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windup angel
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Tempestdevil wrote:
Just signed up at oraclewatch too, but no email yet.. How long did it take you guys to receive responses?
Next day

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:24 am
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DarkWings
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oraclewatch

Signed up more than a few days ago and didnt get anything, resubmitted today to see whats up.

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3v1L Schwinn
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I don't know if this has been there the whole time but I just noticed it this morning. "Frank" the watcher bunny is on the door handle. It looks as if it is a"new" image.

Edit: this 'hacked' image was added to the home page of http://www.brianbricker.com
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Yo-L
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The hacked image is a pointer to the contact page, where the counter is. I think.

In the source of the contact page it says in a comment:

Quote:
this site hacked by the watchers


I believe Classical figured that one out already.

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 2:08 pm
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xomunkixo
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For the people that submitted contact information to the oraclewatch page, I don't think you're supposed to get a response. The only people that received responses were the ones that emailed the webmaster separately.

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 3:50 pm
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Wulf74
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xomunkixo wrote:
For the people that submitted contact information to the oraclewatch page, I don't think you're supposed to get a response. The only people that received responses were the ones that emailed the webmaster separately.


I didn't actually email them separately, but on the place where it says "Thoughts" under the registration, is where I entered my question.
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Grady Martin
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i didn't email the webmaster, and i didn't offer any "thoughts", but i did receive the "all hell will break loose" reply from infoSPLAToraclewatch.org soon after submitting the form
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Tempestdevil
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Yeah, I just got the "all hell will break loose" email too.

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3v1L Schwinn
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Thinkthinkthink

I have been thinkthinkthinking too much. This latest clue has me perlexed.
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you can stop it before then; thinkthinkthink


Think Think Think

    Said by: Winne-the-Pooh

    Penned by: AA Milne

    One of AA'a top 5 slogans

    S.T.D. website (www.thinkthinkthink.org/ )

    Aretha Franklin song

    title of a "Hazeltine Report" blog page


My bet it is from the blog page

EDIT: The Hazeltine Blog is back up!
http://thehazeltinereport.blogspot.com/

Quote:
A Narration of The End

...a particular view of how it all happened...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
It Began with the Ides of March
We awoke late at night with a start, for there was an invisible man standing over us.

"Listen, listen," he said in the darkness. "I need your help if I am to be real."

We looked at each other and shrugged. "Why should we want that?"

"Because the world is going to end, end." he grinned.

"And what concern is that for an invisible man?"

"My soul is at stake," he said as he stood, one foot on the dresser and one on the bed. "Help me and I'll help you, you."

We looked at each other and smiled. "Okay. What're we to do?"

"First," Said the invisible man. "You must help me gather those in waiting, to assemble several groups rather quickly. Quickly. I have plans for a Game which will help with this endeavor."

"Seems exciting enough," we said to each other. "You said 'first', is there more?"

"Well," the invisible man now looked a bit sinister. "You also must help me to kill."

"Who?"

"How about we start with your parents?" he said with a widening smile.

We looked at each other and shrugged once again.
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windup angel
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New find. Bricker's about.html source code now says whenwhenwhen.html in the comments.

That leads to this http://www.brianbricker.com/090909.html

Page title "End It Now"

Hidden comment: "youcandoit"

Some apparently hidden text in body: "eventually you must find him; step carefully; he is real; he must believe or we are all doomed"

image is lffp.jpg

The swf 090909.swf - big band music - not my forte, don't recognize this off the top of my head. (Grady IDed it - Artie Shaw's Stardust)

edit - the swf includes an excerpt from Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the very end.

Quote:
ARTHUR
Who did we lose?

LAUNCELOT
Sir Gawain.

GALAHAD
Ector.

ARTHUR
And Bors. Five.

GALAHAD
Three, sir!

ARTHUR
Three. Well, we'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.


That's all after the Vorpal Bunny attack.

edit^2 - bah, just more meaningless garbage

edit ~3 - hazeltine blog updated again - an unmodified copy of The Game flyer - image is titled herebunnybunny.jpg

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Grady Martin
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sounds like Artie Shaw's Stardust - written by Hoagy Carmichael - trumpet intro by Billy Butterfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd-dB6qUTGI

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Grady Martin
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that truck belongs to the Skywalker Ranch Fire Department
http://www.marinwoodfire.org/content/Local_Fire_Agencies/100146
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Wulf74
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Time for another session of Wulf's random thoughts.... Shocked

Ok, so the new blog post is interesting, I also checked out the Profile for "The Hazels", but there wasn't much there:
Quote:
The Hazels

About Me

Who we are is of no importance. What we say is.


