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parm · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 38

I'm not sure how much we can read into the killer.jpg texts, to be honest: as I said before, they sound like the kind of thing you'd get if you fed the emails into a MegaHAL-like program and then asked it some questions. It could be that we're dealing with a "new" AI, or an extremely simple AI which, until now, has had no cause to try and communicate with a human (one whose role has previously been something fairly mundane and system internal, perhaps?)

(which, I suppose, lends some weight to the idea that we're Pious Flea, whatever the hell that might turn out to be...)

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:28 am

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Roc · Veteran Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 81

Wait a minute... I was just thinking, the killer.jpgs... they aren't just responding to ladybee777.
Heck, I don't know that they are responding to that at all.

Look at the questions:
"We need to know about your parents"

Who'd ask Aunt Margaret about her parents?

"what happened? I see you are seeking help."
Aunt M wasn't seeking help... dana was. M was in trouble, but she's never directly asked anyone for anything.

the rest of the questions are ambiguous (could've been reasonably sent to either Margaret or Dana), but those two stuck out. Particularly since Dana herself responded on her blog with regards to repeated inquiries into her family situation.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:41 am

Ikkarus · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 87

Several people sent email to ladybee777 after the first strange email from it. At that point, it was apparent that the mailbox had been repurposed by something. People were trying to talk to whatever it is behind the repurposing.

So there were several emails sent that referenced "parents" because of the "voodoo parents" lines and also some that referenced wanting to help whatever it was that was trying to communicate. Wow, that was a run-on sentence.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:48 am

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KingB · Guest

Cortana?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:23 pm

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Re: Cortana?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:30 pm

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KingB · Guest

why? What says otherwise?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:35 pm

CoffeeJedi

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:41 pm

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HoldenC · Guest

Another theory on SP -

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:57 pm

Samari

we've considered that too but it's obvious that everything happening in the fable is happening on the computer.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:30 pm

HoldenC · Guest

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:21 pm

hodges · Boot Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Annapolis, MD

Re: Another theory on SP -

**Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 6:44 pm

Cygnus · Boot Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

A neat little reference to the Cloudmakers here (I've been reading their logs)
Aurora is an AI that runs a sleep clinic in that game.

Aurora is a character in a Disney movie...she's known as Sleeping Beauty, or the Sleeping Princess.

You can find the note pointing this out if you search for aurora on this page:
http://cloudmakers.org/guide/index2.shtml#mothervulture

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:04 am