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konamouse
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 		[Website] Dales Journal
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Edited to add: Hidden entries (don't trust the index), see my post further down the page.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:49 am
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 		An entry dated May 25th has been added to Dale's Journal.
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Dale wrote:
A few people have contacted me about not receiving their Pre-Order packages yet and I'm very sorry about that. They were all sent out together in one batch and the majority of them have found their way to their intended recipients, but the ones that haven't are really irritating. If you are one of the unlucky few who haven't received your package yet, please email me at chasingthewish at new-fiction.com, so I can arrange to have a replacement sent out to you as soon as possible. I'll also see what I can do about emailing you the ticket numbers etc. you might need if you intend on playing the Ash Grove Park promotional contest this weekend.

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 		Updated for May 29. http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/052906.html

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grumpyboy wrote:
Updated for May 29. http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/052906.html

Dale wrote:
To everyone who who wrote to me and requested tickets for the Ash Grove Park promotion, I've done my best to take care of the ones I could. I even ran out to the Park over the weekend to get some more sets, since I received many more requests for them than the quantity I had left...

...I got some more tickets and will be mailing out what I can when I can, but please, no more requests. I'm out, done, kaput. Verstehen sie?

Hope i'm one of the lucky ones! Smile
Big thanks to Dale for going out of his way to get tickets to a few more of us! Wink

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 		LOL seems to me I remember Dave saying that he ended up with a LOT more people playing CTW1 than he really expected. I think he said he was "hoping" to get a couple hundred and ended up with over a thousand registering.
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 		After reading how Bruce's Blog was found...
1. Sarah mentioned an entry in Dale's Journal from last Friday (5/26/06) that is not noted in the index

2. By changing the date in the URL to 052606.html the entry that mentions Bruce's blog with a link is discovered.

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May 26, 2006: 2:30AM - I don't know how many more of these sleepless nights I can take. No matter how tired I feel, I just can't seem to stay asleep for long, even when I am able to fall asleep at all. It's rare that I sleep longer than two or three hours straight anymore. Maybe that's why my dreams seem to be taking over my waking life.

I'd like to be able to blame my excitement over how well the comic book is going, or just the sheer amount of work I've been doing to try and get everything done associated with the book, but I know that wouldn't be the truth. Or at least the whole truth, anyway. There's something terribly wrong here, and I don't know how much longer I can close my eyes to it.

But I manage to, don't I? Bury myself in my work, which is conveniently cooperating by providing me more than enough to distract myself with. I never would have guessed that so many people would notice the little "hidden message" I put on the Synthasia site, and actually ask me for the Ash Grove Park ticket sets. I had a handful or so (six I think) of the damn things left and got dozens of requests for them. I guess maybe that will teach me to try and be clever. I still, for the life of me, can't figure out why they're so popular. I'm going to have to run out to the Park tomorrow I think, and pick up some more just so I can get them to the people who have asked.

I'm also not sure why Synthasia is suddenly getting so many strange phone calls all of the sudden. Not business calls, although there has been an increase in those too, but personal calls for me, or people who don't even leave a name or reason for calling, just start asking questions. Weirder still though are the people who say they know me from somewhere, but I have absolutely no recollection of them or the things they are referencing. I'm starting to wonder if maybe there's another Dale Sprague somewhere around here.

Some of the calls have been about the comic book, obviously, and I'm also starting to wonder if I should have set up a different phone number to handle those calls. Or maybe I should just use my existing cell phone number for that, since virtually no one calls it anymore besides Meg, Diana (when she wants to bitch at me), and Sam. That would be one way to separate the Synthasia and the Chasing The Wish calls, without costing any more money at the moment.

Speaking of the comic, more and more local people are starting to see and respond to it. I'm not sure why I thought it wouldn't be a big deal around here; I surprise myself with my own naivete some times. My dear old friend Bruce (that wasn't too sarcastic, was it?) even blogged about it.

Yawning, I guess I should try and sleep.



So I tried other dates.

Look at what I found:

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November 11, 2005: I know this doesn't really belong here, but this journal is becoming my main source of creative release and sometimes I have a very hard time separating my feelings and personal life from the work or creative efforts I have poured myself into. I can pick and choose what I show to everyone out there anyway, so here goes. Maybe, five or six years from now, after the third season of the Chasing the Wish TV series, this will all be collected and compiled into my personal memoirs or something.

