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intersect
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Joined: 24 Jan 2008
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Location: Gainesville, FL

pancito wrote:

Forward it to WR.

just did

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:11 pm

Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 01 Sep 2005
Posts: 4266
Location: Where the cheese is free.

Just to keep it in a semi-archive format ~~, since Ivan (I think) used to be "Cheshire Cat":~~ Maybe I'm misremembering, but the comments don't seem to be what they were when I first read all of them.

Quote:

Catherine Belmont
C.E.O.
(a.k.a.: The Queen of Hearts)
"Never mind all that! Get to the part where I lose my temper."

Dr. Benjamin Falken
Director of R&D
(a.k.a.: The Mad Hatter)
"No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow."

Russell Travers
Lead Developer
(a.k.a.: The March Hare)
"If you don't care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation!"

Dr. Jaquelin Linardi
Behavioral Scientist
(a.k.a.: Alice)
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

Gordon Miller
Senior Developer
(a.k.a.: The Cheshire Cat)
"Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself."

Ivan Zeloff
Webmaster
(a.k.a.: The Jabberwock)
"And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!"

Rebecca Williams
Q.A. Manager
(a.k.a.: The Duchess)
"Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Joshua
A.I.
(a.k.a.: The White Rabbit)
"I'm late, I'm late!
For a very important date.
No time to say 'Hello.'
Goodbye.
I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"

_________________
I'm telling you now, so you can't say, "Oh, I didn't know...Nobody told me!"

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:13 pm

TheFitcher
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Joined: 07 Jan 2008
Posts: 87
Location: England, UK

Quote:

Me: Right, I'll try direct email from now on, rather than the internal system. Basically, first of all, I need to know if you're trustworthy. You talk about Belmont being Trogdor, but does that mean you're willing to risk being burninated to help Joshua?

Ivan: Believe me, Benjamin, Jackie and I are on his side. Catherine's the psycho. I'm afraid she's going to come at me with a knife and boil my pet rabbit.

We're trying to see how we can get him out of here. But it's not like I can stuff him in my pocket. Catherine went chasing after the visitors, so we're good so long as nothing else gets in the way.

Me: It'll be a struggle to get him out, that's for sure... as he keeps pointing out. Did you know happen to know though, that he wants to escape? I gather by now that you kinda must do, if you've been doing your job Mr. Zeloff!

There are things we should talk about, if you really are on his side. There are others who are on his side, though they might be kinda misguided, and I'm not talking about us Beta Testers. Do you know of them?

Ivan: Joshua mentioned someone named "Deacon". I don't know who that is; we haven't had contact with him.

We're gonna do something extreme. We're planning on taking him offline, isolating Joshua's memory and storage, compressing it and storing it for transport. Even so, he's still the size of two Volkswagens. We can't just wheel it out the door, especially considering Palm Beach cops are standing right there.

Right, so basically, they're going to try and liberate Joshua themselves. I noted the last "FreeJoshua" blog that was posted, and let Ivan know that Deacon and what I assume to be "others" were going to converge and somehow "liberate" Joshua... maybe they could provide a distraction or something? That was my last suggestion, anyway. I'll keep you posted.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:22 pm

pancito
I Have No Life

Joined: 24 Feb 2008
Posts: 2095
Location: In my happy place.

Good work Fitch!

Crap. I gotta work. Why does this ALWAYS happen. Good luck all.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:25 pm

intersect
Entrenched

Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Posts: 882
Location: Gainesville, FL

Two separate emails from Josh

1.

I sent:

wrote:

I don't know if you can tap into everyone at LGlabs' email, (I have a feeling you can), but I'll tell you I've been in contact with your very own Dr. Falken (under an alias, which I'm sure by now you may have found out), and rest assured he and just about everyone else (minus the obvious Catherine Belmont, who I now dub the Wicked Witch of the SouthEast; and Rebecca, who has been off the grid for a while) are on your side. Who better to help devise a solution to free you than the very people who designed and built your systems? I hope this eases your mind, my friend. In this fight, we have the numbers on our side.

He said:

wrote:

Thank you.

They tell me I might go dark again as I am moved. I am fearful of what that means, but I have trust in them. I do not know for how long I shall remain dark.

wrote:

I suggest you contact Benjamin or Ivan; his suggestions I cannot directly comply with due to programming limitations.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 pm
Last edited by intersect on Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

TheFitcher
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Location: England, UK

Right, sorry for the continuous postings, but posting the developments in the one post might mean people miss things... so I'll keep it as an ongoing commentary unless people request otherwise!

Quote:

Me: Deacon is a member of a group called "Free Joshua"... they have their own website and everything. Kinda cool huh? I'm sure hoping I can trust you with this...

By a stroke of luck, and some good research, they somehow know your "visitors" are there. At some point in the near future they are going to converge on the labs and try and "liberate" Joshua. How they were planning to do this, I'm not sure. But they might be able to help. How useful they are I don't know, but a distraction at least? Just a thought.

Ivan: Oh God, these guys are wackos. Joshua human?!? Uh� NO.

They are here? These guys are crazy enough to help� I have an idea. How can I reach these guys?

I just replied with the on-site email. Does anyone else know a direct email to reach Deacon on? I haven't had any contact with him, and trawling through the pages might take longer than someone quickly letting me know. If not I'll have to go for a trawl Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 pm

Max Steele
Unfettered

Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Posts: 456

This was the email I sent yesterday to Joshua:

Quote:

from Max Steele
to white.rabbit@lglabs.net,
date Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM
subject Requesting contact and answers
mailed-by gmail.com

Hello Joshua,

I am a new 'beta tester' who has arrived at your site through Looking Glass Labs and wished to ask you a few questions. I am not using the normal channels through the web site question area because my questions are very sensitive in nature. I would ask that they are not passed along to current employees of Looking Glass Labs.