Please stop me, and disagree if you've got a different view of this.

Timeline (kinda..)

I received an email from Oraclewatch in response to the Thoughts that I posted. The response mentions gamejack, it mentions "find the writer, he's real. But once you do...". Based on a conversation I had with Schwinn, I accepted that "the writer" is the Eric character that was fired. At first I thought it was Bricker - as we know Bricker is apparently a real character

The Hazeltine blog re-appeared. The Hazels have offered themselves as the "creators" of this ARG, on behalf of the invisible man - who requested the Game be started in order to avert certain doom.

Brian Brickers page is updated from "thinkthinkthink" to "whenwhenwhen", as well as having a picture/flyer of the bunny posted on the page. Also found in the source code of the page is "eventually you must find him; step carefully; he is real; he must believe or we are all doomed."
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So my interpretation of things went: We've been gamejacked, but if you guys really can't figure out where you are/what you're about, contact the writer, he's real. But IF you contact the writer, it will irreparably change the game. Then new information on Brickers page saying "You're gonna have to find the writer at some point, and convince him this is real".
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Ok.. hang on. What? You see the conflict. Here's another for you.
Why would the PM's point us to someone they supposedly fired? Why would they list him as a potential contact, when really the only information he could offer would be essentially spoilers? I'm not so sure anymore, that the "writer" we've been pointed at is Eric. That simply doesn't make any sense.
We've more or less established that Bricker is the real writer. But for the sake of argument, let's not decide which is the one they want us to contact. Why would we have to "convince" him? Bricker is the one that wrote TGATT, and Eric was one of the PM's for all intents and purposes.

Food for thought..

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classical
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Okie dokie. After much debate in the chat, we've decided to find the writer.

I've just dropped the ticket into the mailbox again--but it's going to 4456 Culebra Ave this time. Threw in my phone number with it, because if this is going where I suspect it's going, I want to friggin' HEAR it. Or maybe he'll be kind enough to write me a letter back.

As you may or may not know, I've been trying to figure out who lives at 4456 Culebra Ave ever since I got the letter back. No regular web searches, property searches, realtor searches, anything have led to consistent results, or anything that has to do with our Bricker. Different people get listed as owning the property all over the place, probably because it's a condo.

But, check the file attached. This is a cheapo yet legit background check I did on our Brian D Bricker yesterday as to his current location, which is all nice and stalkerish of me, I know, but it gave me all the confirmation I needed to know.

I think there is a divide that the game is attempting to bridge between the Bricker we know and the Bricker that actually exists right now; thus, the recent 'find the writer' hints. I still think my musing from a page back has some weight--that our encounter with Eric exposed the fact that real!Bricker and game!Bricker are not the same thing. Even if Eric was a gamejacking attempt, the PMs have apparently taken it in stride. Basically, this currently reads to me that real!Bricker has no idea that this all is happening around him. (Or, well, he does, as a role behind the curtain would suggest, but would probably feign otherwise. :B)

Right, if this letter goes through, real!Bricker receives the ticket, and then he contacts us, it will change 'the game', as the recent hints have suggested. Real!Bricker will suddenly be involved in 'the game'. But how do we know what exactly is 'the game', y'know?

So: by sending this ticket, I may or may not just have opened up a can of worms. Hopefully, though, it's the one we were looking for.


la la la I may just be totally incoherent because I haven't really slept much lately; if I am, just give me a slap over the head
in other news, totally done with schoolwork for the semester, woop woop, expect a crackdown on wiki edits in the next few days
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Yo-L
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New Blog on the Hazeltine Report:
http://thehazeltinereport.blogspot.com/2009/05/recruits.html

Quote:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Recruits...
There was a rapid response to the flyers, just as the invisible man said there would be.

After two days eight people showed up to learn the rules of The Game. Six left that meeting with tasks to get their first Salamander card. One boy quit.

And Tina never left.

She could see Lenny, too. Which apparently made her special.

Rogan won the first S-card by disappearing for a full day and then crashing back onto our doorstep at midnight with a scraped up laptop and an old cigar box full of photos and envelopes.

As Rogan drove off with the first S-card, the invisible man just grinned.

We looked at each other and shrugged. We didn't know then what we know now.
Posted by The Hazels at 4:07 AM


Rogan broke in at Brickers house?
It looks as Rage wasn't real yet, at this point. Like he was still coming into existence.


I'm very excited about the "finding the writer" stuff.
What if real!Brian calls up Classical in the next few days, and he doesn't have a clue. That would be weird to explain... And to hear. Rolling Eyes

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