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Britt³
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dashcat wrote:
Britt,

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I miss Richard. Whf did Dad have to send him off to school? I know somertimes he did things thot were wrong but now it's only me and the Tall Mam. I never saw hhim so much when Richard waa here it wasm't so bad, but now it feels lile thi Tall Man is watching ne. I even miss when Richard would steal mt boooks. At least then therw was someone to taln to. The Tall Man scares me, I always told Richard not to talk to him, but… That night in the graveyard… I just…froze…



Thats what I was on about dash, do they spell out
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fromhamlintown?
or not? I'm so so confused.
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Anyone remember Rookery Tower?

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 		Yes Britt, that's what it spells out. I take it that the solution lead the people in irc chat to find the next page.

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Hamlin is the town where the pied piper leads all the children away


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Britt³
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 		Okay yep so confused, anyway thank you for that. So no one has done the errors for new page?!
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5/19/05 10:54 am

Something bad happened last night. Really bad. It was round ten o'clock. Nothing seemed like it was wrong. But I walked into the kitchen, and there was blood all over the floor! A great crimson pool of it! James rushed in when he heard me screaming. He cleaned it up. It didn't vanish, like it does in the movies. It wasn't just there for 'effect', there was blood on my kitchen floor! James saved some of it in a cup. He says he has a friend at college who can do some tests on it for us.

I was really shaken, so James took me back up to my room. I certainly didn't want to be in the kitchen! Except when we got up to my room we heard all this thudding and crashing coming from inside. I really, really didn't want to open the door. But James said we had to. I was cutting off the circulation to his arm again when he did it. And as he flung open the door everything just, for one moment…stopped. A single book tumbled from my shelf and fell to the floor, adding to what was already a disaster of great proportions. The pages began to whip in a demonic wind that came screaming toward the door, and out past us, down the hall. And then… silence. Almost. There was the sound of my own panicked breathing, and Morgan muttering the last words of a Hail Mary.

I didn't think I need to say that I didn't stay in my own room last night.

Today Morgan and I are running some 'errands'. We're going to see if we can obtain some holy water and maybe a priest to go with it. Or maybe a Sensitive. We also have to drop the blood off at James' friend's lab. We'll be out all day. Thank God.


According to her response in the comments section the book was The Vampire Lestat.

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So, we brought in a psychic, like it was suggested. It, uh, didn't go very well in all honesty. In fact, in was bad. Here, let me tell you what happened yesterday.

We drove out to Ohio to give James' friend the blood (no we don't have the results back yet) and we went to a couple of different occult shops, and a church in the area. I wasn't really certain whether or not the priest would actually give us the holy water or not, but James negated the necessity by filling a couple bottles while I was talking to the father. Yes, I did smack him for it; you're not supposed to trick a priest.

Then we went to the lab, and James talked for like half an hour with this guy. I ended up standing around doing nothing. But then we went to this one occult shop, and somehow I started telling the woman there, her name was Susan, about what was happening at the house. She agreed to come out and see it, I don't think she believed me at first. Does what's going on at Rookery Tower really seem far-fetched?

So she followed us back to New York. Yeah, she just picked up and left. Turned the closed sign over on her shop. This is why I don't trust psychics. Who would DO that? Things started as soon as we got back on the property. Something felt… wrong. I guess Susan really felt it, because she was very pale when she got out of the car. She said, and I quote…

"There are children here…and something else… something I don't like."

Of course, this was AFTER I'd told her basically what we knew was going on…so…

As we went through the house Susan got progressively more upset. We were going to the third floor hallway, but she refused.

"No way. I'm not going any further than this. There's something… you need to do. I, I can't help you. I'm sorry. I'm going home."

And she left. James and I walked her to her car and she drove off.

James convinced me that we really did have to at least check the attic soon, though. So we had some lunch (sandwiches) and then we went upstairs. The entrance to the attic is, of course, in the third floor hallway. There's a rope that hangs down and some pull out stairs. Unfortunately, we couldn't get it to pull down. James pulled so hard the rope came off. Then we got a step ladder (James stood, I held it steady) and pulled at the door itself. But it was no go. The door wouldn't open. James is thinking about getting an axe or something to open it, but I really don't want to do that.


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JoeOE18
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 		New bloggery
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This is Layla writing this journal entry. Layla would reply to her email too, but someone seems to be doing a good job of using her email without her being around.

I don't like teh way things are going. The more I find out about what happened in this house, the less I want to live here. James says we should stay and put the spirits to rest. I don't even know if they CAN be put to rest! One of them is a demon! The other two, think of the horrible lives they seem to have had.

They certainly seem to be doing their best to make MY life horrible.

I was locked into my bedroom last night, The door wouldn't open. I pulled and pulled until my palms were sweaty. Morgan was outside. He finally had to unscrew the hinges. We're thinking about doing the same thing with the attic. And when I finally got out of my room, I heard all these crows outside, cackling. I was nearly in tears.

I don't want to talk about this right now.

myabe I'll write more later.

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Obes
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 		the and maybe are spelt teh and myabe

Dunno what letters to use though. A and H? H and Y? Y and E? or E and H?
Ha, ah, yh, hy, ye, ey, eh, he.... errr

None work...


Obes.

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 		... what about the 'T' from the mis-cap'ed 'T' after the comma?

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I was locked into my bedroom last night, The door wouldn't open.