I couldn't help myself any longer. I couldn't just stand by and watch what's going on in this town and not get involved. So, in some very weird "life-imitating art" kind of way, I decided to run for a position on the Aglaura Borough Council. Not to give away too much of the comic's future storyline, but in the world of my Chasing the Wish book, I am already an Aglaura Councilman when the story begins. It's not quite the same though; in the comic book the events in my life have made me a Councilman on the way out (you'll have to read the comic for the details), whereas in real life I'm on the way in, since I was elected last week. So, in some strange metaphysical ways, my real life seems to be echoing parts of the comic story I've written, but in reverse. Yeah, I know, people look at me like I'm crazy when I start saying things like that. Back to the reality of my life.

In many ways though, despite my legitimate desire to make things better in Aglaura (or keep them the same, as the case may be), I feel like a hypocrite. As good as I am at self-deception sometimes, I'm also self-aware enough to realize that getting back at Diana is at least part of my motivation for running for the Aglaura municipal position. Since she was elected to the Council, she's done nothing but make or support bad decisions for the town. I wonder where the woman I married went to at times when I hear her speak or read her comments from the monthly Council meetings. Who is this woman?

In all fairness, it's not just her. The whole town is divided, with half of them doing and believing in things I just don't understand anymore. Sam has even taken to calling the whole scenario "The Invasion of the Marztians." Clever, isn't she? But that's actually what it feels like. It seems like every public situation that pops up nowadays ties back to Marzent somehow, and the plans they have for our fair town. As with everything in real life though, it's not all black and white or cut and dried. Marzent has done some great things for Aglaura, since they moved in back in 2004. They've invested money in the community, brought jobs that wouldn't have existed otherwise, and helped modernize the municipal infrastructure to some extent as well. But more and more citizens are beginning to question, "At what cost? To both our town, and we as individuals?" If people like Diana, and even my old friend Bruce, are the face of that change, I'm not finding it very attractive.


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December 2, 2005: Thanksgiving without Meaghan was hard. Damn Diana and her insistence on going away over the holiday and taking Meaghan with her! And how nice that Bruce went along. My dear old friend. It seems all my friends are turning against or being taken from me - in one way or another. I can't help but feel sorry for JD. As bad and as crazy as my dreams and screwed up memories have gotten sometimes over the past few months, it seems minor compared to what he's going through. He literally seems completely detached from reality lately, and I know poor Phyllis is scared to death by it all. Especially since she seems to be one of the lucky ones who hasn't been affected by all this craziness, unlike many of us.

I will spend Christmas with Meaghan, I swear, come Hell or high water.


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December 06, 2005: I've been thinking a lot about friends lately, especially my old close friend Wes Keeler, who's no longer with us. He plays a major role in my Chasing The Wish comic book story, much as he did in my real life. Wes was an Aglaura old-timer who'd been here as long as anyone could remember, and who knew more about the area, especially the Pine Barrens, than any scientist or naturalist I've ever met. Wes was also more of a scholar than anyone I've ever known, although the methods he used and the knowledge he was open to and willing to explore were outside the scope of traditional academic circles, to be sure. If I've classified myself as a dreamer, then Wes would be a believer.

Perhaps the most telling thing about Wes was the name he choose for the business he opened up here in Aglaura, a small shop on the main street that he called Wes Keeler's Emporium of the Weird. Seriously, is that a great name or what? I remember doing a double take the first time I saw that when driving through Aglaura before I even lived here (actually it was Ongs Hat back then, but it gets too confusing to keep jumping back and forth), and almost having an accident right there in the center of town. That would have been a great way to introduce myself to the local residents.

His store was filled with some of the strangest items and artifacts you've ever seen, definitely living up to the billing its name created for it. Most of the stuff in there he either collected or found himself, some of it during his frequent solo trips into the depths of the Pine Barrens. I always thought he was crazy for going in there by himself and was constantly waiting for word that he was lost out there or turned up dead or something with each of his latest adventures. In the end, ironically enough, he never suffered anything worse than a bad chigger infestation from his trips to the Barrens. It was civilization and technology that killed him.


