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Twee
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 		So the postcards seem to be all alike, except for the drawing on the back. Anyone receiving postcards from now could just scan/draw the picture on the back, I think.

If I'm counting right there are 4 postcards as of now. we have:

The dots
The plant (aloe vera?)
The postcard from the other thread
and Ravenwolfs card.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:26 am
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DETROIT
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Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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 		picture on postcard
Hi everyone

Im new to the ARG world, I found this site researching "hopeismissing"
my curiosity got the better of me and I found this thread, ive gone over all the posts, and want to play!

I have also sent an email to "jumpingspider" in hopes of receiving something...i have not Sad

has sending an email worked for anyone else?

anyway I do have something I wanted to mention (dont know if it helps)
the map picture on the postcard is michigan.
its an island on lake superior, Ilse Royale.
its a national park, and is one of the most remote and rural places in the country (wheeled vehicles are prohibited, even bicycles) a very interesting place.
so i thought it might be some kinda clue, gotta be a reason why that pic was chosen...dont ya think?

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 		Re: Tank Cat into Mordor
Mort wrote:
Just want to let you now that "Someone cannot simply Tank Cat into Mordor" is an Internet Meme generated by the imageboard 4chan.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Mordor


RULE 1 Censored!!!!111
j/k

Edit - Along with "Rule 1" there is also the rule about the use of profanity... C

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Twee
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 		New email:

Quote:


Subject: Days of the Dark Forest - The Journal of Keridwen Oculet

CMProtocol@@JStart: Ready
VJRUBCJAC<<
ORUNUXJM<<

Days of the Dark Forest - The Journal of Keridwen Oculet

Day 9: My most interesting recent discovery has been a small blue spider. It
is quite hairy, the coloring almost cyan but less saturated. The eyes are the
most interesting feature, dark with colored depths. This is the only spider I
have ever come across to really take notice of [people] and watch us with what
I can only call curiosity. The spider moves its head to track us huge
creatures stumbling around the forest. And if one of us gets too close, the
spider jumps backward--and continues to watch! Very intriguing.

Despite the hardships of camping out in this strange forest, I'm enjoying it.
This is the first time I've really felt challenged to use everything I know,
not just to perform my research and other duties, but to merely function day
by day. The hunters are sworn to take care of me, of course, but I take pride
in not requiring their help. Often.

Day 10: The leader of the hunters is Davadron Toluin. He's been quite kind, I
would almost say solicitous, in providing for me. Of course, *I'm* the one
who's supposed to find out what's edible and what's not in this forest, but
the hunters perennially do things their own way. I suppose I'll have to treat
one of them when he eats a bad berry. Still, they have their uses; their
[tricks] for finding interesting species are almost as good as mine!

Day 11: I've procured some glass to rig up a primitive terrarium for the
spiders. The hunters have caught a few for me, but it's hard to keep them
around so I can study them. The spiders, that is; the hunters don't really
have any choice in the matter, though I shudder to imagine what *they* think
of me asking for all these silly blue spiders. I find the creatures so
intriguing, but I'm not even sure why.

The hunters tell me there's a type of bee that builds hives in certain trees
around here. And they say these bees do in fact create honey. *That* should
prove their worth even to the hunters!

Day 12: [Expletive] tricky spiders! They can climb right up glass! Who ever
heard of a spider that can climb glass? I just returned to camp to find the
last one scurrying up the terrarium and out the top! I'm going to need more
glass to build a *real* terrarium, [viz.], with a lid.

Well, I shouldn't fill this journal with silly things like that. The truth is
that the bees are turning out quite interesting. Good quality honey with a
distinctive, slightly bitter and almost smoky taste. I'm sure gourmets back
home will go wild for it. As much as gourmets *ever* go wild!

What's more interesting to *me* is that the bees only build hives in a certain
species of tree. The hunters call it a "bee bush"; I guess that's as good a
name as any, for now. (The bees, of course, are "bush bees". How pointless.)
Right now I'm getting ready for a field expedition to see these bushes for
myself. In my copious spare time, of course.

