unforum

thr4k4 · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 22

[SPEC] Do we Need an Innocent Bystander?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:50 pm

Volt · Guest

I guess the first step would be to find out what she means with "a little awry" ie : looking at the site in a way we haven't so far (or maybe we have, but failed to locate and indentify the" innocent bystander")

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:58 pm

Crispy · Greenhorn Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

Hmmm. How about Margaret's sister, Chloe?
We know almost nothing about her...
Surely, with her sister and her daughter involved in this, she must at least be aware of it...

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:13 pm

ste · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 52

I think it's been established (or at least supposed from their nature, and it's a theory I go with) that the Sleeping Princess' responses are composed from fragments of the emails that have been sent to the hotmail account. So, the makeup of the sentence depends a little on what she has to work with. It's probable that:

"I was looking at your site a little awry and have found an innocent bystander. Can you(?)"

comes from several fragments, like these, for example:

"I was looking at your site", "a little awry", "and have found", "an innocent bystander", and "Can you".

And in turn, those fragments may not fit the meaning it's after exactly. So that could be the closest it can construct to "I've seen what's happening to your website, how it's going all awry, and I've realised you're just an innocent bystander, aren't you?"

Now, the only bit it adds itself is the question mark, which is what someone who emailed taught it to use to signify a question (evidence for this is in the Q&As in the killer jpegs). Perhaps we need to reconstruct The Sleeping Princess' vocabulary so it can make itself clearer? I'm not sure how we'd go about doing that, but has anyone tried sending it any basic dictionary files to chew up?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:18 pm

Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Maybe someone can explain this to me.

One of the killer.jpg files contains:

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:26 pm

Andy · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:30 pm

Kybard · Kl00 Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 42

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:32 pm

ste · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 52

It's an interesting theory, but I think the repeating expression is just symptomatic of the fact that the Sleeping Princess doesn't have that much text to work with. She saying she's not the one attacking the website, in the same way she might be saying Dana's not *deliberately* trying to kill The Queen. Both innocent bystanders. Possibly.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:34 pm

troy

The message seems to be from the AI...it has the same semi-cocky style that the rest of the AI's monologue is written in. We now know that the AI is pissed and is after Dana. Would it be beyond her to use Chloe or Margaret (two innocent bystanders by far) to get at Dana?

-Troy

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:47 pm

hotblack · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:57 am

sauceykat

This is just a silly bit of SPEC, but couldn't Awry stand for Awbry? Just add the b in there. Since the being seems to be using words from other websites, etc. perhaps he couldn't find the name Awbry so he used awry instead?

D-

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:13 am

number8

I want to ask if anyway can say who the Princess is actually talking to through the text. Since she is the only other person/thing we have actually communications with (Dana is the first person of course), those text might be meant for us, than the Innocent bystander is Dana. On the other hand if she is talking to Dana, then the Innocent bystander could very well be collectively everyone that has seet her a email. I wonder if Dana has actually sent email to ladybee herself.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:24 am

_________________
Drool

problem quite interesting Drool

Gunslinger · Guest

The Bystander

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:56 pm

Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Re: The Bystander

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:12 pm

Gunslinger again · Guest

Yeah, I know now. Though this is the first I've seen it done that though, since I first found this thing at 11:42 last night. Weird. Should I upload the image or give it to someone?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:17 pm