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December 23, 2005: Today is Christmas Day here in Aglaura, at least for Meaghan and me, since she'll be spending Christmas Eve and the 25th with her mother. But that's OK, I've got some great presents for her and some fun things planned for today. I can't wait to spend the day with her. I want to show her some of the artwork from the comic book too, since there's been so much progress since she's seen it last. She's always had a natural talent for art herself, so who knows? Maybe this little project of mine will motivate her to start drawing again soon. It breaks my heart that she's stopped doing almost everything like that since Diana and I split up. How many times in my life have I heard that cliche, "It's always the children that get hurt." Now I know what it means, and I'm not proud of myself for the part I've played in it at all.

All I can do now is try to make it right by her from here on out. I can't change the past.



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January 18, 2006: Just when you thought things couldn't get any more tense or divided around here, along comes Marzent's "Phase 2" development plan, presented to the Borough for consideration at the next Council meeting on January 17th. Among other things, it includes a proposal to take over the current Aglaura municipal complex, absorbing it into the already-in-development industrial park along the edge of town. With the new Municipal Building nearing completion and a move-in date anticipated by early Spring for the new facility, most of the existing municipal complex will be empty soon anyway. But, and here's the part that's going to rub a lot of people, including myself, the wrong way, they also want to take over and eventually tear down the last remaining occupied building on that plot of land - the Aglaura Library building. Not only is the building thought to be the oldest existing structure in Aglaura, it also has great historical significance, having been the original home and medical clinic of Dr. James Still, the fabled "Black Doctor of the Pines." The building has been remodeled a few times since, but much of the original structure and historical import still exists. Many longtime Aglaura residents see the Library as their last link to the past, the old days of Ongs Hat - before all the progress, technology, and new industry came to town. Losing it would be a hard and bitter pill to swallow.

And that's not even the worst part of the plan. Of course they're not suggesting just doing away with the Library altogether; even a big soulless corporate entity like Marzent wouldn't propose something like that. (I'm just kidding about Marzent - I do web design work for them and have friends that work there. That "evil corporation" meme is just too good to pass up.) Instead they've proposed something that is sure to strike some people as being just as bad - they want to greatly reduce the size allocated to the Library in the new municipal complex, and accomplish this by digitizing most of the Library's contents, doing away with almost all the actual printed books. They've included all kinds of facts and figures in their proposal showing how digitization is the way of the future, how libraries everywhere are already going to this new system, and so forth. They've also made a very generous offer to manage and even pay for the process of digitizing the existing inventory. Still, it doesn't sit well with me and I know it's bound to infuriate Sarah, Phyllis, and the other longtime Library supporters.


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January 20, 2006: Well now, that was fun. Or maybe somebody's idea of fun.

Even though the meeting on Tuesday night was only intended to introduce the proposed "Phase 2" of the Marzent Redevelopment plan to the Aglaura Borough Council for review, debate, and consideration at some future date, that didn't stop dozens and dozens of residents from showing up to vent their outrage over what Marzent is proposing. I don't think anyone quite expected the reaction the proposal received, and the Marzent representatives looked like they had just come face to face with the Jersey Devil or something. OK, I admit it, that part was fun.

But then things got a little ugly when the supporters of the plan tried to speak up, Diana and Mayor Dobbs among them. Poor Pat - he's a smooth talker most of the time but even he couldn't sell this idea at this point. Being the good politician he is, he quickly realized that it wasn't the time or place to fight that particular battle, and handed the podium off to the next target. That happened to be my wife, Diana. (Is this some special term to designate said wife as "separated?") She proceeded to shout down the more vocal opponents of the plan, saying we haven't had time to even read and understand it yet. Her point was right but I'm afraid her tone made more enemies than converts, despite the logic of it.

The absolute worst part though was when she went on to suggest that it was about time that Aglaura moved out of the shadows of the past and embraced the reality of the future, by rejecting the superstitions and "silliness" that Wes Keeler and his kind represented and believed in. Ouch. I don't think she really meant it to sound as nasty as it came out, especially since Wes isn't around anymore to defend himself, but she put her foot in it with that one. Sam actually got up and stormed out of the meeting room, even though she's paid to be there for the entire thing. I didn't think she could dislike Diana anymore than she already did. I was wrong again.


