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[Melonie]

There you go JackofSpades. :p

@Dunn. I'll tell some one for sure. Either my brothers or one of my parents. I want to wait until after I cool down though, I'm very angry with those two losers right now.

[Dunn_Stealth]

Thats very good, in the heat of anger we can act rashly, I'd be very mad to, your safety is most important. Take calm cool logical steps.

[Ofiuco]

Well, they/he/she/it/ninjas appear to be actually running something, whether it is simply riddles or some kind of a thing, you know, whatever, and so: let us get to the playing of it. Or not. Either way, now that you've put your mind at rest about RL security issues, humor 'em a little.

[Melonie]

Yeah, I have a great idea! I'm assuming they'll email again tomorrow, so when they do, I'm going to reply with a little riddle of my own. :p

I'll have to put some thought into so that it sounds good, but basically I'm going to make all of the first words spell out: "I know who you are Emery and Jerry". Something like that, I'm still working out the kinks. It would be so funny though!

Oh, and here's your soda by the way:


Edit: Ok, I've got such a great idea! I remember Jerry wore a shirt today with a cartoon looking guy on it with duct tape over his mouth. It said, "Silence is gold, duct tape is silver". So here's my idea. After writing the email wtih riddles that spell out, "I know who you are" (or whatever I'm going to write), I'm going to write, "Highlight ->", then in white text I'll say, "Silence is gold, duct tape is silver."

lol this is going to be hilarious!

[Dunn_Stealth]

Haha its very nice to see your going to have fun with this.



"fun" being subjective, I moved this topic to Timewasters - Gupfee

[Esteed]

Mmm, we'll see what happens. This "Brotherhood of the Fallen Warriors" thing, whatever it is, I emailed asking for any information they could give me. We may know who they are now, but I'd like to see if they still have more material to throw at us, lol.

[Obes]

For the record, I noticed the answers a page before SirQuady's post.. but I'm not posting until now. They're not really riddles per se, but great misdirection.

I'm glad Melonie worked out who this is that's sending her emails. I'm also glad this isn't an ARG, because it had one hulluva rocky start.

I'm slightly disappointed that the emailers tried to turn this into something it wasn't - it didn't make matters any better to say the least for them.

From that you see by, (Eye - I)
I decline your request, (No - Know)
Like owl's call at night, (Hoot - Who)
To mother sheep can attest. (Ewe - You)

Relinquish my first letter, (R - Are)
Emery and Jerry.
I've just gone one better,
Now say you're sorry.

Well.. yeah, it's badly written and the clues are poor at best, but then.. theirs wasn't exactly poetry either.

Obes.

(Disclaimer - The Mad Hatter is neither a 'Emery' nor a 'Jerry'. He is a 'Chris').

[TridenT]

Obes' post is the most entertaining one in this entire topic.

Kind of funny to think two church group guys are spewing forth odd emails...

[Elferien]

Their raven

[Melonie]

Ok, I sent this email to them:

"In my mind lingers thoughts and questions...

Keeping every recent event in memory
Not even knowing if they could help me
Onward pondering and thinking I did
Wondering if in my questions, I was amid

Browsing through every sentence, letter, & word
Only to find my questions unheard
To think that something so random as this
Had fallen into my fingertips

Often times I'd try to guess
Feeling as though my thoughts were helpless

Yielding to questions that seemed to fly by
Only to discover that I
Understand all the answers...

Highlight-> Silence is golden, duct tape is silver."

I'm not the best poet on earth, but it should serve it's purpose. :p

[Dunn_Stealth]

Well that is very poetic it should do the trick nicely.

[Red Queen]

:-(

[Esteed]

If you check the link ElGamer provided, you'll find that there is a very real and legit forum that Melonie is a part of. She trusts the people there, so doesn't think anything of posting a frightening situation and asking for advice. One of the other members of the forum happens to know what ARGs are and directs her here.

The people on this other forum seem to know Melonie fairly well. That, to me, indicates that she's been a member for a while. It's highly unlikely that someone attempting to run an ARG would involve a completely and totally unrelated forum. Plus, it wasn't one of the PMs in disguise that directed her to these forums.

I emailed the other day, when "he" told me "his" name was Ravyn Skifyre. While I'd been content to play along because, quite frankly, it amused me, that horribly half-assed name just turned me off. I emailed "him" saying that if they wanted their prank to be even remotely believable, they should think up better names. Now, someone who was genuinely named this way, or a PM playing a character that was genuinely named this way, would likely send some kind of response, either a defensive response, angry response, or a response agreeing that "his" parents were cruel, cruel people for naming "him" that.

I've got no reply. When I stated that I was aware it was a prank, the emails stopped. I doubt that would've happened if this were an ARG. I do believe there's a chance it might have started out that way, but I think if that was the intention of these two guys from church, they realized they hadn't exactly planned it well. Or maybe they didn't and are all sore now that they've been found out. Or, the most likely thing in my mind, this was nothing more than some stupid prank.

[Red Queen]

Got it

[Esteed]

I disagree. I have friends online, and if I was worried about an email but wasn't sure if it was real, I'd talk to them about it. To me, that doesn't seem at all out of the ordinary. I don't think you can really say what someone else would or wouldn't do in a situation. You can say what you think someone would do, but you can't claim it as fact. My belief is that Melonie reacted in a perfectly normal fashion, and given the information she was presented by a person she trusted, she came here and posted this.