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[Sylvia]

breaking it all down

[mortality]

I agree with Sylvia. Either Calvin wrote, at least, the MSG3 envelope, or David Valley did. Jade's already said they know each other.

R, the events look to be listed day/month/year since there are no 17th or 22nd months. So the Round Lake Park event is a post from Dec. 17 about an event on Jan. 8.

devislade, friskviper, feniancaltrop, kilndirk, and whiskeyskald look like code names for either contacts, subjects or "agents."

poc= point of contact?
ooc=out of communication? out of commission?
tf=task force?
oinv=invoice?

Edti: I get locations in Tampa/St. Pete for all three geolocations. I can't duplicate my results.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

*nod* on the date formatting.

But I think you're wrong on the coordinates. I just drop them into http://maps.google.com and replace the semicolon with a comma and a space.

[Sylvia]

I updated my post above to reflect what I think is being said.

[mortality]

All that looks good.

This does not:

[casablanca]

Reality Now Person of Contact

[Sylvia]

Well, I think I messed up with Spearmint. But I left some comments that will hopefully set things straight. Anyways, she removed the links to her about page and privacy-policy page. They are still there, if you didn't bookmark them you will have to type them in or use these links.

http://realitynow.weebly.com/about.html

http://realitynow.weebly.com/privacy-policy.html

I also wonder if this is a hint to other hidden pages.

Also I updated my post above to reflect some changes that were made.

and the home page now says this:

[petunia]

[mortality]

I'm so confused by Spearmint it's not even funny. The new comments make it seem like there are more than two factions.

*Unbelievers (Spearmint and Reality Now; I think Spearmint's use of "right thinking" means rationalist, not right-hand path; I would've assumed Whitechapel was, too, but maybe not)
*Left-handers (the ones performing the three rituals?)
*Right-handers (BrightonEarly [Calvin?])

Spearmint seems to be implying that Whitechapel is a front pretending to be skeptical, but actually composed of right-handers.

Right now, the only person I trust at all is Ethan.

[Typoxic]

Wait, what happened with Spearmint? It seems like something is missing here. Did someone try to talk to him/her?

[mortality]

Spearmint is posting in the comments of 0702 at the WF blog.

http://whitechapelfoundation.org/opencases/?p=19#comments

[Typoxic]

In the context of fighting for objectivism (if not Objectivism), the comment about "blackest shadows" doesn't seem to make sense (there's always a way to back out of the "shadows" of unreason). Nor does the information about the rituals being included on the site. Either the objectivism is an attempt at a cover, or Spearmint is involved in actively trying to prevent the occult, or something weirder is going on.

Edit: Reviewing it, especially in light of the stated intents on each event, the active prevention thing seems most likely. If that's really the case, that wouldn't quite make Spearmint an unbeliever, would it? It would also mean the factions are more like our guys, their guys, and the guys performing the rituals. Spearmint's use of "handedness" seems to relate more to whether or not you believe this kind of thing is (or should be) possible.

[mortality]

Like I said, I'm confused. "Unbelievers" was the best euphemism I could come up with. How do we label the difference between people like that woman on the Fox wifeswap show who plainly thought the dark arts existed, but thought God, not a benign magic, was a counter, versus people who think magic doesn't exist, versus people who think dark arts exist but there are magical counters?

Brighton checks in:

[dashcat]

I think we should tell Ethan. He got us into this so lets take him with us

Really, we do need to tell Ethan.

Spearmint is an odd name for a shadowy figure.

So has anyone written to the email address on the matchbook? Maybe we will get the other side of the story from her.

[Typoxic]

Telling Ethan about Spearmint is one thing, but telling him about the video is another. Brighton made a decent case for keeping the video from him, I thought: