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Obes
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riddle mask just added me on hotmail....


Creepy. ESPECIALLY since I don't believe I have my email.. anywhere.

I'll get a transcript up later.


Obes. Twisted Evil

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:45 am
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PatRol
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The javascript for the (static/frozen) counter has been removed by a static number, which now tells us there are 5 days to go. Can someone make out any other changes to the website? I haven't found any others changes yet.

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draghkar
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Well, the image is now a background image instead of a regular picture

And was the "revolution" always green?

greetz,

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Obes
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The transcript of the chat is below.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

riddle mask says:
Contact?
Chris Obes says:
Hello?
riddle mask says:
You
riddle mask says:
You are new
riddle mask says:
I havent seen you before
riddle mask says:
We are in trouble
Chris Obes says:
I drift around a lot.
riddle mask says:
Jin
Chris Obes says:
What sort of trouble?
riddle mask says:
He is gone
riddle mask says:
We cant't find him
Chris Obes says:
Do you know where he's gone?
riddle mask says:
He didn't turn up near the new passages
riddle mask says:
I fear
riddle mask says:
His taking
Chris Obes says:
taken by who?
riddle mask says:
"Them"
Chris Obes says:
I see. But you didn't see him get taken?
riddle mask says:
No
riddle mask says:
You must tell the others
Chris Obes says:
I will
riddle mask says:
They need
riddle mask says:
To Kmow
riddle mask says:
Sorry
Chris Obes says:
Do they know about the passages?
riddle mask says:
Im in a panic
riddle mask says:
My fingers are slipping off the transmittor
riddle mask says:
Yes they do
Chris Obes says:
Don't worry, it'll be fine, we'll help.
Chris Obes says:
Who may I say is speaking? Just so everyone knows..?
riddle mask says:
Lisa
Chris Obes says:
Ah, hello Lisa
riddle mask says:
The takings, they are becoming frequent
riddle mask says:
Closer together
Chris Obes says:
Did they happen much in the past?
riddle mask says:
Yes, all the time
Chris Obes says:
Does something cause them, or are they random?
riddle mask says:
"They" take us to where I am now in the first taking, it is here then that we suffer the second
Chris Obes says:
What do 'they' look like... have you seen them?
riddle mask says:
No, nobody has. But their voices, they, they, they
riddle mask says:
sorry
riddle mask says:
they haunt our dreams
Chris Obes says:
I see. Well, they are only dreams, they can't hurt you.
Chris Obes says:
Even if they are unsettling.
riddle mask says:
But some of us, wake up in pain
riddle mask says:
Feeling that we have been moved
riddle mask says:
Touched
riddle mask says:
Tortured
Chris Obes says:
Do you not watch over each other? Protect each other?
riddle mask says:
We can't
Chris Obes says:
That way you would know if you're really tortured.. or just suffering?
Chris Obes says:
Why?
riddle mask says:
Our rooms are too far apart at night.If we dared find our way into anothers we fear that we would be next
Chris Obes says:
I see.
Chris Obes says:
We're trying to help you all, everyone.
Chris Obes says:
I have a question, can you describe where you are right now? underground? above ground?
riddle mask says:
I do not know the external location.I am in a place which I have never left since my first taking.Metal walls, rusting,No windows.Artificial light.
Chris Obes says:
Metal on everything? walls, floors, ceiling?
riddle mask says:
Yes
Chris Obes says:
What about the passages?
riddle mask says:
They are not in my room
riddle mask says:
They are in the halls
Chris Obes says:
But you've been to them to cave them in?
riddle mask says:
Yes
riddle mask says:
To fill them
Chris Obes says:
Do you remember what they are like?
riddle mask says:
To make sure nothing comes through them again
riddle mask says:
I do it every day
Chris Obes says:
Are you made to do that, or do you do it to stop others joining you all?
riddle mask says:
Holes narrower the further you look in
Chris Obes says:
Like a funnel?
riddle mask says:
We are not forced but we do it.We do not know what would happen if we didn't.It is through fear of being taken
