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Sylvia
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 		Thinking out loud
Is Dale going to set up a secret area to communicate with us? One that perhaps we will have to find with obscure clues?

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I've probably said too much already here in this Journal though, and since we are not quite sure what we are dealing with yet, I'm going to follow up with a more private means of communication, I think.


And I agree with you Rogi, I don't trust the AIN either. It just don't feel right.

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 		!
Sylvia wrote:
And I agree with you Rogi, I don't trust the AIN either. It just don't feel right.


All those who think AIN is suspect, say "Aye"
Wink Shifty Eyes Shocked Foily! Flaming Nutter
....."AYE!" Very Happy

(Just havin' fun)

[Edit - To take up less room; Please keep posts on the topic of Dale's Journal. Thanks. kona]

Dag yo. The edit took away my attempt at humor. The emoticons were meant to show my thought progression at the proposition of AIN being suspect. The effect was funnier by seeing one emoticon at a time. Oh well, guess it wasn't that funny anyway....poop Crying or Very sad
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drizjr
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 		[UPDATE] Dale's Journal Aug. 27th
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August 27, 2006: I've promised a couple of people via email that I would post this as soon as I got a chance and it's been a couple of days already, so I figured I better get to it. Honestly, babysitting Bruce has taken up a little more of my life than I thought it would. In fact, it could be the straw that broke the camel's back, in the sense that it's finally convinced me that I'm indeed crazy, to be helping out and opening up my home to the man who has been living with and soon to be married to my ex-wife. Of course, the marriage part could change, since he's currently ensconced on my couch and looking quite comfortable there the last few days, but I don't think Diana's officially called it off yet.

Back to the subject at hand - I'm not sure why they are so anxious to see it, since Peter, the person who gave it to me, couldn't even tell me who he got it from. Well, with any certainty, that is. He claims it came from the same guy who has been sending him the puzzles in email messages, but I don't know how he's even sure of that. In any case, once I finally got around to looking at it, there were a lot of coincidences to what's going on around here, so like I said, I decided to scan and upload it here.

One more quick thing - I mentioned a more secure way of exchanging information in my last post. I finally figured out what I'm going to do, so that's something else I've gotten around to, also. I'll get in touch with you about it soon.

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Sylvia
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 		Public Entry http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/090406.html

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September 4, 2006: Have you visited the forest in the realm of dragons yet?

I've not been sleeping well at all again lately. In fact, I can't recall the last good night's sleep I've had. Either my mind is too wrapped up in knots trying to figure everything out, or I'm half asleep and listening for sounds of Bruce coming home. Or maybe even anyone else entering the place, meaning those guys I've been seeing out front. So most of my sleep lately, if you can call it that, consists of me tossing and turning in bed, in a half conscious state.

Last night, during one of these periods, I woke up or sat up, I'm not entirely sure which, to find someone standing at the foot of my bed. Oddly enough I wasn't immediately frightened or even particularly shocked. It felt almost as if I were expecting it, or something. Although the room was dark, I could barely make out his silhouette as the light coming from the hall through the cracks around the door illuminated him from behind. As my eyes tried to adjust to the lighting, I heard an all too familiar refrain in my head. "Six fingers on one hand he had."

After a moment or two I could see a little better, enough at least to confirm what I already suspected. Digitalis stood before me. He looked none the worse for wear, considering he was dead the last time I had seen him. "Dreaming," I thought, "I'm actually dreaming again." With lack of restful sleep comes lack of dreams, so I think I was almost more surprised that I was dreaming than at the weird content of them. I must have said that out loud without realizing it, because Digitalis responded.

"This is not a dream."

I looked at him a little closer then, half expecting him to suddenly transform into a centaur or unicorn or something, which would reassure me this was indeed a dream, but even in the dim light, my fairly well adjusted eyes couldn't find any immediate faults with the way he looked.

"If only it were, my friend."

I noticed then that I was sweating, despite the cool breeze drifting in through the partially open window by my bed. It suddenly was feeling all too real.

"All of this will soon be gone."


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enaxor
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 		[Update] September 9 - Sarah, Bruce, and Runestone
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September 9, 2006: It feels good for a change to have some good news to share with you. I finally got to see and talk to Sarah. When I went back to her house, the soon-to-be new Aglaura Public Library, she was there, the doors and windows thrown wide open, and looking better than I had seen her in a while. She seemed genuinely glad to see me, almost as much as I was to see her, and even though we didn't really get to talk too much at that point, I got the feeling that she had changed somehow. I can't put it into words, but she just seemed, well, different somehow.

Later, when I read her post in her personal site, I understood, and it made sense. Yes, I know her post sounds pretty freaky and alarming, but believe me, I think she is doing better for it. And it fits into exactly what I have been coming up with as far as making sense of what's been going on around here. It's the past - it all has to do with the past.

But I'm getting off track from the main purpose of this entry, which is to tell you that Sarah is indeed fine, and so is Bruce. Well, maybe fine isn't the right word to use about Bruce, considering he's lost his job, his girlfriend, and his home in the past few weeks. But I meant he's OK, he came home, and we're working on exactly what we are doing next.

I've got more to tell but not here. With tracking down Sarah and Bruce and straightening up the place for Meaghan's upcoming visit, I didn't get the new stuff posted to the other site yet but I will tonight, if everything goes well.

One more really weird thing - the runestone, or whatever you want to call what she found in her wall (of all places), I guess you know that those runes are part of my comic book story, like so many other weird little details of everything that's been going on. The thing is, I don't think I told anyone about that part or even posted pictures of them anywhere, so I can't figure out for the life of me how they're showing up in real life.

