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Mail from Sarah - I got a Stone!
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LazarusLong
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 		Mail from Sarah - I got a Stone!
In my PO Box this afternoon was a bulky envelope, sent Priority Mail. The postmark is dated Aug. 20th, and it was mailed from Trexlertown, PA. The return address had but a single word - "Sarah".

With trembling hands, I opened the envelope, looking over my shoulder for DEG's. Inside was a small (1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 3 1/4" - 3.8cm x 3.8cm x 8.25cm) plastic box, purple in color. Inside the box, wrapped carefully in tissue paper, was one of the stones!

The symbol on the stone is the same as the one in the first row, third column of the manuscript page found in the old trunk, later stolen by Colin Penrose.

The stone is now securely locked away in my safe, and I've initiated yellow level security for the ranch. No 3-O-7's are going to get this stone from me!
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tartanwolf
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 		I got a stone also!
LL I got my stone today aw well! Exclamation I saw the name on the return address and my heart skipped a beat. I immediately took out my camera and started taking pictures as I opened it. The same thing as you. Same postmark, same return address, even the same purple box! (It looks pink in the photo, but it's purple). I have attached my photos as well. Laughing
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dmax
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 		well, the runes are different. has that already been explored - are they symbols seen elsewhere and we can correlate them?
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konamouse
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dmax wrote:
well, the runes are different. has that already been explored - are they symbols seen elsewhere and we can correlate them?


Are they the symbols on a manuscript page?
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LazarusLong
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dmax wrote:
well, the runes are different. has that already been explored - are they symbols seen elsewhere and we can correlate them?


They are both from the missing manuscript page. http://www.missingmanuscript.com/page6.html

Mine is the first row, third column, and TW's is the second row, third column.
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sjct
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 		Okay, wait a minute. We need to correlate the symbols on the stones with the pages from the manscript that we are getting, I think. Rolling Eyes The symbols on the stones represent archetypal concepts. We don't know yet which roles have been assigned. When LL's page comes up we will know which archetype he has been assigned. Same for tartanworlf. This is very cool. Very Happy Who will get the stone that corresponds to the the "Bard" page I got? Links and links, guys, we're buidling a web of connections. Surprised

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drizjr
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 		page for page
Look at this!
the Vates page http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/516_1061569117.jpg
looks like that blurry black and white from here
http://www.missingmanuscript.com/picturepage13.html

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This is from an 8" by 10" black and white photo from inside the "Fourth Book" envelope. Sorry for the quality but the lighting and focus in the original photograph are both very poor. On the back of this photo are the words
"Trithemius Tomb Panel - one of eleven. Are these from the book?"
Part of my research has turned up the rumor that Trithemius' tomb is lined with carved panels that supposedly contain secret messages or knowledge.


driz :)

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 		Re: page for page
drizjr wrote:
Look at this!
the Vates page http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/516_1061569117.jpg
looks like that blurry black and white from here
http://www.missingmanuscript.com/picturepage13.html
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driz Smile


OH, great catch Drizjr Exclamation
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LazarusLong
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 		this isn't funny!
When I received the stone yesterday from Sarah, I was thrilled. Now, I'm a little less thrilled, and a lot more paranoid.

We had a pretty intense lightning storm last night, starting at around 9 PM MDT. I was in chat at the time, and I joked to enaxor that it must be due to the stone. Around 9:45 PM, my broadband connection went south. Since the weather was getting increasingly ugly (4-5 lightning flashes a minute), and the wireless broadband that I use is affected by heavy rain (due to signal attenuation), I wasn't too worried. But, when I tried to use my backup dial-up line, I still couldn't get a stable connection. Facing an evening of internet deprivation, I decided to finish my drink and turn in early.

I had a little trouble going to sleep, partly because of the storm, and partly because it was (in my mind) still too early. I probably drifted off around 11. My wife says that I was increasingly restless around 4 AM, to the point of waking her up. I had a very intense dream, of which I am only able to remember fragments. When I got up, around 7 AM this morning, I wrote down what I could remember.

I was on my knees, in a dimly lit room. I think there were torches on the walls, but I'm not sure. I was being held down, with my arms behind my back. I couldn't turn my head. In front of me stood a large hooded figure, his robe reaching to the floor. I could see his face, but I couldn't make out any details. In his right hand he held a wooden staff, with some sort of carved head on the top. It may have been a bird, I can't recall clearly enough. He was questioning me about the stone, "Where is it... you must give it to me... you can't have it...", and other words to the effect. What was odd was that his voice, while masculine, was rather high pitched for a man of his size.

I remember being scared, but, strangely, not in fear of my life. I don't think that I was in danger of being harmed, quite possibly they were incapable of causing me physical harm. I would have been more scared if I'd seen the man with the tattooed face.

When I got up, I went to the safe and opened it to make sure that the stone was still there. It was, still nestled inside the little box it arrived in. I don't know what I would have done had it been missing.