riddle mask says:
Like a funnel I guess, but no one goes in
Chris Obes says:
Were you told to do it in the first place?
riddle mask says:
after someone has been taken
riddle mask says:
I have not been here since the start
Chris Obes says:
taken for the first time? or the second?
riddle mask says:
It is something that has been passed om
riddle mask says:
After the first
riddle mask says:
I have not suffered the second
Chris Obes says:
For how long? (I'm sorry it's all questions, but we need to know, to help).
riddle mask says:
When people are taken through the passages, that is their second taking.
riddle mask says:
When somebody comes from their first
Chris Obes says:
So you block the passages to stop the second takings?
riddle mask says:
That is what we hope.But people are never taken through the same passages.
Chris Obes says:
You must continue then, buy us some time so we can save you.
riddle mask says:
We have always done this.It will not stop until we are saved
Chris Obes says:
For how long have you done this?
riddle mask says:
Me Personaly?
Chris Obes says:
Yeah And everyone who is with you.
riddle mask says:
Time is not known here.We can make out basic times because of feeding.But days are oblivious to us.
Chris Obes says:
Do you get enough food? breakfast lunch and dinner?
riddle mask says:
Lunch and dinner
riddle mask says:
Barely enough
Chris Obes says:
I see, so you are counting the meals and dividing by two to get the days, that's a good rough estimate
riddle mask says:
Sometimes they try confuse us
riddle mask says:
Give us dinner in the morning
Chris Obes says:
They're trying to keep you off guard, don't let them get to you
riddle mask says:
It is hard
riddle mask says:
Sometimes I try not to sleep
riddle mask says:
So that I don't hear the horrors
Chris Obes says:
It's hard to go without sleep, but I understand it's not much better actually sleeping.
Chris Obes says:
Do you mind saying what the sounds are like?
riddle mask says:
Sometimes
riddle mask says:
I hear my children crying for me.They are in pain.But I think to myself that they must be grown men and women now.They were only young when I was taken
Chris Obes says:
then you have been taken for years?
riddle mask says:
That is what it feels like
riddle mask says:
An eternity
Chris Obes says:
It might not be, they may be confusing you. But you shouldn't concentrate on that. Those sounds are false, you shouldn't believe them
riddle mask says:
I know, but it is hard to sleep
riddle mask says:
When you know what you will hear
Chris Obes says:
But facing a nightmare is the best way to stop it. Be the strong will.
Chris Obes says:
stronger will even
riddle mask says:
But in these dreams I see nothing but the light, their light
Chris Obes says:
It's your mind, I know you can fight it back. It may be the only way to beat them.
riddle mask says:
I feel like, I'm being touched during my sleep.
Chris Obes says:
grabbed physically?
riddle mask says:
Yes, but it could just be the dream.The scary thing is everyone wakes up at the exact same moment, screaming
Chris Obes says:
Sounds like they are controlling you, through the dream.
Chris Obes says:
The grabbing feeling could be a response from your unconcious mind to a stimulus, like a mild electric current from the floor.
Chris Obes says:
That certainly would make everyone wake up at once, in shock.
riddle mask says:
Some people here are not alright in the head
Chris Obes says:
I guess they wouldn't be after so long.
Chris Obes says:
But we can still save them, get them help.
riddle mask says:
Like Anne
riddle mask says:
She is growing old
riddle mask says:
So secretive
Chris Obes says:
I've heard of Anne, from the others that are helping.
Chris Obes says:
She is harmless though, right?
Chris Obes says:
Perhaps she needs someone to comfort her, to open up.
riddle mask says:
I don't know anymore.I get the feeling that she wants to be the martyr.Save once through her own death
Chris Obes says:
She wants to sacrifice herself to save others?
riddle mask says:
Not in a good way
riddle mask says:
She wants to die
Chris Obes says:
She needs someone to give her a reason to live then.
Chris Obes says:
We will try to save her too. But that reassurance may not be enough.
riddle mask says:
The voices
riddle mask says:
They are growing nearer
Chris Obes says:
Lisa, stay safe.
riddle mask says:
I must go before they see me
riddle mask says:
Thank You
Chris Obes says:
I know, good luck.
riddle mask says:
For everything


