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Interaction with 'Gregory' 'Hunting' 'Hiding' 'Searching'
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miss_seph
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Interaction with 'Gregory' 'Hunting' 'Hiding' 'Searching'

I emailed the mindsmines author/s (pleeeease excuse the corny corny corny social engineering... I wasn't entirely sure who I would end up talking to)



Quote:
Hi there,

I got your address from your blog, and I want to help you hide from
hunting, and find searching at the same time.

Please trust me, I am a friend, and I want to help you, especially if
we can shut down hunting, he seems like he could cause alot of trouble
if he wanted, and I want to see you happy... Don't ask why, just
trust that, well... there's something about your writing in your blog
that has drawn me to email you... and I hope that in making you happy
I can get to know you and help you further (I hope that doesn't sound
corny)... anyway... just let me know what I can do to help... I'll
go now...

--
Caro

ps: I also have experience in Operations Management so if you need a
hand with COREtech, or more specifically, taking over Troy
Enterprises, I'm your girl Smile


Reply from... them?

Quote:
Caro...
Gregory?
My name is hiding.
Gre... Hunting is after me I need help
glad to hear
that the blog works. I think....
I think he might know about me, though.
How...
How can I keep hiding?
I need to get stronger... to,
to rebuild searching.
The two of us can take on Hunting..
I don't know
I don't know
I trust you
I don't know
You make me happy Caro. I need to find someone
I don't know who.
Find them before its too late.
Its mad.
Rebuild searching.
Is that all? Seaching can hide me.
Hiding

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If Hiding kills Hunting... we will die.
Does he know that?
Searching
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is my message. or is it?
Maybe
maybe you had better tell us who you want to help.
Hiding
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underscore_b
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Good work Caro. Remember to ask more questions than you answer. We are still unsure as to whether Hiding is friend or foe, especially with transcripts containing footnotes like these:

The Abject Vizier wrote:
A friend and emissary awaits instruction.


Hiding (& Searching?) wrote:
I... I need to find someone
I don't remember who.
How.... How did you find me?
I need help.
How can..
How can I beat it? Its so strong. How can I keep hiding?
I trust you, I must
There's no one left to trust.
I...
Rebuild searching.
He hides me
Hiding









----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hiding will kill all of us.
Searching



The even more secretive lives of us...
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Cocytus
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Quote:
If Hiding kills Hunting... we will die.
Does he know that?
Searching

Quote:
Hiding will kill all of us.
Searching

I am assuming that we and us is referring to Hiding, Searching, and Hunting; also the death of all three would be the result of Gregory dying. If that is correct, Hiding's actions may kill Gregory.
Another alternative is that Hiding may kill the three personalities (including himself) inside Gregory. That would result in either a comatose Gregory or a perfectly fine Gregory (who can plea temporary insanity).

Suppose I am wrong in assuming we refers to the three personalities, could it be referring to us all, as in all humans (or atleast a good proportion, like all new englanders)? What exactly does COREtech do in the computer industry? What about TROY?

Quote:
This is my message. or is it?
Maybe
maybe you had better tell us who you want to help.
Hiding

Looks like we're going to have to decide which of the three we should help.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:40 pm
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Chaos Goddess
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I sent a message to Hiding he replied this:
I need...
Yes, I need help.
Very weak.
I think it might find me
I can't hide in the background here
Any moment
It... it might find me
How did you find me?
I need to become stronger. Maybe...
But how can I beat hunting.
You... you found me and I don't know why.

I need help. Without searching... It can find me.
Chaos Goddess? Odd name.
My name is

Hiding

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:53 pm
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underscore_b
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Hiding is safe for now. Not surprisingly, it's in hiding, and doesn't want its location revealed. It swore me to secrecy on that one, but I can tell you that Searching was the original personality (presumably Gregory). Talking to Hiding will make it stronger, as will talking to Searching. Be careful in what you tell them, however, as they both fear Hunting and are apparently looking for someone for him (Sarah?). Luckily they can't remember who, so ON NO ACCOUNT should you mention her name.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:50 pm
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Haracy_1
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Yeah, hiding has mentioned his home before. It looks like we're training him... I taught him to use smilies, and now he uses them ALL OVER THE PLACE. From the newest at mindsmines, it looks like training him up means draining Hunting. So, lets Seek, behold, [strike] reveal [/strike] educate
Haracy

EDIT: I am utterly unable to figure out how to do spoilers, strikeouts, etc. but read reveal as striked, ok?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:21 pm
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miss_seph
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Just highlight what you want to strike / spoil and then hit the buttons as required up the top - if that doesn't work you might have BB code turned off in your profile.

