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Wulf74
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ironnikki wrote:
<snip>"Be at X in two days."<snip>


Unfortunately I doubt it's going to be that easy, with the way he phrased it
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<snip>We will meet in one of the three places that AR has given you clues to.<snip>
Most likely it will be some other cryptic hint, that unfortunately so far - we just haven't been doing well with it seems like. At least to me - it feels like we've been missing a lot - kinda like not noticing the thing about meeting with Randall.

I hope we're right about Rage's clues only being from his recent tweets - and not the ones from the expired account. That will certainly make this a lot more difficult. And when my 'puter crashed - I lost a ton of info. I think there's a clue in what Randall said about the meeting places though, in the way he's phrased it. That being one of the 3 places Rage has "given you clues to, which says to me, it's not any of the places he's come out and mentioned, like Ireland. I'm thinking more along the lines of when he mentioned the Safeway(? it was Safeway wasn't it?) - or the vague references to places, like where he stopped for a drink, etc..

I dunno - just tossing out ideas..
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 		Maybe we should ask Rage what he thinks? I mean, if he's given us clues to these places, then he would know what Randall was referring to. Probably. On a side note, have you heard back from Bricker at all, Wulf? Looking back at Randall's initial email, he gave us a pretty big poke in Bricker's direction.
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ironnikki wrote:
Maybe we should ask Rage what he thinks? I mean, if he's given us clues to these places, then he would know what Randall was referring to. Probably. On a side note, have you heard back from Bricker at all, Wulf? Looking back at Randall's initial email, he gave us a pretty big poke in Bricker's direction.


Wow - great minds. I just got done sending an email to Rage, letting him know that we have been delayed, that Randall gave a vague clue as to where we might have to be meet him based off some vague clues that Rage has given to places he's been.
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 		I can swing any DC/NVA meets. (maybe)

I wonder if the meet will be in a Starbucks?

Looking through the thread I found some more tweets...
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JJDeMolayOn the move again. Oddly - I'm in a New York state of mind.


JJDeMolayAnd since I'm stuck here, I'll recommend Charlie's 'Bisquits & Gravy' - http://tinyurl.com/da44a4 This one was interesting because there was no real reason for it and nothing realy came out of it.

JJDeMolayOn layover and destined for Newport News. No Starbucks. Am I in hell?



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 		Schwinn -

You rock at finding all this. I officially declare you Supreme Scribe & Knowledge Hound of the Brood or SS&KHotB for short... Laughing

Seriously though - thanks man.
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 		... well this is just weird.

r_snodgrassSPLATrocketmail.com wrote:
drunk as shit right now---haha---this is like drunk diling for the BUck Rogers set eh? Watched the soloist this morning---Jamie Fox is bloody brilliat---fuckin just talkin his ass off stream of consciousnesss you know. Steve Lopez LA times s-t-e-v-e-l-o-p-e-z LA times LA is beautiful God is right on the other side of that wall are you flyin that plane right now? just effen great! makes no flippin sense buyt then it does because youve been there struggling to know who to talk to and when I was in typing class man, I swear to this day that I got like transported to another class from like second period to fifth period the day before and I'm like talking to Tom about something and suddenly I'm back in typing and realized I was saying to Rick what I thought I was saying to Tom and he was loike what the frick is wrong with you, you know? I was like what was I saying and he's like you were saying "I was at Wainright Finlay's and got the two bisquits with gravy in honor of Diana Spencer" or some such bullscrabble and Im like hm like that'll come in handy God i am so shitfaced right now. Who are yoiu anyway classical? are you cute? wow---getting hard to focus


So I almost want to reply with some sort of Holden Caulfield moment, because what the hell, it's like reading Catcher in the Rye all over again. (Funny that, since I just finished reading 60 Years Later.)

If I'm supposed to be gleaming some sort of secret message out of this, I ain't seeing it.
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classical wrote:
If I'm supposed to be gleaming some sort of secret message out of this, I ain't seeing it.


Wow. Just wow. That was probably the most random tirade I've ever seen. The scary thing is - someone had to think that up sober, which makes it bloody brilliant.
I'm sure there's at least one important thing in there, but it feels like there's a few. Honestly, I can't wait to dig into this one - unfortunately I at least have to wait till later tonight.
In the meantime though, here's the reply I got from Bricker - I can't recall what I originally sent, cuz I sent it encrypted - but you get the gist of it from his reply:
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Life has fallen apart for me ever since returning from Portland. Car suddenly repossessed although I never missed a payment, I've been selected for a 'random' IRS audit, lost three sure-thing writing contracts for no clear reason, and one of my daughters has come down with an illness that the doctors can't figure out - been in the ER four times in seven days - talking about sending her to specialists now. Everything sucks. I can't really help...in fact I'm fearing that you all may have been figments of my imagination. Getting harder to differentiate. Don't have the energy for coding messages and to be honest I really don't care anymore. It's all stupid.


The man is obviously being hammered at pretty hard, poor guy. I guess the Feds finally found someone they could pick on. From what I've seen of these guys, they've never been very good at taking even fights, or even fights where the odds are against them. Instead they pick on some guy that wrote part of a story. That and old blue-haired ladies. I'd invite them to come after me, and leave Bricker alone - but I think the 3rd grader they have to read to them is taking a nap, and off for the weekend.. Evil or Very Mad (abuse of government power is a real pet peeve with me).