After getting dressed, and having breakfast, I checked my computer. The internet connection was still down, so I went outside to check for damage around the house. Around the back of the house, in a fenced area we use for our garden, I found the graffiti. It was a little washed out from the rain, but it was unmistakably the 3-O-7 symbol. There were no footprints anywhere around it.

I ran inside and grabbed my camera, took two quick pictures, and then destroyed the graffiti with a rake and shovel. These two pictures are all that remains.

My internet connection came back shortly after that, around 9:30 AM I was able to get my mail, but couldn't access web sites. I power cycled the wireless bridge and the router, and managed to get online, but the connection was sporadic. I had to go out and run a few errands, and when I returned a short while ago, my connection was stable again.

Well, there you have it. My own personal encounter with the 3-O-7's. While I'm being cautions, I'm not scared. At least not yet. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
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 		What Nightmares may Come: Return of the DEGS
Hello Wishers

I cant believe what a wierd weekend this has been! It was the old law "What can go wrong, will go wrong. lelelelel!
So the dreams started just before I got the Don Marzanos Stone (I have the F stone for those who may not know) I have always had vivid dreams but this takes the cake! Maybe it started when the numbered ones marked me in IM, not sure. Just a few of the dreams that I have had were precognitive in nature, nothing to take huge note of, but I have discussed this with a few others. There is one that keeps repeating on me. I am looking for something and I cant find it and I always wake up in utter frustration.
Friday night. oh i guess it was around 10:30, I was chatting with Dashcat to see if maybe she had nightmares or strange dreams when all of a sudden my dog starts barking loudly by the door(Her name is Bejhay). She is a good little watch dog, small, but big mouthed! I chatted with Dash a little while longer all the while feeling more and more paranoid when Bejhay starts to absolutely snarl and snap at the door. OK by that point I am really freaking and Dash is saying OH SUNNY BE CAREFUL!
So I have to go to the door to let Bejhay out and she is out of there like shot from a cannon but then she pulls up suddenly on her haunches and starts screaming like a woman. I ran to her thinking that she was hurt cause she has piddled everwhere and I bent down to comfort her and banged my head on my mailbox. When I straightend up I felt like I wasgoing to faint cause right there on my mailbox is THE GRAFFITI RING! I stood there with my mouth open looking like a landing strip for flies...
A little dizzy I hustle back into the house with Bejhay right underfoot and I have to get off the internet cause she is clawing my legs to get into my lap. I had to spend about an hour comforting her to calm her down. I finally get to bed and I immeadiatly drop off to sleep and instantly I am back in that dream only I can see where I am this time. Pine trees are all around me and I feel hemmed in and I look down and see a map in my hands and it is marked by THE PINE BARRENS. There was a trail on the map and apparently this is where I was searching. Behind me I hear branches snapping sharply and I am overwhelmed with the odor of pine that it makes me nauseated but then under all that i began to feel a hint of fear. It grew so quickly that my heart turned to ice and I could feel an evil presence pursuing me through those trees. I started to yell "Help me God help me Lord!" and all that came out was a whisper. I continued to pray and as I struggled towards conciousness I felt a great weight bearing down on my soul and as I opened up my eyes I saw this dark form shaped as a human but sooo inhuman. It was so dark black that it looked like a hole had been cut out of the backdrop of reality and there was nothing beyond it but blackness..... My prayers acted on that shape like salt on a snail and I felt a scream in my head rather than heard it and the shape was gone as if it were sucked into a vacum. I slept no more that night. I took otc sleeping pills and I slept all day Sat. then that storm struck and knocked out my electricity till somewhere around 4am. Horrible lightning storm in Kansas. Today I went on errands and my NEW tire blew on my car. So finally here I am safe and sound at home..
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Sunny du Pree
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 		eeep that was me but i am sure that yall can tell by the lelellele who that was!!
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ALH1213
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 		The Stone I received
The stone I received has the Infinity Symbol on it. It is the symbol on the manuscript third row, middle symbol. Unfortunately the stone was mailed to my daughters house and I do not live there anymore. So, she opened it by accident and threw the envelope away.

Anita

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dmax
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 		So is your daughter gonna get the graffitti?

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Diandra
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 		I got stoned.
I just got stoned, too. It arrived this morning as the others arrived at their destinations, in a blue box, shipped Express Mail. The postmark states August 25th.

The stone, wrapped in tissue paper, is the one from the Vates page http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/516_1061569117.jpg, which kind of resembles an arrow.

Since this one went out later than some of the others, I'm wondering if I received it because I was the first to discover and email the truth haven site. Perhaps the stones sent to us are meant to correspond with the stones that are not blurry on the http://www.smalldene.com/sm.html page, too.

In any case, I guess I'm next on the 3-O-7 (s)hit list...

Dia

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 		I received a stone today. It's the one shown here:

http://www.doctorilluminatus.com/lfp804.html

I will get pictures up later on tonight.

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