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pagrashtak
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 		Public entry for September 10, 2006:

Dale wrote:
September 10, 2006: Well, he's back. Digitalis, that is. In my dreams again last night. You know it's funny; as my life has grown more bizarre, my dreams had kind of mellowed out, at least compared to what they were a few months ago. But, with the return of Digitalis a few nights ago and now last night too, it seems that period is over.

The dream began in a cemetery, though not necessarily I recognized as having ever been in before. I was kneeling before a headstone, but for some odd reason I couldn't read the name that was inscribed upon it, no matter how hard I tried. The more I tried to make out the letters carven into the stone, the more they seemed to elude me.

Suddenly, I heard a voice from behind me, a voice I recognized almost immediately as him. Digitalis.

"When six have fallen, it begins."

I began to stand up, but my body felt unnaturally heavy, and I was having a hard time turning away from the grave in front of me.

"When a face conceals but naught within."

Before I could turn around and face Digitalis, I saw a dark figure approaching me from the front, weaving its way between the headstones of the cemetery as it approached.

"When a heart once broken loves again."

For some reason, I began to cry. I still couldn't turn to face Digitalis behind me, and I couldn't make out the face on the figure approaching in the darkness, but tears were streaming down my face nonetheless.

"When wishes rule the hearts of men."

The figure in front of me was getting closer, and I saw long hair streaming behind it in the wind. The tears in my eyes acted almost like a lens or magnifying glass of some sort, and I was finally able to read the name on the headstone before me.

"Optatio Venatio. Here lies the soul of Dale Sprague, which can never rest in piece. Died on the Sixth of Never, 2006."

I woke up to the sound of the telephone ringing.


Hmmm... is "rest in piece" a typo or intentional?

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Shad0
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Digitalis wrote:
"When a heart once broken loves again."

So... Sarah?
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 		How about Sam? She is broken hearted about what happened to Wes (she blames herself for the accident).

Now we know that Wes is alive (Roman Bern).

But he probably doesn't want her to know that yet.
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Shad0
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 		Re: :dunce:
I'm a moron. I meant Sam. Dammit. (Boy, I'll bet Wes is gonna be confused when he gets my email about the Aglaura librarian...)
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enaxor
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 		Re: :dunce:
Shad0 wrote:
I'm a moron. I meant Sam. Dammit. (Boy, I'll bet Wes is gonna be confused when he gets my email about the Aglaura librarian...)


Laughing That's too funny.
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 		Ok thinking out loud....

The poem, the two lines:

When a face conceals but naught within

When a heart once broken loves again

Could these lines be referring to Sam? We know, I think, about her broken heart but what about her femaleness in this reality. Sam's feminine mask could be concealing something sinister. We know she wasn't female before we reversed the wish, so why is she female now?

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Sylvia
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 		[Update] Dale's Journal, Sept. 17
Public http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/091706.html
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September 17, 2006: Nothing makes sense anymore. My world has turned upside down and my past has come back to haunt me in a way I never imagined possible. And I couldn't be happier. Wes Keeler, a friend I've thought was dead for about three years walked back into my life a few days ago. He looked great, especially for a dead man. Even though the puzzles and clues at his Barren Soul website have been leading up to this for a while now, seeing him in flesh and blood, alive and breathing, was the second most incredible experience of my life, right behind seeing the birth of my daughter Meaghan.

I'm not sure I can explain exactly what happened because I am still digesting it all myself but the unavoidable bottom line is that the memories we've all shared of Wes's death in a car accident almost exactly three years ago were false, some kind of mass delusion or false memory. How something like that could happen is unimaginable, at least by the rules we normally apply to the world. I know how stupid or melodramatic that probably sounds but I also know, without a doubt now, that I'm not sure about anything in this world anymore.

The ironic thing is, even though Wes's death may not have been real, the effects of it on all of us, his close friends, has been. Sam, in particular, has blamed herself since she was driving when it happened, at least as we all remembered it, but since even that apparently isn't true either anymore, she's been through three years of Hell for nothing. So seeing Wes and accepting the fact that it's really him, alive and well, could either completely push her over the edge towards hating him or worse, or free her from all that guilt and torment. It doesn't make it easier either that she's completely refused to entertain the idea that anything weird or supernatural might be going on around here the last few months (or maybe even years, come to think of it). She doesn't believe in ghosts, psychic phenomena, UFOs, or the tooth fairy for all I know, so that's going to make this an even harder pill to swallow.

I think I need to see if I can talk to Sam about Wes, and possibly talk her into meeting with him, before something else happens that causes the situation to get any worse.


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 		[Update] Public journal Sept. 28th
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September 28, 2006:

I'm not sure if I should be writing this here, but somehow, after tonight, I've got a feeling it may not matter anymore.

It seems like everything that has happened, everything we have all been through, has been pointing towards this, and even though we still don't have all the answers, we at least know what we have to do. Now that Meaghan is safe, I'm ready to end this, once and for all.

I've got the only people I can trust by my side - Wes and Bruce - and I only wish I had Sam here too, the real Sam, the one who I've relied on in the past. But the time for wishing is past, we're going with what we've got, and I hope to recruit a few of my online friends to perhaps help us with this tonight, in the same way Sam would have.

If we find what we think we will, proof of what they've been doing, evidence of what they have planned, tomorrow we put everything right.

http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/092806.html

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