I'm going to compose a quick email back to Brian, and I still haven't heard back from Rage.
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 		Odd... even odder, I just watched The Soloist for the first time on Thursday night, haha. Unfortunately, I can't find any hidden messages in there either, but I didn't have time to look really closely; if I can come back to this later though, I will.

As for Bricker's reply... wow. I don't even know what else to say about that. But, it looks pretty clear that we're either A) his only shot at maintaining reality, or B) just screwing up his life beyond comprehension. I don't think we should break contact with him; in fact, I think that we should try and strengthen it. I'm guessing that the sooner we finish this thing, the sooner he'll be pulled out of that nightmare. Not to mention that he's supposed to be really important to the rest of this, so we need to make sure that he doesn't lose himself completely.
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...and he's like you were saying "I was at Wainright Finlay's and got the two bisquits with gravy in honor of Diana Spencer" or some such bullscrabble and Im like hm like that'll come in handy


So the only thing I'm getting out of this is, perhaps, this may be in reference to the quote Schwinn refound recently about the bisquits and gravy:
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JJDeMolay: And since I'm stuck here, I'll recommend Charlie's 'Bisquits & Gravy' - http://tinyurl.com/da44a4


But er, I'm seriously grasping for straws here. Might also be because I've been staring at it for the past fifteen minutes and I'm going slightly crosseyed now. Stepping away from the computer...

In any case, I forwarded it to Rage, since he seems to have the utmost trust in this Randall fellow to lead us--but man, I ain't trusting a guy who can't keep his shit together.

edit;; his response:
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Fallaces sunt rerum species, my dear.

"The appearances of things are deceptive." As I figured!
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 		I'm thinking Wainright Finlay is a new important character. In searching his name I found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22863444@N06/3633849348/

Also, Princess Di died on August 31st. I have no clue, maybe it is an important upcoming date for us?

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Obtusitivity wrote:
Hi All, i'm still in the process of getting everything together. Essentially I parked a few blocks from the cemetery in order to scope out the surroundings and look for a black Yukon. None in sight. I made my way past a beat-up blue motorcycle and shopping cart full of junk and the two grungy teenage gutterpunks sitting near the entrance (to whom i assume the aforementioned crap belonged). I would've taken a photo of them, but then I'd have to disinfect my camera, and that just seemed like too much work.

I'd run almost immediately into the "11" marker, and did a quick circuit in the vicinity of the couple (who I immediately dubbed Jimmy and Jackie Corpsewater). Unfortunately (as is the case with sprawling ancient cemeteries) there wasn't much of a pattern to the numbering, 11, 9, 14, 14, 8...

long story short I headed deeper into the shadowy oak infested belly of The Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary, praying I would somehow manage to spot a bright yellow marker reading "22" in this sea of oak trees and crumbling marble...

and viola! there it was! it was at that point that my mind kicked into high hear and I drew out the composite of images we'd already receivied -- the bench, the tree, the wall, and turned slightly to my left.

There it all was. right next to the grave of Wainright Finlay 1866-1878. I knocked away the piece of loose mortar covering our suprise and right behind it was a souble-bagged printout of the esoteric variety.

you've already gotten my horrible color photo, so here's the horrible black and white scan..



That's pretty much it. I hung around a while and looked for anything else out of place, then made my merry way back past Mr. and Mrs. Corpsewater and headed off to work.

-Obs

EDIT: you can download the scan in .Tif format here: http://in.solit.us/archives/download/162748


Nice catch TheCheese! Obtusitivity was the one who went to the drop at the Santa Rosa Cemetery so that is Ob's flicker stream. Maybe another drop there? I new that name kept sticking out in my mind like I had heard it somewhere.

We have the were , we just need the when.
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 		Going back to what TheCheese said, I'm thinking that the when would be August 31. That makes a lot of sense, given that the 31st is three weeks away (enough time to plan to get there, but not too far into the future.) Unless we get something else suggesting something different, that sounds like something good to go on.

More props to TheCheese!
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ironnikki wrote:
Going back to what TheCheese said, I'm thinking that the when would be August 31. That makes a lot of sense, given that the 31st is three weeks away (enough time to plan to get there, but not too far into the future.) Unless we get something else suggesting something different, that sounds like something good to go on.

More props to TheCheese!

Yes, More props to TheCheese! So we have the "Where", the "When" (although a specific time might be nice. Maybe the Princess Di's TOD?)

Now the more I look at the note Classi got why didn't I see it before...
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I was at Wainright Finlay's and got the two bisquits with gravy in honor of Diana Spencer" or some such bullscrabble and Im like hm like that'll come in handy

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 		Why thanks all! Very Happy

So we know that we should probably be at the cemetery on the 31st.....now where do the bisquits come in in all of this?

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TheCheese wrote:
So we know that we should probably be at the cemetery on the 31st.....now where do the bisquits come in in all of this?


I'm not positive, I need to check, but I think that's on the menu at Crackerbarrel. I should know by now since that's where i eat breakfast every morning when I'm on the road...

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