Day 13: The bush has stiff branches with alternate compound leaves, with nine
leaflets each. The leaflets are elongated with rounded tips and smooth edges,
dark green on top and smooth white underneath. These branch-trunks spiral
upward in a twisty manner I haven't figured out yet, forming a large bush.
Each bush has what appears to be somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen
flower stalks, quite stiff, each stretching nearly [a meter] upward. This
stalk is woody and light brown, with no leaves, but a few odd ridges and
structures I don't recognize. Atop each stalk is a magenta flower with a wide
base, myriad short petals and both stamens and pistil in the center. The bees
are often seen taking nectar from these flowers.

What's *really* interesting is that the bees build their hives between the
flower stalks. The stalks are plain, nearly featureless, sticking straight up
in the air for [a meter]. The hives usually join three of these stalks, as if
someone had wrapped a [scarf] around the stalks and filled in the area thus
delineated. Each plant has three hives with startling regularity. The whole
arrangement is completely bizarre and unlike anything I've ever seen before.

I had to stop writing because Davadron just brought some amazing news.

We aren't alone in this forest.
ORUNLUXBN>>
LXMN>>
2ICC1XRE0EAV
CAJWBONANAAXA>>
LXANMDVY<<
ed help s
xcuse me?
to upset
now. Jedd
vyurin: S
All righ
look the
popular c
ple] who
without m
mmunicati
out on th
od idea.
lingly we
with you
as soon a

VJRUNWM>>
CMProtocol@@HEnd: Ready



So now we have:


Quote:
Alvyurin: wait, what are you doing? Jedditor: you wanted help s
Alvyurin: But from where? Jedditor: dunno. Alvyurin: Excuse me?
contacting? Jedditor: dunno. Alvyurin: are you trying to upset
thought you'd had realized how bad an idea that is by now. Jedd
im asking the [system] to find suitable candidates. Alvyurin: S
how does the [System] know? Jedditor: dunno. Alvyurin: All righ
curtail your [System] privileges. Jedditor: hey cmon! look the
intelligent. within its areas of expertise. like the [popular c
world. it can find [people] and bring them to us. [people] who
help. and you would never get anything like this done without m
hello? Alvyurin: Well at least you're finally being communicati
aint no disease Alvyurin: I think the [jury] is still out on th
that you've explained it to me it does sound like a good idea.
welcome. Alvyurin: Yes. If you just explained more willingly we
perfectly. Jedditor: oh im always up for getting along with you
well as I get along with any [male] anyway. Inform me as soon a
results.


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furikku
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Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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 		Wow, it's been forever since I've been here.

Darn it, I just got beaten on Kerridwen's journal!

PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:30 pm
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myf
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Location: Hiding from squirrels

 		I've not been following this, and had not received any of the emails until today - I got the "Keridwen Oculet" one this evening. Guess I'll spend tomorrow reading up on the stuff so far Very Happy
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 		The chat conversation looks like it's nearing completion... Maybe one or two more emails and we'll be done! (I'm guessing two, because the Chapters have been three emails long, and this is the first email of Chapter 3. It just fits, IMHO.)

---

BTW, the final line of this email made me smile: "Lost in the Wilderness" from Children of Eden, anyone?

Okay, probably not, but it still made me smile. Smile
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sMooTH WuN
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 		we're aaalmost there..