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February 18, 2006: It's funny, in an ironic kind of way, how when things start to improve in one area of my life, they tend to fall apart in at least one other. Is it too much to ask that, just once, I'm allowed to have all the pieces I need in their proper places at the same time?

Case in point - things are finally looking up somewhat in my work, specifically for my design company, Synthasia. I recently signed a contract to do a website remodel for Marzent, as they are looking to put a new face on their company - in light of all the recent controversy and bad feelings from some people in Aglaura. I guess the earlier limited website work I did for them paid off and won me this new opportunity. That's rewarding to know.

Also, the various pieces of the Chasing The Wish comic book are settling into place, as the basic art for all of the story pages for Book One and have been completed. Over half of them have been finished and colored too, leaving me with great hopes that we'll indeed be able to print and start selling the book sometime in early Spring, as projected. This is great news, for both myself and the other people who have put themselves on the line to get this thing done, primarily the artists and writer who form the rest of the creative team for the book.

Like I said in the beginning of this entry though, if there are good things going on in a few areas of my life, you can bet that some other area is in utter and complete turmoil. My dreams, and their most recent incarnation as some weird and very scary daydreams or vision-type experiences, have grown progressively worse and more frequent over the last few weeks. And since they all seem to be part of this still unfolding Chasing The Wish storyline, it's become increasingly difficult every day to separate this fantasy from reality. I can't help feeling that everything, and I couldn't even tell you what that nebulous "everything" might be, is coming to a head somehow. And I think that if I can just get through this process of creating the comic book, finish the entire story and follow it wherever it might lead me, that things might just be OK.

I wish I could say the same for JD. I visited with him for a while today. Phyllis is at her wit's end with the whole situation. She puts up a strong front but I can see right through it. She's crumbling inside and can't take much more. I don't know why I feel as if I should be able to get through to him somehow, that I should be the one to make sense of the craziness he is spouting almost non-stop these days. But I failed once again. His words made no more sense to me than the events of my own life have lately.


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March 1, 2006: The weird coincidences or synchronicities or whatever you want to call them involving my comic book continue. Last night I had an incredibly vivid dream, in which I actually saw myself in the fictional world of the Chasing The Wish comic book. I saw myself sitting in front of my computer, typing out an email to people I didn't even know, to ask them for their help. It wasn't just that the dream looked real, it felt real. I was sweating, shaking, and virtually panicking as I sat there, pounding out my frantic message that sounded crazy, even to me. And as I grew near the end of it and thought about hitting SEND, I heard a loud and insistent pounding on my door. I was typing the very last words of my intended message just as I heard the door crash inward, and I felt a shower of wood splinters crash against my back. I braced myself for the force of the impact I knew was sure to follow, but nothing happened.

It was then I realized that I was sitting up in my bed, my clothes and the sheets literally drenched in sweat. I wasn't in my office but in my home, and I wasn't sitting at my computer at all. I took a deep breath and said to myself, "Just a dream. It was just a dream." I nearly jumped out of my bed when I then heard a pounding on the door, the front door of my house this time. It took a moment for me to realize it was really happening, and not a part of or a continuation of my dream.

It was indeed the police at my door, just like in my dream, but they weren't looking for me. Instead they had come to tell me that JD Willingham had just tried to commit suicide.


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April 18, 2006: The Aglaura Library issue is coming to a head as both sides gear up for the vote that's sure to come in the next month or two. Sarah is absolutely obsessed with this entire issue (understandably) and is devoting every waking minute to campaigning against Marzent's plan to take over and then demolish the old Library building. She says it will be like losing her home, even though she obviously wasn't really raised there. Nevertheless, she's poured her heart and soul into the place since being named Head Librarian a year ago. She's managed to turn the old building into a fun and attractive place, instead of the stodgy old shack full of books it once was under Mayor Dobbs's mother (God rest her soul).

