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i think we are makeing a mistake
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azureace
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i think we are makeing a mistake
general

perhaps viewing what echo has said should be taken in to consideration.

i think we all need to stop contacting Mona, and instead start to contact i know this will sound odd but contact Distortion, perhaps if we contact him to much it will overload him and cause him to loose track of Mona and in doing so will allow echo to grab her.

but i believe that if we continue to spread the fire at distortions steps with his power it will be like a over charged battery and boom no more big boss man,

or it could feed him even more and he could destroy Mona and us all...i am hoping for the first outcome,

or perhaps we need to tell Mona we won't help her now, and in doing so she will back down and in doing so should throw Distortion off guard.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:16 am
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Trillian
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Welcome azureace!

Since we haven't had any development in the past few days I've also been wondering if we are making mistakes or miss something important. Here's my view:

1.) Since Echo is clearly telling us NOT to contact D. I will stay away from him. No feeding from me! Wink . Why else the warnings that D. is blocking Mona and the phonemessages?
Quote:
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September 27 th : revsleestaxx got a phone call (posted here) "ignore the distortion i am the ghost"
September 29 th : "Ignore the distortion. Your attention gives him power. This is Echo."...


2.) One of Echo's mails said:
Quote:
distortion blocking mona
your voices feed him
truth in the silence
actions of one free her
words of many fuel her captor
your attention is her chains

and I read "your attention is her chain" as advice not to contact Mona either, just as you suggested.
But the 'actions of one free her' part puzzles me. I'm wondering if it means that the actions of one of us were already successful or if Mona can only be freed by the actions of one special person that we haven't found yet.

3.) On the other hand Echo's last mails could mean that we just have to be patient:
Quote:
changes coming soon
change of energy in one
change of shape
movement on nine


So, all in all, I'm torn between 'we miss something' and 'we have to be patient'. But that's just MY opinion and it would be interessting to hear what the others think.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:02 am
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Tresbien
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Azureace, welcome. In the recent emails from echo, he said: "voices are feeding him," "one has bowed down to him" and "one has opened door for mona, distortion blocking, voices have made him increase, one is still loyal." It seems clear from those messages and the equinoxtransmission2 mp3 that we are not supposed to give fuel (words) to distortion.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:39 am
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azureace
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well i was posting as a guest before i fully signed up, and i think some one took my idea because i mentioned it before maybe some one should join with d and try to back stab him perhaps that some one is the action of one that echo speaks of and that means we pray for the soul who took my suggestion earlier

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:06 am
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walkingpaper
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patience

-1 for contacting distortion.

i appreciate the creative thinking, to be sure, and i'm not saying we're missing something, but i can't imagine that we should contact D after echo repeatedly telling us to not.

it is quite odd that we met distortion and then figured out or learned that we should be contacting him so quickly, though. perhaps that's where some of your impulse to use him more comes from.

i'm just crossing my fingers that "movement on nine" means something's going to happen on thursday!! Exclamation

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Jiangling
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Yeah, I'm holding out for the Thursday thought, too. I haven't contacted Mona since the one email to see if I could get more info and then the one forwarding my email to the Somerton people since she had asked to be shown. I had wondered if all the discussion regarding her was possibly turning into a bad thing, but I'm not sure what to do about that. If we aren't supposed to talk about M or D, how are we supposed to get anywhere? So I think that it's directly contacting them that's the problem.

I am somewhat concerned that it seems like nobody has heard from Echo in a few days, either. I've sent him emails and left my phone number on his message and have gotten nothing back. And from the look of the spirit communication board, nobody else has heard from him either.

I do feel like we're missing something, but I'm not sure what. Right now I'm praying that my thought of "movement on nine" meaning something will happen on the ninth is right and we just have to wait. I am comforted a bit by M's voice appearing in the new sound clip. To me that seems like an indication that we are doing something right. I hope so, anyway.

Meanwhile, I think we're stuck. I've been going through all of the words and clues and images that didn't seem to have been analyzed in depth and coming up with nothing. The most salient thing I have is "movement on nine." So I guess we wait, and if nothing happens on Thursday, we need to do a serious recombing of the stuff we have.

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illsaythisslowly
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Two Thoughts

First, all of Echo's stuff has emphasized patience. So, patience is probably what we need. Thursday should make things clear. However, another thought...is every ghost other than Distortion really good? Is there only one bad guy. Don't want to throw too much into this but just a thought.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:38 pm
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walkingpaper
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crossposting: i think mona is free

sorry for the crosspost, but since everyone seems to be in despair here:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=571034#571034

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:58 pm
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azureace
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i hate to sound like a task master or that guy who runs on the spur of the moment
there are some things we need to focus on now that mona is or is very soon going to be free,

1. Prepare for the next spirit Margret?Echo?that child in the center? and help them transition
2. Prepare our selves for either Distortion or those who are in essence going to be Usurping him/it. or who ever happens to be the guardians of each level, as it seems perhaps distortion is only confined to the 9th like mona, that means we would have to make sure the child gets through 8 others along with distortion or who ever may replace him,
3. find who is still loyal to the dark powers if it is some one on our end or perhaps another spirit in the out lands who is using this as a opportunity to overthrow Distortion,

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azureace
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sorry i'm late

been out ill for a while darn immune system.

anywho reading up on this it seems to me that perhaps uncle D is causing chaos through his followers (those who support him and still contact him) so perhaps we can't just keep avoiding him..perhaps we need to take the fight to him. we need to help echo and whomever else is trapped

so any one with me willing to find away to confront him

i do have some ideas though
1, try to figure out any possible motives for those that are aiding him
2, try to make more web pages or letters like what was made for mona AGAINST uncle D

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Jiangling
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It does look like something needs to be done, but I'm not sure what. I just sent an email back to Echo replying to that garbled email about D getting stronger. I asked him how we can fight other than just not talking to D. Hopefully that will give us something to work with.

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Macavity
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*delurk*

Okay, random thought here.

Expanding on azurace's theory - and what Echo seems to have told you lot (that Distortion gains power from words), I have a theory.

Words have meaning, and meanings are powerful.

So, my theory is this: what if you were to feed Distortion nothing but noise?

I'm not talking nonsense phrases like "I smoked armchair and danced Tipperary with a black-backed heffalump ringing carwash bake sales and Air Force cereal with 2600 magazines sneezing on the pin of an angel", but random gobbledegook like this:

Quote:
aaAt6eawq veqr4aese5v4qwdx czF 4q56qfcastrevq34e56aqwedrf awetv asef SZde56awcfxz q3


After all, if words have power, then random gobbledegook like that might just give Distortion trouble, as it has no meaning - and thus, no power.

It might turn out that feeding Distortion random gobbledegook like that would do to him what pouring water in a car's gas tank would do to its engine. Eventually, they'll use up the gasoline, water will get sucked into the engine, and it'll vapor-lock (quite possibly destroying the engine in the process).

'Course, I could be way out in left field here . . .
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Tresbien
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Welcome out of lurkdom Macavity. We heard from echo on Thursday that distortion is weakening. I attribute that to our heeding echo's words to amandel, "Focus on darkness increases darkness" and "Do not feed wolf." If he interprets it as favoring him, it feeds him; if he interprets it as opposition, it fuels him just the same as when we communicated before. So I see any communication as a lose-lose proposition, but your car analogy made me Smile

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Jiangling
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I agree. The nonsense idea is a very interesting thought, but most likely not as effective one. Distortion seems to feed on attention rather than words specifically, it just happens that words are the only real way we can communicate with him. It would be nice if it was as simple as pouring water in an engine. XD

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