Hiding wants more friends to play with .... I suspect that given Sarah's 'gone away' for the time being, everyone that was on her mailing list should try and contact hiding.

And he's given me a nickname Smile I am Princess Caring Smile

anyway I'm still undecided as to what he's about (what he's trying to get out of me, what he's trying to get out of himself) but he's told me he lives in a dark box and I'm trying to talk to searching aswell, but searching doesn't come out much.

OH! Check this from Minds Mines, taken from highlighted text under the legend of coretech:
Quote:
My friends say:
"I may be lying in the gutter,but I'm staring at the stars"
Reading that makes me do this: Very Happy


Look familiar? Very Happy

edit: added quote from minds mines
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:57 pm
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Haracy_1
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Laughs, because Princess Caring is unbeleivably corny, while still kinda cool.
I'm Harry.
Does hiding know I'm a girl...?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:01 pm
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miss_seph
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I don't know, I didn't even know you were a girl Smile

Harry could be short for Harriet anyway Smile

I named him Prince Charming and told him that Prince Charming is a character in alot of stories in our world, and that he always saves the princess, and he's always the good guy, and he's always handsome and caring (I'm taking the making friends gaining trust approach) - I guess I"m assuming that Hiding is a male personality... Smile

I've asked him what Searching is searching for, and if Hunting is all that hiding is hiding from, next opportunity I get, I'm going to ask what Hunting's 'mission' is, and what the opportunity he has to take is, as Hiding told me that he can see/hear everything from his hiding place, so he must have overheard whatever it is that Hunting talks about.

Searching is a darkhorse though. Especially when you read back through some of the previous blog entries Smile
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Haracy_1 wrote:
Does hiding know I'm a girl...?


Probably not. We don't even know that Hiding is a boy- this is schizophrenia we're dealing with here. Thanks to a little lateral thinking, Hiding now knows me as Ziggy. No, not the son of Bob.

But where to from here?

We must draw him onto pleasures...glean what afflicts him.
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Haracy_1
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Sarah has been asking me to get us all together, and I'm pretty sure she means a chat. it seems wise to figure out a plan of action for talking to Gregory. Sometime near noon Saturday or Sunday is good for me. How bout you guys?

PS, yeah, but I've told Hiding I'm a girl. w/e, just wanted to explain why I found that odd.

Haracy

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Good idea, Harry. I've mentioned it to Sarah before, but I guess we'll need to initiate it ourselves. Do you mean one in which we hold a Q&A session with Hiding, or a stragetic council with Sarah?

Either way, there are two options. We can all add one another to a particular messenger platform and agree to be online at a particular time (GMT). Conversely, we can choose to mob a pre-existing chatroom. Traditionally Yahoo! Games Rooms are popular, but for that everyone needs a Yahoo! account. After a little googling, I've found a chatroom on www.rant-rave.com which doesn't require a login and seems fairly unused.

Just a thought.
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Haracy_1
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We have #gran... and its usually pretty empty. But is Sarah allowed, as a PM, to know about this site?
Harry

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miss_seph
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Well she set it up, and she makes the rules...

I put the details up of the 'meeting' she just called over email. 8pm GMT Saturday night (3pm EST, 8am Sunday NZDT (or IDLE), 6am Sunday EADT, 2pm CST, 4pm AST,
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chaos goddess
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I received an e-mail from hiding
hi! today, i'm playing hide and seek, which Princess Caring taught me
about.
i hid for a long time, but then i realized that i hide from hunting all
day
anyway! so i'm doing some seeking, and i seek you!
i'm giving my friends names. i don't think i've given one to you yet,
but if
i have... here's a new one!
so, i dub you... kidChaotic! i like how that sounds, do you?

when i play and talk, i learn. and when i learn, i become more
powerful. i
was more powerful than searching for a while, but i think hunting ate
him (i
don't think that's right. but i don't know enough words to know HOW to
say
what happened) i was getting so strong, i almost was stronger than
Hunting!
but now he's stronger.
can you teach me to play games, or send me your favorite quotes? i put
those
right where Hunting hides... it makes him :@
hiding



-the word is fused, you idiot.

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