At tonight's Council meeting Diana, Bruce, and Dobbs gave their usual speeches extolling the virtues of the Marzent plan, with myself, Sarah, and a few others taking up the cause of the Library, as usual. It's a shame Phyllis hasn't been coming to the meetings and participating in JD's place, as she has a right under Aglaura's strange by-laws to do. We could use her help to rally support for the APL since she is so popular with many of the residents. I hope we can convince her to take part by next month's meeting, since I'm afraid the pro-development camp might press for a vote next time if they feel they can win. I know JD's situation has totally consumed both her thoughts and time, but his recent commitment to Klepsydra (I still can't get over the ironic coincidence of that little tidbit) may have given her some small measure of relief. I need to speak to her soon.

I honestly wish I didn't have to see Bruce at these meetings every month, especially now that he and Diana are a publicly confirmed "item". I can't stand the way they look at each other during the meetings, although I swear she only does it when she knows it will distract me. I also can't bear the thought of Meaghan living there with them. That's just not right, but there's nothing I can do about it. If I could change one thing about everything that has happened, it would be that. I miss my little girl.



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May 24, 2006: I'm really getting tired of having to see and deal with Bruce and Diana at these damn Aglaura Council meetings anymore, especially now that they're both so visible and active over the whole Library Redevelopment plan. But that in itself is more than enough reason for me to just "grin and bear it," as I couldn't stand the thought of leaving Sarah there alone to stand up to the two of them, not to mention Dobbs. I think Sarah could give either of them a run for their money one-on-one, because I've seen her come alive over the recent months with some kind of inner demon in response to the Marzent proposal. That girl has the strength and determination of ten of me, when she needs to. I don't know what it will do to her, though, if they succeed in pushing this thing through.

Hard to believe that Bruce and I were so close once, with the whole Anonymous Fame thing. We both poured our heart and soul into that for quite a while, only to have it just fade away. I'm sorry Bruce didn't stick it out longer with the business. Maybe it would have kept him from coming here to Aglaura.

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 		A missing entry?
Nice find, konamouse!

While checking the source codes, I noticed that the entries are coded by number.
The latest entry....
http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/052906.html
actually shows the code "entry_new09 " in front of the date on the html. ( I guess that was a hint to look deeper Smile)
So, just as a learning exercise, I thought I'd go through and log them here.
(The blue ones are those that kona found.)

!--entry01 --> November 5, 2005
!--entry02--> November 6, 2005
!--entry03--> November 11, 2005
!--entry04--> November 18, 2005
!--entry05--> November 27, 2005
!--entry06--> November 28, 2006
!--entry07--> December 2, 2005
!--entry08--> December 06, 2005
!--entry09--> December 18, 2005
!--entry10--> December 21, 2005
!--entry11--> December 23, 2005
!--entry12--> January 4, 2006
!--entry13--> January 6, 2006
!--entry14--> January 13, 2006
!--entry15--> January 18, 2006
!--entry16--> January 20, 2006
!--entry17--> February 11, 2006
!--entry18--> February 15, 2006
!--entry19--> February 18, 2006
!--entry20--> March 1, 2006
!--entry21--> March 6, 2006
!--entry22--> April 16, 2006
!--entry23--> April 18, 2006
!--entry24--> April 19, 2006

Notice that the wording changes from here out. I wonder if there are any other entries between April 19th and May 1st.

!--entry_intro01 --> May 1, 2006 http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/050106.html

HUH!? missing entry_new02 ?????

!--entry_new03 --> May 9, 2006 http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/050906.html
!--entry_new04--> May 18, 2006
!--entry_new05--> May 23, 2006
!--entry_new06--> May 24, 2006
!--entry_new07--> May 25, 2006
!--entry_new08--> May 26, 2006 (links to Bruce's log)
entry_new09 May 29, 2006

Is there an "entry_new02"?

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June 1, 2006: I think I'm losing my mind. Yeah, I know, we all say that to ourselves all the time, but it's never felt more real to me than it does right now. That's funny actually - real. It seems I'm full of unintended ironies and double meanings. Real - I don't even know what that means anymore.

I had a dream last night, I think it was last night, the days are sort of all blurring together, from fatigue, overwork, and whatever else is happening to me, that began with something that had just happened in my real life - my trip out to Ash Grove Park. I had to drive out there for some tickets for this local promotion they are doing, but that's all besides the point. (Focus, Dale, focus.) My dream started with me walking out of the park, or almost walking out I should say, because at the last minute I heard a voice call out my name. It sounded like Meaghan's voice, but I wasn't sure, so I turned around but there was no one there. Just a tent, that seemed dark inside and possibly empty. The entire park had suddenly grown dark, as if it had shut down in the few moments in which I was walking to my car.

