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[TRAILHEAD] Kiva at the Dept. of Paranormal Research
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redct
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[TRAILHEAD] Kiva at the Dept. of Paranormal Research

(Trout me if someone's posted this or it's part of another game, I can't find the thread Sad)

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Oooooeeeeerrrr. Hi, I guess.
My name's Akiva C., and I intern at the Department of Paranormal Research, which isn't supposed to exist. But, you know.
Lately, I've been having some...doubts...about my employers. I was, well, held hostage today during a cell block escape by the leader of a supernatural crime ring. He told me that he thinks the Dpt. is keeping dark secrets, and that people from his underground are going missing.
I don't know who to trust, so I figured I'd reach out to the public. It's not exactly like I can tell my boss that I got friendly with the number one most wanted man in the city, and that he's actually not a bad guy by my standards.
Anyways, you can find me at twitter.com/KivAtTheDPR, or, y'know, at this email address.
Thanks for your time.
- Keevie


So far:

Twitter: @KivAtTheDPR
Email: keevieceeSPLATyahoo.com
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:25 am
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theantman15
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did this person just randomly email you this or how did you get this email?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:37 am
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degravedi
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theantman15 wrote:
did this person just randomly email you this or how did you get this email?

People who've been ARGing for a longer period of time usually have their addresses "noticed" by PMs of games, and so are more inclined to receive trailheads.

I'll add the link since I'm lazy and am more prone to click on given links: http://twitter.com/KivAtTheDPR
It also seems that http://twitter.com/DPRtweets may be related, although you have to ask for permission to follow them.

Random fact: I had to laugh. Since New Orleans is a "weird" city, there's a local group of people that call themselves "The Department of Paranormal Research" here. Although I wholly doubt they're related.

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natas
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Weird.. he's following Leyton Stone whom I haven't heard from in a very long while. heh. I'm trying to think of any games we've played together that might be from this PM. Unless....

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:18 am
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Daeld
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Any ideas where we can find Jacob's tweet? (Daeld is completely ignorant of all things twitter... Confused )

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:53 am
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ironnikki
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Sent Akiva an email basically saying that I'm willing to help him look a bit deeper into the DPR. Will post when I get a reply.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:18 am
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coffeegirl18
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I also received an email. Supernatural crime ring, hello I'm in. Added them on Twitter.


The name Keevie reminded me of Keasley aka Rachel Morgan's neighbour in Kim Harrison's Hollows series.

There were six of us targeted, all veteran ARGers, and all twitter junkies. FYI.

I sent them a twitter message.

I think it may have something to do with Heroes as they're following Greg Grunberg as well. Although they are also following Jimmy Fallon.



I looked up the name Akiva. It's the Hebrew form of Jacob, meaning 'to hold by the heel'. I forgot the significance since I haven't studied it since my year @ Catholic high school...plus I have to look after my little cousins and must rest my brain for over rambuctuousness.

http://www.babynames.com/name/AKIVA
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:55 am
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redct
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I just talked with Akiva. Apparently the evil genius leader person has a blog with kittens on it. http://otoolerules.tumblr.com/

Quote:
3:00:20 PM keeviecee: howdy
3:00:27 PM redct: hello there
3:00:57 PM keeviecee: i just got caught slacking off on work...hopefully JJ can't see my desktop from here
3:01:06 PM redct: are you still in the basement?
3:01:32 PM keeviecee: nope, I ran back up to my cubicle because Jacob saw me trying to sneak off
3:01:56 PM redct: good for you!
3:02:04 PM keeviecee: heh
3:02:56 PM keeviecee: my car is in the shop right now, so I'm waiting for someone to offer to give me a ride home
3:03:00 PM redct: ah
3:03:14 PM redct: you said that you had another twitter account?
3:03:20 PM redct: that you lost the password to?
3:03:59 PM redct: do you by chance remember the username
3:04:21 PM keeviecee: i got in and deleted it, because my friend knew the password
3:04:28 PM redct: ah
3:04:47 PM redct: so, I'm curious
3:04:53 PM redct: what exactly is it that you do at the DPR
3:05:03 PM keeviecee: I'm an intern, actually
3:05:20 PM redct: do you do office work? it doesn't seem like the dpr would have too much of that
3:05:46 PM keeviecee: sort of. all of the paperwork and filing gets dumped on the interns because they enjoy torturing us.
3:06:08 PM redct: that's one of the 'perks'
3:06:32 PM keeviecee: yeah, haha
3:07:05 PM keeviecee: not really, though. there are some nice people around here.
3:07:08 PM redct: this might be a bit of a touchy subject but you mentioned that you thought the department was keeping secrets
3:07:26 PM keeviecee: yeah.
3:07:38 PM redct: I'm guessing bad ones?
3:07:46 PM keeviecee: for a department that claims to have no secrets, there are too many locked doors in here.
3:08:01 PM redct: what kinds of things do you think?
3:08:10 PM keeviecee: heh, sorry. i'm a drama nerd, and i tend to make things more theatric than they probably are.
3:08:20 PM redct: government secrets can sometimes be secret
3:08:36 PM keeviecee: but i don't know. finn said people from his underground had gone missing lately.
3:08:47 PM redct: finn?
3:09:34 PM keeviecee: the crime lord i was talking about.
3:09:45 PM keeviecee: the one who held me hostage a few days ago.
3:09:45 PM redct: ah
3:11:26 PM keeviecee: yup yup.
3:11:39 PM redct: do you have any ideas about what kinds of things they're keeping secret?
3:12:02 PM redct: I mean, mundane stuff - besides things like employee records and stuff aren't usually all that secret
3:12:29 PM keeviecee: no idea, but there are a few doors with keypad locks that we're not supposed to go into, and jacob got really pissed when i headed for the basement. maybe because i let finn escape the other day, though.
3:16:36 PM keeviecee: http://otoolerules.tumblr.com/ Hahahahaha I would put this on twitter but JJ would get mad
3:17:12 PM keeviecee: Finn wrote it down and I hadn't bothered to see what it was until a few minutes ago

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it does have the cutest of cats!

following... Razz

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dposse
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The Department of Paranormal Research? Isn't that from Hellboy?

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paperbound
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dposse wrote:
The Department of Paranormal Research? Isn't that from Hellboy?


That's the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.

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dposse
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paperbound wrote:
dposse wrote:
The Department of Paranormal Research? Isn't that from Hellboy?


That's the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.


ah. i knew i was missing something. Very Happy

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DarkxXxPixie
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Hey, everybody(god, it's been awhile).
Trying to jump back in to the ARG world and thought this looked interesting.
Anyway, Kiva posted on twitter about something happening at work that they didn't wanna talk about on twitter, so I fired off an email.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:08 am
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ironnikki
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Hopefully you get a response, Pixie. I sent him an email 3 days ago and still haven't gotten anything back yet, haha.
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imperialtophat
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Newbie here, definitely looking forward to helping crack this.

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