Quote:
Alvyurin: wait, what are you doing?
Jedditor: you wanted help s ...(Missing)...
Alvyurin: But from where?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: Excuse me? ...(Missing)... contacting?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: are you trying to upset ...(Missing)... thought you'd had realized how bad an idea that is by now.
Jedd ...(Missing)... im asking the [system] to find suitable candidates.
Alvyurin: S...(Missing)... how does the [System] know?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: All righ ...(Missing)... curtail your [System] privileges.
Jedditor: hey cmon! look the ...(Missing)... intelligent. within its areas of expertise. like the [popular c ...(Missing)... world. it can find [people] and bring them to us. [people] who ...(Missing)... help. and you would never get anything like this done without m ...(Missing)... hello?
Alvyurin: Well at least you're finally being communicati ...(Missing)... aint no disease
Alvyurin: I think the [jury] is still out on th ...(Missing)... that you've explained it to me it does sound like a good idea. ...(Missing)... welcome.
Alvyurin: Yes. If you just explained more willingly we ...(Missing)... perfectly.
Jedditor: oh im always up for getting along with you ...(Missing)... well as I get along with any [male] anyway. Inform me as soon a ...(Missing)... results.



Hey, whats up with the other post card?? we could probably use that info on it.. and how is this PM gettin these peoples addresses?


We could actually start to make some educated guesses here.. if we want to be impatient, like I am...

Quote:
Alvyurin: wait, what are you doing?
Jedditor: you wanted help s..(Missing)..
Alvyurin: But from where?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: Excuse me? ..(Missing).. contacting?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: are you trying to upset me? I thought you'd had realized how bad an idea that is by now.
Jedditor: Right now im asking the [system] to find suitable candidates.
Alvyurin: So how does the [System] know?
Jedditor: dunno.
Alvyurin: All right we need to curtail your [System] privileges.
Jedditor: hey cmon! look the ...(Missing)... intelligent. within its areas of expertise. like the [popular culture] around the world. it can find [people] and bring them to us. [people] who need its help. and you would never get anything like this done without me ... hello?
Alvyurin: Well at least you're finally being communicative there aint no disease
Alvyurin: I think the [jury] is still out on this. Now that you've explained it to me it does sound like a good idea. ...(Missing)... welcome.
Alvyurin: Yes. If you just explained more willingly we wouldve got along perfectly.
Jedditor: oh im always up for getting along with you at least as well as I get along with any [male] anyway. Inform me as soon as you get the results.

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Location: Some house I found. The people in it are really annoying.

 		I've gotten that email, as well.
Unfortunately there's too much on my mind with other things to play this particular game.

I will post any emails I've gotten that haven't been posted, though.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:06 pm
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Joined: 15 Jan 2006
Posts: 283
Location: San Diego
Rekidk wrote:
Hm... That is odd. Especially when you consider that R-Type--the game which some people are spec-ing is involved with this CF--was released on Playstation, not X-Box.
R-Type for Playstation ?? You are a decade late there since it goes back to the 80s and was available on various consoles. Not unlikely to see it redone for Xbox 360 or any other system.

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eegleburger
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Joined: 30 Aug 2007
Posts: 184
Location: Dallas, Texas

 		I read part of a book last year by Orson Scott Wells and it talked about a System, though I don't remember if System was [System]. ANYWAY, there was a System involved...I think.

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Think0028
Kilroy

Joined: 15 Oct 2007
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 		Eh, too lazy to get involved, but I got another message and figured I'd post it here for you guys to devour. Have fun, I sadly won't be participating.


Quote:
CMProtocol@@JStart: Ready
VJRUBCJAC<<
ORUNUXJM<<

Days of the Dark Forest - The Journal of Keridwen Oculet

Day 9: My most interesting recent discovery has been a small blue spider. It
is quite hairy, the coloring almost cyan but less saturated. The eyes are the
most interesting feature, dark with colored depths. This is the only spider I
have ever come across to really take notice of [people] and watch us with what
I can only call curiosity. The spider moves its head to track us huge
creatures stumbling around the forest. And if one of us gets too close, the
spider jumps backward--and continues to watch! Very intriguing.

Despite the hardships of camping out in this strange forest, I'm enjoying it.
This is the first time I've really felt challenged to use everything I know,
not just to perform my research and other duties, but to merely function day
by day. The hunters are sworn to take care of me, of course, but I take pride
in not requiring their help. Often.