Again, the voice, Meaghan's voice, this time I was sure. And it came from inside the tent.

I knew this tent. I had seen it in my dreams before, and had described it to the best of my ability when I was writing the scripts for the artists of the Chasing The Wish comic book. It was the tent where the fortune teller from my story, Digitalis, foretold the coming of the Wish.

Now here's the thing. There actually is a fortune teller or psychic or whatever you want to call him at Ash Grove Park named Digitalis. He's a popular attraction in the small midway they have there. He's named after this unusual medical condition he has, which rumor has it marks him as having special powers or something - he has six fingers on one hand. I'm not much of a believer in that stuff and have never actually been to see this guy, so my knowledge is all based on what the workers at the park or my fellow Aglaura residents have told me

When I wrote the Chasing The Wish story, I had originally given the fortune teller character another name; even though I was aware of this real life Digitalis character from previous visits to the park, in my original dreams of that part of the story this character had a different name. Strangely enough, when I received the first artwork back for those pages of the story, the artists had called him "Digitalis." When I asked them why, they said that's what I had written in the script. Sure enough, when I looked at what I had sent them there it was - Digitalis- although I would have bet money I had written something different. At the time, I passed it off as just another case of my dreams and my real world getting all mixed up, as was growing increasingly common during the time of creating Book One. It doesn't really matter though, damn, I've lost my main train of thought here, again.

The tent in my dream and the voice inside - even while dreaming some part of me recognized the tent and, on some level, feared it. But I had to go inside. I had heard Meaghan's voice. I cautiously went inside.

But no one was there, it was empty. All that was there, inside and on the grassy ground of the tent, was the symbol I had created for my comic, the ring from the 3-0-7 group, in a burning emblem on the ground. And then I woke up.

For some reason, even though I knew she wouldn't be there, I went into Meg's old room to check on her. She stays there when she visits me on weekends, and I use it for a spare computer room at times too, but I hadn't been in there since last weekend, when Meg was here. I was surprised to see the computer screen on, and not in the endless looping of the screen saver it should have been showing.

There on the screen was the 3-0-7 ring, on the main page of some website I'd never seen before, and that I know I didn't surf to on that computer. 307

This symbol did not exist until I created it, from my dreams, for the Chasing The Wish comic book story. I can tell you what inspired it, what research I did based on the things I saw in my dreams, and why I chose the name 3-0-7 for the group from the comic. I have no idea how it has found its way into the woods around Aglaura, or into this guy's website or subconscious. I have no clue as to why it would be on the computer in Meaghan's room.

But I think I know where to start getting answers. I think I know whose website that is.


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 		Hmmmm, I wonder what the name he had decided to give the fortune teller was? Or who he thinks the site belongs to? Any way we can find out without a deluge of emails from anyone and everyone?
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		I think he knows it's NRG' site:
http://www.three-o-seven.com/wtf.html

How much of what's currently on 307 is new? anybody know? The archives all mention stuff that doesn't exist, anymore.
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
I think he knows it's NRG' site:
http://www.three-o-seven.com/wtf.html


Wow, I didn't even catch on that it was Dale and Meaghan he was talking to. Does that mean NRG could possibly be someone we and Dale already know? During the actual diner scene, they seem to be a strangers, but Dale's journal implies that it's someone he's familiar with.

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 		I think he might think that the website belongs to Digitalis. After all, in the dream he found the symbol in the tent.
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 		The current three-o-seven website belongs to a middle aged male nurse who is working at Greatwater General. He has seen Dale & talked to Meghean at least 2 times (see the 3-0-7 website narrative). Dale may say he "knows" who's it is just from these encounters - not necessarily who the guy really is (i.e. what is his name).

The three-o-seven website from CTW1 was completely different. So the archives about it probably won't help for this reality.
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 		Lets see:
In the 307 page, the nurse says that the symbols is a very common tattoo in Aglaura.

But Dale says he creadted that symbol for the comic, so he hadn't seen it before, so it couldnt be a popular tattoo

So: or the NRG and Dale are living in different timelines or different realities or something like that Rolling Eyes
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