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dishboy
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 		Visiting CMH - Redux
Me and RungeKutta are planning to visit the CMH campus this afternoon/evening. Here is the basic agenda:

1. Check for any general clues planted by the PMs.
2. Investigate the "state cemetery" I found on my first trip.
3. Search for the grave marker/trees mentioned here: http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories3.html
(if there is an actual grave marker there we will try to get a rubbing)

4. Search for the Walsh family cemetery, 1500 ft. north of the chapel site, mentioned here: http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories.html
(though no chapel stands today, and I'm not sure one ever did - but it's on the map)

5. Search for any "hidden caches" of Old Todd's.


I think that's about it. We don't plan to do anything such as break into buildings or the sewer system - my feeling is that the PMs aren't going to want us to get into legal trouble for trespassing.

Any other suggestions/recommendations?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:19 am
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blag
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 		The hole with the rope? It's featured on both Dead Poems and CMH from different angles.

Though it seems to be indoors so don't know how accessible it will be.

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Nogwater
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 		I think you guys should exchange phone numbers with someone who will be available at home when you're on your out and about. If anything comes up, it would be good to have someone you can call to do research or whatever. Unfortunately, I'll be at work while you're there. Sad

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I think you guys should exchange phone numbers with someone who will be available at home when you're on your out and about. If anything comes up, it would be good to have someone you can call to do research or whatever.


You guys, I'm available whenever, where ever, 24 hours a day seven days a week. I hope that your hunt is fruitful. I'll PM you with my call phone number and my home phone number just in case. Please be safe.
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Marduk
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 		Good luck guys and take lots of pictures like last time!
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XyzzySqrl
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 		I too am available. If you want an extra contact person (in MA, however, so careful on long distance) let me know.

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Wishi-san
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 		Does it count as breaking/entering if it's abandoned? Do check if any doors are open though Smile
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dishboy
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 		Re: Visiting CMH - Redux
dishboy wrote:
Me and RungeKutta are planning to visit the CMH campus this afternoon/evening. Here is the basic agenda:

1. Check for any general clues planted by the PMs.
2. Investigate the "state cemetery" I found on my first trip.
3. Search for the grave marker/trees mentioned here: http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories3.html
(if there is an actual grave marker there we will try to get a rubbing)

4. Search for the Walsh family cemetery, 1500 ft. north of the chapel site, mentioned here: http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories.html
(though no chapel stands today, and I'm not sure one ever did - but it's on the map)

5. Search for any "hidden caches" of Old Todd's.


I think that's about it. We don't plan to do anything such as break into buildings or the sewer system - my feeling is that the PMs aren't going to want us to get into legal trouble for trespassing.

Any other suggestions/recommendations?



OK, I'm back. RungeKutta wasn't able to make it so I went alone. In short, I didn't find anything. However, plenty of things were different - the whole area was under some serious construction. They were paving the roads around the campus, and it looked like they were installing some sewer pipes or something (which I can't help but think was curious, given that the document I found before related to sewer installations). The problem was that there was construction equipment all over and they were still working, even up until around 9 PM when I left. A lot of the area was cordoned off and it was much harder to get around and almost impossible to be inconspicuous. Nevertheless I walked around and tried to achieve my objectives. Here's the update from the points above:

1. Nothing anywhere. I checked anything that made sense to check - any signs, scraps of paper, etc. I went to the place where I found the original document, and not only was nothing new there, but the dumpster which was next to it was gone. If there was a planted clue, then there was no clear marker on where to look.

2. I finally went back to the cemetery, and contrary to my original beliefs, there was no spookiness at all. The forsaken-looking dirt road into the woods actually turns into a halfway-decent nature trail sort of thing, and after about a quarter-mile it opens into a clearing and there is a fairly large, open gated area called the "Garden of Remembrance". It is filled with lots of flat grave markers. I looked through every marker and didn't see anything familiar - no Ann Starling, nothing with "August" on it like in the CMH photo - basically a dead end.

3. I searched all over the dang perimeter, checking out countless clumps of trees. I didn't find a single thing. I really expected to find this, since it sounded pretty mysterious - but it seemed like another dead end.

4. Walking north from the chapel site there is a wide open area that contains what could be called a "small grassy knoll", depending on how you define small - it was actually pretty large, maybe about 30 square feet. I searched all around it, looking for graves and everything - yet again, nothing.

5. Despite my searching I didn't see any shredded paper anywhere.


So yeah, that's it. As far as photos go, I have a couple of the cemetery, and a couple of the "grassy knoll" (though it's possible that's not it at all), but they don't really reveal anything. Let me know if you think I should post them.

OK, so basically, I'm not going back there unless we have a clear sign from the PMs to go...
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dertel
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and it looked like they were installing some sewer pipes or something (which I can't help but think was curious, given that the document I found before related to sewer installations).


This might explain why the document was there. Maybe the people building the pipes used it to read about the history and structure of the existing sewer system in order to prepare for the construction? Sorry the trip wasn't very fruitful, dishboy, but well done anyway.

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Wishi-san
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 		I'd like to see the pictures even if they're not important. Thanks for going anyhow!
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 		*Pouts* awe, I feel bad that you went all the way out there and found nothing. The fact that there is a lot of construction going on is a bit iffy though. I suppose that for now the site itself is kind of out of game. Good work anyway. If i was you and I found nothing I would have been pretty steamed.
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 		The guys running the game are the PM's, that stands for PuppetMasters. Therefor we play by there rules and they decide everything. Think of them as God or whatever creature you worship. So being steamed when there was nothing is not really the way to go imho Wink
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dishboy
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Wishi-san wrote:
I'd like to see the pictures even if they're not important. Thanks for going anyhow!


I'll get the pictures off the camera and post them into my gallery when I get home from work.

For the record, while I may be disappointed, I'm certainly not pissed for going. Even if I found nothing, how often do you get an opportunity to check out something like that? It was surreal and felt pretty dang immersive to me - that's about as much as you can ask from an ARG. And I still wouldn't be surprised if there would be reason for a return trip to CMH, based on the emails I've received from in-game characters... but maybe we just jumped the gun a bit. I basically went back because of the "search the grounds" comment, but we never really verified that as being accurate...
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 		Re: Visiting CMH - Redux
dishboy wrote:
The problem was that there was construction equipment all over and they were still working, even up until around 9 PM when I left.


Sorta like it said in that newspaper article we got from the dreadhouse puzzle?...

"Some local residents feel the explanation wasn't convincing. They wonder why crew would have been working round-the-clock"

Wink
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RungeKutta
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 		Re: Visiting CMH - Redux
Varin wrote:
dishboy wrote:
The problem was that there was construction equipment all over and they were still working, even up until around 9 PM when I left.


Sorta like it said in that newspaper article we got from the dreadhouse puzzle?...

"Some local residents feel the explanation wasn't convincing. They wonder why crew would have been working round-the-clock"

Wink


No one was working when I eventually got up there yesterday -- WAY later than dish was there. The article I'm sure was talking about dreadhouse though. The construction there seems to be town-houses and laying city sewer and water pipes. Nothing to see there, just to confirm dish's two trips.

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