Day 10: The leader of the hunters is Davadron Toluin. He's been quite kind, I
would almost say solicitous, in providing for me. Of course, *I'm* the one
who's supposed to find out what's edible and what's not in this forest, but
the hunters perennially do things their own way. I suppose I'll have to treat
one of them when he eats a bad berry. Still, they have their uses; their
[tricks] for finding interesting species are almost as good as mine!

Day 11: I've procured some glass to rig up a primitive terrarium for the
spiders. The hunters have caught a few for me, but it's hard to keep them
around so I can study them. The spiders, that is; the hunters don't really
have any choice in the matter, though I shudder to imagine what *they* think
of me asking for all these silly blue spiders. I find the creatures so
intriguing, but I'm not even sure why.

The hunters tell me there's a type of bee that builds hives in certain trees
around here. And they say these bees do in fact create honey. *That* should
prove their worth even to the hunters!

Day 12: [Expletive] tricky spiders! They can climb right up glass! Who ever
heard of a spider that can climb glass? I just returned to camp to find the
last one scurrying up the terrarium and out the top! I'm going to need more
glass to build a *real* terrarium, [viz.], with a lid.

Well, I shouldn't fill this journal with silly things like that. The truth is
that the bees are turning out quite interesting. Good quality honey with a
distinctive, slightly bitter and almost smoky taste. I'm sure gourmets back
home will go wild for it. As much as gourmets *ever* go wild!

What's more interesting to *me* is that the bees only build hives in a certain
species of tree. The hunters call it a "bee bush"; I guess that's as good a
name as any, for now. (The bees, of course, are "bush bees". How pointless.)
Right now I'm getting ready for a field expedition to see these bushes for
myself. In my copious spare time, of course.

Day 13: The bush has stiff branches with alternate compound leaves, with nine
leaflets each. The leaflets are elongated with rounded tips and smooth edges,
dark green on top and smooth white underneath. These branch-trunks spiral
upward in a twisty manner I haven't figured out yet, forming a large bush.
Each bush has what appears to be somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen
flower stalks, quite stiff, each stretching nearly [a meter] upward. This
stalk is woody and light brown, with no leaves, but a few odd ridges and
structures I don't recognize. Atop each stalk is a magenta flower with a wide
base, myriad short petals and both stamens and pistil in the center. The bees
are often seen taking nectar from these flowers.

What's *really* interesting is that the bees build their hives between the
flower stalks. The stalks are plain, nearly featureless, sticking straight up
in the air for [a meter]. The hives usually join three of these stalks, as if
someone had wrapped a [scarf] around the stalks and filled in the area thus
delineated. Each plant has three hives with startling regularity. The whole
arrangement is completely bizarre and unlike anything I've ever seen before.

I had to stop writing because Davadron just brought some amazing news.

We aren't alone in this forest.
ORUNLUXBN>>
LXMN>>
2ICC1XRE0EAV
CAJWBONANAAXA>>
LXANMDVY<<
ed help s
xcuse me?
to upset
now. Jedd
vyurin: S
All righ
look the
popular c
ple] who
without m
mmunicati
out on th
od idea.
lingly we
with you
as soon a

VJRUNWM>>
CMProtocol@@HEnd: Ready


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Think0028 wrote:
Eh, too lazy to get involved, but I got another message and figured I'd post it here for you guys to devour. Have fun, I sadly won't be participating.


Only peripherally participating (ie: reading along) myself, but Trout Already posted.

EDIT: Forgot about the whole thing with checking the ROT text (that still happening, or was that deemed a dead end?). If that's still happening, ignore my trouting.
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 		u just got whapped up side the head with a fish by a smiley face... how u feel NOW mofo??
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 		wiki updated

the book as a whole is really intriguing so far... every portion seems like it's speaking in a code, trying to describe something, in metaphor, within the story... it's bugging me, gah!
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