Nice chat, I'm now sucked in, have to save them before these five days are up!

Obes.

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PatRol
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Draghkar the "revolution" has been green before. I think the image was in the background before also, but I'm not 100% sure about that point.

Does that blue upper line comes from the "LEAD Technologies..."-statement in the source of the image-file? Or are there any hidden files in this one?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:13 pm
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draghkar
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Characters (or Matzai) mentioned so far are:

Dr. Munchen
wrote several notes in his final days
was in server 5 sector 3
Dreamt of the symbol

Sent several letters before his 1st taking
He sent letters to people of future times.Letters which would reach people at a specific place,time and date

left numbers with lisa before his 2nd taking, leading to menace-media

Jin
Lives in sector 1 of server 5
Female?
Roommate of Anne?
was working in Paris at a cafe in Bon Nouvelle before (s)he was taken
Her/his brother was murdered after Jin left Japan for Paris.
Both Anne and Jin's brothers owed people money, and their businesses were going under, that's why they got killed.

Anne
Lives in sector 1 of server 5
Beyond the 4th sector?
Female
Was taken from france
was born in Chelsea, New York.
She also had a brother (who was murdered after Anne went to France) the time of her taking was when Marilyn Monroe was still alive

Lisa
Lives in sector 3 of server 5 Room 18
The room has a bed, sink and toilet.

her work is fixing links and filling passages (fixes the electonic walls and boxes from which they are connected).
The building she works in is a metal building, rusty, with holes in the ceiling.

Meals at 12pm and 9pm

before her 1st taking:
I remember having a life.Two kids,a lover.I lived in England.Surrey was the place. Beautiful House and scenery. The one day the light just overwhelmed me.The pain, the voices, the after what seemed an eternity I woke up here
last thing remembered: Picking my kids up from the créche after work.They were fighting but I calmed them down.
Lisa takes control of most the transmittor lines


Sean, Peter, John
will receive snail mail letters from dr munchen

and the following transmissions have been encounted for:

4953 unknown IM between Riddlemask and JMShortDog2000
4954 unknown IM between Riddlemask and ShyLilEmbrace
4955 oct 28 2005 IM between Riddlemask and klaxonator
oct 29 2005 IM between Riddlemask and JMShortDog2000
several unnumbered transmissions
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I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this, but on the www.menace-media.com site, if you highlight everything, there is something to the left which says:

Diese sind meine Akten. Ein Pfad zu meiner Vergangenheit

I guess if someone knows what it means, then that would be good...or I'll try to run it through Babelfish and get some half-meaningful translation...

(UPDATE) Ran it through Babelfish and got an actually meaningful translation...it means:

These are my documents. A path to my past
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Obes
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ARGH, first time I could really help, and our German housemate is out on the town.

Ahhhh well, I'll try an online dictionary.


Obes.

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draghkar
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is like..

these are my files, a path to my past.

I checked the original picture and these words were not there. wonder what else has changed

greetz,

Draghkar
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misery_of_pain
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Can't see that anyone noticed this in the source (I check the source every day i visit menace-media)

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Diese sind meine Akten. Ein Pfad zu meiner Vergangenheit

which according to babelfish translates to These are my documents. A path to my past


5 days left....

EDIT: ahah I didn't refresh Razz Trout
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OK folks, this one seems serious about it's argishness...

I've registered a channel in IRC for you (irc.chat-solutions.org) #menacemedia

you can access it from here or using your favourite IRC client.
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after reading obes' post i'm hooked but i have no
idea how to help yet--

maybe i'm
stating the obvious but "Munchen" translates
to "Munich"
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Further to Nos' post about Dr Munchen coming up in relation to WWII, I thought this when I was talking to Anne about Marilyn Monroe, it seemed the right sort of time period, maybe even just after WWII. But then saying that, Dr Munchen was a good guy who experinced the second taking and wanted to free the others. That doesnt fit if he was involved with experiments druing WWII... why would you let the lab rats go?

Apparently, (according to Anne) Dr Munchen was born in Cologne. I'm unsure about Anne tho, considering when I talked to Jin, he said that he remembered exactly the same as Anne, yet Lisa has a different story. Unless I just asked too many questions and they couldn't come up with anything quick enough Razz

EDIT: forgot to mention that the only thing that's different between Anne and Jin's stories is that Jin said that Marilyn Monroe was before his time. I asked him what the transmitter was like and he said it's like a mobile phone, "big, grey and like a brick" which leads me to believe that Jin was taken in the 80's. Also, Jin's English was perfect except for a few times where his sentences were a bit muddled but you got the jist of it.
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Well, this 'riddlemask is definitely watching the forums Wink

They just hopped in and out of the IRC room - I hope I don't have to tell the PMs that all Unfiction areas are out-of-game, including IRC. Wink
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Quote:
riddlemask: Jin, he is missing
riddlemask: We fear his taking
chippy: when did anyone last see him? and what was he doing?
riddlemask: It was before Lunch
chippy: Lisa told my buddy Obos
riddlemask: He went to get something from his bunk
riddlemask: He didn't come back for work
chippy: what did he have for lunch? to eat?
riddlemask: We call it lump, it's grey and looks like porridge.But that isn't important
chippy: where do you live carl?
riddlemask: Room 17, Sector 4. Server 5


hmmm "Lump"
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