So then we have...


T/H/A, T/A/H, H/A/T, H/T/A, A/H/T, A/T/H... etc.

But that's only if I'm adding a 'T' onto each combo that Obes proposed... are we supposed to use all the letters?

A E H T Y (alphabetically arranged, that was)

Which gives anagrams from the Anagram Finder Thingy as follows:

A HYTE
A THEY
AE THY
EA THY
HA TYE
HA YET
AH TYE
AH YET
HAT YE
YAH ET
YAH TE
HAY ET
HAY TE
TA HEY
TA HYE
TA YEH
AT HEY
AT HYE
AT YEH
TAY EH
TAY HE
YA HET
YA ETH
YA THE
AY HET
AY ETH
AY THE

... Confused None seem to make sense. My fave is 'HAT YE', though. That should ba another shirt... 'HAT YE!! HAT YE I SAY!!' I can envision myself screaming that at the top of my lungs... heh. Meh.... o.O We missing something?
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She said, and went to draw the curtain.
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... what can I say? I'm a Gorey girl at heart.

Life's just a bowl of... syntax errors.

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Obes
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 		Layla also swaps between calling James James, and calling him Morgan.

'Morgan was outside' just doesn't sound right to me. Too formal, considering she's called him James for days.


Obes. Twisted Evil

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 		Yeah... I noticed that. *shrugs* Maybe has to do with how she's feeling about him at the time? More/Less formal? Mm... dunno.
~Mossy
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She said, and went to draw the curtain.
~Edward Gorey, The Eleventh Episode

... what can I say? I'm a Gorey girl at heart.

Life's just a bowl of... syntax errors.

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Britt³
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 		I know this really doesn't have much to do with anyone, but on Morgan's website his name is listed as "Jim" not James. Maybe its a nick name, I just thought it strange. Confused
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Britt³ wrote:
I know this really doesn't have much to do with anyone, but on Morgan's website his name is listed as "Jim" not James. Maybe its a nick name, I just thought it strange. Confused


Ooh! I thought that I was just being dumb when I thought his name was Jim... Shocked I'm not alone!
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Life's just a bowl of... syntax errors.

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5/24/05 07:35 pm

Today I had the most frightening experience of my life. James and I were eating lunch when he suggested that we go out into the graveyard and try to fInd the Twins' graves again. He said it like he was suggesting a walk in the park or something. Obviously, I really didn't want to come, but he was sItting there with this excited puppy look. How was I supposed to say no? So, since it was raining out again (when does it ever stop?) we got out coats and umbrellas and went outsIde.

Maybe we shouldn't have gone out in weather like that, for though the rain quickly turned to a thick fog, that wasn't much better. I didn't say a word, however. James, armed with his camera and a bottle of holy water (just in case), had a silly grin that denounced the faintest possibility of hostile paranormal interference.

What I should have done was not let him out of my sight. But of course, that's not what happened. I bent down to examine the carving on a gravestone, and when I looked up, the head of Morgan Paranormal was nowhere to be seen.

I called to him, but there was no answer. It was ridiculous really, the woods behind my house aren't even that large, but with the deep, heavy fog preventing me from seeing two feet in front of my face it could have gone on forever.

I wasn't wandering blindly for long however, just as I was beginning to think myself well and truly lost in my own backyard, I hear something. A high, sweet note seemed to hang in the fog, and then began a haunting melody.

My heart beat faster. Who the hell was playing music in the woods? My brain told me to stop, but my feet just kept moving forward as if of their own accord. The tune was possibly the most beautiful I had ever heard. From the side, I was vaguely aware of someone giggling.

I was getting closer to the source, a great clump of trees where shadows seemed to hang like bed sheets, But as I approached, something happened. From within the shadows, something move, no, that's not right, the shadows moved.

From between the trees a great black thing lurched out towards me as the sweet music began to scream. I began to scream as the mass staggered toward me and I fell down backwards. Still it kept on, and with every movement it seemed to shudder and moan with pain. The giggle I had heard was a raucous cackle as I fled, scrambling to my feet, the shape mere inches from my heels. I dashed, ungraceful and terrified through the woods, certain some unsightly beast would soon catch me and…

And I ran head long into James, and knocked the both of us down. I looked around; the fog had lifted, and the creature that pursued me was nowhere to be found. I grabbed onto James' shoulders, and I don't know how long I spent, sobbing and shaking.

I hate this house, this Rookery Tower. I won't go into rooms that have no lights on. But an electric bill is nowhere near as frightening as the demons I face. James is with me right now; I hate to be alone. I wish Violet would return my calls. I think I'll come and chat tonight, just for the company. Expect me around 9:30 or 10 my time. (Sorry Paul!)


Hikari: The bolded letters spell out elltericIhIssmIm, which is "tell erIc I mIss hIm"

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Obes
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 		Four capital I's, only one needed.

Four eyes, two heads.

Or, is it three I's?


Obes.

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Three more days, that’s all it’s going to take. So soon, and yet so much waiting. As Eric has been helping me with my preparations, it seems Richard has been giving James some tips as well. I’m not sure if I trust this, but we need all the help we can get.

We’ve chosen the focus for the binding spell, an antique hand mirror with a silver backing.

I know there are a lot of you out there holding your breath. I’m holding my breath too. But we’ll get through this. Somehow.

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