrew Moreland: 19:05:25: dont ask why his name is Foo, it's a little complicated.
William Forth: 19:05:55: I'm listening
Andrew Moreland: 19:05:56: well, when the test finally rolled around, they started things up on time and got something unexpected.
William Forth: 19:06:31: right
Andrew Moreland: 19:06:38: instead of connecting to themselves one week in the future, they got a transmission from the year 2037 from a man calling himself Mustafa Tang Fujimoto.
Andrew Moreland: 19:07:10: Fujimoto claimed to be the president of a company called DefenseCorp, as well as the leader of Deus City.
Andrew Moreland: 19:08:14: he told Brackin and his crew that they wished to set up a constant system link between our time and their time, and began to transmit a huge data stream with instructions for boosting the signal.
Andrew Moreland: 19:08:42: There's a video of the whole thing going down... let me get you the link.
William Forth: 19:09:04: I'm sorry I really don't have time
Andrew Moreland: 19:09:19: ok, never mind then. some other time.
Andrew Moreland: 19:09:56: anyway, the weird thing is... the college Brackin was doing this at pulled his funding about a week later, and forced him to sell all of his equipment/research to a company
Andrew Moreland: 19:10:06: that company was DefenseCorp.
Andrew Moreland: 19:10:29: Strangely enough, it turns out that Fujimoto was actually Foo from Brackin's team.
William Forth: 19:11:38: (think)
Andrew Moreland: 19:11:54: There are some sketchy details in here... but Brackin began to feel paranoid that people were watching him.
William Forth: 19:12:11: were they watching him?
Andrew Moreland: 19:12:14: so he discontinued his blog, started a new one, and began trainhopping around the country.
Andrew Moreland: 19:12:15: yes
Andrew Moreland: 19:12:17: they were.
William Forth: 19:12:22: right
Andrew Moreland: 19:12:43: as he traveled, he began to uncover new information regarding just what was going on.
Andrew Moreland: 19:13:51: he found out that half of his team had gone missing...
Andrew Moreland: 19:14:08: and that the rest had been forced to work for DefenseCorp, calibrating the feed.
Andrew Moreland: 19:14:14: except for two.
Andrew Moreland: 19:14:52: Foo was still missing, and had begun to write his own blog, urging everyone who read it to help him "hack the feed".
William Forth: 19:15:06: I'm really sorry
Andrew Moreland: 19:15:12: you have to go?
William Forth: 19:15:13: it sounds like a great story
William Forth: 19:15:21: but I can't see the relevance
Andrew Moreland: 19:15:26: Will, hold on.
William Forth: 19:15:30: Is slewth from the future?
Andrew Moreland: 19:15:51: the slewth in the system is a slewth from the future, yes.
Andrew Moreland: 19:16:14: however, he has told us (with grave importance) to find you.
Andrew Moreland: 19:16:20: supposedly, you are in danger.
Andrew Moreland: 19:16:54: in fact, the name "slewth" is only a username.
William Forth: 19:17:13: hrm
William Forth: 19:17:24: I wonder if this could be someone playing a joke
William Forth: 19:17:26: anyway
William Forth: 19:17:29: all this is too much
William Forth: 19:17:35: I need to go and deconfuse
William Forth: 19:17:44: and see that my wife is okay
Andrew Moreland: 19:17:45: ok. be careful, whatever you do.
Andrew Moreland: 19:17:49: oh yeah..
William Forth: 19:17:49: sure.
Andrew Moreland: 19:17:58: good luck with the server, and i hope your wife gets better.
Andrew Moreland: 19:18:13: nasty bug going around over on this side of the pond right now...
Andrew Moreland: 19:18:27: anyway, good luck.
William Forth: 19:18:39: cheers
Andrew Moreland: 19:18:45: cheers