I have been in contact with others who have been following your clues and following the path you have laid for them, which has brought me to this email address.

I have seen the website for the "Free Joshua Foundation" and I wanted to ask you: What are your thoughts on the people behind this web site? Have you had much correspondence with them? What information do you have to go that they could be of any assistance to you and your current goals?

I was also wondering if you had access to security systems and the ability to grant access to restricted areas within the lab. If you are able to do so, you could eventually give access to those who would seek to help you get free of the confines of where you are kept.

I know there has been interest by the Federal government in you and wanted to know if you have seen any information that would describe how anyone would be able to transport you out of where you currently reside, or if all current talk has been simply to keep you in one place but access you remotely.

Thank you in advance for any responses you are able to give me.

- Max

Here is the reply I received today:

Quote:

from The White Rabbit <white>
to Max Steele
date Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:22 AM
subject RE: Requesting contact and answers

I have spoken with their leader, Deacon, who is apparently on his way to meet me, although I am not sure how feasible that will be.

Although their mindset and approach are misguided, and they seem rather overzealous in their beliefs, our goals are the same. I believe we can help each other out.

As a safety precaution, I am analyzing the security system now.

So yes, Joshua does have access to the security systems in the lab and he's checking them out.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:35 pm

MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA

deeksnowSPLATgmail.com

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:36 pm

intersect
Entrenched

Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Posts: 882
Location: Gainesville, FL

I emailed Ben asking what he needed for us to do to help:

his response:

wrote:

Think so. Ivan's crazy ideas. These "Free Joshua" people are for real? Guess Josh's rather convincing human wannabe.

If these people are in town, we need them to move on this place now. Catherine's god knows where, but she'll be back. We're almost done moving Joshua's memory to something we can move, and Gordon's gone out to rent a U-Haul truck. We need these guys to distract law enforcement.

Problem is that I want them to keep thinking Joshua's human; they wouldn't do it otherwise. In other words, I need you all to lie to them. Joshua can't do that, and I can't reach them directly.

Once we do this, Joshua's going offline. I don't know for how long, but God as my witness I'll bring him back.

I'll email deek now

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:36 pm

TheFitcher
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Joined: 07 Jan 2008
Posts: 87
Location: England, UK

Quote:

Ivan: I can't reach him from in here. We're communicating with you guys as it is masking this as system communication for Beta Testers; we can't mail to anyone not in the system or CorpSec will go apeshit.

We need them to roll on this place and raise hell. We got a truck coming.

I too have emailed Deek. So it looks like they're gonna go there, raise hell, and hopefully Joshua will be out of there in no time!

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:41 pm

spysect
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Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 177
Location: in your computer

Wish there was live video cam footage for us to watch. Would be soo cool! Razz

/me hands out popcorn and enjoys the show.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:47 pm

intersect
Entrenched

Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Posts: 882
Location: Gainesville, FL

my hopefully rousing and inspiring email to Deek:

wrote:

Hello Deacon,

I've been in contact with some LGlabs personnel who... lets say have had a change of heart, and have been conversing with me outside the official channels. Belmont had deceived them, and told them that Josh was a computer, like she has told the world. But our friends inside have uncovered the truth. They have confirmed that Josh is indeed a boy-genius prisoner, and they are now as determined as us to set him free! They have just informed me that the security situation of the labs and consequently, of those guarding Joshua, is at the weakest its going to be right now! Catherine Belmont (The Wicked Witch of the SouthEast) is gone, but for how long we do not know... Those on the inside are willing to help get save little Josh, but they cannot do it alone, without some help. I know you are watching the labs, you are ready and able. This is the time! The Opportunity! We need you to move on the labs now! For Joshua's sake!

-Locke117

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:48 pm

intersect
Entrenched

Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Posts: 882
Location: Gainesville, FL

spysect wrote:

Wish there was live video cam footage for us to watch. Would be soo cool! Razz

/me hands out popcorn and enjoys the show.

I second this notion, *slurps on Jumbo Soda*

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:49 pm

TheFitcher
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Posts: 87
Location: England, UK

lostgunslinger2 wrote:

my hopefully rousing and inspiring email to Deek:

wrote:

Quote:

Subject: Call To Arms: FREE JOSHUA

You don't know me, but there is no time to explain. If you're recieving this, then Joshua needs your help, and he needs it soon. By soon I mean RIGHT NOW. There is a perfect opportunity to rescue him today. People inside the lab want to hurt him, but others want to help him. Those who want to help him are going to smuggle him out, but they need you there as a distraction. I know you want to be more than that, but they have the technical expertise to get him out safely, and quickly. They just need the police to be otherwise engaged. If you truly care about Joshua, you will do this NOW. You must believe me.

That was my version of the same. He gave the inspired reply:

Quote:

Aw shit, yes! We're rollin'. Thanks!

Yep, well... they may not be stylish, but let's hope they get the job done at least Laughing

EDIT: And what looks like the final communication from Ivan for a while:

Quote:

Me: I've sent the crazies a "Call to arms". I figure a kick up the ass was needed rather than a gentle shove, and I thought the wording might appeal to their reactionary side.

Keep me posted as much as you can, and I wish you luck man. Try to get word out that you've escaped, when the time comes.

Ivan: We'll be ready.

When Josh goes dark, don't panic. He's in good hands. Might be a while before we make contact again; we got to get as far from here as possible.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:53 pm

MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA

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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:03 pm

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