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[3v1L Schwinn]

I sent....

[windup angel]

brianbricker site is now completely "un-hacked" as it were.

oraclewatch doorknob is gone & replaced with

[Tempestdevil]

Addlepated is colorizing us up an IRC log and posting it, but I'll make a little placeholder just so you guys who aren't in IRC are aware.

Game is still on, Ron was not who he led us to believe. Worry not.

[addlepated]

[BlackandBlue]

I officially give up

[Tempestdevil]

Allow me to try and clear something up, because I don't want to see anyone leave the game now that it's hopefully going to be getting somewhere. Pretty much everything about the email syn got was fabricated, as far as we can tell. "Ron" pretty much confirmed that near the end of the chat.

He says the game is on again when Bricker gets the ticket, which can only mean 2 things. Either Bricker is our PM, or Bricker has hired our PM. Either way, he is involved in this, otherwise him receiving the ticket would spell the end of our game, not the next step. Regardless of his lack of background with fiction writing, Bricker is an author all the same, and it stands to reason that if he didn't allow his writing to be used, he'd be on the horn with a lawyer the second he found out it was being used. Couple that with the fact that his site has been a breeding ground for most of our clues, seems to point that he is certainly a part of this game. Granted, the act of "disgruntled Ron" had access to Bricker's site, but that was months ago. If Bricker terminated their contract out of anger from his book being read, it also stands to reason he would change the password used to access his site and revoke Ron's access.

Long story short, we discussed this a bit in IRC, I'm of the firm belief this whole thing was to try and snap interest back into the game. Nothing illegal is going on, although some uF rules have certainly been broken, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as the email tried to have us believe.

[Wulf74]

[Yo-L]

I checked this thread just in case, presuming not much had happened.

It's weird how everything up to the last few sentences in the chat, points to the idea that the game is over.
I don't know. Like a lot of people. But I think that Ron D. is IG too.
If this is the start of chapter 2, I'm very curious where it may lead us.

[3v1L Schwinn]

[Tempestdevil]

Eh, Ron was fishy from the start. When he came into the IRC he was acting like, in general, a clueless schmuck, which didn't quite fit in with his whole "freelance website designer" thing. I think he planned to string his little game out a bit longer, but I backed him into a corner with questions.

Also, wulf, I'm going to PM you something that was discussed in IRC earlier. windup and grady discovered it, but I don't know if we're meant to make it public yet. It's about your package, if you know what I mean.

[Grady Martin]

windup discovered it - i just asked a nagging question or two about it

[Wulf74]

[classical]

The Brightman Oracle blog has been updated with the attached image, whereas the Hazeltine blog has been updated with this poem by a "Charlie". Upon further research, it's a poem called "Risk" by an unknown author. Huh.

[3v1L Schwinn]

[Grady Martin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwbBxxML6iM
"Locomotive Breath"

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Thank God, he stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.

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http://www.appleseeds.org/to-risk_WAW.htm

the poem as posted at hazeltine is missing a few lines at the end:

The pessimist complains about the wind;

The optimist expects it to change;

And the realist adjusts the sails."

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...and the brightman oracle blog doesn't have the tiger photo