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[mortality]

Dash, Ethan's out of town for a bit anyway. We can at least wait until he's back in touch with us. Might as well listen to what this cat has to say before we go breaking the faith.

Going to check some of the social networking sites for petra_c81msSPLATyahoo.com and see if we can learn a bit more.

[dashcat]

Yes Mort thats why I left the comment asking who it was. I will wait till I hear something. I don't usually jump the gun. But I still wonder why Ethan can't know and if we don't get a name and a good reason from this person then I see no reason why Ethan can't know.

[mortality]

Not to defend our unknown correspondent's perspective, but two possibilities occur to me:

Ethan's a natural skeptic. His opinion will be valuable. But without having any empirically supported conclusions, he might not be helpful. He either may not be able to handle something this apparently weird. Or he may react negatively and close the Open Cases project. Plus, guaranteed he reports it to Christopher and the Board. And even if Ethan doesn't want to shut us down, they may. If Calvin is the one who hooked us up with this, that may not be a problem. But still, he's a tech guy, and might not be a good replacement for Ethan's abilities to research the WF archives.

Also: to prevent Ethan from haring down to FL and putting himself in danger.

So I think there are some reasons to wait on telling Ethan until we know more about the event, independent of what our anonymous friend wants.

I sent Ethan the list of research topics. That should keep him busy.

[Sylvia]

Did I read things wrong, I thought Ethan wanted to be there tonight? Maybe, they don't want to hurt his feelings and then maybe it was Ethan and he just doesn't want WCF to find out.

Just flowing with the confusion.

Here is the best image I could get of the license plate:

[mortality]

Yeah, Sylvia, Ethan did want to be there tonight. He was severely disappointed when Christopher ordered him not to go and ordered him not to ask Jade. So not making him jealous is another good reason. He was kinda testy with me during the 1/4 chat after he'd received Christopher's ultimatum.

Hmm...now that I think about it, as long as we don't try to look up the license plate on our own, and just submit it to the PMs for follow-up, we should be cool. They haven't shied away from giving potentially valid SSNs in other games.

[dashcat]

They gave out SSNs?? That's not good. Do we have an IRC chat room?

Mort I am saying this in all kindness but it isn't necassary for you to answer every post in this thread

ETA:

Sylvia that's a great capture.

[mortality]

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[Coffeebean]

anagram

[dashcat]

Re: anagram

[Sylvia]

want to point out that I'm pretty sure the email address on the Bats Taxi match book is petra_c81SPLATyahoo.com. When I tried to enter the two into my YIM this was the only one it would accept.

Also, I wonder if the phone number is important. I know it's suppose to be for the Bats Taxi, but it seems the PMs made it somewhat obvious in those pics. Never mind, I just looked it up. It's a legit phone number for Bats Taxi.

[casablanca]

[mortality]

In IRC we're debating what to do about the Yahoo! email address(es).

Sylvia noticed Ethan updated the blog. Guess they got sick of us looking at the wrong free web host. (Seriously, weebly?)

[petunia]

I dunno, Mort... do a Ctrl-A on the "about" and "privacy policy" pages and some weird stuff shows up.

And oh yeah, I'm back *waves*
Work got pretty much insane around the holidays and hasn't let up nearly as much as I'd like, but I'm finally recovered enough to jump back in. Caught up on things last night, and whoa, did I pick a good time to check back in or what?

GREAT WORK to everybody, especially on MSG01 LIEK WOAH, and 0702. Seriously, those were both awesome.

About the only thing I have to contribute right now is that when I read the solve to MSG01, specifically the last line ("The ring was not a ring"), my first thought was of our iron rod bent at a 60 degree angle. But I'm likely forgetting something that would make that implausible.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

The 1st location on the "about" page is near Round Lake Park in St. Petersburg.
That's the summoning event that occurred on January 8th.

2nd location on the about page is around where the Kingsway tunnel exits in London.(An initiation coming on February 6th)

The location on the "privacy policy" page is at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey.(Exchange of object on 12/17/07)

[Sylvia]

Remember the envelopes from OC:0701 well on this page http://www.autumncountry.net/ac-e-vic_home.html

the writing of C. Michaels looks similar to the writing of who ever wrote Whitechapel on the envelopes. Who could it be now?